Marisa Kirisame

Marisa is considered to be one of the protagonists of the Touhou Project, with the other protagonist being Reimu Hakurei. She is an ordinary human magician who specializes in light and heat magic and currently resides in the Forest of Magic, Gensokyo. Marisa is very straightforward and informal with everyone. She can be condescending, as if trying to make fool of others, and often has difficulty expressing sympathy. She's quick to act if she hears anything interesting. Marisa is also a habitual liar, but she makes no effort to actually deceive as her lies are extremely obvious. However, she's shown to have intelligence. Her personality appears to be somewhat charming due to the friends she has and her ability to walk into the Scarlet Devil Mansion so casually. She has a mania for collecting things and may have a hoarding disorder. She's unyielding and unco-operative. She is also known as a hard worker, who's trying to catch up to Reimu with her secret training and magic development. That makes a good contrast to other humans appearing in the series, most of them have some kind of natural born talent (Reimu) or ability (Sakuya). So she is sometimes referred as the "most human-ish human" in the series. She is the author of The Grimoire of Marisa, a collection of notes about spellcards used by her and other danmaku users she has encountered.