Seija Kijin

Seija Kijin was released on April 21st, 2022 in "Festival Prayer: Reverse Rebel Heroes." She was initially a Festival on release and later added to the general pool. For more up-to-date analysis, be sure to visit the  Official Discord Server.

Seija Kijin, like Sagume Kishin, is an amanojaku: a species of youkai who have the ability to "reverse" phenomena in one way or another. But unlike Sagume's ability to reverse complex concepts like situations and outcomes, Seija's ability to "turn over anything" literally flips stuff over! She uses this during battle to flip herself and her opponents in disorienting directions. Seija is often very contrarian, and will go against the natural flow of things just to be different and cause trouble. And although Seija is generally disliked by the other residents of Gensokyo for her mischievous tendencies, she can actually be personable and enjoys talking.

Seija can farm one story card stage, as well as event farm rather well. She has several ways to increase her damage output, even increasing her Spirit Power by 1.00 with her second skill, Replica Replica Mallet. Unfortunately, with her Last Word, Inverse Matrix, being backloaded (1-1-3 spread), she will still need another turn to prepare her full damage output if she is by herself. At the very least, she can use the rest of her skills to apply Blind anomalies on herself. Instead of getting blinded, she gets 1 extra level of Yin, Yang, and CRIT ATK UP as well as CRIT Accuracy UP. With a self-Yin ATK buff by 3 levels (2T) from her first spell, Deceit Sign: Reverse Needle, Seija is a very offensive Friend who is a decent farmer in general.

Outside of damage, Seija can apply some debuffs with very slight utility on the side. Her main team utility comes from her third skill, Weary Substitute Jizo. Providing 2 levels of Yin DEF UP (3T) to the whole party helps her Hard scaling slightly, however be wary of the 2 Blind anomalies it applies to the entire party. While Seija herself does not get the Accuracy debuff and instead gets stronger, the rest of the team will not fare the same fate. It might be strange to see Weary Substitute Jizo apply 1 level of Yang DEF DOWN (2T) to all foes when her main bullet type is Yin, but Seija is a special case. Thanks to being able to turn over anything (and all of her bullets being Specular), her Yin ATK stat will be calculated against the opponent’s Yang DEF. This makes Seija primarily synergize with Yang DEF debuffers instead of Yin DEF ones. 

As for her breaking potential, her elements are not the most impressive. While she does have a 0P Moon break on her Spread shot, Bloodthirsty Yin-Yang Orb, the Moon access on her spells is rather limited, with a very small extra amount of Fire. Inverse Matrix is the main exception, having 4 Moon breaks and 2 Fire breaks if you hit the attack at 3P. To make up for limited elements, Seija comes with two different Blind anomaly breaks: one on Deceit Sign: Reverse Needle at 3P and one on Bloodthirsty Yin-Yang Orb at 2P and 3P as well. This works well with both the 2 layers of Blind from her second spell, Reverse Bow: Dream Bow of Heaven and Earth, as well as any other Blind anomaly inflictors.

The secondary effects and Hard scaling for Seija’s attacks are as follows:

Bloodthirsty Yin-Yang Orb:
Hard: 30%/30%/0%/0%/0%/0%

Gap Folding Umbrella:
Self Yin ATK UP: 40%/0%/60%/0%0%0%

Deceit Sign: Reverse Needle:
Hard: 40%/50%/0%/0%/0%/0%

Reverse Bow: Dream Bow of Heaven and Earth:
Hard: 60%/70%/80%/0%/80%/0%

Inverse Matrix:
Target Yang DEF DOWN: 0%/100%/0%/0%/0%/0%
Hard: 60%/0%/0%/70%/80%/80%