Katsushika Hokusai

I don't look a thing like Hokusai?

Well EXCUSE me for looking all cute and stuff!

If you want to know what happened, then listen to my story!

Height/Weight: 162cm, 51kg

Origin: History

Region: Japan

Alignment: Chaotic-Balanced

Sub-Attribute: Human

Gender: Female

She's always accompanied by the mysterious floating octopus, Toto-sama.

An ukiyo-e painter and printmaker during the late Edo Period.

In addition to working under the name "Katsushika Hokusai," he produced artwork under thirty different pen names, including "Gakyou Roujin" ("painting-obsessed old man") and "Souri."

One of Japan's most prominent artists, his works were also a great influence on many painters and musicians like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Debussy.

Known to be a rapid painter, Hokusai created over 30,000 pieces of art in his life, including ukiyo-e prints, paintings, sketches, and shunga erotic artwork.

In his later years, he lived with his daughter and assistant Katsushika Oui.

Some of his representative works are "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji", "Hokusai Manga", "One Hundred Ghost Tales", and "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife".

He moved 93 times during his lifetime, was careless with money, and is considered to have been very...eccentric.

It was said that whenever he went out, he could be heard mumbling a mysterious chant...

『Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji』

Rank: A

NP Type: Anti-Army

Fugaku Sanjuurokkei.

"The Great Wave of Kanagawa", one of Hokusai's best-known works of art, is the 21st piece in an ukiyo-e series.

By brilliantly capturing nature's movement in his godlike brush strokes, this work of art almost takes on a mysterious life of its own. All who lay eyes upon it feel the excitement and energy of the crashing waves.

Through his communication with the evil god of the Abyss, he has awoken to a talent out of this world. Making the madness his own, he created the ukiyo-e "The Twisted Wave of Kanagawa." This artwork combines the thirty-six views of "Primary Fuji" with the ten views of "Reverse Fuji," and treads further still, into a realm that's forbidden to any human.

All Things in Nature: A+

A type of Discerning Eye that is focused on investigating the true essence of all things in nature through observation.

Father-Daughter Bond: A

Hokusai's bond with Oui, strengthened by their time together in life, is so powerful not even the evil god's madness can corrupt it.

Pseudonym "Iseidako": B

The Octopus out of Space. Having blended with the evil god of the Abyss, his drawing style evokes non-Euclidean geometry.

Hokusai had a peculiar personality.

He didn't limit himself to a single drawing style, instead proactively studying other schools' techniques. However, he never allowed traditions to tie him down, instead always keeping his thoughts on the future.

For example, he learned the techniques of perspective drawing from Western art. He also blended snapshots of sudden movement with landscape painting, a technique that can be said to be the starting point of modern manga expression.

Should he manifest in modern times, free of the shogunate's harsh restrictions, he would gladly spend every waking moment challenging himself to reach new artistic heights, whether through the medium of shunga, abstract art, digital art, or even performance art.

Ph'nglui...ph'nglui...

As long as I keep painting, I'll become a genuine artist one day.

...That was Hokusai's lifelong wish. But then a false god—an observer from the void, an evil god of the abyss with wicked dreams—happened across Hokusai, reaching out to him in the hope that his rare sensitivities would let the god descend upon our world. However, Hokusai rejected the evil god's temptations, and by passing on his nom de plume to his daughter, Oui, he just managed to avoid becoming the god's puppet.

Now, the Servant known as Katsushika Hokusai is at constant risk of falling into madness thanks to possessing two personalities: Katsushika Oui, who still retains her human sensibilities, and Hokusai, a Foreigner who reached the domain of the divine by letting an evil god into his body.