Episode 48: Sayu and the Shuumatsuban

Our first introduction to the itty bitty ninja comes from her character demo. Check it out before she goes back to her nap.

Watch on YouTube: Sayu: Yoohoo Art, Mujina Escape

In her Collected Miscellany we get to see her spying on some shrine maidens while she hides in disguise. As an added bonus, we get to hear Dainsleif saying silly words.

Watch on YouTube: Sayu: Whirling Windwheel

If you haven’t done Sayu’s hangout or you want a refresher, YouTuber GamingWithAbyss has the entire event with all choices on their YouTube channel. Plus you get some of the cutest photos.

Watch on YouTube: Genshin Impact Sayu Hangout Event All 6 Endings & Choices (Yoohoo Art: Seichou)

One of Sayu’s disguises is of her Muji-Muji Daruma, the same helper she uses in her Elemental Burst. And Tif would also like you to know that you can get the daruma for your Serenitea Pot.

While chatting about the Yoohoo Art, Feens nails it with her reference to Frozen’s Wandering Oaken’s big summer blowout.

Watch on YouTube: Disney’s Frozen “Big Summer Blowout” Clip

The palace of…metro-pie? melo-pie? metropolis? or is it the palace of marmalade?

Feens’ has renamed the Fortress of Meropide so many times this episode that we didn’t even think to remind her that its a fortress and not a palace.

What are your favorite Feens-isms?

One of the active Shuumatsuban that we know of is Inu Shoushou, a red Shiba Inu with a scar across his eye. This good boy still goes to the shores of Kondo Village nightly waiting for his owner to return. A return that sadly will never happen.

Oh look, a character with an eye-patch. 🙂

Moyomo is another active Shuumatsuban ninja that is now known as Chitose. But was also known previously as Gendou Ringo, a shrine maiden.

We meet her in the story when we accidentally used a secret code made by her previous partner, Momoka.

Hishashi is the last of the Shuumatsuban ninjas that we’ve encountered in Teyvat. He shows up as a right-hand man to boss Ayato during, as Tif would call it, the most boringest quest of the entire game – Ayato’s Story Quest.

Do you have a quest that bored you to annoyance?

A retired Shuumatsuban ninja, Taroumaru now owns and runs the Komore Tea House. Not two shabby for blade pup, or is it hat dog? (it’s blade pup)

If you participated in The Clash of the Lone Blades during the 2022 Iridori Festival, you received Taroumaru for your Serenitea Pot after defeating him.

As the boss of the Shuumatsuban, Kamisato Ayato is in charge of sending out the ninjas on their secret missions. Including one that is out of character and apparently for his sister, as seen in his character demo.

Watch on YouTube: Kamisato Ayato: Fathomless Swirls in the Forest

Kano Nana is charged with keeping an eye out on our lil baby Sayu and making sure she doesn’t get herself into any troubling situations. And shows up for work.

A fun fact about Nana is that she is a cousin to the Tenryou Commission detective Shikanoin Heizou.

Since Tif has talked non-stop about the Serenitea Pot in this episode, we thought we’d also show you the frame she mentioned you could craft to put your hangout photos in.

You can buy the blueprint for the furnishing “Lingering Moment” from Tubby. Once you hang it on your wall, you can choose any of your Hangout Memories to display.

Sayu is not a tanuki. She’s not a munjin either, but the costume her sensei gave her is. As Al argues in the episode, there is some crossover between the two animals. But according the to the official text, Sayu is the Munjin Ninja.

And she’ll bite you if you call her a tanuki.

We briefly mention Arlecchino’s “hilihands” at the end of the episode. No one knows for sure why her hands are black, but we are sure there’s a story behind it. Is it frost-bite? Were her hands burned in a fire? Only time will tell.