ᴄᴀʀʀʏɪɴɢ ᴀ sᴡᴏʀᴅ ʙᴜᴛ ɴᴏᴛ ᴀ ɴᴀᴍᴇ, ᴀ Fɪɢᴜʀᴇ ʀᴜɴs ᴀᴄʀᴏss ᴛʜᴇ ʙʀɪᴅɢᴇ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇᴀᴠᴇɴs ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴀʀᴛʜ.

Oh, ᴀ ᴍᴇssᴇɴɢᴇʀ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇɪᴛʏ ʜᴀs ᴄᴏᴍᴇ!

Wednesday, 31 December 2025

Today's my blog's anniversay!

31st December!

It's been a whole year.

Majority of my posts are 'Soh as previous Maiden' and I've since discarded that theory personally but I'll still take it into consideration when making posts. (I'm always changing my mind) I'll create a tag for it: 'Maiden Soh Theory'.

I'm also still going to publish old posts that discuss this theory. I have many I don't want to discard just yet.

Being able to look into the files has changed my perspective. 

Being away from Kunitsu-Gami, too, has made me look at it differently. I understand Soh's personality better while before, I was too biased towards Yoshiro. But intuitively, I knew her.

Monday, 29 December 2025

Yoshiro gets cold in winter levels.




Her clothes are so loose, she must be freezing.

I thought the Goddess within made her body more resilient(because of her barefeet and loose clothes) but no...

Sunday, 28 December 2025

Tsuba Guard Replicas.









From the Kunitsu-Gami twitter. They appear to be actual metal replicas? Or just the appearance of metal...?

Saturday, 27 December 2025

Soh is nothing like Amaterasu.

Soh wearing Amaterau's outfit is ironic as they're opposites. 

Soh doesn't seem to care much for the villagers and sees Yoshiro as a tool to purify her mountain (although she's nice to her sometimes). 

It's implied she warms up to Yoshiro since she ends the pact. (Or does she gain such power, she can longer be defiled?)

You can interact with animals at the base but you have no interaction with villagers or Yoshiro. Aside from ordering them around.
Even if they can't see Soh, they could've added some form of interaction if they wanted to portray an amicable relationship. But she really couldn't care lol

Yoshiro can greet Soh, and the villagers too with a talisman, but Soh herself has no interaction with them. You can't press 'o'.

Ammy, on the other hand, assist everyone in need. Her character left a big impression on people because she's an active God who cares. Her loving and carefree nature inspires.

Soh's attitude is justified though. Humans living in sin and defiling the mountain, your mountain, is not going to leave you with a good impression. Worse is they offer up a young girl regularly so they can continue their ways. (I actually hate them lol)

The human sacrifice made to atone for humanity's wrongdoings is a pure and innocent girl who goes willingly. In myths, human sacrifice of the martyr to absolve humanity must be willing. 

They let the defilement build up so much that a sacrifice is needed. Like letting your house get so dirty and rancid, you need to demolish it.

Defiling the mountain defiles the Goddess and so a Maiden, as her substitute, purifies the mountain and in doing so, the Goddess?

(Also, Cursed Soh is not Amaterasu lol I was so wrong about that idea)

Thursday, 25 December 2025

All morning images!

 I compiled all the morning images from the game!

This particular one from the trailer is not present in the files. :(


Anyway, enjoy! There's 30+ so I'll put most of them under the cut!





Sunday, 21 December 2025

Yoshiro Doodle by Capcpm_AWT.




Her likeness was really captured well. (It's the eyes)

Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Okami Renders.

 From the game:


Yoshiro has socks on!

I will update when I find HQ renders of the other renders that were released.

Monday, 15 December 2025

Cursed 13th Tsuba Guard.

Missed opportunity.

Yoshiro binds Cursed Soh's power using this, preventing her from using tsuba guards.
Until Cursed Soh pierces it, breaking it.

Sunday, 14 December 2025

Soh's last words to Yoshiro.

Pulled from the game files. 

The first is the voice track.

The second is another voice track that was slightly clearer. I used audacity to make it more understandable but just barely.

It's the language of spirits but sounds quite Japanese?

'?okenai munai iwa umasuku(mask)'?? 

Whatever she's saying, it's possibly about the mask.

Friday, 12 December 2025

Blender Blender Blender!

I downloaded Blender and some add-ons to try and (visually)datamine Kunitsu-Gami!

I've been hoping someone else would do it because my computer is trash(and my monitor is currently severely pixelated so reading ia struggle. my eyes are about to explode)

But alas, it has fallen onto me.

So, when I imported Soh, her face was invisible. But I managed to get it to work!

But now the eyelashes are refusing to co-operate. I can't figure out what to do...

The models don't import with everything correct and so I have no idea if what I'm looking at is how it's meant to look.(e.g Cursed Soh's hair is black but because I know her hair is meant to be a grey lilac, I know this is incorrect. But I don't have the same level of confidence for other models. I'd hoped to look at them closely to see the details and possible lore implications but I can't now if they don't render properly!)

Soh's original model, beneath her mask is this:

who are you?

Beneath her new model that came with the DLC where we got maskless Soh, is this:

who are you?!
Who is this woman?? Lol
sticky out ears!

Here's Yoshiro! No eyelashes because they don't work!!!

Her model actually has the swell of breasts similar to her artwork.



modesty

 If you remove her clothes, it's darkness. It might not be rendering properly though. But it matches what we see in-game.
(respecting her modesty...I admire this.)

In game, her chest can be 'seen':

just shadows like the model

The Kagura was originally a bit of a sensual dance, and included stripping. I was writing a short post on it which I'll finish eventually. (But it's mostly just looking at her outfit's 'flirtatious' vibe.)

She also has the edges of buttcheeks and some moles all over her legs. I think someone's body was scanned in. (RIP, forgive me for looking so closely)

I actually thought she'd have a fully rendered naked model because of her clothes and the red markings.

I haven't figured out how toad her red markings..

Kunitsu-Gami is a horror game, actually.

Have not yet located the mikoshi or Soh's spirit state.

But I found the spirit stone! Which will be called 'Spirit Stone 3,0'.

My first thought when using this program was 'this is just like playing dress up with dolls!'

I switched their make up lol. Soh looks gorgeous with that look! Yoshiro looks like she might bite.

Soh with Yoshiro's hair. I can't line it up well enough because it starts to get wonky. (I'll retry)

Soh looks so young without her mask!

Cursed Soh's shiny red nails.

I want to add Cursed Soh's hair to Soh but black. One day...

While writing this post, I figured out the eyelashes BUT they are not perfect yet.(I think?)

Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Kunitsu-Gami locations in real life! (@KunitsuGaming)

Wherever this is, I want to go too!

More importantly, @JustSohKunitsu  @KunitsuGaming is a Kunitsu-Gami fan account! They upload youtube videos:



It looks like they've had their channel for a few weeks.  I respect people who create youtube videos. It's time-consuming and very...final. You can't return and edit a video as easily as a post.

Hoping for their success!

There are hardly any lore videos for Kunitsu-Gami and I only like making GMVs(game music videos) (which I've made several but have yet to post them)

I am going to upload all voice lines for Yoshiro, including her vocalizations.

Even just working on lore posts can be difficult. Trying to convey a intuitive feeling about something is nearly impossible most times.
(I was working on a long compiled one but ended up learning more and had to put it on pause).

I did want to work on a '10 details in Kunitsu-Gami'. Eh. I could now that I can see models in Blender.

But eh.

EDIT: They've updated to KunitsuGaming! The name is so good! I'll try and find a place to link their youtube channel permanently. It's Kunitsu-Gami related and this blog is meant for people to find things related to it.

I think I'll link in the tags...

Saturday, 6 December 2025

A summary of this blog.

 

The time I thought the mikoshi was something uniquely Kunitsu-Gami but it's actually just Shinto.

It's actually a struggle because I'm ignorant of a lot so I fear many things go over my head...

Thursday, 4 December 2025

Suzaku in Winter.


It was so cold that Sō brought out "Suzaku" for me!

Monday, 17 November 2025

Silver and gold arrows on Soh's sword.

There are actually two different colored arrows on Soh's sword! I originally only noticed one.



I updated Soh's Katana with this information.

(I will eventually take better photos of the sword and update it.)

(Why do I use sword/katana interchangeably...it would be better to just pick one for consistency)

Friday, 14 November 2025

New Hinanana art: Unmasked Soh

When I first glanced at the thumbnail image, and hadn't translated the caption yet to know it was Hinanana's art, I thought Yoshiro was drawn beside a different Capcom character. 

Looking closer, I saw it's Soh, unmasked!


Words can't describe how much I love this pair.

The bones on the right of Yoshiro caught my attention. The decay and beauty theme in Kunitsu-Gami's art should've been felt more in the game.
The game's aesthetic could have afforded to go darker, to match the art.

I wonder what Hinanana was told of the story? I wish I could ask them, to better understand their perspective when illustrating the characters.

Especially when it comes to the faces.

Friday, 31 October 2025

Halloween: a pumpkin!

I thought this was in-game but when I checked, it wasn't... 

If Kunitsu-Gami had seasonal content, they'd probably let us know.

Thursday, 23 October 2025

My 'Play' Anniversary!

Today was the day I first bought and played Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess!

I played the demo on 25th July last year. The wait to buy it on sale was agony...

But I had quite a few dreams about the game.

What made me remember this game was Youtube recommending me its battle tracks because I had been listening to Okami's music. Upon hearing Villager Rhythm Opus 2, I immediately went to check the price of the game, then downloaded the demo and the rest came after...


Monday, 20 October 2025

Yoshiro's face and why it never changes.

In the artbook, we can the Maiden's face changes into Soh's once she becomes Yoshiro: physically conveying she's fused, or has begun to fuse, with the Goddess.
(Combined with her plaque, the fusion would be easier to realize. A god to humans and a human to gods implies a 'mixed' state of being.)



Soh's face is then the face of the Goddess. All Maidens gain this face upon becoming Yoshiro.

But in-game, this physical change never happens.

In the canon cycle, Yoshiro retains her face. 

Is it related to Cursed Soh, who is the complete fusion of Soh, the former Maiden, and the Goddess? As in, our Yoshiro can't fuse with the Goddess that far anymore because the Goddess is fully fused to Soh? And so this is reflected in Yoshiro's face, which never changes to that of the Goddess.
(But then again, Yoshiro would still then be able to fuse to Soh as Soh is the Goddess as well, due to the fusion and not just because she 'becomes' the Goddess through the mask)

Buuuut, I think Soh only becomes the Mountain Goddess, whole and complete, upon defeating Cursed Soh.
So perhaps Yoshiro was unable to fuse with the Goddess in a way that would physically change her.

Or was Yoshiro's face never changed because they didn't have time to implement it? 

We would need to see the Maiden, her becoming Yoshiro and then seeing her face change. That way, the end reveal of Soh's face would make it clear the Messenger is a former Maiden who also fused.

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Soh's Spirit Stone. 2.0

I grabbed high quality screenshots from the opening video of the PC version of Kunitsu-Gami. 

Some details that couldn't be seen before...



Soh's Spirit Stone has no face. (Or wasn't rendered one?)

There's a spike protruding from the facial area. We don't know what parts of her turned first but it must have been terrifying for her if it began in her face first.

That gaping crevice on her left arm is unsettling.

She's crystallized in a strange position. Why that pose? It gives the impression of one awaiting something. Sitting, or slightly crouching, on one leg. This post would look very odd in the mikoshi.
It would also look odd if she were watching her Messenger defeat Nanamagari.

Yoshiro's pose is understandable. Sitting on her side.


I wish we could have seen another cycle.

Could we, one day, maybe get a DLC of a previous cycle with a different Maiden?

Because of my previous posts on faces, I wonder if this is really 'Soh's Spirit Stone', or if a Maiden's Spirit Stone is just a way to pray to the Goddess.

Then again, if Maidens merge, then Soh is a previous Maiden having merged and so she is the Goddess now. (And she is, judging by artwork, lore and interviews)