Aya Shameimaru

Aya is intelligent, polite and very unhostile, unless someone gets in her way, and She usually doesn't get into fights. Aya also runs the Bunbunmaru Newspaper, for which she flies around Gensokyo, gathering information, taking pictures, and performing interviews with humans and youkai alike for articles, which are commonly sensationalist in nature. Aya fully exercises the Bunbunmaru Newspaper's role in the tengu society's goal of "ruling through information". Although her stated policy is to report only the truth, she often writes opinionated pieces, twists the truth, or outright lies in her articles to her advantage - in order to grab more readers, fulfill her ulterior motives, or avoid causing a panic within the human village. If there is no news to be found, Aya has no issues with creating news worthy material herself. Aya focuses on increasing the popularity of her paper, and delivers free (and often, unwanted) copies to people all over Gensokyo. While in earlier works her paper is regarded as a simple gossip "third rate rag", in Forbidden Scrollery and beyond, its influence has extended to become a major source of information within the human village.

On the Youkai Mountain during the day, Aya was heading out to gather information when she meet a new visitor at the lower grounds.