

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/zSvH8.png)

I wonder where is this image from. Does anyone know its origin?


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What's this picture of a smiling character with blue eyes and light hair from?


It's extremely difficult to determine its origin/source. The best I could find
is [this image](http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/ihatelolicon/images/), which
can be traced back to at least as early as April 10, 2009:

![Marisa Kirisame?](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5uyX8.jpg)

She sure does look like [Marisa
Kirisame](http://myanimelist.net/character/5458/Marisa_Kirisame) from the
[Touhou Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project), even though
her eye color in canon is either red (in the PC-95 era) or the more popular
yellow. I include two images of Marisa for comparison:

![Marisa by Mokku](https://i.stack.imgur.com/SdiMl.jpg)

[Original artwork of
Marisa](http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=683729)
by Mokku (cropped).

![Marisa in Labyrinth of Touhou 2](https://i.stack.imgur.com/m3TlY.jpg)

Blue-eyed Marisa in [_Labyrinth of Touhou
2_](http://www.geocities.jp/aaa_3peso/THL2/top.htm), drawn by
[Juugoichie](http://eho971.web.fc2.com/).


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I am aware this post is old, but people looking for this same image is going
to stumble upon this so I might as well just end the frustrating search.

[Here you go :)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HL4yO.jpg)

The picture is from the cover page of [Magicians Don’t Turn
Back!](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=92212), a Touhou doujinshi
by Saku Saku Tei.

I spent so many hours I don't even want to say how man.


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