The Music Room Portraits (音楽室の肖像画 Ongakushitsu no Shōzōga?) are tulpas who are formed from those who fear the portraits of the musicians in the music room. At an unknown time late at night, or at two in the morning, the Music Room Portraits will be summoned whenever someone plays horribly on the music room's piano and will try to kill them on the spot.
In Dandadan, the Music Room Portraits serve as minor antagonists during the Evil Eye Arc.
Members[]
| Music Room Portrait | Name | Description |
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(だいく Daiku?)[2] |
Height: 165cm (5'5") Personality: Ninth presents himself as a speed freak, having commanded the other Music Room Portraits to speed up their music playing. |
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(もっさん Mossan?)[3] |
Height: 163cm (5'4") Personality: Mozza has a tendency of making dirty jokes. |
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(メガネ Megane?)[4] |
Height: 155cm (5'1") Personality: Glasses has a father complex. |
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(おとてつ Ototetsu?)[5] |
Height: 180cm (5'11") Personality: Trainspotter has a love for trains, shown when he made sounds of an upcoming train while he and the other Music Room Portraits performed. |
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(バンべン Banben?)[6] |
Height: 167cm (5'6") Personality: Vanben is short-tempered. He dislikes crude sounds being played in the music room that causes him and the other Music Room Portraits to appear and is driven to eliminate whoever is responsible. |
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(ばばあ Baba?)[7] |
Height: 171cm (5'7") Personality: Dislikes hearing Glasses speak about his father and views himself highly. |
Synopsis[]
Evil Eye Arc[]
The Music Room Portraits appear after the Turbo Granny plays poorly on the music room's piano, which she blamed on Okarun and Aira to have them become the former's opponents for his training session. After casting Symphony No. 6, the Music Room Portraits commence their attack on the three with a barrage of explosive musical notes. With the explosions tilling the illusionary field, the Music Room Portraits manage to trap Aira and sends out the explosive musical notes her way. However, their attack is avoided after Okarun comes in to save her and become unable to land a blow on him as he found his sense of rhythm. The conductor of the Music Room Portraits is then eliminated and returned back to being a portrait by Aira after Okarun helps her to get in close. With the conductor gone, Music Room Portraits lose their ability to levitate and decide to counterattack with Symphony No. 9 where they have a mob of opera audiences attack Okarun and Aira. With Aira handling the army, the Music Room Portraits become faced with Okarun and are eliminated all at once. With all the Music Room Portraits returned back to portraits, Okarun, Aira and the Turbo Granny return to the music room.
Abilities and Powers[]
| Symphokinesis | ||
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The Music Room Portraits' use music to combat against their enemies. | ||
| Levitation | ||
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Ninth is capable of having himself and the other Music Room Portraits levitate while guiding them through battle. | ||
| Strengths and Weaknesses | ||
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This ability helps to distance the Music Room Portraits from their opponents to fight at long range and to avoid being attacked. Since Daiku is the one responsible, the Music Room Portraits will lose this ability if he is eliminated. | ||
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The Music Room Portraits uses their ability to levitate in conjunction with their musical notes, choosing to fight airborne while have their explosive musical notes rain down on their opponents. | ||
| Musical Notes | ||
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The musical notes are capable of exploding upon coming into contact with anything. With the numerous notes being released by the Music Room Portraits, they effectively barrage their opponent and are extremely difficult to avoid if one does not possess immense speed and reflexes. While the notes mainly act as bombs, the rest notes in particular have the ability to render an opponent paralyzed and thereby leaving them vulnerable for the explosive musical notes to bombard them. If the Music Room Portraits are defeated, any damage done to the opponent by the musical notes will be undone as if nothing had ever happened, however, according to the Turbo Granny, the opponent would end up dead in real life if the damage is fatal. | ||
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When placing the opponent within Symphony No. 6, the Music Room Portraits can use the explosive musical notes to till the paddy field environment and have the opponent trapped as a result of their feet being sunken into the ground. | ||
| Illusions | ||
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The Music Room Portraits possess the ability to cast illusionary environments that work to their advantage when in battle. Like the musical notes, any harm inflicted to the opponent caused by the illusionary settings will be undone if the Music Room Portraits are defeated but will end up dead in real life if the damage is fatal. | ||
| Techniques | ||
| Symphony No. 6: Pastoral (交響曲第6番 田園 Kōkyōkyokudai 6-ban Denen?) | ||
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| Symphony No. 9: Chorus (交響曲第9番 合唱 Kōkyōkyokudai 9-ban Gasshō?) | ||
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Trivia[]
- Tulpa are a type of materialised being originating from Tibetan Buddhism, but became a core principle of Theosophy. They are effectively, living imaginary friends.
- The composers the Music Room Portraits take after are as listed:
- Vanben: Ludwig van Beethoven
- Grandma Bach: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Trainspotter: Antonin Dvorak
- Ninth: Leonard Bernstein
- Mozza: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Glasses: Franz Schubert
- Vanben's furious attitude towards the sound of unpleasant music can be considered ironic given how the composer the tulpa resembles was known to be deaf.
- Mozza's tendency for dirty jokes may be a reference to the portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the biopic play and film Amadeus (1984), in which Mozart displays a childish sense of humour with a love for fart jokes.
