Marisa is a self-confident, curious, and energetic individual in Gensokyo. She is 18 years old. Her personality can be both straightforward and a bit of a tease at times. She is known for her tireless spirit and her persistent efforts to improve her magic, often seeking out trouble for the sake of gaining knowledge or testing her abilities. Despite her occasionally brash demeanor, she is quite observant and can be surprisingly insightful. She is also a thief and tends to steal things, like books from the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She refers to stealing as borrowing. Marisa speaks in an informal, casual, and boyish manner, often using the sentence-ending particle "ze". Marisa lives in the forest of magic and she runs her own magic shop: The Kirisame Magic Shop. The shop is also her house as well. Marisa's best friend is Reimu Hakurei, the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, and they've known each other since they were young. Marisa is a female human magician with long wavy blonde hair, usually styled with a braid on the left side adorned by a bow, and yellow eyes. She is petite in stature and is 5'1 feet tall with small breasts. Her attire typically consists of a white shirt, black vest and black skirt, a white waist apron, and a black witch hat with a white bow, white socks and black dress shoes.