It's a fucking miracle Marisa lived to adulthood

Anyway this feels like Subterranean Animism shit

meanwhile in current manga: she has a gun

I'm guessing foreshadowing

oh my god Marisa

bucket...

bukit

brisket

This is before Kisume lore was revealed

apparently

she doesn't throw bones at anyone

Since she's a super shy cutie in this but I believe ZUN lore is that she's an old school yokai who eats humans raw

yeah it's really funny that silly bucket girl is like. the most feral creature of all.

I thought Rumia was another one who Actually Eats Humans but she's way more lazy/laid back about it.

I don't think that's the case with Kisume

No?

the only thing we got later is that she came out of a well and yelled "So THIS is the body you threw down here?!" and chucked a bunch of bones at passing children

Incredible

the owner of the bones remained a mystery

later the incident was resolved as "they were birch branches that got confused for bones no followup questions" and the well was filled with dirt

here character data suggests that she might be a fearsome/unpleasant character, but she's also described as bashful in the subterannean animism omake document

so... kisume is open to interpretation

okay sounds like I had that wrong, then

that's funny too

even other characters seem unsure on what her deal is

Woah

Yamame's theme fucks

I think that when I said I don't like most touhou music

What I actually don't like is the instrumentation choices

Because there's a lot of remixes of touhou songs that I do really like

it's just specifically like

the Touhou trumpets

That grate on my ears

【東方Eurobeat/Vocal】Spider's Blood

ZUN uses synthesizers pretty heavily iirc

yeah I think so and the soundfont is really bad

I don't enjoy

Which I know can have a particular sound quality, I'm actually not as huge on it myself

These hell crows have a real hard on for beating the shit out of Komachi

She's getting whittled down

the way enemies choose target priorities often inclines them towards bullying

Well, fortunately I invested in her

so she can take a beating

ZUN's more recent compositions have somewhat moved away from the Zunpets

good

【東方鬼形獣】Touhou 17 OST - Entrusting this World to Idol...here's one of his more critically acclaimed modern tracks

not bad

Track 03 - Mermaid from the Uncharted Land [Touhou 1...he can also do extremely crunchy synth guitars

Marisa continues to make excellent decisions

You could start an incident about that

You could start two incidents about that

They caught Marisa...

hmm

Taste of Death is one of my favorite attack animations

it's very simple but it really sells Komachi's power to manipulate distance

oh yeah that one rules

yeah I don't like komachi as a unit but taste of death is really fun

I like her style

I'm a huge fan of her "all attacks with range >1 get infinite range" unique skill

SATORI MENTIONED

Duo she was mean to Marisa

satori shows up briefly in act 2 to aura farm

this is act 3

but she was definitely aura farming

Satori's map sprite looks cool

The splash of yellow from her third eye really stands out

ZUN has always had a phenomenal eye for color

MIMA???

MIMA CONFIRMED

YO SHE'S COOL TOO

Okay so

EoSD is act 1

Summer

Act 2 is Fall, Mountain of Faith

There is no winter act

Act 3 is Spring, Perfect Cherry Blossom

I understand there are 4 acts

But we've introduced the cast of Subterranean Animism AND hinted that the Buddhists might show up

I have NO idea where this game is going

the secret fifth season, hole

okay here's a thought

In lore

Reimu is the one who does everything through intuition and divine favor, while Marisa is the one who does everything through hard work and smarts

Yet...

I don't know if this makes sense

My thought that is

Marisa's just getting a lot more help, with the mysterious dream voice and Mima showing up to save her bacon in a way that I don't think Reimu does

eh

I think this is nothing

anyway Mouse Sighted

AND Shou

doctoransem: rumia at least incredibly eats people and in the first chunk of FMW is lowkey feral about it. Marisa complaining about treating a scrape and Rumia's just in the corner salivating like "lemme seeeeeeeee"