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Touhou Nekokayou: Scarlet Weather Archive in Japanese Red #97

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Characters: Sakuya Izayoi, Hong Meiling, Mugetsu, Gengetsu, Meimu

東方再想天則 〜 Rethinking the Natural Law (Touhou 12.3i) begins here. I forgot to mention last week, but I slightly updated Rin's theme, which is now titled "Strange Bird of the Moon, Illusion of Mysterious Cat ~ On The Shoulder of Hisou Tensoku," and also, the "pre-battle conversation with Rin" theme is the title screen music.

So, now we learn something about Sakuya's backstory — she was a youkai-slayer called Huntress who disappeared when she went off to fight Remilia in 1997! Of course, you might have known this already if you're paying attention. But I will now liken the sisters' panic-attack to if you suddenly realized that the retail clerk you've been harassing is actually The Terminator. (Thank you, Mokou, for creating the image! Here's the full version.)

I didn't get a chance to use all the "floating black thingies" I'd made, oh well. Mugetsu and Gengetsu, if this were actually in the fighting game, would be a "single character" whose gimmick is that you're playing both of them, and you switch between them with a particular move (some alt-cards allow you to attack in the process). Mugetsu is the fast one and Gengetsu is the strong one; their ability-cards are specific to whichever one you're playing as, but their Spell Cards can be used by either, though they may have different effects depending on which one is out. Their themesong is called "The Inevitably Forbidden Game ~ Icemilk Magic and Innocence," and their associated weather-pattern is Blue Moon, resembling Mugetsu's background, and has the effect of (a) replacing your moves with alt-moves of a random level whether or not you have the appropriate alt-cards, and (b) causing people who hate the weather system to go berserk.

But none of that matters now, because we finally meet the last boss, Meimu! And she's ... more loli than you were probably expecting! Her themesong ... well ... I've had composer's block on that, and Touhou 12.3 already has a "Story Mode final boss theme," so she can have that. Her "pre-battle conversation" theme, however, is titled "Aperture Girl." And that's all I have to say about that for now.

All Touhou characters are © Team Shanghai Alice and/or ZUN; create.swf is ⑨ KirbyM with help from Thefre. "Sakura petals" brush in main/4koma logo was made by Kisara Girl. "Falling leaves" brush in 60-Years logo came with Photoshop.

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Razgriz

'What's going to happen next?' Is all I can ask, this is just awesome.

Solarn

Hey Muffin, are you sure you're not ZUN in disguise, trolling all of us? You create elaborate backstories for the Touhou universe (in and outside of Gensokyo), your comics fit pretty well with how the characters would act in canon (if not the canon itself) and now you're even making ZUN-like music with titles that might as well have come straight from a Touhou game.

Young Demon Lord

http://dizzy.pestermom.com/img/huntress.png

Is that a maid and a pocket watch of blood?

Epic awesome. :D ♥ Sakuya. She's probably my favorite character, when ordered by special ability.

Morgan

... Did Meimu break the spell card rules? `.`

dan-heron

gotta love Sakuya's "shot and ask questions later" style. It just works in Gensokyo.

and yeah, Meimu is pretty loli... kinda makes you want to hug her. Now, where is the Strongest Team at the moment?

Dizzy H. Slightly Voided

@Solarn: If I was ZUN, I'd be compounding the issue by adding ZUNart, and maybe conspiring with Alphes, too. And I might mention the OCs in actual canon, too (if nothing else, mentioning in Nitori's next bio that she has a sister). I mean, there's lots more ways ZUN could troll the fanbase which would be more-widely seen in his own home-country. Just look at Silent Sinner in Blue. Anyway, my preferred trolling-the-fanbase method is to mess with everyone's head. Besides, my English is much too good for me to be ZUN in disguise. ;)

@Young Demon Lord: Maid? What maid? That's the Huntress, dude! ;) But yes, that is the famed "pocketwatch of blood," aka the Luna Dial. (Why Luna Dial, though? But that's a story for another time ...)

@Morgan: Hey, Meiling's method here worked on Flandre ...

Young Demon Lord

Maid? What maid? That's the Huntress, dude! ;)

Semantics, I say! Most people think time is linear, but from a non-linear, non-relativistic point of view, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...stuff....

Sure, she's a maid! Just not right now. ;P

But yes, that is the famed "pocketwatch of blood," aka the Luna Dial.

Awesome.

I had no idea that those were the same clock. Is the Lunar Clock (as in "Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial") also the same one?

Why Luna Dial, though?

Because of the fan theory that Sakuya is really a lunarian, due to her silver/white hair and the similarity of her time manipulation to Kaguya's manipulation of eternity. But you're right, that is a story for another day.

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sRc

I fully blame this comic being up before I went to sleep last night for Sakuya being one of the characters in the dream I had last night and danmaku knifing me in the chest

CapedLuigisYoshi

So the one messing with time is Meimu... now the question is, how does Rin factor into this?

I must admit, I'm feeling a bit lost with this turn of events...

LightningLord2

Geez. The first time you pick the most awesome character I've ever encountered, and you make a butt-stupid loser. You've now pulled the trigger to make a hatedom of you.

Dizzy H. Slightly Voided

Um, could you be more specific?

Solais

Woah. Muffin you can compose? So that Rin music is... yours?

KurisuMurei

I seriously hope you don't consider Meimu the most awesome character, LightningLord2. She was pretty much God Mode Sue (or some other variant of the typical Mary Sue) when she was created. You're just asking to eat a Yatagarasu Dive.

Dizzy H. Slightly Voided

@Solais: No, that theme was composed by ZUN, it's from Ghostly Field Club. I basically did something which kind of sounds maybe sorta like something Tasofro would compose as one of their "fighting game remixes" if you turned the volume down and listened to it underwater.

Centari Klaar

How can we download your version of 'Rins Theme'

Dizzy H. Slightly Voided

Right click + save as. :P

Morgan

Hey, Meiling's method here worked on Flandre ...

Not complaining, just confused. It sort of reads like Meiling is saying "Hey, you broke the spell card rules, so I can ignore them myself and just beat you up!" Except that doesn't make sense unless Meimu actually *did* break a rule somewhere.

Dizzy H. Slightly Voided

@Morgan: Ah ... well, I was sort of more going for a "then I'll break them!" Or maybe she doesn't actually want to get yoinked out of Gensokyo to have this fight, so she wants to end it ASAP. Or something. I dunno, I guess it's not the best joke anyway to begin with. :<

Draykon

Actually, I don't see how a kick to the face counts as 'breaking' the rules, seeing as how it happens all the time in the fighting games. Plus how touching enemies kills you in the danmaku games could be interpreted as them using melee attacks.

Dizzy H. Slightly Voided

Nah, I've pretty much always held that the fighting games are just metaphors for more "traditional" danmaku battles, given that the fighting games involve swords and scythes and omgtrains and knocking each other around the screen like pinballs, and humans.

Arlekin

Oh Gawd, it's official! You're my favorite English fan fiction writer! and the Huntress pic... OMG TEH EPCINESS!!1!!1!! (kinda soundin like spam, but, hey! I'm really speechless!)

Tewi Inonymous

Bah, i think the other way.
The "In world" fights are more like the fighting games than otherwise.

But of course, touhous canon is sketchy and that's part of what makes it great.

KurisuMurei

I'd say more along the lines of 'Screw the rules, I have PLOT!' would apply here. You can study up on it on TVTropes. (Neither KM will be held responsible if you end up spending an Imperisible Night's amount of time there.)

Morgan

Or something. I dunno, I guess it's not the best joke anyway to begin with.

Well, I thought it was funny, it just felt like I was seeing the beginning and ending of the joke but not the middle.

I suppose that could mean the joke I'm responding to isn't actually there. But I'm not the type of person to let that stop me!

I was also amused by the "exact same amount of mercy" line. (In part because that sounds more interesting to me...)

Dizzy H. Slightly Voided

Yeah, I have a whole backstory set up for the Huntress, and a bunch of it consists of her reputation getting away from her.

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