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mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Inverness posted:

Official Touhou anime is merely a matter of time.

Forbidden Scrollery would adapt pretty well imo, since episodes could be each story, two chapters per episode

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mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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That was a neat set of chapters. It focusing on Akyu was a neat change.

Her shoulder cape is real silly and I like it a lot.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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ZUN's current trend of writing about modern things, and these latter parts of Forbidden Scrollery specifically, reminds me a lot of Discworld, which I think Touhou has always had a lot in common with. It's real entertaining.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Reimu has always been savage and that makes me happy.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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"While she employs several shikigami, the one she makes the most use of is Ran Yakumo. Be careful though: Ran Yakumo is strictly the shikigami, and the nine-tailed fox youkai she is possessing is an entirely different being. However, since the original fox never shows on the surface at all, there's no problem in thinking of Ran Yakumo as a nine-tailed fox."

"Like Ran, Chen is actually "the shikigami possessing a bakeneko", but in her case the possessed bakeneko is a clearly distinct being. As she is vulnerable to water both while possessed and in her original state, splashing water on her will dispel the shikigami."


Huh. So 'Shikigami-Are-A-Lot-Like-Software Programs' makes a lot more sense now, I guess. They're highly elaborate magic code scripts that possess and dominate bodies to varying degrees depending on how perfect the code is.
This puts Ran & Chen in a pretty different light.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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I'm rereading Forbidden Scrollery and I often forget how much I love Forbidden Scrollery. It's so good.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Yuyuko would've made her go by paying for it herself. Youmu would probably feel too guilty to not go at that point, thus sealing Yuyuko's master plan.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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xi-on's arrangements of DDC tracks are pretty great + good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgu_k0xCAjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unHBWCqogfg

The House Set of ULiL had a rad version of Battlefield of the Flower Threshold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R9vi7di1wc
This one is pretty great too and you can just download the MP3 straight from the maker of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVX2xv0IAw

You'd have to go looking for the entire album, but Melodic Taste covered LoLK completely with a medley from stage 1-3 and then each song after that by itself. It's pretty rad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7xG6RINOE

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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It took 32 chapters to finally come out and have someone say "yeah Kasen's totally an Oni", and in a rather casual reveal, too dang

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Every version of Reimu is Canon, and that's why she Rules.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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I can't believe Kosuzu Motoori, the protagonist of Forbidden Scrollery, is loving dead, after getting lost in a typhoon

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Pretty intense how that single chapter made me super curious about where WaHH goes next, because that was a surprisingly big plot bomb to just sorta drop in there.

Edit: also congratulations on making it so we're finally caught on up the official mangas. Excellent work!!

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mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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I recommend reading Silent Sinner in Blue not because Silent Sinner in Blue is any good (which it kinda isn't,) but because Cage in Lunatic Runagate is good and they both need eachother as required reading, basically.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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HellCopter posted:

How is one supposed to read CiLR alongside SSiB? Just one after the other?

This is going to sound ridiculous, but doing it at its best requires cross-referencing the timeline. Chapters of CiLR are interspersed throughout: they were published alongside the manga originally, so doing it in release order is how it was intended to be read.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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El Burbo posted:

Not good enough until you can say, from memory, every touhous name in order by stage appearance.

I can do this and also name every character's boss theme and (almost) every stage theme preceding it :colbert:

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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So obviously this requires TRUST but this was all off the top of my head 100% I swear
There's also some missing bits because I do admit I don't remember every stage theme, and I think there's a lot of songs here that are only like half the title.

6. Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil
Stage 1.) A Soul as Red as a Ground Cherry / Apparitions Stalk the Night - Rumia
Stage 2.) Lunate Elf / Tomboyish Girl in Love - Cirno (Daiyousei/Great Fairy appears here too)
Stage 3.) Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea / Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17 - Hong Meiling
Stage 4.) Voile the Magic Library / Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room - Patchouli Knowledge (Koakuma/Little Devil appears here too)
Stage 5.) ??? / Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial - Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 6.) Young Descendant of Tepes / Septette for the Dead Princess - Remilia Scarlet
Ex Stage.) Millenial Festival for Magical Girls / U.N. Owen was Her? - Flandre Scarlet

7. Perfect Cherry Blossom
Stage 1.) Deep Mountain / Crystallized Silver - Letty Whiterock
Stage 2.) The Fantastic Legend of Tohno / Diao Ye Zong (??) - Chen Yakumo
Stage 3.) The Dollmaker of Bucharest / Doll Judgment ~ The Girl Who Played with People's Shapes - Alice Margatroid
Stage 4.) The Capital City of Flowers in the Sky / Phantom Ensemble - Prismriver Sisters (Lunasa, Merlin, & Lyrica)
Stage 5.) Ancient Temple / (Something) Shoots a Strange Bird ~ Til When? - Youmu Konpaku
Stage 6. )Ultimate Truth / Bloom Nobly, Pure-Black Cherry Blossoms ~ Border of Life / Border of Life - Yuyuko Saigyouji
Ex Stage.) Charming Domination / Necro-Fantasy - Ran Yakumo
Phantasm Stage.) Charming Domination ~ Who Done It? / Necrofantasia - Yukari Yakumo

7.5. Immaterial and Missing Power
Final Stage.) Broken Moon / Oni's Island in the Fairyland ~ Missing Power - Suika Ibuki

8. Imperishable Night
Stage 1.) Illusionary Night ~ Ghostly Eyes / Mooned Insect - Wriggle Nightbug
Stage 2.) Night Bird / Deaf to all but the Song - Mystia Lorelei
Stage 3.) Nostalgic Blood of the East ~ Old World / Plain Asia - Keine Kamishirasawa
Stage 4.) ??? (It's like the Title Theme) / Maiden's Capriccio ~ Dream Battle / Love-Colored Master Spark - Reimu Hakurei or Marisa Kirisame
Stage 5.) Cinderella Cage ~ Kagome, Kagome / Lunatic Eyes - Reisen Udongein Inaba (Also Tei Inaba is here)
Stage 6.) Voyage 1969 / History of the Moon / Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess / Voyage 1970 - Eirin Yagokoro or Kaguya Houraisan
Ex Stage.) Extend Ash ~ Hourai Person (Or the other way around??) / Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke - Fujiwara no Mokou

9. Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Stage n.) Lord Usa's Elemental Flag - Tei Inaba
Stage n.) Poison Body ~ Forsaken Doll - Medicine Melancholy
Stage n.) Wind God Girl - Aya Shameimaru
Stage n.) Gensokyo, Past and Present - Yuka Kazami
Stage n.) Higan Retour ~ Riverside View - Komachi Onozuka
Final Stage.) Eastern Judgment in the 60th Year ~ Fate of 60 Years - Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu

10. Mountain of Faith
Stage 1.) ??? / Because Princess Inada is Scolding Me - Minoriko Aki (Also Shizuha Aki is here)
Stage 2.) Road of the Apotropaic (sic) God ~ Dark Road / Dark Side of Fate- Hina Kagiyama
Stage 3.) The Gensokyo the Gods Loved / The Kappa of (Something Something) ~ Candid Friend - Nitori Kawashiro
Stage 4.) Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall / Wind God Girl (Again) - Aya Shameimaru (Also Momiji Inubashiri is here)
Stage 5.) ??? / Faith is for the Transient People - Sanae Kochiya
Stage 6.) ??? / The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field - Kanako Yasaka
Ex Stage.) Tomorrow will be Special, Yesterday was Not / Native Faith - Suwako Moriya

10.5. Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Stage n.) (Something??) ~ Legendary Fish - Iku Nagae
Final Stage.) Flawless Clothing of the Celestials / Catastrophe in Bhava-Agra ~ Wonderful Heaven / Bhava-Agra as seen Through a Child's Mind - Tenshi Hinanai

11. Subterranean Animism
Stage 1.) The Dark Blowhole / The Sealed-Away Youkai ~ Lost Place - Yamame Kurodani
Stage 2.) The Bridge People no Longer Cross / Green-Eyed Jealousy - Parsee Mizuhashi
Stage 3.) Walking the Streets of a Former Hell / A Flower-Studded Dish on Mt. Ooe - Yugi Hoshiguma
Stage 4.) Heartfelt Fancy / Satori Maiden ~ 3rd Eye - Satori Komeiji
Stage 5.) Lullaby of a Deserted Hell / Corpse Voyage ~ Be of Good Cheer!! - Rin Kaenbyou
Stage 6.) Hellfire Mantle / Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion - Utsuho Reiuji
Ex Stage.) Last Remote / Hartmann's Youkai Girl - Koichi Komeiji

12. Undefined Fantastic Object
Stage 1.) At the End of Spring / A Tiny, Tiny, Clever Commander - Nazrin
Stage 2.) The Sealed Cloud Route / Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever - Kogasa Tatara
Stage 3.) Sky Ruin / The Stylish Young Girl and the Traditional Old Man - Ichirin Kumoi & Unzan
Stage 4.) ??? / Captain Murasa - Minamitsu Murasa
Stage 5.) Rural City Makai Esoterica / The Tiger-Patterned Vaisravana - Shou Toramaru
Stage 6.) Fires of Hokkai / Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind - Byakuren Hijiri
Ex Stage.) ??? / Heian Alien - Nue Houju

12.3. Hisoutensoku
Final Stage.) Unfound X ~ Unfound Adventure - Unnamed Giant Catfish
Last Spell.) X, the Floating Object in the Sky - Suwako, Again

12.5. Double Spoiler
I don't remember if Hatate actually has a theme associated with her but she shows up here.

12.8. Fairy Wars
Stages 1. & 2.) Staking your Life on a Prank - Three Fairies (Sunnymilk, Lunachild, Star Sapphire)
Final Stage.) The Great Fairy Wars - Three Fairies, Again
EX Stage.) Magus Night - Marisa Kirisame

13. Ten Desires
Stage 1.) Night Sakura of Dead Spirits / Ghost Lead - Yuyuko Saigyouji
Stage 2.) Welcome to Youkai Temple / Youkai Girl at the Gate- Kyouko Kasodani
Stage 3.) Let's Live in a Lovely Cemetary / Rigid Paradise - Yoshika Miyako
Stage 4.) Desire Drive / Old Yuanxian - Seiga Kaku
Stage 5.) The Dream Palace ~ Great Mausoleum / Legend of the Great Gods - Mononobe no Futo (Also Soga no Tojiko is here)
Stage 6.) A Small Desire's Starry Sky / Shoutoku Legend ~ True Administrator - Toyosatomimi no Miko
Ex Stage.) Youkai Back Shrine Road / Futatsuiwa from Sado - Mamizou Futatsuiwa

13.5. Hopeless Masquerade
Stage n.) Futatsuiwa from Gensokyo - Mamizou Futatsuiwa, Again
Final Stage.) The Lost Emotion - Hata no Kokoro

14. Double Dealing Character
Stage 1.) Mist Lake / ??? - Wakasagihime (The only character I can't remember the theme of!!)
Stage 2.) ??? / Dullahan Under the Willows - Sekibanki
Stage 3.) Bamboo Forest of the Full Moon / Lonesome Werewolf - Kagerou Imaizumi
Stage 4.) Magical Storm / Illusionary Joururi - Tsukumo Sisters (Yatsuhashi & Benben)
Stage 5.) The Shining Needle Palace Sinking in the Air / Reverse Ideology - Seija Kijin
Stage 6.) ??? (That Stage 5 Theme could be this?) / Inchling of the Shining Needle ~ Little Princess - Shinmyoumaru Sukuna
Ex Stage.) Thunderclouds of Magical Power / Primordial Beat ~ Pristine Beat - Raiko Horikawa

14.5. Urban Legend in Limbo
Stage n.) Battlefield of the Flower Threshold - Kasen Ibaraki
Final Stage.) Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World - Sumireko Usami
EX Stage.) Unknown X ~ Occultly Madness - Fujiwara no Mokou, Again


15. Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
Stage 1.) ??? / The Rabbit has Landed - Seiran
Stage 2.) ??? / September Pumpkin - Ringo
Stage 3.) The Mysterious Shrine Maiden Flying Through Space / Eternal Spring Dream - Doremy Sweet
Stage 4.) Frozen Capital of Eternity / The Wheel of Fortune Turning Over - Sagume Kishin
Stage 5.) Voyage of 380,000(?) Kilometers / Pierrot of the Star-Spangled Banner - Clownpiece
Stage 6.) The Sea Where One's Home Planet Reflects / Pure Furies ~ Whereabouts of the Heart - Junko
Ex Stage.) A Never-Before Seen World of Nightmares / Pandemonic Planet - Hecatia Lapislazuli

This took me like nearly an hour.

Edit: I fixed some ~embarrassing mistakes~ (a couple games and characters renamed, I forgot Momiji and Tojiko.)

mdct fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Dec 11, 2016

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Golden Battler posted:

All that and you still messed up the name of the 9th game.

Shameful :colbert:.

Ammat The Ankh posted:

Nooooot exactly.


You forgot my favorite midboss :(

gently caress!! Heck! That's what I get for copy + pasting to keep the format easier to write.

(Though I legitimately forgot about Tojiko and Momiji, so I guess I did gently caress up too!!)

Pureauthor posted:

Touhou 15.5: Antimony of Common Flowers has been announced

http://tasofro.net/touhou155/

Nice.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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I've been re-reading the old books a lot as of late and it turns out switching places with poo poo in the dream world has been a thing mentioned since Eirin's article in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red :psyduck:

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Gyra_Solune posted:

it is slightly confusing having someone named Seiga and one named Seija, both introduced around the same general time period

Seiga Kaku (rear end in a top hat, Hermit)
Seija Kijin (rear end in a top hat, Amanojaku)
Sagume Kishin (Not rear end in a top hat, Amanojaku*)

Three very similar names and vaguely similar characters!

*technically not really

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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It's more that PCB is one of the better-paced games, difficulty-wise. Stage 4 being harder than its boss actually lends to this, I think. Every other game tends to have a really steep jump in difficulty on one or two stages. IN has Reimu/Marisa being real hard, Kanako is much harder than the rest of Mountain of Faith, Parsee is bizarrely hard for a stage 2 boss, and then Orin is maddening.

I don't think those games themselves are really that much harder than PCB except SA (which is like #3 overall, behind UFO and LoLK.)

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Gyra_Solune posted:

Not so much with the fighting games though, they usually only have like one or two, Hisoutensoku didn't have any unless you count...the giant catfish

I included giant catfish on my giant mega-list so you should too. :colbert:

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Yeah and you go through the dream world in LoLK and Sumireko's physical form is a dream and dreams in general are real as heck! That catfish exists somewhere.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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If Mima ever did actually come back she probably would only be recognizable as Mima due to vague similarities and the name. She'd probably even get a surname, like Yuka did!!

check this sick poo poo out: mima hakurei. bam, thanks for the check, zun

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Sep 2, 2011

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I think it's very disrespectful to refer to Miko as a dad given her gender identity :colbert:

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Sep 2, 2011

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Ammat The Ankh posted:

GENSOKYO MOM TIER LIST:

S-TIER:
  • Sendai Hakurei Miko: Very strong mom. Teaches her daughter independance by retiring and letting Reimu handle incidents.
  • Suwako: Powerful Godess-mom. Suwako is cool and everyone likes her shrine. Her daughter works miracles.
  • Sakuya: Adoptive mother of two lovable vampires. Hard working mom.
  • Shinki: Powerful mover and shaker, still loves her now grown-up daughter. Is technically Satan.

A-TIER:
  • Kanako: Not quite as powerful or cool as Suwako. Still forms a high-quality mom tag-team.
  • Ran: Supremely powerful mom. Needs to take it easier with her daughter however.

B-TIER:
  • Yukari: Good moms don't sleep through the winter. However, gets a 2x score bonus for being Chen's Granny.
  • Junko: Loves her son. Her son is dead. Didn't handle it well.

C-TIER:
  • Mima: Lets her daughter wander around the forest of magic by herself, picking "magic" mushrooms. Said daughter is also an unrepentant thief. Pretends she doesn't have legs when she really does.

D-TIER:
  • Eiren: Daughter is a lovely NEET whose best friends murders her for fun. Housemates include a PTSD inflicted soldier and the Jackass of rabbits.
  • Futo: Her daughter hates her guts, and Futo apparently sabotaged her attempt at immortality, leaving her a ghost. However Tojiko seems to have turned out well, all things considered.

F-TIER:
  • Sagume: Have you seen Seija? Haha well Sagume hasn't.

https://twitter.com/dril/status/378698431822180352?lang=en

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Sep 2, 2011

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Talk about vintage memeing

Reisen's Good and Cool and that was a good chapter of Forbidden Scrollery. I don't think Akyu has ever shown to have been that excited before.

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Sep 2, 2011

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Given she's 22 do you think at some point in the upcoming few years Akyu is going to just straight-up fuckin' die since the Children of Miare don't usually live much longer than 30

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Sep 2, 2011

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The best one is Forbidden Scrollery, but all of them are good, with the caveat of Silent Sinner in Blue is only good if you also read Cage in Lunatic Runagate.

Read Forbidden Scrollery Imo

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Sep 2, 2011

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El Burbo posted:

Basically, you're either born a Magician like Patchouli or you get skilled enough in it that you can fuel your body through magic at which point you become a youkai.

Specifically, Alice turned into a Magician youkai so recently that she still eats and sleeps and whatnot while not needing to anymore. Her mindset is still very human.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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It's apparently not a shipping partner thing but rather which team would you most like to see in AoCF.

Which means yeah it's basically just a shipping thing but still

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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I put Yuka and Mima as the top result I ain't ashamed :colbert:

It won't happen but it'd rule!!

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Sep 2, 2011

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Frankly Mokou's entire "grudge" against Kaguya is purely an excuse to find any reason in her eternal life, and really, it doesn't seem to help much since she tends to just meditate and think about death these days. She pretty clearly doesn't actually give a poo poo about Kaguya herself anymore, if she ever even really did.

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Sep 2, 2011

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I put Miko down as the #1 but Reimu was definitely on the list.

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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Because Koishi is #3.

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Sep 2, 2011

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Dr Pepper posted:

Reimu was the best before Superior Miko Sanae was created. Now she's merely second best.

Sanae isn't even the best part of the Moriya Shrine let alone the best miko

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

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She's the opposite of story-relevant: Bernie Flanders is up there for character with the least number of appearances, or even allusions to her existence, flat. It's like EoSD, the lorebooks, and one Three Fairies chapter and that's basically it.

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Sep 2, 2011

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She's not even that. She's mentioned to be a little unstable and that's it, with almost no further explanation. If anything, she could just have clinical depression, even.

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Sep 2, 2011

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq3B3M5PoZk
This is the only song in the series that received absolutely no votes as anyone's favorite in the popularity poll, every other one got at least one.

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Sep 2, 2011

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I see Eiki got promoted if her character title means anything (which it probably doesn't)

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Sep 2, 2011

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Yukari about to make an offer that Kosuzu can't refuse

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