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Title: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: deslar`ris on August 13, 2009, 02:30:38 AM
(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/424/2009081342e008874210292.jpg) (http://img17.imageshack.us/i/2009081342e008874210292.jpg/)

So ZUN has updated (http://kourindou.exblog.jp/10849567/) the site with this shot. It'd help to know what he says.

Though for some reason this looks somewhat familiar. Just me?
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Nine West on August 13, 2009, 02:35:56 AM
Doesn't look like Yumemi

Knowing ZUN, she's probably the final boss, whoever she is. Also, is that a scroll she's holding?
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Cadmas on August 13, 2009, 02:39:29 AM
Any fan pic yet?
Small image is :/
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: WRATHIE_Beatrice on August 13, 2009, 02:40:47 AM
looks like a religious figure to me.. what withthose sigils...
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Gpop on August 13, 2009, 02:46:30 AM
It'll be like the previous cover art. Everyone thought it was Mima at first, until she got owned.

It'll probably be the same for Yumemi.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Sodium on August 13, 2009, 02:49:19 AM
Oh Gpoop, always trolling them PC 98 fans.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Cadmas on August 13, 2009, 02:54:17 AM
This one looks like it has legs. Zun seems to be focusing on them in UFO.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on August 13, 2009, 02:57:43 AM
Nah, the average skirt-length is just shorter, I think.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: WRATHIE_Beatrice on August 13, 2009, 02:59:57 AM
average skirt length? wait.. i haf a pic just for it.. just wait.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Bias Bus on August 13, 2009, 03:01:44 AM
You know what? I'm not even going to say it, because I know what I'm going to say and it'll get my hopes up only to have them blown out the fucking window. So I'll just say the final boss is...

Rootmars
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Gpop on August 13, 2009, 03:02:01 AM
Oh Gpoop, always trolling them PC 98 fans.

Sure, but if another one comes in, then I could respect her.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Slowpoke on August 13, 2009, 03:03:05 AM
She writes runes in the air. I love her already.
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Post by: WRATHIE_Beatrice on August 13, 2009, 03:07:12 AM
ahh here we go..

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/dwrulez/memories_24.png)

and yes, another shrine Maiden @_@
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: homing curvy laser on August 13, 2009, 03:08:11 AM
I wonder if she's going to throw that Rune Sword and make an annoying path just like Elly. And write "verboten" in the air.

By the way, looks like another girl will join the hatless group of poor people.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Cadmas on August 13, 2009, 03:09:01 AM
Quote
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/dwrulez/memories_24.png

Which means Global Warming is effecting Gensokyo.
Which also means we might get that underwater game after all.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: WRATHIE_Beatrice on August 13, 2009, 03:10:37 AM
I wonder if she's going to throw that Rune Sword and make an annoying path just like Elly. And write "verboten" in the air.

By the way, looks like another girl will join the hatless group of poor people.

oh i dunno.. looks like hair ribbons at the side... twintails ftw.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: shadowbringer on August 13, 2009, 03:17:09 AM
looking at UFO's HUD, these themes are visible: clouds, dodecahedron, lotus, red cross; I can't try to guess who the new character is, without having any idea of what artifacts are she wielding.

Following the pattern of MoF and SA, the character is probably a final stage boss..
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Drayen on August 13, 2009, 03:20:06 AM
the runes over her head could possibly well just be alien-style scribbles like stuff you see in fields etc, which would fit the UFO theme

honestly i think anyone who hopes for pc98 bosses are desesperate and shouldnt hope for much.. ever : P
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Nine West on August 13, 2009, 03:23:01 AM
She writes runes in the air.

Should've known; the way those signs appear at that angle makes me think of a scroll for some reason.

And, she's only, what? one of the (approximately) four 'new' characters? Then there's still chance

... Screw it, I'm giving up
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: nintendonut888 on August 13, 2009, 03:28:38 AM
IT'S MIMA OMG.

Also, if it's the final boss, scratch Yumemi off the list for a number of reasons.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: kuroisakura1000 on August 13, 2009, 03:28:45 AM
Ichirin's Sister perhaps?
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Drake on August 13, 2009, 03:33:18 AM
Most likely to be Ichirin's sister.

Realize that the thing resembling an arm with the glyphs is far too short and high up to be from the left side.
Actually, it's too disfigured to be an arm at all.

Pixiv roaming.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on August 13, 2009, 04:11:36 AM
I'm guessing that her last name will be Kumoi. :B
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: WRATHIE_Beatrice on August 13, 2009, 04:12:17 AM
actually. more like Easter Island Diety =3
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Bias Bus on August 13, 2009, 04:21:46 AM
honestly i think anyone who hopes for pc98 bosses are desesperate and shouldnt hope for much.. ever : P
Which is why I never do~

Yeah it's probably Ichirin's sister or whatever, now that I think of it, that's the most obvious choice there is at the moment.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Aisha on August 13, 2009, 04:32:25 AM
The first thing that came to mind is that the game's spine might match SA's and thus look good sitting next to it on the shelf.

As for the cover, the girl's outline is pretty unremarkable, especially when compared to Utsuho's on SA's cover, but it does sort of look like she's wearing a Yumemi-style cape. Meh..

I also think that the dark blue cloud in the upper-left looks like a UFO.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Cadmas on August 13, 2009, 04:38:56 AM
This cover just might become my 2nd favorite cover. EosD being the first.
I'm a sucker for bright things I guess.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Moerin on August 13, 2009, 05:01:06 AM
I see a cape...

Maybe we'll have a bumper strawberry crop this year after all~?
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: nintendonut888 on August 13, 2009, 05:37:40 AM
Unless Yumemi got a big outfit change (which wouldn't be unlikely considering how both Alice and Yuka's outfits changed), that's not Yumemi; both the cape and the skirt are too short for her. Also, there's so many reasons that logically can't be Yumemi if that's the final boss I don't even know where to begin. Still, I wouldn't say no~
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Moerin on August 13, 2009, 05:48:34 AM
Well, I suppose we'll find out who she is soon enough...

There is a chance that it's not Yumemi, I know, but... I can always dream~
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: N-Forza on August 13, 2009, 05:54:38 AM
Those glyphs look very sci-fi.
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Post by: WRATHIE_Beatrice on August 13, 2009, 06:20:05 AM
ZUN might have been watching this history channel too much...
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Post by: Garlyle on August 13, 2009, 06:23:02 AM
...Digital Loli?
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: WRATHIE_Beatrice on August 13, 2009, 06:26:48 AM
that is in 12.3 i guess.. mecha > digital.

more like Ailen or long lost knowledge from another civilizations like the aztec.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Cadmas on August 13, 2009, 06:27:29 AM
Those glyphs look very sci-fi.

Reminds me of Stargate.

(http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc110/Cadmas/stargatesg1glyphs.gif)

Although the symbols don't really look alike.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: DgBarca on August 13, 2009, 10:13:13 AM
All I see is some of...strange curly hair of a side and strange straight hair on the other side and a strange thing in the left hand that create strange symbols that ends in a strange right hand.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Kuma on August 13, 2009, 10:26:05 AM
That thing over her head looks like one of thoss floating computer screens you see alll the time in futeristic movies and game, exept like a scroll.
And I think she has something in her other hand too, maby a sheild.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: DgBarca on August 13, 2009, 11:19:29 AM
Wait a minute...
the comiket is..tomorrow ! I didn't realise it...
But this cover art is pretty...strange...
Can't wait until Saturday...
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: WRATHIE_Beatrice on August 13, 2009, 12:58:38 PM
I'd haf thought it was Sunday.. but let's see...
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on August 13, 2009, 01:01:07 PM
Pretty sure it's Ichirin's sister. I can see what looks like a hood on her head.

I'm gonna take a guess at Archaeologist Moe for this one.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: DgBarca on August 13, 2009, 01:37:34 PM
Nooooo not the rolling pin noooooooo.
It doesn't look like a 6th boss at all...try again ? (But it is not thaaaat bad)
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: R-9A2 Delta on August 13, 2009, 03:38:08 PM
(http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp118/ArticunoX/ufoboxartyumemi.png)
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Kuma on August 13, 2009, 05:47:35 PM
(http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/7357/1250149953272.jpg)

Yeah, basicaly this, but without the cross, and with a cape/longer head garb
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: KomeijiKoishi on August 13, 2009, 05:51:45 PM
We'll know tomorrow.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Tengukami on August 13, 2009, 07:24:59 PM
I see a cape...

So do I! And bare feet, also possibly braids.

This is like guessing cumulus shapes. "I SEE A BUNNY!"
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Doomsday on August 13, 2009, 09:46:33 PM
Those glyphs look very sci-fi.
thats was EXACTLY what i was thinking

apart from that, not much else i can decipher. more to look forward to Saturday i guess
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: RuneDevros on August 14, 2009, 01:29:13 AM

Reminds me of Stargate.

Although the symbols don't really look alike.

That was my first thought. Actually reminds me more of the Ancients script (http://www.gateworld.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=21&pos=524) than the Stargate glyphs.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Cadmas on August 14, 2009, 01:31:46 AM
I knew I've seen something more similar. I just forgot about that episode.
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on August 14, 2009, 04:52:23 AM
I see a cape...

So do I! And bare feet, also possibly braids.

This is like guessing cumulus shapes. "I SEE A BUNNY!"
I see branches in the background-pattern with the clouds and stuff! OBVIOUSLY A REFERENCE TO KAGUYA'S JEWELLED HOURAI BRANCH!
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: misosoupwitheggplant on August 14, 2009, 04:57:39 AM
I was hoping for a pirate hat... If the final/fifth stage had a pirate hat or an eye patch, even, I'd love them and worship them. I probably won't worship them :(
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Drake on August 14, 2009, 04:59:42 AM
my fourth-stage oc has a pirate hat mmmm
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on August 14, 2009, 05:00:22 AM
I see a cape...

So do I! And bare feet, also possibly braids.

This is like guessing cumulus shapes. "I SEE A BUNNY!"
I see branches in the background-pattern with the clouds and stuff! OBVIOUSLY A REFERENCE TO KAGUYA'S JEWELLED HOURAI BRANCH!
Of course not, it's the Saigyou Ayakashi!
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: misosoupwitheggplant on August 14, 2009, 06:10:42 PM
my fourth-stage oc has a pirate hat mmmm

Not good enough. Has to be fifth or sixth stage. -worships anyhow.-
Title: Re: TH12 Cover Art: Any Ideas?
Post by: DgBarca on August 14, 2009, 06:31:41 PM
I see a cape...

So do I! And bare feet, also possibly braids.

This is like guessing cumulus shapes. "I SEE A BUNNY!"
I see branches in the background-pattern with the clouds and stuff! OBVIOUSLY A REFERENCE TO KAGUYA'S JEWELLED HOURAI BRANCH!
You can also say :"I see the sky in the background it is OBVIOUSLY A REFERENCE TO TENSHI AND IKU."
But...no, just no...