Touhou 13.5 東方心綺楼 Hopeless Masquerade: Countdown to Mima

[teefa85]

Thanks for the stream link.  I know what I'll be doing tonight.

[Sage Ω (Ultima)]

I hope they fixed whatever the hell is going on in the second demo of the game. Spell card names are all random gibberish and used to display properly and spell cards have a nice little 20fps lag in them.

None of that shit happened in the first demo. (spell names were displayed with japanese font and spell cards didn't lag at all)

[Validon98]

Watching now! Looks like we're looking at story mode here! I like the newspaper effect for the stage endings.
Also, it looks like the story mode format's pretty much the same as SWR and Soku.

[Giratina93]

Oh gosh... Nitori coming in on her own personal helicopter of awesome... And nice remix of her theme as well... I am liking this.

[Formless God]

>not The Gensokyo The Gods Loved
Fug

[Ikari]

Well it would be rather shocking, although that would be on par with being a youkai. A "Mask of Hope" might even end up being created on it's own in the end, should things end well(and given that it's a Touhou game, ending well is kinda a given)...

I was joking. I bet it'll be created from the hopes and dreams of the character she fought, and cause her to become herself again.

[teefa85]

Oh gosh... Nitori coming in on her own personal helicopter of awesome... And nice remix of her theme as well... I am liking this.

I thought the exact same thing when I saw her enter.  Nitori just got even more amazing.

[Kirin no Sora]

...and I'l just wait until people start posting stuff on YouTube. (Can't watch stream due to bad connection issues)

I was joking. I bet it'll be created from the hopes and dreams of the character she fought, and cause her to become herself again.

That's what I meant from my second line, actually.

[LadyScarlet]

http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv139218124?ref=ser&zroute=search&keyword=%E6%9D%B1%E6%96%B9%E5%BF%83%E7%B6%BA%E6%A5%BC

HM stream is up on Nicovideo! Get your seats!

Just jumped in at Miko's part.

[Validon98]

Aww... Koishi looked really cute when she got defeated~. ^^;

[Shikieiki]

Ohmigosh that True Administrator remix.

[Star King]

How long ago was that? It was probably not so long ago, I was referring to initial speculations from last week.

Check reply # 572 to the previous thread. cuc predicted like everything on May 11. Including the Shotoku masks thing, which some people are saying nobody predicted, but this is also wrong.

Touhou 14 is announced, but the discussion here shouldn't stop. The same Japanese fan who pointed out about Ise-katagami has some fun theories.

http://www.nebuta.or.jp/archive/ogata/h23/ryoyukai.html
First of all, unlikely to have anything to do with HM's real story, here's a cool painting of a samurai general (Tamuramaro) with 7 divine-gifted oni masks hovering around him.

About the new character, he thinks she's based on Hata no Kawakatsu, who according to legend:

- may have come from China, claimed to be a descendant of the First Emperor of Qin;
- brought kagura into Japan;
- was favored by Shoutoku, and made masks for Shoutoku;
- was ancestor to the masters of noh theatre, including the greatest noh artist, Zeami;
- when people began worshipping a new god (which is in fact just a type of small worm), he suppressed this new religion;
- according to Zeami's book, he became a sennin (hermit), and is an avatar of Bishamoten who helped Shoutoku (the current wikipedia entry wrote his title as a god wrong, it should be 大荒大明神);
- Toriyama Sekien, that artist who loved inventing new youkai (you should really be familiar with this name by now), drew this image of Kawakatsu's mask becoming a mask youkai;
- was believed by a 20th century crazy man to be from a lost tribe of Israel.

Also, his name is mentioned by Cirno in FW.

OK, that's a whole lot of fun.

cuc for god tier

[MewMewHeart]

I could not take Miko's defeated and spell card cut in serious! 

[Validon98]

This isn't Byakuren! It's Mamizou!

[LadyScarlet]

Mamizou confirmed!

[ToyoRai]

Mamizou is in!

[Aya Reiko]

A Mamizou appears with a huge leaf hat.

[Validon98]

So all of those audience members were fake in that stage, huh? I was wondering what was up with them all being in a field like that.

[LadyScarlet]

Well, I like this remix of Futatsiuwa From Sado a lot more than the one that player during Byakuren?'s fight.

[trancehime]

Check reply # 572 to the previous thread. cuc predicted like everything on May 11. Including the Shotoku masks thing, which some people are saying nobody predicted, but this is also wrong.

cuc for god tier

ok, fair enough. Of course this also is indicative of how much I care about HM, that is to say not too much compared to the rest of you folks that I didn't bother to keep up with the thread. Haha.

[MewMewHeart]

Mamizou's theme seems fun to fight to <3

[Formless God]

I'll hate Tasofro forever if there isn't a remix of Cosmic Mind.

[Validon98]

The NIGHT PARADE!? Damn it, that was foreshadowed beautifully!

[Ikari]

I'll hate Tasofro forever if there isn't a remix of Cosmic Mind.

Byakuren's theme; Remix of Shou/Murasa theme.

Because WHY NOT. <3

[Aya Reiko]

Night Parade...

[teefa85]

Love Mamizou's new hat.

[Black Mage]

Anyone managed to snap a shot of Mamizous' portraits?

Imgur has failed me on this one.

[Validon98]

Every one has noh masks on... well HELLO THERE PERSON!

[LadyScarlet]

That final boss looks cute

[Aya Reiko]

Hatano Kokoro?