Touhou 13.5: Hopeless Masquerade - Mamizou Futatsuiwa (No Commentary)

The Bake-Danuki who Always Provides Surprises
Mamizou's a tricky one to play as. Her attacks have amazingly good range and do a lot of damage, however they all tend to have notably long startup and cooldown time. To make up for that you need to keep your opponents guessing with her wide array of projectiles.
Spell Cards
2:12 - Stage 1 - Lingering Sounds of Religious War
The Overwhelming Youkai Ascetic: Ichirin Kumoi & Unzan
2:57 - Cool Down
3:25 - Fist Sign "Great Cumulus of Rage"
4:43 - Stage 2 - New Mask of Hope
Feng Shui Master who Controls Dragon Veins: Mononobe no Futo
5:31 - Cool Down
5:46 - Bow Sign "Star Dragon Bow"
7:29 - Stage 3 - Belly-Drumming at the Myouren Temple
Acharya who Surpassed the Primates: Byakuren Hijiri
8:18 - Cool Down
8:47 - Pestle Sign "Vajrapani's Incantation"
9:21 - Superhuman "Garuda's Wings"
10:44 - Stage 4 - Belly-Drumming at the Divine Spirit Mausoleum
Almighty Taoist who Controls the Cosmos: Toyosatomimi no Miko
11:35 - Cool Down
12:06 - Virtue Sign "Prestige of Shoutoku"
12:51 - Light Sign "Lasers of Infinite Articles"
14:32 - Stage 5 - As If Deceived by a Tanuki
The Advocate of the Myriad Gods: Reimu Hakurei
15:44 - Cool Down
16:04 - Charm "Shrine Prosperity Prayer Talismans"
16:45 - Cool Down
17:06 - Charm "Fantastic High-Speed Prayer Talismans"
17:48 - Charm "Anti-Youkai Houi-Yoke Prayer"
19:32 - Stage 6 - Can Youkai be Born Again?
The Expressive Poker Face: Hata no Kokoro
23:22 - Cool Down
23:51 - Melancholy Sign "The Melancholic World is a Melancholic Cart"
24:46 - Cool Down
25:08 - Joy Sign "Invigorated Kagura Lion"
25:51 - Cool Down
26:04 - Anger Sign "Mask of an Angry Hated Wolf
27:00 - "Monkey Possession"
Translation's courtesy of the Touhou wiki

[@canyonreynolds2440]

"It's been a long time since I've seen such happy humans" Kokoro, I hate to have to break it to you, honey, but there is literally one (1) human watching.

[@extremmefan7305]

(1 year late) And it's freaking Sakuya, meaning good luck getting her to even care about the match

[@MaybeNotARobot]

Mamizou is best girl because she's every girl.

[@ScttDynamite220]

Something feels wrong about fighting Kokoro in broad daylight.

[@korohacker]

Yeah, that Up+B has an insane reach! I think behind Ichirin, Mamizou's combos are one of the most satisfying to watch fold out, especially with that wall slam xD And yay, Kokoro next~

[@gabrielwright-dunn9355]

Mamizou: Hata No Kokoro, we've never met before. I say this not to you, but to the masks you hold, "We meet at last."

[@Raul_MM]

God, I love Mamizou. The problem with playing as her, though, is that you barely get to listen to her awesome theme song!

[@TheDarkMarioAndSonic]

Oh my god I just noticed in Miko's temple (dunno what its called) if you look at Youmu and Yuyuko on the background Youmu is actually feeding Yuyuko directly at her mouth. That's bizarrelly funny.

[@Team_Orchid]

Fights for fighting sake, seems everything's back to normal in Gensokio.

[@gabrielwright-dunn9355]

This story leaves me with a few questions: 1.) Is Kokoro a hive mind where each mask is a separate consciousness? 2.) How do all these stories fit together? 3.) What was that thing Mamizou threw on top of Kokoro at the end of her spellcard?

[@MegamanOmega184]

1) She's a tsukumogami. Traditionally that's a youkai that comes from a single object, but in this case the "object" was the set of masks. She's a single youkai, but she's young for a youkai so she's still getting away from the "hivemind" bit and becoming herself. 2) Isn't that the million dollar question... The only bits I'm sure f is the last four chronologically are Futo - Miko - Mamizou - Kokoro (and Koishi may or may not fit somewhere in there) 3) One giant bomb courtesy of ACME co

[@gabrielwright-dunn9355]

That does clear things up a bit, thanks.

[@dawk7]

Actually, isn't Mamizou's notebook an accounting book? Forrrrr... loans, I want to say? Could swear she had something going like that. And Touhou being like Dark Souls... ... _Praise the sun!_ >u

[@estevaoucceli7060]

4:19 What kind of music is this?

[@luigiforsthoffer]

Editor there's a difference between a boat and a ship. Boats are generally smaller and aren't generally thought as seaworthy and ships are the opposite large and seaworthy boats. Futo rides a boat not a ship. Hence she cannot be thought as a kanmusu in any sense of the word. Stop trying to prod the audience for a reaction.

[@CrazyYanmega]

You gotta admit that Futo fits the "Smaller ships as lolis" pattern though.

[@maxoublue1]

I see a 4-koma in the newspaper at 29:37. Think you can tanslate it?

[@MegamanOmega184]

Oh god... was not expecting that... Yuyuko: What's today's snack? Youmu: It's shirikodama Though sadly I can't read the last one, one of the characters is too blurry to make out.

[@oddwright7913]

This is too long for one comment 1: I miss read that. I thought there were 168 masks.. 2: Just a question, would you say its cheating to customize the no religion sets? 3: This is sad to say but in Vs com, I got to 99 plates as Futo.. 4: An umbrella, wall, and lantern.. anything else??? 5: I cant unsee this. WHY IS REIMU'S RIBBON BLUE?!? WHY DID SHE CHANGE IT?!?! ok. I'll shut up now

[@MegamanOmega184]

2) I'd hardly call it cheating to customize any of the sets. Honestly the "no religion" set is a set that contains moves that are approximately equal across the board. 3) Friggin' how... I was kinda trying to get it up there in story mode but it's hard not to have them dying when you're around 50... 4) If I wanted to muck around with other skills, a Tsurube (the species Kisume is) and an Amikiri, which is a snake-like youkai with lobster-like claws (en.touhouwiki.net/images/8/83/Th135MamizouSK04.png) 5) This isn't the first time she's changed her ribbon around you know? Nor the first time it was blue. If we keep it simple and only count the windows games, the first time she had a blue one was in SA, and in EoSD and PCB she had a red one.

[@oddwright7913]

3: I just spammed Y and used the rising rock attack to add the plates. 5: I guess miko fashion has phases too

[@dawk7]

5- You should check the Touhou manga. Like, the official ones. The Bonus Material of Volume 6 of 'Wild and Horned Hermit' has a double page with various designs for that one in particular, as a nice example.

[@bro748]

That's honestly not that long of a comment. I once wrote a comment that had 5500 characters in it. Your comment only has 388 characters.

[@oddwright7913]

well.. compared to my other comments it's pretty up there

[@winterdragon2004]

god damn Mamizou, its been one game since your debut, and your already complaining about how "tough it is being popular." smug little... also, (i feel a bit ashamed for asking this) whats "Kantai"?

[@MegamanOmega184]

Kantai Collection. That shipgirl series that got really popular extremely fast. With it's all female cast having the same kind of appeal that the Touhou cast has many people saw a lot of Touhou artists now doing Kancolle stuff. All in all it started making people talk about how Kantai is gonna replace Touhou, so this started making a huge rift between the two fandoms.

[@winterdragon2004]

MegamanOmega184 hrmmm, sounds interesting, maybe I should check it out sometime, see what the big deal is. doubt it'll replace Touhou in my eyes though, I've spent a long time getting to know each and everyone of its characters, and I'm not gonna let some boat lady's steal me away from them.

[@gabrielwright-dunn9355]

Kantai Collection as a game is free-to-play, card battle browser game with a lot of RNG elements. I've not played it myself so I can't speak for it's quality or anything like that. The premise has something to do with the spirits of the warships from the Imperial Japanese Navy have been reincarnated into girls and they fight these aliens called Abyssals in order to save the ocean economy or something. I saw the anime a while ago, and it was pretty okay.