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Has anyone heard about that unreleased episode of the Touhou anime?

Supposedly it was this episode that was supposed to be released at Reitaisai 7, but they pulled it from the booth. They've actually been very good about keeping this a secret; it can't seem to be found anywhere online, and there's hardly any physical record of its existence. But I have a buddy who has a friend who used to work with Maikaze, and was close with the director. He was around during the supposed making of this episode. He recalled the D suddenly acting strangely during this time; apparently, he was far more paranoid than usual and allowed no one in the studio other than himself, Nakahara Mai, and Sawashiro Miyuki (none of the other Touhous were even in this episode). But my friend's contact got a prerelease from one of the animators and was able to watch it before the DVD could be destroyed. Now, he only watched it once before Maikaze got to it, but this is what he could tell me:

When it starts out, there's no opening with music or narration: it just goes right to the Hakurei Shrine. This may just be because my friend's pal saw an early version, but the picture quality is a little worse than than the first episode, and the sound doesn't quite sync up right. Reimu is in the shrine counting her donations, and while she looks normal, there's something "off" about her. All my friend's friend could tell me was that when you look at her (especially into her eyes) she seems human but "foreign" somehow.

After a few minutes, Marisa calls out from the front of the shrine. She comes in and starts complaining about something, although the audio is so low that you can hardly hear her. She's white as a sheet and looks more distressed than usual, like something is seriously wrong. This goes on for a few minutes, and after a while she's just babbling incoherently before the picture cuts out.

Hurry up!