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What's she up to?

>>40489932
maybe check out Mamizou from touhou 15.5 for inspiration

>>20310457
final cont.
I forgot to mention some of Mamizou's clothes. In her original TD appearance she had weird black wristbands which I can't find the inspiration or point of, they never appeared again after that. She also wore flat, straw-colored sandals in TD which are probably waraji (草鞋), typical footwear of a tanuki. In the fighting games she instead gets weird long, black-heeled sandals with bells on them. The bells reference Kosuzu, obviously. In the various manga Mamizou can be seen wearing geta (下駄), traditional Japanese wooden sandals. Her music themes are obvious too, with 佐渡のニッ岩 (Futatsuiwa From Sado) reffering to Mamizou traveling from Sado to Gensokyo and 幻想郷のニッ岩 (Futatsuiwa From Gensokyo) reffering to Mamizou's new residence in Gensokyo. That seems to be all there is to analyze, you can read about her personality and plot relevance in the games, SoPM, and the various manga. As for Mamizou's abilities, she's of course able to disguise herself and other things as completely different objects. ZUN said that these are merely illusions though and can't take the properties of newly transformer into object (for example ZUN said that if she were to transform a dog into a bird, the illusion would be quickly exposed because the dog cannot fly). This is kind of bullshit though because Mamizou, in the fighting games, is able to transform her tanuki followers into various youkai, large or small, flying and terrestrial. She can turn her opponents into small, helpless animals. She even turns one of them into a giant boiling teapot bath that blows off hot steam. A tanuki can certainly not match that size and it certainly does not have the ability to blow off hot steam. Either ZUN retconned his own words or the fighting games and manga aren't canon. I'm going with the former. So, with this ability in mind, I'd say she's pretty powerful. It has endless uses and possibilities. She's also described as one of the 3 strongest tanuki of Japan and her tail is huge (ZUN states that the size and magnificence of the tail of a beast youkai measures its importance and strength). Putting all this together, it seems Mamizou is the strongest beast youkai and one of the strongest youkai in Gensokyo along with Yukari and the oni. Ran might be her only true match but she's a shikigami that gets power from being close to her master so without Yukari around I think it's safe to say Mamizou would beat Ran in a serious battle. So that's pretty much it...
>>20306095
I already mentioned them in that post you replied to, they're Shibaemon-danuki and Hage-danuki. Are you asking if they appear in the series though? If so, no they don't (at least not so far). Mamizou mentions two other powerful tanuki so that confirms their existence but that's about it. They're probably doing their own thing in the outside world right now.
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>>20293050
Forgot to add something about the Chouju Giga. Kyoukou's and Mystia's band is called Chouju Gigaku (鳥獣伎楽 lit. "Gigaku of the Bird and Beast). 伎楽 (Gigaku) is an ancient form of Japanese dance. ZUN really does love referencing the Chouju Jinbutsu Giga.

>>19781299
If I take that leaf off, will she die?

from the fighting games. I want to see all of those little girls float!

>>13218018
So magical she can sit on air and flap her tail playfully at you.

d o n ' t b u l l y a t a n u k i

>>12491427
Definitely Futo. Maybe Tojiko. I question Ran's mob hat sometimes. Mamizou's hat in HM is pretty silly too.

>>12448549
Yeah, but at least you have the option of touching fluffy tail. For the low, low price of $5.99!

Offer priced at per 5 seconds. Some restrictions may apply.

It feels quite satisfying, actually.

Has anyone released all of the Hopeless Masquerade sprites yet? according to Google only Reimus sprites are out.

>>11294062
>not liking Mami

disgusting.

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>>10978506
Plus, you can't rely on your opponent to whiff something big to place value on a super. A good opponent won't be whiffing their supers on you, that's the point. At that point you should be taking whatever is easiest to combo into/does the most damage, which hotspring takes over demon parade by a large margin

I wish there were more people figuring out Mamizou combos

>>10950368
I can thank if I want to.