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>化符「妖怪弾幕変化　夢見心地
(Transformation Sign "Youkai Danmaku Transformation: Dreamy State of Mind)
Used by Dream World Mamizou. Nothing about this card is relevant to her character and the danmaku isn't special or anything.
>神星符「正体不明の怪光人だかり」(Divine Star Sign "Unidentified Ghost-Light Crowd")
Shared with Nue Houjuu. 怪光 (kaikou lit. "mysterious/ghostly light") is not a specific phenomenon or youkai but it refers to any unexplainable floating light, sort of like a will-o-wisp. This phenomenon is called "atmospheric ghost light" in English. The unidentifiable and mysterious nature of ghost lights goes hand in hand with Nue's ability to create unidentifiable objects. "Crowd" is referring to the human-shaped danmaku Mamizou shoots. These human danmaku the suddenly turn into birds. This could be in reference to the nue's call which sounds like the bird call of the scaly thrush (toratsugumi). Nue herself also shoots curving snake-like lasers, a reference to the nue's snake tail. The kanji for divine/god (神) is present in all of Mamizou's cards in VD because many good hearted tanuki were enshrined as kami, including Danzaburou-danuki (Mamizou herself). The kanji for star (星) is here because Nue has an alien/outer space theme to her.
>輝神符「謎のドンドコ人だかり」(Shining Divine Sign "Enigmatic Dondoko Crowd")
Shared with Raiko Horikawa. Mamizou fires her usual human bullets (that then turn to birds) while Raiko rains exploding drums from the sky. ドンドコ (dondoko) is the sound a taiko drum makes and it rhymes with ponpoko/pompoko, the sound of a tanuki drumming its belly. 人だかり (crowd) again because of Mamizou's humans but in this instance it could be something like a crowd watching Raiko perform. 謎 (mysterious/puzzling/enigmatic) in the title is either referencing youkai (妖怪 lit. "mysterious/strange/mystical apparition) a whole (Mamizou is a bake-danuki and Raiko is a tsukumogami) or the tanuki's nature of transformation (allowing it to change things into a number of forms, in this case human danmaku to bird danmaku which could be described as "strange"). The kanji for shining/bright/radiant (輝) is in the card name as either a reference to Raiko's association with lightning/thunder (電光 lit. "electric light") due to her Raijin (雷神 lit. "thunder god") motif or is a reference to a shining/rising star, a person or thing rising in popularity (usually a musician/rock star).
>神緋符「雷雨の中のストーカー」(Divine Scarlet Sign "Stalker in a Thunderstorm")
Shared with Iku Nagae. 雷雨 (thunderstorm) is in the card name because Iku can manipulate weather, especially lighting/thunder due to her being a youkai oarfish that can channel the power of dragons. 緋 (scarlet/crimson/red) is in the card name because ZUN associates the color scarlet with celestials and other beings of the sky (like Iku). Why? Because 緋 (hisou "scarlet") sounds like 非想非非想天 (Hisouhihisouten "Bhavagra"; the highest level of Heaven). Also because oarfish have red accents on their appendages, which is what Iku's frilly clothes are modeled after. ストーカー (stalker) is probably referring to Mamizou but for what reason is a mystery to me. I can only assume it refers to the motif in Japanese stories of tanuki procuring alcohol during rainy nights, which I have explained in post 20293706 (I guess a tanuki waiting on a rainy night can be considered a "stalker" as in stalking a brewery until the coast is clear so they could take alcohol). Or it could just refer to Mamizou's human bullets which momentarily pause and continue pursuing the player between Iku's lightning danmaku.