ZUNart is especially cute this time

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Am I the only one who's in love with new ZUNarts for th18?

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he probably spent all of 2020 drawing the cast let's see how the bosses look like.

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>>33437838
I'm liking it. ZUN art feels distinct now.

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>>33437872
You could always have called it ''distinct''.

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It looks so soulless now compared to his old work

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>>33437838
It looks great. I thought WBaWC's art was as good as he could get. These actually aren't so bad.

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I don't like that Reimu but Sakuya and Sanae look really good.

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I cant wait for someone to draw her nude with that outline

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My man ZUN learning how body proportions work

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>>33437951
took him only 25 years

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>>33437892
People complained about the art before.
They can't now.

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>>33437951
I liked his weird tohos a lot more.
This started to look somewhat boring since Hidden Star in Four Seasons.

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>>33437994
maybe it's just the mere-exposure effect but there are old illustrations like the ones of Hina and Eiki which you can only like.

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>>33437994
Damned if he improves damned if he doesn't

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The title screen Reimu is really cute.

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OH SHIT HE DREW HANDS
AND THEY LOOK LIKE HANDS

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>ZUN spent the whole year 2020 drinking and perfecting his style

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>>33438112
Sanae's hands in this game will go down in history as ZUN's greatest artistic achievement.

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>>33437994
MoF and PC-98 are peak ZUN art.

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>>33438112
Is ZUN okay? Is he being held hostage? Check his blinks, he might be using morse code to ask for help

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>>33438154
You're completely right but I would like to add IN and SA to it. Just like PCB.
Hope you don't mind.

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>>33438144
oh shit

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I like the skirt shading.

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>>33438770
What a slut.

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>>33441619
t. hakurei

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>>33441625
Reimu is posing all seductively as well. She's clearly trying to attract people who are into "innocent" girls, what a fucking slut too.

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>>33441721
she needs those shekels

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>>33437838
It looks super good in my opinion. Excited to see the bosses later on.

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>>33437872
Zun art style has had a Pixiv tag for ages. It's one of my favourites.

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Rainbow dragon's den「虹龍洞」
Inb4 nothing Meiling related in the game,
As expected.

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>>33447486
Forgot pic

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>>33438770
skirt length above her knees
oh man what a harlot

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>>33437838
Looking forward to the new marisa art

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my nigga ZUN really improved over the years.

however I have a bad feeling that this will be a "soulless" 2hu game, especially with this pop-art feel.

lets see if imported impossible spellcard item mechanics will be fun and await Mima calmly.

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I'm not a fan of the playable character choices. Of everyone ZUN could have chosen, he went with the ones that have the largest amount of playable roles.

The gimmick looks interesting, though. Getting powers as you go along... Maybe some sort of Mega Man or rougelike deal?

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i fapped to zun art today
it was good

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Still patiently waiting for a game with Mokou as playable character where you have motivation rather than lives like with Chirno.

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>>33437838
ZUN will fix the visibility issues right? right?

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>>33438073
Official Reimu armpit detected.

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>>33450602
Why did Zun draw such large breasts on Sakuya?

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>>33452973
You already know what she does to make them look this big. ZUN just wants us to remember.

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>>33447486
Don't get your hopes up, remember when we thought Ibaraki was going to appear in WBaWC?

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Did Mima have anything to do with dragons?

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>>33450602
I'll say it every time but he just rotates them. Youmu had her turn last time; now you get Sakuya and Sanae again

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>>33454774
So when is it Yuuka and Mima's turn again?

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Here's hoping he tries something different with the soundtrack like in 17 with ebisu and the cow's theme.

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>>33450602
Judging by the known informations, l think it would be a rougelike shop system like Mystery Dungeon. But l doubt that would be a good idea because it might be too random. There's a reason why people hate UFO.

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>>33452973
This is canon now.

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>>33451369
I hope he has been listening to the fans about that. I don't want to deal with playing the game super close to my monitor.

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>>33453061
P*dkuya?

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>>33455130
On his radio thing just now he said he put a lot of effort into the songs this time. Apparently they might sound kind of strange at first but you'll soon get hooked.

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>>33453061
Regular supplements from her mom can turn even the flattest of chests into saggers that could even make hags jealous

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>>33450850
That's actually a really cool idea, I also want to see this now.

>>33454774
Not counting spinoffs, MS, HSiFS, and LoLK all introduced new playables who haven't been seen since. Not to mention, back in PCB/IN/UFO these characters that are commonly rotated around nowadays were brand new.
What you say is true, but he isn't always adverse to trying different things, and I always feel a tad disappointed when he falls back on the old choices. Even though I have bias towards Youmu, who is one of my favourite characters and has my favourite shot types in the series, I still think I'd be more excited to see someone new.

>>33455776
I've only played the first PMD and a tiny bit of Shiren the Wanderer, how do shops work in the other games? I was thinking UM's shop system might be something more like Risk of Rain where you spend money you earn from killing enemies to open chests or exchange your preexisting items for other ones.

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>>33459796
>MS, HSiFS, and LoLK
MS? You mean Mystic Square? Not sure you can count that.

HSiFS and LoLK being exceptions don't make me expect him to change roster frequently. LoLK being about the moon made Reisen make sense, HSiFS was the real radical. He wants to only use "humans" to resolve incidents; hence why even in IN and SA although youkai are involved it's humans who are at the forefront.

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>>33462706
Yuuka was brought back for PoFV, why can't she be made playable again? I know everyone memes about Mima, but I think the same goes for her as well.

Even with the human characters (of which Youmu is only half, by the way), more recent games have had more concrete reasons for including them. You already explained Reisen, Sanae was in LoLK because the rabbits invaded Youkai Mountain and the shrine, and Youmu was in TD/WBaWC because of their plots relating to the undead. I admit Sakuya in DDC is a pretty tenuous connection to the main plot (you could switch her out with any character and make the same justification). The point is, if ZUN is making the effort to make playable selections based on relevancy to the plot, why limit himself to the recurring ones? There are also other human/human-like characters he can use, like Alice and Futo for example.

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>>33463005
>Yuuka was brought back for PoFV, why can't she be made playable again? I know everyone memes about Mima, but I think the same goes for her as well.
PoFV really doesn't count. Like one of the fighters, everyone was playable in it.
>of which Youmu is only half, by the way
Did you not notice my quotation >>33462706
>"humans"
>ZUN is making the effort to make playable selections based on relevancy to the plot
I mean, kind of. Reimu and Marisa are arbitrary, but I'm pretty sure he uses Sakuya and Youmu especially out of a sense of "now it's your turn". PCB: new character. IN: new character (and Sakuya). UFO: new character. TD: Youmu because Sakuya got to be playable in mainline (discounting PoFV) twice (also there's Sanae). DDC: Sakuya again. LoLK: Sanae and a rare genuine, completely non-human. HSiFS very rare TWO non-humans and I'll admit surprisingly both are "plot relevant". WBaWC: Okay Youmu's turn again. UM: Okay Sakuya and Sanae again.

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>>33463131
to break it down
Sakuya: 3 normal mainlines until UN, making 4.
Youmu: Currently 3.
Sanae: Also 4 now.

Basically More likely than not Youmu will be playable again if ZUN adds another "human" to Touhou 19 or 20. When Youmu was playable in WBaWC I called that Sakuya at least would be next and lo

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>>33455062
Touhou 20

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>>33453125
She was in an ending

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>>33452973
Why not?

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Shrine maidens are small, Sakuya is tall.

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>>33455062
78

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>>33467240
Everyone knows that already.

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>>33459841
What do her sash say?

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>>33455776
I remember playing a witch themed shoot em up in the 90s that had this feature

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>he impoved his art
wtf

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>>33468155
>>33438128
Who are you quoting?

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>>33437838
It's approaching peak ZUNcore to be honest and that's a good thing.

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>>33437901
The most soulless shit is using these soulless buzzwords you kinosoulbasedbumfuck maggot.

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>>33468434
Light chuckle.

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>>33467354
I thought Marisa was the womanlet

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>>33467867
The headband says "Most Popular" and I think the sash says "Returns as a playable character in this game"

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On one hand, the new ZUNart is good and pretty cute, but on the other hand, I'm going to miss the wonky art.

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>>33468873
It's still pretty unique looking.

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>>33438144
I wish ZUN goes back to how he draws the girls in multiple poses depending on her expressions like in the old games, not just the faces changing. For some reason this Sane looks like she has multiple poses but I'm prepared to get disappointed.

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>>33468925
ﾃｲ'll have to wait and see

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>>33468925
we'll have to wait and see

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>>33468925
He did spend a whole year, it gotta have atleast one different pose.

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>>33467966
>witch themed shoot em up in the 90s
Probably one of the Cotton games

>>33437928
Why hasn't this happened yet
Not even with Sanae, whose body outline is also visible

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I want to break ZUNs arms so he goes back to his former drawing style.

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>>33468925
you can already see reimu having multiple poses in the game menu
>>33475290
if you want to touch kannushi-sama, you will have to get past me.

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>>33475290
I want to break ZUN's new computer so he goes back to his best drawing style.

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>>33438144
>he actually drew FUCKING HANDS PROPERLY
jesus christ, that's not ZUN
inb4 a fucking gaylord asking who am I quoting

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>>33479769
I'll be the one. Who are you quoting anon?
Also leave.

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>>33478202
style made by a 6y old

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>>33437838
FUNKY!

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>>33479790
I wonder how the fuck are you able to stop caring so much about such a meaningless thing when you browse other boards

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>>33479852
Go back.

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>>33479769
wayq

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>>33479931
of course not

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>>33479852
I don't browse cancerous boards.

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>>33450602
Why do the backgrounds look like photos? Has this been going on for a while and I never noticed? Are there photos of Gensokyo?

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>>33467240
Delete this. Reimu is supposed to be reasonably tall according to ZUN.

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>>33481216
He also said that Sakuya is tall. In fact, Sakuya has been portrayed as tall since PCB.

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>>33481379
No wonder Sakuya keeps bullying them, they are a bunch of womanlets

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>>33481532
It's merely a tease

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>>33481379
I almost miss ZUN's foot-bags(?)

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Can we not talk about these silly concepts like "tall" and "womanlet".

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>>33485400
yeah, like amazon and short stack

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>>33485475
Stop saying short stack.

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>>33437838
Shape

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>>33486919
Sexmu

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His lineart has always been charming, the difference is he's finally learned how to color.

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>>33488956
Forgot pic

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>>33437838
I'm sad that Mayumi didn't make it in.

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More than the art, I'd love for him to bring back sprite animations. His work during the PC98 era with Yuuka and others was really great, and teleporting opponents reminded me of Kirby fights.

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>>33489037
Delete this.

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>>33485400
What about hag and loli?

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>>33489037
delete this
t. ZUN

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>>33489693
Why did he do that to us, Mayumibros?

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>>33481532
Do your best chibi-chan~

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>>33437838
>>33438073
She's into fishing game or something?

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>>33479822
Yes. Lolis are the only worthy arbiters of art.

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>>33485400
Its high time you came to terms with the fact that Marisa's ridiculously short.

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>>33489037
Stop posting endings

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>>33486919
I can't unsee Reimu having a blockish body now.
For someone who eats so little, she has little curvature.

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>>33437838

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I feel as if this is the start of a new era gamewise.
There's PC-98, then there's Windows Era 1 and Windows Era 2 (current modern)
18 feels like the start of a Windows Era 3. Either way, I can't wait for the came to release. The demo is around the corner after all.

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>>33538999
Personally I feel that "windows era 3" or whatever started with 16.

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>>33468253
>Who are you quoting?

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https://twitter.com/korindo/status/1367674439660277764
ZUN's hyped for the first time in a while.

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>>33540020
nobody

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>>33437838
I like ZUN art in general

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>>33437928
>>33474770
I will try to draw a nude with that outline, however I wouldn't say I'm that great as an artist and I probably won't post it on /jp/. I'll post it on /v/ instead

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>>33438770
>>33438144
Gensokyo's WHOLESOME bicycle.

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>>33437928
Someone probably has.

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>>33553261
Just upload it to catbox or something and then link it here
Saying you'll post it in /v/ is like inviting people to not check it out

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>>33467240
Sakuya is from europe so duh

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>>33538999
>>33539131
I thought Windows Era 3 started with TD (or DDC, depending on who you ask). I could see this being the start of Era 4, though.

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>>33559794
>Saying you'll post it in /v/ is like inviting people to not check it out
My apologies I never come to /jp/ for anything other than the Touhou Gameplay threads. This thread caught my attention because OP posted an image of a game's title screen

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>>33505147
Everyone has known that for 20 years.

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>>33561172
Eh, I don't know. It looks a fair bit different this time around so it could be a new era. The question is which.

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>>33455776
Makes me think of Trouble Witch's (a horizontal STG) item shop, where you'd buy spells from it.

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