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[Anonymous No.]

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

Supposedly it was this episode that was supposed to be released at Reitaisai 8, 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.

[Anonymous No.]

The next act is just Reimu and Marisa sitting near the torii, but it's no longer in color. This time, they both look "foreign," not just Reimu, and they're staring off blankly into space. They start talking with the same low audio quality, but now it's impossible to hear because there's a bass riff that comes in suddenly and just starts looping, making it so you can't hear anything else. But Reimu seems to be in pain, and Marisa is starting to sob. Apparently, my buddy's friend could just make out Marisa saying something like "don't let it through, don't let it come in" over and over again. This just repeats until the episode ends. All the while, the bass riff is getting more and more distorted, and after a few minutes, it just abruptly cuts to some super high frequency square wave.

I guess this made my friend's friend nauseous, so he left the room to vomit but came back as fast as he could so he wouldn't miss much. Since it was close to the 22 minute mark already, the episode had ended, but he caught a glimpse of the last image before the credits: just a still, black and white extreme closeup of Reimu's face. There was some very small text superimposed, but it seemed like the end of a larger portion of text, since the words just said "THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE." I guess the guy my friend knows tried to take the DVD with him, but a member of Maikaze confiscated and destroyed it before he could leave the building.

So I know there's probably a low chance I'll find anyone else who has heard of this, but I decided to ask here just in case. Anyone know any more details about this episode?

[Anonymous No.]

>supposed to be released at Reitaisai 8, but they pulled it from the booth

At least try to make it believable, for fucks sake.

[Komeiji Koishi is my master !xIXo1SmYf2 No.]

A touhou version of the squidward creepypasta?
Might be cool

[Anonymous No.]

Oh, hey. Haven't seen this pasta in a while.