"Either she's courageous enough to insult Reimu in her face or stupid enough to insult Reimu in her face." Well, she's a tanuki, she got the balls to do that, if you know what I mean. xD
I don't know, the fact that Nue of all people called Mamizou to take care of Toyosatomimi no Miko says a lot. If you take the Mario comparisons even further, it's important to note that Mario is a chubby plumber who regularly curb-stomps Eldritch horrors and dragons. "They called me in to fight a god-like saint of Buddhism who had recently pulled a Jesus" sounds just as good on a résumé, methinks.
Fridge Brilliance: Why is the last spellcard so lackluster? You saw how much effort she put into her second to last spellcard, she's just as tired as you are!
You have to remember that Mamizou was called into Gensokyo from Nue, who stated she was the "Youkai's triumph card". In perspective, Mamizou was supposed to go defeat Miko & Co.. I'd say that makes her pretty impressive.
I managed to beat Mamizou within a few weeks of having the Extra Stage unlocked, myself. However, it took a lot of practice. I've beaten Mamizou twice, but I only consider the more recent victory legitimate (the first one I had very bad slowdown). She's a really fun fight though, very unique patterns, colorful and playful tone for the fight.
"This song has that tanuki feel foxes lack." Tanuki are known for their big testicles in Japanese mythology xD (also, who is the Eldritch Abomination? Tenshi? or Suika?)
Remilia is a little girl who can't play outside, Yuyuko is a dead chick, Suika is a drunk person, Kaguya is a LUNAtic, Eirin is a doctor, Eiki is a judge, Kanako (I got nothing), Tenshi is a bored young girl, Utsuho is a bird, Byakuren is a monk, Suwako is part frog, Alice is a puppeteer, Catfish is a catfish, Hatate and Aya are photographers, Sunny Milk, Luna Child and Star Sapphire are fairies, Miko (I got nothing), Kokoro is a masquerade and Reimu is a Shrine maiden. Really all underachieved
Well done as always, raak! On the first Spell Card though, the trick is to go outside the wall of gingerbread men (i.e. right of the rightmost or left of the leftmost), the middle is definitely where you DON'T want to be when they get to you. Tanuki's Monsterous School and Wild Deserted Island usually destroy me, though :(
Hearing "Fly, little tanuki, fly!" Makes me imagine one of the three playable characters of TD throwing a baby/chibi Mamizou in the air like one would do with a bird they're releasing into the wild. But their face would have to be more or less without expression like :O
On my first time ever fighting Mamizou, I captured six of her spellcards. Before ever even seeing them before. I lost all my lives on her eighth, however....
@TheTeff007 There are actually 10 Mamizou's in the survival card, not counting the original. 2 shoot green catdoghorserabbitfoxthings, 4 shoot the red birds and 4 shoot the stick figures. 7:31 shows this pretty well I think
@raak1010 Oh I know the wiki is reliable, but by the time I looked it up, Miko's page was almost blank. Though the fanon sure does work fast, it's pretty full now.
I think the "pompokolin" in the last spell referes to the "odoru pompokolin", the first ED for an old kodomo anime called Chibi Maruko-chan. You could look it up. The song itself is quite jumpy and non-sensical, and the art used in it is ... quite interesting to look at.
I was bummed when I made it to that stage with Marisa. When the "Transformation "Pseudo-Exorcism of the Stupid Shrine Maiden" Spell card came up for the first time today it was still Reimu D= I wanted to see a Marisa variation of that spell.
It's fun to see your description of her today, because finaly, she is very very very important for Gensokyo and she is the tanuki leader Also her hability isn't like Nue x)
@MaxXXXorJustMax It does make sense, Nue and Mamizou both wandered around pranking humans and were close friends, but now that Nue has settled down, she called in Mamizou from Sado (she was actually living in Japan) as a favor to stand up to the Taoists. Unfortunately, Tanuki's tend to not listen to a word people say... lol
Yes I do (America is my favorite Hetalia character), and it certainly is! I am hoping for the day when there is a Hetalia themed bullet hell game like Touhou. It would probably be amazing!
i wonder if in the next fighter well have a ran vs mamizou with both having a story mode and eachother as final bosses? as zun said its a story for another time
you know, I saw mamizou for the first time when I was a newbie. back then I though you had to not get hit once to unlock a new difficulty, there was always lunatic+ and talking to koishi caused insanity. also mamizu looked... scattered.
Extra stages boss's last spell card are always hard and brutal. But Mamizou's last spellcard was easier. The main concern is, really hard to get extra life in this stage.
pompokolin interests me and i find this on wiki "Odoru Pompokolin" (おどるポンポコリン Odoru Ponpokorin?, "Dancing Pompokolin") is the first ending theme of the Japanese anime series Chibi Maruko-chan Pumpokol is one of the Yeniseian languages. It has been extinct since the 18th century.
I wish ZUN would just use the score system for lives. What was so bad about that, I mean, I could rack up to 6 lives in total in Mountain of Faith before Sanae. In this game I can barely get 5 by Miss Long-as-All-Hell-Name no Miko. Nice Extra stage run! And so fast after the release!
@raak1010 Oh no, I did check the wiki, it's just that by the time I checked, her profile was pretty much blank. I think I trusted a little too much on the fanbase. Oh well.
I know this was a while ago, but I thought I'd provide an answer anyway c: You unlock Extra mode by 1ccing the rest of the game, usually on Normal mode. I think in the later games that you can only do the extra stage as the character you completed the game as, e.g. if you cleared the game with Reimu A, you can only do the extra stage as Reimu A.
@raak1010 I mean it in Lunatic, but the secret is more of a rumour (Though a very plausible one) That the final boss was based off of a certain Male Character, considering both such character's appearance as well as her, her power, her hatred towards buddhism and her spellcards, I say it's pretty plausible. But then again, it's nothing confirmed, so I might just be over reacting, but it's a nifty bit.
after a year of countless amounts of deaths and endless frustration I endured, I finally did it! I 1cc cleared TD! Not only did I clear this without losing my continue but It's also my first! though I have to confess I saved up my bombs for Miko and I basically spammed Master spark while fighting her, I was so close to losing! but after losing my last life and bomb I was finally able to take her down! now all I have to do is pass the Extra stage...but for now I'll celebrate Yay me!
this girl's an even bigger thief then Nue D: Nue, Sanae, Suwako, Sunny Milk, Utsuho...she even steals Reimu's shape IS THERE NO END TO HER FIENDISHNESS?!?!?!? her music's awesome, though...'bout time we had an uplifting EX-boss theme after Hartmann's Youkai Girl (bipolar) and Heian Alien (bizarre) Magus Night's pretty spirited, though also nice to see an EX boss that doesn't drown you with ofuda also her leaf beret is adorable I want it
FFFF- That was fast! How did you beat Mamizou so quickly? Is she really that easy, or has your skill just gotten that good? I'm not spoiling myself on the extra stage this time so I'm just here to comment, but I'll definitely take a look at this when I actually see Mamizou's patterns for myself.
People are underappreciating Mamizou, but I already get that Ex Boss feeling from her. You read my mind, raak, she's the Nue of nature. That's why she's her friend, I thought that Nue might have called her because she's a sore loser and didn't want the heroines to have the last word. That is also why the fight is in the Myouren temple, since she lives there with Byakuren. But no one can against the power of the heroines! Not even an ancient tanuki youkai that is stronger than that Old Youkai #1.
animal danmaku is better put this way. Human: known as naughty children swinging their arms and spitting their food at you Dogs: known as carnivorous radioactive canines trying to give you cancer Birds: known as dumb birds which hatched from danmaku and are on fire Frogs: known as spastic amphibians which mistook grenades for flies
4:12 - Can you change the annotation colour? A bit hard to see white on white. Other than that, great video. Feels like this racoon might've been a druid once.
@raak1010 ...Seriously? Man, I heard a completely different version of that, that she was based off of Neku Sakuraba from The World Ends With You. Well, so much for the fanbase giving me off fanfiction ideas, though I think I'll stick to this one. Sorry for wasting your time lol.
"Either she's courageous enough to insult Reimu in her face or stupid enough to insult Reimu in her face." Well, she's a tanuki, she got the balls to do that, if you know what I mean. xD
She's got the *literal* balls to do it.
rikuaxelsora she's kinda both...
Yeah like shis has The Handful oh wrong A WHOLE BIGGO SOME BALLZ
Bloody hell, I'm starting to think UA-cam needs a "Wow, that was fast" pool. And JESUS CHRIST her theme is catchy!!!
ScarletFlameFlandre I Know Right !
YOU EXPECTED A EXTRA BOSS YOU USUALLY SEE, BUT IT WAS I, MAMIZOO!!!11!!
YOU EXPECTED KASEN!
BUT I WAS ME, MAMIZOU!
i think its cool that mamizou doesnt have very complicated patterns like other bosses but is just as hard
Mamizou has the weirdest Danmaku ever
The hitboxes are strange indeed.
Am I the only one who finds mamizou's reimu disguise funny. It's just the tail 😂😂😂
I don't know, the fact that Nue of all people called Mamizou to take care of Toyosatomimi no Miko says a lot. If you take the Mario comparisons even further, it's important to note that Mario is a chubby plumber who regularly curb-stomps Eldritch horrors and dragons. "They called me in to fight a god-like saint of Buddhism who had recently pulled a Jesus" sounds just as good on a résumé, methinks.
Miko is Taoist not Buddhist.
That's byakuren, not miko
Mamizou: "Regular shaped bullets? ... that's too mainstream" xDDD
Fridge Brilliance: Why is the last spellcard so lackluster? You saw how much effort she put into her second to last spellcard, she's just as tired as you are!
she also pretty much says she *didn't realize the fight was going to be over that quickly*
You have to remember that Mamizou was called into Gensokyo from Nue, who stated she was the "Youkai's triumph card". In perspective, Mamizou was supposed to go defeat Miko & Co.. I'd say that makes her pretty impressive.
"Touhou has never been hard."
I'm going to share that comment with my friends, and you will become a deity in their eyes. Is this okay?
Comedy spectrum:
Wit > violence > pun > in-jokes > censorship > taboo > sitcom > breaking the 4th wall
She's not just any ordinary raccoon...she's the Tanuki with Ten Transformations! *insert Power Rangers theme song and cheering crowds*
Lawsuit Meter:1
POWER RANGERS... LOST GALAXY
(lost galaxy is the only power rangers series I know)
only one of which involves transforming herself
I managed to beat Mamizou within a few weeks of having the Extra Stage unlocked, myself. However, it took a lot of practice. I've beaten Mamizou twice, but I only consider the more recent victory legitimate (the first one I had very bad slowdown). She's a really fun fight though, very unique patterns, colorful and playful tone for the fight.
"This song has that tanuki feel foxes lack."
Tanuki are known for their big testicles in Japanese mythology xD
(also, who is the Eldritch Abomination? Tenshi? or Suika?)
Remilia is a little girl who can't play outside, Yuyuko is a dead chick, Suika is a drunk person, Kaguya is a LUNAtic, Eirin is a doctor, Eiki is a judge, Kanako (I got nothing), Tenshi is a bored young girl, Utsuho is a bird, Byakuren is a monk, Suwako is part frog, Alice is a puppeteer, Catfish is a catfish, Hatate and Aya are photographers, Sunny Milk, Luna Child and Star Sapphire are fairies, Miko (I got nothing), Kokoro is a masquerade and Reimu is a Shrine maiden. Really all underachieved
What about Flandre Scarlet? Did you forget about Remi's sister?
Well, you can call Kanako the businessman. She uses the shrine’s funds and tried to take over Reimu’s shrine for money.
Well done as always, raak! On the first Spell Card though, the trick is to go outside the wall of gingerbread men (i.e. right of the rightmost or left of the leftmost), the middle is definitely where you DON'T want to be when they get to you. Tanuki's Monsterous School and Wild Deserted Island usually destroy me, though :(
Hearing "Fly, little tanuki, fly!" Makes me imagine one of the three playable characters of TD throwing a baby/chibi Mamizou in the air like one would do with a bird they're releasing into the wild. But their face would have to be more or less without expression like :O
wow raak, not bad, not bad.
Thats pretty fast to clear the extra, good job :D
@1Megabirds oh, I just found out Yukari is called an eldritch abomination by a part of the fandom (cuz of the borders/gap things) ;3
On my first time ever fighting Mamizou, I captured six of her spellcards.
Before ever even seeing them before.
I lost all my lives on her eighth, however....
Man, I sure do love the background during Mamizou's spellcards.
@TheTeff007 There are actually 10 Mamizou's in the survival card, not counting the original. 2 shoot green catdoghorserabbitfoxthings, 4 shoot the red birds and 4 shoot the stick figures. 7:31 shows this pretty well I think
If you listen very closley on WIld Deserted Island, you can acutally hear the animals being summoned.
Just some trivia. :3
Why can I imagine the battle being fought to the Gnat Attack Boss Theme from Mario Paint?!
@EmpoleMew Yeah, by the time I played yet again the extra, i counted Mamizou copies and realized it. Somehow I just didn't saw two mamizous...
Oh Raak I found out the exact date for the US release, October 7 this year. Four months to go, yayyy haha
"Epic Flandre: 10 of a kind" :D
"-The frogs explode (typical)"
@raak1010
apparently pompokolin is the ending dance/song in the anime "Chibi Maruko-chan",that features a raccoon dance.weird...
@raak1010 Oh I know the wiki is reliable, but by the time I looked it up, Miko's page was almost blank.
Though the fanon sure does work fast, it's pretty full now.
I think the "pompokolin" in the last spell referes to the "odoru pompokolin", the first ED for an old kodomo anime called Chibi Maruko-chan. You could look it up. The song itself is quite jumpy and non-sensical, and the art used in it is ... quite interesting to look at.
Look! it's reimu with a tanooki leaf!
First spellcard:
Gingerbread men? Shooting crap at you?
NINJABREAD MAN.
"read: purple"
I see you have gone spelunking before.
I was bummed when I made it to that stage with Marisa. When the "Transformation "Pseudo-Exorcism of the Stupid Shrine Maiden" Spell card came up for the first time today it was still Reimu D= I wanted to see a Marisa variation of that spell.
also, the nonspell after wild deserted island makes me think of utsuho's first non spell
Mamizou’s non spell danmaku is literally a spam of huge white dots going in a simple overestimated pattern.
Nonspells aren't usually flashy, especially Junko's.
CHRISTI XX facts, straight facts.
I suddenly remembered what her bird spellcard reminds me of
Moriya's Iron Rings
Hmm. Sounds like a Rapture Plasmid, "Decimate your enemies with Fantasy Seal! Evolve Today!"
Animal danmaku are awesome. Also Pseudo-Exorcism of the stupid shrine maiden. Best spell name ever xD
It's fun to see your description of her today, because finaly, she is very very very important for Gensokyo and she is the tanuki leader
Also her hability isn't like Nue x)
I can't seem to make my way through TD to save my life...I demand a TD playthrough!! ...please?
i would so play that!!!
btw, my fave is tie between prussia and austria (and it is pure coincidence that i ship them together)
@MaxXXXorJustMax Mamizou's the first EX-boss since Mugetsu and Gengetsu not to be related to the final boss
@MaxXXXorJustMax It does make sense, Nue and Mamizou both wandered around pranking humans and were close friends, but now that Nue has settled down, she called in Mamizou from Sado (she was actually living in Japan) as a favor to stand up to the Taoists. Unfortunately, Tanuki's tend to not listen to a word people say... lol
@TheTeff007 Starting at about 7:13 you can clearly see the 10 different ones.
she flies with the P.Wing power up
Yes I do (America is my favorite Hetalia character), and it certainly is! I am hoping for the day when there is a Hetalia themed bullet hell game like Touhou. It would probably be amazing!
I wonder how the Relationship between Ran and Mamizou works out, more or less, there would be a continent wide fight...
i wonder if in the next fighter well have a ran vs mamizou with both having a story mode and eachother as final bosses?
as zun said its a story for another time
I think pompokolin is the sound of drumming of a tanuki's own belly...or testicles (Futatsuiwa)
you know, I saw mamizou for the first time when I was a newbie. back then I though you had to not get hit once to unlock a new difficulty, there was always lunatic+ and talking to koishi caused insanity. also mamizu looked... scattered.
That third spell is used word-for-word in ISC.
Extra stages boss's last spell card are always hard and brutal. But Mamizou's last spellcard was easier. The main concern is, really hard to get extra life in this stage.
@1Megabirds Tenshi is a celestial, Suika is a super strong oni
pompokolin interests me and i find this on wiki
"Odoru Pompokolin" (おどるポンポコリン Odoru Ponpokorin?, "Dancing Pompokolin") is the first ending theme of the Japanese anime series Chibi Maruko-chan
Pumpokol is one of the Yeniseian languages. It has been extinct since the 18th century.
@raak1010 Just so long as it doesn't start playing that one remix of Reisen's theme and everything goes crazy...actually no that'd be interesting.
I wish ZUN would just use the score system for lives. What was so bad about that, I mean, I could rack up to 6 lives in total in Mountain of Faith before Sanae. In this game I can barely get 5 by Miss Long-as-All-Hell-Name no Miko.
Nice Extra stage run! And so fast after the release!
Mamizou: ITS TIME TO DUEL
@raak1010 Oh no, I did check the wiki, it's just that by the time I checked, her profile was pretty much blank.
I think I trusted a little too much on the fanbase. Oh well.
I know this was a while ago, but I thought I'd provide an answer anyway c:
You unlock Extra mode by 1ccing the rest of the game, usually on Normal mode.
I think in the later games that you can only do the extra stage as the character you completed the game as, e.g. if you cleared the game with Reimu A, you can only do the extra stage as Reimu A.
5:16 Well... you could say that, you fell Into Mamizou's Trap Card ;0
@TheGapYoukai All the characters do that to you if you lose a card by time-out...
@raak1010 I mean it in Lunatic, but the secret is more of a rumour (Though a very plausible one)
That the final boss was based off of a certain Male Character, considering both such character's appearance as well as her, her power, her hatred towards buddhism and her spellcards, I say it's pretty plausible.
But then again, it's nothing confirmed, so I might just be over reacting, but it's a nifty bit.
after a year of countless amounts of deaths and endless frustration I endured, I finally did it! I 1cc cleared TD! Not only did I clear this without losing my continue but It's also my first!
though I have to confess I saved up my bombs for Miko and I basically spammed Master spark while fighting her, I was so close to losing! but after losing my last life and bomb I was finally able to take her down! now all I have to do is pass the Extra stage...but for now I'll celebrate Yay me!
this girl's an even bigger thief then Nue D:
Nue, Sanae, Suwako, Sunny Milk, Utsuho...she even steals Reimu's shape
IS THERE NO END TO HER FIENDISHNESS?!?!?!?
her music's awesome, though...'bout time we had an uplifting EX-boss theme after Hartmann's Youkai Girl (bipolar) and Heian Alien (bizarre)
Magus Night's pretty spirited, though
also nice to see an EX boss that doesn't drown you with ofuda
also her leaf beret is adorable
I want it
@deadboy180 Really? I never noticed that, that's pretty cool. I did notice the little tanuki-chitter though.
that tanuki has an animal crossing leaf on its head :O
"I don't think her character is going to pick up much steam given she's basically a brunette, nature themed Nue".
.....
How wrong he was.
What is this? Nine of a Kind? Flandre just got 0wned.
Can't be an extra boss without amulets these days :T
FFFF-
That was fast! How did you beat Mamizou so quickly? Is she really that easy, or has your skill just gotten that good?
I'm not spoiling myself on the extra stage this time so I'm just here to comment, but I'll definitely take a look at this when I actually see Mamizou's patterns for myself.
"Pompokorin" is supposed to be the sound tanuki make when drumming on their bellies, I believe...
Yeah, Japanese mythology, idk either. D:
@raak1010 That reminds me how hard was to outlast Unkwown "Unkown Orb Youkai Theory" (or something like that...)
Trivia time: Apparently Kasen Ibaraki was originally going to be the Extra boss.
Really now, her last spell could easily pass as a stage 6 boss easy mode spell.
7:27
"Bulkhead, I needed that."
Only three weeks? Wow, I unlocked the extra stage for TD 5 months ago and I'm still having trouble beating her. ;_;
@raak1010 NO WAIT!
I really do have it this time
the bird spellcard reminds me of Patchouli's metal-element attacks in EoSD
btw good luck with your studies raak1010, I hope for you to pass your Finals and I'm looking forward to your next post until then good luck!
Didn't you collide with a frog at the end of the Reimu - Copy Spell? DEJA VU
People are underappreciating Mamizou, but I already get that Ex Boss feeling from her. You read my mind, raak, she's the Nue of nature. That's why she's her friend, I thought that Nue might have called her because she's a sore loser and didn't want the heroines to have the last word. That is also why the fight is in the Myouren temple, since she lives there with Byakuren. But no one can against the power of the heroines! Not even an ancient tanuki youkai that is stronger than that Old Youkai #1.
@raak1010 I guess you're right. I mean, you are pushed down to the very bottom of the screen, and it looks like you need quick reflexes.
animal danmaku is better put this way.
Human: known as naughty children swinging their arms and spitting their food at you
Dogs: known as carnivorous radioactive canines trying to give you cancer
Birds: known as dumb birds which hatched from danmaku and are on fire
Frogs: known as spastic amphibians which mistook grenades for flies
LMFAO, the guts of insulting Reimu like that. ZUN humor
"eldritch abomination"....wonder who that could be...
@raak1010 Plus when i saw the birds i yelled ARCHIMEDES
For an extra boss, I found the music a tad disappointing. Alas, that's just me.
And again, good job. You're amazing at Touhou.
Raak, just a curiosity, but you planning on getting P B/W2? I recall you saying you were addicted to a pokemon game in one of your videos :P
4:12 - Can you change the annotation colour? A bit hard to see white on white.
Other than that, great video.
Feels like this racoon might've been a druid once.
@raak1010 ...Seriously?
Man, I heard a completely different version of that, that she was based off of Neku Sakuraba from The World Ends With You.
Well, so much for the fanbase giving me off fanfiction ideas, though I think I'll stick to this one.
Sorry for wasting your time lol.
XD I love your profile picture!
so you like hetalia and touhou too?!
it's so rare to find fans of both ;w;
you're welcome :)
Welp... I'm not gonna beat her anytime soon.
(Has only ever reached the fourth Spellcard) -_-
*Looks at history on Flandre* are you sure about that? XD
Lol yaas! At 6:27 i was thinking. wow, she turn into Flandre now?
@Lukahyun Speaking of which, how the hell are you supposed to make it work? Applocale doesn't make it work...
@eltorro3000 Well, i hope a patch is coming out soon. :3
Mamizou is a tanuki