Touhou Chireikiden - Hansoku Tantei Satori - Ch. 36 - Subterranean Animosity (Pt. VI)

[MangaDex]

 

[thirty7timeslucky]

uhm where is satori???

 

[RollOmega]

uhm where is satori???

Flan killed her, remember? rip in pieces

 

[NeoMyon]

Any bets on who's speaking through that orb yet? Strikes me as very Yukari-like.

But also where could they be speaking from if not the shrine?

 

[Silfir]

I think Satori was last spotted at the Myouren Temple, in chapter 33. She left to do... something.

It's possible she's the one talking to Reimu via the Yin-Yang Orb:

• When she left, it was right after she said that having Reimu breaking into the underground guns blazing was actually the better option compared to the alternative, keeping the underground sealed off. (It's possible she knew that Yuugi would side with Mizuchi eventually and break her out, knowing her backstory, and knowing Yuugi. Hence her suggestion that keeping the underground sealed would be impossible.)
• Whoever is talking to Reimu through the orbs - they're knowledgeable about vengeful spirits and the underground.
• In chapter 33 talking to Byakuren, Satori suggests it would be a good thing for Reimu to go be "the game protagonist she is". This matches with what the person behind the Yin-Yang Orb tells her to do in this chapter: "Be as flashy as possible". The person behind the Yin Yang Orb also refers to Utsuho as a "final boss". More video game terminology. It seems Satori is intending to use Reimu as bait.

There are reasons it's probably not Satori, too. Mainly that we haven't seen her, and when you aren't shown who somebody is, it's never the first person you think of. So I'm going to name the last person you'd think of - Tamatsukuri Misumaru. She crafted the orbs, which suggests she has some ties to the Hakurei Shrine as well. Unfortunately, there's a non-zero chance that in addition to everybody else, ZUN's forgotten she exists.

Now what might Marisa be doing? We last saw her in cahoots with Reimu about her extermination spree. Ichirin namedropping her seems to be the story telling us to wonder about it.

 

[RakuroRyuusei]

There goes the hakurei Shrine... for the nth time this week.

 

[af4zl]

Reimu goes to hell for some reason, and then there's Mizuchi already in her shrine... for some reason too. Wtf is going on here

 

[AEnigmatrices]

Yeah... I think spell card duels are edging really close to being just move names. Especially what Koishi said here:

"You don't need to be right. You just gotta be strong." is kinda contradictory to the "To reject a system wherein only the strongest have the right to rule." clause.

So I guess that draft got scrapped lmao. And the actual rules are drastically different from it.

 

[dsfargeg]

Oh no, someone destroyed Clownpiece's home.

 

[IronicWeeaboo]

Once again, the jobber detective in nowhere to be seen
imagine being a side character in your own manga

Satori confirmed beneath the fairies

 

[bobdave19]

Holy crap Byakuren is cold in that last page

Also, it looks like Mizuchi did mellow out at least compared to her initial appearances

 

[Sunset_Liddel]

this new chapter just give more questions than asnwers

 

[SpiritedBreak2]

So, in this episode...

• We've got a 4th wall breaker (whoever is talking to Reimu through the Ying-Yang ball)
• The 3rd collapse of the Hakurei Shrine. Tenshi would be proud.

 

[Grimmycoffee]

Reimu goes to hell for some reason, and then there's Mizuchi already in her shrine... for some reason too. Wtf is going on here

Reimu wants to go after Mizuchi, and Mizuchi... seems to want to go after Reimu too? At least, to me, it doesn't seem like her plan was to destroy the shrine while Reimu is away, so I guess they miss each other.

Yeah... I think spell card duels are edging really close to being just move names. Especially what Koishi said here:

"You don't need to be right. You just gotta be strong." is kinda contradictory to the "To reject a system wherein only the strongest have the right to rule." clause.

So I guess that draft got scrapped lmao. And the actual rules are drastically different from it.

I guess it just change the meaning of strong? I think it was said in other manga with the lunarian, that spellcard rule is also about being the most beautiful, and considering Marisa and Utsuho's laser count as beauty, being flashy is likely a big part of that beauty.

 

[Sunset_Liddel]

I guess it just change the meaning of strong? I think it was said in other manga with the lunarian, that spellcard rule is also about being the most beautiful, and considering Marisa and Utsuho's laser count as beauty, being flashy is likely a big part of that beauty.

i there i think the spell cards rules in the manga here are just your average fantasy combat style or maybe they dindt want to draw thousands of bullets

 

[rotateurowl]

Lets hope the donation box survived.

 

[McAlastair]

Reimu wants to go after Mizuchi, and Mizuchi... seems to want to go after Reimu too? At least, to me, it doesn't seem like her plan was to destroy the shrine while Reimu is away, so I guess they miss each other.

I guess it just change the meaning of strong? I think it was said in other manga with the lunarian, that spellcard rule is also about being the most beautiful, and considering Marisa and Utsuho's laser count as beauty, being flashy is likely a big part of that beauty.

If they REALLY wanted to fight one another, wouldn't they've crossed one another on Reimu's trip underground? But then again, Yuugi's also somehow involved and was probably the one that leveled the shrine. Not to mention, ZUN always tends to cook these stories in very different ways, so who knows what's gonna happen. Odds are Mizuchi's plot isn't as straightforward as we'd hope it was.

Lets hope the donation box survived.

For everyone's sake, I'm praying with ya on that one.

Yet another chapter of Hijiri being both brutal and funny at the same time. Seriously, that damn smile on p23 is NOT the face you should be making in this situation.

 

[Grimmycoffee]

If they REALLY wanted to fight one another, wouldn't they've crossed one another on Reimu's trip underground? But then again, Yuugi's also somehow involved and was probably the one that leveled the shrine. Not to mention, ZUN always tends to cook these stories in very different ways, so who knows what's gonna happen. Odds are Mizuchi's plot isn't as straightforward as we'd hope it was.

Hijiri did say that the hole was too small for a person to get through, so who knows who actually open it and why.

I first thought Mizuchi wanted to trap Reimu in former hell, but that doesn't explain why she's expecting to see Reimu and what Yuugi's role in all of this are.

 

[OddmanOutre]

Now what might Marisa be doing? We last saw her in cahoots with Reimu about her extermination spree. Ichirin namedropping her seems to be the story telling us to wonder about it.

My bet is on Marisa being the one talking to Reimu through the yin-yang orb. My only evidence for this is that Marisa once said "It ain't danmaku if it ain't flashy! (emphasis mine)

 

[xp273]

Oh look, the shrine collasped again.