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Fantasy Kaleidoscope ~Memories of Phantasm~ is a series of episodic fanime adaptations of the Touhouvideo game series. Episode 1 "~The Spring Snow Incident~" note Alternate subs: part one and part two, Swedish subs hereis an adaptation of Perfect Cherry Blossom, Episodes 2and 3 "~The Red Mist Incident~" are an adaptation of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (which will continue into Episode 4), plus twoother trailers have been animated. Made by Manpuku Jinja with music by Yuuhei Satellite.The episodes are released without voice acting, only music, sound effects and Japanese subtitles, but have since been fan-dubbed.
Tropes for the videos as a whole:
Anachronic Order: The games adapted by the episodes aren't in their original order of release.
Episode 1 adapts Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil in the opening* but the theme song comes from Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith, and Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom in the rest of the episode. It also has Sanae appearing at the end, even though Perfect Cherry Blossom takes place long before her debut in Mountain of Faith.
Episodes 2-4 adapt Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism in their openings. Their Framing Device is set after Subterranean Animism, but the episodes are mostly flashbacks to Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.
The first of the unused trailers/openings is based on Touhou 9: Phantasmagoria of Flower View.
The second unused trailer is based on Touhou 8: Imperishable Night.
Animation Bump: For a fanime, Manpuku Jinja does not cut corners in animation nor the quality of art used in animation. This series has backgrounds comparable in quality to those of Musou Kakyou: A Summer Day's Dream, with more detailed character designs by Lunamoon.
In episode 1, Letty's fight against Marisa happens entirely offscreen, and the Prismriver Sisters simply let Marisa pass without fighting her. Sakuya only appears to tell Reimu to go deal with the incident, instead of taking a direct role in events like she does in the game.
Fishing for Sole: Suwako pulls a geta out of a fishing hole in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene of Episode 2's intro. The fishing rod and geta are seen both equally fast at the beginning of the same.
Gainaxing: When characters with average or above sized breasts appear — such as Yuyuko, Yuugi, Aya or Sanae — you can expect them to bounce about if they as much as turn around.
Supporting Protagonist: While Reimu is still the focus of the PVs and is the one who solves the incidents in the end, the episodes themselves tend to focus more on Marisa and the incidents are usually witnessed from her point of view.
Theme Tune Cameo: All of the music, sung or as soundtracks, originate from the games. Some are less recognizable than others, such as Yukari's "Necrofantasia" written in a major scale in "The Red Mist Incident".
Woman of a Thousand Voices: The Japanese fandubs are recorded by one actress, Pika Aizawa, performing voices for every single character.
Episode 1 has 9 different voices: Marisa, Reimu, Youmu, Yuyuko, Cirno, Sakuya, Remilia, Aya and Sanae.
Episode 3 adds 4 voices: Ran, Chen, Rumia and Meiling.
Tropes for "The Spring Snow Incident" include:
Adaptation Distillation: "The Spring Snow Incident" is a short episode compared to the game, so the battles are shortened and some events are truncated.
Armor-Piercing Question: Sakuya asks Reimu, "I wonder, if someone dies in the Netherworld, will she rest in peace?", leaving Reimu to consider if she would leave Marisa at Yuyuko's expense because of her laziness.
Big Damn Heroes: Reimu and Marisa save Spring, the season. In a more direct application of this trope, Reimu flies in just in time to save Marisa from Yuyuko's danmaku attack.
Call Forward: Marisa's complaint about hearing youkai underestimating humans again refers to Patchouli's similar comment in the next episode.
Empty Eyes: Although Yuyuko has pupils and shading in her irises, she's the only character who doesn't have white reflections in her eyes. This is probably to emphasize that she's a ghost.
Graceful Loser: Yuyuko, just before Reimu defeats her with Fantasy Seal.
Ramming Always Works: Marisa overcomes Youmu's swordsmanship by ramming her with her broom.
Sarcasm Mode: Reimu's apology to Marisa for not realizing that the cold weather was an incident. Fansubbers translate this line in a variety of ways.
Shout-Out: Marisa says "Yare yare da ze"note approximately "Oh, gimme a break" when she sees the Netherworld's giant staircase. Probably not coincidental considering Marisa's "-da ze" Verbal Tic is itself inspired by Jojo.
The Stinger: Sanae appears in the epilogue thanks to Yukari.
What the Hell, Hero?: Sakuya gives a very mild version to Reimu for not going out to deal with the incident.
Xanatos Gambit: Even though Yuyuko's plan to make the Saigyou Ayakashi blossom failed, at least it provided a distraction to allow Sanae to enter Gensokyo.
Tropes for "The Red Mist Incident Part 1" include:
Brought Down to Normal: Utsuho, as she's seen partying at the Moriya shrine following the events of Subterranean Animism with her wings shrunken down and her third leg not present on her right arm.
The Cameo: Over 30 Touhou characters are visible at the Moriya shrine.
Creepy Child: Flandre, who asks Marisa to play with her because she always breaks her toys. To drive it even further home, she squeezes her teddy bear so hard that its head bursts.
Fangirl: What Koakuma is portrayed as towards Patchouli.
Framing Device: Marisa is retelling the events of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil to Sanae while everyone is partying at the Moriya shrine after Subterranean Animism.
Funny Background Event: Nitori doesn't just fold paper airplanes, she folds paper spaceships.
Quite a few things at the party in general, including Komachi being lectured by Eiki, or Tewi taking Reisen's portion of food.
Laughing Mad: Flandre when Marisa agrees to play with her.
Lip Lock: Fandubs make it quite noticeable that dialogue isn't paced alongside the animation. Cirno's rant after being brushed aside by Marisa, in particular, stands out for being rushed.
Little Miss Snarker: With the setting being post-Subterranean Animism, Nitori is in top form.
Laser-Guided Karma: Her remark about the Moriyas constantly causing incidents gets her punted through the roof by Kanako.
Repeat Cut: As Marisa presents her mini-Hakkero to Patchouli.
Small Name, Big Ego: Cirno repeatedly boasts about her power to Marisa before Marisa flies to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, only to get ignored at every opportunity.
Patchouli plans on cutting Marisa's ego down to size after Marisa boasts that normal humans can use magic too and that she'll exterminate the lot of them by herself.
Something about a Rose: A rose motif frequently appears as decoration in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, including the lid of Flandre's coffin.
Spanner in the Works: Marisa proves to be a minor one to the Scarlet Devil Mansion crew, as she forces Patchouli out to subdue Flandre.
Stalker Without A Crush: Reimu is apparently sharp enough to know when she's being spied on by Yukari, who wants to party with the rest, but isn't comfortable around Satori.
Tropes for "The Red Mist Incident Part 2" include:
All of the Other Reindeer: Sakuya seems to be under the mindset that, with her time powers, she would be feared by the humans living in Gensokyo if she were to reveal them. Reimu is quick to point out that those sorts of powers are a dime a dozen in Gensokyo, however.
Cool Big Sis: In this continuity, it's not Remilia who acts like this toward Flandre, but Marisa. Justified since in the original story, Remilia's take on the relationship between herself and Flandre isn't known, and Marisa being Flandre's friend is widely-accepted in fanon.
Did You Die?: Sanae tearfully asks Marisa this after the cliffhanger from the previous episode. Reimu provides the obligatory Lampshade Hanging about what a stupid question this is.
Energy Ball: Reimu defeats Sakuya by slamming a powered yin-yang orb into her.
Fight Unscene: Between Marisa vs. Patchouli and Reimu vs. Sakuya, few attacks are seen directly; even during Sakuya's attacks, animation doesn't go all out, as her time-stopping capabilities fill in.
Flaming Sword: Flandre's Laevatein, which she creates out of fire itself before confronting Remilia. This is consistent with the way Laevatein is described in The Grimoire of Marisa.
Implacable Man: After Sakuya falls into Reimu's trap, Reimu is absolutely ruthless in taking her down.
Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: Like in most fanworks, martial artist Meiling + giant laser danmaku = one very smokey gatekeeper and one very destroyed gate. The only difference from the status quo is that it's Reimu who fires the giant laser instead of Marisa, since the latter had already snuck into the mansion.
Ninja Log: Reimu creates an illusory duplicate of herself with her Paper Talismans and tricks Sakuya into stabbing it.
" note is an adaptation of Perfect Cherry Blossom, Episodes 2
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