Recap / Fantasy Kaleidoscope E 3

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.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: The fanservice provided by Yukari, Ran and Chen soaking in the hot spring is limited to this.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Marisa showing Flandre some pity and affection is all the latter needs to pull a Heel–Face Turn and team up with her against Remilia.
• Cats Hate Water: Chen is very reluctant to get into the hot spring. And for good reason.
• Cliffhanger: The episode ends with Flandre confronting Remilia stating that she plans to defeat her if it means she can go outside.
• 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.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Reimu's "battle" with Meiling which basically has Meiling getting ready to fight, followed by Reimu just shooting a dense blast of danmaku which a few scenes later is revealed to have knocked her out and punched a hole through the gate behind her.
• 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, but Yuyuko waves afterward, indicating a possible justification for the question.
• 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.
• Flechette Storm: Sakuya creates a very dense field of knives◊ in front of Reimu. Unfortunately for Sakuya, that's not actually Reimu she's targeting.
• Implacable Man: After Sakuya falls into Reimu's trap, Reimu is absolutely ruthless in taking her down.
• Mythology Gag: During the Sakuya fight Reimu uses the Infinite Dimensional Rift skill from Hisoutensoku in order to trap her.
• 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.
• Oh, Crap!: Meiling's reaction to Reimu pretty much starting and ending their "fight" with an extremely fast blast of danmaku.
• Slasher Smile: Remilia has one when she accepts Flandre's challenge at the end of the episode.
• Troubled Fetal Position: Flandre stays in one while trapped in the water sphere while Marisa and Patchouli fight.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Being able to stop time isn't helpful if you can't even move, Sakuya.