Even animated, I still say "what!?". And that's why we love Ao Usagi.
—Youtube comment by Lusvik
On the -booru Imageboards, there is an an artist who goes under the tag Ao_Usagi. Most of Ao Usagi's artwork, ranging from "safe for work" to explicit, enters hard Mind Screw territory. He also happens to make Touhou Project comics which are equally surreal.
Elsewhere on Youtube, there is a Walfas video maker named Spaztique. Behind on his main series Five Dangerous Months at the Hinata Inn and April Fools Day fast approaching, he decided to adapt one of Ao Usagi's Touhou Project comics to animation. Realizing they were very easy to make, he decided to adapt just about every Ao Usagi comic, resulting in this strange series.
Season 2 is planned for June 2015, which will cover the remainder of Ao Usagi's comics.
This fanfic provides examples of:
- A Day in the Limelight:
- Alice is featured prominently in Episode 4.
- Satori is featured in Episode 7.
- April Fools' Plot: Episode 0 has Marisa pranking Reimu by asking her to marry her. It backfires when Reimu marries her anyway.
- Animated Adaptation: Of Ao Usagi's comics.
- Award Snub: In-Universe. In Episode 4, Alice loses the Air Marisa Championships to Air Marisa, along with Reimu, Patchouli, Nitori, Flandre, Cirno, and Marisa herself.
- Blatant Lies:
- Episode 1 has a weird alien thing that tricks Alice into thinking he/she/it is Marisa.
- Episode 3: Maxamillion declares a "notable difference" between tsuntsun and deredere Yuuka after Yuuka punches Wriggle in the neck.
- Episode 5: Marisa declares the mystery of Reimu's sleeves solved when Reimu reveals she sold her sleeves and the rest of her clothes.
- Body Paint: Episode 6 recreates a NSFW image where Nitori is painting herself to look like the background. To skirt around this, Spaz has her painting her own clothes.
- Bow Chicka Wow Wow: In Episode 5, when Reimu mistakes Marisa being tied up in her donation box as Marisa offering herself to her, funky porn music starts playing.
- Breathless Non Sequitur: Plenty...Maxamillion: And now that you know, let's return to Ao Usagi Tribute Show! This cigar is full of opium!
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In Episode 4, the events of the Air Marisa Championships include Air Valentines Chocolate, Air Sharing A Scarf, Air Riding [a broom] Together, and the Air Tag Team Match.
- Call-Back: In Episode 6, the other two Marisas from Episode 1 return. Also, in a callback to Episode 5, Reimu finally gets something good to eat thanks to Marisa turning into a mushroom.
- Canon Foreigner: Maxamillion Jazzhands, Ph.D., Professional Billionaire.
- Chewing the Scenery: In Episode 6, Marisa loudly declares that she's made Reimu float.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Marisa tries to uncover the secrets of Reimu's sleeves, only to find Reimu naked, she asks where Reimu's sleeves are before wondering about the whereabouts of her clothes in general.
- Crazy Enough to Work: Apparently, Reimu's plan to win over Marisa in Episode 3 involves turning Tsundere and then burying herself up to her neck. It works.
- Creator Cameo: Spaztique appears in Episode 2, just so Nazrin could steal his scene.
- Credits Gag: At the end of each episode, Spaztique is listed doing something other than voices and animation.
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Cross-Dressing Voices: Spaztique plays all of the all-female cast. - Department of Redundancy Department: From Episode 1:Marisa: That may have looked like Sanae, but it's actually a Wild Poisonous Sanae!*Dramatic Sting*Marisa: ... with poison!
- Maxamillion Jazzhands is a professional billionaire...
Think about it...
- Maxamillion Jazzhands is a professional billionaire...
- Dirty Mind-Reading: In Episode 7, Satori laments about how difficult it is being able to read people's minds, using an incident of reading Reimu's mind as an example, wherein she is thinking about sexing up Marisa.
- Fanime: For Touhou/Ao Usagi.
- Fansub: Dementefsb
makes Portuguese fansubs of the videos. From Episode 2 on, Spaztique gives him the transcripts directly. - Four-Fingered Hands: Both the weird alien thing from Episode 1 and Marisa in Episode 5 have Four-Fingered Hands when they give a thumbs up.
- Fourth-Wall Portrait: In Episode 2, Kogasa's power to surprise Marisa involves transforming into her game portrait.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- One of the wedding attendants in Episode 0 is a fellow Walfas video maker, Stevothehuman.
- Episode 1: Look at Poison Sanae's hand as she high-fives Sanae. Also pay attention to Poison Sanae's shoes.
- Episode 2: When Marisa calls Nazrin a thief, look at Reimu's reaction.
- Episode 3: Read Reimu's book on Tsundere behavior.
- Episode 4: The thought bubbles of Marisa and Reimu when they see Alice's love pillow, plus the judges' scores for the Air Valentines Chocolate.
- Episode 5: When Marisa is robbing Maxamillion Jazzhands' mansion, she is using the same sack from Scarlet Weather Archive In Japanese Red.
- Episode 6: After Marisa kills the bird in the opening, Utsuho and Aya briefly flash on the screen with angry/shocked looks, respectively.
- Gainax Ending: Due to the nature of the series, it's easier to list the episodes where it doesn't have this.
- Averted in Episode 3, when Reimu's plan to act tsundere to win over Marisa actually works.
- Averted in Episode 5, where every plot but the one about Reimu's sleeves comes full circle.
- Hypocritical Humor:
- In Episode 3, Sanae tells Reimu not to act like a Tsundere because it will make her look weird. The camera then zooms out to reveal Reimu and Sanae wearing each other's clothes.
- In Episode 5, Yukkuri Reimu says she hates taking it easy, not long before breaking into "Relax, Take It Easy" by Mika.
- Limited Animation: Done in a virtual doll program, create.swf.
- Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: Given how weird this series is, they're mostly word-for-word adaptations of Ao Usagi's comics.
- Masochist's Meal: In Episode 5, apparently Reimu eats leaves.
- Mind over Matter: In Episode 6, Marisa levitates Reimu through magic alone.
- Mood Whiplash: Repeatedly in Episode 7 as Satori laments Koishi closing her third eye.Satori: But Koishi, can't you see that it's alright? Even though I can read people's minds, everyone's accepted that, and now I have many friends. That's why one day, I'll find a way to open your third eye for you... with a flathead screwdriver.
- Mutagenic Food: In Episode 6, Marisa turns into a mushroom after eating a bunch of mushrooms.
- Negative Continuity: In Episode 5, [spoiler:Reimu [sells her clothes]] only for them to be back in the next scene. This is never explained.
- Nosebleed: Exaggerated in Expisode 7, when Satori gets a massive nosebleed that eventually floods the shrine as a result of reading Reimu's dirty mind.
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: During the credits, frames from the adapted comics are shown to prove they are from real comics. Links are provided in video descriptions for further proof.
- Official Fan-Submitted Content:
- Viewers can give Spaztique live feedback during production on Saturdays (which is where the line "Hey, Internet People!" came from in Episode 4). Users Stevothehuman, Theyarenext, Wilhiemthe2nd, and AIYFProductions provided the "Great Job!" for Episodes 4, 5, 6, and 7 respectively.
- The spinning Nitori head in episode 6 was provided by Castlepokemetroid.
- Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: In Episode 7, Satori's Nosebleed floods the entire Hakurei Shrine.
- Overly Long Gag:
- In Episode 2, Marisa's reaction to how Cirno gets the banana off the ceiling. Funnier in the Portuguese Fansub, where the text actually stretches all the way across the screen.
- In Episode 4, the winner of the Air Marisa Championship is Air Marisa. Second and third place also went to Air Marisa, with the runners-up including Air Marisa, Air Marisa, Air Marisa, the Aki Sisters, and Air Marisa.
- Pilot: Episode 0. Originally, it was just a one-off before Spaztique could continue his Love Hina remake, but then the allure of doing the rest of the comics came...
- Pixellation: In Episode 7, when Satori reads Reimu's mind, her fantasies involving Marisa are greatly pixellated out. Also happens in the source material.
- Rubber Man: According to Episode 2, Sanae's miracles include stretching her body.
- Self-Imposed Challenge: Remake as many of Ao Usagi's comics as possible by yourself in create.swf.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: In Episode 5, Marisa's attempt to learn how Reimu's sleeves stay attached ends with a naked Reimu revealing she sold her clothes.Marisa: Mystery solved! *thumbs up*
- Shout-Out:
- The intro sequence is a near-remake of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! opening, only using the ZUN-pet instead of a saxophone and excluding the exploding face part. For Episode 4 on, the ending theme recreates their ending theme, only using the synth of "Capital City Of Flowers In The Sky".
- In Episode 0, Reimu and Marisa are married by Kotomine.
- A number of episode use the "Meanwhile" and "Back In Town" from The Town with No Name.
- Episode 2 has Nazrin breaking into an homage to "Sit On You" from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.
- Episode 3 has an Eye Catch from Azumanga Daioh, a random skit from K-On!, and Naru providing examples of Tsundere behavior. There's also this quote...
Reimu: Alright. I spent hours researching on TV Tropes how a tsundere acts, and Marisa should be over any second now...- At the end of Episode 5, Reimu and Marisa sing "Relax, Take It Easy" by Mika.
- Episode 6 has Sakuya impersonating Dio Brando. Also, it finally has a "Great Job!" freezeframe at the series' halfway point.
- Tamer and Chaster: Some of the comics or images Spaztique recreates are Not Safe for Work. Yet, some of the scenes (particularly in Episode 5) are still pretty raunchy.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In Episode 1, Reimu is unstartled by Marisa popping out of the bushes. Subverted when two pop out of the bushes. Then Double Subverted when three pop out. Later, Sanae has no qualms over running into Poison Sanae.
- In Episode 5, Marisa has no problem with Yukkuri Reimu.
- Virtual Paper Doll: Everything was animated in Walfas's Create.swf, or "Create A Touhou Project Character".
- Vocal Evolution: Spaztique's pronunciations of the names solidify around Episode 2 due to feedback from Episode 1.
- What the Hell Is That Accent?: Maxamillion Jazzhands' accent falls somewhere between a Southern Gentlemen and a British accent.
- Word of God: Spaztique will answer any question regarding the episodes, but some of the answers are often as ridiculous as the show itself.
- Yandere: Reimu's attempt at being a Tsundere in Episode 3 makes her look like this to Marisa.
- Your Costume Needs Work: In Episode 4, Marisa herself loses to Air Marisa in the Air Marisa Championship.
Based on/Inspired by the works of Ao Usagi.
Voiced/Animated/Troped by Spaztique.
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Voiced/Animated/Troped by Spaztique.
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