The series focuses on Toyosatomimi no Miko and Remilia Scarlet, who meet and become friends after bonding over their lost charisma and discontentment with the lack of respect they receive from their subordinates. Thus, the two resolve to work to figure out a way to raise back their charisma together. Various misadventures ensue.
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. Episode 10.5, a doujin comic set after the tenth episode, can be found here.
This series provides examples of:
- Adaptational Personality Change: Where to begin?
- Miko is much more childish and flirtatious than she's shown to be in the canon games.
- Tojiko is the Team Mom of the Mausoleum and a Clingy Jealous Girl who gets mad whenever she sees Miko flirting with another girl.
- Sakuya is similar, getting envious to the point of violence whenever Remilia spends more time with others than with her.
- Patchouli has No Social Skills and an obsessive crush on Marisa.
- Satori is madly in love with Remilia and wants to either make Remilia her pet or become Remilia's pet.
- The Alleged Boss: Losing her charisma did a number on Miko's leadership skills, to the point where she commands zero respect from her subordinates at the Mausoleum and is constantly babied by Tojiko.
- Art Evolution: In this case, the series gets more animated as the episodes go on. For comparison, episode 1 had just character stills with them only occasionally changing position, while by episode 6 there's lip movements and much more fluid animation.
- Batman Gambit: Patchouli sets up spell traps around her library to capture Marisa next time she comes to steal a book, just so she has an opportunity to make a move on her.
- The Blind Leading the Blind: Patchouli gets all her dating advice from a book written by Satori, even though Satori has yet to be able to successfully court Remilia.Marisa: "A hikikomori has no business consulting a love life how-to written by another hikikomori!!!!"
- Casanova Wannabe:
- Miko flirts with every cute girl she sees... with varying results.
- Patchouli tries her hand at this after reading Satori's pick-up book and trying out her tactics to woo Marisa. Since this is after Patchouli trapped Marisa in her bedroom, it doesn't go well.
- Commonality Connection:
- Miko and Remilia first become friends after the two discover they both have their own "charisma break" and nagging subordinates.
- Sakuya attacks Tojiko when she visits the Mausoleum out of jealousy for all the time she spends with Remilia, but after hearing how Tojiko loves and appreciates Remilia in a similar way to her, the confrontation ends with the two of them on the floor holding each other and weeping about how cute and kind Remilia is.
- Satori tries this on Remilia to get with her, but since she said right before she wanted to make Remilia her pet, it predictably doesn't work.
- Cool Big Sis: Koishi looks up to Remilia as an older sister figure, even more than her actual older sister thanks to Satori's... eccentricities.
- Cuteness Proximity: Just about everyone finds Remilia cute and wants to cuddle her upon seeing her, especially Tojiko. It's even enough to override Tojiko's status as the Only Sane Woman of the Mausoleum.
- Fantastic Racism: Even after Miko befriends Remilia, Futo stays distrustful of youkai and gets irked when both Remilia and Koishi visit the mausoleum.
- Foil: Miko and Remilia to each other. Miko is a saint who acts like a womanchild much of the time, while Remilia is a devil who looks very young yet tends to play the sane woman in most situations. Miko flirts with every cute girl she lays her eyes on to ill results, while Remilia draws the affections of a variety of figures despite not having an apparent interest in them beyond wanting to be friends.
- Impossible Pickle Jar: The start of episode 10 has Futo trying and failing to open a jar of food. Remilia however is able to open the jar within seconds when she tries.
- Little Miss Badass: Remilia gets several moments where she gets to show off her "strength of an oni and speed of a tengu," easily incapacitating Flandre with an arm hold in episode 6 and doing something similar to Satori an episode later by squeezing her third eye. She also helps Futo open a food jar she was having trouble with in episode 10.
- Loners Are Freaks: Satori and Patchouli both keep to themselves mostly, and both are Casanova Wannabes who repeatedly try to force themselves on the object of their affections.
- Mistaken for Cheating: In episode 10, Tojiko finds another girl's hair clip on Miko and assumes she's seeing another woman. Miko explains that she found it left behind at one of her sermons and took it to return to its owner. At the end of the episode, Miko discovers Kotohime is the owner of the hair clip and attempts to warp them both back to the Mausoleum so she can return the hair clip to her, but bungles the warp and appears before Tojiko with Kotohime laying on top of her, leading Tojiko to assume that Miko is indeed cheating on her and lash out.
- Narm: In-Universe, a spin-off doujin has Miko and Remilia rewriting the story of their first encounter to be more cool and instructing Tojiko and Sakuya to tell everyone the new version of the story, even though to most of the people who hear it sounds "chuuni" and laughable for how hard it's trying to sound epic.
- Nun Too Holy: Despite being a Divine Spirit and holy figure in Gensokyo, Miko acts like a womanchild often and flirts with just about anyone she sees.
- Oblivious to Love: Futo, who thought Ichirin kissing her was just because kissing is how friends greet each other in the modern day.
- Odd Friendship: Miko and Remilia become good friends, even though one is a human-aligned Divine Spirit and the other is a devilish vampire on the side of the Youkai.
- Platonic Kissing: Played With. Futo believes kissing is how friends greet each other in the present day because Ichirin kissed her and she didn't realize Ichirin was in love with her. As such, Futo kisses Remilia to show that she sees Remilia as a friend.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ironically, despite her name, it's Remilia who plays the Blue Oni to Miko's red. Tojiko even entrusts Remilia to keep Miko in check when Miko decides to go out for a night of drinking because of how levelheaded Remilia is in comparison to her.
- Sanity Ball:
- Remilia often ends up playing the sane one, mostly because she's often on the receiving end of Miko or other equally eccentric Gensokyo denizens.
- Tojiko also plays The Straight Man among the Mausoleum crew, often scolding Miko for her childish behavior, although her own quirks mean she can slip in and out of this role.
- Lampshaded by Mamizou in the ninth episode, where after Tojiko becomes overwhelmed by both her anger at Miko and Remilia's Cuteness Proximity she becomes too stunned to do anything, and Mamizou offers to play the "straight man" in place of her.
- Similar Squad: Both the Mausoleum and the SDM have a leader who is obsessed with restoring her charisma (Miko and Remilia), a Clingy Jealous Girl servant to that leader (Tojiko and Sakuya), a reclusive mystic (Seiga and Patchouli) and her monster servant (Yoshika and Koakuma), and one young-looking girl who's prone to violence (Futo and Flandre). Episode six sees the Mausoleum crew visiting the SDM and each encountering their equivalent.
- Single-Target Sexuality:
- Patchouli is dead set on getting together with Marisa and never shows interest in anyone else.
- Satori also has her eyes set only on Remilia, to the point where she refuses to consider Patchouli as an alternative even though Remilia points out they have a lot more in common.
- Synthetic Voice Actor: All voice acting in the series is done using a text-to-speech program.
- Troll: Seiga does most of the things she does just to make things more amusing.
- Universally Beloved Leader: Everyone seems to love Remilia, including the residents of the Mausoleum despite being on the Human side and thus nominally opposed to her. Even Futo, who dislikes most other youkai, eventually warms up to her.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: Episode 10 has Remilia and Miko waking up in Remilia's bed and trying to retrace their steps after having gotten drunk the night before. Miko even calls it a "Hangover episode."
