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I've been putting it off, but here it is: FMW Stage 62

I'll skip most of the mooks, but they were:  The dodgier Fairies from Stage 59 (Alice path), the Bugs that move twice a turn from the same, both(?) types of the bulky-sniper Flower Fairies (underwater), and the water-loving Kappas (also underwater)..................the game even takes a moment to be self-aware about them:

Sub-boss is the lazy character who is forced to tag along with her boss today (and probably the worst unit in the overall FMW series).  She's a good sniper (with 11 range) with not enough power behind her attacks usually (with neither this amount of power or range as a player unit; only two shots of infinite range per stage.......which isn't enough to drag her around for the rest).  She did get a new attack I'll never use to try to inject one last bit of life..........   For a Shinigami, usually powerful beings in fiction, she sure sucks.......every her canon version is hinted to be quite powerful

The main boss: Eiki Shiki  (insert longass title here)

She's one of (now more frequently appearing) bosses who actually has a PS (personal skill) to complement her danmaku fields effects in Spell cards.  This is quite an odd one:  Every attack's accuracy becomes either 0% or 100%, depending on if you can reach 51%.  On normal mode, this seems to be quite a trickier effect, though it does allow you to reasonably dodge with a focus (+15% hit and dodge).   Between her S size, Predict lvl 2, and the almost unique Wisdom skills, it's still a challenge though.

On Hard-standard, she decides to forgo this issue part of the time by just casting Strike (100% hit rate for rest of turn), with her difficulty buffed stats making you have to do the same if you want to hit her.  She also has double movement, so she can hit you twice on her turn (and casts spirits twice).  She's also the only boss so far that's used both turns on a MAP attack when available (even boosting the damage with a spirit) 

Outside of mechanics, Eiki's character gimmick is judging people as the Yama (afterlife judge or something similar).  She does this for every character you have this stage (and apparently every boss from now on).   While some are funny, a few turn more serious or dark.    Funny points to the Aki sisters, yet again: