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From what I can tell, the most blatant/straight-forward mecha reference in Fantasy Maiden Wars:

They barely even bothered changing the theme........I don't even think they mixed in a Touhou theme at all in this one (unlike every other character theme.......except maybe Rai'sen's theme).

Better (more recent) version with voice, but not a direct comparison.

So the Pokemon Adventure- Red Chapter romhack just updated with a new version (after an extended hiatus) and from the new screenshots it looks like there have been a number of changes, both cosmetically and with adding new content.  Also seems to have updated the 'future content' advertising somewhat.  

Not sure what to think, since I never got very far in it to begin with.  https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=298920

I got to the final updated chapter, and it turns out that that the translator also was able to match up the dialogue in subtitle form (as annotations).  With the unique music tracks and sound effects, I agree with them that this chapter is much better in video form than in written.  Maybe if this version of Kioshi and Satori were canon, I would actually like their canon selves.  

Aside from creating a more relatable (??) version of both characters, I have to give props to the FMW team yet again for twisting around the traditional SRW mechanics in creative ways for this stage, even if much of it was an interactive cutscene in all honesty.

On the off chance (and by some instinct almost), I got the idea to check to see if I could actually access Something Awful forums today (for the ongoing translation LP of the final Fantasy Maiden Wars game).......and by some miracle I guess they let us common plebs look at their stuff on holidays.  

I spent the last hour taking every measure of saving them that I could, to make sure I could access the chapters that were translated so far-----so I wouldn't lose access to them again.   Only three new chapters have been translated since my last visit a few months ago, but one of them is supposed to be one of the most emotional in the series..........

Maybe I will actually care about Kioshi now that the FMW series actually gave some real emotional weight to her condition and its effect on her relationship with her sister, instead of just mentioning in her sister's character profile that her sister pitied her (like the canon games).    Maybe then I can accept that this random character is consistently top 3 in Touhou popularity polls, even occasionally beating Marisa (one of the main two characters) by getting second place.

I guess I'll say Merry Christmas again, since I did it late last night. Now with more relevant picture.

I can say even with all the odd series that SRW Cross Omega has been featuring, I did not expect this one.  They got Megaman of all things, to help promote Megaman's 30th anniversary.

Oh, it's finally Christmas in my time zone.  I would post an image directly here, but it doesn't work as well without translation so link it is:

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2957970?pool_id=2983

Well, that Marisa vs Reimu did not go as planned at all.  It seems even on hard mode, the enemy's fields have unique effects (usually the same one as one of their previous spell card gimicks as a boss).  I expected that to be the case on Lunatic difficulty, not Hard difficulty.  Needless to say, that quickly turned the tide of battle against me.

Even the 'weaker' characters had fairly devastating effects (including two fields with a 25% accuracy debuff each on the west end and the Aki sisters making it hard to gain morale on the east).  I had to blow half of my Strike spells (100% accuracy for one turn) just to hit most of them.  Of course Yukari (the final boss of the last game that I made a status update to complain about), just teleported behind my forces first turn to begin trolling, with her field being the one where one point blank attacks hit her.......while making it physically impossible to reach her.  While I know how I was supposed to beat it, I didn't have to time or patience to pull that off.

Thankfully, Reimu begins to move toward you enemy phase 3.  Unfortunately, two more enemies with (each with 30% evade buffs for the enemy units) follow her next turn along with last game's most annoying Mid-boss.  Almost all of my units had 0% accuracy against all of them as a result..........  Since I had already completed the Skill Point (defeating 4 other named enemies besides Reimu), I just had used what resources I had left to do the primary mission: tearing through both of Reimu's HP bars.

.............that sucked, but at least it didn't completely spiral into an unwinnable battle.  Just having to settle for the bottom of barrel with more than 10 other named enemies left on the field.......orz.

At least Reimu got to make a good Gundam reference (again)

Ame surprising us with the public release with no warning:

https://ten-desires.deviantart.com/art/Surprise-214107355