SoEW Rika's 2nd Theme: The Tank Girl's Dream
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- This is Rika's theme from the extra stage of Touhou 2: Story of Eastern Wonderland
Hey look, it's the psychopathic girl that looks like Madotsuki again. And this time she has a mathematical tank with her. Except this tank is a FLOATING EYE. (Even the eye has a dress!!)
Ah well, couldn't find anymore decent pictures of Rika. Oh well, it's not like you're going to be looking at it anyway.
the moment you realize the green thingy on the tank is a dress ......
Most people interpret it as a dress, but it's actually a mess of green tentacles.
+marisa I like it better when it's a dress
+canned bread If it's really a mess of green tentacles, wouldn't that mean it's a floating metal Cthulu tank with lasers, bat wings and magic eyes? Also I don't mean to be a necro douche about Kirby, but you can see some pretty big similarities to 02...Eh. Still, I like the fight.
CFW Trick
Zun predicted 02 !
CFW Trick Yeah, I think Kirby and Castlevania inspired some of ZUN's works (mostly the music).
"So long. You're just a first stage boss, after all." -Marisa Kirisame, Touhou 4.
The reason why it's not Reimu who say it
OBJECTION! This game was released in 1997, while Kirby 64 was released in 2000. And there is no way HAL Laboratory would have paid attention to ZUN, given how obscure he was until EoSD. Therefore, the two bosses are unconnected!
OBJECTION! In Star Ocean 3, released in 2002/2003, there are references to LLS Marisa and to HRtP route split! This, like Kirby 64, was before the Touhou phenomenon blew up. Tri-Ace was drawing on the PC-98 games. Why couldn't someone else as well? I'll agree that it's much more likely that the 02 was an original creation, but to end the speculation, you'll need a true decisive evidence. *Edgey bow*
Mashpotato SoccerEye had his own business to deal with at the time so yeah this is probably a coincidence
It's like when a6d accidently made a song that already existed
Obscure... there was a friend in my school who liked the PC-98 Touhou in 2000, during preschool. He was of Japanese descent and one of my earliest friends. Had no clue what he was talking about until 2003, when I played PCB for the first time.
@@YuukiTakemoto1996 touhou 18 or 18.5? Sound Familiar ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
It's funny to think that with all the extra bosses we've had recently, ranging from a youkai stronger than the rest to super powerful gods
It all started with a tank.
more like an atheist engineer who build tanks to compensate her lack of magic
@Christian Shick Because of how wacky control is in PC-98 games, mainly. But yeah
@Christian Shick Chiyuri and Yumemi: artificial magic goes brrrrr!
@@pokemonkarma
If you had as much control as in windows or even LLS, it would be way easier, but it was thought with the controls and the hurtbox
@@poledra4153 real
though LLS Extra certainly is something lol
to this day only Extra I've beat in PC-98 is Alice
"This is what would have happened if you chased me instead of going on to Stage 2!' - Rika breaking the 4th wall since long before Flandre and Marisa did it.
And orange in LLS
Marisa in SoEW's manual
Marisa also in SoEW in the demo and if you’ve continued at least once (along with Mima and Genji, I think)
Edit: Alice broke the forth wall in the MS demo too
As much as Touhou likes to keep itself fresh with new villains, I really think Rika has the potential to be a great antagonist for the series as a whole. She doesn't have anything to do with the incident Reimu is trying to resolve in Touhou 2 but still attacks her anyway, and then comes back for one final showdown in the extra stage, so she's certainly got a grudge against the protagonist. Also, in a world where most of the characters naturally have this incredible power, someone who tries to harness that power artificially using tanks would be a good antithesis to that. It's a shame that ZUN and Shanghai Alice won't even acknowledge the PC-98 era in recent games, because there is some really good stuff here.
Also Rika is implied to be atheist, can be a decent rival for Nitori who is also an atheist and looks down on human in general.
"ZUN and Shangai Alice"
well ZUN the only member of the TeamShangai Alice
You expected a secret stage boss
But it was me, Rika!
Players after completing Soew for the first time and trying the EX stage: Wonder who will be the extra boss... Maybe ultimate Mima?
Rika: SURPRISE MADDAFUKA
Everyone is popping off about Kirby and I'm all like...
0:48 - Megaman, battle routine, execute!
+Hieda no Ajuu ...I like Megaman X...Not there with you sorry...(No idea what you're talking about)
Ah. It's the lead riff of the hero theme of the first three Megaman Battle Network games.
I like X series too, especially X2 and X3.
+Hieda no Ajuu Ahhh! No wonder! I didn't really focus on the spin-off game like Megaman Battle Network or Megaman Star Force! Only really the main series like Megaman/X/Zero/ZX!
So that's why it sounded so familiar.
Same here!
I thought I was Alone in that Insanity...
Gotta love the Evil Eye Sigma. I still use it a lot for crushing my puny enemies as they cower in fear~!!! And I've been working hard on this and more; soon, my project for domination of the world will be comple--*hit by a random bakebake floating by, and faints comically*
But didn't your machine self destruct? Also, do you happen to know Greek? (Sigma (Σ) is Greek)
Sigma male robot built different
i never expected this xd
So Rika made the first Reploids :O
MIND... BLOWN...
I thought X was the first!
You learn a new thing everyday!
@@seant1326 X was the first, "Reploids" refer to any based off of X's designs but obviously didn't go through the near half century testing as X did and Zero's purely unique all together
@@kokoika_koi Reploids are robots from the Megaman X series, "X" is one of them, and the first one
Incorrect. "Reploid" is short for "Replicated Android", implying that X is an android. Even more so, Sigma wasn't the first Reploid either, as he was created to be the commander for the Iregular Hunters, a police force dedicated to the capture and subsequent repair of buggy Reploids, as the first attempts to replicate X's neural network were shoddy at best (Remember, Dr. Cain was an archeologist before he was a roboticist.)
The Iregular Hunters were renamed to the Maverick Hunters after a rise of non-programming bug related violence that would later be tracked down to the virus causing it.
I gotta say...
Rika's my favourite character in this whole series
Sorry, not sorry.
Based
based
based
PC-98 extra stage team!!!
Mine is Gengetsu
based
This boss needs to come back.
Rika doesn't just LOOK like Madotsuki. There are other similarities as well. Rika knows she's in a game, and Mado knows she's dreaming. Evil Eye Sigma looks like a creature Madotsuki would find in her dream world. The name of her theme is also "The Tank Girl's Dream", and Yume Nikki means "Dream Diary."
So either ZUN can predict the future, or KIKIYAMA was inspired by ZUN. Or maybe it's just the weirdest coincidence ever.
Sophie Weiss ...yes, I know. Hence why I said "ZUN can predict the future or KIKIYAMA was inspired by ZUN".
I based my Stage 4 boss Petrina Mizorauma off features from Yume Nikki.
Her eyes are always closed, & she has the ability to manipulate parallel realities created by others where she dreams in. Both Petrina & her 'guest' know it's a dream, but she could keep them trapped there for centuries if she wants. She also has something on her top which resembles that black & white thing on Madotsuki.
Her abilities has some really unusual effects when done on Shikieiki; Petrina is very cautious around a Yama, (she knows just how powerful a Yama is.)
SyntaxMagenta
Cool! Any link to the game?
blara2401 It's just a concept I'm still thinking of right now. I've got as far as the names of all 7 of the characters, their abilities, who you play (Reimu, Marisa, Youmu & Eiki), possible spellcards, & soon to be designs & patterns.
I may look at this Danmakufu thing soon to aid in my advance
SyntaxMagenta
Cool! Well, good luck to you to program it! :)
I think Zun played Kirby before making this...
This game was made before Crystal Shards, though.
But not before dreamland 2, Dark matter's first appearance.
Emerald Kyurem But Zero(or whatever his name is)didn't even look like this guy in that game.
I was only referring to the big eye part. Nothing else.
Emerald Kyurem dreamland *3
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And what does that have to do with the song?
Everything. The pain is still there. Part of it retuns in each extra stage, but nothing may possibly surpass it.
Yeah I'm still salty about how many tries it took me.
Should have answered this 2 months ago, mb.
Flandre tells Marisa she'll play with her 'For one coin', a reference to Arcade machines.
Flan then answers Marisa's comment with 'I mean you can't Continue!'
Marisa has teetered on the 4th wall several times. SA in particular.
Gun sign~Super Magic Missle
I love this song, but, it is so frustrating to remember how many times I died there.
I died more times just getting to the darn thing.
Why does this slightly remind me of a mix of flowering night and un owen was her?
There's actually a picture of Sigma and 0^2 being gentlemanly with monocles and top hats, Sigma has a fancy cane and Squared has a cup of tea, and the caption is "Jesus Christ, we're horrifying." It was amusing.
I need to see that
People! The part of song starting on 0:48 sounds like Fukkireta
Many people say that “PC98 games aren’t canon” but actually… THEY ARE! It’s just that throughout the years, many people are starting to forget about PC98 games or not paying attention to them and Touhou Project was about to have their final moments until Touhou 6. You can’t even imagine how ZUN reacted when he found out he gained popularity not only in Japan… but also from the West USA and some other countries, far away from Japan! Anywho… I wish these characters from PC98 games come back, plus their themes which they are… *KISS* Amazing!
Solid. The intro is my favorite part because it's kind of pretty, but then the theme gets kind of repetitive but alright.
(Good Akyuu's Untouched Score upgrade as usual, btw. Always better than the original)
the heck is 02 doing here????
It's Evil Eye Sigma, the game was made before Kirby 64, but Touhou wasn't very popular around that time, so it's probably a really big coincidence
*r/wooosh*
*Spoiler Alert!*
Oh so if all of you thought the Yuyuko-Kirby and Youmu-Meta Knight fanart as well as Evil Eye Sigma and Zero-Two comparisons was the end of Touhou x Kirby crossovers, guess what?
Galacta Knight returns in Kirby Planet Robobot. One of his attacks involves creating a gap that shoots out a giant laser.
The Final Boss and the True Arena Final Boss, whose name shall be withheld, goes all danmaku on you, including it's own version of the Twin Master Spark.
And then in Kirby Star Allies, there are three generals of magic. One is known for using electricity and one of her attacks in her second fight involves shooting a giant Master Spark-esque laser across the screen. Her drums also have the same symbol as Raiko's drums.
@@ivoryvt and Don'T Get Started With Void Soul And Void They Use Touhou As There Fighting Style
@@ivoryvt a h e m
that yuyu-kirby is just the fandom's bullshit.
idk why people try to pass it off as canon, she's likely eating to cope.
yukari gap master spark
GIRLS AND PANZAR!!!!!!
tanks
waw...what??
Panzerkampfwagen?
Panzerkampfwagen sigma
Panzer VOR!!!!
Evil Eye Smegma
There’s a reverb to the version in the actual game’s piano part that I think makes it even better...
That mean Rika have a dream
I , R i k a T h e t a n k g i r l H a v e A D r e a m
@@rev-er-1esyndr-om-e413 that is impossible. Touhou is Jojo and Jojo is Touhou
YANDEV Chalice well i mean theres only one character based off of jjba, and thats sayuka. shes based off of DIO because of her timestop and throwing knives
@@chaoticcatta4692
Mokou - Moh. Avdol
Cirno - Pet Shop
Youmu - J. P. Polnareff
Yukari - Bruno Bucciarati
Nitori - R. von Stroheim
also, don't forget
Moon people outsmarting Yukari - Diavolo beating Bucciarati
What if the tank is a R O A D R O L L E R
@@HonestFarmerLigue1Fan That is what I call stretching things.
Sans with Youmu, she exceed big baguette energy.
(Sorry for the broken english)
The Tank Girl's Dream ~ Till When?
The Tank Girl's Dream ~ Sigma Eye Robot
Sorry this eye looks like robot eye ._.
Rika's one of my favorite PC-98 characters, though I doubt ZUN will bring her back, as the PC-98 games aren't cannon, and ZUN hasn't even brought back Mima ;;
i'm sorry because of her sadface at stage 1. i almost can't endure the pain
They are canon; ZUN has even said unless explicitly said otherwise in another game they are canon.
Hell there's even things like Alice flat-out remembering Reimu in PCB...
@@raikaria3090 also Yuuka's dialouges with reimu and Marisa in PoFV, and the fact that reimu and marisa were both familiar with Makai. and many mentions within print works
Old and New Touhou is like the Old and New testaments of the Bible.
Everything in the old is perfectly valid unless it is contradicted by something from the new
Hence, Rika exists in Touhou canon but Reimu has black hair and never had purple hair.
@@moritamikamikara3879 Reimu had purple hair in old Touhou because of PC-98 hardware limitation didn't allow black color in character design. Same reason why Marisa wore purple witch robe in old Touhou.
Rika Breaking The Fourth Wall Be Like
Easiest Touhou song to remix
for real
EVIL EYE Σ
The Evil Eye Sigma (Σ) (イビルアイ∑ Ibiru Ai Shiguma) is a flying tank created by Rika. It was used on the Extra Stage of Story of Eastern Wonderland to fight Reimu Hakurei and Genji, where it moved left and right, shooting bizarre danmaku at the player. Rika again thought it was enough to defeat Reimu compared to her Flower-Tank, but was again defeated, causing a huge explosion for the player to dodge. With the Evil Eye Σ, Rika also created the Shrine Tank, the Flower-Tank, the bakebake, some shining objects and a few cannons. (from TouhouWiki)
ZUN's comment about the track:
"The theme for a certain girl genius. At the early part, it's deliberately meant to feel particularly cute. In later part, I intended to finish the song in a cool style. The song uses the same progression as Extra Love. Still, conversely, this song is... ... too strong (^^;"
Wait until they find out "eye with wing" is a common trope.
To my knowledge, Marisa didn't really break it in EoSD, but she broke it several times in SA, if you play as Marisa-A; first after defeating Orin, Orin explains why she started the geyser and Marisa replies "So, let's depart on an adventure to stop the geyser!... Oops, it's already the last stage. Never mind that excitement, then." and after that, in the Extra stage, where she points out that if there's always an extra dungeon, "then the last boss just becomes a midboss! "
A demonstration, you say? I'm not even sure you'd survive, but okay!! *calls the gigantic Evil Eye Sigma tank, suddenly changes anime-esque into her demon outfit, and hops in, accidentally hopping in upside-down, but flipping back up* Alright, HERE WE GO~! *begins to fire off surprisingly large amounts of danmaku, burning the landscape, perhaps going a bit overboard*
usually when i think of Touhou, i don't think tanks so much
but what do i know, i haven't really dug into Touhou so much, other than reading the wiki and watching some vids here and there
Shou Toramaru well, welcome. (: You got alot to take in, just hope you have enough brain space to learn
welcome to the Pc-98 era.
Congrats on passing 1/3 of this lesson on Toehoe: knowing the tanks of 2hu (the rest is useless you want to know about Seihou)
Since he was reborn, held together by nothing more than wishes, oxygen aided in him not dying before revenge, thus, he is Oxygen.
It sounds like Flandre's theme if you listen to it right.
Nah, it sounds like Suwako's Final Spell Card theme from 'soku, mostly the intro.
Oh, also sounded like Flowering Night, one of Sakuya's themes, for me in the intro. Guess I never heard Suwako's Last word theme from Hisoutensoku.
*it sounded like
1:54 ah yes, the cassic No Game No Life intro
I don't know much about Touhou and I just discovered this girls existence, yet she is already one of my favorite characters in the series. She's like the antithesis of everything I dislike about Touhou characters, she's doesn't have any ridiculous inhuman abilities or inherent strength from being a non-human/superhuman, and doesn't appear to have all that super long lifespan bullshit. She's just a regular human who earned all her strength (and the title of the first extra stage boss) with nothing but her talent for machinery. Plus I love how she is both the first boss of the first danmaku game in the series as well as the first superboss in the series; going from an unimportant nobody to the ultimate boss of the game
Also I just noticed how this tank looks like Dark Matter/Zero/Zero² from the Kirby franchise, how is everything about this chick so fucking rad!
i mean marisa did the same thing; she's just an ordinary human who learned magic
Flandre broke it by saying "I meant that you can't continue" to Marisa, but I don't know how Marisa broke it.
"Hey look, it's the psychopathic girl that looks like Madotsuki again."
...I did not notice, but yeah, the resemblance is quite striking...argh, I'm not gonna be able to actually appreciate this character now that I noticed that. Thanks Yume Nikki, thanks a lot.
Because Evil Eye Σ came first!
SoEW release date: August 15, 1997
Kirby 64 release date: March 24, 2000
HRtP was also released the August 15, 1997
@@rinnosukemorichika1196 Both released the same time, yeah. TH1 is called TH1 just because it's not the same type of gameplay at all so it would be confusing af to call it TH2.
@@pokemonkarma I already know and SoEW is clearly a sequel to HRtP
Not-Madotsuki is back, and this time she has... a mechanical Zero-Two in a dress? Aight den.
The beginning sounds a lot like Maniacal Princess.
the intro of this song reminds me a little bit of kotohime's theme intro
I think she played along with the 'I'll play with you for one coin' thing.
I think I found the inspiration for Zero Two now....are ZUN and Nintendo secret friends who take ideas from each other? If that were to be true then I would die from happiness knowing that my two favorite video game makers/companies are best buddies
It also looks like Magolor Soul.
+TheGoomba98 Vaati?
Clownpiece Holy crap, you're right.
***** So Evil Eye Sigma= Zero Two= Magolor Soul= Vaati?
"Are ZUN and Nintendo secret friends who take ideas from each other?"
I honestly wouldn't doubt it. There's a character in Breath of the Wild who's called Saki.
She even has wings! (But that's because she's a Rito)
ALTHOUGH, I remember hearing somewhere that "Tebasaki" meant chicken wings in Japanese and she has a husband called Teba, soooooo.....
Tank Girl huh?
I'm now assuming that Rika is wearing an armored skirt.
Ice 487 Rika wears pants...
That's one ΣVIL contraption.
@BioBen9250 I know. It makes it more awesome that she went ahead in power that quickly.
Zero-Two.
First you create you.
Then out of you occurs the environment.
Within the environment can be control.
By that way, within you control can become.
Control of oneself creates understanding of one's weakness(es).
Understanding of one's weakness creates knowledge of methodology to reverse weakness, creating strength.
Inby reversing weakness to strength, one creates a greater power altogether...
Knowing this, one could potentially find "like"-kind in need of this tool as one once had needed.
Would not it be insufficient to say that one could teach another the methodologies that helped one discover self as a being able to be part of another's environment?
Consider pitting two eternally reproducing entities together to assist one-another in developing their weaknesses into strengths.
Then consider also that the more entities added into this unique approach or "programming", the ever-exponentially-more one could discover in pursuit of self-developement.
Imagine further the depth an amass of eternally reproducing entities discovering self pit together to aid eachother in developing self weakness into self strength that could be produced.
This theme sparks something in me.. Always up and down, ever-repetitive. What left could one be to have done as being done now, forever?
(p.s.: might I add that if one does listen closer, you might find that there is a continual up and down theme at many depths. One section of instrumental is going up and down at this rate while another instrumental is going up and down at that rate, independent of one-another yet still interconnected harmoniously to create a brilliant theme, each piece chaoticly up and down, ever-eternal.)
its fair game. i makde sure that spell is low powered enough for guns to match it in power. But this is a mini missle launcher, dispite the name. It just packs more of a punch. Standard Move "Stardust Shooter"
Rika created her own version of dark matter WTF :0
HOLD ON A SECOND
Now that i think about it, give Oxygen and Sigma's similarity... Marx seems to have some sort of danmaku about him... Will there be a Koubou someday?
Rika sure was a completely different woman before she became part of Paldea's Elite Four... ;D
Ah yes. 02 from Kirby before he even existed
Evil Eye Sigma was a nightmare to beat...
Fine. The Extra Stage is not so hard once you see how to beat it. But the boss is Absol-ute pain. It´s truly a long and fierce battle.
P.S: I defeated the Evil Eye Sigma three times (one with each Shoot Mode). Before that, I beat the main story three times on Lunatic the same way.
it's a fucking TANK
**** come on let me beat the damn game already, I want to face her already and I want to beat the Special stage....
2/3 done xD
yay, beat it yesterday ^.^ Damn, she was scary
@@CarmsCelestia nice! I just unlocked the extra stage yesterday, i haven't beat it yet though.
@@agirlandherdrone6987 Good luck!
@@CarmsCelestia thanks!
i wonder, who would win this battle: Rika or Nitori?
Rika
Rika
I am so Sigma in skibidi rika of gyatt of Touhou Fuumaroku
Never speak again
@FriendGuardStudios Um...has five fingers in this picture. If you look really carefully, you'll see that the pinky's cut off.
This kinda feels like a prototype of Flowering Night
It's Zero Point Five!
Kirby's Dream Land Three: November 27, 1997
Yep. I thinks you got it.
I just noticed, she kinda has Scooby Doo eyes in this pic. :p
that's just sak-
Rika broke the 4th wall.
If I'm sure my calendar is correct, August comes BEFORE November.
The this round is over*Flies off using dragon wings"
Isn’t Rika one of the most powerful Touhou characters ? I mean, she’s probably weaker than like Hecatia or Okina, but she MADE an Extra Stage boss. Why couldn’t she make more ?
... ya know thats a scary thought. thinking about rika just mass producing these mid fight along with other models just to overwhelm with sheer numbers as a shield till she can build a massive threat.
"Small fry from level one"
-Reimu, 1996
I'm starting to think of kotohime's theme =w=
OMG! CP DEVIL WHAT HAS THEY DONE TO YOU?!
This rika is better than Mystic Messenger's Rika (:
Very true.
Still, his name is 0², Zero Squared, or as most call him, Zero Two, regardless of what you think it looks like.
What about in PCB Extra stage when Reimu broke it:
"It was nothing special. I mean, she's still a Stage 2 boss after all."
This sounds like a minor key Fukkiret. (Yes I know this came out wayyy before Kasane Teto)
Defending the honor of my beliefs is my reason to keep going.
Hmph. I was trying to be fair...However, if you're getting reinforcements....Heh heh....then i'll have to use full power!
Now you get why Yume Nikki is so haunting.
It even creeps in games that came out BEFORE it!
Rika and her amazing Evil Eye ΣΙΓΜΑ (Sigma).
Madotsuki??..
Ohhh noo
I have. And I plan to use the correllation to *spoiler* and *spoiler* the *spoiler*!!!
Technically oxygen.
Doesn't Sigma look A LOT like Oxygen from Kirby 64?
They're both eyes, the blood tear on Oxygen looks a bunch like Sigma's Sigma symbol, they both have halos... The only thing really setting them apart is Oxygen has big hands, floats, and makes you play a sort of Jump Rope To The Death, and Sig has... leafy things, two tentacles, and bat wings, and is part of this legendary shmup.
She looks like: 'yo', I'll leave this to you: EVIL EYE SIGMA!
Simga: Target locked. Assesing power values. Uploading programs 1,2,3, Beta. Operation confirmed. Engaging.
@BioBen9250 Uh...That she was originally the first stage boss?
02 right there
The tank of Rima > 02 (Kirby 64)
"The tank..." > Tank Kirby (Epic Yarn)
"...girl's..." > Ribbon (Kirby 64)
"...dream" > Dreamland (Kirby)
Kirby origins is in Touhou (what was first? the PC-98 or Kirby's Dreamland 1?)
The point is: I LOVE THIS THEME!!!
Kirby's dreamland came out in 1992 while touhou highly responsive to prayers came out in 1996
I gotta say, Sigma looks real pretty in that dress
Im just gonna call this MechaZero2-Sigma
I think this game came out 3-4 years before Kirby 64. Now I know the origin of 02, the origin of Sigilyph from Pokemon BW versions and onward.
Last I checked, there was a difference between the letter O and the number 0...
If there was to be a Zero 3, I think that the Kirby game would have to be a bit darker than usual (and that's saying a lot), as well as be the final game in the series, to kind of tie everything together.
That being said, I highly doubt it will happen in the near future.