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Rincebrain
Dec 10, 2004

YOU KISS THAT GIRL THIS INSTANT
It's deeply amusing to me that this thread is older than some of my relatives. :psyduck:

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AmadeusVonBlastoise
Jul 4, 2008

AMADEUS AMADEUS
~DO~DO~
~DO~DO~
This LP is going to be passed down through generations.

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER
Is there any way we can Spirit Armour :10bux: ? It seems that a combo of job/school is keeping him away, so if we can make Sakura Wars his job, 50% of our problems are solved!

RyuujinBlueZ
Oct 9, 2007

WHAT DID YOU DO?!

AmadeusVonBlastoise posted:

This LP is going to be passed down through generations.

This method of LPing obscure Japanese dating sim games has been passed down the Spirit Armor family line for generations!

Rincebrain
Dec 10, 2004

YOU KISS THAT GIRL THIS INSTANT

RyuujinBlueZ posted:

This method of LPing obscure Japanese dating sim games has been passed down the Spirit Armor family line for generations!

Just wait until Sakura Wars X: The Search for More Money, when the entire game is attempting to score better than the other girls at the prior Sakura Wars games!

Sennamontoya
Dec 31, 2008

Spirit Armor posted:



BY DEFYING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS BY USING SCIENCE BECAUSE SHE'S THE GODDAMN KOHRAN. :science:

Say, Spirit Armor, is there any kind of special sound effect that accompanies her "jump"? Because it looks a lot like her mecha is farting its way up that staircase. :confused:

Son Conan
Sep 25, 2007

Boy, it sure is great to see this LP up and running again. And surely, there's nothing better to begin the new year than seeing a cute, bespectacled Chinese girl make the 4 Cardinal Beasts her bitches through the power of SCIENCE.

And, while it is about 2-3 weeks late, here's a little something for the holidays:

Nyaa
Jan 7, 2010
Like, Nyaa.

:colbert:
I finally reach it...116 pages, goddamn awesome. :bravo:

Now I can go to sleep. :ughh:

Good night everyone and let's see what dream I will have. :cthulhu:

veekie
Dec 25, 2007

Dice of Chaos

Son Conan posted:

Boy, it sure is great to see this LP up and running again. And surely, there's nothing better to begin the new year than seeing a cute, bespectacled Chinese girl make the 4 Cardinal Beasts her bitches through the power of SCIENCE.

I got this suspicion she went to hunt them down and turn them into cyborgs during the 'training'

Nyaa
Jan 7, 2010
Like, Nyaa.

:colbert:

Nyaa posted:

Good night everyone and let's see what dream I will have. :cthulhu:
I was playing some sort of game in a dream that involve generating a monster and I remember the second is a dragon...the forth is a phoenix...:aaa:

Spirit Armor posted:

The Four Symbols descend!
I will blame Son Conan for that dream.:gonk:

Sprit Armor posted:

2010 is the year of Tiger, Kanna's year.

Edit: Learned the ways of Canuck.

Nyaa fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Jan 12, 2010

Schadenfraulein
Dec 23, 2006
a front row seat to the gun show
Winter holidays! Enjoy some Christmasy stuff while I search for Year of the Tiger fanart.




Click here for the full 516x731 image.

[from http://shiyoku.finito.fc2.com/]


Click here for the full 850x635 image.

[from http://web-box.jp/fujiipro/]


Click here for the full 479x718 image.

[from http://shiyoku.finito.fc2.com/]

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Schadenfraulein posted:

Winter holidays! Enjoy some Christmasy stuff while I search for Year of the Tiger fanart.




Click here for the full 516x731 image.

[from http://shiyoku.finito.fc2.com/]


Click here for the full 850x635 image.

[from http://web-box.jp/fujiipro/]


Click here for the full 479x718 image.

[from http://shiyoku.finito.fc2.com/]

These are bloody adorable :3:

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
It's only adorable until her first snowball pulverizes your torso.

Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

And then it's bloody.

Phy
Jun 27, 2008



Fun Shoe
Dear god, there's a lot of LP in there.

ZippoGuy
Dec 18, 2005

Some say the world
will end in fire...
I'm just helping it along
College Slice

Son Conan posted:

...make the 4 Cardinal Breasts her bitches through the power of SCIENCE.

I read it this way the first time and was very, very confused. I blame the picture.

lishan1988
Mar 19, 2009
It's been a month since the last update.. time to dump some pictures





Canuck-Errant
Oct 28, 2003

MOOD: BURNING - MUSIC: DISCO INFERNO BY THE TRAMMPS
Grimey Drawer
I just saw an ad for the upcoming NA Sakura Wars release. I felt compelled to check the thread. Dammit, Spirit Armor! I'm going to be in the Caribbean soon! If you don't update before I have to leave, I'm going to do horrible things! :argh:

Bat Ham
Apr 22, 2008

Bat Nan

Canuck-Errant posted:

I just saw an ad for the upcoming NA Sakura Wars release. I felt compelled to check the thread. Dammit, Spirit Armor! I'm going to be in the Caribbean soon! If you don't update before I have to leave, I'm going to do horrible things! :argh:

Easy, there, buddy. Let's not do anything rash. Just put the emoticon down and back away slowly...

lishan1988
Mar 19, 2009

Bat Ham posted:

Easy, there, buddy. Let's not do anything rash. Just put the emoticon down and back away slowly...

Iris finds your fear delicious. She will now WILL canuck to do it

Nyaa
Jan 7, 2010
Like, Nyaa.

:colbert:
Let our lord recharge his brain juice while we patiently await for his return.:catholic:

Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord!
Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord!
Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord! Yes My Lord!

RyuujinBlueZ
Oct 9, 2007

WHAT DID YOU DO?!

Bat Ham posted:

Easy, there, buddy. Let's not do anything rash. Just put the emoticon down and back away slowly...

But...But the emoticon does nothing. It's just...Just an emoticon.

Oh god, who are you and what did you do with the real Canuck!?

Canuck-Errant
Oct 28, 2003

MOOD: BURNING - MUSIC: DISCO INFERNO BY THE TRAMMPS
Grimey Drawer

RyuujinBlueZ posted:

But...But the emoticon does nothing. It's just...Just an emoticon.

Oh god, who are you and what did you do with the real Canuck!?

Hey, I'm just changing things up. Can't always play the same game, otherwise people catch on too quick, knowhamean? Gotta play it straight sometimes, change up the game. Be all :ninja: and poo poo.

RyuujinBlueZ
Oct 9, 2007

WHAT DID YOU DO?!

Canuck-Errant posted:

Hey, I'm just changing things up. Can't always play the same game, otherwise people catch on too quick, knowhamean? Gotta play it straight sometimes, change up the game. Be all :ninja: and poo poo.

I suppose that's a fine point.

But it makes one wonder, is that ninja true or is it false?

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Canuck-Errant posted:

I just saw an ad for the upcoming NA Sakura Wars release. I felt compelled to check the thread. Dammit, Spirit Armor! I'm going to be in the Caribbean soon! If you don't update before I have to leave, I'm going to do horrible things! :argh:

DO IT, CANUCK.

EDIT:


Really, really, REALLY digging Maria's face here.

CommissarMega fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Feb 4, 2010

Slaan
Mar 16, 2009



ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH
Bah, who cares about Maria's face? There is no Kohran in that picture!

Spirit Armor
Jul 11, 2007

Love, Justice, and Mid-Season Upgrades Steam-Powered Robots.
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The second half of the battle!

Youtube Link!
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Hurray, hurray, it's our blushing Russian death-dealing commissar's turn!



... and, welp, just about the only thing she can shoot from here is a car.



On the other hand, her range IS long enough to shoot the turrent on the roof.

----
[Ogami]

Wait... Maria, at that trajectory, wouldn't your bullets have to carve straight through the rest of the building to hit the turret?

[Maria]

Perhaps.

[Ogami]

We... should at least ACT like we're trying not to bust up this town any more than we have to. Could you move into a position where you WOULDN'T be blasting through the entire building?

[Maria]

Yes, I could.

[Ogami]

Okay, then-

[Maria]

... however, Captain, you seem to have mistaken me for someone who cares.

----


----

----

----


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[Ogami]

... I... huh. The building's still standing.

[Maria]

...

----



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[Ogami]

And... and that was related to your training, was it?

[Maria]

Of course.

[Ogami]

...

[Maria]

Are you just now noticing that by giving us time to hone our physics-shattering skills, you are allowing us to realize our potential as the biggest threat to our nation's survival?

[Ogami]

Er, actually, I was more worried about the fact that you can now shoot into a crowd of people and hit me and only me.

[Maria]

...

[Ogami]

What? You didn't think of- er, wait, forget I said anything!!

[Maria]

I must not abuse this power for my own enjoyment. I must not abuse this power for my own enjoyment. I must not-

----

Not much else happens- there aren't nearly enough Kouma running around any more to present an actual threat, and most of the video is just the entire brigade moving into position.

There ARE a few more highlights, though.



And by THAT, I mean "there are still a few more final attacks we haven't actually seen yet."


----


[Sumire]

Kanzaki Whirlwind Style...




[Sumire]

The flower's musical performance!



----


[Sumire]

Dance of the Phoenix!



----


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[Sakura]

They did LAST time, didn't they?

[Sumire]

Oh, that little skirmish? Meiji Shrine was merely a setback!

[Iris]

Sumire, Sumire! That was a phoenix, right?

[Sumire]

But of course! After all, it is the only mythical creature that could accurately represent-

[Iris]

- the futility of trying to escape the tragic circle of pain-filled life and excruciating death by showing us a mythical bird, one that burns away its own flesh in a most horrific manner only to come back and do it all again in a stagnant, never-changing cycle?

[Sumire]

...

[Sumire]

Who let Iris get to the philosophy books?

[Kanna]

Ahahaha, sorry, Iris probably started reading my pillows again.

----


----


----
[Maria]

...

[Maria]

I see. So your fighting style consists of healing yourself and hiding behind Kanna.

[Kanna]

It's about right, though, isn't it?

[Maria]

... I... really cannot refute that.

[Kanna]

Man, this poo poo's getting boring.

[Ogami]

Wait, what're you-

----



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[Ogami]

K-Kanna!? Come back! I need you to be my meatshield!!

[Kanna]

I'm creating drama!

[Ogami]

WHAT? But the Kouma up there's going to-

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----

----


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[Ogami]

... shoot me full of poo poo.

[Kanna]

drat, Captain, how the hell have you gotten WORSE at soaking up damage?

[Maria]

... I suppose this is where I'm going to have to step in once more.

[Ogami]

Please save me, Maria.

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[Ogami]

... no, Maria, please shoot the Kouma, not the car.

[Maria]

But if we destroy the explosive car, the Kouma will get caught in its blast radius, saving us all a considerable amount of trouble.

[Ogami]

But I'LL get caught up in it, too!

[Maria]

... and?

[Ogami]

Mariiiiiaaaaaa-

[Maria]

Alright, alright.

----


----


[Maria]

Surpassing the nights of previous battlefields...




[Maria]

To shine, here and now...!



----


[Maria]

Парк Випцой! (Immortal Glory!)




ELSEWHERE:



[Sumire]

Well... that is certainly true- though you did nothing but nap, Iris.

[Iris]

Yup! Iris slept a lot! I'm still a growing girl, you know~!!
But you went out ALL the time. Where did you go, Sumire?

[Sumire]

A child like you does not need to know. Grown-ups have their own circumstances to deal with.

[Iris]

Hmph! That's all you said, and you woudn't take me with you!!

[Sumire]

Oh~ hoh hoh hoh! I shall gladly fill you in once this battle is over.

[Iris]

You absolutely will! That's definitely a promise, okay!?




Not long after THAT little exchange in which Sumire continues corrupting our already-corrupted youth, Sakura finishes off the final Kouma.

Spirit Armor fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Apr 17, 2013

Spirit Armor
Jul 11, 2007

Love, Justice, and Mid-Season Upgrades Steam-Powered Robots.
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BOSS BATTLE: Vs. Inoshishi

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[Inoshishi]

Gufufufufu... my name is Inoshishi! Now, take this! The vile flames that fuel Hell itself!!



----


IMMOBILE FLAME WHEEL

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[Inoshishi]

Finally... finally... I can extract my revenge! KIRISHIMA! PREPARE YOURSELF!!

[Kanna]

Heh?

[Inoshishi]

For the death of my friend fifteen years ago... I will burn you to a crisp!!

[Ogami]

Kanna, don't tell me you were crushing boars to a pulp when you were four years old?

[Kanna]

What the hell kind of a question is THAT, Captain?

[Ogami]

Oh... oh god. You were, weren't you.

[Kanna]

Of COURSE not! I was crushing BEARS to a pulp. 'Course, I dunno why a boar would be looking to avenge a bear, but-

[Inoshishi]

You- you've FORGOTTEN!? He was utterly defenseless! He couldn't have hurt a fly! He was... he was nothing but a silly old bear.

[Kanna]

... oooh, THAT bear. Which makes you some hate-twisted mutated version of that little pigl-

[Inoshishi]

No, no, no- not Piglet, dear Kanna... FALLEN DEMON Piglet! I'll make you pay dearly for what you've done to me, Kirishima!!

[Kanna]

Yeah? I'll cut you down so fast that you won't even have TIME to squeal like a piggy, boy! Just like that bear of yours!!

[Ogami]

We... we ARE the good guys, right, Maria?

[Maria]

For a given value of "good," Captain. And possibly "guys."

----



Let's get rolling.



It's a straightforward fight: the whole crew's facing down Inoshishi and a few Kouma: one Ye Olde Melee-Slasher type and two of the Babby-Is-Formed-By-Spitting variety, one on each side of the building.

Basically, this boss fight is a cage match on top of the building that was the centerpiece of the last battle. Our mission statement is simply:

[Kasumi]

Please destroy the large-scale demon-driven mechanical soldier, "Immovable Flame Wheel"!


... so, y'know, what else CAN we do?


----


As usual, once we get the usual preparations: defensive Mountain strategy and shielding Sumire out of the way...



... we jump straight into the usual "killing just about all the cannon fodder Kouma..."



"... with the power of Maria."



----
[Ogami]

It's one thing to watch unfeeling robots detonate when exposed to the power of love, but... look, does that whole hot springs thing REALLY have enough destructive power to punch out all of the Koumas' blood?

[Kohran]

Welp, it's Maria-han in nothin' but a towel, ain't it?

[Ogami]

Yeah...?

[Kohran]

An' she's blushin' like mad, right?

[Ogami]

I guess, but-

[Kohran]

An' y'all don't even HAVE to know her personally t' figure out that something's really, disturbingly wrong if Maria's doin' both at once, right?

[Ogami]

Wait, are you saying that our super special awesome final combination attack makes the Kouma so paranoid that they die from it?

[Kohran]

Look, it's either that or they're turned on so hard that they're nosebleedin', but that jes' opens up a whole other line of questionin' that Ah'd rather not hafta get into.

[Ogami]

Okay, fair enough, I guess. I already have MORE than enough frightening lines of questioning to deal with during every waking moment.

----



----
[Ogami]

... for instance, explosion punches.

----



And on Sakura's turn?



[Sakura]

Lord Ondore~!




[Maria]

Clementine~!


... they feel the inexplicable need to reprise their old musical roles during a battle for life and death and/or the fate of Japan.



[Kohran]

Y'all drat well better--




[Sakura]

Get a grip.




All told, that barrage of mismatched quotes is just about enough to chock him down a third of his health.



... and on her own? Maria is just about enough to take Inoshishi down to HALF health.

Spirit Armor fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Apr 17, 2013

Spirit Armor
Jul 11, 2007

Love, Justice, and Mid-Season Upgrades Steam-Powered Robots.
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The second half of the boss battle! Y'know, what little of it isn't filled with lopsided curbstomping.

Youtube Link!
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[Sakura]

... but there's only one of you here, Mr. Piglet.

[Inoshishi]

Shut up! I represent the might of the entire alliance!

[Kanna]

I dunno... it looks an awful lot like they just hung you out to dry or somethin'.

[Inoshishi]

Gahahaha! How could that possibly be the case!? We're all teammates! I asked that they stay back and let me fight this battle by myself, so that I might get my revenge on-

[Kanna]

They agreed to it REALLY quickly, though, didn't they?

[Inoshishi]

W-Well, yeah, but-

[Kanna]

And none of them tried to talk you out of it or anything, probably 'cause you're nothing more than the usual disposable cannon fodder we've been fighting up until now?

[Inoshishi]

No, but- SHUT UP AND DIE!!

[Ogami]

... you really have a way with words, don't you, Kanna?

[Kanna]

Hey, if it'll get the other guy to drop his guard, all's fair in love, war, and kicking 'em in the metaphoranalogical crotch!

----


----


The final attack's gonna suck a bit.



[Inoshishi]

The vanguard of the world of fallen demons...




[Inoshishi]

Exploding Flames! Field-Shredding Cannon Gale!!




And he shoves a tornado at them.



Sumire and Ogami take no damage, thanks to his fancy-pants guarding- and they're also unaffected by the status effect.



... though this means that Kanna and Maria are saddled with poison and take more than half damage. If they'd been using their original Koubu, they'd be dead in the water.



Inoshishi's NORMAL attack spread isn't that much better.



... though all it does is fire explosions at people.



[Tsubaki]

And it doesn't look like your mobility will return if you don't use "heal."


[Kasumi]

You won't be able to move very much at all if you don't hurry up and heal each other. Please exercise caution!!


[Ogami]

Right, I got it. We'll be careful from here on out!!




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[Ogami]

And by "be careful," I mean "make judicious use of inexplicable world-ruining power."

----



Crisis averted by a bear with an MD. Naturally, weirder things have happened, so it didn't take the Imperial Assault Force TOO too long to get used to the whole setup.



And now that SUMIRE can finally go, well.


----


BAM, poison.

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[Inoshishi]

W-W-W-What!? That's c-c-cheating, you s-s-sons of bitches!!

[Ogami]

I- what the hell?

[Kanna]

What's wrong, Piglet? Old speech impediment coming back?

[Inoshishi]

S-Shut up! I-I am Piglet no longer, you little w-w-worm!!

[Kanna]

Ha ha!

[Inoshishi]

S-S-STOP POINTING AND LAUGHING AT ME!!

[Ogami]

... why my brigade is filled with people who become so easily drunk on power?

----



More violence occurs.



[Ogami]

Sakura-kun!




[Sakura]

Right!



----

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The beginning of the end is ALWAYS Kanna's defense debuff. With that up...


----

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... poo poo starts getting ridiculous.


----


And Sakura STILL has a good amount of gauge left to go to town on the poor barstud.



... as does Kohran.



And once we get to Maria, she's MORE than enough to end it in no time at all.


NEXT TIME: The chapter is over and absolutely nothing bad will happen in the near future, nosiree.

Spirit Armor fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Apr 17, 2013

Roger Explosion
Jan 26, 2006

THAT'S SPECTACULAR.

Spirit Armor posted:

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[Ogami]

Wait... Maria, at that trajectory, wouldn't your bullets have to carve straight through the rest of the building to hit the turret?

[Maria]

Perhaps.

[Ogami]

We... should at least ACT like we're trying not to bust up this town any more than we have to. Could you move into a position where you WOULDN'T be blasting through the entire building?

[Maria]

Yes, I could.

[Ogami]

Okay, then-

[Maria]

... however, Captain, you seem to have mistaken me for someone who cares.

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HA HA HA HA! gently caress YEAH!

Screw the haters, we made the right decision.

NoMoneyDown
Jan 27, 2009

I've got the advantage. You've got nothing.
So I was catching up on this thread, and I didn't realize until the end of this update that it was posted a few hours ago. And I'm like :psyduck:This thread is still going:psyduck:

And may I just say what a freaking excellent thread this has been, Spirit Armor. I've been reading the whole thing in small sessions, but I've just now caught up. It's been a pleasure, and it's reminded me to support the hell of ST5's US release.

Stabbey_the_Clown
Sep 21, 2002

Are... are you quite sure you really want to say that?
Taco Defender
Heh. Awesome as usual.

Bat Ham
Apr 22, 2008

Bat Nan
So Maria's essentially piloting Metal Gear Rex at this point, huh?

pumpinglemma
Apr 28, 2009

DD: Fondly regard abomination.

Wait. Am I reading this wrong, or did Kanna kill Winnie the Pooh at age four? :gonk:

Canuck-Errant
Oct 28, 2003

MOOD: BURNING - MUSIC: DISCO INFERNO BY THE TRAMMPS
Grimey Drawer
Okay, I'm heading off to the Caribbean in a few hours, so if Spirit Armor doesn't post the second half in a reasonable amount of time, someone else can take over for me.

I'm just trying to go somewhere warm for a while :canada:

Ghost Car
Sep 14, 2009

pumpinglemma posted:

Wait. Am I reading this wrong, or did Kanna kill Winnie the Pooh at age four? :gonk:

Not only that, she killed Winnie the Pooh before Winnie the Pooh even existed. She's just that good.

ZeeToo
Feb 20, 2008

I'm a kitty!
Winnie the Pooh is timeless.


Besides, the joke doesn't work otherwise.

Giovanni_Sinclair
Apr 25, 2009

It was on this day that his greatest enemy defeated, the true lord of darkness arose. His name? MARIO.
Another nice one SA.

Magni
Apr 29, 2009
Wait, this LP still exitst? :psyduck:

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Giovanni_Sinclair
Apr 25, 2009

It was on this day that his greatest enemy defeated, the true lord of darkness arose. His name? MARIO.

Magni posted:

Wait, this LP still exitst? :psyduck:
yes.

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