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@Icewarrior on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2018-12-14T03:05:50-05:00

Let's note that not all physics are applied in Gensokyo, I mean for real. Someone once tested to see if Marisa's weapon features could work in real life and it was concluded false. It really is the purest form of Magic. Whatever this magic is in Touhou, it is most certainly a mystery.

@NXTangl on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2016-12-10T00:15:43-05:00

Interesting how you've all ignored the "easy" interpretation:

Marisa is flying upward on her own, because everyone in Gensokyo learns flight spells, and *pushing* the broom. Why does she have a broom? Because witches ride brooms. Even if they don't actually need them. Marisa's all about that western witch imagery.

@Siegfriedo_ExMachina on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2016-11-21T04:16:29-05:00

If they all joined to fight a common enemy, it must be a pretty damn powerful one, just imagine

@Super_Dick on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2015-11-01T10:06:09-05:00

WORDS!...WORDS for everyone!

@FrozenRoy on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2013-11-27T17:17:49-05:00

Pidgey fainted!

@aceof8 on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2013-01-01T23:42:26-05:00

Well... Assuming their shots are just that powerful... They could actually be bending the light around them and that's not motion blur. But if that's the case those are STILL some retardedly powerful shots that should have the collective recoil of trying to launch a god damn sun.

@Novack on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2012-11-23T21:34:26-05:00

no kill is better than over kill

@Piemur1 on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2012-08-27T19:04:05-04:00

Sorry for the slight necro, but in regards to what luntoer mentioned earlier:

luntoer said:
If she has high stationary Intent (Is), she won't have much rebound. But if she has even higher dramatic Intent (Id) she might rebound just for show.

I think this was drawn for a very high amount of quality "dramatic Intent (Id)". I mean, if there was recoil, why would Marisa's hat be floating above her head (falling to the ground?) Why would it JUST NOW start falling? Why would there be shock rings around the beams? Utsuoho looks like she's blasting a pretty huge blast of flame, Patchy has several stabilizing magic circles, and she's using some Philosopher's Stones for extra power. Shanghai is assisting Marisa with her own star-beam. Heck that's literally what Marisa is also blasting away with! And Flandre...well, hell she just pitched a freakin' beam with Levaetienn. With the way her arms are positioned, it looks like she's just taken a huge swing, and blasted out that...well...blast.

I bring your attention to Marisa's hat again. With this incredible amount of dramatic Intent, it is the pseudo-force wind that is actually forcing the hat to "blow" off her head. She probably has spells that keep her hat in place when she desires it. But with the amount of willpower and force she is pumping into her blast, she might also be expecting the recoil and blast wind, so she feels them. It's magic. Why pump so much into such a flashy blast when, magically speaking, the same "effect" could be done with just the incantation, intent, mana, and proper sigils, and suddenly the target is blasted where it stands? No beams, no recoil, just the target being annihilated/repelled/etc. That's what magic is capable of. But no, characters like Marisa LOVE big and flashy! She would put a lot of effort into making it flashy for the sake of it being big "F" Flashy.

Also, I LOVE this thread. Science, magic, discussions, funny quips, combinations of the above...It all makes Danbooru THAT much more fun! I hope you guys don't mind this necro for me to put in my own thoughts about this stuff...

@lily_white on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2012-06-13T12:46:50-04:00

Outside world invasion? I guess Colonel Longhena decided to trial Hibachi in Gensokyo.

@VicViper_Mk2 on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2012-02-01T08:41:58-05:00

Flandre: Is that the best you got? doesn't hurt.

@Alignn on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2012-01-19T14:36:24-05:00

I love this whole long thread of comments. I just want to hug it.

@clever_name_here on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2012-01-09T15:20:25-05:00

Etaoin said:
asdfghjkl

it's been over 2 years and we are still debating this. i love danbooru

@Inukazan on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2012-01-02T04:37:04-05:00

Nilix said:
Fucking magic, HOW DOES IT WORK?

SCIENCE!

@Etaoin on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2011-12-18T21:02:32-05:00

DoctorVisigoth said:
I'm no Dr. but I think that's wrong. Marisa may not experience the recoil from a beam that begins ten centimeters in front of her hand, but that doesn't mean the opposing force just doesn't happen. If the glowing ball she's holding emits a beam in one direction, then an equal force is going to have to be emitted in the other direction so that the ball itself does not tunnel through Marisa's abdominal body cavity. Rockets are self-propelled, but you should never stand behind a rocket launcher being fired.

The beam source itself would recoil, yes, but that doesn't mean the recoil is necessarily transferred to the caster. Clearly some force is pushing the beam source forward, but it certainly is not the caster, at least in a non-magical way, as they are not touching. Perhaps the caster uses some variant of telekinesis to push the beam source, and perhaps telekinesis does transfer force to the caster, but again, this is speculation about magic, not physics.

All we can say without waving our hands about magic is that if there is any recoil felt by the caseter, it is not generated in the normal way described by physics, but by some consequence of the way magic works. Hence, my argument is that trying to calculate the physics involved, as was done by the comments above my first, is pointless without greater knowledge of the way magic works.

@luntoer on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2011-12-11T08:29:29-05:00

kittey said:
..there’s an invasion from the outside world and they’re intercepting it over the Forest of Magic.

Knowing that... this picture is so much more epic.

@kittey on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2011-11-27T01:42:07-05:00

Despite the lengthy physics-or-not-physics discussion it’s not speculation fuel because according to the artist’s comment on Pixiv there’s an invasion from the outside world and they’re intercepting it over the Forest of Magic.

@undinehunt24 on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2011-11-08T21:27:06-05:00

Wait, Marisa? Flandre? Utsuho? All in one? Wait, Patchouli's there too.
These trio of mass destruction firing at the same target? Rin Satsuki or Kazami Yuuka or Yukari Yakumo?
This happened before in Imperfect Metamorphosis

@Hiaki on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2011-10-15T00:59:27-04:00

Kammak said:
To get away from the science, Jesus, look at Utsuho's and Marisa's eyebrows.

I'm thinking FLCL thar...

Robomorons said:
I draw the line when the scroll bar is that of the size of an ant.

So long as that scroll bar ant doesn't take my cookie...

@raphaelkox on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2011-09-14T20:54:49-04:00

to quote my favotire Deadpan-snaker/Alien Girl pair:

-Laser. A high intensity pulse transparent ray.
-Did her really shoot beams from her eye?
-Those were not particle accelerators, but intensified rays.
-What difference does it make? I don't care whether it's lasers,
masers or atomic heat rays used to destroy Mothra's cocoon, it's
all the same. The problem was, why did she fire atomic heat
rays even when there're no monsters around?
-It's intensified rays, not atomic heat rays.

i can't think of a better way to describe how i felt after some posts above...

@Yukikaze_Alecto on post #552066 (kirisame marisa, flandre scarlet, patchouli knowledge, reiuji utsuho, and shanghai doll (touhou) drawn by kage_houshi)

2011-07-20T11:00:30-04:00

Okay, who's the idiot who tried to pull off a panty raid again?