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Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/Spell Cards/Stage 5

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Midboss Spell Cards

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Spell Card 33
奇術「ミスディレクション」
Conjuring "Misdirection"
Owner
Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Easy/Normal
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Spell Card 34
奇術「幻惑ミスディレクション」
Conjuring "Mesmerizing Misdirection"
Owner
Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Hard/Lunatic

Boss Spell Cards

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Spell Card 35
幻在「クロックコープス」
Illusion Existence "Clock Corpse"[1]
Owner
Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Easy/Normal
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Spell Card 36
幻象「ルナクロック」
Illusion Image "Luna Clock"[2] [3]
Owner
Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Easy/Normal
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Spell Card 37
メイド秘技「操りドール」
Maid Secret Skill "Manipulating Doll" [4] [5] [6]
Owner
Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Easy/Normal
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Spell Card 38
幻幽「ジャック・ザ・ルドビレ」
Illusion Phantom "Jack the Ludo Bile"[7][8] [9]
Owner
Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Hard/Lunatic
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Spell Card 39
幻世「ザ・ワールド」
Illusion World "The World"[10] [11]
Owner
Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Hard/Lunatic
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Spell Card 40
メイド秘技「殺人ドール」
Maid Secret Skill "Killing Doll" [4] [6] [12]
Owner
Sakuya Izayoi
Stage 5 — Hard/Lunatic

Notes

  1. 幻在 (genzai): a pun on 現在 (genzai, "present world"). The usual 現 (gen) kanji is replaced with an identically pronounced kanji (幻) that means "illusion".
  2. 幻象 (genshou): a pun on 現象 (genshou, "phenomenon"). The usual 現 (gen) kanji is replaced with an identically-pronounced kanji (幻) that means "illusion".
  3. Moondials are time pieces that use the full moon to tell the time. They are often used to conduct an ancient practice called lunar gardening, which uses the phases of the moon to tell when the best time to plant seeds is. "Sakuya" means "flowering night" and "Izayoi" means "sixteenth night" (the night after the full moon). Additionally, Sakuya's two themes are called "Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial" and "Flowering Night". "Luna" could also be short for lunatic (a later card references the plant "ludo bile" which means "mad herb").
  4. 4.0 4.1 A reference to the 1996 Japanese murder mystery novel Everything Becomes F: The Perfect Insider. A character named Shiki proclaims "殺人を行ったのは私。けれど私はられるだけの人形でした。(I was the killer. But I was nothing but a doll being manipulated.)" Shiki has multiple personalities including that of a doll and maid. In the story, Shiki is imprisoned on a high tech island as, 15 years prior, she murdered her parents with a knife. Shiki is a computer genius and, before the events of the story, helped to create the island facility's OS, Red Magic (赤い魔法). During the story the OS shuts down, leaving the facility in chaos, and a murder mystery (beginning with Shiki's "death") ensues as person after person gets killed. It's eventually revealed that Shiki herself was the perpetrator and that she planned for the OS to "malfunction" years in advance. Interestingly, Remilia has a spell card named "Red Magic" (レッドマジック) and Sakuya's full in-game portrait displays the words "Red Magic" on her sleeve.
  5. Worth noting is that Everything Becomes F is extremely similar to the murder mystery novel And Then There Were None which is referenced by Flandre's spell cards and the story of Dolls in Pseudo Paradise.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Also of note is that similar PC-98 character Yumeko's music theme is called "Doll's Story ~ Doll of Misery".
  7. 幻幽 (genyuu): homophone of 現有 (genyuu, "currently").
  8. "Ludo bile" is Bulgarian slang for the extremely toxic belladonna plant. "Ludo bile" means "mad herb". Belladonna means "beautiful lady".
  9. "Jack" refers to Jack the Ripper, an infamous serial killer who targeted prostitutes in London during the late 19th century. Their weapon of choice was a knife and their identity remains a heavily debated topic to this day. Jack the Ripper also makes an appearance in part one of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (another of Sakuya's cards references DIO's stand, The World) and is made reference to in the title of the third sequel to Everything Becomes F, Jack the Poetical Private (in later games Sakuya has spell cards named "Private Square" and "Private Vision"). Jack the Ripper also appears as a vampire-slaying villain wielding silver knives in the novel Anno Dracula (ドラキュラ紀元 in Japanese). Akyuu claims that the reason Sakuya wields silver knives is because was a former vampire hunter. There are theories that Jack the Ripper may have been female. Given that and combining both ludo bile and belladonna, the spell card may mean something like "Jack the Lunatic Beautiful Lady".
  10. 幻世 (gense): a pun on 現世 (gense, "real world").
  11. "The World" is the name of DIO's stand in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The World has the ability to stop time.
  12. May also be a reference to the mystery novel The Killing Doll (殺す人形 in Japanese).
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