[Touhou-style] Cutting Edges of Livid Steel ~ Scion of Kokuyo (PC-9801 Version)

激しい鋼の刃先　～ 国誉御曹司 [Hageshii Hagane no Hasaki ~ Kokuyo Onzōshi]
Cutting Edges of Livid Steel ~ Scion of Kokuyo

Art-for-music trade with YouTuber & DeviantArtist Scarlet Arcadia ( · which ultimately became one of her birthday gifts.

PMD98 (.M2) file download:

This is meant to be the theme of cutting doll maker 佐世保刃佐見 Hasami Sasebo, one of Arcadia’s various Touhou OCs from her DeviantArt account. I do not know whether she is a scissor tsukumogami or just a human who weaponizes scissors (just like Sakuya Izayoi is a human who weaponizes knives), so I refer you to her reference profile for more details:

As for the music itself: at least 40% of it is original composition by me; the other 60% is an attempted SiIvaGunner-ish rip of an arranged version of a Setsuo Yamamoto composition (try to guess the original source, based on the various visual and aural clues here!). As for why I call this the PC-9801 version: I first made a Microsoft GS MIDI version of it, which technically is the original version; what you are listening to is my PMD98/OPNA cover of it.

As for the four fakeshots shown here resembling a Mystic Square-style Touhou PC-98 fangame:
♦ yoki ( · the top mimacrip from the Touhou Rehab Discord server, designed the background tileset, from which I built the stage background evocative of a “factory located in hell”. This is their first attempt at designing a functional PC-98 tileset, which I call a good milestone in their rising pixel-art career.
♦ Toast ( from Toast Arts, designed the field sprite of Hasami.
♦ Tom ( from LunarCast Network, designed the field sprite of 冴月麟 Rin Satsuki (the “deleted” third playable character from Team Shanghai Alice’s 東方紅魔郷　～ Embodiment of Scarlet Devil), who is here confronting Hasami. He also made the custom gaiji font used in these fakeshots’ instrumentation panel (or HUD), specifically the English labels for Total, Points, Graze, and Dream.
♦ Zome ( · designed the portrait of Hasami.
♦ Terraformer9x ( · from Analogue Reverie, designed the portrait of Rin (originally meant for a danmakufu script of his own).

Tools used:
KAJA’s MC.EXE (MS-DOS/98, PMD98 v.4.8P)
C60’s FMPMD2000 v.0.31 (PMDWin.dll v.0.36)
Aseprite 1.2.12
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) 2.10
CyberLink PowerDirector 15 (64-bit)

SilSinn9801 on Nico Nico:
Silent Sinner in Scarlet on Twitter:

Touhou Koumakyou, Rin Satsuki © 2002 Team Shanghai Alice
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