Spring Festival of Swords Event Gallery

A spring festival right at the start of the season makes sense, and even the rabbit costumes to an extent, but...swordplay as well? This event Yuyuko Saigyouji organized seems to be over the top, and the characters from many areas of Gensokyo that show up only seem to prove that absurdity. This is probably one of, if not, the most out-there events currently in LostWord Global, and you can bet that the common charms of every LostWord event is there to back it up!

During events, every opponent faced in a battle stage, either generic or a specific Friend, has a unique title depending on the difficulty they are fought on. Usually, higher difficulties have them in quotations to speak their thoughts or in parentheses to hide their inner ones. Tables of all of these special, event-only titles will be provided below, organized chronlogically based on when the stages were unlocked in-game. Additionally, a small plot synopsis is included for each story section to provide context for why each battle is fought in the first place and explaining the reasoning behind some names.

Along with that, there is a good amount of content (outside of the story itself) that is unique to the event itself, including Music CDs, Event Points themselves, and menu dialogue. The menu dialouge is spread out throughout each major section, while the other unique snippets of dialogue will be featured at the end, along with a small reflection on who had the best naming this event.

Summary: Yuyuko Saigyouji comes upon a huge mysterious egg and ponders over how to get it to open, even trying to sit on it to let it hatch. After "borrowing" some resources from Kourindou thanks to Rinnosuke Morichika, she decides to hold a great dancing sword festival to motivate the egg to hatch. Along with Youmu Konpaku, three other girls join with their own motives for seeing the egg hatch: Sakuya Izayoi wants to bring whatever hatches to her mistress, Tenshi Hinanawi wants to eat the contents with Shion Yorigami, and Watatsuki no Yorihime is...here to just be a participating judge?

As usual, Marisa Kirisame tries to steal the egg right upon running into it, to which the cast seems to rather nonchalantly react to. Afterwards, they practice their sword dances throughout the night in preparation for tomorrow's festival, with musical accompaniment from the Prismriver Ensemble.

Phantoms: Ghostly entities that take residence in the Netherworld. They are the primary members of the audience for the sword festival, and seem to participate in most of the festival's events...

Summary: The first major chunk of the spring festival begins! Many familiar faces are shown, from Reimu Hakurei, who seems to be trying to make a quick buck off the event to Rumia, who appears to just be having a good time like a child. The bunny-clad participants show off their moves (while assaulting the Prismriver Ensemble for the fifth time this event), while Momiji Inubashiri challenges some of them alongside Chen. Yorihime gets to show off some of her techniques as well, perfectly slicing an apple off of Aya Shameimaru's head.

Wolf Tengu: Tengu that usually patrol the Youkai Mountain to protect it from intruders. This time, they are taking a break in favor of cheering on their commander, Momoji!

Summary: The next segment of the festival is about to begin, but elsewhere in the Lunar Capital, we see Watatsuki no Toyohime fretting over the loss of...an egg? Meanwhile, the sword rabbits are slicing up cucumbers and kappa alike, although the kappa are just fine, as they used camoflauge to fake them getting slashed. After some ninja philosophy with Youmu, Reisen Udongein Inaba and Shou Toramaru start challenging the validity of swords over guns and lasers respectively, battling the swordswomen over which weapon is the best. 

With all of their hard work, the egg is starting to make sounds! Is it about to hatch?

Kappa: Engineers who live by the ravine at Youkai Mountain. Today they are here to help with the festival, using their technology to create some neat party tricks.

Summary: Before they can enjoy the hatch of their labor, chaos erupts in the festival plaza, as moon rabbits have begun making a mess in the festival grounds! After confronting them, they find out that Reisen's squad was looking for the same egg they were trying to hatch, as it turned out to be a piece of Lunarian technology built by Toyohime. Just as the inventor is about to get away with the egg, Yuyuko pulls out her secret, forbidden move: the 3-second rule. Toyohime doesn't truly understand this (and neither does anyone else), so they just do a battle of bullets for the machine.

After winning, Toyohime explains that the egg machine makes an infinite amount of egg dishes after the user performs exquisite dances, sounding very similar to the process the Netherworld just went through. As if on cue, endless egg dishes come out of the machine and the area is full of food! It might be a nightmare for those with egg allergies, but for Yuyuko? It's heaven.

Moon Rabbit Soldier/Officer: Rabbits from the Lunar Capital trained for combat. This time thier objective is dire: protect Gensokyo from the knowledge of Toyohime's second mechanical failure!

Summary: While eating all of the egg dishes was fun, now the crew has an unrealistic amount of eggshells to get rid of. Rinnosuke comes to the rescue once more, suggesting they recycle or repurpose the shells for something else, citing from a book he has (that, of course, gets stolen promptly after being shown off). With that, Yuyuko instructs her rabbits to make medicine for Eientei, which Yorihime gets some rowdy moon rabbits to help with, chalk for Keine Kamishirasawa's class, and some cosmetics for the face. Minor chaos ensues, as with any event's extra, but eventually all of the eggshells are handled.

Toyohime shows up after taking a short rest, asking if she could have the machine back. Naturally, desiring endless egg meals, Yuyuko refuses.

Normal Event P: Apparently, gather these strange point items will hatch the egg. Yuyuko made them while fantasizing about what might hatch.
Rare Event P: Hakurei's "bunggo" sweets now on sale at the sword festival. Buy one and see if they really taste as good as Ringo's dango.

4* Story Card: Sword Training?
5* Story Card: Resurrection Prayer
Music CDs: Night of Knights / Knight of Nights (Sakuya Izayoi), BORDER OF STRIKE! (Yuyuko Saigyouji), Unpaid Gardener (Youmu Konpaku), Metal-esque Catastrophe in Bhavaagra (Tenshi Hinanawi), God Slash (Watatsuki no Yorihime)

Each of the generic enemies have pretty creative titles this time around, but my personal favorite is definitely the Sun Phantom in Heavenly Ice Sword. At first, his identity is revealed to be a ninja in the previous life, thanks to his Normal title of Phantom Used to Be a Ninja. However, he uses this information in the later difficulties to disprove Youmu's own ninja title, claiming "She's a fake ninja!" and "Real ninja don't say NIN-NIN!" Youmu is just trying to enjoy her ninja side, and yet this phantom is being so cruel...maybe he deserves to lose this bullet battle.

As for the boss/Friend characters, I am going to cheat this time and elect the whole Prismriver Ensemble, as they get squished into 5 different event stages over 2 days! While some of their titles are rather generic on Normal and Hard, the game becomes self aware from Lunasa Prismriver's Let's Sword Dance Hard apperance: (I'm appearing a lot this time.) Lyrica Prismriver in Perfect Sword-Steps! begins to show fatigue on Hard as well: "Didn't we come here to perform?!" At the very least for them, they got to advertise their concert in the Lunatic difficulty of Let's Sword Dance.