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![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MeyyK.png)

There is an unusual scene in the [opening of "The Memories of
Phantasm"](https://youtu.be/Ap5910bTGLA?t=2m20s), in which we see Kirisame
Marisa with some kind of measurement or detection device on her back. Does it
have a reference in any Touhou anime, manga or novel?


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What is Marisa doing underground with a device on her back?


It is probably referencing to a Touhou game which will be later adapted into
an anime in the series.

A lot of the openings for "Memories of Phantasm" incorporate scenes from later
episodes. For example, the opening of the first episode has scenes which later
appeared in the next 3 episodes.

This scene:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VxAvG.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VxAvG.png)

Was in episode 2.

In the 5 openings so far there's lots of sneak previews of what appears to be
references to other Touhou games: for example, [Subterranean
Animism](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Subterranean_Animism) and [Imperishable
Night](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Imperishable_Night).

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JYxue.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JYxue.png)

The scene with Marisa with a measurement devise on her back is almost
certainly another reference Subterranean Animism to as the three characters
shown - Nitori, Patchouli and Alice - are [Marisa's partner's in the
game](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Subterranean_Animism/Gameplay#Character_Statistics).
It is also underground which is where Subterranean Animism is set.

Furthermore in the game, the protagonists are given a device that
[Yukari](http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yukari_Yakumo) made:

> But others got worried, and wanted them to go down into the Underworld, with
> a device Yukari Yakumo made so they could talk even underground.


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