Eastern Starlight Romance is a Romance Visual Novel based on Touhou Project, with Marisa Kirisame as the protagonist and Reimu Hakurei, Alice Margatroid, Patchouli Knowledge, and Flandre Scarlet as potential love interests.
Taking place just after the events of Subterranean Animism, news of her father's passing left Marisa with an epiphany: achieve immortality, while also grow her relationships, both platonic and potentially romantic, with those around her in the meantime.
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This fan-made Visual Novel provides the following Tropes:
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Downplayed for Kogasa's brief appearance during the Visual Novel's abridged events of UFO, depicting her with both red eyes, while in canon she has heterochromia eyes; blue and red.
- Applicability: In-Universe with Flandre in regards to Dracula. She accidentally calls Dracula's act of locking his guest in the castle as "locking them in the basement," inadvertently comparing herself and her situation with the story.
- Foreshadowing: Justified with Koishi, as she's a psychic that gives meta advice for the player, typically how to earn the affection of each love interest, though she also gives vague warnings of things to come.
- Hopeless Suitor: Nitori is the one character who makes her love for Marisa most apparent, but is always turned down by the end, as she already has four potential love interests. Not helping matters are her inventions of increasing ridiculousness in an attempt to earn Marisa's heart, with the inventions inevitably blowing up in her face.
- Immortality Seeker: The plot gets kicked off by Marisa being motivated to pursue immortality after the death of her father.
- Literal-Minded: As part of Nitori's six hundred and fifty seventh plan to have Marisa reciprocate her love, she takes the comparison of love as a fire a little too seriously by making a large paper fan with a mechanical arm to "fan the flames of the heart" by creating strong winds towards Marisa. Played With, in that she seems to know of the saying as a metaphor, but seems to have stuck with the literal interpretation anyways, as lampshaded by Beleaguered Assistant Momiji.Momiji: Didn't you yourself just say those were metaphorical flames, though?
- Love Chart: Koishi's relationship chart (V.2). After discussing Marisa's relationship with the four girls, Koishi presents the "easy to use" chart to help her out. Marisa's Inner Monologue notes how every significant resident in Gensokyo is listed, with the resulting chart being "an absolute mess of arrows and labels."
- Mayfly–December Romance: With Reimu being the token mortal individual, any romance Marisa may have with with her, should Marisa achieve her end goal, will inevitably result in her outliving the shrine maiden.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Invoked as an option to defuse a situation between Marisa and Alice, when meeting up after the events of Undefined Fantastic Object. Marisa is normally all too eager to get into a fight normally, so seeing her casually tear apart her own spell card upon being goaded into a Danmaku duel is enough to catch Alice off guard, making her listen to reason.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Upon Marisa's first visit to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, she ends up reading through a book labelled Illusionary Taxonomy, which featured one entry discussing this trope. Many species of vampire are considered undead, but the type found in Gensokyo (ie Remilia and Flandre) are of the living variety and are more akin to demons. This trope ends up becoming a problem for Flandre at some point, both for her less-than-stellar reaction to Dracula, and the mistaken belief that draining Marisa's blood will turn her into a vampire and thus grant her the immortality she's been seeking. According to Remilia after the incident, that would've resulted in Marisa experiencing a Death of Personality and effectively becoming Flandre's puppet.
- Shout-Out: The Gensokyo Five, a group dressed like superheroes (with the exception of one) whose name is a spoof on the Fantastic Four, each of them dressed in different cosplay:
- Tewi, the Familiar Rabbit Inaba, is dressed like Zorro.
- Suwako, the Poorly Disguised Goddess SuperFrog, is dressed like Superman.
- Yamame, the Youkai with a Familiar Mask Arachnid-Girl, is dressed like Comic Book/{{Spider Man.
- Chen, Disguised Catgirl Mew Orenji, dresses like one of the girls from Tokyo Mew Mew.
- Marisa, should she roll with the absurdity of the situation, dons a suit and goes by the title Agent Number 7. To further the reference, her character is introduced with the classic Bond Gun Barrel introduction (just with Yukari's gaps instead of the barrel of a gun and Marisa wielding her mini-hakkeri to the screen) with a soundalike BGM.
- Sticky Fingers: Marisa, natch, as you have the option to steal from various sources. Manifests as a stat that increases for every act that plays into her thievery nature.
- Unreadably Fast Text: Marisa calling Patchouli a Youkai results in the latter going on an extended rant on the terminology of the species, generally describing them as supernatural creatures that can take a human shape, all with the text scrolling fast and the text boxes transitioning before the player could even read them. Marisa getting picky with Patchi addressing herself as a 'Youkai Magician' results in another spiel in a similar manner.Marisa: [Inner Monologue] Suddenly, it became very believable that Patchouli had written that book after all.
- Your Vampires Suck: After Marisa reads the book Dracula to Flandre, she ends up having a negative reaction to his antagonistic actions in the story, to the point of throwing a destruction induced temper tantrum after getting no sleep. This was especially bad due to Remilla alleging that they're related to the vampire and playing him up as an honorable figure, resulting in a Broken Pedestal for Flan.
