Fraston

This is one of those songs that is weirdly triumphant for its application, at least between 1:20 and 2:14 (which just so happens to be my favorite part), since you are fighting the person that caused this whole cloudy with a guaranteed chance of red hazy mist problem

This is one of the first 5 songs I heard from Touhou, and boy does it hold up. If not anywhere else, then 2:36 onwards until the song loops is the key part. The urgency this part creates is almost comical: 

-dramatic echoey pause

-raise the BPM up to at least 10% higher

-lead with fast bass which is also present in the music track immediately before this one

-ROMANTIC TP TRUMPETS OMYGOD

-ridiculous piano arpeggiated glissando, which for extra awesome extends the one heard before the buildup

-new melody

-repeat

-after 2nd loop, raise the key of the melody and let the piano insanity climb even higher on the keyboard

-loop

-song continues

 It just conveys that hot topic and/or piece of garbage are liquided at you, perhaps even more so with piece of garbage than in her initial encounter. (hold up why are the attacks named “simple danmaku for cornering a trapped rat” and “danmaku for killing with certainty via nightmares”) Also, hot topic throws 3 copies of moon at you. No biggie.

Mm yes, more glorious piano. A lot more laid-back than the previous 2 themes. This goes without saying once you know this fight occurs way earlier in this game than the previous two do in their respective games. Also fast background arpeggiated glissando (0:52). I’m a sucker, I know.