maiji: Onsen Rena special attack animations (Star Ocean Anamnesis)

[image: Screenshot from Star Ocean Anamnesis of Onsen Rena - Rena in a kimono and haori with a little tub of hot spring accessories (rubber duck, towel, bottle of shampoo or soap) and adjusting a butterfly hair ornament in front of a snow-laden outdoor hotspring with large pink SO2 bunnies hanging out in the waters.]A little mystery I had a while back that I resolved last night to much laughing. There's an amazing deviantART account by user Mihna-Cohrvenn who's pulled a bunch of models from Star Ocean Anamnesis. (I referenced the Claude model when drawing Shikifuku/Ceremonial Claude!) I was rather confused when going through them because there are several "onsen" models, including Dias and Claude, where they're just literally wearing a towel (I mentioned it in this post where I was like "I assume these are not battle models, that would be awkward lol"). Anyways, I finally actually read the description last night and learned these appear in Onsen Rena's Rush Mode attack, so I thought, hmm, interesting. I will look this up!(For the following, bear in mind I've everything I know about Anamnesis is through random searching and watching videos, and my Japanese is meh to ehhh especially when I can't see the text/any kanji.)Onsen Rena (泉郷レナ Senkyou Rena "[Hot] Spring Village Rena") is a cute Rena in a kimono and haori who attacks with a giant rifle because why not? From what I can tell, there seem to be two variations of the Rush Mode attack: a ladies one with Opera, Celine and Chisato, and a men's one with Claude and Dias. The idea is the same in both - Onsen Rena detects a creeper peeping on the onsen and she must protect the modesty of her friends!! The view of the people in the onsen is literally a split-second flythrough shot and then a split-second very cramped and partially obscured shot because of the game UI. To see all the little details, you really need to catch a recording and then slow the playback and increase the video quality as much as you can. You can see both of them here, one after the other. This video is a compilation of a bunch of different Rena rush combos, I've just linked directly to where the Onsen Rena one is. Claude and Dias version first, then the ladies version. (I'm gonna describe them in reverse order because it's funnier to me that way.)In the Opera, Celine, Chisato version: [READ-MORE] Rena says "あれ？みんなどこかな？" ("Are? Minna, doko kana?" roughly: "Eh? Where is everyone?") Then she detects something glinting in the distance (like a pair of eyes) through a window gap in the bamboo or wood or whatever forming the structure of the onsen walls and is like ! high alert!  She spins around, presses her hand to her chest in a "my word!" kind of gesture, then pulls out a hugeass rifle, exclaims "なにしてんのかそこで？！" ("Nanishitenokasokode?!" - "What are you/is this [creeper] doing?!"), aims and and fires decisively. The bullet shoots past Opera relaxing in the onsen, a hand to her chin. She's facing the right and looking in Rena's direction. Her leg is in the air, almost playfully, and she's lowering it just as the bullet flies by. She seems surprised. Then it flies past Celine, who is looking over her shoulder towards Opera and also looking in the direction of the bullet, with one hand near her shoulder pointing towards it. Then past Chisato, facing the right, with one arm outstretched. The bullet reaches the window. A bunch of stuff explodes, and the creeper (the enemy you've been fighting) is knocked out into the air. Then all three ladies can be seen standing, back to the viewer and facing the creeper. Chisato and Celine pull out giant mallets from (I guess) somewhere out of the water, presumably to wallop the creeper, while we see Rena standing with her hand out behind them, still holding the rifle in her lowered arm.  Then the screen goes white and there's a bunch of damage totals. [Screenshot of the three ladies facing away from the viewer at the enemy. Chisato and Celine are holding giant mallets and Opera seems to be holding something the viewer can't see. Could be a gun.][/READ-MORE]In the Claude and Dias version: [READ-MORE] Rena says, "心までポカポカ~" ("Kokoro made poka poka~!", literally something like "From my heart, such a warm feeling!" The sentiment is like "Ahhh~ so relaxing!" like she just got out of the hot onsen.) Setup of Rena sniping the creeper is the same, only this time, Rena shouts "あ、おいしいごはんが !!" ("A, oishii gohan ga!" Which is literally "Oh, delicious food!!", but in this context, lol) The bullet flies past Claude chillaxing in the onsen, one foot propped up against something since you can see his knee sticking out of the water. Then past Dias who's standing in the onsen in the midst of tying his hair up, when he turns slightly towards Claude just in time to see the bullet sailing by. Once again, bullet hits the window, stuff explodes, creeper blown up. Then you see what appears to be Claude facing the viewer/Rena's direction and trying to cover himself. Behind him, Dias, who has been tracking the trajectory of the bullet and the resulting explosion with his line of sight and now has his back to the viewer, pauses in a "what the??" kind of reaction. Then he unfreezes, reaches down and pulls out a sword from, again, apparently somewhere in the water.  Claude dives into the water with a splash and you can see just a little bit of his hair/top of his head still visible above water. (Because the splash effect actually starts a little before Claude goes down, I guess from Dias drawing out the sword, the first few times I watched it I thought Dias backhanded him into the water lmao. Also Claude seriously does not even turn to look at the explosion behind him hahaha.) Same ending with Rena. [Screenshot of Claude facing the viewer/Rena and trying to cover himself, and Dias behind him with his arms up in mid hair adjustment and staring away from the viewer at the explosion.][/READ-MORE]The ladies one I pretty much got on the first watch-through, and the second slowed-down review was mostly "let me confirm what they're holding up at the end". The Claude and Dias one I had to watch several times even at the slowest speed and highest video quality, because I was like, "?? Is that really what they're doing?? LOL doublecheck". The lines Rena says seem random, because I found this other clip of the ladies version but with the pokapoka and oishiigohan line.Anyways, made my day. Thanks to the hard work of the team who conceptualized and put this together, to people who post their gameplay recordings, and orange for doublechecking my listening attempts. (I literally could not parse anything Rena was saying in the oishiigohan line and I never would have guessed in a million years that's what she's saying, so it's all thanks to orange for processing it, haha.) Don't spy on Rena's friends in the onsen!!