Overview on Story Mode speedruns

You can skip certain phases in each fight. Here's how it works:
-If an opponents popularity drops below a certain value (this value varies per stage), she will initiate her final spellcard after the end of the current phase.
-An opponents popularity is lowered every time a phase ends, and the amount lowered is based on the HP you had when you finished the phase.
-Things like your own popularity or the timer don't seem to affect the opponent's popularity (However I have a theory the timer affects your own popularity). I also don't think the CPU ever loses popularity by normal means (such as blocking too much) but I could be wrong.
-The "damage rating" that shows up when a phase ends is probably related to this mechanic. It's usually a rank of 3 stars if you don't get hit, and 2 stars if you do (and 1 star if you get destroyed).
 
Example: Futo in Mamizou's story has a spellcard where she summons some plates and throws them at you, and another spellcard with the boat. If I beat the initial fight phase without taking damage then her popularity will become negative and she will start doing the boat spellcard. If I get hit by a jab or a plate or whatever then her popularity will not be low enough and she will do the spellcard with the plates first, and that loses a bunch of time.
 
The phases you can potentially skip in any story (in other words what would happen if you take 0 damage through the whole run) are:
-First fight - Nothing
-Second fight - First spellcard (can't take any damage)
-Third fight - First spellcard (can't take any damage)
-Fourth fight - Second fight phase (can take a little damage)
-Mamizou in disguise fights - Nothing
-Second to last fight - Second spellcard and third fight (can take no damage for the entire fight to skip the spellcard, but skipping the fight is easy)
-Kokoro - Third spellcard and third and fourth fights (can take no damage for the entire fight to skip the third fight, can take some damage to skip the third spellcard, and you have to get destroyed really hard to not skip the fourth fight)

You can of course take damage once you reach the final spellcard and on the fights where you can't skip anything at all.

This should apply to all stories except Kokoro. Mamizou does not fight Mamizou in disguise. Kokoro fights a real person instead of Mamizou in disguise, and her final battle is against Reimu, and I have not tested how much you can skip in those two fights.

The fastest story in the game should be Mamizou because she's the only one with 6 stages. Kokoro being the final boss has 7 stages. The other characters have 7 stages too, but one of them is a really short stage where they fight Mamizou in disguise. Mamizou obviously doesn't fight Mamizou and she isn't a final boss so I guess they just decided to give her 6 stages.

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Touhou Shinkirou ~ Hopeless Masquerade

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Marisa Kirisame

Ichirin Kumoi

Byakuren Hijiri

Mononobe no Futo

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Koishi Komeiji

Mamizou Futatsuiwa

Hata no Kokoro

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