The forest where the shrine is located is on the Youkai Trail between the Human Village and the Forest of Magic. It's a new forest that had been forgotten by most people.
Ohhh!!! So cool!!! I really like the idea. Though, you have put a name to this forest yet? Or is that forgotten that nobody knows how to refer its existence? (If that makes sense)
The casualties that wind up dead are usually malicious youkai or monks that arrogantly try to "purify" the area.
Hmm, interesting. You could try to share more details about this new area that you have made? Like the sort of youkais that you can find or if there's more than just the Kitsune Shrine (btw you have put a name to the shrine too?)
Sorry if these are too many questions but it seems interesting to me
that's more likely to cause a cat fight than an incident.
Yeah, I can imagine her fighting over a piece of meat with Chen, LOL
I wouldn't dream of having ZUN make any drastic change to what he's already written.
This is more of a personal preference.
I mean, I think Touhou is, at least, decent enough. It haves enough quality, quality that is hard to find sometimes in fan creations that aren't fangames...
The issue though, again, to me is that ZUN and its formula doesn't let him do much radical changes that could potentially change everything about the situation in the series and characters. For example, Sakuya who did seem that at first would have a very important connection with the moon and the lunarians but that at the end was canceled just because the implications of so could change a lot the relationships between some characters and, who knows? If Sakuya WAS Sakuyahime itself, then it could potentially change some settings if, you know, she tried to do something to Gensokyo.
That said, other example are characters in Touhou not dying. Like, I don't need to explain why is odd that a character isn't killed at the end, even when some of these have VERY valid reason as to why to be killed like, idk, Junko for attempting mass genocide, or Mizuchi for trying again to go against Gensokyo status.
As a historian who loves historical fantasy, I just wish there was more meat to the writing,
if that makes sense.
I personally think that Touhou haves LOTs of meat to cook with (like Sakuya theories, The ministry of right and wrong, Makai (and PC-98 in general), the city of gods, etc).
But again, some of these aren't touched because they could change a lot the formula of Touhou... or just ZUN weird shenanigans.
As you've said, the locations are given more attention than the characters ever will.
Eh, sorta.
In general, both the fandom and ZUN, focuses more in the characters themselves and not too much in New areas or the exploration of these at deep.
What I do mean is that locations are better done and written by ZUN than his characters, which they aren't always as consistent or at the same level of quality than the locations and world building of Touhou itself.
I think it's partially because I haven't found all of the details yet, but I think Gensokyo seems mostly empty as a world.
Everything I know about the locations in Touhou are from the Wiki, which only gives a brief explanation.
I'm surprised for you to believe that Gensokyo is very empty because is a bit bigger than expected for a "little world" like this.
And the wiki only gives brief explanations because not a lot of them are explored and ZUN focuses more in specifically some like the Forest of Magic, the Forest of Bamboo or The Scarlet Devil Mansion.
But overall, in terms of quality, I dare to say that they are better done than characters which is both funny and astonishing at the same time!
