Gou the frog

I was just a tad bit curious about everyone taste in Touhou. That's all. No, of course not, there's nothing fishy here, nor trying to note down info of all things. Sincere smile from Gou. :>

I was right after all, thank you for clarifying it further.

It count as fan service for the old ones. I think if Zun make Mima returned to the mine series, that'll be the biggest fanservice in the history of Touhou. I think that she once appeared in an official manga? (Memories are a bit foggy). It's a win-win for both Zun and the community. Considering she is the one character that haven't showed up the games yet from the Pc-98 era. The old fans will appreciate it and I Gou too shall since she is one of my first character that I've seen after joining Touhou.

Oh well, It seems like there are a lot of things that I still do not know about Touhou.

The class is done. Here are the photo that I promised you: Tsundere Plane wearing Yukari Hat (Not coloured) Frisk seen as the PS4 exclusive "dog shrine". It looks like the Hakurei Shrine.

Following that Doesn't this remind you of Benben's Music Sign "Double Score" from DDC? Not sure about this one but looks like something Marisa would use? In the Ps4 version, there's a dog shrine which resembles the Hakurei Shrine. Small thing I noticed is that Aserial will call out the name of the attack like "Aserial is readying Chaos Buster" something along the lines of that. Like the Spell Card system we have in Touhou. She is the only character that does that in the game. Papyrus is a resemblance of the ice fairy: lives in the snow biome, not too smart and fan favourite. Asgore spear looks like Remilia's red arrow thing. (no offense) The Tsundere Plane wears a very recognizable hat of a Gensokyo sage. Yakumo Yukari. (Apologies for no photos, I'm running out of time, I've got to attend a class) That's all I can think off. Pardon me, if I get anything wrong. I haven't study Undertale in a long time. Well sometimes, Touhou too.

We can't forget the fact that Toby Fox is a fan of Touhou, meaning Undertale will be filled with Touhou reference! I've researched about it for a while. Starting of with Music: I've caught on a few numbers of music while watching playthroughs of Undertale. Megalovania: Sans's Theme awfully sounds a lot like Mima's Theme: Complete Darkness from Touhou 2. Flowery Theme: Your Best Nightmare's 2:56 to 3:00 is similar to Koshi's Theme: Hartmann's Youkai Girl from Touhou 11 While 3:13 to 3:17 is the start of bad apple from Touhou 4: stage 3 theme. I'm definitely sure that Undyne The Undying Theme contains Zunpets. Undertale Ost: 098 - Battle Against a True Hero - YouTube , Starting from 1:55 I'm truly sure that 80% of Aserial attacks are Marisa inspired. The Stars, the lasers, the double spark. Asriel Dreemurr - All Attacks - YouTube , reference for attacks. That seems like Magic Space "Asteroid Belt" From IN. Light Blast "Shoot the moon" also from IN Looks like a "Master Spark" inspired attack to me. Ok, this one seems familiar, that's because I died to Utosho a lot: "Subterranean Sun".

I want to give it a try but I can't seem to go to your game page.

I'm not sure if I want to see the proof but sounds somewhat interesting? I'll brace for the worst.

One thing is certain, his live saving are all in fumo Reimu's pocket.

Oh, I'm a bit late to the party. Most of the discussion is almost done. My take, Gatekeeping? Yeah, it's not going to work on any community. As all of you stated above letting people enjoy what they want, assuming It's not dangerous or bringing harm to other people. I've met him a couple of time in the past few months, Haven't seen him either, wonder what's he preparing? Perhaps a nuclear fusion. Who knows? I've confronted him a few times but it seems my efforts were in vain. He's most likely a troll even stated in his description. Probably wants to light a fuse in the fandom while holding a popcorn on his hand with a troll face on. My experience with bullet hell isn't the smoothest either. Does that mean I'm not a "true" Touhou fan? Of course not, everyone has a different thing to like about Touhou, be it character, music, lore, or fanworks and even shoot 'em ups. The topic about fumos and poster of fumo are already covered, but in my opinion, they can show off the fumos and make videos about them. After all, some people enjoy this kind of stuff. Doesn't have to "gatekeep" them either. As TheM3ds stated: There're rare times when gatekeeping is necessary. In this situation however, the "fans" likes to gatekeep to satisfy their own needs. Reddit and Twitter or sometime Youtube have the most obscure thing posted about everything including Touhou. As, they often are a good material to discuss about. (There might be more train wreaks coming soon steadily) With that said, There're bad apples (No Pun Intended) in every community, even if we give 'em hate. They're not going away anytime soon. Waiting once in a while is a very good solution. (paying them no mind could also work)

Allow me to go of, Unfunny jokes and Gatekeeping First of all, people might go a bit overboard with the characters in this case, Meiling and Kaguya. I don't really mind if you make the jokes with your friend or with the people on the internet albeit unfunny and annoying. Things start to go downhill once they shoved the joke down through you throat. There's a certain individual in the Touhou fandom that likes to gatekeep content; ruining the fun and characters. His sole purpose is to annoy people and be a obnoxious troll. I'm not really fond of the ( )guy. He just want reactions, there seems to be a few species that like this kind of content. Fan works that brings out the youkai aspect too much There's a fan work that brings out the maximum overdrive level; "Koshi Koshi Heart Throbbing Adventure" mainly know as KKHTA. I don't recommended you reading that if you don't want to get your favorite character to be brutally K.O. (It's even more brutal than Mortal Kombat) A selective amount of people try to milk the trend and makes the people from outside of Touhou to be uncomfortable. Heck, there're people on the youtube section, going off with a "joke" to watch this, giving off uncomfortable vibe for the newcomers and for the curious people. Regarding KKHTA, there's also a japanese fan work similar to this. (I don't really remember, thank god) The more tamer version "Osana Reimu" also hated, since the people assume that the story was emotional. Thus, making fan cry. But as we all know, anything popular gets milk to death and overused. So, the people start to hate the fan work. There's another one that's called "SuikaKasen" which I don't know about. NSFW Dojinshi and Mommy memes and Fumos Exactly like Isaac said, they bring bad reputation to the fandom. There is a channel called "XE3G weeb" who milk every single trend that comes to the fandom. "TouHouWiafu1" is also one of them but dedicated to "Mommy memes". I can't stand these fellas, they are the bad apples of the community. (Pun intended). About the fumos, they are overpriced and sometime come us bootlegs. Not to mention most of them are only exclusive in Japan. It's just dolls with Touhou character on it. The circles once again begin to rotate: those who have the fumo will make fun of those who don't have it and those who make it theirselves spreading wild fire. Elitists? I'm not sure about this one but there's seems to be some people affected by it: the trigger word being "EEEH? Easy Mode?, How Lame! Only Kids Play In Easy Mode" a popular one to set flames to the people outside and inside. This catchphrase is from IOSYS "Overdrive". In summary, there're good things and bad things as well in the fandom like Yin & Yang. People tend to focus more on the bad things resulting the fandom to riddled with hate once in a while. Don't forget that there're people who likes to focus on the good things translating to new fans of Touhou.

I might sound a bit based since I'm a Yuugi enjoyer & a Meiling enthusiast but I've love to see more of them, considering the duo were pretty good. I wondered if they switch the roles to make Parsee the "straight man" and made Yuugi more drunk than usual, the manzai would come out pretty interesting. That one right there is my favorite skit of all time. The classic one give off the nostalgic vibe with "CHEEEEEEEEN", the 6th M-1 comes unexpected, Chen drops bars that even Yukari can't recover the burns. "2nd Touhou M-1 Grand Prix - "Yakumo Chen" Touhou Q&A About Anything" was the funniest one out of all. They answered the Q&A from the manual book. (It was most likely written by Yukari) Memorable lines for me were: Ran: "you're cute so, I'll forgive you Chen." ============================== Chen: "Is Lady Mima in Hyogo?" Ran: "Yes. Bellco has a branch there, right?" "She works at their funeral home." ============================== Ran: "Yes, that would be me, Ran Yakumo." Chen: "Ah, you were asked "Who is the strongest beast in Gensokyo?" right?" Ran: "No, no. "Who has the biggest bust in Gensokyo?" Chen: "Lady Ran?" Ran: "No mistake. I've calculated it carefully." =============================== There're more that I like but I'm about to attend a class. So, there's not much time left. The Questions were ridiculous and the answers are even more bizarre. The non-stop questions part was so intense and the questions begins to repeat resulting an even more diverting situation. The ending sequence is one of the smoothest I've seen in a while.

My turn, good sir! In my country (Myanmar): there aren't many "anime fan" overall. Most of my people taste in content is a bit "thought-provoking" if I have to say so. Foreign culture usually comes in a very long delay in my country like yours. (Bouns points if it's from the west: we haven't had anything from the west for 4 years.) For the cartoons, I grew up with Nickelodeon, Cartoon Networks & Getix and some Disney Cartoon but they are not fully subbed most of time. Thus, 8 year old me didn't understand anything at all. Anime Broad Casting wasn't in my town, until 2010 in Myanmar television. Truly, the people at my town won't know anything, if you reference a cartoon or jokes from a western series. (I really want them to know Tom & Jerry, Spongbob, all the good stuff.) I might have to wait seven full blue moons to find a friend that can finally get what I'm talking about. Like Yin & Yang, if there's good, there's must also be the bad. I'm a bit jealous that there's a dedicated Discord Sever in your country. While most of my people don't even now what discord is and swifts to Facebook like there's a light shining around it.

Oh, I presume touhou enjoyers have the same thought process every once in a while. About Mamizou, she appears in the canon work 80% of the time but in fanon, it's very rare to see her in the wild. I thought it's somewhat related to fanservice one way or another at least in Zun's view. (Wait doesn't this belong to another discussion)

You sir have a very good friend. I wondered to this day by myself if I could drag my best friend to Touhou before he transferred school and moving on. He was very passionate about Shoot 'em up too. If I can meet him one day, I'd definitely tell him all about Touhou. Well, if you consider this active forum as your friends. I'm sure you'll enjoy it here. if not, I'll make it feel like a friday night.

I don't know how to put it in words but I'll try my best to be precise. There's a lot more fanservice to than just your "typical exposure". I wondered if the purpose of fanservice is that it's supposed to pander to the fans. For example a character that the fans love in this case, "Cirno". She was in Hisoutensoku, Great Fairy War and Hidden Star in Four Seasons and in Perfect memento In Strict Sense albeit she was hardly important in Gensokyo settings. Thus, making her the fanservice character of 9 ball jokes.

Especially, if the rules contains more words than the Bible, you know something's uncannily wrong.

I've got it now! it's "5th Touhou M-1 Grand Prix Extra - Flan's Comedy Training School" That one sits on my favorite playlist. The punchline was so good, even after I revisited it a fourth time. You mean the 1 hour ones right? Then, I faintly remember watching the 10th or 11th, the one with "Winged Beast Instrument" on Youtube though, I can't seem to find it at the moment.

That is very well the reason I haven't used reddit to post anything at all. It's like Walmart version of youtube with extra BS. Most of the individuals there aren't civilized compared to here. Yeah, I do think it's inevitable. Prices are too high for a single doll and there're regional difference in currency. Mine is poor so, even able to afford a steam sale is a blessing to me. Regarding of Cafe De Touhou, I'm surprised to how many time it got taken down and got reuploaded. Dear good sir, there're two answers to your question: the short one & the long one. The short one is, Objection! The long one is, your honor I was once in your state for as long as I can remember. Coping with a bunch of pixels in itself has no shame whatsoever. Every one has a different coping method. I'm with TheM3ds on this topic. Truly, you aren't a loser in my eyes good sir. If the sun was cold, I say you would be in the "stereotypical anime fan" thing. Damm, those people whom have the nerve to tell you that liking a specific content related to "Japanese" stuff makes you a "weeb" have the same IQ as a donkey. In every case, the donkey is smarter then them. Don't really pay them any mind as they're basically saying "you are normal? & likes to do what you enjoys. Then, you're definitely a loser who likes to do what you enjoys." Seriously, I've had those so called "friends" of mine telling the same exact thing to me 4 years ago. I'm glad that I cut ties with those ungrateful "friends" of mine. Which means in reality I've no friends in middle school and had a fake girlfriend. My point is the same as TheM3ds but with one thing added on top. I'm truly sure you have it which is balance. I've seen many people go down-hill because they were focusing on one thing and one thing only. Being obsessed with it. Like the yin & yang (I really like that word) you should have balance: having fun in life, enjoying something and having no regrets. If this help you even by a little, I'm truly glad. After all, brothers looks after each other's backs.

Good Lord, she look overwhelming in a good way. I really like this version of her.

Oh Von, I've a got surprise for you but I can't remember the name of the manzai. It was with Crino, and Flan. Flan pulls out a radio. On the radio a man was saying "Look at me Bastard", "Punk", "I'm going to beat you" something along the lines of that. And Cirno imitates the "Bastard" & "Punk" part in japanese. Due to her voice being soft, she was saying faint "BaakaaYaadoooorr" "KooonooYaaadooorrr" . Her sounding like a chicken got me cracking. But the cherry on top was the whole time sakuya reminds them that "There're guests donwstairs so, don't make too much noise", but flan was "yeah, they will go away" and turns to Cirno saying we got a manzai to do. The thing that got me is that the guests misunderstood the whole thing in downstair as the radio was so loud. They thought someone was saying "bastard" and "punk" to them. That whole thing was genius no matter how you look at it. Thus, It became my top 3 favorite manzai.

I'm back. Totally agree with you Von. This filled me with smiles & laughter for a very long time. I see our tastes aren't much not different at all! The first time I watched that, I was wondering when will Iku lose her cool and Tenshi being Tenshi annoys the heck out of her. Tenshi reaction after receiving the punch was priceless. The gags are so good here. I love the moment where Hina & Nitori changed roles in the shop skit. Nitori was teaching Hina the tactics of a well rounded business man woman: taking advantage of a un-aware costumers. When Hina tried the tactics against her she got a classic "Boot ball to head" making her spin. The execution was so good that I fell out of my chair spinning myslef to the ground. Off topic: "Boot to the Head" MMD versions make me like Yuuka smiling so hard. Yes, that was so spectacular that it's one of my favorites. The whole point of Eiki wanting to get a tattoo was so interesting so, I kept watching & she got a 7 eleven tattoo. That's when my mother heard unknown sounds of a high-pitch chicken squawks. Eiki at one point got the most style points out of the 11th manzai. She looks so cool with the golden dress, as for the following moments with Komachi being a straight "man" it blew me out of the water, I was putting my bets on the Yama herself. Then my father heard a mysterious noises of a old man faint laughs. I've to refresh my memory so, I'll go visit the Manzais again. Until then, stay put and tune in for more in the following day.

Ah..... some free time Oh, oh god, damm, after reading a bit of it. I'm filled with tears. Tears of happiness.

I'll look into it after finishing my math lectures. (25 left)