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That is... confusing. Can you at least get on to itch.io?

Wheelchair Okina is canon.

Hey all! If anyone here remembers the post I made some weeks back about an upcoming game jam, here's the result of that! This game is a submission for Touhou Fan Game Jam 8. The jam duration was 72 hours, and the theme was dreams. Dream of Ar-card-ia ~ Dreaming of the Perfect Deck is a roguelike card game where Maribel must escape the dream world with Doremy's assistance! Throughout a run, you will also add more cards to your deck, including 11 possible dream versions of other Touhou characters! The game has 7 stages in total, many of which come with their own twist! Of course, big thanks to my team: @Needlemouse for the art and Cassare for the music. (I am the programmer.) Without these guys, the game wouldn't be nearly as cool as it is. You can find the jam submission page for our game here: https://itch.io/jam/touhou-jam-8/rate/1492068 (you'll be able to find links to try the other jam games, too!) And the general page for the game here: https://buskerdog.itch.io/dreamofarcardia Screenshots!:

Eyyy, fellow UK fan! As for my experience with Touhou fans in England, I don't know any people personally in my country who are Touhou fans, but occasionally at anime/JP-related events I've seen a Touhou cosplayer or 2. That doesn't happen often, though. There are also Touhou fans I've seen on the internet who are from UK, so there's that as well. I don't know if I'd say my country has a Touhou "community", but knowledge of the series at least seems to be out there. I actually happened to find a Touhou UK & Ireland fan server recently. Not much really happens there, but I guess the fact it at least exists means something.

I had never considered what languages Yukari could speak, but now you bring it up I'm sure Yukari must be all kinds of multilingual simply on the account of her humongous brain. She can do all kinds of absurd mathematics, beyond even what Ran can do, and she's already leagues smarter than most humans, so to Yukari languages must be child's play. Her being in-the-know about what happens in the outside world would make it likely too. I was also thinking about the SDM vampires. Since they are European yokai, speaking English is very much a possibility for them. But then again, they could be from any part of Europe, and back in ye-olde-mythology-days English was not as wide spoken as it is now. My personal headcannon is that they're French. Kosuzu can absolutely read English since her ability is to decipher any text, but I doubt she would care to learn other languages when she can be studying SPOOPY DEMON BOOKS. Rinnosuke... I feel like he's someone who thinks he can understand English but can't.

As others have said, I think the loose kimono works well for Yuugi. And besides, this is the person who can fight without spilling a single drop of sake form her dish, I really don't think this would be a problem for her. Also, context! Yuugi is at a hot spring wearing those clothes, and doesn't appear anywhere else with them. It makes sense for her to not be wearing much in that context. I'm not trying to argue that means it doesn't count as fanservice, though. Still, I don't even think Yuugi's kimono is even that "fanservice-ey to begin with, but it is closer to that than other official art I'm surprised no-one's talked about Byakuren's idle animation in fighting games yet...

I can't remember the source, but Meiling without trousers that's what they're called where I come from OK was confirmed by ZUN, rather recently I believe, to be how she actually appears originally is EoSD (you just can't see it because the portrait stops above the waist), this explains why she also appears like that in the manga, ZUN would have asked for her to be drawn like that. As for the fighting games, it's not unheard of for Tasofro to slightly change a character's design based on their own perceptions (something I mentioned previously about Patchouli). I can think of 3 possible reasons they chose give Meiling trousers in those games: -They may have simply not known, and just went with it because that's how they thought she should look (like what happened with Patchouli) -They could have done it due to the more acrobatic nature of the game, so that her decency is better covered (probably the first time a Japanese developer has ever done this lol) -Possibly they did it because they found it easier to animate.

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Imma just say that there are much worse problems you could have than worrying about whether or not you have a GF. Be grateful for what you have, don't hyperfixate on what you don't. EDIT: I just read this bit, dude that sucks I understand the feeling. I'm so glad most places in my country are no longer doing online learning.

@Shionne Imeris So... one song is called "Censored", and the other is called "Nameless". visible confusion but joking aside, I think this is the first time I've heard the vocalist "Ai Ohsera". I'd like to hear more of her, do you know any more songs by her? This is also kind of a double post, because I've got a new song to share as well! I have a feeling Drunken Flower in particular is going to appreciate this one.

It feels like ages since I've posted something here (or even made posts in general for that matter, although that isn't really the case so much). I plan to remedy that soon. Anyway here have some musics.

It's not too late to make this post, right? "Terrifying DK Rap doesn't exist, it can't hurt you" Terrifying DK Rap:

@CountVonNumenor dude don't feel so down, nothing wrong with being a Touhou fan even if you don't play all the mainline bullet hell games, or play them but aren't "good" at them. Not everyone's into them. That being said, the mainline games are pretty sick. Don't worry yourself so much, Nitorium has plans for the site going forward. On a another note, wow, I never expected this thread to get so many replies!

Those first few screenshots are especially good. I love the library.

Whatever comes of this DMCA, I just really hope the forum doesn't get shut down because of it. At first I thought it was just some troll but more and more it now seems to be ZUN's legal team. I have no idea what the future of this site will be without the downloads, no one will have a reason to come here anymore, but I don't want the whole site to get destroyed because it means a lot to me. I knew something like this would come eventually but I was not prepared for it right now. I've visited this site nearly every day for 3 years now. Things are awful in my personal life right now and knowing I could come back here and talk with other Touhou fans on the forum has been an important escape for me. That's not to mention how important Moriya has been for making Touhou accessible. Without it, my life literally wouldn't be the same right now. I hope this isn't the end for Moriya Shrine.

Respectfully, I disagree. But yes, there is a lot of low-quality Touhou shitpost content on Youtube. So to start, I would like to attempt to give what context I can to this situation. Why is there so much shitposting? I know there is a lot of shitpost content out there from the western Touhou community, but I don't watch it, and it generally only appears in my feed very rarely. But why? Well besides the fact that I ignore it, the reason I reckon it doesn't come to my attention so much is because my feed instead gives me the animation, music, etc. content that it's already been recommending me for years - you see, all this shitpost content is a relatively recent thing. Now please understand here, that I am not trying to play the "blame all the new fans" card - that being said, I do think this has something to do with an influx of new fans. The main reasons I think for this are Touhou Lost Word and the popularity explosion of fumos – it’s hard to say if either of these are directly responsible for beginning this shitposting train, and I’m not really involved enough in either of them to offer a lot of insight, but I do believe that fumos (and fumo memes) have spread to the point where some people’s first introduction to the series is through fumos – and I know there’s a lot of meme content surrounding fumos. Anyway, however these shitposts originated, it was then adopted by other people quickly for various reasons, whether it be a large number of new fans not knowing better, or people who just want to farm clicks/views. The topic of "is a big influx of new fans good?" is something that has cropped up on this forum before. And while yes, it can lead to annoying occurrences like these, most of us agree that it is fundamentally a good thing overall. What will happen next? The main point I wanted to make with that previous section is basically that there was a time not very long ago where all this shitposting wasn't here. And in the way that all trends come and go, I think that unless another event leading to a flood of new fans unexpectedly happens in a short time, these repetitive posts will die out relatively soon and better content will rise to the surface again. Western content may be dwarfed by the Japanese side of things, but I believe there is plenty to be happy about in the western Touhou community without having to lean on memes to be entertained. These are list of some things I know of the Western Touhou Community which I think show that we are, in fact, really awesome. I recommend checking these out. Cool Stuff Section

Hmmm, I'd definitely like to post my thoughts on this and make some recommendations to you, but I am once again reading this at an inconvenient time. I will come back later.

I wanted to reply to this topic sooner, but found myself busy. It's kind of crazy how Touhou just seeps into your life and then suddenly you realise how much of it there is, huh? My story for getting into the series actually happens to be near the start of the Musical Discoveries in Touhou Fandom thread of all places. There are certainly many lenses that Touhou can be viewed through, which when combined with mass fanon can unfortunately lead to character flanderizations (isn't it funny how Flandre herself seems to embody that word?) but I've always found myself able to not be bothered by them or even enjoy them at times, probably because I focused so much on the official content at first. I think for me, being able to have that distinct line between canon and fan-interpretations and being able to tell how much of a given interpretation leans into one side or the other has been really helpful for me to enjoy the series without getting confused. I practically adore canon Touhou, and I can enjoy a lot of fanon differences as well but if I see something that I don't like I just kinda go "eh, I don't think this is good" and then move on. Also I'd like to say that I think fanon and the freedom to deviate from the source is a good thing, as it allows individual creators to add their own flair and flavour to their doujin creations. As for how dark the Touhou universe is actually meant to be??? Well I'd say there's some spooky stuff in Touhou, and a small number of characters also have some dark things going on their backstory (Mokou is the main example I think of), but as a whole you can see in the games and the manga that it's not really meant to be considered a dark setting at all. But I do think the existence of those darker elements is really cool for adding a bit more depth to the world and story of an otherwise very upbeat and colourful series, I mean really I'd say it's like pretty much any typical fantasy universe in that it's meant to be enjoyable and not taken too seriously, but that doesn't mean more serious aspects don't exist at all. Eyyy Kaliningrad Alternate! I've seen his channel, he makes some fantastic animation. I know from the comments that he actually has a main channel about tanks n stuff, but of course I know him from the Touhou side.

Stack go doki doki waku waku. Stack go achi kochi. Stack go benbenbenbenben. I am compelled to join in.

How long does it even take to complete Touhou sorter now? Haha, I'm not someone who would redo it on a regular basis (and my results usually don't line up with who I actually consider my favourites anyway LOL). But fanon is fun to talk about and I'd definitely like to go into my views of some of my favourite characters. DISCLAIMER: A lot of my favourite characters fall into the category of "main characters" or popular/regularly depicted characters and yes, I am aware of how basic this is.

I do think this is actually a pretty interesting area for discussion, especially given all the different angles this can be approached from such as in-universe reasoning, ZUN's character design, and cultural influences on Touhou in general. Hang on, really? It kind of just looks like a normal shirt to me - I feel like the term "undershirt" can really be applied to any layer that goes underneath something else, even if only partially. But I guess it's an interesting point to consider, and maybe not even all that surprising given how the majority of characters opt for clothes that loose, comfortable and easy to move in, so why not? (And of course if it has frills, then even better.) There are 2 reasons I can think of why people in Gensokyo might like this - firstly is that for danmaku battles and maybe also just flying in general, wearing something that doesn't feel restricting in any way must be important so that they can move as freely as they need to - weight may also be a factor to consider. But even for those who don't partake in danmaku fights, the other reason could likely to be to do with temperature - Gensokyo is somewhere in mainland Japan, and it gets hot and humid during the summer, so thinner clothes are better. Often in the manga you can also see the girls wear different outfits as the seasons change, with thicker clothing instead and more layers in the winter, so I think it's pretty good reasoning. I doubt they're common, but of course all kinds of things can drop into Gensokyo from the outside world - and of course when a whole western style mansion gets teleported in, there must be all kinds of things that get brought with it. Gensokyo has no seas, so even if people have swimsuits somehow, they have no reason to use them, unless it's something like that silly pool party at the end of SSiB. And regarding last point, idk why some characters randomly have wildly different clothes to everyone else, but seeing as Hecatia is literally most powerful 2hu I wouldn't argue about it. Now the thing that I wonder is this - what are those sleeve things that Reimu and Sanae wear called???

Recent new arrangement from a VGM arranger! Hopefully some more Touhou coming.

Who are Pizuya's Cell and why is this the first I've heard of them and why is it so goooood?

I heard someone perform a cover of this song at an anime convention I went to recently. Now I'm addicted.

A few months ago Ken Hisuag shared a Nuclear Fusion remix by jesterdist here. Now I've run into a new Maiden's Capriccio / Love-Coloured Master Spark remix by them and it's pretty cool!