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I am open to your questions about the Touhou community in China

I have always felt that the Japanese side tends to lag behind a little when it comes to this kind of analysis. At least in the Chinese Touhou community, someone had already worked out the unweighted ranking on the very day the poll results were released. And among the articles I have been able...

Yes, I think this is exactly the more interesting question, and I am very happy to see this. "Why is Koishi an appealing character?" and "Why did Koishi gain so much support among younger/newer fans in this particular period?" are not really the same question. Her design, personality, themes...

Yeah, I think your point about the rule changes is important. The introduction of an explicit second-choice vote means that the behavioral environment is not identical across the 20th, 21st and 22nd polls, even if some quantities such as total supporters, first-choice voters and first-choice...

An Outlier, Not a Verdict What happened to Koishi Komeiji's vote structure in the 21st and 22nd Touhou Project Popularity Polls? A data-driven look at the 2025 first-choice spike, the 2026 follow-up, and what the public data can - and cannot - tell us. A note before we start This is not an...

Thanks for the detailed reply. I actually agree with quite a bit of what you said, especially point 2. Your idea that Mamizou gradually took over part of the explanatory/narrative role once occupied by characters like Reimu, Marisa, Akyuu, and Rinnosuke is very close to what I was trying to...

Note: This article was written on August 21, 2026, the day the 22nd Touhou Project Popularity Poll began. Inevitably, some of the information here may become dated in the future, so I want to state that up front. Today, let's talk about Mamizou Futatsuiwa. By now she is already something of a...

In the Chinese Touhou fandom, we have something pretty similar: “车万”. It’s a joking nickname for Touhou, based on the visual resemblance between 東方 and 車万, it’s basically an informal in-group meme rather than an actual translation.

I spent a minute doing some calculations, and Marisa has ranked second in the Touhou Project Popularity Poll 11 times, which is the most for any character. So, is it possible for her to win first place this year?

Even the best translation software in the world today has difficulty expressing what I want to say

I think the thread has already identified part of the answer, but I disagree with the idea that Alice was popular mainly because there were fewer characters back then and because fans rewrote her into a Marisa-obsessed yuri girl. That certainly describes one very visible part of old Alice...

I think this is a genuinely strong comparison, especially if we are talking about the MLP fandom at its peak rather than comparing the two original works themselves. The similarities you listed are real: both fandoms became identity-based communities rather than ordinary groups of consumers...

Incidentally, Yu Deng is also a passionate Yuri enthusiast, and you can see his comments on Chinese social media platforms such as Baidu Tieba.

The 2026 Fields Medals were awarded this week at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia. The four recipients were Yu Deng, Hong Wang, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman. Two of them, Yu Deng and Hong Wang, are Chinese mathematicians, making them the first Chinese nationals...

I have always had great confidence in the Hifuu Club album.

As someone from the Chinese Touhou community who has been involved in local offline events and has spent some time observing both Chinese and overseas Touhou fandoms, I think what you are describing is real, but I would not frame it purely as a “hierarchy” problem. "First of all, you've...

The World Cup ruined my sleep schedule

I started following professional CS last year, and somehow, its decentralized tournament scene reminds me of Touhou.