When it comes to Touhou doujin metal, you can't go wrong with Demetori.
Yeah, evilisk made one way at the beginning of this forum. I guess you missed out on a lot. ^_^
I've seen some "international touhou artbook" on sale that had mountains of Chinese artists, almost all of the book. A bit of korea too. Definitely makes sense that it'd be popular there
Bringing up the two wikis makes me want to act scared: "hush, careful, there's drama!" But lol the truth is there's zero drama, things just became this way due to circumstances as ridiculous as anything else in the world.
Pics please! I'm really curious as to how it looks.
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I randomly stumbled on to this image
Does anyone know what this chart is supposed to be explaining? Aside from the really obvious parts, I know the top image is probably Amaterasu
The first (left) chart actually introduced connections the game itself didn't reference (they are good for fanfiction ideas, but not helpful for understanding the game itself). The second (right) one is rock solid.
I've also seen modern cases where they simply put two parts of a name in Western order, and omit the connective parts, even though doing this completely neglects the true nature of historical Japanese names (it's extremely complicated and takes a thousand words to explain, but irrelevant for now). The NISA translations went with the later approach. What I'd never seen is a combination of both.
OK, let's look at this picture. To the right of Matara-jin and Okina, it depicts Hata no Kawakatsu's relations: "enemy" to Tokoyo Kami (swallowtail larva, "suspected of being the same" as Eternity Larva, as the latter is "suspected of being enemy" to Okina), "close aide" to the Crown Prince (Miko), and "user" of the 66 noh masks (Kokoro).
Forgot to mention some talking points:
There's no definite answer so far, not even in the Strange Creators 4 interview, which discussed the inspirations behind Okina. Touhou has never confirmed there was a real, living person named Kawakatsu in-universe, and just might keep it this way.
A disabled Okina would have been a very interesting concept. Also seems ZUN recommends the game be played as Reimu > Marisa > Cirno > Aya regarding its story
On this story, I rewrote the script for a certain non-English fan translation, so I do have a few comments.
Speaking of that, I've been waiting for another story as rich and resonant as DDC for one, two... four whole years. When LoLK was released, I was like "OK, fine, a story-light entry like EoSD and SA." Then HSiFS came out, and it again doesn't have a robust backstory comparable to the story-heavy entries (PCB, IN, MoF, UFO, TD, DDC). However, HSiFS offered something else I couldn't say "no" to. I've called Touhou's genre "epic satire", because I'd detected social commentary in many of its themes and narratices long before he makes them more explicit with Trump and "alternative facts". And the oppressed minority groups of Japanese history have been such an underlying theme since at least MoF. It was cool to finally receive validation in the form of Okina, god of pariahs.
Yes, that would be bold, though at the risk of further cluttering her visual design.
