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59 | 9.58% |
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| FEAR CLOWNPIECE |
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414 | 67.21% |
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Other than the Nazrin connection, it has often been thought to be a reference to the iron mouse legend - the one brought up in that FS story with Udonge.
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amuayse posted:Oh wait you're right Who's this artist again? I like the art, but I can't remember their name, hurr.
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Dec 24, 2014 06:56
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CommissarMega posted:Who's this artist again? I like the art, but I can't remember their name, hurr. Kurokoori https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=126319
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Dec 24, 2014 07:17
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 Kurokoori knows that all touhous are jerks
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Dec 24, 2014 08:06
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amuayse posted:How do the tengus walk with that funky footwear
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Dec 24, 2014 09:18
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Well, it's Christmas day. You know what that means? More fake PC-98 remakes! Man SoEW was weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGo_oTAEvTk HGH fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Dec 26, 2014 |
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Dec 25, 2014 10:07
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It's been a long, hard road, but I've finally reached the end... For now.
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Dec 27, 2014 04:03
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leather fedora posted:It's been a long, hard road, but I've finally reached the end... Finally! For a while, I thought we might never finish it!
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Dec 27, 2014 07:42
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Does anyone really care about Raiko and the Tsukumo sisters? They seem to be the least popular Windows characters outside the Aki sisters and Hina.
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Dec 27, 2014 22:35
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medicine says hi
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Dec 27, 2014 22:38
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amuayse posted:Does anyone really care about Raiko and the Tsukumo sisters? They seem to be the least popular Windows characters outside the Aki sisters and Hina. They have the best themes from DDC and thus are pretty drat cool. I also like their designs in general. They'll be more popular once Zun eventually releases Touhou 14.9, a Rhythm Game based on a battle of the bands between The Prisimrivers, Choujuu Gigaku, and the Tsukumogami's.
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Dec 27, 2014 22:43
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Tsukumogami are the new youjuu (animal youkai). Basically they seem pretty generic with no interesting twists to them. But does anyone really care about, say, Wriggle either? She gets thrown into the stage 1-2 idiot boss team sometimes, but does anyone care about her personally? I think the main key to popularity is to be connected to other characters, so people can easily imagine them interacting with each other. On their own, pretty much all the early stage characters are boring, because ZUN doesn't put much effort into their backstories or personalities. The Aki sisters and Medicine are unpopular because they exist in a character vacuum with no interactions with others. I think the instrument tsukumogami have a similar problem, but it would be easy to fix. Maybe it won't be fixed, but it would be easy.
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Dec 27, 2014 22:54
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Zun actually likes Wriggle. I think most of the attention Wriggle gets is because of the whole ambiguous gender shtick.
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Dec 27, 2014 23:03
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leather fedora posted:It's been a long, hard road, but I've finally reached the end... I don't know what this is but that cover is amazing.
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Dec 27, 2014 23:04
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Clarste posted:Tsukumogami are the new youjuu (animal youkai). Basically they seem pretty generic with no interesting twists to them. But does anyone really care about, say, Wriggle either? She gets thrown into the stage 1-2 idiot boss team sometimes, but does anyone care about her personally? I think the main key to popularity is to be connected to other characters, so people can easily imagine them interacting with each other. On their own, pretty much all the early stage characters are boring, because ZUN doesn't put much effort into their backstories or personalities. The Aki sisters and Medicine are unpopular because they exist in a character vacuum with no interactions with others. I think the instrument tsukumogami have a similar problem, but it would be easy to fix. Maybe it won't be fixed, but it would be easy. They've got the 3 of themselves to interact with and that already puts them in a better position than the stage 1-3 bosses of Touhou 14. But those early game bosses are still more popular because Touhou fans are weird and tend to like characters for arbitrary reasons separate from anything they actually do in canon.
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Dec 28, 2014 00:06
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SyntheticPolygon posted:They've got the 3 of themselves to interact with and that already puts them in a better position than the stage 1-3 bosses of Touhou 14. But those early game bosses are still more popular because Touhou fans are weird and tend to like characters for arbitrary reasons separate from anything they actually do in canon. Well, that was sort of my point. Wriggle isn't unpopular because people like to stick her into a group dynamic, despite that having absolutely nothing to do with her as an individual. Her popularity has nothing to do with who she is, but rather who she's perceived as hanging out with. Nazrin and Ichirin are popular because they're part of the Myouren cast, people always have Parsee and Yuugi hanging out with each other because they're neighbors, etc. By sheer coincidence or unluckiness, the Aki sisters and Medicine just don't have anyone the fans have designated for them to hang out with. As for the instruments, they're also new, which puts them in a bad position. EOSD characters aren't 50 times more popular than DDC ones because they're better characters, but because we've been exposed to them for so much longer. Also, I don't know about you, but even if there are three instruments I can't actually imagine them doing anything. They don't really have any personalities to bounce off each other... Having two sisters isn't really helpful when they're treated as a single unit (as the Akis can tell you).
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Dec 28, 2014 00:14
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Clarste posted:Well, that was sort of my point. Wriggle isn't unpopular because people like to stick her into a group dynamic, despite that having absolutely nothing to do with her as an individual. Her popularity has nothing to do with who she is, but rather who she's perceived as hanging out with. Nazrin and Ichirin are popular because they're part of the Myouren cast, people always have Parsee and Yuugi hanging out with each other because they're neighbors, etc. By sheer coincidence or unluckiness, the Aki sisters and Medicine just don't have anyone the fans have designated for them to hang out with. Oh, ok. I misunderstood you, that makes a lot more sense. Also explains why the people who do care about Medicine always have her hang out with Yuuka and Letty with Cirno despite there only being tenuous connections between them. I feel like comparing the Tsukumo's to the Aki's is a bit of an exaggeration though, they're really more like the Prisimriver's mk 2. The Aki's have the problem of their most defining characteristic being "sisters" but one has no dialogue or personality thanks to being a midboss. At least the instruments all get lines and their designs are distinct enough from each other that you can at least get inklings of a personality. There's the cool more world-wise older figure, the calmer middle kid, and the more energetic younger one. It's not much at all but it's basically all the Prisimriver's had, and they're far more popular. I think, like you said, it's just due to it being a far more recent game, the Taoists and the Buddhists managed to avert this by basically having every character connected to the plot so even the early stage characters would be fought for a reason besides simply being in the way. I wish they were more popular though because then maybe their themes would get remixed more often. Illusionary Joruri and Pristine Beat are some of Zun's best works.
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Dec 28, 2014 00:46
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It's a shame because I like Medicine and her whole doll emancipation thing. It's refreshing to have an estranged outsider who's kind of bitter in a world that's usually a giant tea party. And there's the obvious angle of her meeting up with Alice. 'Tis a shame that the best character in the best game ( ) dropped off the face of the earth.The Prismrivers also have the whole storyline with Layla and becoming ghosts that adds a lot to their popularity, I think. It's not quite the same as the DDC sisters (though I haven't actually read the DDC dialogue...).
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Dec 28, 2014 00:52
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amuayse posted:Zun actually likes Wriggle. She's also a big Kamen Rider reference, so there's that too.
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Dec 28, 2014 01:45
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Gamerofthegame posted:She's also a big Kamen Rider reference, so there's that too.  It really is true that there's a Touhou pic for everything. The chalkboard says "Draw a picture of the person in front of you"
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Dec 28, 2014 04:16
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I've noticed a few artists on Tumblr really like Raiko, but I never see anyone talking about Benben and Yatsuhashi. I think those two are even less popular than the Prismrivers because they're even more thinly developed. ZUN literally describes them like this: "Benben plays the part of the cool, grown-up older sister, and Yatsuhashi plays the part of the hot-blooded, reckless younger sister" in the DDC omake txt. So they're tropes-- like a lot of other Touhou characters when they're first introduced. At least the Aki sisters had kind of an interesting relationship, each feeling superior to the other while Shizuha is secretly envious of her younger sister's popularity with humans.
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Dec 28, 2014 04:33
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I can't see how anyone could forget Raiko after listening to Pristine Beat. That drum solo, maaan 
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Dec 28, 2014 06:40
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dranxis posted:I've noticed a few artists on Tumblr really like Raiko, but I never see anyone talking about Benben and Yatsuhashi. I think those two are even less popular than the Prismrivers because they're even more thinly developed. ZUN literally describes them like this: "Benben plays the part of the cool, grown-up older sister, and Yatsuhashi plays the part of the hot-blooded, reckless younger sister" in the DDC omake txt. So they're tropes-- like a lot of other Touhou characters when they're first introduced. At least the Aki sisters had kind of an interesting relationship, each feeling superior to the other while Shizuha is secretly envious of her younger sister's popularity with humans. They haven't been in a data book yet, which is where the vast majority of characterisation exists for most characters. So it's not at all surprising that they're nothing more than a few weak tropes. They're just kind of a noteworthy case because it's usually about stage 4 that the bosses start to actually have vaguely unique personalities and they're only slightly more interesting than your average stage 1-2 boss.
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Dec 28, 2014 07:53
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SyntheticPolygon posted:They haven't been in a data book yet, which is where the vast majority of characterisation exists for most characters. So it's not at all surprising that they're nothing more than a few weak tropes. They're just kind of a noteworthy case because it's usually about stage 4 that the bosses start to actually have vaguely unique personalities and they're only slightly more interesting than your average stage 1-2 boss. I think it's the fact that they come as a pair. Groups tend to have the same total amount of personality divided up among their members.
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Dec 28, 2014 08:35
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CommissarMega posted:I can't see how anyone could forget Raiko after listening to Pristine Beat. That drum solo, maaan To say nothing of all-but-literal rhythm action danmaku. I wish more ZUN bosses had creative wrinkles like that. Or like what Seija did, as infuriating as it was to actually deal with. (Yes, I just admitted to wanting more gimmicky boss fights in Touhou as opposed to the standard stuff. One can only differentiate "okay this part is aimed, this is static, this is semi-random" so many times before it all blurs together into bland.) Gamerofthegame posted:She's also a big Kamen Rider reference, so there's that too. I forget; was that intentional on ZUN's part, or something that evolved out of the fandom after Wriggle's newbie-ambush entry? KataraniSword fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Dec 28, 2014 |
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Dec 28, 2014 10:31
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KataraniSword posted:I forget; was that intentional on ZUN's part, or something that evolved out of the fandom after Wriggle's newbie-ambush entry? She's a bug-motif character who enters the screen with a dynamic kick. Pretty sure it was intentional.
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Dec 28, 2014 11:37
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Ah but the Wriggle kick meme itself exists only because IN Stage 1 on Easy is so unthreatening every new player would naturally stay at the top of the screen, until the boss enters with a collision hitbox. It's not like she had a special kicking sprite. Interpersonal relationships only matter to fans who have an emotional investment in the characters. There are non-geeks who haven't heard of Touhou, and know Touhou characters purely as internet culture icons. At that level, the characters have already become meaningless symbols, and all the lore details in the world wouldn't matter one bit. For example, Sanae and Nue are two of the most popular post-PCB characters, far eclipsing the Taoists and Buddhists, and most people must know them as "girl with frog and snake hair accessories" and "girl with asymmetrical wings" For our not-so-popular characters, Medicine was adopted by Eirin in her ending, but this connection is tucked away in an ending most fans would never see. I like Yatsuhashi more: by being idiotic enough to invent "impossible spell cards" that stretches the definition of legal danmaku in ISC Stage 1-1, she dragged all Gensokyoans into a 10-day escalating war between impossible danmaku and a desperate Seija armed with cheat tools  . It literally was the constitutional crisis of Gensokyo. The way I see it, the crisis only ended when Yukari gave everyone an out by using a reasonable spell card in 10-10, so that Seija could beat her fair and square.
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Dec 28, 2014 12:39
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AdorableStar posted:I don't know what this is but that cover is amazing.
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Dec 28, 2014 15:06
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So anyone knows what is happening here? https://twitter.com/kenichiro_taka/status/549225044467912704
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Dec 28, 2014 18:18
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ZUN's always at some podcast, conference or meeting of sorts with people in gaming lately. Plus he has a ton of friends in the industry. It's probably just some roundtable discussion.
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Dec 28, 2014 18:48
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That doesn't explain the shirtless guy. Does it?
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Dec 29, 2014 00:41
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ZUN is talking to the Senran Kagura people to learn their advanced boob technology.
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Dec 29, 2014 00:44
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leather fedora posted:It's a listening CD for a Touhou-themed English textbook that I wrote and a bunch of artists illustrated. The CDs are recordings of the books read by native English speakers so it gives people who don't know English a better reference as to what words sound like. Please let whatever incarnation of the thread know if you ever make a 4th book, I have the first 3 sitting on my shelf.
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Dec 29, 2014 01:31
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Dec 29, 2014 02:37
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Oh my.
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Dec 29, 2014 02:43
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What am I seeing here.
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Dec 29, 2014 02:44
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the wildest rear end posted:What am I seeing here. not Mima
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Dec 29, 2014 02:47
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the wildest rear end posted:What am I seeing here. Poster for the ULiL demo at Comiket. With Kasen on it. I've also seen a screenshot confirming she's playable.
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Dec 29, 2014 02:55
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the wildest rear end posted:What am I seeing here. Definitely not an oni.
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Dec 29, 2014 02:57
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Clarste posted:Poster for the ULiL demo at Comiket. With Kasen on it. I've also seen a screenshot confirming she's playable. Yeah, that's what I thought it was. Now I hope Yuugi is in it
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