Touhou Thread 6 - Fear and Loathing in Lunar Voyages by Hunter S. Clownpiece

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Which religion is the best? This poll is closed.
Shintoism	59	9.58%
Buddhism	77	12.50%
Taoism	66	10.71%
FEAR CLOWNPIECE	414	67.21%
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Namtab: Feb 22, 2010

amuayse posted:

I always liked how Marisa used Western astrological inspired magic through Chinese alchemy in comparison to Patchouli's using Wu Xing magic through Goetic paraphernalia.

same

# ? Jul 19, 2015 17:22

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# ? May 17, 2024 05:23

Dr Pepper: Feb 4, 2012; Don't like it? well...

Clarste posted:

Kasen isn't particularly religious. Part of her character is that she doesn't really understand what a hermit is, other than the general "badass superhuman wiseperson" stereotype. She's a nice person playing hermit, without much if any spiritual background.

Kasen's cool.

It's kind of interesting seeing how there's a lot of references to humans becoming youkai through various things, here we have a youkai who really wants to be a human.

# ? Jul 21, 2015 09:36

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

She's super sketchy about it though. Even though she seems actually invested in trying to be a hermit and in helping out at the shrine when asked, she still basically outright says that she's on the side of the Youkai and is generally still fairly youkai-like in a lot of the things she does.

If anything she might be using her Hermit masquerade as a means to an end of searching for her hand and dealing with the barrier or whatever, rather than just simply wanting to be a hermit. She could just feel compelled to act as such due to Oni-honesty even though she is the least honest Oni in existence. Or maybe for some other reason, we still don't know a lot about her.

# ? Jul 21, 2015 10:37

a cartoon duck: Sep 5, 2011

SyntheticPolygon posted:

she still basically outright says that she's on the side of the Youkai and is generally still fairly youkai-like in a lot of the things she does.

She seemed pretty appalled when Yukari said they're on the same side, and immediately started dismantling her plans. When did she outright say she's on the youkai's side?

# ? Jul 21, 2015 12:21

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

I think it was in the chapter Reimu took up fortune telling and managed drive away all her usual shrine visitors by having humans regularly come by.

Kasen takes it upon herself to get things back to the status-quo and I think she says something along the lines of "I'm not doing this for the shrine, this is for the sake of the Youkai". Could just be misremembering the line though. And I think she is less appalled that Yukari said she's on the Youkai's side and more conflicted about whether she should be content with some youkai spies hanging about the human village or do the Hermity thing and drive away some dangerous creatures.

# ? Jul 21, 2015 13:37

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

I thought she was just shocked that Yukari realized what she was. Also, I don't think she had previously thought of humans and youkai as being on different sides: she seems to be one of those "can't we all just get along?" people.

# ? Jul 21, 2015 21:00

CommissarMega: Nov 18, 2008; THUNDERDOME LOSER

I've just realized it's been way too long since I've read official Touhou stuff :shobon:

Can't keep up with you guys one bit!

# ? Jul 22, 2015 03:54

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

If it makes you feel any better, I never bothered with Curiosities in Lotus Asia.

# ? Jul 22, 2015 04:18

Nages: Dec 31, 2011; Just yell at her like you always do. Bitch, get out of the way!

Curiosities in Lotus Asia is really good and you should read along with all other touhou print works.

# ? Jul 22, 2015 05:32

Gamerofthegame: Oct 28, 2010; Could at least flip one or two, maybe.

The only one that isn't good is the moon one.

Which might be required for the next game now.

# ? Jul 23, 2015 16:19

Nages: Dec 31, 2011; Just yell at her like you always do. Bitch, get out of the way!

Silent sinner in blue is pretty good except for the part where Yorihime ends every fight by going "i summon god". The ending is fantastic though.

# ? Jul 23, 2015 17:18

Tigey: Apr 6, 2015

Nages posted:

Silent sinner in blue is pretty good except for the part where Yorihime ends every fight by going "i summon god". The ending is fantastic though.

I have the same frustration with those Memory of Phantasm animations. Getting a little irritating just seeing Reimu Fantasy Seal her way out of everything.

# ? Jul 23, 2015 17:32

a cartoon duck: Sep 5, 2011

Nages posted:

Silent sinner in blue is pretty good except for the part where Yorihime ends every fight by going "i summon god". The ending is fantastic though.

Yeah, ZUN just can't write fight scenes and I'm glad he learned not to do them in his other mangas. Also I loved Cage in Lunatic Runagate adding Yukari owning Eirin to the ending.

# ? Jul 23, 2015 18:34

Trihugger: Jun 28, 2008; hello

Yorihime doesn't really "get" danmaku. She ends the fight with Reimu using the threat of mutually assured destruction. Kind of defeats the point of a victimless fight. Though Reimu was a huge cheating rear end in a top hat that was playing up the villain role a bit too well.

I agree that no danmaku fights in the comics is preferable to the half-assed ones in SSiB.

# ? Jul 23, 2015 18:52

BlitzBlast: Jul 30, 2011; some people just wanna watch the world burn

but bombing through everything is the true touhou experience

# ? Jul 23, 2015 18:53

Nages: Dec 31, 2011; Just yell at her like you always do. Bitch, get out of the way!

a cartoon duck posted:

Yeah, ZUN just can't write fight scenes and I'm glad he learned not to do them in his other mangas. Also I loved Cage in Lunatic Runagate adding Yukari owning Eirin to the ending.

The fight between the three fairies and Yukari was good

# ? Jul 23, 2015 19:20

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

a cartoon duck posted:

Yeah, ZUN just can't write fight scenes and I'm glad he learned not to do them in his other mangas. Also I loved Cage in Lunatic Runagate adding Yukari owning Eirin to the ending.

Well, it didn't really add anything, since that was always supposed to be part of the story.

I think part of the problem here is that SSiB and CiLR were meant to be read side by side, one month at a time. In fact, all three of these works (SSiB, CiLR, and Inaba) have the exact same title in Japanese (儚月抄: Bougetsushou). But since translating prose is generally considered more annoying for fan-translators, CiLR came out way later for us than it was supposed to, and this affected our opinion of SSiB. We were supposed to see Eirin comeuppance immediately after Yukari's surrender, we were supposed to see Toyohime as questioning the purity of the moon before she even did anything, etc.

# ? Jul 23, 2015 20:14

amuayse: Jul 20, 2013; by exmarx

I hope the next game is a Phantasmagoria.

# ? Jul 24, 2015 22:06

Potsticker: Jan 14, 2006

amuayse posted:

I hope the next game is a Phantasmagoria.

# ? Jul 25, 2015 00:49

AdorableStar: Jul 13, 2013

amuayse posted:

I hope the next game is a Phantasmagoria.

That lovely fmv game?

# ? Jul 25, 2015 00:56

Ryza: Mar 15, 2012; Disco Thunder

Stealing this from the Vita thread in Games: http://gematsu.com/2015/07/touhou-p...arena-announced

Never forget totally canon touhou Maruaya Shamei.

# ? Jul 25, 2015 06:57

HellCopter: Feb 9, 2012; College Slice

Ryza posted:

Stealing this from the Vita thread in Games: http://gematsu.com/2015/07/touhou-p...arena-announced

Never forget totally canon touhou Maruaya Shamei.

Oh my god, it took me a couple of minutes but just got it

# ? Jul 25, 2015 07:07

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

I'm not quite sure how that misspelling is even possible.

# ? Jul 25, 2015 07:10

Golden Battler: Sep 6, 2010; ~Perfect and Elegant~

Release GoS already, I need another excuse to play it.

# ? Jul 25, 2015 07:13

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

I'm not quite sure how that misspelling is even possible.

Japanese doesn't have spaces.

# ? Jul 25, 2015 07:41

SyntheticPolygon: Dec 20, 2013

Clarste posted:

Japanese doesn't have spaces.

Yeah I know, but is Maruaya even a name? Because I don't know how you'd look at it and assume her first name's not Aya.

# ? Jul 25, 2015 07:52

Do not even ask: Apr 8, 2008

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Yeah I know, but is Maruaya even a name? Because I don't know how you'd look at it and assume her first name's not Aya.

much like the british drive in the wrong lanes, the japanese have their names in the wrong order so you'd end up trying to parse "shameimaruaya"

# ? Jul 25, 2015 08:44

AdorableStar: Jul 13, 2013

Do not even ask posted:

much like the british drive in the wrong lanes, the japanese have their names in the wrong order so you'd end up trying to parse "shameimaruaya"

Actually, the British drive on the right side of the road. :colbert:

# ? Jul 25, 2015 08:47

Karasu Tengu: Feb 16, 2011; Humble Tengu Newspaper Reporter

Also, you know, 5 seconds of Google will tell you the character names.

# ? Jul 25, 2015 08:49

Clarste: Apr 15, 2013; Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

A lot of Touhou characters actually have weird names that you wouldn't know how to read at a glance. Google would definitely help, but that would require them to care.

# ? Jul 25, 2015 08:56