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59 | 9.58% |
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77 | 12.50% |
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66 | 10.71% |
| FEAR CLOWNPIECE |
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414 | 67.21% |
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Clarste posted:She didn't start the war, she just introduced Buddhism because she thought it would be a good way to pacify the populace and reduce unrest. It's not like she egged on the Mononobe family to start burning down temples. Frankly, that part didn't help her plans at all. The worst you can accuse her of there, imo, is spreading Buddhism without believing in it. She really considered it nothing more than an opiate for the masses. She like basically took advantage of the war though didn't she? Like under her orders Futo secretly helped the Sogas and the war was eventually a big win for Buddhism and stuff. And didn't it help obfuscate the fact that she and her pals were secretly studying Taoism to attain immortality or something?. I guess it was incorrect to say she started the war though.
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Mar 20, 2017 09:59
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SyntheticPolygon posted:She like basically took advantage of the war though didn't she? Like under her orders Futo secretly helped the Sogas and the war was eventually a big win for Buddhism and stuff. And didn't it help obfuscate the fact that she and her pals were secretly studying Taoism to attain immortality or something?. Well, historically Prince Shotoku is known as a saint who brought Buddhism to Japan. Naturally, the new religion caused a lot of friction with practitioners of the old religion, which led to a lot of strife which would now be considered terrorism. The Shinto faction was led by the Mononobe clan, and the Buddhist faction was led by the Soga clan. There was never an all-out war, just a lot of unrest until people got comfortable with the new religion over the decades. Ultimately the country accepted both Shinto and Buddhism as complementary religions that can be believed in at the same time, which is still the case today. The Touhou Twist™ was just that Shotoku never believed in Buddhism in the first place, and merely spread it to cement her eternal rule as an immortal Taoist wizard. She's joined by a representative of both the Soga and the Mononobe, although Futo is implied to be betraying her clan for power. Civil unrest is the exact opposite of what Miko wanted, since the whole point of Buddhism was to make the populace not question anything she did, but she probably just saw it as a temporary thing was was ultimately irrelevant. Clarste fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Mar 20, 2017 |
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Mar 20, 2017 13:05
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Miko or Kanako are like Trump in that they're demagogues; Marisa is like Trump in personality, in that she's a compulsive bullshitter who says whatever sounds good at the moment and possibly doesn't even really know she's lying.
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Mar 20, 2017 14:57
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Mar 20, 2017 17:59
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of poo poo
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Mar 20, 2017 18:28
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Still waiting for a better photo of that book. I'm actually interested in what Clownpiece's new un-American outfit looks like.
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Mar 20, 2017 18:43
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Namtab posted:CLOWNPIECE
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Mar 20, 2017 19:02
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Rand Brittain posted:Miko or Kanako are like Trump in that they're demagogues; Marisa is like Trump in personality, in that she's a compulsive bullshitter who says whatever sounds good at the moment and possibly doesn't even really know she's lying. The main problem with all of these is that Miko, Kanako, and Marisa are all competent. They're not big dumb idiot morons. So who's an incompetent with a huge ego and a bizarrely large following who has managed to pull of achievements that by all means they should not be capable of?
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Mar 20, 2017 21:26
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She will Make Gensoukyo Strongest-er Again! e: Seen here with her chief strategist. 
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Mar 20, 2017 21:59
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Miko is also the only one in Touhou in a same-sex marriage.
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Mar 21, 2017 06:18
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Mighty Dicktron posted:The main problem with all of these is that Miko, Kanako, and Marisa are all competent. They're not big dumb idiot morons. Okay, I can't argue with that. The fact that her biggest victory was the result of her opponent blatantly going easy on her without her noticing just makes it perfect.
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Mar 21, 2017 20:57
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Wild and Horned Hermit 38, in which old plans finally come to fruition.
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Mar 23, 2017 02:53
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Sanae needs to learn better business sense from her mums.
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Mar 23, 2017 03:04
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Sanae needs to learn better business sense from her mums. Well, according to Kasen the Tengu were playing Kanako directly anyway.
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Mar 23, 2017 03:10
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This is what happens when you don't have someone on site to check that they're actually doing what they're supposed to. Businesses all the world over. Edit : Also isn't Sanae a science geek? She should know how difficult it is to have a waterfall freeze under natural causes, right?
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Mar 23, 2017 03:27
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Well, difficult doesn't mean impossible. Her flaw here is just that she's too trusting.
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Mar 23, 2017 04:19
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Clarste posted:Well, according to Kasen the Tengu were playing Kanako directly anyway. Yeah, but at least there's a bit of give and take there. Kanako's still getting what she wants out of the deal. Sanae is just getting taken advantage of for being a good person.
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Mar 23, 2017 04:41
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I love how lovely all the kappa are so much. Put in the absolute minimum amount of effort, don't make plans, and be a huge skinflint about every single project that isn't one of their weird passion projects.
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Mar 23, 2017 05:18
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The chapter in which Kasen is flabbergasted.
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Mar 23, 2017 06:37
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Mighty Dicktron posted:I love how lovely all the kappa are so much. Put in the absolute minimum amount of effort, don't make plans, and be a huge skinflint about every single project that isn't one of their weird passion projects. Remember when she was first introduced in MoF and some fans wanted to believe she was a sweet and shy nice girl just because she was surprised by a human on Yokai Mountain? Good times.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:33
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a cartoon duck posted:Remember when she was first introduced in MoF and some fans wanted to believe she was a sweet and shy nice girl just because she was surprised by a human on Yokai Mountain? Good times. Yeah, now the phrase "character assassination" comes up a lot. Their waifu... dead.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:41
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Gamerofthegame posted:The chapter in which Kasen is flabbergasted. Welp, pack it up. Sanae guessed her secret.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:07
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It's interesting how both manga kind of converged on this same point. They must be receiving some guidance from ZUN; maybe this will be relevant in upcoming games. We rarely see Tengu society in this series. I wonder how they're benefiting from this? Aya is relatively friendly but I can't see the Tengu selling tchotchkes to tourists.
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Mar 23, 2017 16:59
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HellCopter posted:It's interesting how both manga kind of converged on this same point. They must be receiving some guidance from ZUN; maybe this will be relevant in upcoming games. He writes the scripts, the mangaka just do the art.
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Mar 23, 2017 17:07
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The only manga that ZUN did not personally write was Inaba of the Moon & Inaba of the Earth. Edit: Also all but the first from Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red and all of the ones from Strange Creators of Outer World, but I think those should go without saying. mdct fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 23, 2017 19:17
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I guess he just saves all his good ideas for Suzunaan, then  Fantasy land or not, it still took Sanae 5+ years to get the permits for that ropeway.
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Mar 23, 2017 22:08
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SoPM mentions that they've been working on getting approval for the ropeway since at least 2009. Bureaucracy is a hell of a thing.
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Mar 24, 2017 04:37
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They're Gods. They've got time.
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Mar 24, 2017 05:06
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Forbidden Scrollery 49! In which there's no such thing as an enemy.
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Mar 25, 2017 02:38
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Clarste posted:Forbidden Scrollery 49! In which there's no such thing as an enemy. I can't wait to get home to read this one
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Mar 25, 2017 02:45
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Suzy is going to die.
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Mar 25, 2017 02:52
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Reimu is going to kill a child.
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Mar 25, 2017 03:07
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I'm glad that Yukari is here to remind us that Reimu can and will murder you, lest we become complacent and forget that.
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Mar 25, 2017 03:08
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On an unrelated note, I was wondering if the book Aya was talking about cancelling was Alternative Facts.
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Mar 25, 2017 03:25
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Leave kosuzu alone!
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Mar 25, 2017 04:12
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Chapter read. Only one thing to say: 
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Mar 25, 2017 04:23
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Clarste posted:Forbidden Scrollery 49! In which there's no such thing as an enemy. everyone dies for a bit at the end of persona
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Mar 25, 2017 05:08
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We're finally encroaching in on the ending where Reimu just murders Kosuzu and it's worrying 
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Mar 25, 2017 05:57
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I wonder what Reimu's going to do when she realises she's basically a big reason Kosuzu's become more interested in Youkai anyway. Also, i'm unsurprised it turns out Mamizou purposefully let her identity slip to Akyuu. She was being a bit too obvious.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:I wonder what Reimu's going to do when she realises she's basically a big reason Kosuzu's become more interested in Youkai anyway. I'm not sure how big an influence Reimu had. I mean, Forbidden Scrollery starts with Kosuzu already being an avid collector of Youma books and that's why Reimu put her under surveillance, not the other way around.
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