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

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TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT: Oct 12, 2008; this is what happens when you take UI design away from engineers and give it to a bunch of hipster art student "designers"

touhou music video challenge: find ones without crying, abandonment, or unrequited love

There's not a more emo group of artists on this earth than touhou PV animators.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 03:29

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 13:10

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Gonna channel JosephWong for a minute and report that chapter four of suwako& has been translated: http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Ryusuitei

# ¿ Apr 10, 2013 04:37

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All those posts, and not one with that ZUN-art guy who does nothing but touhou characters with motorcycles?

I love how he must have spent hours getting that wheel exactly right, but just sort of Napoleon Dynamite'd the rider.

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# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 04:02

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Samurai Sanders posted:

If you're trying to get us to check out a particular artist, a link to the source would help.

I've never been able to figure out how to navigate pixiv, so I just post pics and let image search do the work.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 04:42

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Samurai Sanders posted:

I thought it was just about her dress, but then I have never read Ganbare Kogasa in translation.

If I remember correctly, the real-life person being inserted as Yamame is from Osaka and has a heavy accent. The translater just did the standard Osaka->Louisiana adjustment.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2013 01:55

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DrSunshine posted:

How many bars do you get in Gensokyo? Does the network there have at least 3G coverage? I cannot live without my mobile connection.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2013 23:27

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PerrineClostermann posted:

Are we localizing Touhous now? Reimu would be Remy.

Raenir Salazar posted:

Though on a semi-related note, I imagine a Anglo would nickname Remilia "Rem" instead of Remi.

R�mi / R�my is such a close match to Remilia that ZUN probably used it as a base, though not as blatantly as "Flandre".

# ¿ Apr 30, 2013 01:42

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Zonekeeper posted:

A little off topic from Translationchat, but I saw Iron Man 3 this weekend. (Incredibly minor IM3 spoiler) Early in the movie when Tony Stark autographs a little girl's drawing, he asks her name. She answers Erin, so he adds a speech bubble to the picture of Iron Man reading "Help Me, Erin!" right before he has his first panic attack in the movie. Probably a coincidence, but it tickled me.

I can't believe that's a coincidence. Of all the names and phrases they could have picked? Nah, there's someone on the production team who put that in on purpose.

# ¿ May 6, 2013 03:27

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BlitzBlast posted:

memories of cthulu

# ¿ May 27, 2013 22:04

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CommissarMega posted:

By the way, what was the theme in the end? I know the sound, I know I've heard it before, but I can't quite seem to get the mental image to come together.

If this is a subconsciousness joke: :golfclap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwj8pXBWBlA

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# ¿ Jun 3, 2013 02:51

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Mighty Dicktron posted:

Everything by Karaagetarou. Check out At Chirei/Chirei De in particular.

It took me a long time to realize the title wasn't a kana-ized "cheery day".

# ¿ Jun 8, 2013 07:29

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CommissarMega posted:

And something's just occured to me- since we're seeing the SDM Incident now, could there be hope for a Subterranean Animism vid in the future? Wanna see that Parsee fight so bad.

The song at the end of the previous episode was Koishi's theme Last Remote, so a SA episode seems likely.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2013 03:19

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Pureauthor posted:

That poll reminded me of a question I want to ask - Why exactly does Septette for the Dead Princess win the music polls so consistently? It's a nice song and all but I wouldn't even rate it in ZUN's top 5 of final boss music, let alone the entire series.

Septette is a sweet spot for arrangement. The melody is simple but not boring, has plenty of voices to play with different instruments or use as vocals, and there's like five distinct themes that can be shuffled around to liven things up. The character association helps too, when the arrangement is vocal, because "refined princess" works both when it's taken seriously or played for laughs.

There are other tracks that are better music, but they tend to be not nearly as flexible. There's only so many ways to arrange Evening Primrose.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2013 02:24

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DrSunshine posted:

Question: Is Sakuya capable of time travel? If so, is it both backwards and forwards, or just one of the two? Or does she only produce temporal stasis? Is her stasis effect universal, or is it restricted to a localized temporal distortion?

Her exhibited ability is to arbitrarily increase or decrease the relative flow of time for herself, other people, and objects. This is functionally equivalent to forward time travel, as she could go sit in a room and slow her own time while the outside world continues on. The ability appears to be more magical than scientific; for example, she can apply sixty years of time to a single plant so it would bloom, and the plant did not run out of water/sunlight and die. The spell effect of "dimming" the viewport may indicate that she receives less light when moving faster than standard time.

According to the wiki her PMISS profile says she has the ability to reverse time but is unable to violate causality, which would strongly limit what she could do with time-reversal.

When used for "stasis" the effect appears to be global, because there's been no mention of temporal anomalies involving the SDM. If the effect were local, then spending a day in the SDM while Sakuya cleans might cause a week to pass outside. Alternatively the effect could be local to just Gensokyo, but that would mean Gensokyo has a separate timeline from the outside world, and there's evidence against that (the moon landings, Cirno's flower-dating in PoFV).

When used to manipulate space, her ability can be used to enclose large volumes within small volumes ("it's bigger on the inside"). This is used mostly to hold large amounts of small objects (knives, cleaning equipment) on her person.

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# ¿ Jun 15, 2013 16:55

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DrSunshine posted:

Aww.

See I was thinking it'd be fun to draw a short story comic involving time travel and paradoxes that'd wind up with about 4 copies of Sakuya coexisting at once-- the "present Sakuya", one from the future, one from the past, and one from the future-Sakuya's past that is still in the future for the present Sakuya.

You're writing a comic about a maid who warps the very fabric of the universe so she can more efficiently houseclean a mansion owned by a little-kid vampire. Don't let yourself be constrained by common sense.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2013 02:05

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leather fedora posted:

How about some South American folk-style arrangements?

http://zephyr.halfmoon.jp/jersey/TPCH/

Funny, I didn't know the recorder was a folk instrument.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2013 15:53

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Decoy Badger posted:

While arrangements are being slung about, could everyone post the saddest, most tear-jerking arrange of Parsee's theme they have? There seems to be a really melancholy core to the song that nobody really seems to express.

Isn't every single arrange of her theme trying to sound melancholy? You can just search youtube for [green eyed jealousy] and get hundreds of background-music-to-sad-movie songs.

Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63LyAUAomA

# ¿ Jul 4, 2013 20:39

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Just noticed that Suwako&! 5 and 6 have been translated

http://www.mediafire.com/?9vq8bahdax1dsg8

http://www.mediafire.com/?2lc5c8pbsla1dcj

# ¿ Jul 26, 2013 05:05

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Clarste posted:

Okay, this is a kind of a tangent and maybe you guys won't appreciate this but I feel like I have to ask.

As some of you are aware I translate the official Touhou comics. I wouldn't say I'm a particularly great translator, but I try not to be completely terrible. Anyway, in a chapter I'm currently translating, (kinda but not really spoiler, sort of a dialect question that may reveal who shows up) there's a character who uses the honorific "dono". Which is basically an old fashioned way to address people that in the modern era makes people think of samurai dramas.

Sorry for the derail.

"Sir" and "Dame", to me, include connotations of royalty and upper-class; depending on who the character is and who they're addressing, this might be appropriate or not.

Does the character have enough lines that you could indicate archaic dialect through some other mechanism, such as vocabulary or grammar? That would probably make for a more natural translation. I'm not saying to go full-blown stark raving prithee, maybe try to emulate the style of books or historical texts written in the 1700s and 1800s.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2013 05:45

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Saigyouji posted:

Utsuho, Aya, Nue, Tewi, and Renko.

e: Oh, and Murasa.

konngara!

# ¿ Aug 1, 2013 03:07

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fanart-cirno seems to have a thing for thrones

# ¿ Aug 9, 2013 06:58

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Volt Catfish posted:

ZUN is pretty good at that. Look at Rin's really elaborate galaxy dress that no fan artist seems to bother re-creating.

Rin's got the bullet-pattern dress. Galaxy dress is Utsuho, and artists love it.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2013 04:02

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CommissarMega posted:

I still haven't found a single drat polka track. I mean, we have metal Touhou, orchestral Touhou, folk Touhou, we even have Lady Gaga Touhou- so where's the drat polka?�

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoO38qHuMQ

This is from the (very good) album DOSKONAŁOŚCI Z TANCEREK, released at Comiket 83 by 街角麻婆豆.

From the same album, have some old-world Cirno:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kyrwc56fSM

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# ¿ Aug 20, 2013 15:58

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My mind's being moderately blown right now, and I'd like some internet help to work through it.

This is Nitori's sigil from The Grimoire of Marisa, published July 2009:

And this an article about Darfur in the June 2007 newsletter of the San Francisco Psychological Association:

closeup of the SFPA design:

So is this some pre-existing design that ZUN re-used? I thought he'd come up with it, since I'd never seen any similar design before. What is it? Where does it come from? Why can't Google or TinEye find any non-Touhou references?

# ¿ Oct 14, 2013 01:59

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BlitzBlast posted:

Wait, did people really think ZUN drew any of those? You've seen his art before guys, come on.

Some of the GOM sigils are known to be derived from other sources (e.g. Flandre's sigil is a woodcut by Chariklia Zarris, Suwako's sigil is from a children's coloring book site), but others are unidentified and are believed to have been drawn for GoM by a non-ZUN artist. Until just now, I thought Nitori's was of the latter category.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2013 16:39

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Machikado-Mapoze has another classical album out :syoon:

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# ¿ Oct 19, 2013 22:49

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Kheldragar posted:

I'm a sucker for violin, and I'm loving the second track. Wait, did you say 'another'?

I posted about this album a ~~week~~ month or two ago, it's got the Yoshika polka. Prepare yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeOhBoW2Ww

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# ¿ Oct 19, 2013 22:54

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Justus posted:

You're getting your Central European dances mixed up I think. Polka is the one with a steady rhythm and the "oom-pah"s. This sounds more like a Czardas. </classical violin nerd>

Sorry, I should have been more clear. The post you quoted is indeed a Czardas, and I posted earlier about the polka song: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=418617903

Kheldragar posted:

While it's very nice, I don't actually hear it as a remix of a Touhou song. Apparently it's supposed to be Necrofantasia? I don't hear it.

I don't know about Necrofantasia, but you can definitely hear Legend of Tohno (compare http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=P4dnkdikJMw#t=25)

# ¿ Oct 20, 2013 16:15

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Ammat The Ankh posted:

Huh, I honestly didn't notice that. I swear she was wearing pants in Terajin's other pictures.

He draws her with pants in the cute pictures, without in the action ones.

Why? :iiam:

# ¿ Oct 22, 2013 02:12

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I carved a thing

Template is http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=2241544

# ¿ Oct 27, 2013 02:22

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Raenir Salazar posted:

I want more of different genres in English but they seem to be really really hard to find aside from Bad Apple.

Jillian Aversa of OCRemix fame has at least two Touhou songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BMZw1hK7fU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckw6i5I8nMI

(what is it with Western arranges of Remi's theme being so emo? watching too much True Blood?)

You already mentioned Orange Jam, but for any other readers it's worth mentioning that they have a whole bunch of English-language songs and their vocalist is American:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dosct3m3ho

SWING HOLIC has a couple English songs on each album, but their grammatical quality varies wildly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ApbOfYvuk

As you've noticed, anything labeled "eurobeat" has a good chance of having English in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGEe_4LZTo

And here's a French song, just because it's nice to have other European languages get some representation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiDrtooEGf0

# ¿ Jan 8, 2014 04:33

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A Meat posted:

I'm actually wondering if there are any other Touhou arranges in esoteric languages now, but I'm not sure how I'd go about searching for those.

If you're looking for covers of flash animations, there's a bunch of them on YouTube. Search for [touhou <language> cover]. Quality varies wildly.

Non-cover songs are harder to find, and I don't know a good way other than just listening to lots of music.

more Hebrew:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqw02Q7iK0k

German:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLQaU5vfqw

Spanish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr68_vc6Nbo

Thai (this is technically not a song, but I am amazed that it exists):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP5rgMthLu0

Finally, Bad Apple has been covered by bored nerds in any language you can think of (here: Ukrainian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5WdPSAwdPY

# ¿ Jan 9, 2014 07:14

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When IaMP came out with Evening Star, didn't ZUN write something like "Yukari finally has her own theme"?

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 01:02

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Slim Jim Pickens posted:

http://sinkerghost.co.vu/tagged/drawingu

sup

Anybody recognize the song playing on that site? Taking a wild guess that it's a remix of something touhou.

It's not Touhou. Googling the lyrics pulled up http://randomnessthing.com/2010/01/26/beat-of-the-day-say-that-you-love-me-by-akemi-kakihara/

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 04:16

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el burbo posted:

The President of the United States has declared Honnouji Academy part of Gensokyo

What is this and how do I make one?

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# ¿ Jan 25, 2014 07:56

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This is over a year old, but I just discovered that Alpha Music mashed up U.N Owen with the fourth movement of Dvorak's ninth symphony and it sounds drat good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Eb2wYDDLw

# ¿ Jan 26, 2014 07:18

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Takoluka posted:

Apparently, there was some community fallout as well, so pretty much everyone who runs the wikia is horrible. Or so I'm told.

The community voted to move the wiki from Wikia to a self-hosted solution. After migrating the content, the Wikia copy was set to "this page moved to ..." links and locked. Then a Wikia admin stepped in, unlocked the wiki, banned the existing editors, and reverted the content. In revenge, a bunch of trolls stepped in to fill it with OC characters and slashfiction.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2014 04:13

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SyntheticPolygon posted:

Why is Momiji so popular? All of the other unimportant midbosses are around the 60's but she almost broke into the top 20. I'm so confused.

Touhou fandom loves characters who take themselves too seriously because it's very easy to make fun of them. And it doesn't hurt that despite being canonically a wolf, Momiji's hair makes her look like a big fluffy Spitz.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2014 22:05

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SyntheticPolygon posted:

But does she take herself seriously? As a midboss without dialogue the only thing we know about her is that she and Aya dislike each other and Hatate thinks she's pretty cool. I suppose it's just another example of how the Touhou Fandom basically invents personalities for most of the characters. I'm just more confused about how Momiji is so much more popular than the other midbosses.

Her characterization is from DS and SoPM; before those came out she was considered more of Aya's sidekick than a real character. The reveal in DS that she strongly dislikes Aya did a lot to jumpstart her popularity.

As for taking herself seriously, well, this is her SoPM portrait. You be the judge:

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I've had this as my ringtone for years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT0YOhyjAGU

# ¿ Mar 4, 2014 07:19

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