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Which religion is the best?
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Shintoism 59 9.58%
Buddhism 77 12.50%
Taoism 66 10.71%
FEAR CLOWNPIECE 414 67.21%
Total: 616 votes
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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Ammat The Ankh posted:

You already posted the Miko bits, everything else pales in comparison to the Almighty and Humanitarian Taoist.

There's another Miko bit in the afterword, actually:

Sumireko posted:

Now, it doesn't really matter, but I'm sure you're curious so I'll jot it down. The winner of the fireworks contest was... Toyosatomimi no Miko. Certainly, no one could beat her in the flashy, overwhelming brilliance of her danmaku, nor in how safe she made it (not to mention how many times she entered). I mean, we kind of stopped judging partway through so it gets a little murky, but even so, if anyone was going to win, it'd pretty much have to be her. She can also be a little... pushy. Well, I guess you could say the judges weren't brave enough to give the win to anyone else.

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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

nyttyn posted:

disc girl is jenga world champion. sure rock stacking sucks but she tries to make it fun as possible. unofficial leader of the mizuko. has people participate in rock stacking contests to raise their spirits.

cow used to drown people by going "hey hold my baby" but the baby was actually 10000 pounds then gensokyo went "that's not cool" so she moved to hell and mellowed out. now she fishes up literal dinosuar fish and other such subnautica poo poo, tames them, and sells them. if you wind up in the sanzu by mistake she'll take you back. other youkai kind of laugh at her but she don't give a single gently caress. she can manipulate weight.

chicken is The Niwatari. Goddess of chickens. basically border patrol for various underworlds, hell, etc. lives in youkai mountain, just works in higan. can cure throat disease. not fond of the fact chickens are basically just people food.

Mizuko means "miscarried, stillborn, or aborted child". She's a dead baby ghost. Dead baby ghosts stack stones by the Sanzu Riverside in Buddhism (Komachi talks to one in an ending somewhere, iirc).

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Marisa doesn't know healing magic. Why would she do that when she can learn to shoot more/bigger lasers instead?

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
That's just the artists drawing their own personal "congrats on the release" images, aren't they?

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
I am currently applying for a job starting in early May to translate a Japanese Mobile RPG based on a long running Japanese fantasy franchise and crossing my fingers.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
https://twitter.com/Touhou_CB/status/1131125043394691072

Maybe this was already clear earlier and I just missed it, but apparently the Touhou mobile game that ZUN approved of (Touhou Cannonball) is a gacha game of some kind. One of the pre-registration goals is giving out a "gacha ticket for a guaranteed 4 star or higher" as the reward. Marisa and Reimu (who both seem to be 4*) are also being given out as rewards.

If you haven't been following this game, it's a fairly high budget thing with 3D attack animations and voice acting. So... Touhou is gacha now.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
They don't want your dollars anyway because no way is this going to get a global release. Only cold hard yen accepted.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Technically we don't know anything about their monetization, only that there is some kind of gacha system in the game. Maybe you can't buy more pulls and only earn them in-game. /shrug

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:

Oh, that's neat then. Maybe it is finally time for Antinomy of Common Flower but with actual netplay.

Being on Switch doesn't automatically mean they'll fix the netplay to work outside of Japan.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Final chapter of WaHH.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
EOSD still rules the roost, in the public consciousness anyway.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
We can only pray that ZUN is currently writing PMiSS 3.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
New Fantasy Maiden Wars Complete Box trailer!

Containing a slick new UI, tons of tiny little things they've changed, and the official English title of Fantasy Maiden Wars, apparently.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
So the plot is basically a gang war in another dimension and also a robot rebellion.

Two of the 4 new characters are leaders of animals gangs fighting over territory. By gangs, I mean like Crips and Bloods, there's a sort of Yakuza connotation to their titles.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Ok but are the Yakuza and Robots also Goasts? This is very important.

The Yakuza are all goasts, the robots are immune to goasts though because they have no souls. So the Goast Yakuza have to go call in the Cleaners, ie: Reimu.

Clarste fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Aug 12, 2019

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
The three animal goasts you can choose from all belong to different gangs, btw. Like, the Wolf Goast is Saki's minion.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Upon closer examination, in turns out that the game is actually cyberpunk. Who knew?

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

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Yuyuko in one of the endings, this is absolutely real:

"Youmu, did you just do a hit for the Yakuza?"

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Kevos Setzer posted:

Is the Extra Stage Reimu coming in to break the Yakuza's kneecaps because they haven't paid her yet?

Because that's something I could see happening.

The Eagle spirit at least does actually pay her in the ending. With real cash money. They turn the shrine into a tourist trap for Animal Spirits, and Kasen comes in just to dramatically sigh at the camera.

Um... I feel like I should explain things more generally.

There are big four Yakuza families in the Beast World/Animal Realm.

The Kiketsugumi are led by Yachie, who is a dragon-turtle that you can't even imagine going up against. Like, that's her power: to make people lose the will to fight her. She's the cunning type who uses clever schemes to get what she wants. She's kind of the main villain in this game, but you also end up doing exactly what she wants.


The Keigagumi are led by Saki, who's a black pegasus (and Miko's former mount?). She's a musclehead who only respects raw power and those brave enough to use it. She dreams of ruling the Beast World, the Human World, and Hell and fully believes that she can. She's a little oni-like.


The Gouyaku Alliance is led by someone named Toutestu (also known as Taotie, for you mythology buffs), who doesn't show up in the game but gets talked about by Saki in the Extra stage. Toutestu is apparently a selfish bastard whose underlings suffer for it. The Gouyaku Alliance is defined by arrogance and looking down on people so it checks out.

The last of the major Yakuza Families is unnamed and has no presence in the game, but they're defined by subterfuge: traps, poisons, and camouflage.

Anyway, Yachie convinces three of the families to work together to take down Keiki, who's not a Yakuza but is muscling in on their territory and stealing their resources (ie: protecting people from them; Yachie specifically says that all people are resources to her). After Keiki is out of the picture, Saki immediately starts her own war and that's the Extra Stage.

There's also some other stuff regarding who Keiki is exactly and why she's doing what she's doing.

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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Captain Invictus posted:

Is the Pegasus cowboy missing an arm or is that another ZUN Art Affectation

Literally no one knows. Maybe we'll find out in an interview later.

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