Touhou

It's not "can you?", it's "would you?". It seems doubtful that they'd come up with the idea on their own. And if they did create their own videogames, they probably wouldn't be safe for human use.

In terms of entertainment, they have very complex forms of shogi (more complex than this).

The camera phone doesn't seem to function as anything beyond a camera. And when told that Outside World technology doesn't mix well with water, Nitori is baffled by the concept, so it's possible that it doesn't work by conventional electronics.

edited 15th Oct '15 12:37:15 PM by Prime32

@Prime32 Counter argument: The camera phone seemed to have been re-purposed from a real one, and there are lots of phones nowadays that are waterproofed.

Nah, the idea of technology in general not working in water seems odd to her. The phone was not related to this.

edited 15th Oct '15 1:47:02 PM by Prime32

... The way you guys are describing them, it seems like kappas normally live and do their work underwater. I mean, I know the mythological kappa is an aquatic creature, but...

... Oh man, this so damn priceless. Such mistaken assumptions could easily lead to a huge Incident if the "wrong"/"right" youkai hears about it, only for the whole thing to end up proving utterly pointless once it's revealed that the newfound Easy World Domination Tool fails to deliver no matter what one does. Cue Reimu and whoever that has been tagging along as her erstwhile comrade/sidekick throwing a fit about how much time they wasted and how much nerve-wracking grief they suffered for nothing.

Maybe, but I could see certain named youkai being interested enough to occasionally peek at what the latest popular thing is and the like, if only to amuse themselves with the Outside World's eccentricities.

... Wait, so there is no such thing as a youkai that existed naturally as a species of its own and ended up becoming the subject of human mythology?

Nah, don't sweat it. I don't see why you need to apologize... and in Arabic, no less. Did you google that, or did you learn the language for some reason?

... Wait, what?

Ah, but what if Remilia for example commissioned them to design a unique device to do this or that for her own purposes? (Granted, it might not work fully as intended, because when does stuff like this ever do?)

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Pretty sure this is wrong. I can't think of any instance where a divine spirit was treated as a youkai.

The cucumber "factory" is an indoor garden. Y'know, the scientific kind. I'd call it more of a laboratory.

I believe that would be classified as a cryptid, not a youkai.

A chupacabra show up in the manga and Mamizou says that technically it's an UMA (Japanese acronym for Unidentified Mysterious Animal: Cryptid), not a youkai. But then she acts like the distinction doesn't matter all that much.

edited 15th Oct '15 2:27:52 PM by Clarste

And we can't really be sure if the chupacabra "existed before humans" or if it came into being a while ago because of the Urban Myth. The latter seems more likely in Touhou. Which makes it so close to a Youkai, that, yes, like you said, that distinction doesn't matter any more. Especially since, if you are a foreign creature of any kind (like the Scarlet Sisters, for example), if you stay in Gensokyo for a bit, you automatically become "adopted"/classified as a Youkai.

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@Marq:

Well, if I remember correctly, which is never guaranteed, then, yes, that is indeed the case Pretty sure we got confirmation in one book that their cities are indeed underwater. We at least never got to see a land-based one.

And, yes, I used the term "cucumber factory" pretty much for exactly THAT effect on you Clarste explained it better.

There wasn't one, yeah (not that that ever stopped me before; this is pretty much how I behave all the time in RL); gotta be honest, just was looking for an easy phrase to Google Which answers...

Yeah, Googled it, gotta be honest I kinda made that My Thing as of late: since I really super love that this thread brings together all of us from so many cool, diverse parts of the world, I just like to occasionally use one phrase from their mother tongue when talking with them <3<3 اتمنى لك يوما طيبا! (Sidenote: was cool to realize that it automatically switched to writing right to left after I had copy-pasted it!)

edited 15th Oct '15 2:44:35 PM by FellDeedsAwake

Absolutely Everyone. (Image is XBOX HUEG.)

Candidate for the Characters.Touhou main page? Or just a point of reference? (It does possess a few extras so...)

edited 15th Oct '15 6:15:14 PM by MajorTom

I find it a little too fuzzy and indistinct if you reduce it to wiki size.

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Oh man, that image even has Beerko in it. Colour me impressed.

It's impressive, but completely useless for our purposes— Wouldn't scale well, and devotes too much space to various non-characters

About gods, I think people forget too often that Sanae is also a god. A "god" in Touhou-verse is simply something that received power through faith. Be it human (Sanae), divine spirit (Kanako), or faith itself (Suwako). And there are odd cases like Shou, who is a former youkai turned god (or a god's avatar).

In Touhou-verse, youkai are creatures created to explain unknown phenomenons. When the actual explanation behind said phenomenon is found, the youkai loses their purpose and might disappear. For example, the yamabiko is on the verge of extinction because people learned that echo is reflected sound, not monkey-cat-things shouting back at you.

Speaking of which, the origin of kappa never fails to amuse me. ^note It's because drowned corpses have loose buttholes due to corpse things. The ancient Japanese apparently thought it's because some turtle-duck monster goes around stealing souls from their butts

edited 15th Oct '15 7:35:41 PM by TrueShadow1

Holyyyyyy $%§& YES That is amazing and I love it. They're even all drawn well! Not cheaply made or chibified. And! What Beerko is for Mr. Slug, is the Hobgoblin in it for me! <3 Any time someone recognizes that yes, there has been an army of hobgoblins in Gensokyo for a while now, is a good time.

Awwwwwww ...I'll have to trust you guys about the size logistics of it, then.

But... hooooow bad is it? I mean, I'd say the only objective of the Pic Of Everyone on the Characters Page is to give a one-glance-impression of "HOLY §%$& that is a lot of characters!". You know, for newcomers (certainly piqued my interest when I first came here). It would still do that even if you couldn't make out everyone, right? For a good look at each character, there is the pic of the Symposium cover on the Main Page and, obviously, the individual char pages.

Completely true, no argument there

edited 15th Oct '15 11:05:04 PM by FellDeedsAwake

Our current characters pic is very useful because of its column shape. It fits nicely with our maximum width for pictures, and everyone's distinct.

I have a message from another time...

Tea party, Hyakki Yakou, Cooking

Okay, where is everyone getting this? Because when I go to Team Shanghai Alice's site and try to find the purchase page, I wind up getting a screenful of mojibake.

edited 16th Oct '15 2:05:56 AM by TwinBird

My posts make considerably more sense read in the voice of John Ratzenberger.

Wrong thread?

Oh, you edited it to be relevant now

Okay, Perfectly Legal Means aside, the wiki has a page on purchasing

Also, you should really get support for Japanese characters if you want to spend much time in this fandom

Color me impressed. It literally has everyone major and minor from Fortune Teller to S Si B Gods. No Satsuki Rin though :( Wait nvm, she's next to the Di PP girls and the non-Touhou ZUN girls. (Wow this really does have everyone)

edited 16th Oct '15 2:44:32 AM by Zansnae793

Satsuki Rin doesn't exist

Except in our hearts.

She's still real to me dammit.

I call shenanigans, that picture doesn't even have the Buddhist cyclops◊.

I still remember the former store Paletweb like it was yesterday. That was the first place where I learned that Touhou figures do, in fact, exist.

But what happened to it, exactly? One day, it just... refused to open out of nowhere, as if it had kinda spontaneously combusted out of existence.