Touhou

Marisa is friends with everyone, because she's friendly. She says she goes drinking with Yuugi.

Well lets be specific on people we actually know she's friends with.

Alice, Patchouli, Kosuzu, Reimu, Yuugi, Byakuren, Sanae, Nitori, Akyuu and Rinnosuke off the top of my head.

Rinnosuke is friends with Marisa's father.

Well who cares about that loser.

嘘だ!

She totally does exist and I can find the manga pages to prove it!

We know that there's a fairy with that hair and wing design. It's not Daiyousei though because there's no one with that name.

OH SNAP Ice-cold.

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But yeah, was great to read all those friendships up there that I forgot in my post! So many! Makes me happy. I can add one more! Kosuzu and Human!Mamizou, right? Counts as Intergenerational, too. ...well, we can't be completely sure how one-sided it is... but Suzu certainly enjoys it.

I'd think Reimu-Shinmyoumaru count as friends.

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Oh yeah, if all the others above count, then those two, too Oh man, those were some super-cute moments when those two were roommates We still don't have any idea what DDMC Hammer's status is right now, though, right? Is she back in her castle? Is she bigger now, as she wished for? If not, why not?!

I'm kinda surprised this whole "friendship" thing didn't bring up more disagreements? What I mean is, everyone has their pretty strict definitions in Real Life about who they consider their friends, right? As opposed to acquaintances. I sure know I do, and in RL, my usage of the term friend is VERY carefully chosen for a very small, important group.

But when it comes to fictional characters, my standards about that word are way more relaxed, I guess There, I pretty much use it immediately as soon as two people are friendly to each other on a semi-regular basis ^^ (But, as we've established time and time again, in Touhou, with its overwhelming number of jerkass and snarky characters, that alone is still pretty rare and special ^^)

Do you think your standards might relax for characters because we don't see them for 100% of the time, and so have to infer how they might feel about other characters based on the narrow windows into their lives we get?

Acquaintances is what I'd use to describe Nitori and others' relationships. Like, outwardly she's nice and all, but it's all for the sake of business and she often talks behinds their backs.

Gensoukyou has a pretty good amount of mutual friendships in canon. Even newcomers like Sumi turned out okay and has a few good friends there. So not to say the environment is entirely hostile or segregated (it is for some like Seija), or that the mistress/slave dynamic holds true (Reisen seems happy at least).

Although what I found most interesting about this series is that, aside from a few exceptions, no one really has any deep-seated, long-lasting animosity towards each other. Everyone can co-exist without outright killing each other.

edited 21st Sep '16 1:09:08 AM by Zansnae793

She showed up bigger in U Li L and hasn't been seen hanging out at the shrine, so I'd imagine she went back to the castle. It's also her stage in U Li L.

Also Komachi and Kasen are friends. Maybe. I suppose you could also just consider them people who know each other through work and are on friendly terms though.

Yuyuko and the Prismrivers are friends, aren't they?

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!

All we know is that Yuyuko hires them fairly regularly, I believe.

edited 21st Sep '16 4:41:48 AM by joergenjetsam

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And Sumire and Mokou, with Keine, most likely.:3

... I think we can safely say at this point that our crowdsourcing has concluded that, yes, there are a LOT of friendships in Touhou, even though at times, it doesn't seem like it with how much of a jerk everyone can be ^^.

The amount of characters in Touhou greatly outnumbers how many are actual friends with each other, but the real world is kinda like that too. Real world tends to have bigger group friendships than Touhou though, but... well, Youkai are explicitly stated to prefer to be loners so I guess it's not too unexpected that most friendships would be within small spheres.

edited 21st Sep '16 6:36:54 AM by TiamatRoar

Also, given that we only have a few representatives from the great youkai civilizations or the human village, we might be cut off from larger friendship groups. Nitori might have 37 kappa friends, but because she's our representative kappa, those friendships don't get a lot of panel time. Keine might hang out with other human villagers all the time. That kind of thing.

I forgot how this conversation started so they might not count, but Renko and Maribel are friends too.

And that's how I ended up in the wardrobe. It Just Bugs Me!

I think it's a thing that, for all her bluntness and posturing, Marisa's a pretty nice person.

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Not to say that humans don't count, but girls like Marisa are a little weird while still within our standards of reasoning. Most everyone else can be harder to classify.

I suppose in this case murderous intent/hatred can be mutual with affection.

Just look at Fujiwara and Kaguya.

As someone that studies psychology, the really warped standards do make a lot of the comedic moments uncomfortable to watch. Would make for an utterly fascinating psycho-analysis though.

We'll have to see if/how she interacts with Reisen in ULiL, but canonically, I'm pretty sure Mokou is fairly ambivalent towards Kaguya. The angry tsundere bit seems to largely stem from Inaba and Inaba.

This is someone who prefers starving to death rather than bothering to feed herself. Mokou is the queen of apathy.

Song of the Sirens

There was also that bit from Ci LR

edited 21st Sep '16 10:51:19 AM by Bocaj

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If you consider the warped-by-our-standards perspectives of the characters as cultural rather than psychological (at least in the case of humans), it might be a little less uncomfortable? That's how I've been coming at it.

The perspectives of the villagers who were first bounded into Gensokyo so long ago would also be pretty strange to us, and to modern Japanese folks, after all.