HimetheSpuddy2
Since: Jul, 2020
10/04/2020 00:00:00
I personally disagree with the story making people question everything they know about Touhou canon, which ties back with how grossly, grossly overhyped it is. I\'ve watched it, and it didn\'t make me question the canon at all (other than making me decide I hate Tenshi in the end, because she\'s unsympathetic as fuck in this story.) But I\'m glad you enjoyed yourself, dude.
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Admirable in Premise, but Not Without Its Own Flaws.
Okay, it's been some time since I saw Diamond In The Rough, and I want to leave my thoughts for any new readers who might be interested in this story.
This Walfas movie was created to Deconstruct all of the typical Self-Insert Marty Stu Wish Fulfillment Tropes that everybody hates... and it does so, which you can see on the Deconstruction section of this trope page.
However, there is always more than one way to deconstruct clichés, and while the story of (the fictional) Brolli Diamondback started as a simple tale of what happens when a dumb kid tries to live out his silly fantasies in Gensokyo (which is stated to be a pretty dangerous place in Touhou's vague and convoluted lore), it quickly devolves into a complete clusterfuck of convoluted plots, absurd schemes, and horrible people who insist on stabbing each other in the back just for shits and giggles (Blue-and-Orange Morality combined with Accentuate the Negative).
After the four hours of idiotic drama and tragedy, I was emotionally exhausted by how horrible and pointless the story was, and I made my opinions very clear in my comments to Spaztique through Youtube and Deviantart.
Since then, I've had time to reflect on my thoughts, and in the end, Diamond in the Rough is an EXTREMELY EXHAUSTING STORY that will likely make you despise either most or all of its incredibly large cast, thanks to Spaztique's extremely liberal use of Alternate Character Interpretation (which is what happens when 80-90% of material related to Touhou is fan-created, according to the Touhou YMMV page).
Spaztique wanted to create a story that would confuse, frustrate, horrify, and sadden his audience while making them question everything they knew about Touhou canon and fanon... and he did! Mission accomplished, dude! :D
I've also spoken with Spaztique about what this story really means, and in the end, I think that Diamond in the Rough is a story that takes itself WAY too seriously, and we shouldn't be taking it too seriously, either.
It's just a silly fanfic, after all. It's just as silly as the hundreds of bad fanfics in the Touhou fandom that Diamond in the Rough was mean to critique, after all. :D
And besides, there's always Ensign Sue Must Die and "Stevo Gets the Bad Gyus"
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