History Webcomic / TouhouNekokayou

** "Act ⑥" (the ''fourth'' act): It is revealed that [[FramingDevice this is all]] an "[[AdventureGame ADVENTURE-GAME]] / [[RolePlayingGame RPG]] / [[BulletHell DANMAKU]] hybrid" being played by Muffin, and that [=KirbyM=] (who is a different individual from "Walfas") is the creator of it and ''Touhou Nekokayou'' as a series of adventure games, which were made with the aid of Create.swf. On the page in which Muffin becomes the "PlayerCharacter" ("[[strike:[[{{Persona}} Thou art I, and I am thou]]]] You are now [[AuthorAvatar MUFFIN]]."), it alternates between first-person and second-person narration. Soon after, Muffin starts ''cheating'' at the game, giving the characters GodMode, and wrestling with the game's [[NoFairCheating anti-cheat measures]].

* HumiliationConga: At the end of the Catness arc, [[spoiler:Tenshi gets wailed on by the others in an increasingly brutal fashion. Even ''[[{{Baka}} Cirno]]'' gets a shot in]].

''[[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic Touhou Nekokayou: Scarlet Weather Archive in Japanese Red]]'' is a silly fancomic about ''[[{{Touhou}} Touhou Project]]'', made using [[{{Walfas}} create.swf]], a [[VirtualPaperDoll character creation tool]], and created by Tropers/{{KimikoMuffin}}. It also has associated [[{{Fanfic}} prose fiction]], as well as [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa Create.swf Adventures]], an InteractiveComic heavily influenced by MSPaintAdventures.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation[[invoked]]: Mokou was actually a lesbian who was jealous of Kaguya's suitors, but never realized this until Remilia manipulated their fate so that they'd [[{{Shipping}} fall in love]]; Kisume is [[TheMadHatter completely freaking nuts]], and reasons that only someone who is insane would want to live in a bucket the way members of her species do, and it is implied that ''all'' tsurube-otoshis are like this.

* AuthorCatchphrase: "Apart from anything else ..." to mean "for one thing ..." (Muffin has [[LampshadeHanging remarked on]] its overuse in TheRant for [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic88 #88]]); it's originally taken from ''{{Discworld}}''.

* CosmicRetcon: Keine's mini-arc revolves around turning PC-98 {{CanonDiscontinuity}} into this.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Meiling ([[CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon bonus points]] for also being "[[RunningGag totally a]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]]"), who in [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic33 #33]], despite being a stage 3 boss, was able to stop [[BonusBoss Flandre]]'s rampage with her martial arts, taking on ''[[DoppelgangerAttack four of her at once]]''. Unfortunately, in general, martial arts are useless against danmaku ...

* OneSteveLimit: Touhou itself, with its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, has been an example of this trope for years ([[DummiedOut Rin Satsuki]] and Rin "Orin" Kaenbyou notwithstanding), but Muffin has expressed a desire to maintain the trope within the webcomic: having declared the original Ellen [[{{CanonDiscontinuity}} not part of the Nekokayou canon]], he promptly appropriated the name for the otherwise [[NoNameGiven nameless-in-canon]] Tokiko, since there's no way that he can accidentally duplicate a ZUN-created name that way (apart from Rin Satsuki and Satsuki Hakurei).
* OriginalCharacter: Mika and Midori, who form ThoseTwoGuys for the Eientei crew; Tsumami and Tsukiyo, who more or less serve [[{{Expy}} the same purpose]] as [[{{Discworld}} Colon and Nobby]] for Kotohime's [[AscendedExtra police force]]; Satsuki "Sacchin" Hakurei, Reimu's adopted granddaughter after the TimeSkip; Carroll Kirisame, [[{{Shipping}} Marisa and Alice's]] [[HomosexualReproduction daughter]]; and Masha Kinoko, a mushroom-youkai who comes into existence during ''Shenanigans in a Magical Forest''.

** "Act ⑥" (the ''fourth'' act): It is revealed that [[FramingDevice this is all]] an "[[AdventureGame ADVENTURE-GAME]]/[[RolePlayingGame RPG]]/[[BulletHell DANMAKU]] hybrid" being played by Muffin, and that [=KirbyM=] (who is a different individual from "Walfas") is the creator of it and ''Touhou Nekokayou'' as a series of adventure games, which were made with the aid of Create.swf. On the page in which Muffin becomes the "PlayerCharacter" ("[[strike:[[{{Persona}} Thou art I, and I am thou]]]] You are now [[AuthorAvatar MUFFIN]]."), it alternates between first-person and second-person narration. Soon after, Muffin starts ''cheating'' at the game, giving the characters GodMode, and wrestling with the game's [[NoFairCheating anti-cheat measures]].

* RetCon: Dissatisfied with how comics 97-100 turned out, Muffin tossed them into a bin and basically started remaking them. To say nothing of the timeline ...

** Kisume can apparently travel between buckets by "following the [[{{HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy}} recipriversexclusions]] of [her] mind and soul." Sakuya then describes the term when asked (though obviously not referring to the book by name.)
** In comc #37, a bit of text in the second to last panel is [[{{TheDementedCartoonMovie}} qrrbrbirlbel]]. Oddly enough, this one was NOT picked up quickly.
** ''Create.swf Adventures: Cottagesnagged'' at one point parodies a {{LoadingScreen}} which uses iconic text from the Touhou games ... but which is actually designed after the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading excessive]] loading screens from VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006.

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: EX-Rumia, AKA Rumia Yagami, who acted like a [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed]] LargeHam [[ImAHumanitarian In A Humanitarian]] CheerfulChild in her [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic4 first appearance]], AxeCrazy the [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic85 second time]], and just plain cartoonishly evil [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic111 the third time]]. She has formed a ShoutOut to [[{{MSPaintAdventures}} the Midnight Crew]] [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic114 during the next 60 years]].

* ThemeNaming: [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice]]'s daughter is named [[Creator/LewisCarroll Carroll]]. The spelling clinches it.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck:

* ThemeNaming: [[AliceInWonderland Alice]]'s daughter is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll Carroll]]. The spelling clinches it.

!!This comic provides examples of:

** In [[InteractiveComic Create.swf Adventures]], [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0110 Yukari]] supposedly [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou broke through the fourth wall]], and [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0143 Reimu]] did it [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou less literally]] but no less decisively; however, it turned out to be a FourthWallPsych.

* ChekhovsGun[=/=]ChekhovsGunman: In Create.swf Adventures, [[spoiler:one mushroom that got left behind toward the beginning becomes a main character after turning into a Youkai.]]

** In ''Create.swf Adventures'': [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0039 early on]], Marisa threatens to sic Orin (who has the power to control evil spirits) on Mima (an evil spirit). [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0547 Much later ...]]

* InteractiveComic: Create.swf Adventures, [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa Shenanigans in a Magical Forest]] and [[[[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa02cottage Cottagesnagged]], done in the style of MSPaintAdventures.

* OriginalCharacter: Mika and Midori, who form ThoseTwoGuys for the Eientei crew; Tsumami and Tsukiyo, who more or less serve [[{{Expy}} the same purpose]] as [[{{Discworld}} Colon and Nobby]] for Kotohime's police force; Satsuki "Sacchin" Hakurei, Reimu's adopted granddaughter after the TimeSkip; Carroll Kirisame, [[{{Shipping}} Marisa and Alice's]] [[HomosexualReproduction daughter]]; and Masha Kinoko, a mushroom-youkai who comes into existence during Create.swf Adventures.

** Two particularly unusual examples are Meimu (AKA Kon Yakumo), who was ''already'' a sort of public-domain OC, but Muffin created an entirely new backstory for her which was only partially based on the "original" version; and Shanghai Margatroid, who was simply a magically-controlled puppet in canon until Alice and Marisa made her into an Independent Doll [[spoiler: in the ending to Create.swf Adventures]]. Then there's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide EX-Rumia]], AKA Rumia Yagami ...
** The Yatagarasu got introduced as Yasora Kojiwa in Create.swf Adventures ... and was then killed one strip later. (Her ghost remains, however.)

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative:"You are the guiltiest [[color:#ff0000:HELL-RAVEN]] with the power of a [[color:#ff0000:CROW]] with the power of [[color:#ff0000:THE SUN]] in the entire [[color:#ff0000:UNDERGROUND]]!

** That's nothing compared to the prose fiction. Of the five multi-chapter fics, only one is finished and only two of the other four have been updated in the past 12 months.
** As of October 2, 2010, the comic was officially on indefinite hiatus, although Muffin was still doing Create.swf Adventures. It came back on the 10th of April, just a few days after the end of CSA: Shenanigans in a Magical Forest.

* SeinfeldianConversation: Mika and Midori tend to have these while fleeing in terror.
* SelfDeprecation: In "Ask Masha":

** According to [[WordOfGod Muffin's own Tumblr]], this was based on actual criticisms he'd seen about the comic.

** [[spoiler: The real StealthPun is the two words left out in the mashup]]

* TomSwifty: Create.swf Adventures has a [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0174 triple-layered example]] without any actual dialogue:

* WhamEpisode: Create.swf Adventures had a relatively tame one: [[spoiler:It takes place [[TimeSkip 10 years]] into the main comic's future.]]

** The prank was supposed to work like this:
*** Step 1: "Manipulation of Luck" No matter how viciously Alice Margatroid attacks Marisa Kirisame, she will not be able to kill her or give her any injuries more severe than a light scratch.
*** Step 2: "Border of Tsundere and Yandere"
*** Step 3: "Border of Situation where Yandere Would Go Nuts"
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Pretty much all canon; [[JustifiedTrope explained]] for the human characters by way of Gensokyo's naturally-high magical energies (i.e. Sanae had black hair before, but entering Gensokyo turned her hair green), and for the youkai characters by the fact that, well, they aren't human, so obviously the rules are different. Muffin also created a version of [=KirbyM=]'s [[LifeEmbellished Daily Flash]] characters with [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=art-realwalfas more realistic Japanese hair colors]] after previously depicting them and Sanae straight-up in an OriginalFlavor comic as a [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic110 birthday present]] for [=KirbyM=].

* ActionMom: When Shinki is [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0176 introduced]] in Shenanigans in a Magical Forest, the BossSubtitles go through several titles relating to maternity and divinity before settling on "Almighty, Like All Mothers".

* ActionMom: When Shinki is introduced in Shenanigans in a Magical Forest, the BossSubtitles go through several titles relating to maternity and divinity before settling on "Almighty, Like All Mothers".

* ActionMom: When Shinki is introduced in Shenanigans in a Magical Forest, the BossSubtitle goes through several titles relating to maternity and divinity before settling on "Almighty, Like All Mothers".

** Sakuya is a walking ShoutOut to [[JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]]. This is in Touhou canon. The trope is present ''here'' by way of the fact that when she uses her TimeStop ability, the declared spell card is always (the technically {{canon}}) "[[MemeticMutation ZA WARUDO]]" and the fact that Muffin is responsible for [=KirbyM=] including Dio-Sakuya poses in create.swf.

* {{Yandere}}: [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when Yukari and Tewi tried to pull a prank that involved manipulating the Border of {{Tsundere}} and Yandere, only to discover that Alice wasn't an actual tsundere.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Well, it ''is'' {{Touhou}}, [[FrickinLaserBeams so]] [[BeamSpam obviously]] [[KameHameHadoken it]] [[BulletHell counts]]. Special mention, though, must go to [[CanonSue Reimu's]] [[GodModeSue Hax Sign]] "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin You Just Plain F***ing Lose]]" and Koishi's [[DittoFighter Recollection "Red The Nightless Motherf***er"]].

-->'''Masha:''' Eh, it seemed to me to be kind of overrated when I went through it. It wasn't always that original, it kept using the "[[DeathNote just as planned]]" joke, and it used [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] a little too much...

-->'''Masha:''' Eh, it seemed to me to be kind of overrated when I went through it. It wasn't always that original, it kept using the "just as planned" joke, and it used [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] a little too much...

** ''DeathNote'': Remilia's fate-manipulation has [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic1 similar requirements and effects]]; Komachi even [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic17 has a Death Note]] at one point (and can see your name and "lifespan in Shinigami time" [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic45 by looking at your face]]), in addition to overuse of "JUST AS PLANNED."

* MayflyDecemberRomance: Marisa with Alice ([[WitchSpecies youkai-magician]]), as well as Sakuya with Meiling ([[RunningGag totally a dragon]]) and Youmu with Yuyuko ([[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]]); though this has been dealt with by the "Fate of 60 Years" timeframe, with Marisa having also turned into a Youkai Magician, Sakuya becoming a vampire, and Youmu being ''[[DeathIsCheap another ghost]].''

* InteractiveComic: [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa Shenanigans in a Magical Forest]], done in the style of MSPaintAdventures (complete with "Quickly retrieve arms from ____" RunningGag).

* MayflyDecemberRomance: Marisa with Alice ([[WitchSpecies youkai-magician]]), as well as Sakuya with Meiling ([[RunningGag totally a dragon]]) and Youmu with Yuyuko (ghost); though this has been dealt with by the "Fate of 60 Years" timeframe, with Marisa having also turned into a Youkai Magician, Sakuya becoming a vampire, and Youmu being ''another ghost.''

* {{CanonDiscontinuity}}[[invoked]]: [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Ellen Ellen]] has been stricken from Nekokayou's version of the Touhou canon, being that she was originally from a non-ZUN work (of course, being a [=PC98=] character, her position in Touhou canon [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome is shaky anyways]]).

* HomosexualReproduction: Carroll, who refers to Alice as her mother and Marisa as her "father." Shanghai, who was merely created, refers to Marisa as "other-Mom." Mika and Midori also had fun [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic89 once]] considering this idea with respect to [[TaleOfTheBambooCutter Kaguya]], in light of the existence of Kaguya the mouse.