History Webcomic / TouhouNekokayou

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Meiling ([[Film/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 ...

* JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: Mentioned InUniverse. Muffin has created a short bit of code which generates links to Wiki/TVTropes and appends a disclaimer to that effect, and uses it whenever linking to [=TVTropes=]. She's since stopped linking here, for various reasons.

* 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]], she promptly appropriated the name for the otherwise [[NoNameGiven nameless-in-canon]] Tokiko, since there's no way that she can accidentally duplicate a ZUN-created name that way (apart from Rin Satsuki and Satsuki Hakurei).

!!Provides Examples Of:

* 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 in the Outside World, 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=].

[[caption-width-right:350:The very first image from ''Create.swf Adventures'']]

* StealthPun: Well, to start with, the English title is a mashup of two [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Scarlet_Weather_Rhapsody other]] [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Bohemian_Archive_in_Japanese_Red works]] ...

** As of April 1st, 2010, Muffin's updated the comic's main page to this:
--> ...updated whenever I feel like it (generally ends up being around Monday-ish, though the original intended time was Sundays and occasional Wednesdays or Thursdays, but ultimately "when I feel like it").
** 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 since 2010.
** 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 ''Shenanigans in a Magical Forest.''
** The comic was put on another indefinite hiatus on December 17, 2011. ''Cottagesnagged'' is still ongoing, but Muffin has implied that she might stop doing much in the way of fanworks when it ended.

* EveryoneIsBi: Only a couple mentions which nearly amount to LampshadeHanging in some cases; the driving force of shipping is mentioned in [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=perfectsq Perfect Square]], when Alice compares peoples' reactions to her [[InterspeciesRomance relationship with Marisa]] to what would happen if Marisa was going out with, say, Reimu; in [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=diffstory A Different Story of an Eastern Wonderland]], Daisuke and Keine explicitly spell it out for Renko and Maribel that being entirely straight or gay is unusual in Gensokyo and that Outsiders are considered weird for considering this weird; and a in [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic19&c=87de24a0a #19]] when [[KillItWithFire Mokou]] reveals to Kaguya that she is not bi but a lesbian, i.e. [[IncrediblyLamePun a flamer]].

* 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.

* AlternateUniverse: [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=shcomic59 Seihou Nekokayou: Spectral World Archive on a 99GB Diskette.]] That is, this is the comic which Muffin would have created ''in the Touhou universe'' ([[InSpiteOfANail all other things being equal]]). TheRant for the ''actual'' [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic59 comic #59]], in addition to implying that it also shares the same StealthPun in the title, discusses [[CelebrityParadox other]] [[ForWantOfANail implications]], and now and then Muffin adds more items to the list (without it showing up in the site updates) ...

* ShoutOut

* AnachronicOrder: a side-effect of throwing in "this takes place between ''Subterranean Animism'' and ''Undefined Fantastic Object''" after the fact. In particular, ''Rethinking the Natural Law'' initially cheerfully and strictly followed the reverse order of the available story modes in ''Touhou 12.3''; this was also the optimal order to avoid actually revealing anything, including the identity of the new villain, until the arc was more than halfway over. The [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=timeline timeline]] was once the subject of frequent [[RetCon retcon]]s.

* AuthorAppeal: just from being a fan, first of all, but [[GirlOnGirlIsHot ...]]

* BadPowersBadPeople: averted; apart from canon ones like Yamame, Flandre, once her "destroy things" power gets upgraded to "Manipulation Of Destruction," uses it to ''heal people'' (by "removing" the destruction). And Medicine, once she gets over her hatred of humans, is actually really rather nice, if a bit shy.

* CatGirl: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Catness. Though one could wonder if [[spoiler: Tenshi]] was going for cat girls in the first place.

* ChewBubblegum: [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa02cottage0625 When a character arms herself with no danger present]]:

* CerebusSyndrome: averted; there are one or two multi-part [[StoryArc arcs]], but it always goes back to the original one-shot setup, and it retains the humorous tone. The more serious stories are reserved for the surrounding [[{{Fanfic}} fanfics]]. Also parodied with the out-of-continuity "[[MundaneMadeAwesome It's REALLY epic!]]" comics.

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: "[[HitYouSoHardYourXWillFeelIt I'm gonna hit you so hard]], [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic79 your descendants will feel it!]]" (And they ''do.'')

* 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 Kaguya, in light of the existence of Kaguya the mouse.

* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: from [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic100 this strip]]:

* OriginalCharacter: Mika and Midori, who form ThoseTwoGuys for the Eientei crew; Tsumami and Tsukiyo, who more or less serve [[{{Expy}} the same purpose]] as [[Literature/{{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''.
** 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 ''Shenanigans in a Magical Forest'']]. Then there's [[SuperpoweredEvilSide EX-Rumia]], AKA Rumia Yagami ...

** In the first act, the players aren't controlling the characters in the "PlayerCharacter" sense of the word; rather, the "commands" the characters are receiving are from bizzare spirits, a side effect of an overabundance of magical fungal spores. The characters who discover this start working against it. That's right: the characters were ''fighting against the players.''

** In comc #37, a bit of text in the second to last panel is [[WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie qrrbrbirlbel]]. Oddly enough, this one was NOT picked up quickly.

* 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 [[Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures the Midnight Crew]] [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic114 during the next 60 years]].

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: from [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic95 this comic]]:

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

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Well, it ''is'' Franchise/TouhouProject, 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"]].

* UnsoundEffect: to compensate for the VirtualPaperDoll limitations, and sometimes for exposition. But mostly they're rather silly in general.

* WhamEpisode: ''Shenanigans in a Magical Forest'' had a relatively tame [[TheReveal reveal]]: [[spoiler:It takes place [[TimeSkip 10 years]] into the main comic's future.]]
** [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0104 There was actually some]] {{Foreshadowing}} [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0321 towards that]]

* {{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 anymore - she was all out of "tsun".

* InterspeciesRomance: See most of the entries under the "shipping" link. Human/human-turned-[[WitchSpecies magician]] (though Marisa changes down the line, too), ghost/half-ghost, vampire/satori, ice-fairy/hell-raven ...

* MayflyDecemberRomance: Marisa with Alice ([[WitchSpecies youkai-magician]]), as well as Sakuya with Meiling ([[RunningGag totally a dragon]]) and Youmu with Yuyuko (CuteGhostGirl); 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]].''

* PlotRelevantAgeUp: Alice, who became a [[WitchSpecies youkai]] and stopped aging when she was fifteen, is using a spell so that she grows up along with Marisa (who was, of course, [[MayflyDecemberRomance still aging nine years later]]). Remilia and Flandre have since gotten Patchouli to create a similar spell that works on vampires, though they both usually stay in their younger forms.

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: Muffin has created a short bit of code which generates links to Wiki/TVTropes and appends a disclaimer to that effect, and uses it whenever linking to [=TVTropes=].
** She's since stopped linking here, for various reasons.

* 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]], she 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).

* 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).

** The comic was put on another indefinite hiatus on December 17, 2011. ''Cottagesnagged'' is still ongoing, but Muffin has implied that he might stop doing much in the way of fanworks when it ended.

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

** He's since stopped linking here, for various reasons.

...[[TropeOverdosed And a lot of other tropes present in the original material]].

** OCStandIn: Marisa's father Daisuke, who doesn't have so much as a name in canon, and Rin Satsuki, who had a [[DummiedOut name in canon]] and not much else.

* AsYouKnow: played for laughs [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic97 here]], with a LampshadeHanging:
--> ''Gengetsu:'' Mu... all of us know all that.

* RuleOfFunny: The [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic63 Catness]] [[StoryArc arc]], in which half of Gensokyo's not-already-animal-humanoid population gets turned into [[{{Catgirl}} cats]], and in which "[[SophisticatedAsHell shiny objects]]" is a technical magical term, and susceptibility to the effects of the catness is based on stupidity or strength (but not both). And that's just the tip of the iceberg in the comic as a whole ...
--> '''Wriggle:''' ''(after Mokou has just been [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic25 defeated by Tenshi]])'' "Yeesh ... [[NeverSendAnXToDoAYsJob never send a lesbian to do a bisexual crossdresser's job.]] (also doubles as A Rare Sentence)"

''[[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic Touhou Nekokayou: Scarlet Weather Archive in Japanese Red]]'' is a silly fancomic about ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Touhou Project]]'', made using [[http://www.walfas.org/flash/create.swf 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 ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures''.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Well, it ''is'' VideoGame/{{Touhou}}, 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"]].

* TradeSnark: "All VideoGame/{{Touhou}} characters are © Team Shanghai Alice and/or ZUN; create.swf is ⑨ [=KirbyM=] with help from Thefre."

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Well, it ''is'' VideoGame/{{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"]].

** "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:[[VideoGame/{{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]].

* EveryoneIsBi: Only a couple mentions which nearly amount to LampshadeHanging in some cases; the driving force of shipping is mentioned in [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=perfectsq Perfect Square]], when Alice compares peoples' reactions to her [[InterspeciesRomance relationship with Marisa]] to what would happen if Marisa was going out with, say, Reimu; in [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=diffstory A Different Story of an Eastern Wonderland]], Daisuke and Keine explicitly spell it out for Renko and Maribel that being entirely straight or gay is [[BiTheWay unusual in Gensokyo]] and that Outsiders are considered weird for considering this weird; and a in [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic19&c=87de24a0a #19]] when [[KillItWithFire Mokou]] reveals to Kaguya that she is not bi but a lesbian, i.e. [[IncrediblyLamePun a flamer]].

** Eiki Shiki's [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic125 measures peoples' morality]] with a ''literal'' KarmaMeter, designed to look like one from a KnightsOfTheOldRepublic-era Creator/BioWare RPG.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: It falls firmly towards the "idealistic" end, but with a certain amount of cynicism. For instance, Eiki Shiki's [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic KotOR]]-KarmaMeter places [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic125 Reimu]] on the good end but closer to the middle, with a note to the effect that this is "slightly below normal people" (although presumably Eiki Shiki's KarmaMeter is all about the more stringent requirements of getting into Heaven).

* RuleOfFunny: The [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic63 Catness]] [[StoryArc arc]], in which half of Gensokyo's not-already-PettingZooPeople population gets turned into [[{{Catgirl}} cats]], and in which "[[SophisticatedAsHell shiny objects]]" is a technical magical term, and susceptibility to the effects of the catness is based on stupidity or strength (but not both). And that's just the tip of the iceberg in the comic as a whole ...

* RightForTheWrongReasons: In comic [[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic61 #61]], the events of ''Imperishable Night'', which were started by [[MoonPeople Lunarians]], have resulted in [[{{Lunacy}} moonbeams driving fairies crazy and making them superpowered]]. Mokou, fighting off fairies, wonders out loud why this is happening; a BossInMookClothing-fairy promptly attacks her and, in TalkativeLoon-mode, blurts out, "BECAUSE ALIENS FROM THE MOOOOON!"

* SpeakOfTheDevil: Muffin keeps track of hits to his site and where they're coming from. This enabled her to pop up on message boards where people have linked to his site ...

Officially ended by Muffin himself, due to being preoccupied with web design and making Villainmad, not to mention it being hard and boring from Muffin's side.

* SpeakOfTheDevil: Muffin keeps track of hits to his site and where they're coming from. This enables him to pop up on message boards where people have linked to his site ...

* TVTropesWillRuinYourLife: Muffin has created a short bit of code which generates links to TVTropes and appends a disclaimer to that effect, and uses it whenever linking to TVTropes.