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Nah, ZUN doesn't know anything about beer's benefits and drinks so we can have our new Touhou Game.
WHAAAT?!? He's married?
The sole member of Team Shanghai Alice, developer of the Touhou games.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
x3 According to this link.
http://bopbeer.no-blog.jp/blog/2009/09/post_c54b.html
Well, the news seems to be only 2 - 3 weeks old...
I don't know why I even care, but I'm pretty surprised.
EDIT:
Wait, the time stamp from that post is from 2009? *looks up Google Translate* Hmmm, nothing about marriage. Okay.
edited 15th Mar '12 9:14:54 PM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
That would be like Ken Akamatsu using his wife as basis for his heroines like Asuna or Naru.
Eh, the perception in the Touhou fandom is kinda reversed. (Note: Outsider's view from this point - I waste too much time on Pop-Cultural Osmosis.) The joke was that Aya the character was ZUN's girlfriend (which is probably the least unsavoury comment I can add) because of her recurring appearances in various games since her debut, at the expense of other fan-favourites. As the games went by, this role was filled by other characters like Sanae and Cirno depending on which character got the most screentime.
The speculation comes full circle when you realise that - according to the ANN article - ZUN and his wife got together in 2004. Aya's debut, in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, was in 2005.
edited 17th Mar '12 5:08:20 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.I still say we need more former Stage 5 bosses showing up in the roster. I mean Youmu came back after being gone for a whole trilogy for no particular reason, but no sign of Reisen
Hell, Moriya Shrine is the only faction that's really been swinging its weight since IN.
Also, it would be somewhat amusing to have Shou start tearing shit up with curvy lasers, or Futo running around trying to solve incidents while still being stuck on ancient-world ideas and starting fights unintentionally because nobody knows what the hell she's saying.
edited 17th Mar '12 5:29:29 PM by Pykrete
Humans solve incidents. This is a thematically important part of the setting. There are some exceptions for the fighting games for obvious reasons, but in the main series only the humans or partial humans get to stay in the spotlight (in IN and SA the humans get youkai partners, but the humans are still the "default" part of the team).
Youmu is half-human, Reisen is a rabbit youkai. Shou is a tiger youkai/divine avatar, but I guess Futo might be okay. Maybe. Depends on what you think a shikaisen is.
edited 17th Mar '12 8:15:52 PM by Clarste
I say we need more witches for Marisa's harem! We only got Patchouri, Alice and Byakuren. :(
edited 18th Mar '12 6:05:18 PM by djmaca
...a little brother should belong to his older sister, right? - Orimura ChifuyuWait, people are shipping Marisa/Byakuren now? That's an interesting pairing...
Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!

Because beer apparently has too many health benefits to discount drinking as an unhealthy habit.