Touhou

Sometimes is the problem. if I remember correctly she only really comes into town to sell medicine/buy supplies.

Yeah, the issue here is about emergencies.

Wander around the woods until you get lucky and some rabbits or Mokou appears to help, I guess. Like what Marisa did.

It requires good luck but that's what Tewi's for! :P

If you're a major character it shouldn't even be an issue, just fly over the forest and look for an old mansion.

My initial thought was that we didn't know how regularly someone is in town, so they might even have a storefront or something - but on the other hand, if that were the case, Marisa would have had no problem just going there.

They need an Eirin Signal to shine into the sky.

Hmm... a doctor who lives miles away from the nearest village, cut off by difficult terrain and dangerous wildlife that makes actually seeking treatment an ordeal in itself... and who is secretly a defector from a highly-advanced civilization beyond the reach of mundane people... and who possesses great knowledge and power, but is content to watch others struggle to resolve incidents rather than get involved themself... and who is mentoring someone with mental trauma... and who can be kind of a jerkass...

Someone sounds an awful like Dr. Citan Uzuki, Xenogears' Greatest Asshole. Though at least Eirin hasn't watched her friends unknowingly eat human flesh only to reveal that fact to them a few minutes later. That we know of.

I feel like cannibalism kinda goes against purity.

That's not really an option either. It isn't called the Bamboo Forest Of The Lost without cause; there have been references made to how the place is near-impossible to navigate even when flying.

Awesome!!

WHAT That doesn't happen! Let's goooo.

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Wow, that is a dramatic in-Media-Res-Opening!

...and the neverending mystery of the true form of the Bunny Girls of Eientei continues.

And after the dramatic Marisa opening,we proceed with actually somber scenes of people worrying about Reimu... wow, this is very unusual for typical Touhou Manga nonsense!

Oh wow, this Reimu-Gawking-Thing is messed up! Also, Youmu with the subtle burn.

HOLY §%$&!! I actually understand that reference!! With the Celestial Cave!! That's a reference to Amaterasu In The Cave, right!? (...which I learned about thanks to the wonderful Overly Sarcastic Productions! <3) (EDIT: And, confirmed in the Translator's Notes! Nice!)

Hahaha, the GHOST REIMUS are hilarious!

These panels slowly introducing us to Reimu in Hell are really well done... and wow, the story actually is impactful and interesting, this is so good!

CLIFFHANGER WITH STORY-SHATTERING IMPLICATIONS, YEEESSSSS

Apparently, English is Hellian Speak. Good to know.

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So yeah, this was probably my favorite chapter ever. So good.

...apparently, it's called "Schadenfreude Utopia"!? What the...!?

Yes!

ROFL, that's an amazing theory which I shall now subscribe to

Edited by FellDeedsAwake on Oct 17th 2018 at 8:40:46 PM

I keep hearing that "WELCOME TO HELL!" pre-recorded voice in the voice of Jester from Devil May Cry 3.

clarste is prolly gonna post this here BUT I'M GONNA JUMP THE GUN

Interview between Toby Fox of undertale and ZUN of Touhou

Man, that's hard to read without smiling. Favorite parts are probably Ran getting no respect from her creator, ZUN explaining the importance of good lategame music, and Toby liking the Youmu spell card that messes with player's expectations because of course he would.

Thanks for sharing and translating, respectively, that for us.

Doing God's work Clarste.

Yeah but youtube tho

So I just noticed that someone made individual pages for certain Touhou games, which feels kinda pointless since most Touhou games don't generate enough unique tropes for it to be truly worth it (Instead creating a bunch of stub pages), but then they changed the character pages without so much as a redirect, and incorrectly since they don't even match the other Touhou properties that have independent pages.

Edited by rmctagg09 on Oct 20th 2018 at 2:36:39 PM

The gimmick would've made the spellcard easier, tho.

I always thought that, that ZUN puts more work in later stages' BGM, I guess it's good to have confirmation. Also explains why non-stage non-boss themes rarely stand out.

The point is that it's just a normal spell that's relatively easy to dodge, but by making you think that you're missing out on slowdown time it feels different.

Sure messed me up the first time.

An animatic for LyricaLive's Koishi song

That is very impressive. It tells that story nicely.

The Same Dream

Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted a picture of Kagerou and called her a cat girl.

I guess this is news now.

Link

...Having had to do a bit of looking around to find that, I can confidently state that Musk's tweets are complete garbage

Edited by Hylarn on Oct 26th 2018 at 1:30:31 AM

I thought he was supposed to be one of the smart ones

Elon Musk, oo-baka-san.

Edited by MajorTom on Oct 26th 2018 at 8:47:29 AM