/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>19122966
Sorry I shittalked you. I'll try to level with you. I thought you were the idiot that keeps arguing about the setting here. I don't think your core intent is bad, but I don't think trying to appeal to younger people in the west by marketing to them is the way to go. STGs will always be niche regardless, and the kinds of people that will be brought in by e-celeb marketing will either be negligible (they will market it as WOW TOUHOU IS SO HARD, or they will be like the people from Undertale who think about it for a bit and then stop caring), or the kinds of people that won't add anything to the conversation and just meme about the e-celeb. Touhou is already wildly successful for what it is. Trying to get a western Reitaisai is a pipe dream. Series that are huge here like Marvelshit don't even have that to the degree that Reitaisai exists in Japan. Your best bet would be going to a comiccon in a Touhou cosplay and finding other Touhou cosplayers and talking to them.

We live in an online age. It is much, much easier to communicate with people with like-minded interests through this. Or you could be a pen-pal with someone. I think it would be easier and better for you to find people who already appreciate the series rather than hoping random normal people get into Touhou. Especially considering how much the Japanese love Touhou, I'm sure you could find friends who like to talk about it if you could communicate with them. I've met plenty of people I enjoy talking to about Touhou from Europe and Japan. Social anxiety sucks, but you'll find that a lot of people online are willing to talk about things they're interested in.

It sucks that all the cool stuff for Touhou is in Japan, but it is an inherently Japanese series. If you could learn the language you'd have access to much more of their fancontent, and could even go to Japan for Reitaisai. Making friends with someone across the ocean isn't inherently less real than making friends with someone you know down the street. You're much more likely to find people who have interests that align with your own by doing so.

The internet is the whole reason we in the west are even aware of this game. Much more people make friends and communicate this way. It's not inherently a less legitimate way to talk to people, its just different. Yes, you won't be able to go out to eat with them every night or something, but that doesn't make them less of a person or your friendship less valid.