/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>13393028
>do my research paper for me

Touhou is an independent game that got popular exclusively thanks to the doujin community, in part due to ZUN's liberal terms of use and support for the community. People see and appreciate this, and they support the game. He wants to preserve the existing doujin culture. It's why he places restrictions on selling doujin work through commercial channels, animated works, using distribution channels that are further reaching than ones used by the original works and so on.

The whole point of the Touhou project is the doujin community that shapes it. Separate Touhou from its community and it would just be an decent shoot em up game with delicious cake.

>That's also the part that surprised me the most, on how the derivative works span several different genres, with much will, ambition and potential within them, and a surprisingly small amount of erotic works (*laugh*). Touhou is ultimately a series of danmaku STGs, but I feel that within the doujin community lies a strange and wonderful world as well. This border between strangeness and normalcy, common sense and lack of it is quite reminiscent of the Gensokyo boundary itself.

That being said.

Most of what the fandom produces is irrelevant shit that can't follow ZUNs basic established canon, what's that say about them? It's either porn (Well at least that's good for a fap as is intended), "le epick maymays", has many variations between potato moeblobs and maximum edge grimdark, or the shitty author self-inserts or donut steels using Touhous to try to get popular. Yet people will still applaud that garbage because it's drawn decently.

It'll never die.
Touhou has been sent to outer space, so if there is intelligent life out there they will know about touhou.

>>12936834
Touhou is an independent game that got popular exclusively thanks to the doujin community, in part due to ZUN's liberal terms of use and support for the community. People see and appreciate this, and they support the game. He wants to preserve the existing doujin culture. It's why he places restrictions on selling doujin work through commercial channels, animated works, using distribution channels that are further reaching than ones used by the original works and so on.

The whole point of the Touhou project is the doujin community that shapes it. Separate Touhou from its community and it would just be an decent shoot em up game with delicious cake.

>That's also the part that surprised me the most, on how the derivative works span several different genres, with much will, ambition and potential within them, and a surprisingly small amount of erotic works (*laugh*). Touhou is ultimately a series of danmaku STGs, but I feel that within the doujin community lies a strange and wonderful world as well. This border between strangeness and normalcy, common sense and lack of it is quite reminiscent of the Gensokyo boundary itself.