/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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I mean, yeah? It lacks all the normal dangers that came with contemporary villages of its time. So long as you don't fuck with youkai, and you keep yourself informed on safe places and practices, you're living well if you can provide a tradable skill like carpentry. No war, no real threat of natural disasters, no plagues, no famine, no faggots a thousand miles away dictating how you should act and live, no landowner taking most of your produce as tax and never see it benefit your community, real gods you can see and talk to, and you're getting drip fed beneficial (albeit heavily outdated) technology from the outside. Dung covered peasantry is a meme and quality of living would be high enough you can adapt to. If outsiders are taking their chances and settling down then either Gensokyo life isn't all that terrible, or the outside world is hellishly worse in comparison. Come on, if the village has a book renting shop, which is pretty far down the totem pole of necessary life sustaining industries, it says a lot about the quality of life there implying things like widespread literacy and that you can spare time and money to read for entertainment.

To be truthfully honest, if you can handle living without internet or having a non-sedentary lifestyle, you can make it. It's not going to be easy, but it's stable and preferable to what we have now where I can't tell you if I can afford to pay basic living expenses in a few years. At least youkai are honest about their nature and don't pretend to be on your side, unlike the powers that be in our own world.

The biggest hurdle is trying to integrate yourself into the community, which knowing traditional Japanese xenophobia is going to be tricky and much harder if you have nothing to offer; those who don't work don't eat after all. Hope you have a viable skill to trade or exploit their interest in outsider knowledge to the fullest.

He did nothing wrong. Manifesting in the middle of the village and letting the Shrine Maiden see him over Suzu's body wasn't his fault. It was all just a misunderstanding. If the Youkai Shrine Maiden was a little more thoughtful she would have realized that Suzu was unharmed!

Did he really deserve this?

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