/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Shit thread made by a faggot so I'm just gonna shill Aya Azuma's most recent work. It has the same dangerous edge of youkai being violent and snobbish but still holding that whimsical bright fantasy tone that makes that balance old fanworks use to have. Also it's portraying Yukari in a kinder mentor role so this kills the grimfag.The 3 chapters that has been released are a nice setup and hopefully the series holds that first impression.
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As much as I like all the official manga's and cd lore, I feel like touhou is at its strongest when allowed to be mostly fan interpreted, even with all the flanderization of characters and memes. The more concrete touhou canon becomes, the more the magic of the world is explained away and the less you can put the workings of the world to imagination. And the less people can portray touhou in different perspective and tone from KKHTA to Suwakoto to Kirisame Magic Shop to Zounose (both the old grim and modern self conscious slapstick) without completely breaking multiple characters (which many recent works do now just to spare the effort). Not to say I'm angry with the direction ZUN is taking touhou. There only so many ways you can take a personal work towards to for 25 years before you catch writers block or change your mind with what it really means to you. I do like a lot of the recent characters and I think the animal spirit realm being a hyper industrious society with a modern network frame full of animals is a fun contrast to the technological stasis of what is most of Gensokyo's society of humaniods.