/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>44156718
Excluding how quickly people took the liberty of tying the 3 gang leaders + Keiki and Mayumi together for fun hijinks
You fell right into a point that's interesting and what I believe is the more accurate reason for the relative lack of traction of newhus, excluding negligeable reasons or tribalism like a supposed unwillingness of certain fans (Which i'm sure there is a little of, but wasting time arguing shit like this will ultimately be our undoing and we should unite over our love of the franchise overall), is the lack of opportunities.
Reisen and Mokou are the pillars of IN's popularity. It's not that Eirin or Kaguya are unpopular but there hasn't been as many opportunities for them. They were in IN, Kaguya admitedly has also one of the most iconic photo spells too, and relevance in printworks. But that's still less than playable appearances for Mokou or Reisen.
It took this long for a new Phantasmagoria to pop up (which I expect to do really good for girls like Seiran on the polls), there hasn't been a new playable character otherwise since Sanae, and Tasofro's debacles with 17.5 make the future of Touhou fighting games/whatever else they wanna make uncertain. 3rd Gen Touhous are still waiting for so much of their content if it'll happen at all. Chimata, Megumu and Sannyo showed up in LS for a bit but they're side notes in "The Mamizou/Aya/Suika/Protags show". 17's cast is largely being developed through the games but even then the actual 17 characters could be used within something that's arguably more about them like 17.5. That game, Yuuma aside, as only two 3rd Gen 2hu, and that's Kutaka and Okina.
On the fan game front, it's not much better, since they're less marketable. In an ideal world, everyone would have such faith in their project that they can put anyone front and center and be confident on the quality of their game that it'll do great anyway, but sometimes your aim isn't to make the biggest, best game or you don't have the budget or time to follow, but some dosh could help you for your next projects and it's not with Takane as the protagonist that you're gonna make that moolah, so shove that Sakuya or Cirno protag in here and make another EoSD fan game.
Reminds me of an artist I know who I talked to about this and their pixiv views depending on characters, the difference between the time they drew Koishi and the time they drew Megumu is discouraging to say the least.