/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>11922469
No. People talked too much about it.
What if I start reading it and don't like it?
Same shit happened with Teruyo's story, people left and right are saying it's made of win and awesome, I start reading it, and what the hell do I find?
>"You lost me."
>"I see what you did there."
That was obviously funny when it was written. 5 years ago. Now, it's no longer funny.

It's kind of like watching Halloween or 2001, a Space Odyssey. You expect a masterpiece, because everyone made references to it, and it inspired a lot of people, but when you watch it and compares it to other, more recent works, it's filled with now overused clichés and tropes, added to poor special effects.

I'm afraid of diving in the prehistoric age of touhou fanfics. That's why I didn't, and won't read the Game. I'm too afraid of finding something that didn't aged well, and is unbearable if you don't have nostalgia googles.

>>11873133
>You can't really fuck with a civilization that plays with quantum mechanics as if it were just another science.
QFT

>>11830745
I don't drink, but reading those posts makes me happy I never tried alcohol.

Yorihime Watatsuki, for the following reasons.
She's a Lunarian. So she's not living in some kind of weird medieval-Japan mixed with high-tech and magical stuff, she's instead living in an extremely advanced city, and is therefore more than able to use high tech gadgets. She's married, albeit it's probably for political reasons and a bit gross.
But what I really like is her experience.
Most Gensokyo citizens are happy with just living. They just sit there and wait for time to flow. Marisa does her research, Reimu drinks tea, Yukari does stuff. I think the people at the Moriya Shrine are the only one trying to move things. Even the Buddhists and the Taoists are happy with just a stalemate, with Reimu trying to keep the status quo. Meanwhile, the Lunar Capital is still moving forward, trying to discover even more stuff. Even through the moonfolks are also sitting on their asses all day long, they're still improving their technology and discover new amazing stuff. I think it's even explained in the books that they managed to make some awesome firearms. Why they're not giving them to their rabbits is beyond me, but I guess it has something to do with the expression "giving a machine gun to a monkey".

And that's another thing I like with the Lunarians : they're not perfect. They're borderline racists, some of them are treating the bunnies as shit, blaming them when things go wrong, Chang'E is still locked somewhere in the Lunar Capital, and despite their extremely advanced technology, they're still willing to put themselves in danger to try and humiliate their opponent. And despite their intelligence, they still can be outsmarted.

Now, for the reason I like Yorihime over Toyohime or Eirin : she's hard-working. While Toyohime relies on technology and her good fortune manipulation to be where her enemies expect her less, Yorihime just keeps training day after day, relying on her swordsmanship and god summoning powers to defeat her enemies. And she has a ponytail.

>>11729893
There are. Unfortunately, those stories are often written by morons, which means that instead of having a re-telling of Tarou's story, you have a story featuring an arrogant americafat facing space nazis.

>>11652763
Manga-and-novels-only characters have it worse.

>>11607377
>implying a scum like that can beat a lunarian princess that has been training since her childhood
It's nice to have dreams.

>>11474995
Let me talk about the moonhoneys.