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>>10144347
Don't worry, she's not. WaHH shows it's actually a literal miracle of the universe that Reimu and Marisa aren't dead yet. (Picture related)

>>10144373
>>10144409
I don't know if it's shitty. Eirin once altered the reality to "close" the moon, so magic in Touhou can plainly alter the universal rules.

The point where game mechanics don't come into play is for example the actual form of a spellcard duel. In "reality" (lol), it's two people flying around shooting each other and dodging, instead of one girl landing 2 millions of shots on another girl to chip away her health bar. See this for a good animated example, in particular to the spellcard Yuuka uses near the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ3tmbSpooc

Things like lives, bombs and power items are all abstractions. But the spellcards themselves, are part of Gensokyo's reality. Marisa Grimoire is about them.

So, I've been reading WaHH and the main question by now is: "How the fuck Reimu and Marisa managed to reach their current ages?"

They are hopeless. They manage to get poisoned by a pokemon, Marisa gets mauled by a tiger and Reimu has her life-force stolen by a youkai fox.