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>>6744140
>How did the touhous react upon seeing all the countless pages of porn made about them? What did you feel?

I don't particularly care. The artists certainly did not intend to be malicious to anyone, and from their perspective, it's just a fictional character. And plus, what kind of person goes around telling others what porn they can and can't have?

>>6744163
>Do you think humans and youkai are capable of a more, say, romantic relationship? Do think any youkai are interested or curious in that kind of thing?

You're nowhere near the first to think of that! It's been tried, both with failures and successes.

There's of course a bunch of problems with this in practice:

1. Youkai are long-lived, humans are not. This is obvious.

2. Humans are materialistic, Youkai are not. That is, since Youkai can take any form, physical "beauty" is irrelevant. But humans aren't used to such a situation.

3. Youkai think differently from humans. While Youkai have learned over thousands of years how to interact with humans appropriately and naturally, their thought processes quite simply differ from humans'.

4. Many Youkai (not all, of course) don't have a natural gender. Do they take the part of the "male" or the "female" in the relationship?

One famous success found a way around 1): a Youkai magician, who trained the human in magic until the human was able to become a nominal "Youkai", in the same way as Alice. There have been successes without solving 1) as well. Youkai in particular have learned over the years to deal emotionally with the limited lifespan of their friends, so from the Youkai's side I don't think this is such an issue anymore.