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>>6743283
>Is there something going on between you and Marisa or is she just stealing your books like everyone says?

As a fellow magic-user, she's a good friend of mine. Not going to say anything beyond that.

>>6743339
>Do you know whether or not prayers from here can reach Gensokyo? Like, if a human here prayed to say, Kanako, would she receive the prayer?

Prayers don't work quite that way (Shinto gods don't work the same way as with Christian concepts of gods), but I don't actually know how prayers work from the god's perspective. I'm not a god.

>I think it was mostly samefagging, though, since that one guy left, OP seems to have gone too. Oh well.

I'm still here.

>>6743375
>A human may be reincarnated as a Youkai or vice versa.
>Is this only for Gensokyo's humans, or is it possible (and how likely? special requirements?) that a normal human outside of Gensokyo is reincarnated as a Youkai?

I think reincarnation works the same everywhere. I don't know if the boundary affects reincarnation though, i.e. whether it's possible to reincarnate across the boundary or not. These would be something that someone with expertise in the cycle of reincarnation might know more about -- for example Yuyuko or the Yama.

One thing to note is that, according to Buddhist tradition (and constantly repeated by the Yama, of course) is the fact that reincarnation depends on what you do in life. If you are immoral, you will likely reincarnate as a lesser being, and vice versa for greater beings. Whether Youkai count as "greater" than humans I'm not sure, but I would assume yes.

Do also keep in mind that the Judeochristian concept of morality is not quite what applies here. While there is a lot of overlap, consider equally that "homosexuality" and "eating shrimp" would probably not be considered immorality for these purposes.