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hopes and dreams (never fulfilled never scanned)

>>16305386

It just seems like an awkward added layer to the story that didn't really need to be there. Instead of being a story about how these 3 characters figure out whats going on, confront the threat and take care of it, it instead is a story about how 3 characters get completely played by Yukari into doing exactly what she wanted and Yukari gets everything she wanted because Yukari knows everything and takes care of everything because she's Yukari.

This is already pretty much how events tend to go in Touhou canon, what's wrong with a story where other people take care of things for once? You've even got Ran mentioning at one point that Yukari isn't around to take care of this threat for them, which is supposed to add to the tension of how the group has to handle this situation themselves, which is part of the build-up to when Meiling shows up going "Hold my hat, I got this".

You could've cut out the entire thing between Yukari and Remilia. If length is a concern, just expand a little more on the hinted at backstory of Meiling's. Draw more parallels between her past self and the Drake in the present, show how she's more in control of her powers now and better than the monster she's fighting, culminating with her being able to let go of the energy she absorbs from the Drake instead of just mindlessly consuming it.

I dunno, it just kinda irks me that for a story that seems like its supposed to focus more on Meiling, the story isn't actually focused on her much at all.

>>16305546

Reminds of that whole boss review chart that came out in one of the recent print works or magazines lately. Meiling got godawful scores from Reimu and Marisa, but a surprisingly good one from Sakuya who mentions something along the lines of "I thought her usual should've been good enough".

The way I see it she's basically a character who would be considered pretty amazing in a low-level power setting, but is unfortunately stuck in a batshit-ridiculous-level power setting where she's wildly outclassed by most of the cast just in sheer baseline ability.

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