/jp/ - Otaku Culture

A few friends and I decided to host a Touhou panel at Sakura-con.

First things first, we all know of the failure that was the Otacon panel and we're going to try to make sure ours isn't a repeat of it.

Second, this panel won't be designed to cater to the hardcore touhou fans. It's primary goal is going to be to introduce people to Touhou in a way that all of us, or at least most of us, can take a look at and feel it would be an appropriate way to bring people into the series.

I know many of you would probably loathe the idea of this, but let's face it. Touhou is only going to gain a more substantial Western fan base as time goes on. Going along with that, how would you rather they be introduced to Touhou? Through a panel that in the end was one most of you approved of and would bring their knowledge up to a level where they could at least interact with us without looking like complete morons, or would you rather they just go "Oh these girls are so cute/hawt/JESUS CHRIST HUGE BREASTS" and then act on an intelligence level on par with the small amount of gaiatards who are into Tohou. See also the topic image as well. I'd prefer to not live in a world where people go "Touhou is a game?"

To accomplish the primary goal of making this a presentation that most of you would approve of (I'd say all, but that would be an impossibility no matter what), I'd like to enlist people from the various imageboards to help edit this as it comes together as well as the populace of those mesasgeboards whenever major updates occur in order to see what everyone thinks and where it could be improved. I have a few people here and there already onboard for helping, but getting a wide variety of people to help would definately be appreciated.

>Wait, Touhou is a game?!