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>>17769538
The most useless touhou, pared with a useless person. Fitting couple.

>>17769589
T-That's not nice, anon!

>>17769538
I literally spent hours trying to change the hostname of my persistent live ubuntu into "toho-genso" just so that the terminal shows reimu@toho-genso instead of reimu@ubuntu. Unfortunately it keeps reverting whatever changes I make to literally any folder that isn't my home folder.

Just wanted to share...

>>17769729
Well, I'm sure you'll find a small bit of help here sine that place is pretty much useless now. Good luck anon.

>>17769729
>Persistent live instead of installing

We all know Reimu is pretty strong, but which Reimu is the strongest? It has to be LoLK Reimu, considering that even on Normal those bosses weren't playing around.

>>17769753
Okay buddy you're misquoting me. But I am stupid monkey who can't get installing to USB to work right.

>>17770001
If they weren't playing around, why do they all follow the spellcard rules? Plus, one of them is a fairy, and playing around is all those dumbasses do.

Best miko is a bit bashful today

https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=8356.0

Can we talk about this? I only just discovered this essay now and it has helped me discover a lot of stuff I never thought about Reimu. Will I learn significantly more about her if I read CoLA? And what was he referring to about the fish making a bridge when Reimu was about to fall into a river?

>>17771595
>MoK
Dude.

Reimu "Youkai? You die." Hakurei

Would you still love Reimu if she looked like THIS?

>>17771595
>Will I learn significantly more about her if I read CoLA
Yes. Every work using a different character lens offers another perspective on Reimu, and CoLA in particular explores things like Reimu seen as a youth, her way of thinking and how it evolves over time, and the disconnect between her natural talent at her role and her lack of knowledge about it.

The fish thing is about Reimu being so in tune with nature that she appeared to walk over a river because fish propped her up, without her even noticing the fish nor the river. In one of the Fairies manga.

Reimu is a prostitute

>>17771870
I'd love her more if she looked like that

>>17770032
The LOLK bosses weren't following the Spell Cards rule.

>>17769538
Yes Reimu threads are always welcome.

Reimu-sama !

>>17773483
Every day I hate moonscum a little more.

>>17769538
Try this one next time

>>17774341
why?

>>17774413
I wonder...

>>17774391

>>17774341

nice aliasing, fucko

It's starting to get really cold, so Reimu is bundling up!

reimu is shit and so is this thread

>>17775086
Don't be rude anon

>>17775015
most body heat escapes from the feet so basically I want to keep her warm

>>17771870
Reimu-chan will never look like a slutty bitch.

>>17773431
Reimu ISN'T Tewi.

>>17773483
But they all used spellcards?

Reimu is Yukari's slave

>>17775779
Wrong!

>>17775091
>>17775721
I'm sorry, but Cookie/Inmu is NG

Give it to me straight /jp/ since I can't tell anymore, is Reimu a good person or an asshole?

>>17776200
Depends. I'd say she's a jerk with heart of gold. Despite her insistence on youkai extermination, she never does it unless there's an incident, and it's only against youkai that try to stop her from fixing the incident. Also, Lilly, Kogasa, and Kosuzu are the only consistently sweet 2hus

>>17776220
I see, aside from stealing Marisa seems like a pretty good person too when it comes to helping others, and I remember reading that Alice is loved by children and let those lost stay in her house for shelter.

Reimu is too cool!

>>17776200
She's an ultimately self-centred person with nonetheless an extremely powerful sense of duty. I genuinely think it's more of a point of pride for Reimu to uphold her duties as the Hakurei shrine maiden than it is a matter of obligation or goodwill.

Reimu is not for sexual

>>17776394
Isn't that animation copied from something? Although "swinging staff and deflecting shots" is somewhat generic in anime so it could be anything.

>>17776658
I want to impregnate Reimu after a joyous and lavish wedding attended by hundreds of people.

Droppin' Many Suckers.

STEAMY

REIMU

PITS

>>17775779
Wife*

>>17776200
is shit

>>17776783
Sweaty sweaty, drunk

>>17769538
What is sex with Reimu like?

>>17777176
Heaven

>>17777176
like shit

>>17777176
A bit warmer than fucking an inflatable doll, but otherwise basically the same. It's kind of charming.

>>17777176
Seeing her reaction when she saw the ghost couple doing a love meeting. I'd say it would imply a lot of hand holding, blushing and caressing,

Reimu is hot

>>17777176
emotionless

>>17774341
I like the cmyk colors more actually.

>>17777195
>>17778746

>>17777222
Context?

In response to this anon
>>17771595
But might also interest these
>>17776200
>>17776220
>>17776632

I do agree with several points in this essay, but it is quite outdated as a lot has happened since it was written in early 2011. FS and WaHH have expanded a lot on the daily lives, motivations and personalities of both Reimu and Marisa. Our main heroines have also started acting more like adults in recent years, they're no longer the same reckless, teenage bullies they were back in EoSD.

I would probably describe Reimu as lawful neutral, sometimes ruthlessly so (Yukari must be really proud of her little soldier, she even gives her food and donations from time to time). There is really only one true felony in Gensokyo, and that is disrupting the balance between native humans and youkai. So far, Reimu has canonically dealt out capital punishment twice: once to a human villager who turned himself into a youkai on purpose (as seen here >>17771774), and once in pic related when a youkai possessed a human villager.

There are also occasions, such as that particular one in CoLA, where Reimu has drifted into lawful evil. Even though her job description involves "exterminating youkai on sight" (although not usually in the capital sense), it says nothing about robbing them of their possessions after beating them up, then taking turns with Marisa to beat them up again once they come back to get them. However, again, Reimu seems more grown up now and hasn't done anything quite this mean in a couple of years. She still takes advantage of opportunities for her own gain in rather immoral ways from time to time, though.

What bothers me the most about the essay is how it describes Reimu as this "pure" (perhaps almost enlightened), altruistic/nihilistic, borderline sociopath with no worldly attachments, be they pursuits, possessions, or people. She is indeed strange for a human and hard to understand, but I'd say that she does have motives, and feel sympathy for others, although these parts of her personality are highly nuanced and take time to understand.

Reimu takes pleasure in her job of exterminating youkai and resolving incidents, and has even complained about boredom during calm periods. She enjoys good food and parties, and do on occasions work hard to gather donations so that she can keep hosting them. She looked the other way during the nights when the Kappa sneaked through the Human Village to their temporary storehouse, where they kept their belongings safe. She cares about her image, and has even thrown victory celebrations so that her incident resolving deeds won't go unnoticed. She willingly spends a lot of time with Marisa, and they take turns helping each other out, unlike pretty much anyone else she knows. Although she rarely gives Marisa (or anyone else) preferential treatment, that's probably because Marisa is a longtime childhood friend which she takes for granted, almost like a sister.

So even though Reimu isn't picking up any other pursuits besides occasional youkai hunting and parties, that doesn't mean she's a blank slate of a person. If anyone here on /jp/ met her in real life, she would probably come off as a huge normalfag of a woman. She simply has very little interest in knowledge, trinkets, and other worldly things beyond those that let her keep on living her life as she currently pleases.

>reimu with big tits
Disgusting.

>>17780300
>She simply has very little interest in knowledge, trinkets, and other worldly things
She likes novels. To an unhealthy extent, actually.

I wonder if Reimu finds her current life... well, perhaps not boring, but mundane would be another word.

>>17779743

>>17780331
You can see that she have a chest in ZUN's art, despite the fact that she's wearing a sarashi. You can bet she have at least c cups hiding under wrap.

>>17780504
I'd say B at the most.

>>17780300
Thank you, you described her quite well.
I think I'm starting to like Reimu a little more now that I understand her more.

I always picture Reimu as a tsun cat. I wonder if she hiss if you cum on her.

>>17780541
Hiss and swear and throw things.

>>17778087
So hot! What's with this heat!?

>>17776220
I wrote this, just to clarify

>>17780300

This was interesting to read. Well put, anon. Though, I want to mention a few more good things about Reimu. In SSiB, she took care of an injured moon rabbit despite not being obligated to, though she may have taken something from her, I can't remember too well. She also has a soft spot for kids. I think there are a few more I'm forgetting though.

Again, what you put is a pretty interesting and well written post

I have a feeling that people are making Reimu more complex character than she really is.

>>17775721
They didn't in the conventional way at the very least, otherwise Reimu's ending where it's mentioned her life was genuinelly in danger during the incident wouldn't make sense.

WHERE ARE THE ARMPITS?!?

>>17781138
Any writer will tell you that every person is beautifully complex. Any marketer will tell you that every person is depressingly simple.

>>17780331
Kuso taste. Reimu is for tiddy.

>>17776200
Yes.

>>17780474
Reimu likes things "the way they are". Notice how sometimes when she's sweeping leaves alone she hums and sings? She loves it. Routine and balance define her. Well, this is why Seiga, a Taoist, was interested in her.

>>17780300
Well said. Hit the nail on the head, really.

>>17771595
As for this, Reimu, as others here have noted, does indeed show particular fondness for some people. Most people she knows are youkai, who she both finds irritating and fun depending. As for humans she's really an outcast. Her home, which is a ways from the village, is considered a dangerous place, and faith in her seriously fluctuates over time. She does like kids, though. She seems to genuinely take a motherly or sisterly role in front of them, looking extremely caring. Her reactions to Kosuzu being in danger are also telling, as she clearly is deeply concerned over her well-being.

Then we have Marisa. Marisa and Reimu ARE best friends. It's observable in her treatment toward Marisa versus her treatment toward almost anyone else. Rarely is she actually irritated with Marisa, instead she enjoys her presence and clearly enjoys hanging out with her and going on adventures with her almost all the time (because it's rare for Marisa to NOT be at the shrine). I believe the real reason she doesn't get close with many other humans is that she simply lacks the opportunity. Human villagers are superstitious and wary, and they have every right to be so when Reimu's shrine is literally infested with youkai on a regular basis, and the girl throws parties with them.

But the weirdos with less worry are going to get to know her and probably like her, and she is wont to like them in return. She does value humans. While she has been shown to be INCREDIBLY dismissive of outsiders in the past, literally letting them die without a second thought, that's part of "how the world works" to her, and if there's a human she CAN save, she WILL. Of course the clear example here aside from any outsider who asks to be returned is Sumireko. In ULiL, Reimu is genuinely heroic for maybe the first time in the whole series as she declares who she is and her role, telling Sumireko that she will not let a human stupidly die in front of her.

So yeah, Reimu does care. She cares a lot, but she's a weirdo and kind of a jerk.

>>17771595
Last note: I don't know about Reimu not valuing her life. She's definitely pretty fucking chill, but I think the reason she is consistently fearless is that there's nothing TO fear. Reimu is invisible and she knows it and she knows failure doesn't even mean death anyway (not that she'd ever fail).

Marisa is not invincible, and so you see her regularly concerned, startled, or genuinely afraid (even in the latest WaHH). Marisa has to work hard to keep up with Reimu, Reimu just wins.

>Reimu　"It seems I got caught in her trap, so she got away."

>Aunn　"Oh my, that's rare for you, Reimu."

>Reimu　"It looked like she could open doors to go anywhere in an instant,
so she had vanished before I realized what was going on."

>Aunn　"But, I know it'll all work out."


>Reimu　"?"

>Aunn　"I mean, you always win in the end, right Reimu?"

>>17785721
>invisible
invincible...

>>17785721
>see Yukari make Gensokyo
>"I-I can do it too!!"

>>17769538
How long till her Parents start setting up marriage meetings? Gotta continue that bloodline.

Speaking of marriage, Aku is what? 18? She needs to get ringed too.

It'd be indescribably easy to wife the Raymoo.

Reimu fat

>>17785771
What parents?

>>17785777
Reimu looks good in a bra.

>>17786819

>>17786819
Sarashi or nothing. Either are acceptable.

>>17785750
You are aware that making the barrier was team work between the sages, right?

Reimu is not wearing a sarashi today, and she's smug about it.

>>17785750
Okina uses one of Yukari's spellcards as a nonspell

>>17776664
I think you might be thinking of Cowboy Bebop, Spike swinging his mop around.

>>17770001
where's zombie reimu??

>>17787605
I want to lift up her vest

>>17776200
>objective morality
She's a person.Not a very successful person, so she's not an asshole.

>>17790184
Don't let the bad at getting donations rhetoric fool you. She has power you can't buy and that's what really matters.

>>17780480
Which one? FS?

>>17792575
yes, FS, when Kosuzu was possessed by a ghost

>>17795249
Sorry, I dont read edgy shit.

>>17795820
Weird, it would fit your personality very well

>>17769538
CHUU CHUU SMILE A MILE

I love You, Reimu-san.

You wouldn't Reimu right?

>>17796235
I would the entire Reimu.

What makes reimu so op? Has someone actually beaten her?

>>17792001
Powers she's not fully in control with and doesn't even realise how those powers work.

>>17797751
Six people actually.

>>17796235
Of course I would. Why would you think otherwise?

>>17787605
Then she started getting looks. Less smug.

>>17787605
>>17798016
Miko bully not so tough after getting molested.

I WANT TO BE REIMU'S BOYFRIEND

>>17798659
Get in line. I think they keep the record somewhere in the Human Village.

>>17797751
Moon Reimu won, although she cheated.

>>17797772
Why censoring the nipple but not the armpit.

>>17799896
Armpits are not an erogenous zone.

>>17800323
I disagree.

More armpits of the sexiest armpit-miko ever!

>>17800831
Would Reimu's armpits love anal?

Rachael Heartway!

>>17802856
No!

>>17769538
Does this Reimu thread support Reimu chu chu thread?
>>17690800

>>17805211
chuu chuu !

>>17805211
I, for one, do

>>17788023
sometime near then, of course

>The Hakurei god is angry all the time
This is somehow funny to me

>>17809059
You've called?

reimu is my ray of sunshine

>>17809249
RayMOOOOOO

>>17805325
>>17808919
Chu chu~!

Reimu-chan is cute. CUTE!

>>17780515
>>17781114
>>17785626
Happy that you liked it!

>>17781114
>In SSiB, she took care of an injured moon rabbit despite not being obligated to, though she may have taken something from her, I can't remember too well.
Reimu stole her lunar veil, only recognizing it as "a shiny robe". Once the moon rabbit woke up, Reimu even went as far as saying "I'm not giving it back" straight to her face, which was kind of a dick move, really. Reimu used to have mean moments like this in the past. However, since the lunar veil was absolutely crucial to the moon rabbit (she wouldn't be able to go back home without it), and Reimu underestimated her power (it had disguised itself as an earth youkai rabbit), it simply dashed up and swiped it out of her hands, taking it back.

Reimu did indeed take care of the injured rabbit fully assuming that it was a youkai, and even had to stay awake all night since she lent her only bed to it. Just walking past any injured being seems to be below her. Reimu has a complicated relationship to youkai, though. In the past (around the time of SSiB), she was more of the opinion that youkai are sub-human monsters that should be exterminated upon sight, and robbing them of their valuables was no biggie. Therefore, she probably took the veil from the moon rabbit as "ransom" for nursing her.

In recent years, Reimu's "extermination upon sight" doctrine regarding youkai has slowly become more of a facade. She is still keeping them at an arm's length, but as long as they don't cause too much trouble, she leaves them alone. Some are also great fun at drinking parties!

>>17785604
>Notice how sometimes when she's sweeping leaves alone she hums and sings? She loves it. Routine and balance define her.
"Love" is perhaps a bit strong of a word for the sweeping itself. Many people hum along when they carry out mundane tasks (myself included) to stay in good spirits, or because their minds wander to something more pleasant. Reimu certainly doesn't mind delegating these tasks to others (I think we saw that in one of the Fairies' manga), but it's not like it's killing her to do them herself either. I DO agree that she loves routine and balance in her life in general, though.

>>17785685
>>17785721
I agree with most of what you wrote, nice post. Perhaps I wouldn't describe some of Reimu's traits with words that strong. Her reactions to Kosuzu being in danger is probably how most humans capable of basic empathy would react, if they found out that the life of a child/teenager that they know is threatened, and they could do something about it. Being deeply concerned over her well-being would mean spending a lot of time and effort on checking up on her, even when there is no danger, which she isn't doing (and would be rather out-of-character for Reimu). She seems more deeply concerned over the trouble Kosuzu is causing for the village with her youma books. The balance between youkai and humans is, after all, what she deeply cares about.


Finally, pic related is happy Reimu thinking about things she loves. She's also wearing some kind of undershirt here, a rare sight. Post more happy Reimus!

Marisa trouble!

Remiu is the most beautiful girl in Gensokyo.

>>17816287
Wrong. That belongs to Remilia Scarlet.

>>17816287
Kinda flat though.

>>17816287
Not only in Gensokyo, but in a whole universe!
>>17816359
Shitty gaijin vampire.

>>17816359
Factual statement

>>17817696
False statement

>>17809165
Zeus?

>>17818412
Zeus the Pantocrator,mind you.

>>17818140
Sakuya is a pervert maid.

>>17813770
She is!?

>>17819940
Yeah buddy, this is fucking truth.

Cute. CUTE!

>>17825712

>>17825724
Hey, Yukarin, sweetie, what are you doin' under my skirt?

>>17825816
Sightseeing.