/jp/ - Otaku Culture

So fukken saved.

>>2541547
Donations? Sorry, I don't believe in your gods.

suddenly

Looking awfully manly there, Reimu.

Looking kind of Nihei there Reimu.

>>2541570
What of it?

>>2541547
Why so Dan Kim in artwork?

Only way a Touhou anime would be good and not steriotipical crappy slice of life.

>>2541657
you're "steriotipicalee" illiterate

>steriotipical
ಠ_ృ

>>2541676

touhoe?

>>2541570
>>2541584
Gensokyo is a level in the Megastructure. Yukari is a level 9 safeguard.

Grimdark in my Touhou?

Proceed.

>>2542002

Grimdark and Touhou go together like maple syrup and hot, buttery pancakes.

>>2542010
For you to make sense is unthinkable, leaving the sole possibility that you're lying, or else have confused pancakes with some completely different food that does not go well with butter and/or syrup.

Felis Ovum and Neihei Tsutomu get together to make a fantasy/occult anime. They get unlimited funds and no time restraints.
This comes out.

I'd watch it.

>>2542030
>Non-Canadian obviously butthurt about maple syrup

>>2542030

I fucking love Grimdark Touhou.

Love, love, love it. Happy Fantasyland Touhou grates on me.
I prefer the Miko who is a mercenary, a hired sellsword and experienced Youkai killer, rather than the wacky armpit flashing little girl who drinks tea and eats rice crackers.

Delicious survival-horror touhou, you must devour the humans

>>2542049
I like happyland current-Gensokyo.

GRIMDARK is alright for me when it's done well.

Actually, any doujin is alright if it's done well to my tastes.

>>2542047
That would be rather more gruesome than a work just made by Nihei.

>>2542049
No one cares what you love

Except this guy >>2542068

>>2542068
>>2542074

Gore fits in well with the Touhou universe, and FelisOvum does it tastefully.

>>2542095
I disagree, I think.

>>2542049

>armpit flashing little girl who drinks tea and eats rice crackers

Yes, of course, this is what the human village actually believes. They need to have some sense of safety and normality as they go about, tending to their little plots, having their little squabbles, drinking their little tea, living their little ordinary lives.

Of course, they sleep peacefully at night only because rough miko stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

kinda more tim burton psycho than grimndark

Not to say that grimdark Reimu wouldn't still flash her armpits and enjoy her tea and crackers, but it wouldn't be central themes.

>>2542142

Reimu's Rebellion came to an end when she took the life of a Youkai princess in a duel on the river. After smashing her opponents chest in with a mighty blow from her gohei, she rode back to her keep and broke her fast on some crackers and hot tea, while her bannermen secured her foe's castle.

Can't have Felis Ovum without Genocide Kitten.

They have been collaborating on a lot of stuff lately.

>>2542142

Let us not forget your favorite version of Yuugi. The muscle-bound, sinewy Titaness of the mountain, full of fury and unstoppable power, rippling with strength all over her body, able to level trees with a blow from her mighty fists or shatter rocks with a kick.

Always makes me want to replay Splatterhouse!

>>2542142
Please don't ruin tea with armpits.

>>2542202

Somehow, I get the feeling besides the occasional request for help, Reimu doesn't have a lot of human contact. More likely, she's feared because... well, people aren't dumb. They know what she does.

>>2542213

Born sometime around the birth of civilization in modern day Siberia.

>>2542244
>Born sometime around the birth of civilization in modern day Siberia.

...wait run that by me again.

>>2542244

I must say, the gigantic tree-trunk flinging, rock-crushing Yuugi is far more interesting than the Yuugi who speaks with a valley girl accent and looks like she ought to be on Baywatch.

When Reimu comes I have nothing to Blame!

>>2542202
>a mighty blow from her gohei

Ugh, no. You cannot remake gohei as bludgeoning weapons. Not unless you're going for comedy.

>>2542323

If I was going for realism I'd have spoken of her Ying-Yang orb instead. It's far more 'crushy', and I'm copyrighting that word if it has not been invented yet.

The whole thing is a satire of Robert's Rebellion, which I shall allow you to look up in our own time.

Good shit.

>>2542259

Yes, this is where the oni come from. The basic legend sprung up in what's now Russia/Ukraine, and gathered the distinctive oni traits travelling East.
According to one theory among hundreds.

>>2542271

Big brute characters tend to be rather dumb in fiction, but this isn't the case with touhou oni. No matter how tough you are, you don't survive for thousands of years being dumb.
If Suika is any indication, oni are frighteningly intelligent, just they enjoy their carefree lives too much to display it.

>>2542337

While at that, what's your take on the succession of the Hakurei miko?

>>2542383

Enlighten me if you please. This has been a subject that barely is brought up in conversation.

>>2542421

There hasn't been much of a discussion about it. Seems if the lack of canon goes beyond a certain limit, it actually slows fanon from developing.

Personally I tend to think the Hakurei miko are either foundlings or raised communally by the human village, since the last miko is hardly in any shape to be a mother after a life hunting youkai.

>>2542337
You mean a Game of Thrones/ASoIaF. You don't give the title of a war in the backstory of a work of fiction as reference to the work itself. Not unless you're a dick.

>>2542352
>Big brute characters tend to be rather dumb in fiction, but this isn't the case with touhou oni.
It's not the case with any oni I can name. Oni are actually the source of "ogre magi," for example. "Trickster" is a more common portrayal than anything. In terms of tropes, they may be the Mighty Glacier (more like Lightning Bruiser), but that doesn't make them Dumb Muscle.

>>2542433

In my mind, an acolyte is brought on, trained in the ways of combat, and then after Reimu dies the acolyte takes up the mantle...and so it goes. Each bears the name Hakurei. Some are capable of great feats, others merely guard the temple during times of peace.

I prefer a Reimu that's mellowed out. Danmaku seems to be just as much of a game to Reimu as it is to us, in my opinion.

>>2542449

Touhou is serious business on /jp/.

Never before have I seen anyone rage as furiously at a curtain fire game as I have seen on here.

>>2542352
>Oni
>Russia
>According to one theory among hundreds.
I dont think so Tim

>>2542446

Okay, being a bit more elaborate about the reasons for not being a fit mother...

As they grow older, Hakurei miko lose their humanity by the day, being overwhelmed by the youkai they have killed. This culminates in them losing sight of themselves completely and transforming into an amalgamation of different youkai - since they are not a natural youkai breed, most become either mindless, or at best a shadow of their former selves.

Before this happens, the current miko gets her hands on an appropriate male to produce a female heir, who is then raised by the father's family (under unspeakable coersion). The daughter is instructed in the traditional shintou rituals, after which she is sent to live at the shrine as she comes of age. At this point she faces her first trial - surviving and disposing of her mother, is she is still alive.

>>2542489
Hehe, you think /jp/ takes touhou seriously? Look at japan or china.

Most former Hakurei miko are killed off this way, although one particularly nasty one remains sealed away under the shrine itself. Ancient Hakurei miko couldn't kill her, and the current most certainly can't.
What her name was in life is unknown, but in the present she's known as Konngara.

>>2542506
You are quite depressing. I think while Reimu may be detached from most, she loves Gensokyo, and enjoys just lazing around most of the time, because she can. Likewise, she "exterminates youkai" more for the fun rather than strict adherence to her duties.

Only the gods love gensokyo. The music agreed, don't bother it about it.

>>2542561

Yes. But ITT, we are in pitch black bizarro land.

>>2542561
>she "exterminates youkai" more for the fun rather than strict adherence to her duties.

She sounds like she just wants to finish quickly and go home in-game.

>>2542561

>Likewise, she "exterminates youkai" more for the fun rather than strict adherence to her duties.

It is this that caused me to draw parallels between Reimu and Robert.
Robert was drunk with the blood of war, and waged campaigns just for the sheer joy of stoving in his opponents' heads with his warhammer.
Reimu terrorizes the youkai and makes such examples out of those that antagonize her that dare not cross her again, and she entertains herself by going out into the forest and hunting them down.

>>2542587
To me, at least with stronger people/youkai, it does seem like she has some fun with danmaku. She just sort of blows by the small fry, I guess. Or she could just be putting on a show of apathy. It's embarrassing to be taking your duty, regardless of how seriously anyone takes it, as a game.

>>2542594
That's definitely not how she acts in-game, at any point.

>>2542646

HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT CANON IN A TOUHOU THREAD

FUCK YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, FAGGOT SHITHEAD

>>2542677
She's just too lazy to keep her right eye open.

i hate how when reimu is drawn winking all the damn time in IaMP when she's supposed to be bored or apathetic or whatever, that doesn't make any sense

>>2542677

Kaguya in a Miko outfit

can't unsee

>>2542686

Speaking of Kaguya, how is the treatise on the Lunar navy coming along?

>>2542717
Lunar Navy? There IS a writer doing a story in that setting on /eientei/. Though he's a lazy nigger.

>>2542725

I'm sorry, /eientei/?

>>2542734
On THP.

>>2542717

I actually haven't given it a lot of work recently, but that is because I was agonizing over a small story regarding the first Lunar-Earth war.

It gives us a very good snapshot of what the tech was like back then.
Basically, we follow one of the Lunar Assault Gunships as it heads to the human LZ, where the Marines are busily setting up a beachhead and pushing back the local Bunny garrisons.
Our gunship, a heavily armed close air support vehicle/troop transport, has been tasked with dropping a squad of bunnygirls and a Lunarian commando in to help aid the garrison in their defense.

We get to see some Lunarian weaponry, the tactics that the Lunarians use against Earthlings, and so forth.

Also, a tidbit that I'd been discussing with Anonymous, on the strange shape of Lunarian rabbit-ears.

>It's so that their heads can fit into the helmets they use. They allow each bunny to communicate with her squad-mates from afar, receive information from her commander, view her vital statistics and those of her squadmates, and a map of her surrounding terrain, among other things.

>The helmets of Bunny pilots also maintain a connection between her vessel and her brain, enhancing her piloting ability and assisting the weaker rabbit-brain in computational navigations, systems checks, and damage assessments.

Grim and Dark