/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>40571888
He want people to have sex

>>40571967
t. ghost of abe

he's a socdem. japan had a popular socialist party up until fairly recently and now has a large communist party, so being a lefty is not unusual unlike in the usa

>>40571888
I hate the antichrist

>>40572008
what a handsome fella. i wonder what his grandfather did in manchuria

>>40571888
>Like a proverbial Noah's Ark
I genuinely don't understand how Noah's Ark relates to this in any allegorical way

>>40572390
maybe he means that inequality is like noah and co sailing the seas while everyone else drowns

>>40572390
Maybe the allegory here is that Noah's Ark is used to save a select few animals from the great flood that destroys the world. Perhaps this could be analogous to how capitalism allows a select few to amass great wealth and power while the majority of people are left struggling. Just a guess.

>>40572532
I agree with this anon

>>40571888
Alcoholic Scitzophrenia

>>40572390
>>40572532
This. And ZUN doesn’t have the best grasp on western religion.
For instance in WaHH he said Jesus was “so attached to his flesh, that he reincarnated another worldly body”
But if you’ve read the Bible, or even know the story as it actually is, it’s about denying the flesh for eternal life

>>40573389
Keep in mind that Touhou is often told through unreliable Narrators

>>40571888

>>40573389
ZUN didn't say that Jesus was too attached to his flesh. Kasen did.

What ZUN did say was how he imagined prophet Muhammad and Jesus Christ being in a fighting game together.

>The evil side gives rise to curses, and the good side blessings. I think that's good. This way, no matter how the chips fall, there are always both evil gods and good gods. In monotheism, God is the Creator. He created everything, so he created the demons too, right? You have to think about stuff like that. So in that sense, it's hard to use Christianity or Islam. It's not just me, right? It's all games. Pretty much only in Megaten. But it's not like you can beat up Christ or Muhammad either, right? You might as well have a fighting game with Christ vs. Muhammad. And whenever two people hit each other YHWH comes down and soothes them, like "now now..." Don't you wanna see that?

>>40573454
>>40573510
My bad
I realized it was an unreliable narrator right after I posted

>>40574143
It's OK. We all make mistakes. What matters is that we learn from them. *hug*

The Japanese love referencing western stuff. I assume most of ZUN's exposure to Abrahamic religions and similar is through Megaten, itself a modern Japanese version of certain broad ideas, and some of the absolute basics, though he apparently didn't know much about Taoism either prior to TD. Even then he's not a religious scholar and doesn't particularly explore these ideas in-depth which can lead to strange statements (Futo's omake claims that Buddhism was promulgated because it was easier to keep the populace in check with than Taoism but saying that 'any one of the people could become hermits if they underwent ascetic training' is fairly optimistic).
As for Kasen, she would probably be more responsive to a docetist explanation anyway.

>>40571888
He's disappointed that nobody is caring about his new games

>>40571888
He doesn't even understand capitalism. The goal is always more customers = more profits. You can't have growth with a declining population. This is why China is so powerful economically, huge population.

>>40576927
>The goal is always more customers = more profits.
Not necessarily wrong but a simplistic way of looking at it. It's less about having more consumers and more about shoving most of the populace into ghettos so they can pay taxes. They do this partly through community destabilization by introducing foreign immigrants.

>>40572635
Is anyone who can connect the dots and introduces ideas in metaphor a "schizo" to you faggots?

>>40573510
>Muhammad will never be in that Fight of Gods game because of how autistic Islamists are

>>40576501
This was in the older CDs though
Sometimes he uses them to ramble about hyper capitalistic society, I guess it's a bit passable since it is sci-fi and you can detach it from current day nonsense.
I'm waiting for the day when Sumireko rants about game piracy in the next CoLA chapter, then it's proof he's mind broken.

>>40577947
If you consider Baphomet to be a corruption of Muhammad, then you can go that way.

>>40578575
sumireko considers herself deviant, so it would be about how paying for digital releases and drm abuse infringes her rights.

>>40571967
How did you get that from what he said?

>>40579501
didn't she try to nuke the gensokyo barrier because it infringed her rights because she couldn't be fucked to enter properly

>>40592235
ULiL was basically Sumireko deciding to visit someones house not by knocking first but using a door ram