/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

> Person notices I play Touhou
> Them: "Oh, you like Touhou too?"
> Finally someone that likes it
> Me: "Oh shit, someone that likes Touhou. Sweet. What's your favourite game?"
> Them: "Oh, I don't play the games, they're too hard"
> Me: "Not even the fighting games?"
> Them: "Nope. But I do like the fangames"
> Me: "Okay... Well, what's your favourite music then?"
> Them: "Oh you know, Cirno's Perfect Math Class and such"
> Me: "Ah. Well. Are you at least up to date with the mangas?"
> Them: "What mangas? Touhou is a series of games."
> Them: "Unless you mean Doujins. Yeah I love them xDDD."
> mfw this happens too often

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
too green, didn't read.

[Anonymous No.]

yes but who are you quoting

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
Whats the best way and order to get started with the mangas anyway?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944997
This order: https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Official_Literature#Comics

[Anonymous No.]

>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.]

>playing the games

Yeah no thanks, I'd rather not be a tertiary

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945019
And reading the official ones is enough?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945027
Music: Primary
Game: Secondary
Manga: Tertiary
Cuteposting/memeposting: Quaternary

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945048
Better than just reading the doujins and calling yourself a "Touhou fan"

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>>15945051
who are you quoting

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945066

I wasn't greentexting, so I wasn't quoting anyone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945080
(you)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945095

Are you pretending to be retarded?

[Anonymous No.]

>playing 2hu in front of coworkers
>they try to make fun of me because silly girly drawings
>tell them if its such a girly game why don't they try it
>get btfo
>now they gather to see me playing lunatic
>get some of them into shumps
Feels good, dude.

[Anonymous No.]

[greentext]Hey anon what games do you like
Touhou
What's that? I only play LoL[/greentext]

I hate my country

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945126
This never happened.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945065
Speaking of, I tried reading Makoto Hirasaka's doujins the other day since I like the fairies manga but they are way too lewd. At least the one I read about Sakuya losing her panties

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945165
<greentext>
tfw living in Denmark
tfw people only know mainstream media
tfw nobody that shares interests
</greentext>

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945175
It did. I swear on your imouto.

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>>15945051
Yeah, no.

The games are the primary content produced by ZUN. Anyone that doesn't play them is a secondary.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945197

You fully well know the games are just the front for the music, ergo if you don't just listen to the music you are a secondary.

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>>15945203
Alright, keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945203
the music isn't even that good

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945211

Not an argument.

>>15945220

Unrelated point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945203
> I can't even beat easy mode, therefore they aren't primary
Kepp dreeming

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>>15944959
Better than nothing.

Now it's time for you to educate and shape the person

[Anonymous No.]

Last time I tried to talk to someone about the games, it was the opposite as the OP's. I had barely beaten all the games on 1cc normal, and this guy was playing the games on lunatic for scoring.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945922
If you know someone from Mainland China who is into Touhou, there is a good chance they are ridiculously into it.

https://h.nimingban.com/f/%E4%B8%9C%E6%96%B9Project

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945953
They're just like us

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>>15945964
Chinese weeaboos and Western weeaboos are more similar than either would care to admit.

Koreans (and sometimes Taiwanese) are more likely to be in-sync with the Japanese zeitgeist at any given time.

[Anonymous No.]

Who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945964
I would run reimu over, then throw the train in reverse just to make sure

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945975

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945964
I need that train picture

[Anonymous No.]

>>15946043
I think they ban Western IPs from posting by default

[Anonymous No.]

Saging greentext threads since 2002

[Anonymous No.]

>>15946063
Thanks dude

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945203
lmao
I'm really sorryfor you if you really believe this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945964
>>15946063
Train needs to be further away. No buildup and tension, no fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
Did anyone ever figure out who this guy was quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15946411
Yes, he was quoting himself and his secondary new friend.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945102
I'm having trouble determining tr exact location of where the cuteposting stops and actual shit posts begin

[Anonymous No.]

I can barely 1cc easy. Yet I have been a primary for years.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15947361
Have you seen the endings and at least cleared Extra?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15947559
>Have you seen the good endings and at least cleared Extra?
FTFY

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>>15944959
>> Person notices I play Touhou
How does this even happen?
>>15945953
How do mainland Chinese even get into it? It's so stacked against them. First you have poverty, then constant anti Japanese propaganda, then you have the blanket censorship online, then you need a Chinese person who liked Japan enough to learn Japanese and translate, lastly you need to find this game, and it's hardly got a huge marketing campaign.

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>>15944959
Tell me your secrets /jp/, how do you even meet someone that knows Touhou?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945181
I live in Denmark

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
>just interested in Touhou for the games
>have yet to clear any of them with any amount of continues on any difficulty, but I generally stay away from easy mode
>I don't even know why I'm on this board right now

[Anonymous No.]

>>15947704
Are you me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959

[Anonymous No.]

I only knew of 3 touhou-related songs (remixes) for years until I actually decided to play the games this year.

[Anonymous No.]

I saw a guy playing IM in a university hall four years ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15947946
>IM

What's that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15947999
Typo, imperishable night

[Anonymous No.]

>>15947559
There is no easy extra, and there are no easy good endings.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15948671
Difficult is relative, but Suwako is pretty easy.

You can get the good endings in Fairy Wars, LoLK and maybe PoFV with easy mode.

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>>15948671
PCB and MoF Extras are considered the easiest Extras to clear. IN Extra isn't too bad, either.

You can see good endings on Easy mode in some games. Heck, PCB Easy unlocks the Extra if you 1cc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945051

Wrong:

Danmaku Games: Primary
Anything Else Official: Secondary
Fan-derived Content: Tertiary

[Anonymous No.]

does it really matter if you are a secondary or not though?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15948683
I meant that beating easy mode doesn't give you an extra. I couldn't play an extra unless I could somehow beat normal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15948721
I always get annoyed when people make a big deal over having to play the games. Yes, I do think they are great games and people should play them because they are. Of course people should know that they were the origin of Touhou but some people simply do not enjoy shooting games.

>>15948771
For most games, yes.

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>>15947585
>How do mainland Chinese even get into it?

Dude there's a million Chinese weeks. They're way now dedicated than us Westerners, if you go iyn sadpanda you'll notice that basically every single doujin ever has a Chinese translation within days of being scanned. Chinese anime streaming sites make Japan more money than Western ones too.

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>>15947585 #
>How do mainland Chinese even get into it?

Dude there's a million Chinese weebs. They're way more dedicated than us Westerners, if you go on sadpanda you'll notice that basically every single doujin ever has a Chinese translation within days of being scanned. Chinese anime streaming sites make Japan more money than Western ones too.

Koreans aren't quite as dedicated but they're still more dedicated than us. Ironically porn is banned in both countries yet every new H-doujin still gets translated.

[Anonymous No.]

Please use sageru when you're posting in this thread onegaishimasu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945922
You just have to practice
Ask him for advice on levels/cards you're having trouble with

[Anonymous No.]

>>15948808
I notice them not uploading raws. Dedicated to being dicks, maybe.

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>>15944990
>>15945066
Fuck off newfags

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>>15948974
1. They are such weebs that they actually respect the wishes of an author not to upload RAWs.

2. Groups are more competitive, so RAWs are shared among group members only. In the West, the chance of a group being "beaten" to a translation is about 1 in a GCRascal.

3 They give -20 fucks about Non-Chinese anything, yet alone non-Chinese translators.

Now I fucking know there are a ton of Chinese Americans who can read either traditional characters or simplified characters, and could translate these if they wanted to. I don't know why there are not groups dedicated to that, besides complacency.

If my Chinese improves, I might start taking a whack at it.


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Food for thought: There are two functioning niconico clones in Mainland China (Bilibili and ACfun) dedicated around otaku culture/anime, in spite of the fact that new anime is banned in China.

In the West, where people have free access to most anime and otaku tangents, and most of us have the money to partially support such a website, how many niconico-esque sites are there in the West?

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>>15944997
Here's a good overview of continuity. You can read SSiB in its entirety before CiLR if you want (instead of interleaving), but you pretty much have to read both for the whole story. WaHH, FS, and OSP often intertwine because they run in serialization and happen more or less in real time. Secret Sealing Club stories are mostly a separate thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15949045
But respecting intellectual property is inherently evil.

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>>15949388
Since they disrespecting it by translating it in the first place, that's irrelevant

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>>15944959
Is Cirno's Perfect Math Class even good? or for that matter, any other parodies out there? shit that shitty shit is so shit, how do people like it. WHY DO THEY EXIST goddammit IOSYS

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
quite honestly the only good thing to come out of touhou was the porn

[Anonymous No.]

>>15949503
It was simpler times 10 years ago. People were allowed to have dumb fun on the internet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15949503
Despite the reputation it's got as secondary bait I genuinely think Bad Apple!! is a pretty well made video.

I kinda wish it would have got more people into the PC-98 games though

[Anonymous No.]

>>15949609
wrong

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>>15945181
>tfw people only know mainstream media
Isn't that a given?
Besides, du er ikke den eneste I Danmark der interesserer sig for Touhou, har dog aldrig mødt nogen I person.
>>15949503
I like it.

[Anonymous No.]

>person notices I play touhou
>"What the fuck is this sht you fucking anime faggot"

[Anonymous No.]

Have any of you ever shown your family that you play Touhou games? What was their reaction?

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>>15950741
My stepfather saw me playing MoF one day. I mumbled that it was Touhou and he told me he used to play a game like it on Atari. He didn't beat my ass for playing feminine little girl games like he should have.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
>mangas
All autism aside OP, I feel you. Damn secondaries

>>15945964
Haha, trick question, there are no trolleys in Gensokyo

[Anonymous No.]

>>15950822
You have a cool stepfather

[Anonymous No.]

>>15949004

shut the H*CK up dude

don't ever reply to me again

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945197
The music was made first.

In fact, touhou was just a programming test that, by complete accident, became really popular

[Anonymous No.]

>>15950871
He's okay. I know lots of people get saddled with shitty stepdads, particularly ones that would kick my NEET ass to the curb in a hot second. I'm really grateful for him and my mother to be honest, they're really chill about the whole me-being-a-huge-loser thing, and make attempts to support me in my issues. Things are looking up, too, so I guess it's working.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15949045
>new anime is banned in China
But their largest infrastructure and media corporation practically made an anime-TPP with Japan a year ago.

[Anonymous No.]

epik thread

[Anonymous No.]

Yesterday at my uni I saw a guy with the same model thinkpad that I have browsing some touhou pictures on tumblr during a lecture. I don't know why anyone would do that in public.

Also:
Games > music > mangas > any fancontent

[Anonymous No.]

>>15963951
He's probably one of us

[Anonymous No.]

To everyone else in the thread who's not big into shooting games, try Shoot the Bullet.
It lets you go super aggressive and kill the boss in seconds, but also allows you to play defensively and carefully take them down as slowly as you're comfortable.
Most importantly, instead of lives you just restart the fight when you die. You can try out kooky strategies and play how you want without worrying about getting sent to the high score screen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945203
>Don't play the games
Die in your feces, faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15964228
I highly doubt that, would anyone who goes on /jp/ actually use tumblr to find fanart instead of boorus?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15964384
Aya shilling super hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>tfw can only 1CC on easy modo

[Anonymous No.]

>>15964384
It's true, StB was the only Touhou game I really liked.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15964482
They're extremely overrated anyways.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15965196
>Touhou games
>overrated

You're gonna find fans of Touhou who are more likely to have never 1cced a game than have 1cced, though.

[Anonymous No.]

Can we get some more blogging here? I'm really very interested in all of your personal lives as that's why I'm on /jp/. Remember to use greentext prolifically and use spoilers to enhance your post.
Unrelated reaction images are not required, but are deeply appreciated. Thanks.

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>>15965656
Exactly. They're games you complete once for each character and then rarely touch again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15965724
Not quite. Quite a few people take the games farther and have a great time doing so, like pursuing Lunatics and the like. And those people, honestly, are the true fans of the series.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15965624
>tfw I 1cced through exploiting the MoF Marisa B glitch

[Anonymous No.]

>>15965724
>They're games you complete once for each character and then rarely touch again.
who the fuck does this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15965800
Most people.

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>>15965797
Go back and do it without a glitch!

[Anonymous No.]

>>15965839
Who are these "most people"?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15947651
cute pic d00d

[Anonymous No.]

>friends are over to play vidya
>they check my games
>"anon what is Touhou"
>open up 11 and show some gameplay
>"I didn't know you liked anime, anon"

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945175
When people on other threads have fantasies about meeting Alice, or having sex with Tewi you don't choose to go out and say their fantasies didn't happen
But here you do.
That's rude, dude

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>>15964708

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>>15967592
People who don't want to play the same game over a hundred times just to brag on the internet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15969116
Yeah, it's not like it's fun or anything right? Do you even play shmups?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15969123
Not fun enough to play over and over when you could be doing something else.

[Anonymous No.]

I enjoy the shmups but I have a lot more of fun playing HRtP. I kinda wish there were more games like it

[Anonymous No.]

>>15969195
You're underestimating how in-depth the games are and the sheer amount of effort of those who seek to improve their skills at the game. There's LNBers and scorerunners, and then some take them even farther and aim for LNN(N)s and world records.

And I know for a fact not one of them feels like they wasted any time once they achieve their goals.

[Anonymous No.]

>playing touhou in public

[Anonymous No.]

>>15969195
>when you could be doing something else.
arbeit macht frei

[Anonymous No.]

>>15969243
I'm not good enough for any of those. The games on normal are hard enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15969243
I'm sure some of them regret it. I haven't achieved anything of note but I could have spent the couple thousand hours I've spent playing Touhou learning Japanese and programming.

Life is worth having things you are passionate about though.

>>15969273
Of course you can improve.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15970169
It would take years for me to 1cc a game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959

I don't even have secondaries in my area to talk to. Be thankful for what you've got meme arrow master.

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[Anonymous No.]

>>15970347
I achieved my first 1cc, SA on normal, after about a year of playing a couple hours a week. Would've taken no more than a month or two had I an hour a day. It's not really a huge feat if you are persistent, and once you get good at one game getting good at others becomes easy. Maybe you just dont like shooting games?

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>>15949004

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>>15970976
Not enough to put in all that time. It would take me much longer then that anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

I've literally never met anyone irl that would make me think they even are aware of touhou.

[Anonymous No.]

I once saw a car in the parking lot of my city's city hall that had Touhou stickers on it. One said Gensokyo something and there was one of Marisa. There was at least one or two other ones but I didn't have time to look too long because I saw some skinny guy with glasses and his mom walking toward the car and I didn't want to be caught staring at their car if it was theirs.

Sure enough they got in the car.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945964
who are those chinese people quoting, why are they quoting numbers and greater-than signs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15971481
So moms are into touhou too?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
>notice someone playing touhou
>"Boy I 1v1 u PoFV right now"
>he gladly accepts
>I utterly rape him
>"hey man let's play the fighter instead, I'm better at them"
>"ok"
>I'm in top soku EU
>non-dilligently obliterate him
>"whatever man! "
>we never play again

At least he was more interested by the games than secondary shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
> nobody notices I play 2hu
> the end

[Anonymous No.]

Why is this thread still alive

[Anonymous No.]

>>15973610
I mean
What did you expect?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945953
I'd argue any east asian, dude that lives two aparments from the right of me moved in like a week ago from korea, we know eachother soley on the basis we both play touhou and he's into just as much as i am.

My sheer autism keeps us from bonding over anything else

(I found out he was into it because i saw him drying a sanae dakimakura)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15973695
To piss you off

[Anonymous No.]

Why not just make it official and create a crossboard general for you human refuse that wish to turn this place into another /avb?
/jp/ has been on its deathbed for years and you're handing it a dose of poison.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15976525
Who are you talking to?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15976584
Who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15949609
True.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15976519
>found out he was into it because i saw him drying a sanae dakimakura
Sounds like a truly magical moment.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15969243
Now you're just trying to justify wasting so much time. The games aren't hard even on lunatic, and are very simple. A couple different lines of dialogue isn't enough to play it with other characters. People going for self-imposed challenges are by definition a smaller part of the majority.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15982688
>The games aren't hard even on lunatic, and are very simple.
For you maybe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
>mangas

[Anonymous No.]

>>15983116
Sorry, mangae.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15982688
Post you're score then.

[Anonymous No.]

can someone post the picture of the fit guy in the white room playing touhou on a wall mounted flat screen

[Anonymous No.]

>>15949503
It's cute and fun, just like every other big name Touhou song from back in the day. There's nothing wrong with it. But the issue here is that through overexposure, people who are more than familiar with those kinds of songs got sick of them. A lot of people who aren't too familiar with doujin music think that those arranges are the only ones to exist/can't be bothered to or simply don't want to listen to newer songs, so there's a bit of a clash between these two kinds of people.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15945197
>>15945203
Didn't ZUN originally just want to make music, but he only wanted to make instrumentals and knew those wouldn't get popular, so he decided using them in a game would be his best bet?

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>>15964494

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>>15983483
Shit, I accidentally pressed send before typing.

A lot of artists on Pixiv post their art on Tumblr. I've noticed that sometimes they'll post WIPs there and not elsewhere, so if you really like their art it's best to follow them wherever they post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15944959
>Who is your favorite character?
>Flandre because edgelord shit, bloody fanarts and vice versa.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15949004
I've never heard of anybody called "Fuck off newfags".

[Anonymous No.]

>>15983478
From my understanding, ZUN specifically wanted to be a video game composer. He started making games so he could make games he wanted to play, and by extension, create the music he wanted to create.