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So the kappa society and tengu society are supposed to be pretty technologically advanced.

Are they living in skyscrapers or something while humans are still living in their traditional houses?

Also, if
>Their appearance is human, but on their back they have a turtle shell, and on their head a plate is placed.
is the case, what happened with Nitori? ZUN just forgot?

>> No.2253113

Creative license.

>> No.2253119
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Shell = backpack
Plate = hat

>> No.2253122

>>2253100
She's bald under the hat. And only the kappa are technologically advanced. They share their stuff with the tengu though. Like cameras.

>> No.2253120

ZUN said on 2ch that Nitori doesn't have a bald spot on her head. You should everything else he's written about Nitori. He comments on her not looking like a kappa.

>Are they living in skyscrapers or something while humans are still living in their traditional houses?
Read SSiB to see what houses of "technologically advanced" races look like.
Tengus have factories.

>> No.2253142

>>2253100

ZUN was drunk.

>> No.2253144

>>2253120
It seems like being born a human is one of the shittier things that can happen to you in Gensokyo.

>> No.2253157

>>2253144
Better than being a cast away umbrella.

>> No.2253169

>>2253122
>14: The tengu's technology includes photography, printing and publication. The kappa work with iron, construction and tool-making.
Maybe not as much as kappa, but it looks like they're still better off than humans.

>> No.2253171

>>2253144
Humans have magic. Enjoy your polluted and overcrowded kappa city.

>> No.2253230

Disregarding canon, I like to think of the kappa and tengu living in a steampunk sort of society. And when it comes to technology, I like to think that they follow a more "How kickass can you make it?" mindset rather than a "How useful and efficient is this?" mindset. It's pretty clear that ZUN says that they have telephones and fax machines, but that's no fun for me. When they say that they have telephones, I imagine one of those extraordinarily old ones that require manual cranking. And when they say that the tengu can print stuff, I like to imagine them using presses during the time of the printer's devil, or maybe some very unreliable steam-powered presses.

Of course, some of the stuff in PMiSS clearly go against this idea, like how tengu are using "silent cameras" and such.

>> No.2253245

>>2253171

Indeed according to Zun the humans of Gensokyo are all capable of a little magic ranging from barely anything to pretty powerful (like Marisa), they all have enough magic to beat faries at least.

>> No.2253250

>>2253230
I can't see how steam-powered optic camouflage would work.

>> No.2253253

>>2253250
It doesn't.

>> No.2253261

>>2253250
>>2253253
Not to mention the laser stuff that she has as well.

>> No.2253269

>>2253230
I think Aya would need something more sophisticated to put out a daily newspaper.

>> No.2253272

>>2253250
it camouflages you as a cloud of steam

>> No.2253275

>>2253269
That's only if you believe anyone actually reads it.

>> No.2253281

Yeah, it conflicts quite a good deal with canon. It's just how I like to see it though.

>> No.2253283

>>2253269

>I think Aya would need something more sophisticated to put out a daily newspaper.
>Aya would need something more sophisticated to put out a daily newspaper.
>Aya would need something more sophisticated to put
>Aya would need to put

>> No.2253285

>>2253275
I highly doubt Aya would stop printing the paper even if no one read it. She puts it out for her own enjoyment, and besides, more people are bound to read that paper (what with it practically being the only news source in all of Gensokyo) than the amount of people that are going to even visit Reimu's run down old shrine in the middle of no where.

>> No.2253294

>>2253283
Put out, you mean?

>> No.2253297

>>2253269
I could see Aya being so dedicated that she just does all the printing by press. Tengu are fast and powerful, so I wouldn't put it completely out there that Aya wouldn't at least be able to put out some newspapers. Even more if she had some help.

>> No.2253312

>>2253297
Compared to a printing press that uses the latin alphabet, I imagine a Japanese version would be much more cumbersome, trying to find the one kanji you need out of thousands.

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2253317

Stand back, gentlemen! I can handle this thread!

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>>2253312
Not to mention if they did woodblock printing, making the woodblock would take some time as well.

Movable type, on the other hand...

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Cucumber moe~

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>>2253368

I never could track down that Canaria Mint doujin, Kyon. Is it in your fileshare?

>> No.2253373

>>2253360
That would still be a pain in the ass, trying to find a single kanji, unless there's some crazy way of sorting them for MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY.

>> No.2253382

>>2253370
Seconded

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>>2253370
I don't upload non-h doujinshi to my fileshare, but I can upload it tomorrow on voile if you want.

>> No.2253417

There's more then you ask for with Nitori

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>>2253397
Also, there is a hinaxnitori doujinshi on voile now if anybody is interested.

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>>2253373
Nothing is impossible for tengu!

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>>2253397

That would explain why I couldn't find it! I'll keep looking around, thanks

>> No.2253455

>>2253442
I always imagined something like Imperial Boy's stuff when I thought about the kappa and tengu society.

>> No.2253486

>>2253360
If the camera that Aya uses is a rather sophisticated point and click system with normal film (as evidenced in StB), her camera is probably circa 1950s+. With that kind of technology, she should have something comparatively sophisticated in her printing.

>> No.2253494 [DELETED] 

>>2253486
Likely.

OH well. I suppose coming up with these outlandish ideas is part of the fun in Touhou anyway.

>> No.2253503

I remember in CoLA, computers being dropped into Gensokyo. Did the kappa get them working or something?

>> No.2253526

>>2253486
Probably. But if we're still talking about the canonical viability of >>2253230, he pretty much conceded that it was farfetched quite a long time ago.

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>>2253503

It's possible.

I always kind of pictured the kappa having modern conveniences just sort of in the Gensokyo setting. Not like they have toasters, but they probably have heating elements, for example.

>> No.2253556

>>2253545
Same with me. I have a difficult time wrapping my head around the stuff they canonically have and trying to apply it to the whole feel of Gensokyo.

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Air torpedoes or optical camo sounds pretty advanced for Gensokyo.

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>>2253578

She's the adorable bell curve outlier.

>> No.2254790

>>2253578
Except that her camo suit doesn't work too well.

>> No.2254842

>>2254790
Ours doesn't either.

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