/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

There is a real world equivalent to every Touhou character. Here we see Reimu's and Yukari's doppelgänger, Renko and Maribel.

I wonder who's Marisa's.

[Anonymous No.]

>Here we see Reimu's and Yukari's doppelgänger, Renko and Maribel.
How dare you insult my Renko.
Get out

[Anonymous No.]

>Renko
>Ranko
Renko is Ran.

[Ayn !ji3CXASUKA No.]

I call dibs on Sanae

[Anonymous No.]

That actually makes some sort of sense, hm.

[Anonymous No.]

Marisa's is a high powered executive at a robotics factory.

Something or other dyne, I can't remember.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2408982
I strongly recommend you to look here: www.leo.org for translations of german words. Alternatively learn harder in english class ;)

[Anonymous No.]

I changed my mind. Renko is Ran.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409009
POINT OUT THE MISTAKES, FAGGOT, OR SHUT UP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2408994
No

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409010
Makes even less sense.

[Anonymous of Russian Federation !6907282216 No.]

>>2409009
Is there something wrong with his post? Being an ignorant Russki, I'm having a hard time spotting mistakes in it.

[Anonymous No.]

>Criticizing grammar
>I strongly recommend you to look here
>you to look here
I laughed.

[Anonymous No.]

[Ayn !ji3CXASUKA No.]

>>2409009
But that's the correct English usage of doppelganger

[Anonymous No.]

Renko is a Moon Rabbit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409024
Then Reimu it is.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409079
うさみみｗｗｗｗｗｗ

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409089
She's an awesome physicist, not some whore's copy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409109
>Reimu ... whore
KISAMA

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409079
うさみみ~

[Anonymous No.]

[Suigin !YUsuiginy. No.]

It's me

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>Reimu
>whore

NO GOOD

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409076
Gerfag here. In German, nobody would say doppelgänger, but the spelling is right and I do believe, that this is the correct english usage. Can't spot a mistake.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409220
That seems silly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409227
Looks delicious though

[Anonymous No.]

I don't think the "outside world" is supposed to be our world. I mean, who even dresses like that? Gotta be some kind of parallel universe where women wear dresses.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409251
Near future....and they're too awesome to dress normally.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409251
I would dress like Renko, but Maribel is just stupid.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409270
>I would dress like Renko

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409275
Tie, hat, suit.
Looks pretty normal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409251
Of course it's not, in 1969 we had a skirmish on the fucking moon, and later a war.

Instead of losing the Vietnam War, we had the Lunar War, and KICKED THEIR FUCKING ASSES!

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409282
Hey man, if you want to wear a skirt that's cool.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409286
.............

[Anonymous No.]

AMERICA

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409291
Men equivalent to skirts are pants.
Problem solved.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>2409286

If by "kicking their asses" you mean "brokering a ceasefire" then yes, the US certainly kicked their asses.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409301
You mean NASA

[Anonymous No.]

This boring world of ours needs more crossdressers. I wish I looked more androgynous, I'd wear dresses every day ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409303
Not the same, Anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409325
Yes, it is.
PROBLEM SOLVED

[Anonymous No.]

>Looks pretty normal.
But they're wearing dresses. If a girl went outside with a dress on, all of her fellow woman would think, "Oh, look, a prude. I bet she doesn't have a boyfriend, much less have anal sex with multiple men."

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409340
Yeah, they'd be wrong though. Sluts.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409340
Hey, I've seen many physicists wear things similar to Renko's.
Maribel on the other hand...

[Anonymous No.]

National Aeronautics and Space Administration is, of course, an international agency.

[Ayn !ji3CXASUKA No.]

>>2409340
And that's terrible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409356
What?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409340
You mean, the best women are the ones with dresses?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409340
The ones who wear dresses, while seemingly being prudes, and not dropping to their knees for every 12 inch dong dangled in front of them, are far more freaky than your standard girl.

You will be loved like never before. Or dominated, whatever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409371
Given the amount of dicks that enter Touhous that wear dressed I'm not sure if we can come to that conlcusion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409377
NOT CANON

[Suigin !YUsuiginy. No.]

>>2409220
2girls1cup

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409364
America won the Lunar War

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409388
Yeah so?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409388

There was a time... when the Earth and the Moon were at war with each other.

[Anonymous No.]

>You will be loved like never before. Or dominated, whatever.
feels good man

[Anonymous No.]

Cosplaying as Maribel and Renko would be so easy. The thing is nobody, not even most touhou fans would know who who were dressed as.

[Anonymous No.]

America is the strongest.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409404
I've only seen Renko cosplay once, and it sucked.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409399
I see what you did there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409404
You want obscure, go as Shingyoku.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409419
Now that's something nobody will know

[Anonymous No.]

I never knew a bamboo forest at night could be such a mystifying place! There's no signal for my cell phone here, nor does the GPS work, and there are rare natural bamboo shoots for the taking.... Maybe I'll rest around here for today...but I'm actually in a dream, am I? Can't be helped, I guess. I'll walk around a little bit and see.

And then there is the sky filled with stars. Whether it is the underdevelopment or the clear skies, this place seems like Japan a long time ago. A time slip, perhaps? Was Hawking's reversibility of the arrow of time actually true? If there weren't monsters around here then this place would be more fun.

That's right, could it be that the dream world is actually the memories of the substance that makes up the soul? Monsters are the symbols of traumatic memories. Hmm, that's new. I'm gonna tell Renko about it when I wake up. Now then, maybe I should start wandering again.

- This was discovered several hundred years ago in the Bamboo Forest of Lost. There are many vocabularies with unknown meanings, so it is still undecipherable. Though it is thought to be written by someone from the outside world, what, really, is the meaning of "dream world"?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409457
wat

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409505

When Maribel goes into Gensokyo she possibly arrives in a much earlier point in its time or Gensokyo isn't in sync with the time of the outside world. Maribel also puts forth the theory that Gensokyo is essentially the " Shadow Realm " from Persona.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409583
Well fuck

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409457
Where is this from?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409583
If I'm not mistaken Renko takes photographs, doing typical /x/phile type shit, and gets pictures of not only Hakugyokurou but also the entrance of Hakurei Shrine.

This was in the story of one of the music CDs, and I really want to know why ZUN decided to create characters with backstory to put in a music CD that isn't even a drama CD if not only to troll us all with ideas that Gensokyo is just the dream of some foreign chick. Oh boy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409648

Perfect Memento in a Strict Sense

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409653
Maybe they are insane.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409657
Oh you!

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409666
It is, oddly enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409666
Akyu found some shit Maribel dropped and decided to plop it into the records for some reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409286
IS THAT ELLEN!?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409674
Actually, that's not exactly right, since it was found ages ago, apparently. So one of Akyu's ancestors decided to plop it in there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409679
A-something

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409653

You're correct, she's also met a maid at Scarlet Devil Mansion ( possibly Sakuya? ), Mokou and a youkai that I guess may be Nazrin since I doubt there's that many " Mice with human faces " running around.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409695
Oh yes I remember.
She also describes the Mansion, stating it is indeed red.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409695
Isn't Nazrin leader of the youkai mice?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409717

She's the leader of mice altogether like how Tewi is the leader of the earth rabbits. My guess of her attacking Maribel has no evidence to back it but the humanoid versions of the animal youkai seem somewhat more rare so I dunno.

>>2409707

A interesting thing that doesn't involve Maribel but gives an outside an idea of how Gensokyo works is some things that Rinnosuke says in Curiosities. From Chapter 10 and 11 respectively.

" At this point, I got to thinking about how the barrier that surrounded Gensokyo affected things. What the barrier affected was people’s “thoughts”. If a material wall would be a “wall that keeps the body from passing through”, then the barrier would be a “wall that keeps people’s thoughts from passing through”. Going trough the barrier – in other words, to be spirited away – is something that happens when one is in a particular state of mind, where consciousness is hazy, and then your whole self would jump over it. For only an arm to jump through the barrier, it would mean the arm and the body have different thoughts. A human whose arm and body move with a different will? I don’t think there is such a human, much less a lot of those. So maybe what Reimu said was right, and this is not a human arm. "

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409786

And Chapter 11 -

I grabbed the small, white metallic box, put it to my ear and closed my eyes. Maybe I could hear some sounds from the outside. I got the impression that there were some conversating voices coming from outside. Maybe Marisa had already came back, or else a youkai had come by, lured by the fried tofu… No, I don’t think that’s it. There was an ear-shattering clamor like nothing I’d ever heard before. I couldn’t believe such a painful sound could be made by anything living creature.

I felt unpleasantly warm air all over my skin. It was as if the ambient temperature had changed all of a sudden. If winter is to be like this, I don’t think I will need heating. Even with my eyes closed, a flood of light is pushing through. What could be shining so bright like that? It's a cold brightness, unlike sunlight or magic light.

Then I had a flash of intuition. Right now… I must be in the outside world. Riding on the outside items surrounding me, my thoughts had flown across the barrier. But... I didn’t open my eyes. What if, after seeing the outside world, I couldn’t return to Gensokyo anymore? Humans that are spirited away almost never have a chance to come back again. On the other hand, if I open my eyes believing this to be only a visual and auditory illusion, my thoughts wouldn’t cross the border and would be back to Gensokyo, and I could miss my chance to see the outside world. Which is what I truly wish for?

That’s right, wasn’t my goal to obtain fuel? I did have a clear objective. I didn’t want to get lost in the outside world, only to visit it to complete a task. I had to leave my thoughts at Kourindou—no, at Gensokyo—and let only my body cross over there. Yes, that’s a feat humans couldn’t pull off… but I’m sure I could. For the sake of getting fuel for making my shop warm again, I slowly opened my eyes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409801


It was a flood of light. It was a very bright light, but also cold. I could hardly see in that brightness. And there were some voices speaking in what didn’t seem to be Japanese. The hot, foul air was making my head hurt. The outside world…I had seen it in things like books that drifted in, but I never imagined it would be so noisy and unpleasant. I had to calm down and look for some fuel, and then I should calmly look for a way to go back to Gensokyo. ...my eyes were getting accustomed. This place, this archway was something I recognized… is this a shrine? And a shrine with a big crowd in it…

“Oh, no! You came all the way here... You can’t come here. Because you are not human, you see?”

“!?”

That noisy sound suddenly stopped. The light also went away, and I was with the white case in my hand again. The surroundings were gloomy, but somehow I could see them… it was the usual interior of the Kourindou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409786
Interesting.
How could this relate on the fact that Maribel goes to Gensokyo on her dreams?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409786
>>2409801
>>2409806
Well, Rinnosuke says strange things at times. I don't think it's necessarily how Gensokyo works, but how Rinnosuke believes it to work.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409808

My theory is that one cannot cross the border into Gensokyo physically but only mentally, perhaps through dreams. Maribel with her border abilities is able to achieve this much easier, possibly at will while others ended up there randomly, at least as far as humans go. Youkai and other assorted magical beings seem to be able to enter it at will although I'm not sure if they can leave as easily.

Gensokyo itself seems tied to forgotten or things missing things also, like it has a copy of Mount Yatsugatake when it was supposedly taller than Mt.Fuji while the actual Mount Yatsugatake still exists in the outside world ( I assume ). Old forgotten objects like the original gameboy end up there also so I think there's no predefined border in the real world that no one can see but rather it's more of a dimension things can kind of just slip through like when you drop something and can't find it even though you know where you dropped it.

Actually when I think about it I suppose you could end up falling into it physically, if foreigners fall in and have their cells with them I doubt they were sleeping in their bed with them although I know I've done that before.

Conclusion - ┐( ￣3￣)┌

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409801
I always just figured that this "crossing over of thoughts" and "getting lost in the other world forever" was just ZUN's way of describing the power of imagination.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409894
On the same line, I saw humans falling into Gensokyo as being a more physical form of "getting lost".

[Anonymous No.]

Be forgotten
Go to Gensokyo


We all could go

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409894

That's a good possibility, Rinnosuke likes to over complicate and over describe things. Though Reimu and Marisa mention that they had to weaken the border to get Yukari's attention which could of allowed Rinnosuke to slip through for a bit. Due to the vagueness of a lot of things either side could be right.

[Anonymous No.]

>>2409918
>That's a good possibility, Rinnosuke likes to over complicate and over describe things.
Fossils made me laugh.

[Anonymous No.]

doppelgangers
time slips
lucid dreams
shat some bricks.