Touhou07 Perfect Cherry Blossom 20th aniversary thread!

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20 years ago today ZUN released the best touhou game, this thread is to give love to PCB on its 20th anniversary.

PS: I love Yukari Yakumo

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Here's to Ran's expanded lore

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>>44345275
happy anniversary of first appearance of best fairy

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>>44345275
hola danmakus

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PCB anniversary unironically could have been the reason of Ran's return when you think about it, plus PCB Yukari in her ending

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Best trio.

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Happy birthday, PCB!
Nice to see so many people coming together making art for this occasion.

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i really want to play that game right now but my controller is broken and i don't like playing touhou games on my keyboard.
and i also would have to download the game which wouldn't be a problem if the site i used to download touhou games from wasn't broken. i'd have to search for a new trustworthy website and i'm not really in the mood for it right now.
i'm washing the frustration away by listening to touhou 8's soundtrack which i never played in depth and have a vague memory of.
i'd like to play it too. when everything's in order i'd like to play touhou 6, 7 and 8, this time by all finishing them. they're the touhou games that really left an impression on me and i'd like to make them justice once and for all. i also came to the understanding that these 3 games are considered to be a golden trilogie in the series which is my luck since i'm not really interested in playing the others. at least not now.

happy one day after your birthday touhou 7!
thinking of you only brings soulful memories!

and shout out to letty whitebell

>>44346647
i like this artwork because it's drawn in zun's style
>>44348282
and this artwork for it's composition, colors and style.
it's a very skillful piece.

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Thank you ZUN for this wholesome family, as well as for Youmu and Yuyuko.
Touhou wouldn't be the same without PCB.

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>>44345275
I wonder if this is the very first guess the cover silhouette guess fanart ever....

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Don't forget the Prismrivers!

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>>44348670
I really want her to reappear as a midboss if he ever makes a winter themed game again...

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>>44345275
on par with EoSD or better

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Can't believe it's already 20 years old, it's still pretty fun and still feels magic somehow.
I drew Yuyu to celebrate and finished today. Even though making ZUNhats and other frilled stuff is complicated in pc98 style and if you simplify stuff too much it just looks off imo.
>>44346647
Flan came back one year before EoSD's 20 anniversary, Ran on the year of PCB's 20 anniversary, and both are extra bosses... Wonder if he'll keep bringing old characters.
>>44348670
Must be the first, unless there's some lost fanart somewhere waiting to be found...

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>>44357087
very cute

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>>44357087
That's top tier OC, are you Japanese by chance?

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>>44359459
>>44360096
Glad you liked it.
I'm not Japanese thought.
>>44357087
I originally picked colors closer to the colors she has in the fighters thinking of pc98 color limitations but I think picrel would also be feasible in the 4096 available colors available, and with that many colors making other touhous might be easier.
But I guess the color choices of ZUN had more to do with the 16 max colors at the same time.

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Been locking a lot at Letty's sprite and it's really weird, her eyebrows are magenta?(probably just pinkish like her hair but darker due to shadows) and I'm not sure what her mouth is doing in her portrait when she is looking at the camera, is it a faint smile or a poker face?
Since I'm indecisive I just put some variations.
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>>44349245
One Letty has the portrait colors and the other the sprite colors, I wonder if ZUN mixed up her colors with Sakuya's at some point.
I guess people draw her with blue clothes and silvery hair colors more since it feels colder.

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>>44366662
Both a straight poker face and slight smile. Her mouth is closed when looking away but her lips are slightly parted when looking at the player.

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Alice Margatroid my beloved....... Best girl.

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Why is stage 4 so long? Every other stage is about 2 minutes.

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>>44375570
Because he makes the stages after the music.

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>>44375570
ZUN got inspired I guess.
I always think that stage5 feels too short, but I think that's just because of stage 4 being long.
Can't really complain since it's a pretty, although I dislike how hard it is to collect items in that stage but maybe that's just my lack of skill.

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Speaking of stage 4 i always forget it exists. For me the game goes As letty->Chen->Alice->Youmu->Yuyuko and end of the game. When i actually reach stage 4 it is a small surprise every time.

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>>44383687
It's a lot of fucking fairies and lily white comes around to shit on your parade for what feels like ages.

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Thank you ZUN for creating the best fox ever!!

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Pssh check out my collection and despair!

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No hat means more space for the rest of the body!
I don't know what made me think that the silly spinning magician would be easier, but I guess she turned out fine.
>>44367092
アリス！！https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm12451853
>>44367019
Oh okay thx, I had mixed both portraits in my head by looking at them too much and got confused.
>>44384171
Guess anon posted >>44348727 for a good reason. But it happened to me once, expecting that stairs would appear on the background after defeating Alice but nope black background.
>>44384407
Guess even ZUN also thought it was a bit to much and that's why he put 2 bomb items in the stage.

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>>44345275
It feels so unreal that it's been so long.
>>44366662
Cute Letty

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>>44348282
artist?

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>>44394935
I love these PC98 portraits, have you made one of Yukari?

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Most wholesome family

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>>44366662
I always thougth Sakuya' player sprites in PCB looked a lot like, dont really know what ZUN was doing with the colours too.

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>>44375570
same shit with EOSD lol, it's the most exhausting part of the run.
the little breather you get at the end is so fucking kino though.

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>>44429812
Are you shitting me?
EoSD stage 4 was long, but a cakewalk compared to stage 5. It doesn't drag on nearly as long as PCB s4, and it is nowhere near as intense as either. Most of the danmaku is slow and avoidable once you get used to it, while PCB s4 & EoSD s5 is bullshit coming at you at light speed.

t. Can't get past either without losing all my lives.

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>>44429928
The books in stage 4 are rgn so that automatically make it worse than pcb

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>>44345275
hola danmakus

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>>44345275
Here's a nice video showcasing the expo they've ran during the anniversary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfgCcdHzfE

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>>44443782
Sounds like they had a lot of fun. What was the audio only section about? Creator for that bit not want photography?

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>>44445024
It was an expo-exclusive concept art gallery.

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>>44345275
>20 years ago today ZUN released the best touhou game
that's not AoCF

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>>44445123
He obviously meant the best mainline game.

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>>44422686
Started drawing her after seeing your post.
It got even harder than I expected, her eyes also look at me weirdly so I'll finish it tomorrow.
A fun part of this is noticing details in her portrait, like her leftmost hair ribbon being tied by her hair rather than the ribbon tied to the hair... or maybe ZUN just rushed the colors a bit.
Also I'm not sure if the red things in her gap are supposed to be something or just brush random strokes.
>>44443782
Looks cool, those sort of things make me want to go to Japan... Hopefully for the IN expo, funny how the screen messed the kamekameha of ZUN.
>>44445071
Does anyone have pics or drawnings?

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>>44447318
Beatiful, great job so far.
>her eyes also look at me weirdly
Yeah, that's part of her charm. Sort of like the Strabismus of Venus.
>Also I'm not sure if the red things in her gap are supposed to be something or just brush random strokes.
They kinda look like tombstones to me, or maybe like the stones of a cromlech (like Stonehenge).

>Does anyone have pics or drawnings?
This >>44299287 is the only one I've seen so far, a pic taken by someone in secret.

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I'm really confused when somethings start or stops being hair in some places of her portrait but I think it turned out fine.

>>44452214
>Yeah, that's part of her charm. Sort of like the Strabismus of Venus.
I tried to make her eyes more symmetric at some point and it felt odd.
But her eyes also looked weird to me yesterday was more of a me thing since I'm never really satisfied with how eyes turn out.

>Tombstones or cromlech stones
That sound pretty nice. Guess I'll also think about it while looking at pics with Yukari's gap to see what other artists have done but red distorted tombs could be a nice thing to draw.

> a pic taken by someone in secret.
Thx, wish they at least released the EoSD and DiPP stuff from last year, people would probably start doing fanarts with whatever random ideas they find of the sketches. But it's nice to see at least someone sharing.

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>>44457726
Thank you, she looks very nice.

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>>44452214
>>44299287
Was this the Youmu from the ZUNart thread?

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>>44469194
Yes
>>/jp/image/y8YA8wq1xqp5ESr2rFaZxA

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>first time "beating" yuyuko
>first game where I beat a final boss
>not 1ccc sadly
>think im done, music cuts out
>hands shaking, 1 life
>music comes back?
>UNRELENTING BARRAGE OF PIANO, what the fuck is happening
>Resurrection Butterfly -30% Reflowering-

CHILLS, adrenaline surges again, didnt make it first time, a few runs later got it and was treated to the hard cool down tail end of border of life.

Few other games do such a good last boss victory rug pull/surprise final phase.

Eventually pcb was also my first 1cc (Sakuya)

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>>44474061
I wasn't lucky enough not to get spoiled about the fact the final boss had a survival spell after beating it, but it's still an amazing experience indeed.
By the way, who are you quoting?

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>>44473022
Neat