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Why isn't the Netherworld in the sky? Doesn't Reimu have to fly to reach the primsriver sisters and then reach it, and sakuya usess the air currents?

>> No.9045430

Touhou is a metaphor for modern Japan. Literalists can suck my cock

>> No.9045452

>>9045430
Explain how it is a metaphor.

>> No.9045447

This map doesn't make sense.
Why is misty lake behind the scarlet devil mansion? If Reimu is going to the mansion from the shrine, she goes through the lake before the mansion.

>> No.9045465

>>9045452
Transcendental concepts (such as God) cannot be explained with our mundane speech; they require grand metaphors. Why do you think that myth is so heavily used in early religion? It provides a metanarrative.

>> No.9045473

>>9045465
your mother is a metaphor, spergcock

>> No.9045508

>Sanzo River

>> No.9045889

what happens when you go past those background mountains?

>> No.9045898

We don't have a canon map of gensokyo yet.

>> No.9045909
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9045909

This map is better.

>> No.9045963

>>9045423

this is the worst map of gensokyo I've ever seen. misty lake no in the way of hakurei shrine, sanzO river, isn't the nameless hill supposed to be by the garden of the sun? and isn't the geyser to the underground supposed to be behind reimu's shrine? and since when are muedzuka and higan just down the block, not to mention makai?
lastly, what the fuck are those unnamed ruins by the scarlet mansion?

>> No.9045967

>>9045465

so its a metaphor that you can't explain?
cool story faggot

>> No.9045981

>>9045963
The unnamed ruins are probably those ruins of PoD.D.

>> No.9046074
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>>9045963
These ruins were Kichigai House.

>> No.9046101
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Improved and updated.

>> No.9046106

>>9046101
Still retarded.

I'm a proud secondary and even I feel this shit is fucking lazy and stupid.

>> No.9046116

>>9046101
What?

Did this person even play the games? Like seriously, even just once. The order of events make no sense with that map.

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>> No.9046176

>>9046101
SDM closer to Hakurei shrine than misty lake.
No portal to netherworld.
No underground geyser center.
Moriya shrine should be nearly on top of the youkai mountain.
No myouren temple.
Hakugyokurou inside Higan.
No frozen forest.
No tower of heaven.

I'm probbaly forgetting some things.

>> No.9046422

That settles things. Next planescape campaign the characters are going to the Demiplane of Moe.

>> No.9046478
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幻想郷

>> No.9046482

Damn ZUN is lazy he could've easily made up an official one or had someone do it for him last fanbook

>> No.9046488

>>9046482
More like leaving it vague allows him to later write new elements in Gensōkyō. If he would make or let someone make an official map, he couldn’t introduce new places.

>> No.9046501

>>9046478
>TopGear

>> No.9046512

>>9046501
I don’t know why, either.

>> No.9046524

>>9046488

Of course he could it's not hard to right in

"And then Xtouhou can in durring the events of Xgame and used xpowers to create a shrine,mountain,island, etc. the official map doesn't have to be small it can be large with some fog of war type stuff but a rough estimate where the known locations are would be nice

>> No.9046595

it's a canon fail, but I still like it, op
what program did you use?

>> No.9046608

>>9045423
Why is SDM before the lake? That makes no sense.

>> No.9046617

>>9045423
The netherworld is protected by a barrier and they need to go at the top of the barrier were it is easely go trough

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>>9046524
Yeah, but then he'd have to explain everything with each game and keep updating the map and actually make Gensokyo make sense in the literal, present, and cartographic sense rather than the mythic and metaphorical sense. Myths never have put much emphasis on proper mapmaking, and no two storytellers agree exactly on how the worlds orient themselves. Oh, there are broad similarities, but that's about it. And it's just not as important. Perhaps Gensokyo isn't even mappable. You get that in mythologies all the time, where the very earth is morphic and subject to change. Locations are just measured relative to each other, rather than absolutely. Not saying that's how it is, mind you.

Point is, making a map of Gensokyo isn't strictly necessary, at least not in the canon sense. People are more than welcome to make their own maps, but a canon map probably wouldn't do the series justice. Terry Pratchett always said that you can't map a sense of humor, so I'll paraphrase that and say that you can't map a sense of wonder.

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TO ALL YOU FAGGOTS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE LAKE:
REMEMBER TOUHOU6? THERE WAS SOME GIGANTIC SCARLET MIST IN ALL GENSOKYO AND THE GIRLS COULDNT SEE VERY WELL, EVEN REIMU STATED SOMETHING ABOUT GETTING LOST IN THE LAKE SO MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN. FUCKING SECONDARIES

>> No.9046704

>>9045963
>>9046106
>>9046116
>>9046176
Waah!! Someone doesn't see Gensokyo the way I do!

>> No.9046705

>>9046682

I know you're probably just having your own laughs and taking it easy with the thread and all, but this map is just so horribly wrong it hurts me inside. I can't take it easy like this.

Between other things, just the fact that Hakugyokurou is after the Sanzu River will haunt my dreams forever. And that no one else pointed this.

>> No.9046722

I don't think Gensoukyou can be mapped using 2d or even 3d map.

Not with all these pocket spaces and stuff.

>> No.9047039

What new areas were introduced in 10 D?

>> No.9047077

>>9047039
All of the new areas were underground, under the Myouren Temple, so a map which has that temple would not have to be updated for TD.

>> No.9047268

>>9046705
But I did.
>>9046176

>> No.9050103

>>9046682
How about you play the game Embodiment of Scarlet Devil?

>> No.9050113

lol gensokyo looks like shit... who would srsly wanna live there...

>> No.9051767

>>9050103
RED MIST = CANT SEE SHIT
THEY GOT LOST
GIVE ME A GOOD COUNTER ARGUMENT

>> No.9051788

>>9051767
If the scarlet mist was real, then how come there was no scarlet mist?

Q.E.D.

>> No.9051809

>>9046626
or, speaking more literally, a lot of space for interpretation is what gives the fanbase freedom of movement

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> It surrounds a small island which hosts the Scarlet Devil Mansion

>> No.9053307

>>9051767
It still doesn't make sense on the map you fart.
The Heroine was looking for the Scarlet Devil Mansion, which was on an island in the middle of the lake.
So according to the map the heroine somehow went completely around the mansion, dicked around in the lake and turned right back around?

"FUCKING SECONDARIES".
Right.

>> No.9053323

>>9053307
>So the heroine somehow missed the mansion, then turned around?
Maybe, maybe not.

>> No.9053362

>>9053107
But that's from one of those shitty fanmade Touhou wikis that only drones who don't play the games follow. They are 100% biased and you cannot take what you read on there as fact, unless it's directly quoting anything from ZUN (no, translated material does not count).

>> No.9053408

>>9053362
Reimu's dialogue in stage 2 of EOSD:
ここら辺に島があったでしょ？

Marisa's:
島は確かこの辺だったような気が
するが・・・

In both character's story they both specify that they are looking for an island in the lake.
The Scarlet Devil Mansion was never infront of it.

Whoever made this map didn't play the games, or didn't really care on making the map accurate as most as they could have.

>> No.9053463

>>9053408
They never found that island because it doesn't exist.

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