/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Ok, /jp/.

I'm in need of a crash course on Touhou. Is there anything you can tell me about the characters and events?

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>>9105205
Doesn't Zun choose some stuff and say it's canon? I think I read that somewhere

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About all I know of it is frilly hats, cute girls, absurd power levels, Reimu's armpits...

[Anonymous No.]

All the shit you here is fanon.

[Anonymous No.]

The main character is Reimu Hakurei.

Whenever an incident arises, she flies around and beats people up until the incident goes away.

Fin.

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All you need to know is, Reimu is a plothaxing bitch. Kills peaceful youkai as a passtime sport.

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>>9105210
Alright, but what's her story? Who does she beat up? What incidents are there?

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>>9105215
Incidents vary from the mundane, such as, "someone has stolen the moon," to the extraordinary, such as "somebody is trying to feed spring to a tree."

The people who are beaten up include both dastardly perpetrators and innocent bystanders, and between those that's everybody.

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And what the fuck are these things? Why do people abuse them?

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>>9105220
They are talking buns with various fillings (bean paste, etc) which look like the heads of characters from Touhou Project and are collectively called yukkuri.

People abuse them because it's funny.

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Who are the major characters? Are they all lesbians like this?

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>>9105228
There are a lot of major characters.

Their sexual orientation is unknown.

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http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Wiki

Here you are, OP. Now delete your shit thread and fuck off.

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>>9105233
Who are they?

>>9105237
Kind as ever, /jp/.

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>>9105238
The two most prominent characters are Reimu Hakurei, a flying shrine maiden, and Marisa Kirisame, an ordinary magician.

[Anonymous No.]

Touhous don't have genitals.

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>>9105238
Just go to the fucking link and stop posting.

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>>9105246

[Anonymous No.]

>>>/a/

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>>9105260
>touhou
>/a/

Are you new?

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>>9105263
Stop trying to fit in so hard.

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>>9105266
Can't stop what I'm not trying to do.

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I was in a similar position to you, OP, a few months back. A simple method is to just pick up a couple games, play them, and then go to the wiki to learn more about the characters you saw. Once you know a few characters you'll gain momentum, and everything will come in time. You don't even have to play the games well, just well enough to meet the characters.

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>>9105266

This. I was suggesting that his thread is /a/ level quality, because that's clearly where he's from. I won't quote him directly because he's not worthy.

Hopefully he'll take the hint and leave. I'm going back to reading.

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>>9105275
I could do that on easy, I suppose. I'm particularly interested in learning about Touhou because of a CYOA going on over at touhou-project's /thp/, where I know nothing about the characters and setting.

>>9105277
I'm from /tg/, and my existence assails you. This brings me mirth and joy.

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>>9105219
Stealing the moon isn't mundane; it would screw up tides and shit

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I'm in the same boat as you OP, I've only recently pursued Touhou and I still don't know a lot. I know it's a shmup, and I like shmups.

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>>9105291
>Stealing the moon isn't mundane
You lost me.

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>>9105292
This too; I've played a little bit of PCB, don't really understand the story or who I'm fighting.

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>>9105219
>someone has stolen the moon
Why is it that in the good ending of that game the true moon comes back then everyone goes insane, while in the bad ending everything is just fine?

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>>9105297
You're some deranged psycho who looks for excuses to go on "investigations", beating the shit out of everyone you see until your excuse is gone

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>>9105300
What's the excuse in PCB?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7lHJXPKoX0

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>>9105292
>pursued
I read that as purchased

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>>9105302
A ghost stole spring.

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>>9105285
And you plan to participate in it with the knowledge you're going to pick up in /jp/?

I advise against.

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>>9105302
Yuyuko and Youmu have stolen the spring from Gensokyo residents and are using it flower a tree in the netherworld.

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Stop bumping an idiot's thread. You know better /jp/.

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>>9105310
I'm already participating, I'm just not getting the benefits of knowing who this vaguely described character x is before they appear and are named, or past event y, or location z.

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>>9105313
No, that's what's found out from the investigation. The EXCUSE is that spring is slightly late. It could be attributed to normal weather cycles, but NO we have to kill everyone

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>>9105297
Did you install the English patch for whatever game you're playing...?

How can you not know who you're fighting? It TELLS you... just work through the games, remember everyone's name (which is REALLY easy if you play it anywhere near the number of times to complete it in one continue) and contribute to threads that reference characters you know about - in your case, obviously Cirno.

Also, lurk and don't stand out like a sore thumb like here.

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>>9105320
Link?

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>>9105319
Surely you're capable of acting like an adult and merely ignoring on-topic posts you dislike?

Or is that beyond you?

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>>9105326
http://www.touhou-project.com/th/res/123033.html

A level 17 DnD Wizard lands in Gensokyo due to a botched planeshift spell at the climax of a great battle where he slays a dragon.

Bewilderment and plot ensues.

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>>9105322
Well Sakuya goes because the late spring was going to negatively affect the mansion because... of a reason I don't think was ever explained. Reimu and Marisa have no excuse really.

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>>9105320
Well, in that case, you could just look up the character's name in the wiki that was linked when you are curious about her.

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>>9105336
>I'm just not getting the benefits of knowing who this vaguely described character x is before they appear and are named
>you could just look up the character's name

...What?

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>>9105334
Is that the backstory or did he somehow end up in Gensokyo from player actions?

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>>9105320
Jesus Christ, how horrifying. Be advised that you've been placed into /jp/'s special category of terrible people who get immense amount of ridicule, that being, "people who RP Touhou without playing the games (or knowing anything else about it)."

The aforementioned resource another poster so kindly provided should have most things you want.

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>>9105339
Backstory. CYOA begins with him on the burning wreckage of an airship, falling down to Gensokyo. He rams the airship into the dragon, killing it.

The first person to meet him is Cirno, who happens upon him as he's eating said dragon.

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>>9105338
Read them all.

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>>9105338
I misread it. In that case I have no idea what to do. You're screwed, OP. Pack your bags.

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>>9105342
More like I'm playing a streamlined tabletop RPG in a setting I'm unfamiliar with, which is par for the course.

It just so happens that the GM's notes are available elsewhere, should I decide to look for them.

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>>9105344
If Cirno's involved that rp must be shit.

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>>9105352
Why do you need to know things about the setting that the GM has not yet revealed to you?

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>>9105360
It's rather good, actually.

>>9105367
You don't think the GM is running the quest with the assumption that the reader knows something about Touhou? The quest is run on touhou-project's /th/ board.

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>>9105374
Alright then. Thank you kindly.

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Basically, we can't give you a crash course in the entire Touhou world. The wiki is pretty much the quickest way to learn.

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>>9105372
Undoubtedly, but it doesn't seem necessary; since your wizard doesn't know shit about Gensokyo you don't need to either to properly play.

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>>9105382
No, but what kind of player doesn't want to know about the world his "game" is taking place in?

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Has anyone ever LARP'd as Touhou characters?

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>>9105388
It's one thing if your character was born and bred in a world, but another if your character's been shoved through a portal in a campaign whose premise is stranger-in-a-strange-land.

I read campaign setting guides for fun, though, so I do see where you're coming from.

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>>9105388
Just have the wiki open in another tab and whenever a character or location is brought up look it up. Just the 5 line summarizations at the top of the page are all you need to know about any given character.

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>>9105400
Well, the thing is that the GM caters to the touhou-familiar audience in that he often drops hints and such that someone that knows touhou would get instantly. Meanwhile, I'm in the dark.

Though everything about the CYOA is great, I'm particularly fascinated with how the characters are examining their conflicting styles of magic. I don't suppose magic systems are actually explained in the slightest in touhou proper, but I'd still like to have the expected familiarity that the rest of the audience has as well.

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>>9105413
>drops hints and such that someone that knows touhou would get instantly

Can you give us an example?

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If I attend this, can I suck my dick?

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>>9105425
I don't have any examples from the 20 threads marked anywhere (I'm a rather recent addition to the audience), but I'll try to make an example. Let's say that Reimu just flew by. He might say something like:

A blur of red flashes by as a girl with black hair soars above you.

And then a character might comment something like:

"Oh no, there she goes again, off using fights to solve all her problems."

And I have no idea who it is.

[Anonymous No.]

1) Sakuya Izayoi
2) Youmu Konpaku
3) Keine Kamishirasawa
4) Reisen Udongein Inaba
5) Utsuho Reiuji (Okuu)
6) NAZRIN
7) Marisa Kirisame (PC 98)
8) Remilia Scarlet
9) Minamitsu Murasa
10) Byakuren Hijiri
11) Luna Child

had to add 11 because I liked Luna best out of the three fairies. Marisa, Sanae and Suwako just disappeared from my selections or else they would be higher (same with Dai) so my MarisaPC98 became both Marisa's..

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This thread is autism.

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>>9105544
wrong thread