Touhou Game Club

That looks okay enough. Would love to see more details regarding it, but hey, there is always the first for everything.
Welcome to Touhou Game Club. Please stick to the rules and keep your posts clean.



Yes.
I am here only to laugh at your product, BiBi-chin.

I would love to join the club. I should have done so years ago...

As far as favorites go, I have many though my favorite will always be Alice Margatroid.

- Byakuren Hijiri
- Marisa Kirisame
- Mokou Fuziwara
- Remilia Scarlet
- Flandre Scarlet

^ ...in no particular order.

Guilty pleasure is Yukarin~

Welcome to the club. Be sure to check out the front page for the rules, and for a ton of content as well.

edit: 10th popularity poll results are out.

Marisa, Youmu and Satori are on the top 10. Pretty good.

Been away for a week or so to attend to my finals, and I see a couple of new faces! Welcome welcome, do enjoy your time around here.



It's the thought that counts! Best of luck with your connection ( =w=)b



I will anticipate this with equal dread and terror. Whyofwhyoohgodihatetheufosystem

Flan-chan is slowly crawling up the ladder. Yahoo!
15th in 06,
13th in 07,
10th in 08,
12th in 09,
10th in 10,
9th in 11,
6th in 12,
and 5th in 14!

Yahoo~!

2nd post, more specifically the members list, has been updated.


To catch your attention, take your time to admire Koishi:

Attention garnered, now for a topic we might able to expand; it's a common knowledge that ZUN usually got his inspirations from relatively well-known folklore, some trivia from his favorite literature and writers, super/natural occurrences, and etc. Some examples from what I know:

• Touhou 9.0 - Phantasmagoria of Flower View used the concept of chinese's cycle of sixty terms used to record days or years, Sexagenary Cycle. It's further emphasized by Shikieiki's theme, Fate of Sixty Years.

• Toyosatomimi no Miko, Mononobe no Futo, and Toga Sojiko, are based on real people; Prince Shoutoku, Mononobe no Futsuhime,and Tojiko no Iratsume, respectively.

• Touhou 8.0 - Imperishable Night is based from The Tale of The Bamboo Cutter.

• Shimyoumaru Sukuna from Touhou 14.0 - Double Dealing Character is based on Issun-Boshi, a mini samurai from japanese folklore.

... and etc.
Surely, there must be more than just this. Does anybody have inputs? Or perhaps those already mentioned still have room to be expanded? Be nice and share your wisdom to fellow peers, mentlegen. Take it slowly though, we cannot afford to deal with piled up inputs and accidentally overlook some.

To add to what Jenkins listed, there's also the possibility that Komeiji Satori and Komeiji Koishi might have been inspired by
"The Two Fridas", a painting by Frida Kahlo.

It's a painting of two women with exposed hearts and arteries. One of them has a damaged heart, a pair of scissors and a cut artery- which may resemble Koishi and her closed third eye.

Other than appearance, though, there's nothing else that resembles the Komeiji sisters. The painting depicts something completely different, which is explained in the link above.

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Edit: Baka clear get.

Alice is inspired by Alice in Wondahland



It's worth noting that Koishi closed her third eye on her own volition, and was not a by product of a situation as experienced by the Fridas - Appearance wise, a damaged heart also makes a poor substitute; Closing one's eye is a form of escape,much like shutting a gate to close out the things outside.

While on the topic of the Komeiji sisters, why not relate to the whole ensemble of their time instead? This old article here would suggest a likely relation between the seven sins and the cast of Touhou 11.0 - Subterranean Animism.

Yep, I did say that they only resemble each other appearance wise. I agree with your point on the damaged heart, though.

Another thing worth noting is that the Frida who got her own artery cut represents the pain of having to endure the loss of her husband, is on similar case with Koishi who tried to change her situation, to the better, by closing her third eye; it's both about hurting yourself in hope that it will lead you to a better conclusion.



Grave-digger.

I have to disagree with Jenkins on one part of his article, which would be him assigning wrath to Yamame Kurodani. In SA, she only defends herself from Reimu and Marisa. In defense of this statement, she even told them that they were free to go down to the underground city. But because of the set of others antagonizing Reimu and Marisa (aka Aya, Suika, Yukari, Alice, Patchouli, and Nitori (those biased bastards)), she was seen as an enemy when she wanted to be friends.

I have no clue how that would be considered wrath.

If telling someone to go have fun with strangers was one of many statements to offer friendship, I would have as many friends as my fingers. Also, you disagree with a wrong person; I were not the primary share holder of that theory.

But you were the one that posted it, so I can blame you. :3


EDIT:
Fantasy Kaleidoscope Ep 3 is finally Jap dubbed and Eng subbed, if anyone's interested. I also embedded the video in the spoiler below.

You just committed one of the seven forbidden sins, which is blaming me.
Prepare yourself for a cosmic journey to Hell of Blazing Fires.



The subtitle is unfortunately not within the video; downloading it still though. With Sakuya in the thumbnail, all is fine in my world.

Spill the beans or eat fish, Kowalski.

Magic button click here

After that, just load up the subtitles with the video player of your choice, or rename the SRT file to the same name as the video for it to auto-load.

I'm Hell's Traffic Accident, so that doesn't bother me in the least. And besides, I get along well with the denizens of Hell of Blazing Fires. :3



Yeah, the only side effect of youtube... I only watch it there though... There isn't enough Flan-chan kicking arse to be worthy of downloading.

Next episode when?

Good find, Kowalski. Get your reward fish from Rico:



Hope you like to be used to neutralize nuclear waste.



You mean, the show could benefit from less Flandre and more proper fighting scenes, plus actual character introductions. It's just so unfair and inexcusable on how they treat Rumia and Meiling. Not to count how weird it is for Reimu to say "your ability is nothing unusual" to Sakuya, while we can clearly see that even Akyuu was impressed with Sakuya's unique unteachable time control ability in PMiSS.

Have you graced yourself with Eiyuu Senki Gold OP? Get yourself a fine darjeeling tea.