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Well, my connection won't give me any good using skype.

At least, that's what blocking me for entering this soku matchups. Sucks to live here lol.

Ouch.

Bad connection is awful indeed.

Article#3.1 : The Representatives from Human World, Renko Usami

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宇佐見 蓮子（うさみ　れんこ）
[size=12]Renko Usami[/h]

Age : Unknown, but assumed to be college students average age ( 18 - 22 )

Species : Human

Abilities : Able to tell when and where she is by looking at the sky (a living GPS).

Occupation : University Student (Super unified physics major)

First Appearance : * 蓮台野夜行 ～ Ghostly Field Club (Music CD)

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Renko is a student in the outside world, presumably in a college or university. She majors in physics and is very objective and logical in her approach to matters. Together with her friend, Maribel Han, she has an interest in what would be considered the paranormal. Their club, consisting of only the two of them, describes itself as a club for necromancers. However they don't do many of the things necromancers would normally be associated with. Instead, they investigate spirits and such. Specifically they're interested in Gensokyo and seem to be among the few, or even the only, humans in the outside world who know of Gensokyo's existence.

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Bunbunmaru Trivia

# Her appearances in Music CDs
* 蓮台野夜行 ～ Ghostly Field Club
* 夢違科学世紀 ～ Changeability of Strange Dream
* 卯酉東海道 ～ Retrospective 53 minutes
* 大空魔術 ～ Magical Astronomy

# The characters in "Renko" literally mean "lotus child."

# Sometimes she appears with rabbit ears, because her name sounds like "Usamimi" (rabbit ears, in Japanese).

# Renko is one of the only characters known to live outside of Gensokyo. As such, she has never actually met any of the other characters except Maribel Han, who also lives outside Gensokyo.

# To be more precise, her ability allows her to tell where she is by looking at the Moon and tell the time by looking at the stars. Apparently, wherever she is, the time she sees by looking at the stars is the time in Japan.

Article#3.2 : The Representatives from Human World, Maribel Han

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マエリベリー・ハーン
[size=12]Maribel "Merry" Han - (Maribel Hearn) [/h]

Age : Unknown, but assumed to be college students average age ( 18 - 22 )

Species : Human

Personalities : Wishy-washy, Dreamer, a bit Childish, have a big interest in Occult Things

Abilities : Ability to see every boundary all over the world

Occupation : University Student (Relative Psychology major)

First Appearance : * 蓮台野夜行 ～ Ghostly Field Club (Music CD)

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Maribel is a student on the outside world, in a university. She majors in relative psychology and sometimes has difficulty telling the difference between dream and reality (at least, in regards to Gensokyo). She believes subjectivity to be more true than objectivity.

Together with her friend, Renko Usami, she has an interest in what would be considered the paranormal. Their club, consisting of only the two of them, describes itself as a club for necromancers. However, they don't do many of the things necromancers would normally be associated with. Instead, they investigate the possibility of other worlds and such. Specifically they're interested in Gensokyo, the Netherworld, and the Moon, and seem to be among the few, or even the only, humans on the outside world who know of Gensokyo's existence. Maribel has visited Gensokyo in her dreams.

In her dreams, she visits Scarlet Devil Mansion and a lot of places in Gensokyo.
As stated here in the Changeability of Strange Dream: Story Music CD :



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Bunbunmaru Trivia

# Her appearances in Music CDs :

* 蓮台野夜行 ～ Ghostly Field Club
* 夢違科学世紀 ～ Changeability of Strange Dream
* 卯酉東海道 ～ Retrospective 53 minutes
* 大空魔術 ～ Magical Astronomy

# Maribel's nickname is "Merry" or "Mary." She also complains that Renko never calls her by her full name because it's hard for Renko to pronounce.

# As Maribel's name is written in katakana, she is not of Japanese ethnicity.

# Due to her power to see boundaries, she is sometimes depicted with Yukari. (details come later)

# Another theory linking Maribel to Yukari stems from the fact that there has never been an official romanization for her name マエリベリー・ハーン (Maeriberii Haan). It is possible that the ハーン in her name does not translate to "Han" but "Hearn", as in Lafcadio Hearn the Western author of Japanese Youkai horror stories. Lafcadio Hearn was known as "Koizumi Yakumo" after he gained Japanese citizenship.

Woot, woot, couldn't wait for that duo to hit the field. Great job, as always.




Shows she's psychology student.

Even though we have to apologize for not using official artworks.

Haha.

In Touhou, "official" is rather subjective.



Here is a pic of the two together, from previous picture batch.

Spoil that, Roommate !!
One of the rules now now.

and that pic is very adorable ;), saved.

Maribel looks like Yukari, and people says that there is something between both of them.

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To accompany Renko and Maribel's Bunbunmaru articles we've posted earlier. I decided to post reading materials which contain stories of those two. These materials are extracted from ZUN's music cd, because their official appearances so far are in these CDs stories.

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• 蓬莱人形 ～ Dolls in Pseudo Paradise (Hourai Ningyou) - Hourai Doll ~ Dolls in Pseudo Paradise - this one doesn't involve Renko and Maribel, though it's still a good read and related to Gensokyo. I think I'll post it here together to complete the list of Music CD's stories.

• 蓮台野夜行 (Rendaino Yakou) - Lotus Pedestal Field Travels in the Night ~ Ghostly Field Club

• 夢違科学世紀 (Yumetagae Kagaku Seiki) - Not Certain Whether a Dream or Reality in a Science Era ~ Changeability of Strange Dream

• 卯酉東海道　～ Retrospective 53 minutes (Bouyu Toukaidou ~ Retrospective 53 minutes) - East-West Tokaido ~ Retrospective 53 minutes

• 大空魔術 ～ Magical Astronomy (Oozora Majutsu ~ Magical Astronomy) - Celestial Wizardry ~ Magical Astronomy

• 鳥船遺跡　～ Trojan Green Asteroid Torifune Iseki ~ Trojan Green Asteroid

• (伊弉諾物質　～ Neo-traditionalism of Japan. Izanagi Busshitsu ~ Neo-traditionalism of Japan.

You just mention the topic for tomorrow/day after tomorrow, YamYam.

Featured picture for today:



Featured video for today:

aahh..Gomene.. I just say something that I had in my mind

Right, Yama.

Make some space later. I will post tl;dr story in the morning. Hope this thread stay in page one.

I don't think that will happend, it will sure be some people that will come here and post

this can be the feature video for tomorrow

Yeah, I'm still usually getting stuck around the 5th or 5th stages, depending on the game. I'm still trying, though!



Ooh, I'm jealous! I really need to get some Touhou merchandise myself.



Aww. That video was bittersweet. I wonder why their are so many videos focusing on Reimu being sad, though. I feel so bad for her. :(



That was really cute!

Thought you touhou fans might like this

That was a really nice arrangement. Quite relaxing and exhilarating at times.

JoJo, long time no see !! Ah, maybe you have forgotten about me. Still, thanks for sharing that.



We didn't change our feat video for one day, haha.
Still that's quite cute, even though i prefer if we not use a featured video that only focused on one character.



That's good enough actually. I cannot even passed stage 4 in UFO without sacrificing 2 lives. Sucks to be me.

Yeah, same here! I can usually keep all of my lives til about stage 4, and then I use almost all of my bombs and lives there. Such a pain.