I remember reading CoLA and Rinnosuke's reaction of shock, awe, and confusion would probably be many of the former-outside-worlders-or-people-who-visited-once reaction. So much time has passed for many of them that it'd be nigh unrecognizable.
Unless they're newer residents like Sanae, maybe? It's been like 10+ years or so, she'd probably be a little curious about what's going on. I'm not sure if she'd place much importance to it though. She seems very dedicated to her duties now in Gensokyo.
Kanako seems familiar enough with how the current state of the outside world is, at least in SoPM, so she doesn't have a reason to wonder. She could just go there to see how it's doing if she really wanted to given as she's gotten sake from the outside before.

I imagine apathetic. They probably see things similar to how we see issues going on in other countries, but with less interest because they're much more disconnected and affected. It would be like asking someone living in a small midwestern US town what they think about the political corruption and roaming gangs in some south African country, or any of that stuff with Taiwan. You'd probably get met with "Don't know, don't care, not my problem.". Only reason they might even show slight interest in the Ukraine stuff, is the concern in the back of their head about who Russia might go to war with next.
Gensokyo is too removed and isolated to care. As far as know, it's not dependent on the outside world for supplies or materials of any kind and is 100% self sufficient. Rinnosuke's side hustle isn't exactly vital or necessary for gensokyo.
I don't think it would even mater if humans all blew each other to Kingdome come would it?
Maybe if the world decided to go to war with Gensokyo for whatever reason, then they'd have a reason to pay attention to it, but short of that...

>>2480
>some south African country
That makes sense when you've never even been to that country, but Gensokyo is part of Japan. A number of residents there are basically immigrants. Do immigrants care what happens in their country of origin, yes. Do mid-westerners care what happens in New York city, yes again(see 9/11).

>>2481
That reminds me. I left my home town two years ago.
A few months ago I saw it mentioned on the news due to wild fires surrounding it. I hate that town and never want to go back, but I did find the news somewhat fascinating.

>>2473
Normalfag anime fans, or as I like to call them "ironicweebs" don't know anything outside of the likes of jojo, dragonball, demon slayer, etc. They rarely add anything to their short list, with the most recent addition being chainsaw man.
There's a few characters like Cirno who have some level of popularity with normies, but half of them probably never played the games.

>>2474
I wouldn't call them "ironic". A shallow interest in something is still an interest. They might tinge that interest with a layer of irony because liking anime still has some negative connotations to it, and that's their way of compensating. They aren't interested in "otaku culture", in a larger sense. Pretending there's a black and white divide between "real" and "fake" fans seems like an over-simplification to me.

Post edited on 25th Feb 2023, 9:16am

>>2475
Not that anon, but I find "shallow fans" to be disrespectful to the creators with their quirky quips and whatnot. I just tend to avoid them since there's no point in getting worked up about it.

>>2476
See line of discussion in >>/ot/40150

Post edited on 25th Feb 2023, 6:08pm

How long do they take after voting to announce the winner?

>>2451
Looks like a few months. Last one was held in June, and looks like results were early this year.

Oh, results are out. https://maribelhearn.com/thvote
Looks like my guess was right.

My favourite girl Elly keeps falling. Noooo!!
I will have to campaign for her better next time.

It rebooted the series and its effect on me is whatever effect Touhou fan media has had, since the vast majority of that is based on post EoSD characters.

Wow, 20 years!! And I still haven't beat it.

>>2441
I owe a HUGE part of my life to the touhou project, I met my best friend through it and I owe my current livelyhood to it. Honestly it's scary as fuck to think how my life would have turned out without it.

As for EoSD itself, it's still one of if not the best game in the series, it still deserves its popularity, its character designs are iconic as fuck, music is top tier, there are no gimmicks to the gameplay and it still has some of the most beautiful attack patterns in the series, such as Meiling's bullets. I honestly believe if something like HSiFS was Touhou 6 the series simply wouldn't have been as popular.

>>2390
>"Getting into something" requires enough interest to look for things on your own
Yeah, this thread is a bit baffling. If you like the thing, go do the thing. If you haven't already done the thing, the why the drive to get into it?

>>2385
>I want to know everything.

Just follow Magna Mausoleum de Fide et Ratione, one of the last real Touhou fan communities on the internet, since the harm made by posers since 2015 banished a lot of communities in a sea of degenerate circlejerks.

>>2438
>Magna Mausoleum de Fide et Ratione
Who the fuck is this guy? I've never heard of him before, and a quick look on his YT channel shows he's some retard who posts normalfag memes and he's also a spic. If this is supposed to be "the last real Touhou fan community" then Touhou is dead.

>>2458
The post seems to be made by someone new to imageboards that stumbled on here and couldn't be bothered to lurk. Not only is the post full of tells, the twitter account paints a much fuller picture.

>>2424
That's some bullshit right there.

What's with these takedowns? Are there plans to do some GOG like re-releases or something?

>>2426
"Serious" corporations don't care about the "necessity" of enforcing their copyright. So regardless of how old or whether or not they have plans for the property, they will "protect their assets". It does not matter. They do not care. In their mind, this is an important part of ensuring profitability.

Also, we knew years ago ZUN sold out when he started making certain features of the mainline series console exclusive.

Post edited on 12th Apr 2022, 2:43pm

>>2426
I don't know about the PC98 games but I do know PoFV is planned to have a Steam release. It's fair to assume the earlier games will also have Steam releases.
Also for what it is worth, ZUN often partakes in exhibitions where he shows off older work material including the PC98 titles. There was one recently that happened about the same time as the first two DMCAs funnily enough:
https://twitter.076.ne.jp/nagihararion/status/1510240307924770821#m
It reminds me of how art galleries don't allow you to take pictures because it'll ruin the value of the artwork. So I wouldn't be surprised if it was somewhat related in that sense. But that's just asspulling theories.
>>2427
I want to say much before then as well, but I'm a bit forgetful about release dates...There's been too many big company collabs for something that's just a self proclaimed doujin work.

Listen here, the downloads are back on Moriya Shrine, supposedly the admins let them back on for limited time. So the time has come, grab what you can now!! I have already download every mainline primary game except PoFV. Will download more. You should try to get the other official games and fangames.

the artist is a tentacle rape man first then a tits man

Finally managed to beat EOSD on normal for the first time few days ago (although I got the bad ending since I continued). It's not much but I'm still a little proud of it.

>>2394
Congrats, anon! I just redownloaded it a couple weeks ago, and it's much harder than what I remembered. I'll try my best too!

I can't play touhou for long enough to beat it since my eyes start hurting a lot.

>>2157
The point of games is to have fun, not show off.

>>2370
Sounds a lot like Strike Witches.

>>2371
No, nothing like strike wotches. I really don't like that aesthetic.

>>2360
But 2hu doom was excellent. The surprise topdown section was some of the most fun I've ever had in doom.

>>2371
Rather than Strike Withes where the girls have mecha legs, the mechabroom part reminds me of its spiritual predecessor Konami Mecha Musume

I like the catgirl. Her cute design makes me want to tickle her tummy.

Nice, is that the final version?

The final version actually just came out on Steam last week.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1566410/Touhou_Kouryudou__Unconnected_Marketeers/

Not anytime soon, no. And if we do it will probably be Cirno because Sakurai has shit taste.

pls no

I can't see touhou ever happening. Feels way too out there.