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This is something I've always said about Touhou. It's one of those series that, if you've been on the internet long enough, you've been exposed to plenty of times without noticing it from memes to avatars to music, etc. I'd be pretty confident in saying that during any sort of Sakurai Presents for Reimu would have a ton of people go "Oh wait, I've heard/seen this before" at some point in it.
Exactly this!! Turns out that's how many people end up finding out about the series. I actually found something really interesting. In recent years, there has been a growing demographic of touhou fans in Japan of young girls in elementary to middle school ages. Turns out, this was, in large part, due to the very popular internet meme, Yukkuri, that many creators use in their youtube videos. The best equivalent to this that I can think of are those reddit videos that use the British TTS voice. I was shocked when I heard this. I thought, "Oh my god...I was part of the same demographic that they were when I was first getting into Touhou"! I thought this was real heartwarming to see.
イベント当日では頒布出来なくなってしまい申し訳ないのです。
— 博麗神主 (@korindo) March 16, 2021
でもね、かつて見たこともない破滅的なストーリー展開と、東方本編では味わえない不気味さと複雑な懐古をお届けするまで、さほど待たせません。
これからもよろしくお願いします！ https://t.co/GDSC4exruC
I took some of the Translation from here: https://twitter.com/shionnotsukai/status/1371826831507255302
So basically, the final boss is Mima with an AK-47 assault rifle. Good to know.
This is something to archive for the next time there's info. The overseas comment is interesting, though. I don't think he's ever brought that up before when sharing info on an upcoming Touhou game. Well, we can only hope there's Touhou stuff at whenever the next Indie World is.
Whoa wait I don’t see anything about overseas in the tweet...?
I'll take stamina. After all, if there's one saying common to Touhou and SMash alike, it's "don't get hit".
Dug up my 2hu sort from 2015 to see who my least favourite character was. It's Sigma... and as it turns out somebody made a Smash mod for him! https://gamebanana.com/skins/182336
You saw the near future.... hopefully.
I’ve sadly forgotten most of it by now but I do recall all my discord friends pinging me saying OMG REIMU’S IN
YO GUYS!! YOU GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT!
She looks like a calico cat, idk if she's going to be something like a nekomata.YO GUYS!! YOU GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT!
I seriously just found out about this, minutes ago!
From what I can gather from DeepL translator, This is a picture of the disc art of the trial game. They didn't say anything about this character, but I gotta say, she looks really cute! The art is looking even better and better! I know this is awkward having to make this post like this, but this is the only I can do it, haha. I'm excited
She's a Maneki-Neko. Look at her pose and the item she's holding.
This has me thinking so HARD about this character. Here's what I'm thinking so far:YO GUYS!! YOU GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT!
I seriously just found out about this, minutes ago!
From what I can gather from DeepL translator, This is a picture of the disc art of the trial game. They didn't say anything about this character, but I gotta say, she looks really cute! The art is looking even better and better! I know this is awkward having to make this post like this, but this is the only I can do it, haha. I'm excited
Idk, I don’t think it’d make much of a difference seeing as how I see the exact thing you’re describing in other corners of the internet cough Twitter cough
Just stay off of Twitter. Leave them be, and they can't hurt you.
Your worries are perfectly understandable but think about it this way : if anything mainstream is able to represent Touhou in a good light, it's Smash. Everything you said would probably happen if Touhou got an official anime by a big publisher, unless maybe if ZUN is heavily involved. That's why I've always liked ZUN's stance about not associating with big editors and not trying to go mainstream. That said, Smash is probably the best way for Touhou to go mainstream, firstly because it's actually a video game, and secondly because Sakurai has always went out of his way to represent characters as faithfully as possible. In the end, I think it might even improve Touhou's reputation, because let's face it, everything you stated that you fear, it's already what many people think about Touhou, and I don't think Smash would make it worse, it's probably the opposite.
There are just some people who want to see the world burn, man.
Honestly, nothing will really change. Like with any character, there will be hate for a week but they'll forget about it. We will get a lot of cool art though, I always look forward to that.
Those are understandable concerns, since pretty much everything that gets mainstream gets "ruined". But all what I can say about it is that the internet is full of terrible people, so the best thing to do is to not care about them and just enjoy yourself. Twitter will complain and trolls will be trolls, but that's just how things go.
Agreed. Besides, I'm more than positive that those same bad apples will be reevaluating their life once they find out whatever they've loved throughout their life was from Touhou.
You know damn well that toxic people will force their way into the community anyway, you can't avoid it, they will force their way in, for the worse
I don't live in USA so how should I know about that ?
Then what's the point of moping about it? If it's gonna happen anyway, why try to avoid the inevitable. The internet's a big place, and for better or worse, word will spread. If they'll force their way in regardless, let it happen.
I don't live in the USA either but that was gigantic for the touhou fandom.
