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Honestly was terry talked about much before nintendo leaked that themselves? Same with Persona. I feel that most leak circles tend to look at more popular western characters save for dragon quest
Thing is, it appears that these leaking circles seem to keep a ton of info to themselves. We just had a big user on the Geno thread confirm that there is 4 or so other characters that the circle thinks are likely that has not made it into the public consciousness. After what happened with hinting in the past for them(A lot of chaos happened as a result of the lead up to Banjo), they have become very secretive about this sort of stuff until things are looking rather certain.
I think keepimg things secretive is fine, as the hype of the reveal is nice and sakurai seems to like that too. I would like to know more about hard deconfirms then leaked confirms honestly
Same, to an extent. I very much appreciated the clarification on Ryu and Crash when it came to the 5FP, among other things.
Oh, the fanartists would definitely go nuts with crossover stuff.
If Reimu were to get in I really hope someone does a Bad Apple-ish music video with all the Smash Ultimate characters. A complete version of this would be beyond glorious!
Considering 1/4th of the fandom talks about the games/music, 1/4 discusses the implied horrors of Gensokyo, 1/4 is comprised of yuri/crossover shipping, and the other 1/4 is crossover fanart in general? Well... To quote an old rule of the internet:
I don't know if Smash had enough characters to replace all the original characters in that video back then, but it certainly seems feasible now.
Why do I get the feeling I don't want to know what Gensokyo is? Anyway, there is definitely tons that could be worked with from the combination of Touhou and Smash. From my rather limited Touhou perspective, I already see stuff being done with the Legend of Zelda and certain Touhou fairy characters, Kirby has a ton of material due to things like its propensity for shmups and Marx already being a common comparison to Flandre, the interpretation of how Reimu escaped being dusted by Galeem, yuri shipping in general, the list goes on. If there was a likely future character inclusion that I think would pair well with Touhou stuff, it would be Geno for his varying projectile moveset. Probably a bit biased on that, as he is my most wanted, but I would love to see it.
There is no Robot and Monster and Touhou crossover, so that rule has already failed
Gensokyo is just the setting of Touhou; basically a section of Japan sealed away by a mystical barrier as sort of a preserve or reservation for Youkai, Fairies, and Gods whose existence depends of the faith or fear of humans, and since modernity has swept aside mysticism they are relegated to their own bubble. Any "implied horrors" is just the fanbase speculating on character backstories or the implications of the given backstories.
That is a rather interesting concept. So what I am getting is that the world of Touhou functions on the idea of "More faith=More power" and the barrier is protection from the lack of faith weakening the creatures to a dangerous degree.
The main setting of the games. There's this portion of the fanbase that likes to portray the lore as this hugely ****ed-up Crapsaccharine World (sometimes full Crapsack) where everyone is Morally Ambiguous at best and violently misanthropic at worst. Just search up "Touhou" and "Horror_(Theme)" together in a certain website and you'll see what I mean. Even Pixiv has a tag for it. It's called "Truly Scary Gensokyo".
To be fair, there are other rules on the list that don't exist either. These things aren't foolproof.
Pretty much
Ok, so, basically it's just the Plot of Touhou 15 LoLK. Long story short, the American flag design in canon is to scare the Lunarians, since y'know America landed on the Moon. Out of canon, ZUN felt the Lunarians was analogous to China, and so he thought since the modern opposite/enemy to China is America, the vanguard leading a Lunar assault should embody America. Yes, this means both Earth and Hell have each separately tried to invade the Moon.
Okay, I can see how that can result. I haven't seen too much of this concept outside of some fan art, but I think I am going to kinda avoid that for a bit.
I really love this plot, if just for the amazingly simple logic behind it. My only curiosity about this right now is when bunnies factor in, because that is typically the case whenever the moon is involved in Japanese media.
In order to fit everyone in they would have to heavily increase the amount of characters actually, hehe.
Wait, on the Smash or Touhou side? I imagine having the Smash side be equal or higher to the number of characters who appeared in that video is more important for a recreation.
Touhou. I've never actually counted but I'd say the Bad Apple video has approximately between 30-40 characters which isn't nearly enough to fit in Ultimate's enormous cast.
Yeah, that is quite the difference amount. It's not like all the Smash characters would naturally fit in with such a dynamic video though. Like, how would someone insert Mr. Game & Watch in a way that felt natural?
Rabbits and the moon have long been associated in Asian mythologies and folklores, but the shortest answer is just as in Europe you'd look up to the moon and see a man, in Asia you'd look up to the moon and see a rabbit. I've linked a wikipedia article for further reading.
There are so many creative people within the Touhou fandom, I totally think somebody would be able to come up with something that looks good. And honestly to me G&W especially feels like a perfect fit for a shadow art video like this since he's essentially just a 2D shape.
It really is crazy the power Smash has to advertise and get people interested in things. If Reimu does get in, Touhou will most certainly see a jump in fans.
FYI, here are the posts I made back in August when the leak happened and the conversation I had with
perfectchaos83
about the image in question.If I had to guess, they don't want any baka gaijins
Curiouser and curiouser... In any event, I used a JP proxy and managed to look a bit through what he said. Granted, I'm only able to use a machine translation, but it seems that he's done talking about it and doesn't want to get caught.
EDIT: Looks like this was posted by the guy and he deleted it. According to 4chan it's moveset and frame data.
The leaker is now saying all that Reimu & Yukari tag team and Sanae & Kanako echo were all his fantasies. May be he has been hearing things other than that supposed track lists, but we shouldn't be focusing on those claims.
FYI, here are the posts I made back in August when the leak happened and the conversation I had with
The image was never meant be "his" leak.
The leaker is now saying all that Reimu & Yukari tag team and Sanae & Kanako echo were all his fantasies. May be he has been hearing things other than that supposed track lists, but we shouldn't be focusing on those claims.
So I'm a little confused, and I guess a little out of the loop. Is the person who supposedly leaked the Reimu and Yukari tag team stuff the same person who "leaked" the music list going around in the doujin circles?
Not 100%, but very likely to be the same person.
That's how I view it too. I didn't have any hope for the leak from the very beginning but seeing Reimu being in the spotlight of Smash speculation for a few days was really nice. It's also great to see the majority of the Smash community being open minded about her.
Fake leaks in general are merely ads. They want to lull people into believing then-unconfirmed stuff, and when it's not real, they just make the run for it.
Alright, I understand then. Thanks for the clarification!
To quote the late Miriam Defensor-Santiago:
To put this one simply, the Moon Rabbits are basically the primary infantry of the moon people- albeit extremely ineffective because they're usually pretty timid. One such rabbit, Reisen Udongein Inaba, got spooked during the moon landing so much that she fled to the earth, and ended up joining with a couple of fellow refugees from the moon, including the series' equivalent of THE Princess Kaguya (Y'know, from the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter?).
I could actually very easily see it being a walkoff (unfortunately) set directly in front of the shrine. I tend to imagine there'd be a bunch of characters lounging around in the background, with a few popping in as stage hazards with spellcard attacks or other shenanigans (maybe Yukari, Kasen, Remilia, Mamizou, and Youmu, just to toss out a few names).
