The first indirect exposure was the classic flash videos and mashups. I was way into YTP at the time and so a certain mashup naturally delighted me. I was belting, probably on the floor laughing. I was sort of into things that felt degenerate back then for the sake of shock and using it to troll others, very different than now as I’ve become far more prim and prissy as my personality woke up, while influenced by the elegance of 2hus like Remilia, Alice and Sakuya.

Anyway, it was early summer and my best friend had looked down the rabbit hole before me. I think SWR was the first he showed me. Then he showed me EoSD and IN. We made a bunch of jokes about it, but it was becoming love at first sight for the series already. IN’s music is what had me hooked for good, deep magic in that soundtrack… Then the fanart etc. etc.

2010 IOSYS memes

I grew up watching Minecraft let's play video with Yukkuri(Iconic TTS with touhou persona) as a kid. They were very popular in Japanese youtube back then.
One day I looked up who is this "Yukkuri Reimu" are based off, then found a reimu's art by alphes.
I was never experienced with otaku material since I was 10 years old. I instantly fell in love with reimu.

Most of my early touhou experience were listening to ZUN's ost with my parent's phone and reading japanese wiki that explains each touhou character and lore.
Or watching The Memories Of Phantasm and IOSYS music video on youtube.
These are the material that "Touhou children" in Japanese internet watched before the gacha shit came out.

Nowadays I'm very hardcore fan of touhou, at least I aspire to be. I want to read more doujins(which untranslated SFW ones are rarely uploaded). I want to know about the most obscure lore of gensokyo. I want to create my own fanwork like drawing or video game.

I want to dedicate my life to Touhou Project.
There are meme saying that "Touhou is religion" and I think it's unironically true for some autists like me.
Religion from japanese perspective are similar to Muslim jihadism or some cult religion in 80's japan, generally bad ones.
I'm glad that I was born in Japan so I can read all the materials in original language and have access to it even though I was shamed for pirating things(I don't care anymore).

>>26075
We'll be waiting warmly. I never actually went to /jp/ myself, so I'm curious to see what stories come from the refugees.

>>26066
>For example Gooboi's Redo/Reimu stories are mostly self-contained so you just have to read the specific character thread to get up to speed, the current active one memoria/marisa is especially self-contained so start there if you fancy the fanfic.

I do my best ot make them self-contained enough for people to pick their favourite of the five and dive in, though Youmu and Kosuzu's chapters feature a post-arc Akyuu and Reimu respectively. If you want a quick run through of the core premise, I recommend reading the first update of the first thread and then deciding from there. all the other arcs start immediately after it chronologically, and you'll know from that update whether you like the premise or not.

4/jp/ is back!

>>26079
Read only for not, although with how (relatively) quickly they got back up they don't seem to have put any serious issues to fixing the sites back end problems.
Making the risk of future attacks even higher since everybody with a bone to pick is now more familiar with how the site works than ever.

Kosuzu!

The cool hidden Star of four seasons.

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Art by hakuma_okyk

>>26013
NO MARCIOKINITO!!! FUCK OFF!!! PROTECTIVE BORDER!!!

I am something of a Fossilized Wonders enjoyer myself.

Favorite stage section is hard to pick, but IN stage 3 has some satisfying bullet clearing.

Not to much of a gameplay person, but still was fun to fill out.

I'll just leave it here. Don't mind it.

>>26021
Needs more stink lines; trash pandas reek of tobacco.

>>26022
u reek of butts lmao

Had a hard time coming up with something that fits.
>>26022 >>26023
This reads like a conversation they'd both have with each other...

Might as well...

Been a while.

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Playing around with filters

Original Image: https://twitter.com/3ma_can_OmOchi/status/1700857083263168779

I wish to have a taste.

Firebird

If Mokou become playable in Touhou 9 what kind of lectures Eiki Shiki would gave her?

Couldn't find one with Eiki but you get the implicitly explicit implication of the explicit explication this image is explicitly implicity alluding to regardless. >>25949

Which Urban legends would have fit the other touhous we haven't seen mentioned in the games or appeared later? Which Urban legends do you think be a fitting alternative for touhous that did have one?

For the first time I've stumbled on it, I thought that the Alexandria Genesis was pretty good fit for Yukari. It's about about a transformation into a 'perfect human', including attaining extended lifespans, Youth and, characteristically, purple eyes. The eye color in the character portraits in the games swapped a few times between gold and purple and I think it'd be a neat way to allude to that. You can also draw a parallel towards the connection to Maribel, who always has had yellow/gold for her eye color which is also neat if you like the theory.

Another natural fit to me would be Bodysnatchers and Mizuchi. It's obvious, given how much she posesses people. Not much else beyond that.

>>25821
You're no match for byak!

>>25823
Noic picture