No.918629
What will you do in Gensokyo, anon? Will we go on adventures together? How do we keep the youkai from eating us?
Which 2hu would you hug?
No.918631
>>918629
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Rape the touhoes
>Will we go on adventures together?
No, I don't share my meat toilets.
>How do we keep the youkai from eating us?
By making them addicted to my cock.
>Which 2hu would you hug?
Satori.
No.918632
Thats a difficult question, OP. I want to find my waifu ASAP but would likely be killed along the way. I want her to kill me not some random yokai or her servants
No.918633
We create anime-related militias. Youkai who listened to Grumpy Jii-san's animu stories will recognize us and welcome us as their own while the unbelievers will be scared of us.
No.918635
I'd find a nice spot to build a cottage. I'd like a nearby stream to cool watermelon, and hopefully some fertile fields. Ideally I'd have a hugabble 2hu neighbor to invite over for late night tea and moon viewing. I'd look out for other /a/nons and try to make this little spot our village. We would need strength to ward off hostile youkai. If I meet my waifu in gensokyo, would it mean I am no longer a wizard? If all us anons lost our wizard powers, we would need some other way to fend for ourselves.
No.918637
No.918638
I'd die because I don't know how to provide food for myself that isn't found in a supermarket.
No.918639
Don't worry, I have a map that will help us navigate.
No.918643
>>918629
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Based on my experience, run out of lives extremely quickly.
No.918647
Guess I'll be a shut-in because I don't want to end as a youkai meal. It would be rude to give them tummy pains.
No.918656
>>918629
Explore and record my findings.
I'll probably die so it's my best chance to leave something behind.
Maybe strike a deal with some Youkai for protection, problem is what I offer in return:
>My life and soul
May not be valuable enough, plus immortal servitude probably sucks.
>My first, middle, or last name
Probably the only real option, but according to Japan folklore this is fresh hell.
>A body part
No.918658
>>918629
>THAT FUCKING APRON EQUATION
neat.
No.918659
Kidnap a fairy. Other anons welcome to join me.
No.918661
>>918659
Fairies are great, you can rape them to death as many times as you want and they just keep coming back.
No.918691
>>918629
Desperately try to hold onto my semen and fail.
No.918703
>>918632
Pretty much this, to a T.
No.918704
Get hired by Yuyuko-sama and become her personal butler and boy toy. I can also deal with Youmu becoming my senpai, and it prevents me from being subjected to man-eating youkai.
No.918721
>>918659
>>918661
Don't be mean to fairies!
>>918704
Do ghosts eat men?
No.918738
>>918704
>Get hired by Yuyuko-sama and become her personal butler and boy toy
Holy shit why didn't I think of that.
>cook so much food you become the finest chef in Gensokyo
>become friends with Youmu
>Yuyuko never gets tired of being fed your
>become Sakuya's bitter rival at first, but it evolves into mutual respect and romance
>get murdered by Sakuya because you misunderstood the relationship completely
>
No.918968
Learn magic from Marisa to protect myself. Then we go around stealing precious thingas.
No.918979
>>918629
Go play video games with Kaguya.
No.918996
Go to the human village and leave a comfy life with Kosozu (and maybe aim for a harem with Hieda when she comes to visit)
No.919031
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>>918629
Set out an quest to headpat all the Toehoes.
No.919032
Try to go on an adventure and survive until one of the youkais get tired of my shit and eats me.
No.919033
>>919032
I was an adventure once but then I retired from gensokyo so I could shitpost on the internet.
No.919034
I'm gonna get eaten by Rumia!
No.919054
I'll find Hakurei Shrine and I'll marry my waifu then I'd try to get a job in the human village to provide for her and bring some money to the shrine, maybe start a bussiness along the way or something.
No.919064
>>918659
>kidnap a fairy
You mean, being kidnapped by fairies
No.919069
>>919064
I'm up for either outcome. The fairy cunny is what's important.
No.919265
>>918639
Human village is a lot larger than I thought it was.
No.919268
No.919274
>>919034
That dork doesn't deserve the meal
No.919277
No.919690
Your waifu exists but she thinks you're disgusting
No.919718
>>918629
Propose to Yukari or Alice. Whichever I run into first before getting subsequently killed.
No.919733
>>919690
That just makes it better.
No.919763
>>919740
How do they expect to come off as threatening when all battles are fought with spellcards and nobody dies?
No.919790
>>919763
It's like a LARP.
No.919793
>>919763
Human tributes are regularly delivered to the SDM.
No.919803
>>919793
Yeah but the question is, how often and how many?
No.919817
>>919763
Also Reimu killed the Fortune Teller..
No.919818
>>919793
It's not like that would happen to Reimu or Marisa though, they could enter or leave the SDM as they please and the most that would happen to them is lesbian sex.
No.919823
>>918629
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Convert them by the sword.
>Will we go on adventures together?
Whichever decides to convert willingly, and if by "adventures" you mean "converting others by the sword", than yes.
>How do we keep the youkai from eating us?
Say prayers.
>Which 2hu would you hug?
The one I strap the bombs to.
No.919825
>>919823
>A fellow /a/non who wants to conquer gensokyo
Ah, I see you too are a man of culture.
No.919841
>>919823
What will you be converting people to exactly?
No.919875
>>918629
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Probably try to get a job on Rinnosuke's store till I convince Marisa to take me to her house and teach me magic.
>Will we go on adventures together?
No.
>How do we keep the youkai from eating us?
I'll stay in the village till I get Marisa to take care of me
or if she teaches me how to fly in a broom and shit I could tag along with her to steal shit from the scarlet mansion.
No.919881
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Adventure and map the place out.
>Will we go on adventures together?
Got a gun, if no then no.
>How do we keep the youkai from eating us?
By shooting them. The gun is far more scarier than magic.
>Which 2hu would you hug?
The one that hugs me and smells of old tobacco.
No.919989
>>919875
>Implying Marisa won't eat you either
No.919997
>>919989
Why would she eat another human?
No.920001
>>919997
Well, she only thought eating human organs was "a bit" much, whereas most people would probably consider it a lot too much. It stands to reason that she'd be at least tempted to go for a more appetizing part of the body, the same way people are generally more eager to eat chicken wings than they are chicken livers.
No.920003
>>919997
She's a fuckin' witch, anon. Don't dip your dick in witchy.
No.920015
>>920003
But she's a cute witch. Are you saying you wouldn't a cute witch?
No.920019
>>920015
No, if you're going to get eaten at least go for the girl who's highest on the food chain.
No.920032
>>920019
How will you convince Reimu to eat you?
No.922521
Will the Undines be in Gensokyo, /a/? I want Athena-sama to sing sweet nothings to me and my waifu on a gondola ride.
No.922555
Who wants to help Sanae spread Shinto: Moriya Version?
No.922794
>>922555
The only thing Sanae spreads is her legs.
No.922800
>>922794
Don't be mean to Sanae.
>>920032
Pay her
No.922804
>>922555
I think the majority of anon just want to go meet/fight/drink with Sanae's husbando.
>>922794
Rude.
No.922805
>>922800
>>922804
Sanae is the only touhou who can't be raped because she never turns down dick.
No.922929
No.922932
>>919690
That won't stop me
No.922935
>>922873
Problem is that Vlad the Impaler, and the Romanian people, are not slavs but Dacian-Roman descendants, you would have better chances using Italian or French powers to woe her.
t. Romanian
No.922936
>>922935
>Daco-Gypsy theory
No.922937
>>922935
We're basically slavs in everything but language though.
No.922955
>>918629
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Get to a safe place as soon as possible, I don't want to get eaten.
The Myouren Temple, human village or Rinnosuke's shop are the best choices fot a "safe" place.
Besides that, becoming a hermit via the exlir would be my first big goal. Doesn't come with lots of disadvantages that come with becoming a youkai, i.e. getting murdered by Reimu .
And while long term survival is important, I would also go a bit sightseeing as long as the risk is managable. Gensokyo is beautiful place and rabbits bring you luck. Orange rabbit is the best rabbit.
No.922958
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Kill myself and pray God sends me to a more interesting isekai, maybe let the next mc find my body and spook him.
You asked OP. Hu 2 is boring to me.
No.922971
>>922873
ZUN has said in the notes to her stage theme that she is lying about being a descendant of Tepes. Given her name, she is more likely French or from somewhere in the area. Flandre is also French for Flanders. The only person I know of with the last name Scarlet is Will Scarlet / Scarlett, a member of Robin Hood's band, which would mean she could be Norman or, less likely, Anglo-Saxon.
No.922980
>>918629
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Learn magic and drink the hourai elixir
>Will we go on adventures together?
Probably not.
>How do we keep the youkai from eating us?
Learning powerful magic.
>Which 2hu would you hug?
Reimu, I'd also donate to her shrine.
No.922981
>>919690
I don't doubt it.
No.922986
>>922955
>safe place
>elixir
When you arrive at a safe place. Lets say where Keine lives, and explain you are a human that just dropped into this world, wouldn't they try to contact Yukari to send you back? I'm not well versed on those two humans who keep showing up but aren't they extreme exceptions? As far as I remember most humans that arrive or get too close either die immediately or get sent back and think it was a dream.
>>922971
Does she even know or care about what happened in her pre-Gensokyo life? I feel the shame of not knowing this despite being married to her
No.922987
I will help Tewi foment a revolution creating an empire of pranks and bullying across Gensokyo with Reisen being the Bullied in Chief.
No.922988
>>922986
> As far as I remember most humans that arrive or get too close either die immediately or get sent back and think it was a dream.
Most outsiders get eaten or killed. This isn't a joke, a good amount of the youkai love to eat humans. Villagers are protected by the contract, outsiders aren't. It's canon that some outsiders are delivered to the SDM as food source.
It's confirmed that outsiders can choose to stay in Gensoukyou and heavily implied that they can become villagers. Reimu isn't going to kick you out of Gensoukyou. But if you become a villager, you can't become a youkai. If you do, then Reimu is going to kill you.
No.922989
>>922988
So its likely then that anyone you find after arriving is either a youkai that will kill you on the spot, or a villager or non-hungry youkai that will send you to be food at the SDM. I bet the entry requirements to become a villager are really high and becoming a hermit is even more out of the question. Your best bet to enter Gensokyo and live for more than a day is to become a god or something neither Reimu nor generic youkai won't kill before entering.
No.922992
>>922989
Villagers aren't going to deliever you to the SDM, they probably aren't even aware of the contract.
>entry requirements
Are zero, you just need to make it to the Hakurei Shrine or human village without getting killed. Outsiders are valued because they possess valuable knowledge from the outside world.
>hermit
The celestial elixir turns you into a hermit. It doesn't matter if you fulfill any of the usual requirements.
The issue is getting the elixir. Only celestials have access to it, meaning that the only reasonable way to get it is through Tenshi.
>Just by eating it you can become a hermit!
>It makes your flesh harder than steel!
>It lets you cast all sorts of spells!
(Quotes from Kasen about the celestial elixir)
No.922993
>>922992
The thing with becoming a villager is that you may be able to survive, but I doubt you'd be able to go on forays outside the village on a regular basis to meet up with your waifu. And even if you do, most of the waifu candidates aren't the kind who will hang out with villagers unless you're gunning for Kokoro or someone similar.
Not to mention, since when was the easy way ever the fun way? Losing can be fun. I'd rather give it a entertaining attempt and fizzle out in the process than a half hearted technical victory, or even worse, a half hearted survival. Isn't that the entire appeal of humans for most of them, anyways?
No.922999
>>918629
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Hide in the human village bunker as the crazy skyladies ravage the landscape with their epic danmaku battles.
No.923026
How effective do you think guns would be at keeping lesser youkai from eating you? It might be fun to take a whole bunch and go on a hunting expedition if they are effective.
No.923028
>>923026
A generic fairy will be a hard target since its small and fast. The weakest yet somewhat significant youkai I can think of is the bucket from SA. You would need a team of well trained humans to compete with even her. Any youkai strong enough to have a name is going to wipe the plate with your flesh no matter what gun you bring.
No.923032
>>923030
He certainly has a hat silly enough to be a touhou.
No.923035
>>922873
>>923030
Do you need to LARP whenever somebody mentions dracula, vampires or when there is the slightest possibility that bloodsuckeres could be mentioned? Is it a compulsion?
No.923042
>>923036
I don't underestimate it. I just find it annoyingly off-topic.
Nah, it's just that I saw you on /animu/ (possibly /monster/ too, I'm not certain). I do know that there is a turk here though, so at least you'll have a nemesis.
No.923597
>What will you do in Gensokyo, anon?
Liberate all
>Will we go on adventures together?
If you mean campaigns, yes.
>How do we keep the youkai from eating us.
56 grains of freedom.
>Which 2hu would you hug?
Miko Toyosatomimi
No.923599
>>923028
If a 3D printed gun can fuck 2hus up, ordinary stuff will work as well. Hell a PCC with a shoestring would work wonders.
No.923609
>>923028
The only thing protecting youkai in the material world is the spiritual barrier, so if you're in Gensokyo, in theory you've already bypassed that barrier and so has your weapons. Thus any old firearm should be extremely effective against a youkai unless they possess some innate ability that would let them dodge or otherwise phase through a bullet. Shields are clearly designed to stop magic or physical attacks, and have never been shown against a firearm, so it's reasonable to assume that if a strong magical fire, heat wave, laser or something similar can bypass a shield, than so can an object with enough force and speed (albeit it might impact them at speeds that would only cause bruising due to a dampening effect). Everything works on a system, there's no such thing as magic made on a whim (there is but it still works within the confines of a system), and thus there must be a way to bypass/work within that system whether it's simply the brute force of a firearm or perhaps something more intricate like working with bullets made of uranium or a special nickel alloy. If beings like gods can be harmed by working within inherent systems, than so can youkai, for surely youkai are not gods themselves. Those systems may seem strange or intricate, they may seem like nonsense, but all gods and spirits have set conditions and methods that can't be bypassed in order to perform the way they do.
It's really simply a question of if those systems in place are beneficial or harmful to the usage of firearms to kill youkai, and if the youkai is powerful enough that while a bullet might hurt them, you might never get the chance to do soit (or worse- you might only get one chance and they will never give you that opportunity again). The lack of guns in Gensokyo despite the number of years that the Japs have had them suggests the youkai fear firearms and have wiped them out for their ability to put man on a level playing field.
No.923637
>>923026
Youkai powerlevels vary. The weakest youkai are weaker than a small animal and the strongest youkai are so hax that they appear in the nightmares of the elder gods.
>>923609
The 2hu youkai are physical, but they require human belief to survive. The spread of rationalism is what lead to the creation of Gensoukyou. Isolated from the outside world, the villagers there can produce the necessary fear and faith that the youkai require. Some of the youkai can leave Gensoukyo and even consume humans in the outside world. The barrier is just there to keep the cattle unaware about the outside world. Youkai don't need to eat humans, they just enjoy it, but the fear/faith/believe humans can produce is necessary for their survival.
No.923681
Dumping some Musou Kakyou screenshots.
Really, love the backgrounds. The passion of the Touhou scene always amazes me.
No.925577
>>918629
>How do we keep the youkai from eating us?
We consensually hold their hands and head pat them until we cuddle up with them and fall asleep in each others arms.
Childs play, really.
No.925578
>>925577
That sounds overdone.
No.925581
>>923637
Hypothetically, if an anon with the right charisma and knowledge of memetics/psychological manipulation entered Gensokyo and created a cult following behind him, he could completely reverse the faith/fear in youkai that the villagers have. With enough very careful planning and idea subversion, he could theoretically cut off the youkai's power source and render them completely helpless, or at least near powerless depending on how far reaching and effective his scheming is. He would first have to start a small following of cultists to join his idea or belief of choice, using well place propaganda, good will acts on the village and giving them a good enough reason to follow his cult. Once it is sizable, the mobilization begins, at this point (depending on how much social power he as) he would probably surpass the village leaders/elders in political and belief power, giving him near complete control over the populace.
Of course at this point the youkai's would certainly have noticed this disturbance and would be dispatched to dispose of him. The critical part in this plan would be to quickly gather as many into cult before this occurs. Once confronted, a display of defiance and loss of fear combined with fanatical devotion to him and the cult would take place. This outright "stick shaking" would defiantly be felt among the youkai, and might create an "oh shit" moment in them depending on how fanatical the village populace has become. If there is a short battle, then it would be very bloody and wouldn't last very long. However, the mass deaths and loss of belief would cause a massive sinkhole of energy that the youkai's need to exist, which significantly weakens them as the fight continues. Eventually one or two possibilities would take place; The now cult leader anon would martyr himself, and, once again, depending on how well he played his cards and the devotion of his followers, this would cause a massive spike in hate and loss of fear among the villagers, further eroding the youkai's energy sustainment. Scenario number two would be his survival of the battle, but the near complete destruction of the village and in turn, Gensokyo. The mass death and loss of energy source would collapse the barrier and completely destroy the human-youkai relationship, effectively "killing" the youkai and Gensokyo as a whole.
Of course there are innumerable hurdles to jump when attempting something like this, countless generations of tradition, the speed of spreading the new belief, the speed of assuming political control, acting stealthily underneath the youkai's noses, and various other things to account for.
No.925587
>>925581
A few bombs would probably do the job before Reimu could stop you. With all the humans dead there is no one left to fear the youkai.
No.925596
>>925587
>>925581
Please do not actually mess with Gensokyo's balance
No.925600
Masturbate in public and hope whoever kills me does so with a load of my cum on her face.
No.925604
>>925600
>all characters can fly
>projectiles are pretty common
Well, good luck with that.
No.927042
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
What do you anons think about minusT's new video? He really managed to nail Koishi's emotions, and I liked how Sanae got treated like irrelevant fodder by Reimu.
No.927047
No.927053
>>927048
>doesn't realize Heaven is a place in Gensokyo.
No.927055
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>927042
I like this better.
No.927057
>>927053
Heaven or to be more specific Bhavaagra (where Tenshi lives) isn't in Gensokyo. It's a separate realm where the Celestials live. There's a path to Bhavaagra in Gensokyou, but Bhavaagra itself isn't part of Gensokyo. It's heavily implied that the Celestials created Heaven 252 million years ago by pulling out a giant keystone from Earth and that the P–Tr extinction was the side effect of this.
Celestials like Tenshi don't have the restrictions that gods or youkai have. Tenshi could theoretically live in Tokyo without any issues.
Gensokyo is the yokai paradise, but it isn't the only supernatural place in the world of Touhou.
No.927136
Do you guys think ZUN has sold out?
No.927148
>>927136
No, releasing Touhou content on popular download stores isn't selling out. People (particularly foreign Touhou fans) have asked for this for almost a decade.
Zun hasn't sold out, he caved to fan requests. Not that it really matters, Touhou isn't getting flooded with newfags because of Steam. The worst newfags come from the NND/YT memes. That's the part of the fandom that reduces characters to caricatures based on online-jokes.
>>919740 is a perfect example of this.
>>927055 or the yearly popularity poll is are other examples.
Sakuya, Tenshi, Marrisa and Alice are some of the characters that suffered a lot because of these mischaracterizations.
No.927160
>>925596
I'm gonna genocide the youkai and no one can stop me!
No.927163
>>925581
What a stupid plan, the Youkai in 2hu are basically just Chaos Demons and these people have fallen to the level of Demonworshipers.
For the betterment of mankind, just simply go Exterminatus on these villages and the Demons will be banished back into the Warp.
No.927169
>>927163
>orbital bombardment
In your dreams moon bitch
No.927178
>>927169
Moon bitches are the ones that must be the first to go. All for the glory of mankind.
No.927198
No.927230
>>927198
Cracking down on big sellers is fine. The moment Zun allowed digital distribution this was going to happen. Considering the size and scope of Touhou, it wouldn't even be fair to call it doujin content anymore. At this point it's commercial derivative content, which makes it perfectly fine to take royalities.
Cannonball is a derivative work created by Aniplex. Zun isn't directly involved, but if I remember correctly Touhou games with publishers need to pay royalities.
Physicals sold at doujin events don't need to pay royalities.
In the long run the logical thing for Zun would be to create a Touhou store for all digital content, money going to Zun is far more preferable than money going to Google, Valve, Apple or other mega corporations.
No.927246
>>927163
>Youkai in 2hu are basically just Chaos Demons
Guess it takes an iPhoneposter to have such a massive lack in both 2hu and 40k lore.
No.927253
I will hug, love and cuddle the fuck out of Rumia
No.927283
>>927246
>Guess it takes an iPhoneposter to have such a massive lack in both 2hu and 40k lore.
Never owned an apple product in my life and regardless of that "super natural being needs faith to survive" is an trope older than both 2hu and 40k lore.
I just used 40k, because its popular franchise and has the right answer for such a situation: Kill the believers.
No.928073
Gensokyo? Why would anyone want to live in that impure shithole?
No.928096
Was it ever explained why Reimu hasnt killed Alice due to her being a former human turned yokai?
No.928101
>>928096
Maybe it was before her time?
No.928116
>>928096
I thought Reimu only kills former human village residents?
No.928127
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>>918629
>Hug
By priority?
Scarlet sisters.
>>918637
It is the donation box poop incident.
Unable to find the perpetrator rumors circulate and this anon becomes a "poops in donation boxes when noone is looking" youkai.
Needless to say this pisses off the local shrine girls.
>>919031
>>925577
This.
With emphasis on platonics.
Getting smugged at would also be interesting.
>>919740
Alice isn't that bad.
During the fighting games she goes around warning everyone of the earthquakes.
>>922987
>Tewi
Have fun being tricked out of your valuables, the earth rabbit is nowhere near as kind as she pretends.
Funny how the opposite is true with many of the other girls.
No.928231
>>928096
Because Alice is a cute girl and Fortune Teller isn't.
No.928263
>>928096
Alice was probably a youkai before she came to gensokyo.
No.928406
>>928096
I found the explanation myself.
"Becoming a jinyou is considered to pose a grave threat to the balance of Gensokyo, enough for Reimu Hakurei to call it "the greatest sin of all" and to actually kill jinyou rather than defeat them non-lethally like most youkai. The exact reason for this has not been explained, but may be related to jinyou learning secrets about Gensokyo to which the Human Village is not privy, to jinyou having different values from normal youkai, or to the risk of Gensokyo's youkai numbers becoming too great for its human population to sustain.
Exactly what constitutes a jinyou is unclear. A human can transform themselves into a magician youkai by using magic to suspend or replace their bodily functions, yet magicians do not seem to be considered inherently dangerous. It may be that jinyou use more foul or taboo transformation methods than magicians (the jinyou who appears in Forbidden Scrollery being essentially a stabilised vengeful spirit), that becoming a magician - which requires decades of study - is too difficult to appeal to large numbers of humans, or simply that there are no magician youkai originating from the Human Village. Likewise a number of major characters (including Sakuya Izayoi, and even Reimu herself) have been described as "youkai-like humans" at times, but it is unclear if they fall under this definition, particularly since few of them live in the village. "
No.928484
>>928406
That's the wiki being a mess, almost the entire page is speculation. In the manga there isn't nearly that much ambiguity. And while the reason isn't given, it's very evident if you think a little about it.
Youkai require fear or faith from humans. If a villager becomes a magician and shares his techniques, then you're going to end up with a village of sorcerer youkai. Almost all the villagers have high spiritual capabilites. Marisa might even be the villager with the worst talent for magic. The villagers are humans, most of them fear death, if they learn that with a year of study they can become immortal sorcerers, then Gensokyo is done for.
Considering that Alice has a Western name, it's unlikely that she became a youkai in Gensokyo. It's very probable that she already was a youkai when she arrived in Gensokyo.
It's even implied that Reimu watches over Marisa, because she considers it possible that Marisa turns into a jinyou.
No.930420
>>928484
Not to open this can of worms, but, Shinki clearly states she created all that resides in Makai. Alice may be Shinki's creation, native to Makai, and implying Shinki was a Westaboo.
No.930423
>>930420
Forgot to actually state my point: Alice was Human originally for sure and became a Youkai somewhere in the time gap between PC-98 and Windows, but we've never even been given indication that she's even been to Earth.
No.930425
>>930420
Perfect Memento in Strict Sense states that Alice was originally human, and while it is told from the perspective of Akyuu, I doubt that such basic information is wrong.
When there's a contradiction between PC-98 and any post PC-98 content, then the post PC-98 version is always the canon version.
In general one shouldn't take PC-98 games serious when talking about the canon. They're very expensive to obtain through legal means. And it's unlikely that ZUN seriously considers PC-98 when writing new Touhou works.
There are even contradictions or retcons for Windows-era characters. An example would be Tenshi's backstory. Her original character profile said that she was a young girl when she became a celestial. But later works state that she was born as a celestial.
>>930423
>Alice was Human originally for sure and became a Youkai somewhere in the time gap between PC-98 and Windows
This could be true, but we can't know this for certain unless we get any Windows-era information about how Alice became a magician.
Note: I had written most of the post when I saw your second post, and I am too lazy to rewrite it.
No.930426
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>>930425
I was in the panel room when ZUN answered the question of PC-98 canonicity at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2013. Word of god, straight to my face in-person, is that PC-98 is canon in its entirety unless something after it directly and explicitly contradicts it. So Reimu still has a nuclear-powered robot maid somewhere, and Marisa owns a nuclear ICBM. Genji is still around, but he lazes around the shrine now that Reimu doesn't need him to fly.
Also, I'm pretty sure it actually said Alice was a Human in the dialogue back in the PC-98 days, and then in later post-timeskip days she shows up classified as Youkai.
I'm actually in the background or just over the photographer's shoulder in a bunch of these shots.
No.930432
>>930426
If Genji is still around, wouldn't he know who the fuck the God is in the Hakurei shrine?
No.930434
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>>930432
You'd think so, yeah. That we never see him either means he's just chronically underrepresented or is off doing his own thing. Whichever it is, he's definitely still canon. And unless Youkai turtles die of old age, he's still alive unless killed.
More soothing to some fans' minds is this means Mima is definitively still out there somewhere. In the same panel, ZUN said the reason she doesn't show up again is he's just more interested in building up the new characters. Come to think of it, that's when he also first lampshaded the possibility of Steam releases. Bear in mind this was 6 years ago now.
Here's the best video of the panel I can find. It's of very low quality and incomplete, unfortunately.
No.930435
>Making these big posts but haven't actually answered OP's question
I'd do whatever I could to get trained as a magician and achieve Youkai status, with an eventual goal of achieving immortality and then working on planar travel. At which point I would treat Gensokyo as my home/base/staging area and then Kingdom Hearts around the multiverse. In search of novelty, interest, power, unique training, etc. Pick up some psionics, some wuxia, some magitech, and so on. I've always loved the "steal your abilities from your enemies" theme like Mega Man and Blue Mages, so it just being an accepted tradition in Gensokyo is really convenient.
tl;dr become an immortal Enemy Skill materia and then take a Boomer-tier RV vacation around multiple realities in search of novelty nicknacks to bring home.
No.930444
>>930435
>achieve Youkai status
Sounds like a great plan, I mean what's the worst that could happen?
No.930445
No.930452
>>930444
>death trips
I mean, it mostly seems like people get caught by being retards. It's not like Reimu is mounting an inquisitional campaign in the village. And I've got my knowledge of the world itself, so I'd know to lay low and not attract the attention of GapHags and other interference-minded sorts.
Given that we already know there are characters that have brought futuristic weaponry to Gensokyo, it's explicitly within reason that I could even cobble together firearms to defend myself.
No.930453
>>930435
Probably masturbate.
No.930460
>>930426
Word of god on PC-98 isn't consistant.
"Basically, they're whatever-works types, so they might not be dead. I generally have no comment regarding
the PC-98 games. Please ignore them just as one can ignore derivative works. " is from the translation of Zun's e-mails.
https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/ZUN/ZUN%27s_E-mails
> Word of god, straight to my face in-person, is that PC-98 is canon in its entirety unless something after it directly and explicitly contradicts
Word of god through a language barrier contradicted by Japanese statements. Zun also literally just said "Yes" when asked the same question at Anime Expo. But before that there was almost an one minute long break where he looked very confused by the question. I would say it's safe to say that Zun's understanding of the word canon is questionable.
Then there are Zun's interviews and commentaries in SCoOW, which is the most expensive and a more recent source(2015-now) for the "word of god". Based on the MoF commentary, it's possible to argue that the current Touhou canon is post MoF. It's when Zun started seriously thinking about the world and setting.
https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Strange_Creators_of_Outer_World/Introduction_of_Previous_Works/Mountain_of_Faith/Mountain_of_Faith_Interview_with_ZUN
I would describe the Touhou canon like this:
10+: Reliable, very few retcons.
6-9: Not as reliable as post MoF, but still partially canon. Characters from here on out continue to actively appear in later games.
1-5: Safe to ignore. From stolen assets to lifted character designs, PC-98 has all of the usual doujin issues. I don't think Zun has a positive view of PC-98 Touhou. There's a reason that he started the SCoOW "Introduction to previous work" series with EoSD.
Mima will never come back.
No.930490
>>930460
As much as I'll still treat everything as canon, there's something setting-appropriate to an almost meta degree that the older a game gets the more mythical and subjective to reality it becomes. We're discussing game expanses like they're Shogunate legacies or classical art eras.