>>50580343
It’s the community streams and how she does them that makes people skeptical. Like did she really need to do one right before the Noel stream she was allegedly looking forward to doing. And then right away after ending said stream pretty much doing another one that was the same length as it.
The way I see it is she’s going down the same path as what choco is. Say one thing on choco go right away to a twitcasting on Guu and skimp out on doing the choco stream and rinse and repeat.

>>50580201
Macoto has her lesbian pet now

>>50580525
she said they rarely interact now that she's gotten the hang of things. You can also just look to the chisa cosplay she did on youtube in december where she literally says she has no life outside of this.
Compare that to Noel who talks about going out to eat with other holos off stream often, taking her dog out, going with her mom's kpop oshi concerts

>>50580201
>>50580525
>>50580631
Macoto is an ex-hostess and the ultimate riajuu. She could never be a shut-in.

>>50581646
I don’t think anyone here really knows about her because we really don’t care for here.

I will not go look for it but seeing the reaction here I hope he gets mauled by a horde of basketball americans

I don't see what the big deal is I ran it thru a lie detector and it said no lies detected so I posted it.

>>50579500
Is her music actually good?

>>50581583
No way

i'm going to marry maachan

>>50559416
Goddamn.....seeing them like that barely restrained, quickly awakened something in me... I think I know what to consider for next time

I wonder if faunanon has gone to bed yet

I love green woman

>>50576181
Those are massive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRHpUxwxnOk

Baku sex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keVpZ3TJA_k

Bunny sex

So when are they gonna release a good defense unit?

>more new year alts
cease

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>>50578496
Got these

>>50565562
>>50573348
who are you quoting?

>>50575318
Not every kig likes to get tributes anon.

>>50574143
>>50575289
>>50575318
>>50576256
is this true or just funny bullshit

>>50576256
I'm not saying that he has to like it, I'm saying that he should have expected this shit.

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I relapsed and spent another afternoon gooning to latex clad kigus

>>50579620
But I want to pet a giant floofy cow spoooooooder.

>>50581561
You can't handle the Cupid mofu seller's strongest mofus, they're too strong for you

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Men who ejaculate at least 21 times a month may have a 20% lower chance of getting prostate cancer than those who ejaculate 4 to 7 times a month.

(The Harvard ejaculation study)

>>50581701
Dude, it's just a cute cow spooder, how strong could she be?

>>50581410
Go on bro, tell us your thoughts.

>>50571039
>But some things do strike me as weird as in LoLK where Junko's purification and the Lunarians purification use different kanji 純 vs 浄 but that's lost in translation.
Can't you just use synonyms for that? Anyway, I do agree that it's rough but I do think on average one should try to aim for faithfulness. Though, again, knowing the state of Touhou and the translation community I honestly think it's fine to have multiple translations with various levels of directness.

>I guess it makes sense if they add stuff, but not if they rewrite it, thus feeling as if they could be future canon stuff.
That's more or less how I feel.

>Maybe a lot of people also built their fanworks on the scarce canon material back then and refused to accept the change when canon changed later on.
Depends on the character, really. Flandre? Sure. But most of them had plenty of established character that were ignored. See Alice.

>>50571292
> but written work *does* exist since apparently the author of Otherside Picnic literally was writing a Hifuu club fanfic and a couple chapters through went "hmm hang on" deleted it from the internet and then rewrote it into Otherside Picnic
That makes a disturbing amount of sense, what the hell?

>(although I say this as someone who considers IM a guilty pleasure just not as a Touhou fanwork and thinks there's really nothing wrong with Zounose's work either considering he's just doing the having a lot of faith in your theory and reading between the lines to not break canon approach)
I'll say this much for Zounose: I think he MOSTLY sticks to canon. There are certainly moments where he misses the boat (The entire SDM crew is written 100% out of character, as usual), moments where I find his theories very questionable (Youkai don't actually seem to need to eat people), and moments where I think he's just being weird (Magicians canonically don't eat people).

My biggest problem with him personally though is that he 1: Fundamentally doesn't understand Youkai and the way they canonically act. 2: Writes everybody as somehow MORE unlikeable than in canon. Which is a impressive feat. Both of them are more issues of characterization than simply "Not following Touhou canon", but they are very DEEP issues that at least for me create a major disconnect that I don't have with other similar "Darker" stories.

>>50579204
I get you and yeah that's a pretty important thing too is characterization regardless of canonicity. I do agree with that assesment about Youkai behaviour and characters being more unlikeable for no reason but I don't know why it doesn't bother me that much

But then again I'm not a good judge on that either as in the same sentence you're quoting I confess to liking IM which I will say has some characterization that I really like (for instance I think it's the only story to give Yukari a good shot at characterization beyond "hihi I am... mysterious" resulting in her feeling ironically very human, Mima is done to perfection, Alice is a really fun character to read even if there's one part of the story where she acts incredibly retarded just to do a mandatory third act misunderstanding https://youtu.be/gH6-8DR2AyA ) but for the most part really botches a lot of characters (poor Yuuka and literally all the other PC-98hus...) and don't get me started on the lore issues
It sucks because a giant Touhou story written like a novel with twists and turns this good could have been so awesome... well also the author's inability to focus is another issue... story was last updated three soon to be four years ago (;- -)

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Pardon the intrustion, certain parts of the current topic of conversation are related to conceits I've entertained before.

A good deal of difficulty seems to arise from the fact that Touhou is quite simple on one end and potentially overwhelming on the other. It's easy to "get into" Touhou if "getting into it" only means finding a design you really like and drawing a character or even just getting hooked on the series' basic premise, like accidentally being dragged onto ZUN's alcohol-fueled train ride through fantasy land. Playing the games and engaging with more canon material is not much harder, especially if you're fine with playing on lower difficulties and being subjected to translations. Going all the way, however, no matter how you think of it, would require serious dedication.
There are simply too many factors at play at any one time. Canon is diffuse, scattered across a variety of media in multiple forms with no truly reliable central database to keep track of this or that. Already a daunting prospect, even for people who enjoy keeping up with the series regularly. Add the various omake texts, miscellaneous ZUN interviews, off-hand comments from streams or ages-old message boards, and being thorough is now quite the task. Knowing Japanese becomes mandatory if you want to avoid getting scammed by well-intentioned amateurs. Then, if you bother to look into the series' inspirations, and interpret what their exact purpose is within the setting, you can get a wild goose chase, a one-way ticket to the esoteric threads, or the sudden realization that you prefer literature/religious studies to Touhou anyway.

This is all just within the scope of canon and adjacent meta considerations that may help in understanding it. If you're the really ambitious type, and want to, say, write something extraordinary, in the vein of what >>50579781 suggests in the last line, the potential work increases exponentially depending on your exact goals. Just tying together a grand storyline that avoids stumbling over itself is difficult enough. Familiarity with specific narrative structures and textual "configurations", if you will, can also greatly help but requires a delicate hand to execute with proper form.
Now on top of all this, imagine directly incorporating fanon in some form. This could mean your work is a response to certain tendencies, an attempt to integrate unusual elements, a reconciliation of conflicts, a declaration of war against interpretations you dislike, or some combination of these, an all-encompassing monstrosity. At the very farthest edge, we would have a confidence that knows canon like the back of its hand only to break it in two on purpose, an overflowing self-assurance that has grown tired of ZUN's lackadaisical and haphazard treatment of the series, ready to entirely supplant his vision with its own.

Any reasonable appraisal of what I have just described will conclude that properly realizing such a project borders on the impossible. It requires either a world-class writer, in a time that doesn't particularly hold strong writing standards in the first place, or a madman whose ambition wholly devours him before he's even a quarter of the way through. And all this, ultimately, for fan-fiction. Touhou may be a microcosm of sorts, but it's not quite epoch-defining enough to justify that. Little wonder that most prefer small-scale productions and a more hobbyist approach.

>>50579204
Sticking to that small area I have any confidence in, I've only read Zounose's two doujins featuring my favorite character, and both are some of the only fanon interpretations my insanity can still stand.

>>50550523
>>50572133
>>50557038
In fact, it started as a parody of an actual self-insert fanfiction, the one Brolli is originally from.
Then the author figured out nobody was going to watch a bad fanfiction just so they could later watch a parody of it, so he decided to make the whole thing as a self-contained story.
He wrote a "guide" on Deviantart where he talks about the production, the various drafts (in the earlier ones, Brolli would have his change of heart much later, when it was too late for him to be forgiven, but it ultimately felt too dark), the individual episodes and so on.
Still, even without having no contact with this kind of stuff, the types of cliches were intuitive enough that I could tell how they were getting parodied.
Anyway, it's been a while since I watched DitR and it's definitely a relic of a bygone era, but I remember having a lot of fun with it and I liked Brolli as the main character and the Tenshi/Yukari duo as concurrent antagonists with respectable goals.
I also enjoyed the finale with Brolli denouncing his LARP and getting everyone who sympathized with him screwed over, but also finally getting something right after all his previous reincarnations and the hug by Komachi with a twist on the two main motifs ("Who am I?" and "I'll be different!").
The constantly changing versions Brolli was fed to regarding the previous Gappy were pretty fun too.
The series is also pretty honest about both wanting to use the worldbuilding of Gensokyo (with some extra stuff specifically thrown in to confuse the noobs) but, at the same, also "feeling" nothing like the actual Touhou canon, both in-universe (the scene where Brolli leaves Gensokyo and everything goes back to the actual mood of the series, only to get all awkward once again when this guy comes back to the setting) and by the author's admission ("Touhou is nothing like DitR").

>>50581348
tolerated? she is worshipped

>>50578286
>Does Yui have English skills?
She doesn't seem as fluent as Richan but she has spoken some lines on air and at least her pronunciation is decent. I read somewhere she also knows some Spanish if that might be eventually useful for something.

>Are these in order within the tiers?
Yes.

where’s mayu?

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On the WN Korean channel, this video with Yuiko (and other seven in a row) about the weather, the map is shown on the actual screen in the studio and not on the green one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DAknxsJo9L4
PS: I waited to post because I wasn't sure about the thread bumping to page 1, so I posted (just as a test) on another Otaku Culture's thread and it bumped... Let's see if it works (as it should be) here too (I'm typing from phone by the way)

>>50575978
Thank you for the new thread and have a nice day to everyone here
PS: Beautiful Mao

>>50578286
>An English segment could be interesting
Absolutely true

>>50579178
Incredible that the
>She is with me

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>>50580691
Not in that pic but doesn't Yuiko look skinner than usual?

>the map is shown on the actual screen in the studio and not on the green one
This is because they're doing some maintenance work at the studio all this week long. Casters have mentioned it during their shifts and sometimes staff-san have posted stuff on the chat. It won't be a complete studio overhaul but some stuff will be rearranged.

>She is with me guy didn't answer to >>50579178 ww
He'll eventually come.

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>>50580691
Chroma is back. Momopin looks hotter than ever, spring needs to come fast and the ticker to become vertical so we can have her wearing miniskirts on air.

>>50567366
Times are changing

>allowing a way for players to feel like they have a way to exert creativity while in the course of play
me when I hit unrelated notes with impeccable timing in DJMAX and the game pats me on the back for it

Sorry I'm late to the party but

>Twotorial got nuked

How do i patch my data now?

Play EZ2ON

>>50578689
Someone has a complete mirror of the site here
https://two-torial.maimaidxprism.plus/

>>50576480
Black hair Okina looks like some rebellious and moody teenager

>>50576480
Wait, if Renko is the three fairies, and Star is Okina, then that means Okina is Renko!

>>50576865
Does that means larva is the larval form of the sixth sage ?

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>>50577013
She's an Anti-Sage destined to bring ruin alongside Ex-Rumia and Sumireko
Touhou 25 gets crazy and shit gets serious is what I'm saying

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>>50577314
>Anti-Sage
So a bump?