Hey /jp/, why hasn't anyone ever made audiobook versions of any of the Touhou books? It seems like it'd be a fun idea. A lot of parts of those books really lend themselves to audio versions.
>>47380720No. I can't jerk off to cunny fairies with just an audiobook.
>>47380720From ZUN's perspective it's better to see the story yourself and he doesn't want any voice becoming THE voice of that character. He was iffy on the fan anime for this reason. Which is why third party licensing, in english, isn't going to happen.From a /jp/sie's perspective it's a lot of work. That's about it. There's some other niggling things like not wanting your voice to be heard by other /jp/sies or not wanting to hear Anon's best Yukari impression. Not saying it cant be entertaining, but getting anons like this https://vocaroo.com/1XbIIyWBfk7k (that thread stuck with me) AND having them voice a whole audio book is like getting lightning to strike thrice.
>>47380825Obviously it'd have to be fanmade, I think we've only had two official English Touhou medias ever and one was mediocre as hell translation wise.I think it'd be a fun project the see fans make, you'd just need a lot of auditions to pick decent voices because only a handful of /jp/sies could do decent female voices and that would only work for a handful of characters, and obviously a tolerance for English voices. Toss in a good sound guy to add sound effects and make everything sound good and I think it could work.On the tolerance for English thing, I think I actually could lean towards being fine with it. Partly because like you said, there's no official voices for any Touhou. So it doesn't seem so jarring.
>>47380825>From ZUN's perspective it's better to see the story yourself and he doesn't want any voice becoming THE voice of that character. He was iffy on the fan anime for this reasonThat's also why he forced all g*chas to have at least 3 voice actors per character.
>>47380989>I think we've only had two official English Touhou mediasI know FS was one. What was the other?
>>47381022Touhou 17.5 got an English release
>>47381027Is that so~?
>>47380989>only a handful of /jp/sies could do decent female voices and that would only work for a handful of charactersThis guy's Ran voice is really fun. Probably not the best for a serious thing but for a comedy this is peak Ran voice. Outside of maybe Microsoft Sam.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8IGlgZZ95Q
>>47380720I remember some dude 4 years ago trying to make an audiobook of SoPM, with different VAs and everything, but I don't know what happened to it. Probably got canned.
>>47381879SoPM would actually be a great one to do, it lends itself really well to it. I wonder how many voice actors you'd actually need for each book, let's see if we can do a role-count real quick.
>>47381879Here's what he managed to put together. Never listened to these myself because I don't want to listen to trannies. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEugzmhzDzxfxZup5-wf_iNJMvjU4Xez1&si=LHv7eIafv4yv6hpt
>>47381879>>47382353The voices aren't that bad honestly, but the performances feel like they leave a bit to be desired. Miko for example, her voice is fine but the performance seems way too haughty and stilted. No major red flags aside. Though it seems like it was on the eternal backburner, and the guy wasn't planning on doing the entire book anyways but just the discussion parts.
If I counted correctly, Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red would need 34 roles filled out. It's not an envious undertaking. But could be pretty damn fun if put in the right hands.For how I imagine it playing out personally, as one examplehttps://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Bohemian_Archive_in_Japanese_Red/MarisaStart with the profile at the bottom narrated by the character in question. Then have Aya narrate the article. At parts where a quotation within the article is made, have it sound like an old recording being played back. At the interview part, start with some recording tape sound effect playing, though there shouldn't be as "old" of a filter over the interview as there are for quotations in the article.During the main article, have a relaxing version of said character's theme playing. During the interview itself, probably silence.
>>47380825>That's about it. There's some other niggling things like not wanting your voice to be heard by other /jp/sies or not wanting to hear Anon's best Yukari impression. Not saying it cant be entertaining, but getting anons like thisFuck it, sounds like a gaggle of laughs and that alone is why we should do it. Who says it needs to be done in a serious tone?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrgxHDoe8gAI wanna do a very bad Hulk Hogan impression while VC'ing Clownpie>>47380777>No. I can't jerk off to cunny fairies with just an audiobook.Understandable
>>47380720How about a yukkuri audiobook?
>>47386008What does this even entail? A whole bunch of "TAKE IT EASY"?
