You may now choose your nameless wife.
I'll take the mt haku girl.
>>48026303Cute homosexuals
>>48026324Good choice. But be careful! Don't let these Shugendo people do their weird things freely.
The concept of choosing a nameless wife in the land of Hourai is intriguing! It evokes themes of love, companionship, and the mystical nature of Hourai itself. Each choice could reflect different aspects of personality or ideals. Are you leaning toward a particular character or theme for your choice?
>>48037355thanks for the bump chatgpt I guess
Shit thread, at least give a simple explanation of what this "Hourai" thing is.
>>48047436Hourai is the beauty of ugliness.Hourai is the end of the beginning.Hourai is the word without meaning, and the meaning that can't be conveyed by words.Hourai is the jewel that should not be desired, the good that should not be sought.Hourai is like fire that burns cold, like pain that does not hurt, like joy that doesn't make one happy.Hourai is far away, never to be reached, but always to be destroyed.When you think you've reached Hourai, it's because you've already smashed it.Hourai is the land with no life, where death can not enter.Hourai is everywhere but here. Hourai is and Hourai is not.By not knowing what is Hourai, you know more of Hourai than any sage could ever dream.
does she counts?
>>48026495HAHAHAHA OH WOW
>>48051794Of course the Hourai Dolls count.Your happy marriage starts here, on a peach tree!
Debating myself on whether to necrobump my dead thread or not. I normally don't bump twice in a row but there are such shittier threads that I feel bad in letting it die.
>>48050436>Hourai is the beauty of ugliness.Peculiarity>Hourai is the end of the beginning.Maturity>Hourai is the word without meaning,Nonsense>and the meaning that can't be conveyed by words.SilenceI'll think of the others in due time.
>>48065907I think I'll try too>>48050436>Hourai is the jewel that should not be desired, the good that should not be sought.Perfection.>Hourai is like fire that burns cold, like pain that does not hurt, like joy that doesn't make one happy.Desire?>Hourai is far away, never to be reached, but always to be destroyed.The Unknown.>When you think you've reached Hourai, it's because you've already smashed it.Pleasure.>Hourai is the land with no life, where death can not enter.Thought or Dream.>Hourai is everywhere but here. Hourai is and Hourai is not.no idea>By not knowing what is Hourai, you know more of Hourai than any sage could ever dream.Simplicity.
>>48066361>Hourai is like fire that burns cold, like pain that does not hurt, like joy that doesn't make one happy.Life>When you think you've reached Hourai, it's because you've already smashed it.Journey(?)>Hourai is everywhere but here. Hourai is and Hourai is not.OthernessI agree with the rest.
>>48067920>LifeThis does fit better.>Journey(?)I still prefer 'pleasure', even though it's not a perfect anwear.>OthernessCleaver.
"The Moonlight's Anti-Soul" is a pretty badass character title. I wonder what ZUN originally meant by it?
>>48065907>>48066361I'm honored you anons tried to make sense of my words. Most of these are references to literature, some from famous things like the Bible while others are a bit more obscure, but I wouldn't say it has a consistent theme besides illusion and maybe contradiction. Not like I'm any good with words anyway. But I am thankful you guys managed to extract meaning from it.Regardless, personally I consider Hourai to be an ideal of Gensokyo. I like PMiSS' explanation of the barrier and Lafcadio Hearn's chapter on Hourai.
>>48075389>Most of these are references to literature, some from famous things like the Bible while others are a bit more obscureI'm a bit dissapointed I didn't catch any of them then. The only one I thought was a reference was the last one, which I think is some quote about Enlightment. One of my answers was also a reference to a poem.I'm curious what the references to the Bible were?>Regardless, personally I consider Hourai to be an ideal of Gensokyo.Would you mind elaboratign on that. The only thing I know about Hourai it that it's the mountain/island where Immortals live.
>>48026303What are all the nameless girls?
>>48075285反魂 seems to be calling the spirits of the dead so probably some medium sort of things.She's probably calling spirits or is some sort of ghost herself something.She also has some trigrams but idk how to interpret those but she also has some other symbols which I'm not even sure what they are supposed to be. There's a lot of things in the pic.Captcha: GAPNP
does she count
>>48047436>Hourai is everywhere but here. Hourai is and Hourai is not.>Hourai is far away, never to be reached, but always to be destroyed.>Hourai is the jewel that should not be desired, the good that should not be sought.The unattainability of desire>Hourai is the land with no life, where death can not enter.>Hourai is like fire that burns cold, like pain that does not hurt, like joy that doesn't make one happy.>When you think you've reached Hourai, it's because you've already smashed it.>Hourai is the end of the beginning.The disappointment (or punishment) of trying>Hourai is the beauty of ugliness.>Hourai is the word without meaning,>and the meaning that can't be conveyed by words.>By not knowing what is Hourai, you know more of Hourai than any sage could ever dream.The lesson of life
>>48078447Sorry for the late reply.>I'm curious what the references to the Bible were?Hourai is and Hourai is not was supposed to evoke God's answer to Moses about His name. This was the most obvious one, but the line that starts with fire that burns cold is supposed to be a comparison between Hourai and love (invoking the theme of the thread), and so the first line is a reference to the Song of Songs. The second line about end of the beginning was also supposed to be a reference to Jesus and the Kingdom of God, but I'm unsure if it worked; I thought about the Alpha and the Omega and eschatology, and a bit of my own interpretation of our life as our end times before the new life. So the end of the beginning. I'm really not good with words so maybe it didn't translate as well as I wanted to.>Would you mind elaboratign on that. It's mainly something I thought after reading Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan. You know, given that he's directly referenced in two Touhou characters and the name of this book is referenced in a track in HRtP and the full name of MS, I figured it was probably an important book for ZUN's worldbuilding. It is a fine book, but the most interesting chapter is the last; in it, Lafcadio starts describing Hourai, its preciousness and how winds "from the West" are threatening its survival. The similarities between Hourai as an isolated island that preserved the feeling of magic that had been lost in the outside world is basically the same setting as early Windows Gensokyo. All the comments about rejection of change, everything is there. Maybe I'm dumb, but for me it's clear that Lafcadio's Hourai symbolises Japan, and thus ZUN's Gensokyo is also supposed to be a mirror to Japan of some sort; it exists in a continuum between Lafcadio's Hourai and the complete openness of modern Japan.Rather than construct Gensokyo as a paradise where all change is negative, ZUN makes it a point to show how conserving your traditions is really adapting to modernity and change while not accepting it without care. Between modern Japan that fully embraced change and a static Hourai, Gensokyo exists, negotiating its existence by trying to carefully accept positive change while shunning direct contact with the source of said change. That's why new ideas are easily accepted and even encouraged by people like Yukari; because they have a barrier that can keep the equilibrium and stop any undesired influence from intruding. What I think ZUN wants to show is that even such carefulness is in the end useless; change will always come and things will return to nothing. Anyway, so for me Hourai is the ideal of how Gensokyo sees itself; a paradise that needs to be protected from the evil winds of change from outside. That contrasts with actual practice where Gensokyo still needs to deal with and adapt to all possible kinds of change that happen in the outside; the amount of paper goes down in the outside, making it go up in Gensokyo. This is change, and yet it is not rejected nor celebrated, but it is accepted as part of being conservative.Maybe I'm wrong. Feel free to disagree and add your thoughts here. I just think that the stuff that ZUN references is fascinating. Unfortunately some of it is really difficult to find, but Kwaidan should definitely be a recommended reading for anyone that wants to think about lore and worldview in Touhou.
>>48100657me on the right you on the left :3
>>48100657This does put into perspective why ZUN initially wanted to end the seires with IN, which is built around the idea of Hourai.>Hourai is and Hourai is not was supposed to evoke God's answer to Moses about His name.Can't believe I missed that.
>>48093643all of nameless Hourai is welcome here!
Hourai Collection!I wonder if the Hourai + DiPP event of the last few years will happen again. I saw a lot of Hourai girls art this month.
