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Sanae deserves a good thread, discussing her admirable traits as an honest and hard working shrine maiden.
Discuss Sanae warmly.
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>>50081382
But isn't it too early for another Sanae thread? It's been like 5 days since the last one we've had.
Oh well. I'm not a complainer.
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nerd
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M-miss Kochiya.......
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As an aside, did any of you actually play that Sanae Kirby fangame?
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>>50081419
Never heard of it, do you have a link?
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>>50081421
Yep. We've discussed it here before, but I don't think I've seen anyone say they've played it, or give their thoughts on it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3200060/SANAEs_Sylphid_Breeze/
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If Sanae is so cool, then why is her miko paper on a stick so much smaller than Reimu's
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>>50081429
Reimu's stick is actually a youkai, that's why it keep growing larger. Touhou 21 will be an incident that it causes.
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I've recently taken a very strong liking to her.
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>>50081432
Hasn't it already gotten possessed once back in DDC? Thought that was more due to external causes, if I'm remembering correctly...
>>50081429
Reimu needs to hit things all the time, so she needs a spear with a lot of shide on it.
Sanae's gohei doubles as a spatula because she needs to cook for her gods every day.
Different needs.
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>>50081432
Wait a minute... that's scary...

>>50081450
Wait a minute... that sounds nice...
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>>50081463
Ms. Hakurei is a perfectly nice lady and you don't need to be scared of her or Sanae at all. Reimu's just the more proactive one when it comes to violence. You wouldn't be scared by Mario, would you? Even if Luigi is the more meek one.
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One thing that's funny about Sanae is that everyone seems to like her...
I'm not really complaining, but with almost every other character there are people who dislike them, but not with Sanae.
I guess her ^^ energy is too much for people to hate her.
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>>50081432
youkai cleansing stick tsukumogami youkai... that sounds interesting.
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>>50081507
i think sanae is an easy character to dislike if you know nothing about her, but easy to like when you see her speak, act and do things in canon material. she's not really all that offensive, the worst she's ever done is sell useless trinkets and say they're holy charms
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>>50081527
There are no useless trinkets in Gensokyo, if the people believe they work, they work.
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Her sexiness levels are off the charts
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>>50081418
frog preparing to jump.
>>50081551
frog looking at me about to grab it
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>>50081544
I think if even the priestess that's selling them says in private that she's not really sure if they work at warding off snakes or not, then they probably have about a 30% chance of actually working. Reimu gets pissed at her for it, though. Probably because she didn't come up with the same idea herself.
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>>50081560
Unrelated to this but i once had a dream of suwako and sanae sitting like frogs in front of the moriya shrine lake and eating flies. kanako is in the background looking at them with a shocked and disappointed look on her face.
when i woke up i searched for that image for like 3 hours, and it didn't exist.
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>>50081507
>>50081527
I recall her being somewhat unpopular way back for a few reasons (kind of a dick in MoF, somewhat inconsistent characterization in MoF and SA, pushed pretty hard by ZUN, upset Sakuya fans when she seemingly replaced her), but I think Hisoutensoku really salvaged Sanae for a lot of people.
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>>50081644
Oh, yeah, I remember her being disliked a little back then, but I don't think Japanese fans ever disliked her all that much. It took a couple of games for her character to develop and actually gain memorable traits, since back in MoF her main (fan) characterization was "Reimu, but she's green and nicer", and that was it.
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I got sick as hell last night but while I was in bed aching all over and trying to get some sleep, I got a warm sense of comfort when I started imagining Sanae looking out for me. Truly best girl, I love her so much.
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Why didn't Sanae call out Chimata for having an entire FREAKY costume? Surely she deserves a fashion critique too, if Heca got one!
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>>50081729
Chimata has STYLE and understands how to work colors, not something a gaijin like Heca-T would understand.
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Sanae is not a slut, and here's why:
-Considering Reimu and Marisa's permanently teen ages, Sanae probably came to Gensokyo as a 14-16 yo. There aren't great resources for Japan, but even for a country as hedonistic and sexualy liberal as the US the average age of sex having is only 17. It's no doubt higher in a country as conservative as Japan.
-Sanae would have been kept very busy by her shrine maiden/holy girl duties, leaving her with less free time. We also know she was a mech hobbyist, so that's even less free time.
-Sanae was very arrogant as a young girl thanks to her powers, she likely would have had standards for a man which were impossibly high for anyone her age.
Ergo Sanae is pure and likely clueless.
And before you mention anything about post-Gensokyo Sanae, if someone was dehydrated while living by a natural spring they sure as hell aren't quenching their thirst living in a desert.
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>>50081752
STYLE? STYLE?! CHIMATA'S WEARING A PATCHWORK DRESS HELD TOGETHER BY ZIPPERS! I'll have you know Heca-Ts are extremely popular all throughout Gensokyo. Sanae just had a lapse of judgement, that's all. Even she'll come around to it, some day.
>a gaijin like Heca-T
You totally just insulted me right now.
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>>50081782
>she likely would have had standards for a man which were impossibly high
W-what standards would those be?
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>>50081809
Own multiple Gunpla kits
Have watched and finished multiple mecha series
Have played Armored Core
Well versed in shinto mythology and rituals
Well versed specifically in the rituals and traditions of Suwa-taisha, which has historically been isolated and unique from the rest of Japan's shinto shrines
Own a GBA SP
Caught all 151 Pokemon in Gen 1
Willing to cook and clean
Willing to put up with 2 nagging gods
Willing to give up your life for these 2 gods if need be and move to whatever shithole they want you to move to
Be nice
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>>50081809
Back in the outside world? Be a literal Adonis that gets straight As, is a champ in every sport, is handsome, rugged, gentle, forceful, kind, and a little cruel.
After years in Gensokyo with her biological clock ticking? Be a moderately attractive outsider with a penis that is willing to make the mountain trip regularly to see her. She just really misses modern human company and can't relate to the villagers.
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>>50081782
>kept very busy by her shrine maiden/holy girl duties
I'm pretty sure being a shrine maiden is like a summer thing in japan. No one's a full time shrine maiden. She mentions a bunch of video games, so she clearly had plenty of free time
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>>50081864
In modern Japan it's a summer job, yes, but she's so dedicated to it that she goes to another world for her gods.
Plus, she's a priestess, the head of that shrine as it's main priest, the living god of that shrine as well, so I assume she just lived at the shrine the whole entire time.
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>>50081804
I'm an expert in inflammatory remarks. Heca-T had it comin for charging as much as she does for those shirts.
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>>50081427
I don't know what the dev was smoking when he came up with that price tag, but that's probably why this game was forgotten so quickly. I'm not forking over 20 bucks for ~1 hour of content. It's on sale now and it's still far too expensive for what it is.
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>>50081915
Fashion comes at a price, y'know. Worry not! For the plebeians who have not the funds nor the intellect to acquire such funds so as to purchase a hip, new, cool, fashionable "Welcome Hell" t-shirt, we've rolled out a new line of slightly less fashionable t-shirts. Check it.
Sanae's inflammatory remarks have been commercialized. No, she doesn't get royalties.
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>>50081918
That's what I was thinking, too. It's clear he put a lot of time and effort into it, but I'm not paying that much.
Sure, I love Sanae, but paying 20 bucks for a Touhou fangame is a bit much. I'm not THAT irresponsible with my money.
I do believe it's on Moriya Shrine, though. So you can download it. I think they put in a new policy so you need an account to download from their site however, which is ass, so I haven't tried it.
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>>50081932
>No, she doesn't get royalties.
This is NOT market approved.
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>>50081948
So that's why Sanae didn't insult Chimata's fashion disaster, huh? She wants those royalties, and wants the market god to enforce them...
Too bad.
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>>50081824
>Own a GBA SP
>Caught all 151 Pokemon in Gen 1
>Willing to cook and clean
>Willing to put up with 2 nagging gods
>Willing to give up your life for these 2 gods if need be and move to whatever shithole they want you to move to
>Be nice
Got these locked down

>Own multiple Gunpla kits
>Have watched and finished multiple mecha series
>Have played Armored Core
>Well versed in shinto mythology and rituals
>Well versed specifically in the rituals and traditions of Suwa-taisha, which has historically been isolated and unique from the rest of Japan's shinto shrines
I don't know jackshit about these tho
But maybe that could be a good thing? If we get along then she'd be willing to show me and teach me about it.
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>>50081938
>I think they put in a new policy so you need an account to download
Yes they did for some reason.
I just don't see the point of it, the old system worked fine.
Worst thing is that some of the games they have aren't really available anywhere else.
And every time I try to create an account, I just get flagged as spam for some reason lol.
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>>50081978
I don't see why either. It's annoying and I hate having to create accounts for everything for no reason.
>>50081977
I think she's been shown to be pretty happy to talk about her media interests with anyone and everyone, even if they aren't interested. Especially if they aren't interested, because so far no one has ever shown a modicum of interest or understanding for the things she autistically blabbers on about, so you having an iota of actual interest in it would probably do you some good.
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>>50081938
Didn't the recent Touhouvania re-releases get completely shat on for being too expensive also? Guess the dev didn't hear about that w
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>>50081938
Hell, the official games being 15 feels like a tad much honestly. Especially when they're closer to 10 digitally on Japanese store fronts.
I'd be curious to know if the sale the official releases had during the FW release had any kind of bump in sales, but I guess that's not really something we'd hear about.
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Silksong being 20 bucks really did distort people's perception of what a 20 dollar video game should/could be in a post-covid economy.
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>>50082127
>>50082162
it's okay, all games are 0 dollars and you can download them for free, anyways
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>>50082168
I will NOT take the moriyashrine malware pill. Wait, moriya.. It was Sanae the entire time trying to steal people's faith...
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>>50082168
Would Sanae pirate? I think she's too good of a girl to pirate for herself, she might take links from friends though.
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Sanae has high sex drive. She might not slut it up with others but she does it with me a lot.
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>>50083501
As long as you take responsibility for when your Sanae gf gets pregnant.
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>>50083501
>>50083512
Kanako-sama will make sure they get watered in case you ever forget. It's understandable when you're busy preparing for fatherhood: you should ask Minoriko to be Sanny's midwife.
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>>50082178
i'd say yes but considering the view of japanese people on videogame piracy probably not, they're really pissy about it for some reason
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>>50081809
Genuinely love her
Don't be an asshole
Don't be a pushover
Be interesting to talk to
Be self-reliant
Be willing to convert to Shinto (if not a believer already)
Have at least a passing interest in her hobbies and a willingness to let her share them with you (in-depth knowledge of her favourite series is fine but not required, but having similar interests in general is a bonus)

At least these would be her standards now, when she was younger she probably would've refused to date anyone who was any less than a living god themselves
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GET OFF THE COMPUTER AND PREACH, NOW
OFF THE COMPUTER, NOW!
I CAN HEAR YOU GAMING IN THERE
GET OFF THE COMPUTER
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>>50086797
but that's her life...
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>>50086797
Clearly she's spreading the word of the Moriya Shrine through the internet! In fact, she may even be in this very thread right now!
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>>50088252
What would Sanae think about all the anons that are horny for her?
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>>50082162
I wonder what she'd think of that game.
>>50082178
Probably. Sure, Japanese people don't like pirating all that much, but she's a smart girl.
>>50083520
They're plants, they almost grow on their own.
>>50088252
Well, she should've done a better job at it when she was actually in the outside world... then she wouldn't have had to go to Gensokyo, would she?
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granny let her keep the froggy.
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>>50088275
Frog collection is a traditional Moriya hobby!
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>>50088284
However, a maiden ought to treat her frogs right. They're currently listening to high quality pond sounds for relaxation and sleep. I think they like it.
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>>50088287
The Primal Scene of Japan the Girl Saw ~ Mlem Mix
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>>50088293
Mlemming is for the Froggy People
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>>50081993
>>50082127
Eh, this guy got off pretty good. If you go by the reviews then the vast majority of people liked his game and he's got around 110 reviews. Touhouvania on steam meanwhile's 30 without a sale and got negative reviews.
That new Minoriko farming game is around 11 dollars? And the Aunn game where you help Reimu is about 7. Artificial Dream in Arcadia is like 10 and that has a shit ton of content. I feel like 5-15 dollars for a Touhou fangame is the most I'd be willing to pay.
Maybe Sanae being the face of his game is what helped him get so much money and positive reviews. Plus the art is cute. If he upsold it and still managed to sell well then I won't fault him, I can download his game for free if I like.
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>>50081399
If anything it's almost too late, my green girl withdrawal was insanae. I almost started having cohesive thoughts.

>>50081711
Now's the perfect time to be getting ill, isn't it? Rainy days, warm blankets, good tea... MoF feels so much more vivid now that autumn's finally here. Best season, though and through.

>>50088287
>>50088293
Do we have MeowSynth but with frogs, yet?
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>>50088336
>Now's the perfect time to be getting ill, isn't it? Rainy days, warm blankets, good tea... MoF feels so much more vivid now that autumn's finally here. Best season, though and through.
It's goddamn spring you northpleb
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>>50088388
HARUUU DESU Y- Wait a fucking second, no it's not.
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>>50088388
>It's goddamn spring you northpleb
Counterpoint:

>>50088400
Has Lilly's dress caught fire there?
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>>50088418
She has shown herself too early and is now paying the price for making people think it's Spring. Don't fret, Sanae has resolved the situation by dumping a bucket of water on her
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>>50088444
Anon hates Australia
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I think Sanae would be the best guide to Gensokyo. She knows all the places you would like to see, has a bright personality, so she could really show you what's to like about those places, and is herself an outsider, so she can see thing thru your eyes.
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Miss Kochiya goes to the doctor!
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>>50090714
Sanae this guy is trying to get your heartrate through your boob I don't think he's legit.
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>>50088336
>MoF feels so much more vivid now that autumn's finally here.
I agree. MoF would still be my favorite even if it wasn't set during autumn but something about the whole game and the season it's set in feels like a warm blanket unto itself.
MoF has a lot of soul both spiritually and in the colloquial sense and the story, the characters and the attention to detail in representing things that ZUN is more likely than not very familiar with is very... charming, I guess?
It's a very unique game, no doubt, and very autumn-y. Even the music evokes it. A shame it's so easy.
>>50090702
Well, she's been to most places, and would probably be happy to show all of them to you, but I still feel like she isn't a true Gensokyo native. She's got a small group she sticks to and interacts with. Though, Gensokyo seems really large, and I doubt you'd even *want* to see all of Gensokyo. Youkai Mountain is large enough on it's own, and I'm sure she'd be a great guide for that place, even if it seems like access to certain areas is limited and you need prior permission to go into specific areas. Megumu and Sannyo chew her out for even coming to their land without prior notice, makes you think how Kanako hasn't ever really solidified her control over the mountain very much, if at all.
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Sanae's gohei is feeling festive! It's become a party hat tsukumogami!
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Reminder that this dork canonically flies like Superman by sticking her arms out in front of her

I would too honestly, it looks cooler than just leaving them dangling uselessly at your sides like everyone else in Gensokyo
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sanae before and after spending 1 year with /jp/ anons
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>>50094633
Anon tries to not post absolute garbage challenge (impossible)
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>>50094633
Anon tries to not post absolute treasure challenge (impossible)
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>>50094637
A challenge to surpass Rensenware.
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>>50081382
Can Shrine Maidens get married?
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>>50091849
Well, if you look at all her dialogue and how she acts when resolving incidents, she really does try to make herself out to look like a superhero or a videogame character that's saving the world. I think she does actually see herself as the Gensokyo equivalent of Superman.
I love this dork.
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>>50094678
Sanae is a priestess, so she can get married. Even Reimu, if you're so inclined, you could get married to, as I'm sure the Gensokyo tradition for shrine maidens would allow her to. Her predecessor looks eerily similar to her.
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I like to imagine she chats with cats and frogs and birds and whatever critter that happens to be there while she sweeps the grounds of the shrine. As in telling them stuff and giggling, and asking them things.
This might be schizophrenia (both hers by doing this and mine by imagining this) but at least I make it cute.
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>>50081382
I never watched Gundum in my life and my closest experience with mecha anime are Megas XLR and Pacific Rim
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>>50081824
> Own multiple Gunpla kits
> Have played Armored Core
> Willing to put up with 2 nagging gods
> Willing to give up your life for these 2 gods if need be and move to whatever shithole they want you to move to
> Be nice

Got this shit down pat.

> Have watched and finished multiple mecha series

IIRC, I’ve only completely finished TTGL. I know I’ve seen most episodes of G Gundam, SEED, and Destiny. I’ve seen all of the first season of IBO and about half or two thirds of Zeta. Most of the rest of my mecha knowledge comes second or third hand, from games or other supplemental media or discussions. But I’m absolutely willing to watch everything with her, and I’d still proudly consider myself a mecha fan.

> Caught all 151 Pokemon in Gen 1

Pokemon isn’t my jam, but I am playing through Crystal Clear and am intending on completing the Dex because that’s actually a doable and fun activity in that hack.

> Well versed in shinto mythology and rituals
> Well versed specifically in the rituals and traditions of Suwa-taisha, which has historically been isolated and unique from the rest of Japan's shinto shrines

Not very religious, but I’m willing to learn for her sake.

> Willing to cook and clean

I have very little experience, but I will try for her.
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>>50094692
That's cute, even if she can't understand them she's nice to them
I've seen a couple doujins of Sanae in the outside world that have her do this, and also have her speaking to the youkai spirits still left in the outside world, playing with them, talking to them, talking to her gods, essentially looking like a crazy schizophrenic. It's cute fanon but I like to think she really did look batshit crazy to everyone else in the outside world. I like her looking a little crazy
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Hello to the /m/ colony on /jp/, wait, sorry, I meant, hello to the Sanae thread
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>>50094692
>I like to imagine she chats with cats and frogs and birds and whatever critter that happens to be there while she sweeps the grounds of the shrine
She should go visit Eirin then.
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>>50094680
>she really does try to make herself out to look like a superhero or a videogame character that's saving the world.
Is she really wrong to do so, though, considering that she literally is a videogame character who's saved Gensokyo multiple times? Maybe her abandonment of common sense made her realise her existence as a character within Touhou and she acts accordingly

>>50094710
>even if she can't understand them she's nice to them
With her miracle powers she may well be able to talk to animals and understand them, the miracle of tongues is a real thing after all (though I don't know if that extends to animals)
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I finished Turn A recently, I'm gonna rant endlessly to Sanae about the lack of Turn X kit reprints and spread lies about bandai being anti-shinto to slander them.
Then I'm gonna convince her to make Okuu do GP02 cosplay!
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I don't know if I should say this but I'm really not a big fan of how people seem to boil her down entirely to "designated /m/ 2hu", sure, she loves mecha, but I feel like she has a wide variety of other interests too

No I'm not bitter about my lack of /m/ knowledge compared to apparently every other poster ITT shut up
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>>50094962
I tried watching Char's Counterattack once and thought it was shit.
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>>50094962
Meh, it's just a joke, she has pretty of other interests that we talk about like games and science and such, the mecha stuff isn't that pronounced, it's just her taste in anime.
One thing that she likes that hasn't been talked about at all is that she's a Dragon Quest fan.
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>>50095023
Nobody outside of Japan has ever actually played a DQ game
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>>50094962
Froggies of mlem mlem
Snakes of pftbh pfbth
The EMS-10 Zudah goes boom
You're fiiiiine. My /m/ knowledge is pretty limited to Gundam, and Sanae seems like the type that would be into a broader spectrum of things. Like the inclusion of Mazinger and Getter Robo. Hisoutensoku is definitely more in line with the classic Super Robo stuff.

>>50094990
My lukewarm take is CCA is a mess, and you only really watch for the action sequences, even if you're coming off watching all the UC stuff before it to understand the build up. That general time period it was produced in was a mess.
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>>50095030
That's what you think but- okay that's probably actually true. It's very Japanese to have her be a DQ fan instead of her liking Final Fantasy or something.
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>>50095023
>Meh, it's just a joke, she has pretty of other interests that we talk about like games and science and such, the mecha stuff isn't that pronounced, it's just her taste in anime.
I know, that's why I didn't really want to bring it up, I don't want to stop people from posting about what they like, it's just that I've tried to get into Gundam before and I just couldn't the robots just look too damn silly, I'm sorry, why do they look like people? Real military hardware doesn't look like people, they'd be cooler if they were giant tanks or something

It's like I'm worried that I'm a fake Sanae fan because I don't share all of her interests 100%, isn't that dumb? I'm not going to pretend that I like something that I don't, even for Sanae's sake, though I'll gladly let her autistically ramble about whatever she wants for as long as she likes
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>>50095085
Literal answer? Toy appeal. Gundam was almost cancelled as a franchise due to poor toy tales originally before model kits took off after it finished airing. In setting? Something about space colony construction, which I know, doesn't make much sense when a machine is a machine.
See, you get it. Being ignorant can be its own blessing. That just means you're open for the random event where she traps you and rambles constantly about X and Y, and gets all excited when she gets to explain things from the ground up.
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>>50095040
The west preferred Final Fantasy while Japan preferred Dragon Quest
The west preferred Naruto while Japan preferred One Piece.
Granted, both examples are at least in part due to localization fumbles (see One Piece's surprising growth in international acclaim over the last few years), but it is still interesting that westerners seemed to prefer obvious angst over more outwardly cartoony worlds. At least they seemed to in the 90s and 2000s.
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>>50095085
Nooo, anon. That's silly. You don't need to like all of the things another person likes to "genuinely" like them. It's fine if you think mecha is silly or something. Think of it as an opportunity to tease her.
Sanae is a character that's practically a reference machine and you're given a billion and one interests of hers to comb through. I don't expect ANYONE, and I mean literally anyone here, to be a fan of the Japanese comedian Shopan/Chopin Igari, who Sanae likes SO MUCH that she references him two times, once in a manga and twice in a game. That's about on the same level of referencing as the whole thing about her liking mecha is. (and I personally don't find Mr. Igari very funny, and I have watched videos of his comedy routines)
I also don't expect you to be a math prodigy, or a biologist, or anything else. She likes a lot of things. Realistically, she'd ramble to you about things she likes, and you'd ramble to her about things you like.
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>>50094683
How about marrying both of them and uniting the Hakurei and Moriya Shrines through marriage?
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>>50095085
>they'd be cooler if they were giant tanks or something
That's really more Western /m/ stuff. Would Sanae be into BattleTech?
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>>50095141
Oh, right. Here's a video, if you want to judge her... taste in humor yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr-gilARigU
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>>50095085
>It's like I'm worried that I'm a fake Sanae fan because I don't share all of her interests 100%, isn't that dumb?
I'm a Marisafag but I'd never run off into the woods and live off magic mushrooms. You don't need to be the character to appreciate the character.
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>>50095186
Magic mushrooms give you superpowers.
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>>50095141
>I don't expect ANYONE, and I mean literally anyone here, to be a fan of the Japanese comedian Shopan/Chopin Igari, who Sanae likes SO MUCH that she references him two times, once in a manga and twice in a game.
I've read that liking Igari is more common in ZUN's generation than it is in Sanae's generation, which lends support to the idea that she's a boomer hipster who deliberately seeks out old media just because it's old and probably cried about being born in the wrong generation when she was younger

Obviously the actual IRL reason for it is so ZUN could make references to him through her as she's the only cast member who would conceivably know who he is, but I like my interpretation better

>>50095186
>I'm a Marisafag but I'd never run off into the woods and live off magic mushrooms.
I unironically would and I'm not even a Marisafag
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>>50095164
What the hell, JUSTICE FOR MIDORI SNAKE
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>>50095200
*in Gensokyo
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>>50095237
No they do that in real life too
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>>50095085
How many Youmufags like gardening or swordfighting? How many Renkofags know physics? How many Eirinfags know biology? How many Ayafags do journalism? Maybe one or two, if even that.
Your favorite 2hu isn't meant to be a mirror image of you. The reason you are attracted to her can go from a simple attraction to her design to an apophatic undefinable feeling you can't explain, and all of those forms and every combination of them is still love nonetheless.
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>>50095186
Man, part of me wishes I liked Marisa more because I adore mushrooms despite not being that knowledgeable about them. Something about them just gives off this comforting, almost magical, perception.
Mycena Interrupta is CUTE.
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>>50095233
Greenu Sunaeku was just trying to be a niceu gentreman...
>>50095221
I wouldn't put it past her, honestly.
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>>50095257
The fact that I have come to like Sanae so much probably has a lot to do with the fact that I've become obsessed with Suwa and Japanese religion and history.
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Why are Sanae threads so fucking fast?
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>>50095277
Because Reimu is boring.
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>>50095277
She's green, which makes her the official 4chan 2hu
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>>50095277
I dunno. Go ask the Renko guys the next door over. All the posters in these two threads have been given supercocaine and now have 30 post discussions every day.
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>>50095271
I feel compelled to ask, how many Sanaes do you have?
>>50095277
It's the year of the dork.
Now that I think about it, it's interesting how the fastest threads have changed over the last few years. Yet, in all that maelstrom, a few threads more or less retained their speed, and Sanae threads are one of them.
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>>50095284
I used to consider Reimu my second favorite hu while Sanae was my third least favorite protag, but as time goes on I appreciate Sanae more while with each manga my opinion of Reimu slowly worsens. I want to like Reimu more but I think I might prefer Sanae at this point.
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>>50095318
You can like both, as I do. I think they uplift each other as characters, a lot of my favorite manga moments are when these two are involved and Sanae inevitably makes Reimu jealous, ticks Reimu off or tries to teach Reimu to be nice and not peer pressure her friends into getting drunk. It's kind of sisterly, the way they act like little shits towards each other and then go back to being best friends with Sanae helping Reimu around her shrine and cleaning up her messes.
Reimu's the face of Touhou, I feel like out of all the characters there are, she'll always get the most criticism out of all of them, and she's the easiest to find faults with, but I prefer seeing the good in her. That doesn't mean she's anywhere near my favorites, but she's pleasant.
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>>50095360
>You can like both
Sure, but my feelings about Reimu and independent of my feelings about Sanae and I was mostly using the later as a point of reference.
I really like the idea of Reimu as this emotional, flawed person who is also somehow ethereal and views things from an unbiased vantage, but it feels like ZUN keeps finding ways to make her feel hypocritical in ways that feel unintentional, and it's hard to ignore the character inconsistencies across manga.
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>>50095307
Very few actually so far, I just try to be meticulous about naming my files.
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Wow, a real live UFO! Also there's some weird blue girl here too
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>>50098569
Shoo! Photobombing is a crime in Gensokyo!



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