I left time ago after the weird changes. how many anons that were here from pre-2025 are still around?
I'm new
>>50744257how new?
>>50744259just some months
>>50744263How did you discover Touhou and /jp/? What are your experiences with it?
>>50744267i only got into it in 2021 after seeing mystia's theme in a random video and looking into it. i got really into it, and it's been my favorite series since then. very fond of the characters and music in particular. never really used 4chan prior to last year, i liked this site because you didn't need to make an account. i have fun posting touhou art that i found. what about you?
>>50744244Still yuriposting!
>>50744285Well, I am in a similar situation with you. But I joined 4chan since 2021.I discovered Touhou in that year and then I started my first posts in /jp/. I enjoyed posting about a lot of things, generally lore or simply characters I liked. But when the sage-dump change happened some months back, I left. I have been addicted to /jp/ and Touhou for a long time. But some days ago I have been trying to leave. Thought, I came back still to see the state of 4chan and the fandom. Maybe I will stay around for a while.
>>50744244Not as active as before, but still here lurking and waiting for chances to waifu post
>>50744267I discovered /jp/ at the same time as I got into Touhou around back in WBaWC's release on /v/ threads .Back then /jp/ was for me the "serious no fun allowed" board for hardcore touhou fans which I didn't complain about and instead I used to learn more about the franchise and heritage.Now after recent events seems like most of the interesting nerds left and there's only some strays left and mentally ill posters, and people who don't care about touhou nor japanese culture at all, which is sad really, I miss it.
>>50744472>Now after recent events seems like most of the interesting nerds left and there's only some strays left and mentally ill posters,Yeah, I was precisely wondering how many old or mildly old /jp/ users left. It looks way more dead than before. Something I always notice is that there are no long discussion threads like a lore thread.
>>50744477>long discussion threads like a lore thread.Exactly, these were my bread and butter when lurking /jp/.I still feel like a newfag not just in /jp/ but with touhou as a whole, like I was late for the party. So now I try to participate in any interesting thread I see around by contributing with OC.
>>50744484I used to make a lot of lore threads and also the esoteric Touhou threads. I also made others were we discussed different topics related to Touhou. Now I don't think a thread like that could be kept right now. The last time I made one of the two they died early.>I still feel like a newfag not just in /jp/ but with touhou as a whole, like I was late for the party. I sometimes feel that way. When I talk to Touhou fans, they know things I don't, like things I don't, etc. They have a whole different vibe to mine. Apart from most Touhou stuff being very old.
>>50744490It doesn't help that the new 14 day rule effectively killed any long discussion threads.
>>50744497Yeah. But even before that I feel like the board was going down. After the hack it was harder to keep up a thread and everyone was complaining about the /v/fags. I remember how I tried to make threads that just two or three years ago would have been normal/fine going down with less than 20 replies.I want to continue seeing and discussing Touhou but without /jp/ and not wanting to use platforms like Discord/Reddit, it feels hard.
>>50744505>I want to continue seeing and discussing Touhou but without /jp/ and not wanting to use platforms like Discord/Reddit, it feels hard.Same dude, sameIm fine with continuing to use /jp/ until it gets scrapped, but I need my 2hu anonymous discussion so I've been trying to quickstart a spark in different boards across the site, without much luck.
>>50744244i'm here
>>50744579>but I need my 2hu anonymous discussion so I've been trying to quickstart a spark in different boards across the site, without much luck.My idea was trying to get other image boards. So far the only one I know is Lainchan, but it doesn't have as much boards as 4chan.
>>50744692Yeah I'm looking at other altchans as well, and they seem to be a good alternative, but it doesn't mean I will stop using this site.
>>50744756I have always had a love-hate relationship with both /jp/ and Touhou in general. I remember trying to leave both things because 1. Touhou took a lot of my time and mental space and 2. It was related to an addiction I had.The chain of events was usually entering back in /jp/ and getting into Touhou again.I wonder why you would not want to stop using this site. Not saying you should or something, just wondering why, do you like it here? Amidst everything?
>>50744777>It was related to an addiction I had.Oh hey same, I'm addicted to touhou.>just wondering why, do you like it here? Amidst everything?Brand name I guess? Knowing something might still happen and I might miss it.It's not like I browse all the threads I don't like and get mad about it, I just see less things I like so I switch and go somewhere else to get my fill.
>>50744832>I'm addicted to touhou.I also was for a long time. When I get obsessed about something, I often get so to the point where I talk about it all the time. Back in the Touhou days I listened to fan music all the time, posted in 4chan, played Luna Nights, made fanfics in my mind, etc.
I've been on 4chan since 2014, I feel really bad for new anons who don't know what it was back then, I don't like all the newcomers, but maybe /jp/ does need fresh new blood, seeing anons like >>50744285 does give me little hope this place may be salvageable, as long as they don't stray too much from /jp/ traditions of course...
>>50744878I'm on the same boat but unfortunately I got into the gig way too late, most of the people have moved on or they have burned out (because they know everything and nothing susprises them anymore) that they start to deprecate and abuse the hobby in hopes that something new happens, so they turn into degenarates.So my effort goes to getting into new lands and showing what 2hu is and how cool it is.
>>50745002How was /jp/ pre 2020?
>>50745008I wish I was able to see Touhou as an innocent and beautiful thing again. Thanks to posts in /jp/, porn and etc sometimes I feel like I hate Touhou, and it makes me feel bad because I feel like it doesn't to be hated that way. But then I engage with canon, and see things like the girls saying bad stuff about humans or general being bad people and get a generally bad idea. I don't know what to think.
>>50745019I don't share the same sentiment, maybe because I get to experience touhou from an outsider experience when all the important things already happened, so everytime I discover something it's new and exciting and I have the full context already established so I don't fall for biased opinions.And from I can see it's pretty much bad actors who do bad things while representing 2hu and I'm not going to hate an idea because a couple of degenerates throw shit at the walls and make the hobby look bad, it happens anywhere to any popular fandom. These people do not represent me nor the hobby so I can't be mad about it.Since I didn't grew up with an ideolized version of touhou's canon none of the things that happen or contradict upset me as well since I know ZUN doesn't take things seriously and the juice of the franchise is what people can create with their own stories.
>>50745019Sounds like you're burned out or just engaging with things you don't like in general. Touhou is full of derivative works so just consume what you enjoy or even better create what you enjoy about it. Characters, music ect. Or just take a break and come back when you feel refreshed. As for canon it's not all mean spirited most of that sort of thing is played as a joke or it's just how youkai are portrayed because that is their nature.
>>50745133This
>>50745133I sinned greatly of taking Touhou too seriously. I used to believe that Gensokyo was real and when I finally got that thought away I was conscripted into a Touhou Project cult where they worship Yukari (a character I fell in love with) and got the idea again. My personal project for Touhou right now is trying to see it outside of fandom lenses, fictional and also as a got source for art I can make. Like inspiration for drawings or music.
>>50745010shitty
>>50745216Its the first time I see in a fanwork that Cirno says something actually intelligent and well-informed.
>>50745199Gensokyo is real so it's Yukari
>>50745228The Gensokyo is real sentence gives me PTSD
>>50744244I'm still here because I have nowhere else to go. Touhou and /jp/ was here for me during the worst of times, but now /jp/ is dead and it feels like the worst of times are coming back.
>>50745239
>>50745239>I'm still here because I have nowhere else to goIt is so sad to see how many /jp/ users legit have nowhere to go and are attached to the site. I am going to be fair, I have had a lot of 'emotional' threads here and sometimes have nostalgia about it. Not as attached as you but I understand.
>>50745199Sounds like a pretty wild form of escapism or people taking advantage over others seeking such. In any case sounds like you're aware of it and are trying out a creative aspect to move on to which is nice to hear.
>>50745260>Sounds like a pretty wild form of escapism or people taking advantage over others seeking such.If I can ask for an outsider perspective, where does telling me to integrate Yukari (which I was told I embodied) and try to become like her through worship fall into?
>>50745269CIA recruitement psyop
>>50745269Some convoluted, roundabout way to groom you into a tranny.
>>50745251Meant for >>50745238
>>50745288We're never beating the troonhu allegations are we....
>>50745269I think the person you're talking to is probably crazy/unwell or using you. It's not something rational to suggest doing like that. It makes little sense because it is fiction.
>>50745288>>50745275You know, putting perspective on it. I think I was right when I first assumed they were a cult. They literally worshipped Touhou characters and mixed it with chaos magic. I remember perfectly that they did a ritual for Yukari around the star of the year and almost every single user was head-over-heels for the same character (Yukari). If that where not enough, they were pretty gay. I remember that there was a guy I talked to that could sense energy and he described them in not a very pleasant way.I find it utterly insane that there are so many (There TRULY is) a shitton of cults in Discord and niche websites.
>>50745298>we
This board died many years ago, mods should just rename it to /vt3dpdg/ or something because that's all it is.
>>50745327>/vt3dpdg/what gpu is this
>>50745314This is why I don't touch discord servers
>>50745340I had that rule for a long time. Right now I don't have any social webs apart from YouTube. Discord is truly one of the worst social webs, specially if you are someone that can get addicted to the internet easily.
Lights up in activity in threads and recently had it’s birthday /jp/ is okay imo
>>50745314>YukariNo need to perform a ritual when there are hot single MILFs in YOUR area!! They don't want to remarry, they just want sex!!!>>50745327Should've been an exclusively 2hu board from the start...
>>50745334It has six gorillion vram and can AI generate 110% of your frames
>>50745399the horror
>>50745375>No need to perform a ritual when there are hot single MILFs in YOUR area!! They don't want to remarry, they just want sex!!!Okay, how do I get them?
>>50745399So it stacks generated frames over each other?
>>50745360I'm waiting for a fun CDS chapter to drop and cause mayhem like last time.
>>50745417are you ignoring that it has six gorillian vram? how does it even run?
>>50745420Don't worry the Mima reveal this month will cause enough mayhem alright
>>50745422I can finally play Touhou 20054 at 60 fps
>>50745422>are you ignoringYes.I am tech illiterate.
>>50745433>>50745434what would touhou 20054 even be about lol, would it even be a bullet hell
>>50745444Pic related
>>50745444Of course it would.It's a versus Shmup
>>50745460pofv bros? we are relevant again?
>>50745019it's silly to dislike cute 2hus just because in some hidden lore text that no one cares about it says oh actually shes like a bad person and eats people or something, you're just fucking your own enjoyment of it with that
>>50745462If it needs a 6gorillion vram to get 60fps, it's probably worse than 19
>>50745471Nothing can be worse than 19
>>50745467yeah, Touhou should not be taken seriously. Hell, there are characters from fiction like movies or other anime who have done way more batshit insane actions who I have never put a bad stare at. I don't understand why for me and so many people the 2hus are different or more 'guilty' .
>>50745507guilty?
>>50745019Just ignore the canon you don't like. It's what the professionals do!
>>50745553I am used to /jp/ users saying that the 2hus are bad people or evil. If this was another franchise, people would just be like "yeah, they are bad people, they are villains," etc, and maybe discuss their ideals. But here people have debates and shit, and partially I think it is because its not the same seeing evil in a male villain than of a female character with no 'clear' alignment that a lot of people are in love with. I don't know if I am explaining myself properly, I hope someone knows what I am talking about.
>>50744244Mentally trapped here since 07'But I stopped playing Touhou at 14.I need to catch up sometime, I'm probably rusty af though
>>50745575I think those might just be the same few people arguing between each other every other time
>>50745612Kinda like Mokou and Kaguya huh?
>>50745678Unfortunately (most of) these discussions don't have any homoerotic tension in them like Mokou and Kaguya's fights do..
See. Same people with the same, idiotic topics.
>>50745713You are an idiotic topic
>>50745575Yeah I get it, most 2hus are just as evil as the plot needs them to be, I don't exactly hate any 2hus but I do have favorites.
>>50745314>I find it utterly insane that there are so many (There TRULY is) a shitton of cults in Discord and niche websites.I'm surprised that there are that many autsts falling for fuckin touhou cults
>>50745199Wait, were you the Anon that made a thread asking for horrible things Yukari did in order to stop loving her? I remember that thread, because at the end it turned into discussion on tulpas and recently I wondered how do those Anons fare.
I hate schizos who attach themselves to Touhou.
>>50745888Same but idolshit as well.
>>50745888Same but any franchise
>>50745903Idolshittery is inherently mentally ill.
>>50745886Why is she smiling like that
>>50745903>>50745939I blame idolshittery and the 3DPD general threads for /jp/s current state
>>50746078Ye
>>50745888Don't care having sex with my wife Suika
>>50744244This place has been my homeboard for a decade at this point. The state of the board gets worse each year, but I can never bring myself to abandon this place. Guess I'm going down with the ship.
>>50745002I came a year later from /c/ of all places (!!!) realizing freshman year of hs that I can like anime and not immediately be a weeaboo (OCD is a hell of a drug). I stumbled upon /jp/ curiously absorbing the different boards, saw Touhou on here, and the rest is history. I took lurkmoar seriously and I think I could count the number of times I posted on the entire website my first year here
