What type of items are banned in Gensokyo?I found out that pic related is the reason why gasoline is banned over there
>>51093692Condoms
>>51093692Gasoline is not banned because Mom needs it for her motorcycle.>>51095095Also incorrect.
>>51093692>>51095095Birth control.
>>51093692Panties. Only traditional undergarments and bloomers allowed.
>>51095112Actually, all kinds of underwear are banned.
>>51093692Serious answer: Anything that might meaningfully allow the common people of the human village to challenge the Youkai managed elite merchant class. Joke answer: Bra's.
If we talk about what stuff may not be banned outright but strictly regulated then maybe wireless devices, telecommunication equipment, networking hardware, computer peripherals, consumer electronics, mobile communication devices, audio and video equipment, electronic accessories, data transmission equipment, signal processing equipment, radio communication systems, satellite communication equipment, security and surveillance equipment, power supply and charging equipment, and other electronic devicesWe only really see the kappa use them, and the use is limited since besides them we don't see that sort of technology used by anyone other than them. The human village is a pre-industrial society, when it could have a fully functional electrical grid and power system capable of supporting an industrial society with the help of the kappa. Why this hasn't happened yet isnt really elaborated on as far as I know, and it's not like Rinnosuke is hiding the electronic equipment he sells at his shop, so are the human societies luddites, or is someone preventing human society for advancing technologically in some way
>>51095173>Serious answer: Anything that might meaningfully allow the common people of the human village to challenge the Youkai managed elite merchant class. Why there are jews in gensokyo?
>>51095173But I love touhous in bras...
>>51095224Isn't it because you can point to the industrial revolution(rather the general rise in technology as we rapidly moved in to the modern era) as the time period global traditional beliefs began to wane as technology became the focus for humanity? That kind of cultural ideology is pretty much the antithesis of everything that resides within gensokyo that's not human given the whole, believing in something gives it power/existence thing shinto does, or am I just making an assumption here?At this point though, it feels like Humans in gensokyo are just in a matrix allegory of sorts and keeping them stuck in a luddite mindset is crucial to keeping everything else sustained less they develop just like their outside counterparts.
>>51095224They're rural folks who don't much care for the world outside of their self sufficient hamlet. Not that rare of an attitude for those living out in the boonies. Also, the village does have electricity. Fixtures can be seen inside human homes for example in FS.
>>51095224I have always been under the impression that Gensokyo was just a dead zone for anything that required satellites or anything like that.
>>51095224>Why this hasn't happened yet isnt really elaborated on as far as I knowBecause they are a small isolated town of a 10000 people. Starting a industrial society is hard, actually. Literal world empires could only pull it off with massive cost a lot of the time. The problem isn't getting the knowledge to build e energy central or a energy grid. The question is using what fuel, dug up by which people, and where (Insert joke about animal realm here).>Inb4 Kappa1: Kappa are assholes. They have no reason to help the human villagers. Better to use them as colonial subjects, and get them to dig up raw minerals and selling them products they can't replicate. 2: This is somewhat of a headcanon, but the general assumption I get is that Kappa don't actually invent stuff. They don't build things using real science, they use myths about potential science to create essentially magical objects. A kappa could build you a Blaster Rifle, a Com Badge, and the Tardis. Ask them to build you a AK-47, a Samsung Galaxy, and a electric bike and they wouldn't be able.>>51096053They are called Youkai.
>>51096122>At this point though, it feels like Humans in gensokyo are just in a matrix allegory of sorts and keeping them stuck in a luddite mindset is crucial to keeping everything else sustained less they develop just like their outside counterparts.It's mostly just that they are terminally underwritten.>>51096129...Which is why it's all the more impressive people like you exist. Like, wow, literally every part of this sentence is wrong:>They're rural folks 90% of the population lives in a urban environment. >who don't much care for the world outsideThey are always shown as being interested in the outside world. This is literally one of their most consistent traits. >their self sufficientThey literally need Youkai to not all starve to death or get wiped out by a flood. And who do you think the salt merchant trades with? >hamlet.It's a small city by the standards of Edo Japan.
>>51095173But bras exist in Gensokyo
>>51096053but tengus are the jews
>>51098644These are two girls decidedly NOT from Gensokyo.
