#Girl's Hifuu Club

[okulki]

Just some doodles here I JUST WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY TOGETHER WAAAAAAHH TnT

IM GONNA GO COMPLETELY INSANE UNTILL MAY 3

#im having an anguishing artblock rn #i hate my art #i need to get better 2 draw my 2 fav girls better #my art #doodles #hifuu posting #maribel hearn #renko usami #touhou project #hifuu club #秘封倶楽部 #renmerry

[artairitz]

HELLO HI!! this is my firs post here!! and im glad it gets to be my favorite girlfriends maribel and renko :D i like toujhou ,mrmrmr

#touhou #touhou project #2hu #renko usami #maribel hearn #hifuu #hifuu club #renmerry #i love these girls so much mmrmrmrmr im gonna draw them a lot on this blog wahh #artairitz

[pomfey]

some older hifuu doodles because i just found out about the upcoming album and i'm so excited i'm going to explode

#zun cd #hifuu club #secret sealing club #maribel hearn #renko usami #touhou #the first doodle is from december but the others are circa 2019 <3 my dear old high school art #ive loved these girls for so long i will single handedly revive this blog during finals if it means theyre getting new content #i also have many jacketkos. way better than the one i posted here ages ago but i am shy about posting #my art #i should refine my labelkos too. anyways. YUKABEL REAL SOON??

[every1sno1fangirl]

Renko is a cuckoo bird. I will not elaborate consider the implications as you will.

#renko usami #hifuu club #“What do you mean? I'm a normal human girl” says the girl who really DOES believe she is in fact a normal human girl #but no. no she is not.

[maeriiberii]

#⧉ jukebox #<echo> project #girls' sealing club #this album is still easily my favorite hifuu-themed album #Youtube

[dekapm0048]

Hifuu Club girls henshin!

Commissioned fanart for Anon user (Twitter), thank you!

#touhou #touhou project #touhou fanart #maribel hearn #renko usami #kamen rider w #crossover #art #illustration #commissioned work

[buttcheekr]

"Renko is always complaining I have unsettling eyes, I think her eyes are more unsettling than mine." i love the specific genre of gay the hifuu club girls are. more yuri where the center of attraction is a faint sense of horror and the desire to unravel the other girl like a mystery

#hifuu club #touhou #renko usami #merry hearn #buttcheeking

[okulki]

hello!! here are some cute renmerry doodles from my sketchbook and some practice with Maribel and bonus from my math notebook to make a brake in the angst posting

and definitely not just because i have something more angsty coming

#i literally couldn't concentrate that math class AT ALL #no thoughts head full of renmerry #the girls... #have i ever mentioned that i love them very much? #my art #art dump #hifuu club #hifuu posting #秘封倶楽部 #renmerry #touhou project #maribel hearn #renko usami #watercolor #doodles

[maxknightley]

This piece was commissioned by @that-which-isnt as a theme for the series of Touhou webnovels they've been translating, This is the Hifuu Detective Agency.

As the title of the song implies, it's a rearrangement of "Girls' Sealing Club" from the album Ghostly Field Club, going for a jazzier, noirish tone. I aimed to create the sort of music you might hear in a dark, smoky bar - the kind of place where you can get proper organic liquor, not the weak, synthetic stuff.

As far as I can recall, this is the first time I've been commissioned to do a full-on remix / rearrangement of an existing piece, and it was an interesting change of pace! Figuring out how to translate ZUN's work to a different genre, and putting my own spin on it in the process, was honestly a blast - I'd love to do similar work in the future if I get the chance.

The track art was done by maiisheree on Twitter.

You can listen to some of my other work by checking out my “my-music” tag. Working on a game, podcast, or anything else that could use some original music? Consider commissioning me!

#my music #touhou #hifuu club #renko usami #maribel hearn #original the content #commissioned pieces #Youtube

[occasionaltouhou]

imo the key difference between the hifuu club and the otherside picnic girls is that the misanthropic freak with weird eyes is the dark-haired one. and also that kozakura is there

[ofthenoseclan]

merry and renko go

OUGHHHHMY GOD OKAY. OKAY YOUVBE MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE IM NOT WELL ABOUT THESE GIRLS. these are my second favourite characters in the entire touhou franchise as a unit and i have LOADS to talk about with them

renko and merry are the main characters of the "zun's music collection" concept records (not counting vol.1 which is standalone). these albums are compilations of rearranged music from the franchise, featured along with original compositions unique to the records. alongside them is a story booklet, and the tracks in the album are composed to convey its narrative through their melody. the stories themselves are written a lot like the script of a radio play, consisting primarily of dialogue between the duo.

set in a near-future setting suffering hard from the impacts of late-stage capitalism, the narrative of the concept records follows these two chuunibyou university students as they muse on daily life in their current society. the albums' stories are pretty much entirely self-contained from the rest of the franchise, making them a great entry point.

the blonde-haired girl is merry hearn (her real given name is maeriberii, which is just a keyboard-smash of katakana zun came up with to sound like an unpronounceable european name, but is ironically pretty hard to actually transliterate), a well-mannered girl who's outspoken, but often anxious and unsure of herself. she has the unique ability to see unexplainable phenomena, travel to other worlds in her dreams, and even bring objects in and out of them. a good chunk of the narrative is spent detailing how these two explore the extent of merry's talents.

to her left is her girlfriend, renko usami, a hyperactive, analytical, and curious woman interested in all things occult. she's extremely precise and accurate at measurements—enough that she can tell the time just from the way the stars are placed in the sky. she encourages merry to delve deeper into testing her abilities partly because she wants to see merry succeed, but partly because she's hopelessly fascinated with her and her powers.

the most enjoyable part to me isn't their dynamic itself though, but how it's used as a catalyst to touch on political satire and discussion of capitalism and consumerism. as i explained above, the future they live in is on the verge of collapse. the details are never explained, as most of our insight into it comes from the duo, who are both probably at least middle class if they're in college, so our information about the state of the world is tinted from the lens of people who aren't as affected as some people might be. but we do know quite a lot—climate collapse has already occurred, and many parts of land are underwater. science has progressed to the point that it's considered "solved", and anything unexplainable by science is swept under the rug by society at large because it's not beneficial for humanity to spend money to research it further. world hunger is paraded around as having been eliminated, but in reality it was likely only fixed because those unable to be fed have passed on. despite the state of the earth, the wage gap continues to increase, and society marches on like usual.

the duo is unsatisfied by the way the education system is built, with science being pitched as a cut-and-dry academic study with no further discovery to be made, so as a form of escapism they set up a two-person school club, the hifuu (sealed secrets) club, and explore paranormal happenings, which often leads to commentary on the state of the world in comparison to the wonderful occurrences they explore.

one of my favourite moments is in the fourth volume, bouyuu toukaidou ~ retrospective 53 minutes, where the pair take a train trip to meet renko's parents. the train runs underground since the ground level it used to travel was flooded, so there's a fake screen projecting what the surroundings used to look like built into the tunnel. at the end of their trip, merry notices a credits sequence displayed and remarks about how ironic it is to replicate a scene of nature that humans wiped out, then take credit for the image. there's all sorts of moments just like this throughout the series that i adore for their message.

another thing about these two is how prominent they are in yuri culture. their relationship is left very much out of the picture in canon, but the fanbase goes absolutely wild for it. it has left its mark on so many yuri authors, with a huge number of them producing doujins for the pairing before breaking out into professional work—some even continuing to release hifuu content after making a name for themselves outside the fandom as well! notable examples being nio nakatani, famous for bloom into you, and iori miyazawa, author of otherside picnic (which even started life as a fanfic starring the hifuu duo, before having their names changed to sorawo and toriko to stay legally distinct). even azuma aya, who illustrated one of the official touhou manga that zun wrote, did a very sweet oneshot featuring the pair which i recommend as a quick read :]

im gonna cut myself off now before i type about them for the rest of the night, but in conclusion: my GOD these bitches gay. good for them! good for them. they will bounce around in my mind until the end of time and they are the driving force of my favourite part of the entire franchise. i owe them my life savings

#touhou #renko usami #maribel hearn #hifuu tag #blub #hydrophone

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

wasn't expecting a Touhou girl. whoever submitted her, you've got big brain. Touhou's been a long time special interest for me but out of the hundreds of characters none stuck out to me for the coveted autistic headcanon. but now I can see it in Sumireko, and probably the other Hifuu club members too.

It's always fun to discover new headcanons. 😊

#sumireko usami #touhou project #poll asks #autistic anime girls poll

[fluffghostrp]

———  basics! ♡

(PEN)NAME:  Sats is the nick. Actual tag i use is Fluffghost.

PRONOUNS:  She/Her is what i’m used to

ZODIAC SIGNS:  Monkey / Gemini

TAKEN OR SINGLE:  Taken

TIME ZONE: CST-6

———  three  facts! ♡  

horrible, horrible folklore gremlin. i like just about any type of ghost the most.

horribly lost in renmerry hell.

horrible with Good Names, do not let me name a pet unless you want it named something like Boris or Booberry.

———  experience ! ♡

ASLdkfj uhhh i’ve been bouncing around a lot of different places. Started on rp forums waaaay back in the day, back in like my pre-teens, before spending some time on gaia after friends roped me into there. Which ultimately lead to winding up rping on tumblr, so i’ve been here ever since 2012. I do rp on discord sometimes, depending on my energy levels, though the muse roster is roughly the same as it is on this blog. 

Basically I started out with Parsee’s muse, back on Gaia for a group rp thing. Then ported her over to tumblr so i could put proper actual research into her species and think on her accordingly. I don’t play her as often these days, though the muse is still strong. While she’s my most developed character, she was for better or worse my primary character that was active during a very rough time of my early life... so she’s wound up being the most emotionally taxing one to try and run. Very good for shenanigans, but requires a very solid routine to prevent her negative mindset from getting to you.

Bridgette was created after needing a break from Touhou shenaniganry back in... 2014 or so? Just wanted a break from the sheer amount of silly stuff that had piled up on Parsee, so i put my folkloric creativity bug to a series other than touhou, and do some more heavy thinking, since i was at a roadblock on Parsee. 

Then in 2016 I wound up trying to squash down a Merry muse (and failing), which only got strengthened by new Hifuu club content which came out around the time. So now i’m stuck with her too. Ominous college student desires mysteries to investigate and trouble to get herself into.

Crown got created in 2020 when I fell down the arknights rabbit hole. Gotta work on her a little bit more, though the canonical setting info is set to a very low drip speed, so i’m just patiently waiting in a corner for her to get new content that i can work off of.

There’s other muses who have been less frequent while i learned how to juggle those three, or just saw less screen time on tumblr. So they’re here too, just on a more ‘folks who’d like them can ask for them’ sort of basis.

I do tabletop rp games, and recently started gming them myself. Still lacking confidence on that front, though - it’s an ongoing learning process.

Basically i’m an old lady, experience-wise. Been around at least a full decade here, so I’ve been around the block quite a few times, seen a lot, lived through a lot. Very tired old girl who just enjoys sharing the space i’ve carved out for myself, if others deem it interesting to play around in.

———  muse preference !  ♡

i am a gremlin of an ace lesbian and thus have a tendency to lean towards female characters, since that’s simply what i feel most comfortable being able to portray. But the girls themselves? I tend to gravitate towards folkloric inspirations, or characters which deal with the supernatural or have some other inspirational basis in it. They can go just about any direction in terms of personality - though i do have a tendency to lean towards personalities that instigate character development, or whose natural dispositions will naturally prompt further interaction by running into them.

——— ��FLUFF / ANGST / SMUT! ♡    

FLUFF: It’s good! Very sweet, like candy. I tend to sprinkle it intermittendly with plot, and use it as a method of developing things further. So that you don’t get a stomach ache from it, but let it still be complimentary satisfying none-the-less.

ANGST:  Please. It usually kicks in best once it’s been given a proper plotline that lets us draw it out and impact the characters in a meaningful direction, but a lot of my characters are well-suited for it. Let me have character conflict.

SMUT:  I don’t mind referencing sexual topics in a thread - it’s actually more common in the scenarios i need to think about with my folklore muses than most people realize - nor do i mind my characters having interactions that could lead to it. But I’m not much of one to write sex for sex’s sake, due to both a very pesky trigger i gotta work around, and general bad experiences in the past. So I prefer to either leave it at a fade-to-black level or reference/background acknowledgement. As long as my trigger issue is respected, and it feels like a completely natural course of action for the character’s relationship to develop in that way? Then sure, i’m game for that sort of development. It’s when it’s treated less as option and more as an inevitability, that it becomes a problem in the long run.

PLOT / MEMES:  Both! Give! I thrive off plotlines and development, and seeing what directions we can take a character. I do often wing my threads, but even then, what i often do is try to direct the character personalities into interacting in ways that will naturally lead to future thread ideas and conflicts. Memes are good for pulling a thread idea out of a hat, rather than relying purely on the whim of interaction to lead to it, of course. But this is the meat of the story, and developing unique situations - which can lead to further such situations - between muses is what i thrive off of.

Tagged by Stolen from: @twinfoxtails​​

Tagging: steal. steal it and run.

#⧉ meme

[touhousecretsanta]

Acerenastuff's wishlist

Wishes: I don’t mind any mediums, just use the one you’re most comfy with! (Though I am a bit rusty on fanfic to be quite honest)

As for what’s in it,

I’d love to see the DiPP girls. DiPP has always fascinated me as a macabre story set in Gensokyo and I’d love to see what Gensokyo would have been if ZUN continued with this style of storytelling.

But if you can’t do DiPP you can do Hifuu club instead :] I’d always love to see more of Renko and Merry!

And this is totally optional, but as for any specific activities, I can’t help but think of seeing both pairs dancing? Not romantically for the DiPP girls but more like “villain swindles protagonist into dancing with them during their villain song” kinda dancing.

Pet peeves: If you are doing the DiPP girls just please don’t portray Jacketko as a yandere or the usual insane anime woman. And if you choose hifuu club I’d like to request for Merry to not be portrayed as a shy or nervous character like most fan works.

Abilities: Drawing, I usually do lineless art when making touhou nowadays :]

Won’t do: Truth be told I am a bit rusty at portraying general romantic stuff, but I guess I don’t mind doing ships?

But no incest ships ofc. And no master/servant ships (like KaguEirin) or mentor/mentee ships (like YukaReimu) please. I just find them a bit weird. And no ships involving the fairies or other child-like characters please.

Voluntary santa: I don’t think I’ll be able to do that this year, one wish to grant is already a lot on my shoulders-

Postscript: This is my first ever touhou secret santa and I wish everyone luck on wish granting :D

#2023 wishlist #submission #acerenastuff

[okulki]

IT FINALLY CAMEEEEEE AAAAAAAA

omg I'm so happy because this doujin means LIFE to me. I found out about it 4 years ago and was instantly obsessed. but this year when i suddenly remember about it, it was no longer sold anywhere anymore, as it was released 11 years ago on reitaisai, and on Amazon Japan for a little while. and there's not much information on it online??? so it was really hard to find it.

BUT I SOMEHOW FOUND IT ON AN OVERPRICED DOUJIN RESELLER SITE THAT ALSO HAD WORLDWIDE SHIPPING SO IM IN SHOCK.

it's "秘封倶楽部ホラー合同 百音語" by EX永遠亭 and it's an amazing collaborative doujin work by various circles and artists, about the hifuu club girls and themed around the game "hyakumonogatari".

it consists of 2 music CDs with arranges from ZUNs music collection, illustration booklet, and a book with a manga and a collection of short novels.

i think this might be my most prized possession, I can't believe i actually own it.

#hifuu posting #okulki talking #hifuu club #EX永遠亭 #秘封倶楽部 #maribel hearn #renko usami

[maeriiberii]

#⧉ jukebox #shinra bansho #girl's hifuu club #kids festival ~ innocent treasures #night falls ~ evening star