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#Hansoku Tantei Satori
toskarin · 7 months
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Top three 2hus to put in an elaborate and artistic rope bondage setup?
I wasn't going to answer this but I have to point out that, canonically, the number one spot has to go to marisa because of hansoku tantei satori
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ofthenoseclan · 11 months
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This is kinda vague for a Touhou question but who is the girl with the rainbow wings?? They look like shards and they’re so pretty I love her design sm
that's flandre scarlet! she's one of the most famous characters in the series, so i'm not surprised you've seen her a lot. weirdly enough though, she's not as important in canon material as her prominence in fandom and internet culture seems to suggest.
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her first appearance was in the sixth game in the project, touhou koumakyou ~ the embodiment of scarlet devil., which is undeniably the most popular game in the franchise. this is partly because it's the first game in the series to run on windows systems, and the earliest one to still be in print. not to mention it has arguably become the earliest "relevant" installment in terms of canon, since the plots of games released before it have largely been ignored, in what can be retroactively called a soft reboot of sorts, although it wasn't planned to be at first. in this game, flandre is the extra stage boss encounter, and so she's the final, hardest boss you can fight.
as far as personality goes, flandre is a very trope-y character by modern standards. she's a 500 year old vampire who is extremely dangerous, but behaves like a little child. she's very naive and earnest, wanting nothing more than someone to play with. however, she doesn't know her own limits, and her "playing" is a bit too much for most people to handle if they encounter her. so, to keep from too much damage being dealt in gensoukyou, she stays kept in the basement of her sister remilia's mansion (which, for the record, she seems perfectly content with).
flandre is one of those characters who is, pardon the pun, flanderized in fandom constantly. while in canon, she's not much more than a regular-if-rambunctious child emotionally, the fandom had a habit of, for lack of a better word, yandere-fying her—especially back in the 2000s; less so nowadays. she was often depicted as a crazed lunatic, with tendencies of going on a rampage in a lust for blood. if you couldn't tell, i despise this interpretation, and it tarnished her reputation to me somewhat. nowadays i can look past it, but for a long time it was hard not to, since there wasn't much to her character in canon materials to appreciate, leaving her fanon representation to drown them out in contrast.
character inspiration wise, flandre is... a vampire. yeah, that's about it. i don't really enjoy koumakyou's cast very much, partly due to how little depth there is to their inspiration. there's not a lot of subtext to koumakyou's plot; it's closer to most other shmups of its ilk in that the plot in this era of the series is more of a set-piece to justify the gameplay, and this extends to the game's cast as well. most of koumakyou's characters get more meat to them as they return in later spinoff materials, but as for flandre, well...
following her debut, she would not show up again. for a long time. aside from a single short article in the spinoff book touhou bunkachou ~ bohemian archive in japanese red., and a dialogue-less boss encounter for one or two short stages in touhou bunkachou ~ shoot the bullet., she all but vanished from the series entirely. she had zero speaking lines for 14 years. despite this, she remained one of, if not the single most popular character in the fanbase, due to the aforementioned fan interpretations of her, along with her prominence in memes like ran ran ruu.
this lack of appearances has changed recently, though. out of nowhere in 2020, she made a minor appearance in an ongoing manga, touhou chireikiden hansoku tantei satori, and then about 2 years after this she appeared in the action game spinoff, touhou gouyoku ibun ~ suibotsushita chinshuu jigoku, as a playable protagonist of all things! needless to say, she's had a bit of a resurgence, some time after her prominence has finally begun to fade away a fair bit in fandom. its made me change my opinion of her quite a bit, since, hey, now she actually has something to offer as a character! im genuinely looking forward to seeing what more of her zun might be thinking of including in the future, if he continues this trend.
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while we're on positives, her design: man, it rocks. i'm sure her iconic character design is a huge factor in why she caught on in the fanbase for so long. the wings and her lævateinn lance make for an unmistakable silhouette. even if her design doesn't borrow much inspiration from any specific legends of vampires or whatnot, it still makes itself memorable with just its iconography, to the point where she's instantly recognizable even to people who don't know her name. people may rag on zun's art for his poor anatomy (which he has drastically improved on over the years, i might add), but he is undeniably a master of character design. i'll defend him on this front any day.
overall, flandre isn't someone i'm super attached to, but i can't deny her importance to the franchise overall, and i'm slowly growing on her as her relevance to the series has reemerged in recent years. shine on, you crazy 16 diamonds.
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michiarts · 2 years
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Spoiler girl, now in ZUN style! We don’t know her canon colors, so it was a nice excuse to have some fun with that. In fact, just to make things even more fun, i can hear some suggestions. 
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chireikiden · 3 years
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It has been confirmed that Detective Satori will resume on 25 October, illustrated by Akimaki Yuu. The story will continue where it last left off, with the start of Case 3.
Not sure about the title yet. It still seems to be Chireikiden, but the “Hansoku Tantei Satori” part technically might still change.
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chireikiden · 3 years
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chireikiden · 2 years
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Is there a reason why "奇" and "反" are highlighted in the title?
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(Touhou Chireikiden - Hansoku Tantei Satori)
Haven't been able to figure that out myself, though I haven't spent too much time on it. The kanji don't mean anything together, nor are any of their homophones that I can find relevant enough to jump to any conclusions. (They exist, but they'd have to be extremely relevant to make me assume such a three-steps-removed connection.) Reversing the order doesn't help either.
There is a bit of a thematic connection between 奇 and 反, which mean "strange" and roughly "anti-" respectively. 奇 turns "story" into "strange story", and 反 turns "rule" into "against the rules". So it could also be just that: their colors are reversed because they're subverting the meaning of the other words? I dunno.
Kiden spelled as 紀伝 would mean "biography", so you can take the 奇伝 part of the title as a pun, but I again can't find any similarly witty homophones for hansoku.
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chireikiden · 4 years
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I’ll just... be in my bunker.
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chireikiden · 4 years
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This might be my favorite cover page so far. Another of those half-chapters.
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chireikiden · 4 years
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In which an old friend returns. Still not quite a speaking appearance, though.
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chireikiden · 4 years
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chireikiden · 4 years
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The first case comes to an end…ish?
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chireikiden · 4 years
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The case continues after all, don’t ask me just how long.
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chireikiden · 4 years
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That blurb on the first page better not be lying.
(Chapter numbers are bugging out, just for the record. This is Ch. 4.)
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