#the Gensokyo of Humans

[lunarlagomorph]

#touhou #pop team epic #reimu hakurei #screencap #touhou fanwork #the gensokyo of humans #my post #q

[yamayuandadu]

this page below is so firmly entrenched in my mind that it made me forget Ashiyama technically did not come up with Kosuzu

the more melancholic takes both on her, on Akyuu and generally on the village just work better for me than the FS originals did. I also think the two old men, the doctor and the tea house girl were better additions to it than the tiresome FS fan favorite, the fortune teller. While I would definitely classify Human Gensokyo - and Ashiyama’s Touhou works in general - as relatively speaking “dark,” they do not really tap into the cheap shock value that many popular “edgy” doujin authors often rely on (Zounose, lol). At least form me, ultimately “if you weren’t born a noble your life will suck” is a much more effective source of unease than “yokai eat humans lol.” It’s obviously not quite the same - ultimately Ashiyama’s Gensokyo is meant to be melancholic more than edgy. Ashiyama mentioned at one point on twitter that they are a fan of either Takemitsu Zamurai or the mangaka behind it - sadly I can’t find the tweet rn (might have been deleted since?), but I think that would explain a lot both about their unique art style about this specific sort of melancholic portrayal of the feudal era focused on characters getting the short end of the stick in it.

#touhou #kosuzu motoori #the gensokyo of humans

[sukimas]

forbidden scrollery is my recommended intro to touhou mostly because it helps you realize just how incredibly abnormal our protagonists are for humans. this will save you a lot of grief in interpreting things later

#you could read memorizable gensokyo too but lol #anyway. freak weirdos #despite this these two are still the most normal human protagonists out of anyone #which is impressive

[occasionaltouhou]

here's the thing about choice. making decisions. a lot of youkai are probably fairly new to the whole thing. i'd say that most of them didn't even really Think before the barrier went up, and even then it's probably been gradual. it's why a lot of the lesser youkai are still fairly creature-ish. human friendship level low

and i think there's a genuinely intriguing idea to them becoming more human as time goes on - the human-like youkai and youkai-like humans of gensokyo. would that threaten their nature as youkai? would it make them something else? they're interesting ideas, y'know

but there's a flipside to this. which is to say that there are a bunch of really old youkai who have been able to think for a good few centuries. potentially millennia. and almost all of them have far worse social skills than the small fry. there is great meaning to this, also

#the intentional differentiation between the human village and the youkai of gensokyo is important. the most important thing there is

[crimsonbits]

I think Ashiyama deserves a medal for spelling the quiet part out loud. This was so based and the only valid reading of these two in my head. He's not a step-dad just a dad who stepped up etc etc

#touhou #crimposting #the magician who loved a fake #<- source. great fancomic if you live under a rock and hacent heard of it!!! same author as Gensokyo of Humans #marisa kirisame #rinnosuke morichika

[studentofetherium]

#touhou #humans of gensokyo #marisa kirisame #q

[alchemistdetective]

The Idol

#muse: eri #Or rather Modern Eri #Have one more commentary because Rirune and Modern Eri are the '''same person''' (different AUs) #As some might have guessed or already told before #I really enjoy playing him because I'm a sucker for Modern stuff #And IMO he's the easiest to throw people and start with because he has that extrovert energy about him even if he's the ordinary boy #It still amuses me so much on how he remembers magical things all because Matilda showed herself and gave him god powers and things rolled #And then there's Weaver Masako Gensokyo Goddess Reimu Celestia and all that #But the biggest struggle I have is that now he has shapeshifting-lite #I have to keep in mind not to make him just like OG Eri aka shapeshifting power abuse due to lack of self confidence #Because Modern Eri's so much more mature than he is and I have to remember that despite all his exposure to the supernatural #He is still a human living in our reality

[alchemistdefective]

No matter the form, Eri still has the same scent, being human and not youkai, and all, so he can't tell the difference.

... So his shapeshifting is pretty useless in Gensokyo-

#muse: eri #Unless if it's around the human village maybe #But this is all assuming he goes to Gensokyo LOL

[chireikiden]

Among your current translations. Would you say that 'The Tiles That I Cannot Cut Are Next to None!' is the most difficult Touhou manga you've had to translate given all the technical usage of rules surrounding Mahjong. Or Gensokyo of Humans with the troublesome quotes?

That's actually a surprisingly interesting (?) question.

Gensokyo of Humans definitely stands out as the harder one in my mind, but that's because it sometimes required me to stop work for several hours at a time to try and figure something out. Even if usually all I could/needed to do was copy an existing English translation, some of the ones that were, like, Old Japanese translations of Chinese books even required me to cross-reference the Japanese, Chinese and what English translations I could get just to find the correct part to copy. (I also do not understand Chinese.) Many Touhou doujins have required me to do actual translations of Japanese poetry (poor ones, I'm sure) that were far less work than this.

Meanwhile, with Tiles, the lookups are constant, but individually fast and pretty straightforward. I couldn't play much mahjong at all if you plopped me down at a table (mostly I’ve been lazy about learning yaku), but I know the rules well enough to follow along and check whatever I don't get. I also have two more mahjong-savvy people to ask for consultation and check the finished chapters for me; mostly to figure out the most natural terms for certain things in English.

Ironically, by far the lengthiest lookup I've had to do with Tiles was tracking down Akyuu's Records of the Three Kingdoms reference in chapter 18. This little savant l'enfants in the computer vexes and haunts me.

#ask #touhou #human gensokyo disc. #kirenu hai disc. #translation disc.

[laplaces-lovecraftian-dick]

I think youkai would die from mass spiritually charged attacks such as 'stepping on legos'

#touhou #gensokyo meta #youaki expansion project #sillyposting #i swear i have never gotten why everyone makes such a big deal out of it #(i am singlehandedly destroying humanitys only weapon)

[lunarlagomorph]

#me too #touhou #touhou fanwork #youmu konpaku #screencap #the gensokyo of humans #my post

[frankenfran]

i used to kind of hate rinnosuke from touhou since his existence as one of the few men meant insanely bad het pairings for just about any and every girl, but i think it’s just much funnier for him to be the one gay guy in a world full of insane supernatural lesbians. no wonder his hair is white, imagine the stress this fruit is under

#and no im not implying there’s literally no other people in gensokyo besides the named characters obviously #they simply aren’t relevant to my joke #im sure rinnosuke knows where to cruise in the human and youkai settlements

[wakasagihimes-pond]

I think common Fanon is that Alice is Shinki's adopted daughter, and that Alice moved to Gensokyo when she grew up. Since Alice didn't turn into a youkai IN Gensokyo, it's not a big deal, as youkai migrate to Gensokyo all the time.

Fair assesment; that's kinda what I ended up thinking too. Though, I wonder if this means we'll never get any sort of persistent "human turned youkai" character anytime soon since reimu is quite serious about actually exterminating them.

#does touhou need that kind of character? probably not #but as a person who's personally obsessed with the relationships between the gods and youkai and humans of gensokyo #a person transcending the barrier between two groups is intriguing #though I would think that if reimu didn't get to them the youkai would be very hostile towards them

[occasionaltouhou]

gensokyo's charm point is that it's not so much scary as just kind of weird and unsettling, really. if it's actively hostile then it reduces the like... the good will, i suppose, towards the setting. it's almost crucial that it's not merely trying but succeeding to be good, and that part of that Being Good is that most of the youkai are basically just doing what kogasa does but being better at it bc they all have knives

also the zounose approach works but you have to Commit to it and honestly i've only ever seen zounose commit to it in the right way

#to be fair 'why does this place exist if it's just a shitty farm' is my favourite question to explore. #what price is a human's life? what price is a youkai's? are they equal? is a human life worth more if it's free? #are the humans of gensokyo any less free than those of us in reality? what value does human advancement actually have? #but in order for those questions to be interesting they have to uh. not be getting actively attacked and eaten all the time. y'know #sorry tula if i kinda went off topic but you said a lot of stuff and i didn't wanna just repeat it (even tho i kinda did)

[deepseacityunderground]

futojiko precanon designs, before they died ;-;

secret futo fit under cut

#touhou #i really do like the idea that the unique hair colors of various characters in touhou is due to their non-human-ness... #so i gave futo and tojiko natural hair colors #i think futos hair is gray in canon cus shes old and i think tojiko's hair is green because she has turned a bit green #anyway i like to think of tojiko as this tall and graceful noblewoman with a deep-seated inherent fury at the confines of her position #vs futo who is this short scruffy gnc kid who revels in being miko's secret advisor #basically the opposite of what their appearances suggest #i can see both of them meeting during the soga-mononobe conflict... futo is acting as an informant against her own clan #and she goes out to meet a soga representative and its tojiko and shes just like. woah 😳😳😳 #i see them as having a very passionate very short love affair which ends a bit of time after shigisan for various reasons #and after that futo and tojiko are just awkward on-and-off exes who are inadvertnatly attracted to each other but #are not in the healthy space to have a relationship #its only after they come to gensokyo that they are able to grow/heal and enter a healthy relationship #and the futo fit is based off That drawing of moriya. you know the one #my drawing

[studentofetherium]

#touhou #humans of gensokyo #reimu hakurei #q