She's like a cross between Rinnosuke and Akyuu, she has the power to decipher books by just touching them or so I've heard.
It's yet another one of Zun's shits-and-giggles printwork collaborations in which he allows someone else to have creative control. It's bascially just sanctioned fanfiction done for fun(and maybe extra beer money), but I can already see people annoyingly believing every word of it to be dogma to the series.
Explosion said: She's like a cross between Rinnosuke and Akyuu, she has the power to decipher books by just touching them or so I've heard.
It's yet another one of Zun's shits-and-giggles printwork collaborations in which he allows someone else to have creative control. It's bascially just sanctioned fanfiction done for fun(and maybe extra beer money), but I can already see people annoyingly believing every word of it to be dogma to the series.
Explosion said: She's like a cross between Rinnosuke and Akyuu, she has the power to decipher books by just touching them or so I've heard.
It's yet another one of Zun's shits-and-giggles printwork collaborations in which he allows someone else to have creative control. It's bascially just sanctioned fanfiction done for fun(and maybe extra beer money), but I can already see people annoyingly believing every word of it to be dogma to the series.
The only "creative control" the artists get in the print works is drawing the characters in their own style. Everything else(character design, plot, etc) is handled by ZUN.
They can design their own costume variations for the characters such as Asai Genji's puffy hats for Remilia and Yukari and Azuma Aya's costumes for each season. And were the kappa extras designed by Aya alone? (and the fairies in SSiB (Aki Eda)?)
Explosion said: She's like a cross between Rinnosuke and Akyuu, she has the power to decipher books by just touching them or so I've heard.
It's yet another one of Zun's shits-and-giggles printwork collaborations in which he allows someone else to have creative control. It's bascially just sanctioned fanfiction done for fun(and maybe extra beer money), but I can already see people annoyingly believing every word of it to be dogma to the series.
Isn't Touhou in general done for fun? And since it's being penned by ZUN (art notwithstanding), technically it could be considered canon.
But nah, let's go back to the games. They have much deeper and more dramatic+interesting stories.
They can design their own costume variations for the characters such as Asai Genji's puffy hats for Remilia and Yukari and Azuma Aya's costumes for each season. And were the kappa extras designed by Aya alone? (and the fairies in SSiB (Aki Eda)?)
I've no idea on the kappa extras and fairies. It's possible ZUN allowed the artists to have some fun with those since they're unnamed and unimportant characters.
Now I realized something. She's seems to be a counterpart of Akyuu. They seem similar with Hatate being a counterpart for Aya. This character and Hatate both have checkered clothes...
UnderneathTheWaves said: Only PC-98 and Inaba & Inaba are to be mostly disregarded. The rest is hard canon. Learn to Touhou.
That probably depends on the way you interpret things. I'm still certian that the PC-98 era happened it's just that zun doesn't consider them as part of the main series. I consider them more like spin-off prequels. If somthing from the main series doesn't connect with the pc-98 then the pc-98 theory is proven wrong. Untill that happens the PC-98 theories are still cannon to me.
Ars said: The only "creative control" the artists get in the print works is drawing the characters in their own style. Everything else(character design, plot, etc) is handled by ZUN.
No it isn't. He even admits in the side-games and printworks that he relinquishes total control. Check the interviews/afterwords of SoPM and IaMP.
alunral said: Well they ARE considered canon, you know.
No they're not. This series is Zun and Zun only. If he doesn't have total creative control it's just at best sanctioned fanfiction. The characters and scenarios might exist in some way like the PC98 stuff, but until they're introduced proper in a main danmaku game they're basically drawing board ideas that he allowed someone else to play with. The inconsistencies and plotholes these side works introduce back up this view.
Nothing is canon in the series as it has no canon. The project is eternally under contruction as his hobby, hence the term "Project" in the title of it. People just say things are "canon" to valid their opinions and give them a sense of being right.
Explosion said: No it isn't. He even admits in the side-games and printworks that he relinquishes total control. Check the interviews/afterwords of SoPM and IaMP.
Neither the afterword nor the interview in Symposium of Post-mysticism mention anything of him giving anyone "total control", and in the IaMP afterword, he specifically points out that he handled, and I quote,
"This time I setup the scenarios and character design, the skills and spellcards, and also some of the music and the graphics...
...I only did the parts that would get in the way of the on-site superintendent, the Touhou elements such as character personalities, the general skillsets, the story and the stages."
Again, no mention of giving anyone complete control of what goes on in the games/printworks.
Nothing is canon in the series as it has no canon. The project is eternally under contruction as his hobby, hence the term "Project" in the title of it. People just say things are "canon" to valid their opinions and give them a sense of being right.
What?
I am very tempted to write you off as either a total moron or a troll.
Wait, is someone throwing around the "THERE IS NO CANON IN TOUHOU" line again?
Could we all get one thing straight here? Canon is a constant in a series, something which fan content (music, art, stories etc) is built on. Canon is stuff that appears in the works of a series. This goes for both works made by the IP holder and works sanctioned by the IP holder. It is impossible for a series to not have a canon, otherwise it is a formless, shapeless pile of stuff that has no rhyme or reason.
Touhou has canon. It has as much a canon as Mass Effect or Minecraft. If you think that Touhou has no canon, you are an idiot. There is no way to sugar-coat it. You are an idiot who needs to be educated on how the English language works. Now stop throwing around words you don't know and start talking sensibly for a bloody change.
Inaba is canon, but everything is exaggerated and over-the-top and it's the series that ZUN allegedly had the least input in, since simply being funny was the most important aspect, and not worldbuilding like the other series. Don't take it too seriously.
PC-98 is canon in broad strokes. The details shouldn't be worried about, but general events like meeting Yuuka or traveling to Makai and meeting some version of Alice are likely, especially when they and their meeting are referred to.
Both read books for a living. Sort of; Kosuzu has the ability to decipher books by touching them so Patchy and her should hit it off well. Tokiko and Akyuu are good matches too.
saizo0070 said: Both read books for a living. Sort of; Kosuzu has the ability to decipher books by touching them so Patchy and her should hit it off well. Tokiko and Akyuu are good matches too.
Remember that in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, all of the characters with non-Japanese names had their names written in English under their portraits. Since the names are all in different handwritings, we could assume that they're the characters' signatures, although it doesn't explain why all the Japanese names are in the same style. The point is, there are definitely Touhou characters who know the Roman alphabet, and Kosuzu should as well because she knows ALL written languages.
