Not sure what to feel about the pantyshots in AFiEU.
Considering that the whole thing's main subject is the toxic miasma that is modern american politics and that two of the other artists featured in it are snuff and watersports enthusiasts respectively, a pantyshot is the least of the problems with the printwork.
Considering that the whole thing's main subject is the toxic miasma that is modern american politics and that two of the other artists featured in it are snuff and watersports enthusiasts respectively, a pantyshot is the least of the problems with the printwork.
One topic was a parody of Trump and American politics. One. The rest is ordinary in-universe tabloid journalism gone so wrong that Aya felt the need to include postscript corrections in her own magazine. It's hilarious. It's the best thing ever.
Back on topic, though, since Aya is the only one showing anything in all these pictures, I hypothesize two things: she is willing to sell lewd pictures of herself, but she at least respects everyone else's desire not to expose themselves.
@Vid-szhite I haven't been following Touhou for a while ever since KC came around. I can't find too much info on alternative facts aside from that it came out today. Is it like an alternate universe kind of thing like Seihou or something? It's interesting that it is an official work, I thought it was a doujin.
@Vid-szhite I haven't been following Touhou for a while ever since KC came around. I can't find too much info on alternative facts aside from that it came out today. Is it like an alternate universe kind of thing like Seihou or something? It's interesting that it is an official work, I thought it was a doujin.
It's official and canon. BUT! It is supposed to have been written in-universe by Aya, so it is a tabloid gone horribly off the rails with made-up embellishments. The pictures are meant to be photographs, undoctored, taken by Aya. The stories alongside them are mostly grade-A bullshit. Some of them might be true, however.
One topic was a parody of Trump and American politics. One.
What's sad about people saying this was Anti-American (politics/etc) is that the parody wasn't even hostile, essentially just a semi-affectionate 'Americans are strange, lol' type of humor that the Japanese have been using for over 50 years now.
Vid-szhite said:
The stories alongside them are mostly grade-A bullshit. Some of them might be true, however.
And, to go along with everything you said here, in typical Zun style he continued to take fan-favorite theories and detonate them with high concentrations of military grade semtex (or select weird ones and give it a pass). ie: Momiji's 'I HATE MY JOB' rant, Clownpiece is stacked (imagery that somehow passed Zun's oppai-filter), and Hecatia flat out denying being the Goddess of Hell or even the strongest in Hell (even going so far as to call herself an outlaw/rebel/yankee in Hell).
I don't know about denying herself being the strongest. She did imply no one wanted to mess with her since she's so powerful.
She also implied there were others there that were like her, which would put them on her level. Among the strongest? Sure, she said that. The Strongest? I think she countered that by omission. By my admittedly amateur interpretation, it almost appeared to me as if she implied that she wouldn't want to mess with any of the others on her tier either, making it a case of Peace-by-M.A.D.
She also implied there were others there that were like her, which would put them on her level. Among the strongest? Sure, she said that. The Strongest? I think she countered that by omission. By my admittedly amateur interpretation, it almost appeared to me as if she implied that she wouldn't want to mess with any of the others on her tier either, making it a case of Peace-by-M.A.D.
She didn't say anything about there being others as strong as her. She says she's so strong that nobody wants to mess with her.
Official sure. Canon? Nope. I've been explaining it multiple times for years, gave reasons, logic, facts, examples and even an analogy. You want to toss all that out the window for whatever bizarre reason? Go ahead, whatever floats your boat, but the fact is, this and most other printworks are most certainly isn't canon. Zun's allowed to play around with his own series. Not everything is set in canon-stone just because he touched it.
Official sure. Canon? Nope. I've been explaining it multiple times for years, gave reasons, logic, facts, examples and even an analogy. You want to toss all that out the window for whatever bizarre reason? Go ahead, whatever floats your boat, but the fact is, this and most other printworks are most certainly isn't canon. Zun's allowed to play around with his own series. Not everything is set in canon-stone just because he touched it.
If you mean occasional guest art like this, then i might agree with you. But everything the characters say or do in any of the printorks or spinoff games was written by ZUN's own hand, so it's canon and i'm not sure what kind of logic you are using to deny that. SCoOW had a specific warning for non-canon comics that explicitly said those were the only non-canon parts of the book.
Official sure. Canon? Nope. I've been explaining it multiple times for years, gave reasons, logic, facts, examples and even an analogy. You want to toss all that out the window for whatever bizarre reason? Go ahead, whatever floats your boat, but the fact is, this and most other printworks are most certainly isn't canon. Zun's allowed to play around with his own series. Not everything is set in canon-stone just because he touched it.
Didn't Zun wrote and approved of this things? So are you tellin' me that the things the creator himself approve and/or directed isn't canon because it doesn't align to the head canon of what every fan have thought? Isn't this the same reaction when the fans found out that Momiji isn't Aya's faithful dog on that one official thing that Zun wrote?
The official Tengu art for this book puts to rest the old debate about Aya having wings or not. And the official answer is "yes and no": At very least the Tengu can shift their appearances somehow, and maybe all youkai can. This would go a long ways to explain other inconsistent stuff like the length of Remilia's wings.
This is somewhat refreshing. If you guys want to freakout about Ｄ Ｅ Ｅ Ｐ ♂ Ｄ Ａ Ｒ Ｋ ♂ Ｃ Ａ Ｎ Ｏ Ｎ, please head to ZUN's explanation about how Ran works (it's on Strange Creators 2, IIRC): Shikigamis are something akin to magical software in Touhou, and Ran is this shikigami that mind-controls a nine-tailed fox. The fox (who is a different being, with another name) is supressed when Ran is in control, which seems to be "all the time", since Yukari is hardcore like that. It's the same with Chen, which is a shikigami possessing and controlling a bakeneko.
THAT is at least 6 Zounoses at the Zounose scale of grimdarkness (for reference, 10 is "dead baby paste"). Canon Aya coaxing her fellow Tengu to take riské photos is barely a 1.
