I honestly fucking hate how a lot of Western Touhou artists try to take "artistic liberties" with the designs by making their species traits (tsuchigumo, oni, etc.) extremely fucking obvious. It isn't diversifying the cast, it's making it look like shit.
Yamame, Yuugi, Rin and Utsuho have to be the worst designs here. At least with Satori and Koishi they look normal, and I can ignore that they made Parsee chubby.
- The spider legs are fine enough since they
were featured as part of her design in Sunken Fossil World, but why the eyes and exaggerated fangs? They don't made her look any more monstrous than she is. Honestly the least bad of the designs I brought up above.
- Why is Yuugi tan? I get the appeal, sure, but do you
have to give her an overbite just because she's an oni? Also the star on her horn is missing. 0/10
- Why does Rin have vitiligo? Why does she have cat feet instead of the shoes she actually has? Not to mention the lack of the beautiful patterns on her
dress.
- Good LORD what did they do to Utsuho? She looks like if a Hazbin Hotel fan wanted to draw a Touhou character. Does that read? I'm not sure. Why does she need the random radiation symbol in her left eye? She already has the third eye of Yatagarasu on her chest, just slapping on the radiation symbol because 'utsuho nuclear' is fucking retarded.