PoFV is actually one of my favourite games, the issue I do have with 19 is that it's a broken and unbalanced mess. As well as the lack of more characters i wanted to see.
The problem with adapting the series into a watchable format is simply because it would result in each game being treated like its own episode. You can have all of the plot points, have the characters interact with one another on the exact dialogue pieces, and it would result in being complete since the games don't really have much to themselves as it is.
I feel like you could do a longer adaptation for one of the mainline games (about 6-8 episodes) in order to introduce characters, world and lore, alongside a satisfying combat scenes.
Question being, at least for me, which entry you think would be a better fit for this?
There technically is one already, that covers most of the games like an anthology of sorts, and it's fully fan-made. And this is the animator's Xitter account, they seem to be rather inconspicuous but apparently the newer episodes have some "WLW" stuff into them, but I haven't watched it to know for myself yet. As to what I would like to see, anthologies like Memories of Phantasm is what I'd prefer so that people could enjoy all of Touhou instead of just one specific game.
A few days after the January 6th capitol stuff some english touhoutwt tried to make a huge deal about the animators retweeting "right wing shit", I don't really know if they always disliked MoP but the opinion among the queers has decidedly become more negative on it since (and they always complained about the fanservice). I haven't seen anything about the newer episodes putting in more "WLW stuff" but I doubt it would flip their stance on the series.
Speaking of newer episodes, is it actually dead yet? The last one was in 2023 and they've been pretty vocal about running out of money to keep doing it, but I don't know if they de-facto announced they aren't working on it any more.
I know I have my reservations about adapting a 45 minute long video game into a short series. While I still stand by the idea of making a new incident but if I had to choose one?
Funny enough, PoFV would probably be the best candidate if you wanted to incorporate all of the early Windows titles with Bohemian Archive and Perfect Memento on the side. Do occasional lore dumps with one liners, some flashbacks, well done choreographed fighting scenes, and I think you'll have a decent thing here. It won't be perfect as it would quickly become "Reference the Touhou" the Series, but it will cover the games people care about the most.
Speaking of newer episodes, is it actually dead yet? The last one was in 2023 and they've been pretty vocal about running out of money to keep doing it, but I don't know if they de-facto announced they aren't working on it any more.
If it's of any use, Manpuku Jinja recently posted that a 19th episode is now in production for the 15th anniversary. Now the question regarding if they have the money to make it, I'm not sure so take it as you will. Maybe those doujin merch sales they did at Comiket and Reitaisai got them enough to work on it?
"Happy New Year! 2025 marks the 15th anniversary of Genso Mangekyou, so we're going to make episode 19 to commemorate that. We hope you'll continue to support Manpuku Shrine and Genso Mangekyou this year."
I know I have my reservations about adapting a 45 minute long video game into a short series. While I still stand by the idea of making a new incident but if I had to choose one?
Funny enough, PoFV would probably be the best candidate if you wanted to incorporate all of the early Windows titles with Bohemian Archive and Perfect Memento on the side. Do occasional lore dumps with one liners, some flashbacks, well done choreographed fighting scenes, and I think you'll have a decent thing here. It won't be perfect as it would quickly become "Reference the Touhou" the Series, but it will cover the games people care about the most.
If it's of any use, Manpuku Jinja recently posted that a 19th episode is now in production for the 15th anniversary. Now the question regarding if they have the money to make it, I'm not sure so take it as you will. Maybe those doujin merch sales they did at Comiket and Reitaisai got them enough to work on it? View attachment 6814807
"Happy New Year! 2025 marks the 15th anniversary of Genso Mangekyou, so we're going to make episode 19 to commemorate that. We hope you'll continue to support Manpuku Shrine and Genso Mangekyou this year."
Random Blake checkup time:
Drill sergeants in the future are gonna say stuff like "ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH TO SAY FUCK?" if people like Blake are still around.
Of course they're using Tsukasa to promote the gay. Of fucking course.
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Archive.is doesn't seem to work with Nitter anymore, every time I try to open an archived Nitter link, I get this 403 error:
Anyone know the cause of this? I can use other archival websites in the meantime.
The problem with adapting the series into a watchable format is simply because it would result in each game being treated like its own episode. You can have all of the plot points, have the characters interact with one another on the exact dialogue pieces, and it would result in being complete since the games don't really have much to themselves as it is.
There's only quite a lot you can do with those same stories that you end up with something like MoP, a fan series conceptualized back in 2011. And in all of that time it only went up to Subterranean Animism and/or Hisoutensoku in terms of character variety. Not only that, but even having the episodes cover only the events of the games end up with a 6 episode long series.
That's why they took three to four episodes to cover one game each with some other things in-between since I'm under the impression that they didn't really have a game plan other than "just adapt the games." If you wanted to bring Touhou on the big screen, I would rather ZUN work with a studio to craft up a unique incident for the occasion like he did for the fighting games with Tasofro.
I think the problem is that the games mostly have very little stakes, or narrative conflict, they're mostly slapstick or gag manga materiel. And while Touhou does have two concurrent story arcs that have stakes and conflict, the problem is those are the Hell and Moon storyline, where are sprinkled across games, books, and periodicals over the course of two decades.
Hell until LoLK we didn't even have a plausible suspect for who was running amok in the Lunar Capital before the events in SSiB. I think an adaptation of Touhou would have to change a lot and probably wouldn't be in the SoL status quo spirit of Touhou, but it would be possible.
Also there are just a lot of characters, a lot of which don't matter or don't even get involved in incidents they should, mainly for the sake of the plot, and that type of problem will become more noticeable when not in a game.
Oddly enough, I ran it again, and it worked, so I guess something was wrong in poast's nitter instance.
You could also archive from xcancel.com, another working nitter instance. It's also not blocked on archive.org in case you want to archive there too. Here is the archive link.
Side note: xcancel.com has a catpcha, which normally doesn't cause issues with archiving sites, but right now, it's affecting both archive.org and archive.is.
Tsukasa's whole character motivation is to whisper bad ideas in people's ears and get them to harm themselves, it's only natural that she'd be in favor of trooning and grooming "egg-cracking".
Mega-newfag here, thought I'd drop in and mention something that I don't think was discussed, but it was interesting to me.
If I decide to be autistic enough, I would maybe make a more detailed post about this but I'm not.
At Touhoufest, one of the cosplayers, Nazucos, there managed to encounter her stalker who ended up being a 14-year-old. Turns out he also brought his mom to the event and asked her to talk to Nazucos for him. Unfortunately for him, Naz was also working for them at the time and he got banned.
Somehow he didn't get the message and continued to bother her, even during Thanksgiving, which you'd think he'd at least be civilized enough to understand that he should stop being a little fag and quit obsessing over a woman almost twice his age for that day.
After getting tired of his spew of shit, Nazucos eventually sent him (sent to his mother more likely) a cease and desist. As of now, nothing new has come out about the retard-child.
Moral of the story: Don't let your kids have unrestricted internet access. Or just beat them. Either works in this case.
This sounds like some pretty good material for all of us, you could decide to get on the spectrum and tell us more about this, it will make you less of a newfag.
This sounds like some pretty good material for all of us, you could decide to get on the spectrum and tell us more about this, it will make you less of a newfag.
I'll try and get a draft ready. Just gotta gather all the shit relating to it, which isn't a lot when you think about it, but probably enough to make me double check the thread on the general formatting for posts like this since I'm retarded.
Decided to do this in the span of about 3 hours. Lot of back and forth to finish this bit of 'tism. Tell me of any fuck ups I made and missed and the ways I can fix 'em. Cheers.
I have no idea when everything started, but the shitstorm that revealed this to me is as follows. I was curious so I did check the xeet every so often.
On May 6th, Nazucos posted on Xitter about how at Touhoufest she finally met her stalker and was shocked to find out he was a 14-year-old. He also brought his mother to the event to have her talk to Nazucos for him. It's about as unpleasant as you might guess. [Link/Archive]
This one is especially pathetic.
His obsession with this woman nearly twice his age goes beyond reality and he has presumably made a number of posts on Discord and an account on Youtube about her.
Someone please cut this child off from the internet. It'll only do good for him. [Link 1 | Link 2/Archive 1 | Archive 2] [Link/Archive]
This is some horrible second-hand embarrassment. Fucking hell.
"god i wish i was a victim"-this child
Normal and regular profile with a very real tweet. Jesus H. Christ.
One thing to note, however, is that Nazucos around this time worked for the people hosting Touhoufest until recently for matters I'm going to shorten to 'retards in management.'
Since she worked for these people in a position that was in regards to security or some shit, she was able to ban him from the event. He didn't like it since it blocked him from being with his 'dream girl.'
My condolences go out to any people who had to listen to him sperg out after being rightfully banned for being a fucking retard. [Link/Archive]
It would be funny to watch him sperg out though, honestly.
"Sorry for being a freak please forgive me. "
So concludes the initial shitshow, with God-Knows what else happening inbetween the first series of tweets and the following.
On November 27th, Nazucos posted a series of text messages from this child which are a true wonder to read. [Link/Archive]
Reading is a skill I regret having sometimes.
As it turns out, being banned from the convention and having your shit posted for all to see did not deter him. Nor did the threat of legal action.
It only makes sense as he probably doesn't know how to comprehend anything telling him to stop.
He continued on, even to Thanksgiving, which would be a day you'd think he WOULDN'T continue being a retard but alas, he kept on texting Nazucos some decently retarded things.
I only wonder why he turned out to be this way, but its probably because the quarantine fucking him up in ways that only a beating can fix. [Link/Archive]
Not sure why he's talking about some Russian kid's show. Must be some context that I'm missing. Seriously, just enjoy Thanksgiving with your family you little tard.
In another xeet by someone who had the misfortune of dealing with this child, they post some clearly well-adjusted messages he sent on Discord in some shithole server.
This poor soul says that the only reason he has (or had) this weird obsession with them was because he was banned of their server so he couldn't raid it with his fellow tards. [Link 1 | Link 2/Archive 1 | Archive 2]
Somehow I doubt the fact he drew this. It looks too nice for someone who uses a generic asset from Angry Birds.
I am excited for this kid to try and apply to a job and for him to be denied based on the fact his digital footprint being horrifying.
I have no fucking clue if this shit is real, but if it is, I wouldn't trust them in a hundred mile radius of a school.
Probable porn addiction? Analysts state 'Entirely possible.'
Good news does come around though, and eventually a cease and desist was sent addressing him specifically and one can only imagine the reaction his mother and father had to a legal document showing them what their son was up to.
Personally, I hope they're doing something to make him slightly less retarded, because as of now, nothing new about this lolcalf has been posted, and maybe by some kind of divine intervention he won't develop into a lolcow. would've been a good lolcow though. [Link/Archive]
At least he has the common sense to censor his name. I can give him that.
A slightly better view for the legal document. Possibly sent in Xitter DMs, so these are as good as we're gonna get.
Moral of the story: A.) Don't let your children wander the internet without any restrictions. It can only end poorly. B.) If they do end up fucked by unrestricted internet access, try and prevent them from fucking themselves up even more. Or beat them. Whatever works.
One thing to note, however, is that Nazucos around this time worked for the people hosting Touhoufest until recently for matters I'm going to shorten to 'retards in management.'
It was going to link up to this point since you pretty much described the competency of the TouhouFest staff well enough. Can't trust these L.A faggots to run a small convention in a run-down city like that.
It is just ridiculous for Nazu to deal with those morons. Archive | Original
Who could've guessed that the same fuck-ups who ran the previous Touhou convention did it again? How many are you going to bet that TouhouFest will end up getting shitcanned indefinitely this year? Archive | Original
At least a good $50 that it'll end up getting canned.
Or maybe the unthinkable will happen and they'll get their shit together, especially since if I remember correctly, they do (at some point) want to bring ZUN over as a special guest for the convention.
Personally, I don't get why nazu's got such a big following. All the photos on their media page have the same dead-inside thousand mile AGP stare because they're apparently so autistic as to be genuinely incapable of emoting, and I'm pretty sure their cosplay's mostly off-the-shelf. Their mini-hakkero looks to be 3D printed from a model that's been on thingiverse for years now. Is it just because Nazu's a woman (or IIRC, "woman") who poses with guns?
God, imagine being so pathetic that this is who you choose to stalk. That kid's absolutely going to become a school shooter, but the only person he manages to kill will be himself.
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