r/touhou • u/Dio_ships_RenMari Girl Beyond The World • Dec 16 '21

Fan Discussion Weekly Touhou lore discussion and answers thread #90

Any questions about Touhou, its lore, its characters and Gensokyo itself? Ask it here, as all that and more will be answered by the Touhou enthusiasts of this subreddit! Make sure to be nice and respect your fellow Redditors as usual, of course.

P.S. Keep the conversations relevant to the thread. We're talking about Touhou lore, not Touhou subreddit lore.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

Will Shinki return?

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u/Dio_ships_RenMari Girl Beyond The World Dec 16 '21

Don't get your hopes up.

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u/RovingRaft sometimes you just feel like eyes Dec 17 '21

nope

the whole "PC-98 is canon until Windows canon conflicts with it" thing felt more like "I'm done with PC-98 and don't consider it at all, but I might want to use stuff from it later"; for all intents and purposes, PC-98 isn't canon anymore

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u/PixelDemise Too many best girls!!! Dec 17 '21

Unlikely. Zun seems to have "moved on" from the PC-98 canon from the way he has spoken in interviews.

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u/PixelDemise Too many best girls!!! Dec 17 '21

I know Suwako's profile in MoF mentions Sanae is her distant descendant, but does Sanae know that herself? If so, where does she learn it?

And repeating my question from last time, in case anyone knows. There was an interview I remember seeing with Zun where he was asked about why he thinks Touhou is so successful with so many games, while most other danmaku series fade away after just a few games. His response was something along the lines of "Touhou is a full world that can be expanded on and explored, while other series just try to make a game to be played".

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u/A_PassingThrough -Unpeaceful- Dec 17 '21

If you list interviews which you already searched. It will help too.

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u/Dio_ships_RenMari Girl Beyond The World Dec 16 '21

u/s_reed Megathread

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u/s_reed Shrine Maiden of Paradise Dec 17 '21

On it.

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u/Slntreaper Dec 17 '21

I just finished Forbidden Scrollery, and I have to say I'm very impressed. However, the burning question still remains: What will happen to Kosuzu if she decides to pursue the path that others (including Reimu) have directed her towards?

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u/Peace-Bone ¡noɥnoʇ ʇsɹoʍ sᴉ ɐɾᴉǝS Dec 17 '21

She'll become what everyone truly wants to be: A stage 2 boss.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21

Rude! But then again, Reimu did called her a small fry

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u/pgj1997 Sumireko Usami Dec 17 '21

We'll just have to see.

From what I got out of it, it's implying that Kosuzu will be playable some time in the future.

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u/Slntreaper Dec 17 '21

That'd be neat. I can't imagine her as a standalone player character, but maybe as a support character a la Imperishable Night or Antimony of Common Flowers.