How many times has your favorite character changed?

[Piranha]

Let's see...

Yuyuko>Remilia>Patchouli>Youmu>Tenshi>Mokou>Komachi>Shizuha>Nitori>Kogasa>Satori>Kyouko

All-time favourites are Youmu and Kogasa. Youkai moe~

[GunnerReisen]

Changed again. xD

I forgot how much I loved Marisa. :U FREAKING LOVE HER almost as much as Yuyuko and Tenshi.

[Cybeast710]

Tenshi was just a whiner in SWR. I MIGHT have liked her... but, THIS GAME was my first introduction to Touhou. And in that game, Tenshi is a COMPLETE ASSHOLE!. I see her, I flip a table in my mind.

Favorites: First, Yuka/Yuuka (I have an annoying habit of switching back and forth between the two spellings. Thank above game for that.) She was freaking awesome in that game, calling out references like nuts. Her smashes are all references.

Yuka put down her weapon for a bare-handed attack!
"FAAAAAALCON PUNCH!"
SMAAAAAAAAAAASH!
"Show me your moves!"

Then there was Sanae. Touhou Mother again made first impressions. I have my own personal reasons for liking Sanae. SHE DOES A FANTASTIC SAMUS ARAN, because her whole arc is a parody of Metroid Fusion.

Then Mima. PK Starstorm, Lifeup Omega, Shield Off... Shit just got real.

When I found the actual games... Actually, the more I think about characters, the more I realize that I like Yuuka & Yukari. They both have the "omniscient troll" thing going.

[Ikari]

Tenshi was just a whiner in SWR. I MIGHT have liked her... but, THIS GAME was my first introduction to Touhou. And in that game, Tenshi is a COMPLETE ASSHOLE!. I see her, I flip a table in my mind.

Yeah, it's funny how fangames can affect your views for a specific character in general.

I used to loathe Sanae. Sure, I had my initial butthurt over how she replaced Sakuya, my all time favorite playable character, but I also hated her personality in MoF. I simply can't stand smug, ''Holier than thou'' characters. I mean, I think every game needs one (so you can rage against someone!), but don't expect me to feel bad if they catch on fire with 200 hedgehogs stuck in their eyelids.

I then played UFO and TD; Okay, Sanae is actually cute, and has funny dialogues, probably some of my favorite lines. She was a bit ditzy with a strong desire to beat up people for fun, making some sort of giggly slaughterer. The kind of person you expect to go ''EXTERMINATE, tee-hee~ <3".

Then the bomb; I played Fantasy Maiden Wars, the Super Robot Wars clone. It's still one of my favorite games ever, for the dialogues especially. Sanae is the most annoying, smug, frustrating and freaking proud character ever! And she does all of that in a ''Pffff don't give a damn'' tone, which only makes her enraging. She insults everyone and everything, and she's an overpowered invincible character until a chapter later on.

Thus, today I still have very mixed feelings about Sanae; I don't know if I want to strangle her or pat her head.

Does anyone else have this kind of mixed hatred/love feeling?

[fauxm]

Mine bounces around a lot, but usually always levels back to Youmu. Some days I like Yuyuko more, some days Sakuya, but after a few days it usually switches back to Youmu.

Yeah, it's funny how fangames can affect your views for a specific character in general.

I used to loathe Sanae. Sure, I had my initial butthurt over how she replaced Sakuya, my all time favorite playable character, but I also hated her personality in MoF. I simply can't stand smug, ''Holier than thou'' characters. I mean, I think every game needs one (so you can rage against someone!), but don't expect me to feel bad if they catch on fire with 200 hedgehogs stuck in their eyelids.

I then played UFO and TD; Okay, Sanae is actually cute, and has funny dialogues, probably some of my favorite lines. She was a bit ditzy with a strong desire to beat up people for fun, making some sort of giggly slaughterer. The kind of person you expect to go ''EXTERMINATE, tee-hee~ <3".

Then the bomb; I played Fantasy Maiden Wars, the Super Robot Wars clone. It's still one of my favorite games ever, for the dialogues especially. Sanae is the most annoying, smug, frustrating and freaking proud character ever! And she does all of that in a ''Pffff don't give a damn'' tone, which only makes her enraging. She insults everyone and everything, and she's an overpowered invincible character until a chapter later on.

Thus, today I still have very mixed feelings about Sanae; I don't know if I want to strangle her or pat her head.

Does anyone else have this kind of mixed hatred/love feeling?

I really just don't like Sanae, she's very out of place compared to most of Gensokyou, and as you said, can be really annoying and smug.

[DeltaSierra4]

I really just don't like Sanae, she's very out of place compared to most of Gensokyou, and as you said, can be really annoying and smug.

aww but she's not as bad as Kanako imho :V

[wailofthebanshee]

I really just don't like Sanae, she's very out of place compared to most of Gensokyou, and as you said, can be really annoying and smug.

How can anything be out of place in Gensokyo?
It has vampires, maids, zombies, tanks, turtles, DJs, Five-eyed monstrosities, ogres, talking animals and UFOs.
Seriously, how can Sanae manage to be out place in a place such as that?

[AnonymousPondScum]

SANAE GRRRR

For a cure, take a look at this Pixiv tag and call me in the morning.

For bonus points, imagine everything she says and does under that tag in the voice of Macho Man Randy Savage. :V

[Cadmas]

Is that meant to be Sanae the Hedgehog?

[KrackoCloud]

How can anything be out of place in Gensokyo?
It has vampires, maids, zombies, tanks, turtles, DJs, Five-eyed monstrosities, ogres, talking animals and UFOs.
Seriously, how can Sanae manage to be out place in a place such as that?

I guess there's this idea that her personality is just too 'modern teenager' that makes it hard for her to fit in.

[AnonymousPondScum]

I guess there's this idea that her personality is just too 'modern teenager' that makes it hard for her to fit in.

I think it's less this and more the combination of this AND Sanae being one of ZUN's favorites and always showing up even where she comes across as being shunted in for the sake of being there rather than for any clear reason.

[Hanzo K.]

Ah yes, 'Sanae-san gunning for the pope', my favorite Sanae-related thing. She's always so batshit crazy in that point, Borderline Kamina-Level in the crazy awesome register.

[fondue]

Yeah, it's funny how fangames can affect your views for a specific character in general.

I used to loathe Sanae. Sure, I had my initial butthurt over how she replaced Sakuya, my all time favorite playable character, but I also hated her personality in MoF. I simply can't stand smug, ''Holier than thou'' characters. I mean, I think every game needs one (so you can rage against someone!), but don't expect me to feel bad if they catch on fire with 200 hedgehogs stuck in their eyelids.

I then played UFO and TD; Okay, Sanae is actually cute, and has funny dialogues, probably some of my favorite lines. She was a bit ditzy with a strong desire to beat up people for fun, making some sort of giggly slaughterer. The kind of person you expect to go ''EXTERMINATE, tee-hee~ <3".

Then the bomb; I played Fantasy Maiden Wars, the Super Robot Wars clone. It's still one of my favorite games ever, for the dialogues especially. Sanae is the most annoying, smug, frustrating and freaking proud character ever! And she does all of that in a ''Pffff don't give a damn'' tone, which only makes her enraging. She insults everyone and everything, and she's an overpowered invincible character until a chapter later on.

Thus, today I still have very mixed feelings about Sanae; I don't know if I want to strangle her or pat her head.

Does anyone else have this kind of mixed hatred/love feeling?

umm 'scuse me gurlfrenddd
sanae is my partial waifu~<3
Sanae is one of my favroites , no doubt.

[fauxm]

Ah yes, 'Sanae-san gunning for the pope', my favorite Sanae-related thing. She's always so batshit crazy in that point

I'd agree with that

Borderline Kamina-Level in the crazy awesome register.

On the crazy level, maybe, but not crazy-awesome. No where close man. No one can ever come close to Kamina level crazy-awesome.

[Goldom]

How can anything be out of place in Gensokyo?
It has vampires, maids, zombies, tanks, turtles, DJs, Five-eyed monstrosities, ogres, talking animals and UFOs.
Seriously, how can Sanae manage to be out place in a place such as that?

By literally being thrown there from outside of it. But personally that's what I think makes her a great character. She's a normal real-world person stuck in a place where every crazy story people have made up is actually true. I love her UFO extra dialogue about how Nue must really be an alien, because heck, every other fantastical thing already exists around here, so you gotta have aliens too.

[Ikari]

By literally being thrown there from outside of it. But personally that's what I think makes her a great character. She's a normal real-world person stuck in a place where every crazy story people have made up is actually true. I love her UFO extra dialogue about how Nue must really be an alien, because heck, every other fantastical thing already exists around here, so you gotta have aliens too.

That's actually the side of Sanae that cause the love side of my love/hate for her. In a land where everyone is some sort of amazing fantastic creatures that doesn't give a damn about how ~*fantastic*~ others are, it's kind of refreshing to see at least one character going ''Holy crap it's an alien :*"

I think it's less this and more the combination of this AND Sanae being one of ZUN's favorites and always showing up even where she comes across as being shunted in for the sake of being there rather than for any clear reason.

Preeetty much. Suddenly new exciting main character who's shot types are blatant copies of others yay!

No seriously, if she had a SINGLE, FREAKING, ORIGINAL SHOT TYPE DAMN IT, I COULD LIKE HER. Snakes are amulets, frogs are magic missiles, and whatever TD was turned out to be a blatant copy of Marisa's non-laser shot type in UFO.

umm 'scuse me gurlfrenddd
sanae is my partial waifu~<3
Sanae is one of my favroites , no doubt.

You have no right to pronounce yourself on any Sanae related matter until you have played and completed Fantasy Maiden Wars :I

Anyway, I'll try go to back to the original thread topic a bit; I realized I have some sort of mental favorite spot called ''Musical favorite.'' Everyday, I got a random Touhou theme stuck in my head which I hum all freaking day, and the owner of this theme is suddenly my favorite.

[ciddypoo]

Man, I can't really even come up with a clear favorite. It looks lame to have 'four top characters' though, so #1 totally depends on what I'm finding most important at the time:

• Byakuren (the character theme)
• Suwako (the hat / overall character)
• Reimu (the homing / hitbox; I ONLY play Reimu in the games)
• Sanae (the waifu)

So I guess it changes from day to day. Maybe even from just moment to moment. ;p

[Phantasm]

My favourite has always been stuck on Flandre. She's become something of an... obsession, now. I was brought into Touhou by her theme, but I could never like another more than her. Maybe I'm a lolicon?

Next to Flan, I've always had a preference to the EoSD characters in general.

[Goldom]

Man, I can't really even come up with a clear favorite. It looks lame to have 'four top characters' though, so #1 totally depends on what I'm finding most important at the time:

• Byakuren (the character theme)
• Suwako (the hat / overall character)
• Reimu (the homing / hitbox; I ONLY play Reimu in the games)
• Sanae (the waifu)

So I guess it changes from day to day. Maybe even from just moment to moment. ;p

While I'm guessing you probably didn't mean it this way, your descriptions read like characters' nicknames. Like in a gangster movie - Suwako "The Hat" Moriya.

[wailofthebanshee]

Stay away from Reimu "The Homing Hitbox" Hakurei. That girl is bad news.

[Clarste]

Strange to see so much Sanae hate. It's pretty clear to me that she was designed to be a third playable character that actually makes sense to be involved in all incidents (which is why she's a rival shrine maiden). As opposed to Sakuya or Youmu, who really don't have much reason to be involved in anything. When it made sense for Youmu to come back, she came back. In the meantime we can have Sanae. Honestly, even with Sakuya as one of my favorite characters I like Sanae quite a lot (although she's not a favorite). She's usually my first choice as a shot type. Her personality also fits in pretty well as yet another variation on smug. And pretty much all Touhou characters are smug. It's almost a minimum qualification for participating in danmaku duels. I recall ZUN saying something to that effect in an interview.

As for the general topic, my first favorite character was Sakuya. I just liked her indifferent attitude towards everything. After I learned a bit more about the setting, it shifted to Yukari/Yuyuko. As in they were tied for first. I just like their friendship. After DS came out and I got a bit more "insight" into tengu culture, it became Aya for being who she is. And finally, after TD came out I "fell in love with" Seiga. Which is frankly a bizarre experience that I don't know how to describe. So I guess that's 3 changes?

[DeltaSierra4]

Err... Well, whaddoyou know, turns out my favorite character list is changing a bit too rapidly all of a sudden

Yukari & Yuyuko are still up there on the 1st and 2nd places. The problem is Sanae now: Ever since she shot up to the 3rd place from 8th, she keeps alternating in the 3rd place position and 4th with Youmu. The rest (Sakuya, Utsuho, Reisen, and Yuuka) are still in the top 8, never exchanging positions. Below that is all chaos.

I blame Aquastyle's most recent game: Miracle Chou Party -Sanae & Tenshi's Fantasy Labyrinth-... Sanae has pretty good voice acting and cute artwork, but opponent Youmu JUST RUINS MY PLAYTHROUGH!! D:< (still, gotta love dat myon <3 :3)

[Lavalake]

Heh. There are so much characters to choose from.
My first favorite character was Alice Margatroid. Because she appeared in the most games.  :3 And because I liked her backstory.
My second favorite character was Yuyuko Saigyouji. Because of her eating everything in fanon. And she was a youkai~
My third favorite character was actually 2 at the same time. They were Chen and Rin. I loved how they're both cats.
My fourth favorite character was Suika Ibuki. Because I like her behavior. And she was pretty strong too.
My fifth and present favorite character is Rumia. Because she needs more attention. And she was my first known character of the Touhou series.

So Timeline~ Alice Yuyuko Chen/Rin Suika Rumia

[aListers]

Well now that Alice Margatroid is now officially my favourite character, I can post here now. By official I mean being placed at number 1 in my favourite touhou characters list.

If you include when I wasn't a touhou fan then Flandre Scarlet was my favourite character. Her wings were awesome and I liked her theme - I'd heard that from somwhere before discovering touhou.

My first offical favourite character was Cirno. Not only was her theme the chorus of Kasane territory but she was also said to be quite stupid. Her overconfidence in fandom won her my heart.

After that, Yukari Yakumo took first place. I loved her power and her personality. She was a troll with a heart of gold.

Now it is Alice Margatroid. I had a dream and we kind of fell in love with each other in it.

[Meido Weapon]

Suwako, Yuugi, Flan and Yuuka are constantly rotating as my top 4. I can't pick a favorite, they're all too great.   

But way back when I first got into Touhou it was all about Sakuya.  I'd like to think my tastes have matured over the years. :3c

[danna45]

Eh...Flandre > Sakuya > Murasa > Reisen > Murasa > MURASA

In other words, Captain is awesome.

[RoyKr]

I got into the series around Imperishable Night time and initially favored Marisa and Alice as well as Sakuya.
With time and new releases Marisa and Alice got bumped down a bit in favor of new (or rebooted) characters such as Yuuka, Kanako and Iku while Sakuya remained a strong contender for first place. My top five-six has probably stayed consistent for years now, though i never had a "This is my one favorite character" kinda thing.

[Jmyster]

I started in order from 6. Sakuya was my favorite boss character. I completely lost it (in a good way) when I saw her playable in PCB. My favorites didn't change too much even as I got through the rest.

The current list is: 1. Sakuya 2. Reimu 3. Remilia=Flandre=Yukari 6. Yuyuko 7. Marisa 8. Utsuho 9. Cirno 10. Byakuren

[Chebinger]

My favorite is and always was Chen. The second favorite's changed every so often, from Cirno to Hina, and now it's stuck between Kogasa and Kyouku.

Wait those are all stage 2 characters.

[Osiris]

My first favorite was Remillia Scarlet and Flandre Scarlet, my second favorite was Cirno, my third favorite was Patchouli Knowledge and my favorite one now is Fujiwara no Mokou