Author Topic: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!  (Read 194750 times)

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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #270 on: August 26, 2013, 09:05:36 AM »
I agree, "how" it became what it is really isn't important at all.

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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #271 on: August 26, 2013, 05:22:50 PM »
So, was the Shining Needle Castle always in Gensokyo's skies? Or was it somewhere else and was brought to Gensokyo by Shinmyoumaru's wish?

'Cause if it's the former I have to wonder how, in a land where everyone flies, no one noticed the giant upside-down castle floating around until now
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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #272 on: August 26, 2013, 06:20:07 PM »
When the Shining Needle Castle was first made, it turned itself upside down and then was "confined to the world of oni", so it would likely be that it has been trapped somewhere like inside a mountain if onis used to live in one or in Underworld if it happened after they moved underground

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« Reply #273 on: August 27, 2013, 09:26:20 AM »
Seems like alot of my fave touhou metal arrange groups are suddenly becoming inactive or whatever lately, I was hoping you guys could throw me some other artist/circle/band/composer/names to me based on what I like.

Aquaelie -> Great example of my ideal metal music, though those weird mini albums are kinda hit and miss.
dBu -> Lots of albums that aren't very good, but you can pretty much just figure out which those are... The ones with vocals, or the ones that aren't remotely rock/metal/whatever are kinda out of the question for me. The good ones aren't very heavy or anything but they definately have rocky/metaly elements imo.

magnum opus -> They seemed to have not made any albums for some time. qq.

MyonMyon -> Ditto, that pizuyas cell X myon myon had a really great album. I forget the name, alice something. But everything I've heard after yellow cake, or nuclear blast, or wtf that SA album is called was just plain awful (mostly cuz the vocals, I hate most vocals)

Suprisingly, I'm NOT a demontori fanboy, however they DO have some amazing tracks, I really like their remilia mix, and their higen retour...come to think of it I think I'm growing to like their newer stuff but wasn't impressed with their old? In any case I'm aware of them and still experiment and check out their tracks on an individual basis.

There are more I like but that's the general direction. Umm, I particularly want to find albums around ten desires, there seem to be so few still. If for some reason you think a metalhead will like non-metal circles/artists, feel free. I'm not big on electronic music but I find I actually rather like sound-online for example (even MOST of their vocal tracks (from the albums I like, they do have some albums I dislike altogether cuz of genre difference)). I also liked some of the old stuff by =Neutral=, but haven't had much luck for awhile regarding them.

I try looking at the wiki and stuff but it's huge and intimidating and and...it's not really good for exploring "is like" kinda stuff. But if anybody has any suggestions on how I can figure this out on my own somehow (maybe there's a database organized by catagory or something with samples? doubt it but who knows) I'd appreciate that too =).

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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #274 on: August 28, 2013, 02:42:05 AM »
About PC-98:
So did ZUN own Reimu, Marisa, Alice and Yuuka and Amusement Makers own the rest?
Or are all of them ZUN's creations and he only got rights to use only a few characters?
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« Reply #275 on: August 28, 2013, 02:51:07 AM »
About PC-98:
So did ZUN own Reimu, Marisa, Alice and Yuuka and Amusement Makers own the rest?
Or are all of them ZUN's creations and he only got rights to use only a few characters?

The whole IP rights thing is just an urban legend used by people uncomfortable with the truth: ZUN isn't bringing Mima or anyone else back because he doesn't like them as characters.

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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #277 on: August 28, 2013, 04:57:31 AM »
Regarding the music in fighting games, I knew somewhere that ZUN composed the original musics while the rest are Tasofro remixes. Now, regarding the remixes, is Tasofro free to choose which music to remix or do ZUN also pick which songs to use for each character?

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« Reply #278 on: August 28, 2013, 07:32:47 AM »
The whole IP rights thing is just an urban legend used by people uncomfortable with the truth: ZUN isn't bringing Mima or anyone else back because he doesn't like them as characters.

Although he did use Mima on the cover image of Akyuu's Untouched Score vol. 4.

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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #279 on: August 28, 2013, 01:11:37 PM »
The whole IP rights thing is just an urban legend used by people uncomfortable with the truth: ZUN isn't bringing Mima or anyone else back because he doesn't like them as characters.
No...I'm pretty sure he isn't bringing them back because:
a) It would conflict with Windows chronology and story;
b) He likes to move on from the whole PC-98 era;
c) It'll be a real pain to think of a good story to follow them up all these years.

It's not like he doesn't like them as characters, rather he just can't...atleast for now.

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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #280 on: August 28, 2013, 01:30:42 PM »
Although he did use Mima on the cover image of Akyuu's Untouched Score vol. 4.
Yeah... though it doesn't say that much considering that Akyuu's Untouched Score series is the PC-98 soundtrack. Its like saying the PC-98 remixes in Dolls in Pseudo Paradise mean anything.

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« Reply #281 on: August 28, 2013, 01:38:03 PM »
Yeah... though it doesn't say that much considering that Akyuu's Untouched Score series is the PC-98 soundtrack. Its like saying the PC-98 remixes in Dolls in Pseudo Paradise mean anything.

I never said I was disagreeing with Clarste's statement. I was just adding a little fact that not all fans are aware of. I'd never consider that appearance on a cd case as "Mima's great comeback" anyway.

Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #282 on: August 28, 2013, 05:38:36 PM »
I notice that the translation of some touhou manga varies slightly from certain sites and thus I wanted to know which one of them does more accurately follow to the original one (japanese version)?

E.g. Touhou WoHH chapter 12
- http://www.batoto.net/read/_/154308/touhou-ibarakasen-wild-and-horned-hermit_v03_ch12_by_no-group/4
- http://www.batoto.net/read/_/190386/touhou-ibarakasen-wild-and-horned-hermit_v03_ch12_by_gaku-gaku-animal-land/12
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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #283 on: August 28, 2013, 05:54:56 PM »
I notice that the translation of some touhou manga varies slightly from certain sites and thus I wanted to know which one of them does more accurately follow to the original one (japanese version)?

E.g. Touhou WoHH chapter 12
- http://www.batoto.net/read/_/154308/touhou-ibarakasen-wild-and-horned-hermit_v03_ch12_by_no-group/4
- http://g.e-hentai.org/s/bf346a65c7/624449-4

I don't think those two pages are drastically different, but speaking as the translator of the first one, I didn't have a proofreader back then and I translated it before the earlier chapter that explains what Komachi is talking about so I wasn't sure what was going on, so in this case I would trust the latter. It has better typesetting anyway.

...or so I thought but then they translated "Genbu Ravine" into "Xianwu's Ravine"  (I put "marsh" but that was before we decided to call it a ravine) which mostly just puzzles me. That's a strange choice, even assuming that Xianwu means the same thing in Chinese. Might they have been translating the chapter from Chinese? That's always dangerous. They also didn't seem to realize that Suiki is a name from mythology (even though it literally means water demon). I suppose I might have been too conservative with "water dragon" though, and I also made the unfounded assumption that Suiki is male which certainly confused some people. If you're looking for faithfulness to the Japanese, mine seems to be more literal in a number of places, but that's not necessarily a good thing. And they had the complete opposite idea for Seiga's alternate plan for escaping the trap? I dunno what to think about that. (edit: apparently my version is wrong on this issue. Not unexpected.)

In conclusion, both have problems, but I'm biased so you should ask someone else.
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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #284 on: August 28, 2013, 06:20:50 PM »
Are there any indications (pref in canon) as to how big the human village is population-wise?

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« Reply #285 on: August 29, 2013, 08:33:20 AM »
Are there any indications (pref in canon) as to how big the human village is population-wise?

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Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #286 on: August 29, 2013, 08:33:57 AM »
I remember hearing some time ago that IOSYS was barred from participating in Reitaisai. Is this true, and what's the real backstory there?

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« Reply #287 on: August 29, 2013, 09:45:32 AM »
I also remember hearing that so I had to check. Since Reitaisai 3, they've released a new album at every Reitaisai and Comiket, except for C77 and C82. They've released albums in those time periods (JeuxInterdits is casually listed as a C77 album, even), but this doesn't mean that they didn't have a booth. I'm not really sure where they announce their table registration, though.

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« Reply #288 on: September 01, 2013, 05:46:34 PM »
New guy, here. I pretty much made an account just to ask this (though I'll probably be posting more later):
Does a full in-game translation of The Last Comer exist? I've been working on translating it myself (currently working on the various text images) and I want to make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel before I get too much further. I saw a thread here earlier where someone was translating it but it seems to have been dead for a while.
On that note, has anyone translated TLC's endings? I've found translations for just about everything else but I can't find anything for the endings. I'm a decent programmer and image editor, but a translator I am not.

Re: Miscellaneous Questions Thread 4 - Bring us your Questions!
« Reply #289 on: September 02, 2013, 04:21:17 AM »
Regarding the music in fighting games, I knew somewhere that ZUN composed the original musics while the rest are Tasofro remixes. Now, regarding the remixes, is Tasofro free to choose which music to remix or do ZUN also pick which songs to use for each character?

Because nobody answered this before

Oh, and also, if shrine maidens can summon gods, and Sanae is considered a god as well a human, then can Reimu summon Sanae?
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« Reply #290 on: September 02, 2013, 08:58:55 AM »
Probably not.

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« Reply #291 on: September 03, 2013, 10:00:38 AM »
Has it been stated or at least implied anywhere in canon whether Youki Konpaku is Youmu father?
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« Reply #292 on: September 03, 2013, 10:32:06 AM »
Has it been stated or at least implied anywhere in canon whether Youki Konpaku is Youmu father?

http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Personal_Memo_on_Youki

Depending on the quality of the translation and what ZUN meant by "Youmu's old man". No other sources indicate any family bonds besides their same family name.

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« Reply #293 on: September 03, 2013, 10:46:51 AM »
It's grandfather, yes.

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« Reply #294 on: September 06, 2013, 02:17:26 PM »
Does the "Dim." in Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream really stand for Dimensional. Sure the literal meaning of the Japanese and the story do somewhat suggest that Dim. = Dimensional, but can this really be confirmed?

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« Reply #295 on: September 07, 2013, 10:02:14 AM »
- Why does the "Five Impossible Requests" of Kaguya are known to be impossible tasks? Apart from the fact that Kaguya had them already from her possession, that it.

- Also what does those 5 items do actually? Does they grant one immense power or something like that?
1) "Stone begging bowl of the Buddha" from India.
2) "Jeweled branch" from the island of Mount Hourai.
3) "Legendary robe of the fire-rat" of China.
4) "Colored jewel" from a dragon's neck.
5) "Legendary Cowry" treasure of the swallows.

- Does anyone has any idea (theory) behind why the reason Reimu was afraid of those "5 Magic Stones" in SoEW?
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« Reply #296 on: September 07, 2013, 11:14:07 AM »
- Why does the "Five Impossible Requests" of Kaguya are known to be impossible tasks? Apart from the fact that Kaguya had them already from her possession, that it.
Aside of being base on the original tale which Kaguya is base on, the reason why they are "impossible" is because they are impossible to obtain (in the tale, Kaguya-hime asks five princes to bring these objects in exchange of her hand). A bowl from a god, branch of a tree what grows in an island what might not be real, skin of a burning rat (?), jewel from a dragon and cowry what must be born inside a swallow. It carries into her "new" impossible tasks, what include mineral from moon rocks, fictional gem, ceiling what was burned off and unknown material.

On whenever or not the items have any special powers, maybe. Marisa says the danmaku comes from the items rather than herself and some of the items do have special propeties (like the Salamender Shield is a burning leather shield). However, how do the items generate it is bit unknown (does she channel her energy through them or does she whip them out and they do all the work?)
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« Reply #297 on: September 07, 2013, 01:52:38 PM »

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« Reply #298 on: September 07, 2013, 10:28:55 PM »
Does the "Dim." in Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream really stand for Dimensional. Sure the literal meaning of the Japanese and the story do somewhat suggest that Dim. = Dimensional, but can this really be confirmed?
夢時空 in the title also just means dream space-time; it's a clear yes, in any case.

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« Reply #299 on: September 08, 2013, 02:22:46 AM »
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This one is explained in CiLR.

Can you please also post the source page and not just a wiki article? That article is not citing any sources.
Anyway, there seems to be some parts of that article that doesn't seem like it could be true.

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Kaguya Houraisan owns a bonsai udonge kept unbloomed by her power over eternity, as well as a Jewelled Branch she received from a suitor.

Part of the article says she received the Jewelled Branch from a suitor? Does that mean the Hourai Branch, if so, what is the source of this? I don't remember her receiving any real artifacts from any of suitors. As far as I know, they all failed their quest.