What kinds of girls would you like to see in the future?

[Solais]

The Slug Goddess also should have red hair. So the three main colors would all associated with the three goddesses. (Also, Sanae has green hair because Blue and Yellow are Green.)

[Augen]

I'd personally like a tentacle demon, but that might not fly...

Maybe a rabbi loli who uses golems. That might be neat.

If nothing else, we have Basan.

[♛ Apher-Forte]

an Ancient would be nice.

I dunno, like an elemental but with cooler powers

[game2011]

An actual giantess and mini-girl.  No, Suika doesn't really count because she can change size at will.

[triangles]

Did anyone say ladybug youkai yet?
Because that would be so :3

Or dragonfly, the double wings would be adorable.

And maybe a 110% confirmed SUP GUYS I AM THE TOUHOU OF SUMMER, because last I checked it's debatable who truly has that season cornered?
Oh oh and some more SCIENCE! Touhous.  Like, the Touhou of gravity or various regions of the EM spectrum or something  :V


...yeah I'm probably late to the party and all these were already mentioned.

[Tengukami]

Esifex/Internet Carebear also wants the ladybug youkai, but I have to agree with you about a summer youkai. People around here like to say it's Orange, just to give her something to do.

There were a number of science-y youkai in the PC-98 series, but to my knowledge the closest we get in the Windows series is engineering, with Nitori. Unless you count SDM's wooden rocket to the moon experiment.

[mew77]

wooden rocket??

When?

[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

In SSiB.

[OkashiiKisei]

Alright, two more ideas:

A goldfish youkai. The joke around her is the fact that goldfishes have memory spans of only a few seconds. She'd be like Dory from Finding Nemo: forgetting everything after only a few seconds. She would even forget that you just kicked her ass a few moments ago. This could provide quite some jokes. If you want to get extreme she'll even repeat some of the lines she said, forgetting that she said them at all. So then you get: "Oh what a cute Shrine Maiden! .... Oh, what a cute Shrine Maiden! .... Oh what a cute Shrine Maiden! .... Oh, what a cute Shrine Maiden!" etc. Reimu would probably attack her for annoyingly repeating everything she said a few seconds ago.

Now the other idea, and I need to explain a few things before I can tell the actual idea:
Have you even wondered what happened to the previous Shrine Maiden? Reimu's mother? Why isn't she around the shrine to help her child? Why did she pass over her task to Reimu so early? Shrines usually have multiple mikos, and the lead miko tends to stay there for a loooong time. Why would Reimu's mother spontaneously abandon her job and leave it to her (at-the-time) ten year old daughter, knowing what kind of dangers a Shrine Maiden needs to face? Isn't that irresponsible and uncaring?

I think there is a good reason why Reimu lives alone at the Shrine from such a young age.

Her mother was killed. By a youkai.

Because of that Reimu had to take over the Shrine Maidens job from an early age, living by herself for all those years. There had to be a new Shrine Maiden, or else the Border would collapse. This might explain why classic Reimu was so incredibly mean spirited in the PC-98 games, sealing youkai for hardly any reason: she held a grudge against them. They took away her mother, and now she grinds them to dust at the smallest sign of provocation. In the windows series she seems to have slightly grown over it, but still lets herself be consumed by these urges from time to time (attacking Tokiko for example). This might just explain all those 'what the hell, Reimu' moments. And now here comes the character concept:

The youkai who killed Reimu's mother. The first, truly evil Touhou.

This youkai might have hidden itself for all these years and only just now reemerged, or Reimu knew where he/she was all along, but just wasn't strong enough to face him/her yet. Alternatively: Reimu's mother sacrificed herself to seal this youkai up, or even destroy it. But now its broken free/reincarnated, and it's out for revenge, hell bent to destroy the Hakurei bloodline. This dude is going to be bad. Very bad. Bordering on complete monster. And if it managed to finish off a mature Hakurei Maiden it's going to be strong and legendary. I think the being most fitting for this role is none other than Yamato-no-Orochi. It might be the very final villain, or it might not (I think Amatsu-Mikaboshi will be the villain of the real final game), but its going to be a historic battle for Touhou Project.

[orinrin]

How about another shrine maiden?  >_>

[OkashiiKisei]

How about another shrine maiden?  >_>

One Reimu rip-off and spotlight-stealer is more than enough.

[game2011]

Metal Slug references, yaaaay~

In fact, what about a Slug Goddess? I read that in Japan there is a version of 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' with Snakes, Frogs and Slugs. It goes along the lines of: snake eats frog, frog eats slug, slug poisons(?) snake. So a Slug Goddess would ft in perfectly with our current Frog and Snake Goddesses! It would make the circle (and the joke) complete!

Bold words are corrections.  Anyway, the slimy mucus on a slug's body is supposedly disgusting to taste for snakes as well as some other predators.  Still, I'm not exactly sure why slugs are used for countering snakes... 

And on the side note, Mega & Bass's CD database for Snake Man says that he dislikes slugs.

Alright, two more ideas:

A goldfish youkai. The joke around her is the fact that goldfishes have memory spans of only a few seconds. She'd be like Dory from Finding Nemo: forgetting everything after only a few seconds. She would even forget that you just kicked her ass a few moments ago. This could provide quite some jokes. If you want to get extreme she'll even repeat some of the lines she said, forgetting that she said them at all. So then you get: "Oh what a cute Shrine Maiden! .... Oh, what a cute Shrine Maiden! .... Oh what a cute Shrine Maiden! .... Oh, what a cute Shrine Maiden!" etc. Reimu would probably attack her for annoyingly repeating everything she said a few seconds ago.

Goldfishes having a memory of 3 seconds is actually proven false already.  They can remember things for more than 3 seconds.

[Thata no Guykoro]

In fact they recently showed that Mythbusters episode with that...

On that note, how about a shark youkai? With the side job of loans.

[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

On that note, how about a shark youkai? With the side job of loans.

singing-shark.jpg

[Bias Bus]

The youkai who killed Reimu's mother. The first, truly evil Touhou.

This youkai might have hidden itself for all these years and only just now reemerged, or Reimu knew where he/she was all along, but just wasn't strong enough to face him/her yet. Alternatively: Reimu's mother sacrificed herself to seal this youkai up, or even destroy it. But now its broken free/reincarnated, and it's out for revenge, hell bent to destroy the Hakurei bloodline. This dude is going to be bad. Very bad. Bordering on complete monster. And if it managed to finish off a mature Hakurei Maiden it's going to be strong and legendary. I think the being most fitting for this role is none other than Yamato-no-Orochi. It might be the very final villain, or it might not (I think Amatsu-Mikaboshi will be the villain of the real final game), but its going to be a historic battle for Touhou Project.

I like this. Then again I think there needs to be more evil in Touhou as it is (all this not quite evil shit isn't cutting it for me).

Also, if Amatsu Mikaboshi IS used for the final game, ZUN'll probably have it as a mass of energy (like Dark Matter) instead of a loli (I dunno, I think since it's the final game he'd by then do something like that to really change things up for the finale). If Mikaboshi turns out to be one giant eyeball like horror, I will laugh SO hard at the obvious shout out to Kirby.

[OkashiiKisei]

I like this. Then again I think there needs to be more evil in Touhou as it is (all this not quite evil shit isn't cutting it for me).

Also, if Amatsu Mikaboshi IS used for the final game, ZUN'll probably have it as a mass of energy (like Dark Matter) instead of a loli (I dunno, I think since it's the final game he'd by then do something like that to really change things up for the finale). If Mikaboshi turns out to be one giant eyeball like horror, I will laugh SO hard at the obvious shout out to Kirby.

And the reference would be complete if Amatsu would shoot bullets made out of its own blood :V

[shadowbringer]

Because of that Reimu had to take over the Shrine Maidens job from an early age, living by herself for all those years. There had to be a new Shrine Maiden, or else the Border would collapse. This might explain why classic Reimu was so incredibly mean spirited in the PC-98 games, sealing youkai for hardly any reason: she held a grudge against them.

http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Highly_Responsive_to_Prayers:_Prologue

[OkashiiKisei]

http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Highly_Responsive_to_Prayers:_Prologue

That still doesn't explain why she lives alone. And it doesn't really say much to contradict my theory. That 'easy-going demeanor' might just be an act.

[VIVItheFujoshi]

here some OC (and not) where have some kinds of youkai who no are appeared. some half-something-hanyou, the thing who all (almost all) have in common.
-Half human-pig Youkai (with ears and tail, and her hair is curly)
-Half ninyou half kappa (or half ninyou half human if you want) who lives in a river.
-a very known half human-youkai who results (in this story) be an half-air japanese dragon.
-a male black inugami,who looks girly and all believes who is female but not.
-a crested ibis youkai with bad luck.
-a monkey youkai,with misterious origin.
-a godly indian manifestation who can take any sacred apparence from the place who she is; in this case she is a kilin. a darky kilin, she have tanned skin and golden hair.
I take lots of inspiration to the Journey to the East in this, was from a LONG time ago.

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ylwuo6.jpg

[OkashiiKisei]

Penguin youkai.

*starts humming Dedede's theme*

[E-Nazrin]

I like this. Then again I think there needs to be more evil in Touhou as it is (all this not quite evil shit isn't cutting it for me).

That's just how ZUN rolls. :yukkuri:

I actually like the moral ambiguity. That tends to be how things work in the real world.

[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

I like this. Then again I think there needs to be more evil in Touhou as it is (all this not quite evil shit isn't cutting it for me) because I'm as obsessed with the twisted and demented and evil to the point of being a detriment to my enjoyment of the rest of it as Gpop is with Koishi.

[Augen]

How about another shrine maiden?  >_>

Or maybe a suitable cleric of another faith? I'm thinking Touhou could use one of the following:

A nun
A buddhist monk (minus the baldness, please)
A rabbi (with golems)
A voodoo priestess
An inquisitor (nobody would expect that)

[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

An inquisitor (nobody would expect that)

I like the irony of how, 40 years later, we're still quoting a comedy group whose defining characteristic at the time was that they were doing something new and original, and were trying to go against the grain of catchphraseism and "it's funny because we're referencing it," kinda like exactly what we're doing with it nowadays.

[Kanako Yasaka]

A buddhist monk (minus the baldness, please)

Byakuren

[Augen]

Byakuren

Ah, yes. Completely spaced on that one. *punches self*

[♛ Apher-Forte]

Actually fuck that, just once I wanted to see a bald loli.

heck, her doujins would be ecstatic to read.

"OH BBY WHY ARE YOU SO BALDDDDDD OH YEAH OOOOH YEAH" *polish that noggin*

[8lue Wizard]

bald loli

She would be immune to lasers.

[OkashiiKisei]

bald loli.

This would be her ability.

[mew77]

and what a powerful ability it is.