Author Topic: ZUN and Touhou status update  (Read 412503 times)

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #900 on: August 14, 2014, 08:39:59 AM »
Breaking news.



Comes exclusively with preorders of Forbidden Scrollery vol. 3. (Also they're now available.)
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #901 on: August 14, 2014, 09:07:14 AM »
Breaking news.



Comes with preorders of Forbidden Scrollery vol. 3. (Also they're now available.)
A reminder that this is completely produced by demand. You can only get it by preordering the limited edition, no other way around.
http://store.kadokawa.co.jp/preorder/888800000002/
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #902 on: August 14, 2014, 11:27:40 AM »
Do they ship internationally?
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #903 on: August 14, 2014, 11:45:25 AM »
You need a japanese postal code, address, phone number etc so no, unfortunately.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #904 on: August 14, 2014, 11:47:14 AM »
A reminder that this is completely produced by demand. You can only get it by preordering the limited edition, no other way around.
http://store.kadokawa.co.jp/preorder/888800000002/
Wait, it's from Kadokawa?

Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #905 on: August 14, 2014, 12:41:20 PM »
Kosuzu is the dorkiest and cutest Touhou.
I preordered mine through AmiAmi.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #906 on: August 14, 2014, 01:17:44 PM »
Hnnnng OK I'mma have to hit up Ami Ami later today too. It'd be nice to have a Mamizou fig for her to squee over but that'll never happen. :(

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #907 on: August 14, 2014, 01:29:15 PM »
*whistles nonchalantly*

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #908 on: August 14, 2014, 01:59:07 PM »
*whistles nonchalantly*
GEE I WONDER IF THERE IS ANYBODY WHO LIVES IN JAPAN AND CAN HELP OUT BY ORDERING THESE FOR THESE POOR FANS AMONG US. ISN'T THERE REALLY NOBODY LIVING IN JAPAN?

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 to be released by Playism
« Reply #909 on: August 14, 2014, 02:04:02 PM »
If you're OK with holding onto this forever, sure. It'll be another 3-4 months before I get another complete swag list together though. x3x

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Comiket 86 clearance sale
« Reply #910 on: August 15, 2014, 02:57:45 AM »
Tomorrow (August 16) is Comiket 86's Touhou day. ZUN has updated his blog for his Comiket 86 activity.
http://kourindou.exblog.jp/22291772/

For the first time ever, he will not sell a new work at a convention. Instead, this is a clearance sale, selling discs he cleared out during his move. He will still be present himself.

Location: シー29a

Games:
All Windows Touhou shooting games made by ZUN, sold at 1000 Yen each.

Music CDs:
All Touhou music CDs, at 500 Yen each, except for Unknown Flowers, Mesmering Journey, which will be sold at 200 Yen.

200 Yen for Unknown Flowers, Mesmering Journey! This moment will go down in history.

EDIT:
I mean, whether intentionally or not, ZUN has thrown a curve ball this time, by announcing this special sale on the last day, when most Comiket warriors have long laid out their Touhou buying routes, which would have naturally not included his booth this time.
« Last Edit: August 15, 2014, 02:20:23 PM by cuc »
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #911 on: August 15, 2014, 10:39:02 AM »
Oh son of a ...dammit. N-Forza...is it too late to add stuff on...?

Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Comiket 86 clearance sale
« Reply #912 on: August 16, 2014, 01:23:10 PM »
200 Yen for Unknown Flowers, Mesmering Journey! This moment will go down in history.

And I'm just sitting here, repeating "Hoy shit" to myself over and over like a broken tape recorder because HOLY SHIT I CAN'T EVEN.

*Edit:
it sold out not even 20 minutes into the event.
Whelp.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #913 on: August 16, 2014, 01:29:03 PM »
It's always been 200 yen at events though.

Also it sold out not even 20 minutes into the event.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #914 on: August 16, 2014, 03:35:10 PM »
I mean, whether intentionally or not, ZUN has thrown a curve ball this time, by announcing this special sale on the last day, when most Comiket warriors have long laid out their Touhou buying routes, which would have naturally not included his booth this time.

Ahahaha, this is the ZUNiest thing he could have possibly done at C86. Well played.
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[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #915 on: August 16, 2014, 03:41:12 PM »
The Touhou day has ended. Last summer Comiket was record-breakingly hot. This time the weather is much more agreeable.

This was how ZUN's booth looked like:


His blog post mentioned a "+α" in addition to the other discs he was going to sell. As you can see, this  "alpha" turned out to be the DDC demo disc. Nothing exotic like the unreleased TD demo or the Comiket 62 editions of EoSD and Dolls of Pseudo Paradise, lol.


Speaking of Comiket 62, a relevant topic has exploded on Japanese twitter. At Comiket, 桜木李杏 (probably pronounced Sakuraki Rikyuu; @cynthia_koko), a Touhou fan who has put in a lot of work investigating Satsuki Rin, (tried to) ask ZUN about the identity of the Comiket 62 circle cut girl with erhu - the one we often assume to be Satsuki. Sakuraki seemed to have asked questions including whether the girl was a character "planned to appear in EoSD", and whether she was designed to be the "poster girl" of Team Shanghai Alice; ZUN's answer to the first question was negative.

Even though Sakuraki never spelt out the name "Satsuki Rin" to ZUN directly, we've still got an answer - the erhu girl was likely not Satsuki Rin. Sakuraki said this was their expected answer. Art thou ready to accept it, fellow Touhou fan? :flowerpower:
« Last Edit: August 16, 2014, 03:44:01 PM by cuc »
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #916 on: August 20, 2014, 10:53:01 AM »
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ZUN's answer to the first question was negative.

hmmmm interesting!

then i guess she was probably just a planned midboss that got scrapped for lack of time (he said many times he was short on time for EOSD and he didn't clean the presentation very well, didn't he?)
that whould explains why she has a sprite from the front (as an ennemy) and not from the back (as a player).

then i guess the actual SatsuKI RIN was just an idea and he didn't even got around to ever drawing her... a little dissapointing.  :(

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #917 on: August 20, 2014, 11:17:43 AM »
Well, any connection between the unused information and the unused sprites and the circle cut and so on have always just been assumptions. There's no reason besides "they're all unused" that they would all be of the same thing.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #918 on: August 20, 2014, 02:58:22 PM »
then i guess she was probably just a planned midboss that got scrapped for lack of time (he said many times he was short on time for EOSD and he didn't clean the presentation very well, didn't he?)
that whould explains why she has a sprite from the front (as an ennemy) and not from the back (as a player).
Satsuki Rin was a player character discovered from the game's executable file. The unused sprite was obviously an earlier version of Rumia. They are entirely separate things.



Ichijinsha will publish a 128-page artbook for TOKIAME named "Hourai". This will be his first proper artbook, collecting his Touhou illustrations plus some additional commercial and personal works. The book costs 2700 Yen (tax included).

TOKIAME's blog entry
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #919 on: August 21, 2014, 08:04:14 AM »
128 page artbook..... holy hell. I think I might want to contact Forza on this case.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #920 on: August 21, 2014, 05:23:31 PM »
I was able to order it just fine off of Amazon. After shipping it came out to roughly $36.

Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #921 on: August 21, 2014, 05:44:07 PM »
Apparently, getting it from MelonBooks nets you an additional dust jacket:

http://shop.melonbooks.co.jp/shop/sp_211000036237_ichijinsha.php

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #922 on: August 21, 2014, 11:29:09 PM »
Is there a way I can order this without outside help? Or would going through people like n-forza be my only option?
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #923 on: August 22, 2014, 12:54:39 AM »
N-Forza has PayPal, and in terms of speed is comparable to a comfortable margin with ordering directly, if either of those are a factor for you. If not, I'm sure others can post links.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #924 on: August 22, 2014, 03:25:20 AM »
Well, my speed is a bit limited at the moment as I'm dealing with Comiket stuff, but yeah.

Soul: How did you get that good of a shipping price from Amazon JP? I thought buying pretty much anything added another $25 or so in shipping costs.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #925 on: August 22, 2014, 03:32:56 AM »
Well, my speed is a bit limited at the moment as I'm dealing with Comiket stuff, but yeah.

Soul: How did you get that good of a shipping price from Amazon JP? I thought buying pretty much anything added another $25 or so in shipping costs.

I don't know, it just kinda happened! There was only the one option available to ship, I clicked it and it was just over 12 dollars...that seemed reasonable so I placed the order. It's called 'AmazonGlobal Priority Shipping' on my receipt:

http://i.imgur.com/ayK3AUf.png

Jesus, I just noticed the shipping and delivery dates...this can't be right:

Shipping Estimate Thursday, August 28, 2014
Delivery estimate Sunday, August 31, 2014 - Monday, September 1, 2014
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #926 on: August 22, 2014, 10:43:29 AM »
Satsuki Rin was a player character discovered from the game's executable file. The unused sprite was obviously an earlier version of Rumia. They are entirely separate things.



Ichijinsha will publish a 128-page artbook for TOKIAME named "Hourai". This will be his first proper artbook, collecting his Touhou illustrations plus some additional commercial and personal works. The book costs 2700 Yen (tax included).

TOKIAME's blog entry
Japanese Amazon

One stupid question, is this "commercial"? As in enough to be found in places like Kinokuniya as with other canon Touhou print works?
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #927 on: August 22, 2014, 12:20:05 PM »
Jesus, I just noticed the shipping and delivery dates...this can't be right
*Edit: Those are most likely placeholder dates, but the price looks legit.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201213190

One stupid question, is this "commercial"? As in enough to be found in places like Kinokuniya as with other canon Touhou print works?
As a frequenter of Kinokuniya, I wouldn't get my hopes up.
There's always a tiny possibility, but the only non-canon Touhou print works that I've ever seen in Kinokuniyas are the Touhou Project Illustration Tutorial Guides.
« Last Edit: August 22, 2014, 12:38:38 PM by akj »

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Comiket 86 clearance sale
« Reply #928 on: August 22, 2014, 05:39:15 PM »
200 Yen for Unknown Flowers, Mesmering Journey! This moment will go down in history.

Even if i'll look like a noob i have to ask: what is so special about this? Is it a particularly difficult item to find?

Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: The Great Comiket 86 Clearance Sale
« Reply #929 on: August 22, 2014, 06:17:51 PM »
ZUN originally got only a few copies of that CD printed. Most people in Japan never got to listen to it, and sealed copies were being sold for very high prices.

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