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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2018, 03:51:25 PM »
This is mostly a test of the influence of non-Japanese voters on the results.
They're asking for your region in the survey, can't you just ask for that data?

I'd be surprised if the poll wasn't dominated by the Japanese, if only because the website is in Japanese and thus a pain in the ass for most foreigners to vote (I'm not even sure if I'm going to bother myself).
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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2018, 07:55:57 PM »
I've discovered that narrowing my favourite songs into a list of 10 is nearly impossible.
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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #32 on: January 15, 2018, 09:12:02 PM »
So much favorites, so few voting spots. I always try to include some of the newer things inside of my votes to show that I care about the newer stuff, but even that turns out to be incrementally difficult, with each new interesting addition to this series. There are may be a few votes that won't change tho, but it'd be pretty convenient if some new spots for new votes get opened in the future. Also I'm kinda curious as to why the pairing votes stopped being a thing. I guess it might've been a one-time only AoCF celebration kind of thing, but it could've been interesting to see how some of the characters whose schtick is mainly about them being with others (Maribel & Renko or Satono & Mai for instance) would have fared in there.

Anwyway, with that out of the way :

Character votes :
-Hinanawi Tenshi (first vote)
-Moriya Suwako
-Kochiya Sanae
-Kishin Sagume
-Toyosatomimi no Miko - smart girl, very very talented. The best!
-Yorigami Shion
-Eternity Larva. Don't judge.

Music votes
-Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke (first vote)
-Secret God Matara ~ Hidden Star in All Seasons
-Illusionary White Traveler
-Retrospective Kyoto
-Japanese Saga
-Ame-no-torifune Shrine
-Gathering the Mysterious from All Around Japan
-Dr. Latency's Sleepless Eyes
-The Instant is Shorter Than Planck Time
-The Darkness Brought In by Swallowstone Naturalis Historia

Works votes
-Hidden Star in Four Seasons (first vote)
-Double Dealing Character
-Symposium of Post-mysticism
-Forbidden Scrollery
-Magical Astronomy

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #33 on: January 16, 2018, 08:08:30 AM »
I am quite curious what is going to happen to the position of the new characters from Th16 and Th15.5. Going purely by the fan-art on Twitter/Pixiv, I am expecting majority of them ranking quite high.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #34 on: January 16, 2018, 08:09:59 AM »
Characters
1. Imaizumi Kagerou
2. Sekibanki
3. Wakasagihime
4. Doremy Sweet
5. Hecatia Lapislazuli
6. Mystia Lorelei
7. Ibuki Suika

Music
1. Bamboo Forest of the Full Moon
2. Shoutoku Legend ~ True Administrator (HM)
3. Primordial Beat ~ Pristine Beat
4. Romantic Escape Flight
5. Romantic Children
6. Illusionary White Traveler
7. A Midsummer Fairy's Dream
8. Bamboo Forest in Flame
9. Bell of the Antipodes
10. A Pair of Divine Beasts

Works
1. DDC
2. HSiFS
3. IN
4. EoSD
5. MoF

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2018, 12:18:05 PM »
Characters:
Futo (top vote)
Miko
Sumireko
Renko
Sagume
Doremy
Tenshi

Music:
Old Yuanshen (top vote)
Magus Night
Magical Storm
Last Occultism
Battlefield of Hanahazama
Love-Coloured Master Spark
Dr. Latency's Sleepless Eyes
Midnight Spell Card
The Lake Reflects the Cleansed Moonlight
Green Sanatorium

Works
Antinomy of Common Flowers (top)
Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
Ten Desires
Impossible Spell Card
Dr. Latency's Freak Report

I am quite curious what is going to happen to the position of the new characters from Th16 and Th15.5. Going purely by the fan-art on Twitter/Pixiv, I am expecting majority of them ranking quite high.
Shion maybe, but others, and especially the TH16 characters, didn't seem to impress many people, purely going by the art.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2018, 03:00:25 PM »
Characters: I'm sitting out this one. There's only one I dislike (Junko), and the rest float somewhere between "she's all right, I guess" and "she's cool, I guess". Yeah... I don't play for the characters, and I'm too lazy to vote for random high-tier non-Junkos just to hurt Junko's chances. (Ninja edit: On second thought, I might give a vote to Tewi.)


Music:
1. Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream (top vote)
2. Illusionary Night ~ Ghostly Eyes
3. Romantic Children
4. Alice in Wonderland
5. Doll of Misery
6. Now, Until the Moment You Die
7. Last Remote
8. Bad Apple!!
9. Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall
10. The Gensokyo the Gods Loved


Works:
1. IN (top vote)
2. SA
3. UFO
4. HSiFS
5. MS

(Seriously, why is Pure Furies #1 in this preliminary poll? What do people see in it? The opening [0:05~0:15] is grating. The part at [0:15~0:20] gets annoying after a few repetitions. The tune starting at [0.38] is decent, but kind of bland by Touhou standards and repeated too much.)

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #37 on: January 16, 2018, 03:04:53 PM »
I hashed out all the near-1000 lines of music title translations but there are still bugs and it's 9AM so I'm going to bed

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #38 on: January 16, 2018, 03:34:46 PM »
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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #39 on: January 16, 2018, 04:24:10 PM »
(Seriously, why is Pure Furies #1 in this preliminary poll? What do people see in it? The opening [0:05~0:15] is grating. The part at [0:15~0:20] gets annoying after a few repetitions. The tune starting at [0.38] is decent, but kind of bland by Touhou standards and repeated too much.)

I actually jumped off my chair when seeing Pure Furies taking #1 in this early exit poll, but it's prolly gonna fall down a lot so I'm being more cautious with my anticipation now :V
But I'm not losing hope just yet
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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #40 on: January 16, 2018, 07:31:02 PM »
Well time for my yearly comeback to the forum and to cast my vote~

Character
1. Kagerou
2. Wakasagihime
3. Youmu
4. Flandre
5. Benben
6. Alice
7. Doremy

Some different ones from last year but I hope to see them change~ I'm all for Kagerou getting higher~
I'd vote for Shizuha Clarste, especially since she's my touhou girl of the week on twitter but 7 is so hard to choose from T^T

I'm looking forward to the results~
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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #41 on: January 16, 2018, 07:32:01 PM »
Hey Drake, thanks for the translation thinger. I appreciate it, made voting way easier!

Gimme a kick in IRC if you get it to include the other things so I can do them easily.

ALSO FOR THE REST OF YOU: here is a barometer of good taste.

1. Kisume (Most buckets means most better)
2. The Shiz (She gets there even without Clarste's well thought out planning.)
3. Hina  (She is a good egg)
4. Ran (I've been in a Ran mood lately. No real reason for it)
5. Ringo (Also a good egg)
6. Aunn (I refuse to explain myself)
7. Hatate (Wildcard choice)

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #42 on: January 16, 2018, 08:23:00 PM »
I actually jumped off my chair when seeing Pure Furies taking #1 in this early exit poll, but it's prolly gonna fall down a lot so I'm being more cautious with my anticipation now :V
But I'm not losing hope just yet


Thanks for the info. I'm sick of Septette for a Dead Princess and U.N. Owen was Her? winning, but I'd rather have one of those than the only final boss theme I dislike.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #43 on: January 16, 2018, 08:54:12 PM »
I may as well do what everyone else is doing.

Characters:
 - Hina Kagiyama

 - Doremy Sweet
 - Momiji Inubashiri
 - Minamitsu Murasa
 - Meiling Hong
 - Raiko Horikawa
 - Eiki Shiki

Hina is just Hina so she gets two points. Doremy's appearance in AoCF solidified her as a glorious meme. My thoughts on Momiji are very different from most people so it's hard to explain (for starters, I would never draw her with wolf ears or a tail, similar to Aya not having crow wings). Murasa is just Murasa so she's on this list. Meiling is the only pre-PoFV character I felt the urge to put on this list. Even though I don't like DDC at all, Raiko is definitely my favourite of the music-based characters (most of them aren't very memorable anyway lol). Eiki is just Eiki so she's also on this list.
Really most of my choices have to do with personality and design aesthetics because that's most of what I care about.

Music:
 - Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's Kappa ~ Candid Friend (ULiL)

 - Road of the Apotropaic God ~ Dark Road
 - Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea (UNL)
 - Our Hisoutensoku
 - Cinderella Cage ~ Kagome Kagome
 - Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion
 - The Traditional Old Man and the Stylish Girl (ULiL)
 - Old Yuanxian
 - Eternal Spring Dream
 - Bamboo Forest in Flames

AAAAAAGGHH DECISIONS. I struggled so hard trying to condense this, because I really wanted to also have Crazy Backdoor Dancers, Charming Domination ~ Who Done It? and various others. I tried to be fair with games but uh... ULiL has a mix of meh and top-tier music.

Works:
 - Mountain of Faith

 - Subterranean Animism
 - Imperishable Night
 - Undefined Fantastic Object

Didn't bother with 5 because I honestly couldn't decide after this. I just really like MoF and SA, and UFO barely made the list.
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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #44 on: January 16, 2018, 10:38:29 PM »
(Seriously, why is Pure Furies #1 in this preliminary poll? What do people see in it? The opening [0:05~0:15] is grating. The part at [0:15~0:20] gets annoying after a few repetitions. The tune starting at [0.38] is decent, but kind of bland by Touhou standards and repeated too much.)
It's not one of my favourites, but I quite like the 1:22-2:05 and 3:33-3:55 parts.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #45 on: January 16, 2018, 10:53:41 PM »
They're all good songs, Bront.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #46 on: January 17, 2018, 12:21:22 AM »
Thanks for the info. I'm sick of Septette for a Dead Princess and U.N. Owen was Her? winning, but I'd rather have one of those than the only final boss theme I dislike.
Nostalgia effect. EoSD is basically the root of modern Touhou. It irked me a bit too when I first started participating in the THPP back after when DDC was released, but then I revisited some digital games that I played in my childhood and compared those to their contemporary versions. I must say that I understand the feelings of those people. It's a mostly psychological thing, and psychology goes pretty darn deep.

The one and only? Welp, bad luck I guess. Pure Furies is friggin' grand, and a lot of people certainly seem to agree with me on that. Has been my top fave for two years straight, almost lost the throne to The Concealed Four Seasons but nope  :V
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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #47 on: January 17, 2018, 02:11:16 AM »
It isn't just bias seeing the past as better or something. As can be seen from the questionnaire data from previous contests, the ownership of games in the series decreases pretty linearly, EoSD having the most and going down from there. This is obviously attributable to people going through the series chronologically. More people own older games than newer ones, so there's naturally going to be more fans.

Also, the fact that they're older means there's been more time for fans to create works and have them become established within the fandom. With the boom of fans around 2007, MoF was the newest work with SWR around the corner, so basically everything made and being made in that period was going to be focused mostly on characters from 6~9 and such. They just benefited a lot from how things played out.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #48 on: January 17, 2018, 07:10:31 AM »
Updated touhoudict with music titles. Touhou has a lot of music guys.


As a side-note it temporarily no longer works with the list page having "New!!" text nor the best pairings results page because I opted to simplify some stuff, but I'll be working that back in as I restructure it a bit.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #49 on: January 17, 2018, 10:18:23 AM »
Thanks Drake! You're a prince.

Edit: I am glad that's at the top of the page in 50 view.


As for Musics

1. Rural Makai City Esoterica, because yalls forgot.
2. The Pierrot of the Stare Spangled Banner, because fuck yeah.
3. Bloomy Nobly, Ink-Black Cherry Blossoms ~ Border of Life, because it's still good
4. Hellfire Mantle, because few people remember how hella this one is.
5. The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field, because it is special to me.
6. Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion, because it goes hard in good ways
7. Primordial Beat ~ Pristine Beat, because see #6
8. The Concealed Four Seasons, because this is probably my favorite endboss fight since Yuyuko, and thus favoritism.
9. September Pumkin, because I don't need to explain myself
10. Voyage 1969, so Kilga can rest assured I voted for one IN thing (also it hella good)

This is random as fuck and based on my feelings right now. Give it a day or two and it'd probably change totally.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #50 on: January 17, 2018, 06:15:41 PM »
Second exit poll, by the same person as the previous one posted here.
https://twitter.com/ShioSyakeYakiNi/status/953602180589563905

I can imagine that those who liked Kokoro are now voting for Shion (as well).
Yukari (11) and Tenshi(6) got a boost, but voting for them could mean other characters get less... Like Yuyuko! Though, I doubt she'll actually drop to that place.
Also, those who like the Sealing Club tend to be on twitter more often (afaik), so the three members are higher than their previous result.
Last, Keine is now on the 82nd spot.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #51 on: January 17, 2018, 07:19:14 PM »
Preliminary Top 25 v2 (found here: https://twitter.com/ShioSyakeYakiNi/status/953602180589563905)

1. Koishi
2. Reimu
3. Marisa
4. Youmu
5. Sakuya
6. Tenshi
7. Flandre
8. Remilia
9. Aya
10. Alice
11. Yukari
12. Shion
13. Satori
14. Sanae
15. Mokou
16. Sumireko
17. Udonge
18. Kogasa
19. Doremy
20. Kokoro
21. Yuuka
22. Momiji (<3)
23. Seija
24. Rumia
25. Sagume

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #52 on: January 17, 2018, 07:37:07 PM »
Wow I'm not the only one who thinks Pure Furies is massively overrated. Even beyond it's mostly bland feel, I've been telling people this whole time that the drums are slightly out of sync with the rest of the instruments and it drives me crazy. The curse of having a good ear for rhythm, I guess. :V

Characters
1. Konpaku Youmu
2. Reiuji Utsuho
3. Hakurei Reimu
4. Tatara Kogasa
5. Kirisame Marisa
6. Yakumo Yukari
7. Kijin Seija

Nothing's changed here for a while. Haven't really spent enough time being exposed to some of the newest characters for them to jump up the list, but even then they probably won't break this top 7.

Music (in no particular order beyond the first three)
1. Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion
2. A Maiden's Illusionary Funeral ~ Necro-Fantasy
3. Beware the Umbrella Left There Forever
4. Lullaby of the Deserted Hell
5. Absorbed in Curiosity Year-Round
6. Faraway Voyage of 380,000 Kilometers
7. Sky of Scarlet Perception
8. Magical Storm
9. Midnight Spell Card
10. Illusionary White Traveler

Also barely changed from recent years except for one HSiFS song getting in. HSiFS's OST is great overall so it's no surprise. I'm afraid as more music is made I'm legit gonna run outta room here lol.

Works
1. Touhou Chireiden (Subterranean Animism)
2. Touhou Fuujinroku (Mountain of Faith)
3. Touhou Kishinjou (Double Dealing Character)
4. Yousei Daisensou (Great Fairy Wars)
5. Touhou Youyoumu (Perfect Cherry Blossom)

Also the same as before. If HSiFS's release system wasn't so horrendously broken it'd probably be a real contender for spot #4.

Questionnaire
1. 29
2. Male
3. Outside Japan: North America
4. "Lunatic Clear" for all except PoFV (not played)
5. "Don't buy" for each
6. Music, Games, and Universe/Setting
7. UFO ~ GFW (specifically, November 2009)
8. Youtube
9. Do not participate
10. Voted past 4+ years

I'm a real veteran at this point, what can I say? Notably I hadn't gotten a Lunatic Legacy clear for LoLK by this time last year, but I ended up fixing that in the spring.
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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #53 on: January 17, 2018, 10:08:14 PM »
Took me a bit to realize which one is Jo'on and Shion

Characters (no order after first):

1. Kokoro
Alice
Kogasa
Shion
Tenshi
Aunn
Koishi

Music (same as last time):

1. No More Going Through Doors
UNL the Grimoire of Alice
LoLK Eternal Spring Dream
AoCF Necro-Fantasia
EoSD Chinese Tea
DDC Little Princess
AoCF Battlefield of Flower Threshold
Fires of Hokkai
Crazy Backup Dancers
The Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum
Mwahahahahha!

Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #54 on: January 17, 2018, 11:13:52 PM »
Maaan, it's true. Using a hotmail address means your ID just plain never comes. Then I tried one of those free temporary email addresses and I got the ID in less than a minute, it almost felt like a prank.

I hope having included my 13th poll ID when requesting an ID be sent to the temporary email lowers the chance that my vote is thrown away...

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #55 on: January 18, 2018, 12:22:35 AM »
-Yukari (+2)
-Sagume
-Seija
-Okina
-Jo'on
-Rumia
-Toyohime

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #56 on: January 19, 2018, 02:49:00 AM »
I can confirm that hotmail/live/outlook stuff will go through if you whitelist specifically admin@thwiki.info, if anyone having problems actually never bothered to use a different address.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #57 on: January 19, 2018, 03:41:26 AM »
Worked fine for me on with Gmail.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #58 on: January 19, 2018, 07:57:52 AM »
Wow I'm not the only one who thinks Pure Furies is massively overrated. Even beyond it's mostly bland feel, I've been telling people this whole time that the drums are slightly out of sync with the rest of the instruments and it drives me crazy. The curse of having a good ear for rhythm, I guess. :V

Pure Furies is the best boss theme and one of the best themes in the series.  Deal with it.

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Re: 14th Annual Touhou Project Popularity Contest
« Reply #59 on: January 19, 2018, 09:02:01 AM »
Pure Furies is the best boss theme and one of the best themes in the series.  Deal with it.

Oh please. Here's an accurate viewpoint of what I've seen the fans have been saying is the best boss theme in the series throughout the years: https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/List_by_Song

I'm half-kidding but it's not THAT far from the truth now that I think of it.
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