Possibly-crazy stuff you didn't notice for ages

[Suikama]

"ocho" (eight) and "noche"(night) sound well in my language too...but nobody see the infinity symbol in the eight from TH8? all about eternity and inmortality, and the 8 of the infinity...

well damn

[Polaris]

This isn't really a crazy thing, but ZUN says that the IN Stage 3 Theme, Nostalgic Blood of the East ~ Old World, sounds like a song that he did a few years ago, and I recently realized that it was similar to Illusionary Girl from Canaveral, the Stage 5 theme from Shuusou Gyoku. :B

Also Illusionary Girl from Canaveral is a pretty cool song but that isn't relevant.

[7h3d4rkw0lf]

I swear, ZUN is planning to take over the world with his freaking genius plot plans.

Don't ask how that correlates to taking over the world, it's ZUN, he can do what he wants

[bloop]

This isn't really a crazy thing, but ZUN says that the IN Stage 3 Theme, Nostalgic Blood of the East ~ Old World, sounds like a song that he did a few years ago, and I recently realized that it was similar to Illusionary Girl from Canaveral, the Stage 5 theme from Shuusou Gyoku. :B

Also Illusionary Girl from Canaveral is a pretty cool song but that isn't relevant.

Huh, I always thought it was referencing The Inevitably Forbidden Game from LLS.

[Chainsaw Guitar]

Everyone with Down's syndrome that I know is a pretty cool person - more so than a lot of supposedly normal people - so I'd be proud to have my fave game associated with them.

Yeah man, those "normal" people are total monsters. I should stop hanging out with them and befriend people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders instead.

[Solais]

Yeah man, those "normal" people are total monsters. I should stop hanging out with them and befriend people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders instead.

I did that too.

[Tengukami]

Yeah man, those "normal" people are total monsters. I should stop hanging out with them and befriend people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders instead.

That's funny, I don't remember saying anything like this. But I can tell you, in the ten years that I've been working with the disabled, that people with Down's tend to have pretty sunny dispositions, enjoy the little things in life, and have a great sense of humor. Which is more than I can say for plenty of people I know, myself among them. But hey, welcome back!

On topic:

She vored the sun god Kanako gave her. True, it's not exactly stated that she's immortal or can not really die by normal means, but you can see where the implications of immortality will crop up.

The way I see it though; you're not immortal if I can kill you and you STAY dead.

That's pretty much how I see it, too. And I'd think swallowing a sun god would make you if not immortal than at least nigh invincible anyway.

[Iryan]

This isn't really a crazy thing, but ZUN says that the IN Stage 3 Theme, Nostalgic Blood of the East ~ Old World, sounds like a song that he did a few years ago, and I recently realized that it was similar to Illusionary Girl from Canaveral, the Stage 5 theme from Shuusou Gyoku. :B

Huh, I always thought it was referencing The Inevitably Forbidden Game from LLS.

Exhibit C:
MS Stage 3 Boss theme
"Plastic Mind"

[Zengar Zombolt]

Exhibit C:
MS Stage 3 Boss theme
"Plastic Mind"

Huh. This one is the one I believed he references.

[Tengukami]

The plot thickens!

[orinrin]

The plot thickens!

It's thick enough already.   :V

[mouthsore]

I just noticed last night while playing DS English patch that Byakuren's lotus flowers have eyes that follow you.

Byakuren's lotus pattern behind her is a lot similar to the wings of the Espgaluda characters.

Doesn't it make you think about a gender-bending Byaku?

[Jaimers]

I just now noticed that the latter half of SoEW stage 2 is another Space Invaders reference. They move the same and everything.

ZUN is reusing old PC-98 patterns again!  :V

[LHCling]

Actually, that's more akin to the Post-Mid-Boss waves of UFO Stage 2. Which may or may not be a(nother) Space Invaders reference.

[Stuffman]

This blew my mind the first time I saw it.

[Alfred F. Jones]

"ocho" (eight) and "noche"(night) sound well in my language too...but nobody see the infinity symbol in the eight from TH8? all about eternity and inmortality, and the 8 of the infinity...

Better. ?What symbol is it on Yukari's hat? An infinity sign.

[OkashiiKisei]

This blew my mind the first time I saw it.

ZUNisagenius.jpg

[jigglyppuff8]

Better. ?What symbol is it on Yukari's hat? An infinity sign.

If all the stages in PCB were numbered in order, Phantasm would be 8th.
I love this thread so much.

[shadowbringer]

Hmm, but in Japanese, 8 meant "a lot" while 9 meant "infinite".

meanwhile, Yukari estimates in CiLR's 5th chapter that 7, 8 or 9 people are willing to help her.

7 = the one-week wizard?
8 = Yagokoro?
9 = Yuyuko? If so.. how's that number related to her?

[Mounting Jaggis]

The hands holding Yukari's gap open in PCB

[lumber_of_the_beast]

ZUNisagenius.jpg

I don't see anything :ohdear:

[OkashiiKisei]

I don't see anything :ohdear:

That is because I didn't post an image. It is just an internet joke which revolves around making a fake .jpg that doesn't do anything, with the title describing what the writer thinks. At least, I see more than enough people do this without showing images. Especially Pesco is known for this.

[lumber_of_the_beast]

That is because I didn't post an image. It is just an internet joke which revolves around making a fake .jpg that doesn't do anything, with the title describing what the writer thinks. At least, I see more than enough people do this without showing images. Especially Pesco is known for this.

Perhaps I should have quoted the same image you did. But I forgot that this forum doesn't have multiple quoting by default. Derp

Spoiler:

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[Nyyl]

The hands holding Yukari's gap open in PCB

I always thought they were trying to escape from the gap or something

[game2011]

Koishi's theme still sounds more or less the same even when played in reverse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpD37k8s_C4

[VIVItheFujoshi]

-Sariel is the angel of death,who can kill in massive form with his-her evil eye (i read somewhere who this angel who kill with the eyes XD) but in some apocripha stories appear like a Grigori who fall in sin of lust. Yuyuko (or the Saigyou Ayakashi) can do the same: kill if they want, are cursed-fallen (Saigyou was sealed; Yuyuko, for be the seal of the ayakashi tree, can?t go to the nirvana)...
-Marisa is like Son goku spinoff (no the DBZ one, the original one): she no is bad originally, but she do the things who she wants (who no always is a good thing) love shiny magic (the monkeys love shiny things...) she mimic spells from other characters (monkeys sometimes mimic humans!) she have the mini hakkero (A different sort of Hakkero appeared in the legend Journey to the West, where it was a furnace in which the monkey king Son Goku/Sun Wukong was imprisoned as punishment after devouring the peach of immortality. ..thanks Touhou wiki) Marisa wants found the secret of inmortality or turn a youkai (thing who really happen to Son Goku when eats the peaches of inmortality...that monkey turn into a kind of god, a youkai-like)

[VIVItheFujoshi]

Better. ?What symbol is it on Yukari's hat? An infinity sign.

now something who found in Yukari: in IaMP, she have a dress with a pair of i-ching hexagrams...together form the number 45, Ts'ui or ZHUI, the reunion. Hexagram 45 is named 萃 (cu?), "Clustering". Other variations include "gathering together (massing)" and "finished". Its inner trigram is ☷ (坤 kūn) field = (地) earth, and its outer trigram is ☱ (兌 du?) open = (澤) swamp. (thanks wiki you can read this in her profile in the Touhou wiki too.) she reunited all fantastic magical things in one place and confined it in a closed place...nee?

[Tengukami]

Yukari is just full of surprises.

[Zengar Zombolt]

Yukari is just full of surprises.

That she is. I am very surprised.

[VIVItheFujoshi]

"While I was remembering these unnecessary things, I saw my destination. Close [chika] by the Forest [mori] of Magic, and the rainy spell [rin] joining the drizzly rain [kirisame] and the forest. Yes, this is a shop with an owner that would make such an obvious name. The incense [kou] relates to gods, basically meaning shrine. Geez, this guy really likes this stuff. ?Kourindou?. This old and small shop... The Kirisame, humans... this forest of youkai... and then the shrine at the center of their borders. In other words, is this place supposed to be the heart of Gensokyo?"
Marisa's Family name, Kirisame (霧雨) means "drizzly rain".
Rinnosuke's family name, Morichika (森近), literally means "close by the forest".
As for Kourindou (香霖堂) it means "Hall of the Incensed (or perfumed) Rain (or rainy spell)".
The kanji for rainy spell (霖, the same 'rin' from 'Rinnosuke') looks like it's a mix from forest (森) and rain (雨). (It probably is.) (Thanks Nietz!!))

when i saw this,my mind blew away.

for me, HE is the true cauldron of surprises. is one of the more misterious characters in Touhou, because we, even today, don?t know who kind of half youkai is him, or his motivations, or why he have that kind of knowledge,beign "only" a curious half youkai shopkeeper who can fabric things like the mini hakkero.he is so...hermetic, like a mason or something like that. XD