Lieve Shinki, zijn hier echt zoveel Nederlanders?! En ik maar denken dat ik een van de weinige ben die het in dit kikkerlandje echt kent.
Well, you can sign up another Dutchman :V I've shown Touhou to some friends, but they didn't show much interest.... A few of my friends thought the characters were interesting though, but one of them (who I've shown a bit more about it) thinks it is the scourge of the Earth. And he constantly keeps yelling that it's a sucky series 'because the characters are unrealistic' and 'it's unoriginal'. Alright, I can understand the first one (planet destroying little girls are pretty farfetched).....but the second? Unoriginal?! He calls it unoriginal because it 'only uses bullets all the time'. He completely ignores the patterns and the effort to make the mind boggingly paths and numbers of danmaku. No, instead he has the balls to call the creator 'lazy'.
I think a part of my brain died from the sheer rage that went through it. He's so obnoxious you can't get through to him at all.
He also immediatly connects Touhou with pedophilliac hentai, although the work itself contains none. That's what the fanbase does.
On the other side of the spectrum, a female friend of mine genuinely expresses interest in the games, and she even liked the doujin anime (though she's an anime nut to begin with though). She thinks the characters are cute too, instead of 'pedo bait' as my other friend so lovely puts it.
Other people outside of my friend group just saw it as your typical anime (they only glimpsed at the drawings I was making, they haven't seen any of the bullet hell). Oh yeah, and my brother, who has seen the gameplay, thinks it's a game for masochists. He may not be so far off.
