Which of ZUN's creations do you find the strangest? I'm looking for the kinds of things that make you wonder just what ZUN was drinking when he came up with them. To jog your memory, I've listed a number of good candidates below.
Character design
*Five Magic Stones - a.k.a. "I couldn't think of a loli to put here"
*Kotohime - A princess who doesn't act like a princess who's a klepto Cop who attacks with magic carpets and--what!?
*Luize - An interdimensional demonic... tourist. Seriously.
*Rumia - A youkai who exudes darkness that she can't see through herself, so she's totally blind. Plus she looks like a young girl and eats people.
*Youmu - Half-human and half-ghost, half-dead and half-alive, half-phantom and half-reality, and altogether half-baked. Yet she has two swords.
*Yukari - A woman who attacks by shooting a slightly smaller mammal who attacks by shooting a slightly smaller mammal who attacks by shooting successively smaller mammals. ...well, okay, that's how it should be.
*Suika - The strongest and most feared creature of this eon. Also, a drunken loli. Also, a sadistic psychologist.
*Keine - A history teacher who happens to be a rare and wise mythical being - just not right now. Under the full moon she turns into GODCOW.
*Medicine - A doll who only ever thinks about poison and ruling the world.
*Komachi - Charon, of Greek mythology. Except a loli (sort of). And a massive slacker.
*Hina - How can you say no to that face?
*Kisume - BUCKET LOLI
*Parsee - Why is a Persian girl underground in the first place, never mind a Persian girl-turned-embodiment-of-envy-turned-bridge-troll?
*Iku - An oarfish loli who sold her personality to the Celestials in exchange for fashion sense. Acts like Thor-meets-Jane-Travolta.
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Danmaku design
*Meira - YES I LOVE HAVING BULLETS SPAWN RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME in a game where all bombs have to be pre-emptive. Also, her balls are small and unsatisfying compared to Reimu's.
*Five Magic Stones - Actually, more like one magic stone in charge of a battlestation.
*SoEW Marisa - Orreries Sun, anyone?
*Sara - RUN! There's a bullet on the bottom half of the screen!
*Yuki/Mai - Mmm, bad design.
*Meiling - So Patchy attacks with elements, Sakuya attacks with knives, Cirno attacks with ice, Meiling attacks with... colors?
*Sakuya - YES I LOVE CLAUSTROPHOBIC RANDOM KNIVES with terrible hitboxes
*Flandre - I'm actually not a psychotic killer; most of my attacks actually reflect that I'm kind of bored.
*Reisen - My special power actually takes away bullet bullets' hitboxes :o
*Hina - The leader of a Nagashi-hina army, who doesn't actually use any of them in battle...
*Parsee - The bullets I shoot are actually the least threatening things about me!
*Utsuho - FACE-MELTING SUNMAKU
*Koishi - Freud was right. Just admit it.
*Ichirin - A NECK? NO, UNDER UNZAN'S CHIN IS ANOTHER FIST
*Shou - Curvy lasers EVERYWHERE omg omg omg
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Music (whether the tune itself or just its name)
*The Aggressive Girl's Visionary Dream (The Tank Girl's Dream) - Worst song EVER.
*Mystic Oriental Love Consultation - Always a great thing to say around people who don't know anything except that Touhou is full of little girls.
*BAD Apple!! - How can you dislike a title like this?
*Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial - Admit it, you disliked this song at some point.
*Crystallized Silver - See previous entry.
*Because the Rice Paddy Goddess is Scolding Me - Even if it is a mistranslation and the song is lame, how can you argue against this?
*Night Falls ~ Evening Star (SWR version) - The accordionist has gone insane. Please send help.
*Corpse Voyage ~ Be of Good Cheer! - Yeah, right.
*UFO Romance in the Night Sky - Synthesized laughter, okay. Synthesized squeaks, no.
*Future Universe of Wheelchair - I guess this is one way to credit Stephen Hawking.
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Strangest of the Strange for each of these categories:
Parsee
Parsee again
Night Falls ~ Evening Star