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Title: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: DDRMANIAC007 on July 29, 2010, 10:04:48 AM
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ZUN posted a link in his twitter recently. I went to go check it out. What did I find?




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ZUN posted a link in his twitter recently. I went to go check it out. What did I find?




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The title roughly translates to top 100 most influential Japanese.




Any thoughts on this?

The page (http://"http://sankei.jp.msn.com/life/trend/100729/trd1007290501003-n2.htm")

[matsuri]Yeah, here's one: Thumbnail those massive images. Jeez.[/matsuri]
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: DDRMANIAC007 on July 29, 2010, 10:54:26 AM
Hang on finding a new image host. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: DDRMANIAC007 on July 29, 2010, 11:00:39 AM
Fixed.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Helepolis on July 29, 2010, 11:17:26 AM
ZUN  + Top 100 Influential people = Should we be happy or afraid?
Title: ZUN top 100 most influential
Post by: Tengukami on July 29, 2010, 12:01:43 PM
Considering just how many doujin mediums are devoted to Touhou, the content of much of Nico, and a festival in the thousands also devoted to Touhou, it's hardly surprising.

Also, hey Helepolis o/
Title: Re: ZUN top 100 most influential
Post by: Helepolis on July 29, 2010, 12:44:02 PM
Considering just how many doujin mediums are devoted to Touhou, the content of much of Nico, and a festival in the thousands also devoted to Touhou, it's hardly surprising.
So we should be afraid after all =3

Also, hey Helepolis o/
o/ managed to get my hands on internet, but still 5 days until I return to Holland. Thought I'd drop by and update myself some.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Bias Bus on July 29, 2010, 01:35:06 PM
So we should be afraid after all =3
Why? I don't see this as something to worry about really. It just goes to show how many folks are willing to put alot of time into their Touhou shit. Like Tengukami, I'm not all that surprised that ZUN was listed as one of those types of people since...you know given all the shit people pump out that's Touhou related. It's a good thing to get into for a little extra scratch too, if your a doujin artist. Although I do wonder if anyone's ever put out a novel on Touhou. I'm sure someone has somewhere, but you just don't hear much about those compared to the comics and shit.
Title: ZUN top 100 most influential
Post by: Tengukami on July 29, 2010, 02:57:21 PM
I will write the Touhou novel, and funnel 60% of any proceeds to ZUN. The other 40% will go to 3L.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: KomeijiKoishi on July 29, 2010, 04:49:15 PM
...WOW.

(my reaction after reading the title)
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Tengukami on July 29, 2010, 05:18:47 PM
Also of note:

Takeshi Kitano is the most influential person in Japan.
2ch founder Nishimura Hiroyuki is number 30.
Novelist extraordinaire Haruki Murakami is number 32.
Transexual pop singer Ai Haruna is the 85th most influential person in Japan.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: KomeijiKoishi on July 29, 2010, 06:00:48 PM
Also of note:

Takeshi Kitano is the most influential person in Japan.
2ch founder Nishimura Hiroyuki is number 30.
Novelist extraordinaire Haruki Murakami is number 32.
Transexual pop singer Ai Haruna is the 85th most influential person in Japan.

Takeshi Kitano is the most influential person in Japan.

Takeshi Kitano

After visiting Wikipedia...

YAY TAKESHI'S CASTLE!
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: theshirn on July 29, 2010, 06:27:25 PM
Only 78th?

Give him a couple more years and a couple more games.  He'll break 50, easy.

THE TIDAL TOUHOU WAVE CANNOT BE STOPPED
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: nintendonut888 on July 29, 2010, 06:28:19 PM
Man, it's getting harder and harder for ZUN to pretend to be small-time. :V
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Helepolis on July 29, 2010, 06:33:30 PM
Why? I don't see this as something to worry about really. It just goes to show how many folks are willing to put alot of time into their Touhou shit.
I think you took my post tat too serious. I meant it more like a joke as in: If ZUN is influential person, it means a lot of virgin minds will be touhou-fied. =V
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: E-Nazrin on July 29, 2010, 09:09:32 PM
Man, it's getting harder and harder for ZUN to pretend to be small-time. :V

The thing is, individually he IS small-time. It's just that he lets his fans do so much, and gives them so much space to do it, that the fandom has taken off on its own in a huge way.

But this has been gone over a hundred times.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on July 29, 2010, 09:20:28 PM
A friend pointed out to me that it's sort of a Bill Watterson type deal: he could declare himself "have made it big" and go nuts with that, he just chooses not to.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Cadmas on July 29, 2010, 09:23:25 PM
Only 78th?

Give him a couple more years and a couple more games.  He'll break 50, easy.

THE TIDAL TOUHOU WAVE CANNOT BE STOPPED

Either the poll was offline or the Japanese touhou fans didn't hack enough.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Solais on July 29, 2010, 09:44:11 PM
A friend pointed out to me that it's sort of a Bill Watterson type deal: he could declare himself "have made it big" and go nuts with that, he just chooses not to.

Just imagine that kind of a power. "I could be big, but I don't want to." What a badass.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Suikama on July 29, 2010, 10:42:16 PM
Just imagine that kind of a power. "I could be big, but I don't want to." What a badass.
hele_ZUN.jpg
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Lord Phantasm Satori on July 30, 2010, 11:44:25 PM
It occured to me that ZUN would probably be at least 10X as rich if he did his games in english as well (fan translations are done, but lets face it, alot of us just bit torrented it), I'm not actually sure if he even knows english.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Iryan on July 30, 2010, 11:51:37 PM
I'm not actually sure if he even knows english.


HARRY UP!
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Tengukami on July 31, 2010, 12:00:44 AM
I'm not actually sure if he even knows english.

He apparently knows it well enough to use the double entendre "shoot the bullet".
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Sen on July 31, 2010, 12:31:23 AM
REST 4
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Cadmas on July 31, 2010, 12:53:06 AM

HARRY UP!

Oh give him a break. That was so many years ago.
Title: Re: ZUN listed as part of top 100 most influential Japanese people
Post by: Neo Aemilius on July 31, 2010, 03:01:03 AM
As expected for alcoholism, keyboards and flying hat lolis... seriously...