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"Hilarious" Touhou article
♛ Apher-Forte:
--- Quote ---like you live in a waifu thread.
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and that means any and all persons who register and post in forums are too.
because there was an article on anime before, or rather a multitude of them.
Cracked.com = drama in a box.
Helepolis:
I sense the article is balancing between good and bad. I cannot quite judge it due to various things being said about it. Though it is lacking also information regarding the PC-98 games as well.
The comparison portraits and FMJ U.N Owen made me giggle to be honest. Generally I hate the remixes.
Letty, I don't think the article makes it even more creepy. As once people start googling/searching for Touhou movies such as in game replays or pictures they will bump into the little girl pictures themself.
Though they could have used a different Reimu portrait in there, like from PCB, IN or UFO.
helvetica:
It's meant to be a "satirical" article. It's not completely unbiased but at least they actually bothered to go farther into the fandom than just "these sick fucks draw pedo art all day". They also at least highlighted how deep and pervasive the fandom is, and how much it covers.
All and all I have to say it's not a bad article from an "outsider's" view. Yes it gets some stuff wrong and it's still fairly biased in the "little girls" theme but you know that's the VERY first thing everyone hooks on when they first find out about Touhou. And it got a lot of stuff right, like how an entire genre of music is built around remixing ZUN's original songs to almost ANYTHING, and how it's basically it's own culture at this point with all the trappings and nuances and just seemingly odd but perfectly natural to fan things.
I don't think you could have expected a better writeup from a bystander to be quite honest.
stassy:
I agree with the above, the culprit is one of "us". It's a parody of an original Touhou introduction article that was used in some US convention.
Original articule is a bit outdated but still remain quite accurate, while in this one the author used a troll image with danmaku "shinki ufo" example.
Helepolis:
--- Quote from: TheⓈtupidOne on August 19, 2009, 06:42:49 AM ---it's not a bad article from an "outsider's" view.
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This is probably what we are lacking. Most of us have a strong passion for Touhou that we forget the objective and outsider point of view for people who know 0% about the game. Every article about Touhou will be bashed at one point because we are too hardcore as a community.
People would be rather scared of it I guess =P