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It's happening, Touhou is coming to the West.
Spotty Len:
We already had hints before, with ZUN tweeting a picture of an english option menu of the concerned game and DDC being put on digital purchase on Playism JP, but we now have real meat to put on our plates. Playism EN is officially bringing Touhou to the West.
If you don't know Playism, they are the ones who published games like La-Mulana, One-Way Heroics or Astebreed. They generally publish indie games, and do a really good job translating them to bring them outside of Japan. As such, translation, if it ever happen for this game, should be on point and respectful to the original, especially since they are working with Team Shanghai Alice. Also, since they mention this game as the "first" official release of an Touhou game outside of Japan, we may be seeing more in the future.
In other words, PLAYISM HYPE!
Their Twitter is over there.
(Feel free to slice me if I'm not allowed to make such a thread, but I felt it was important enough.)
LunaWillow:
*screams like a fangirl*
Tamashii Kanjou:
I'd say it's very important. This is what a lot of people have been asking for; and for ZUN to be stepping forward and allowing this to happen... it's pretty damn big~ <3
Edible:
Very exciting time. I'm particularly interested in translations overseen by ZUN, if that's actually a thing. The best translations are without question the ones with input from the author.
Tsuken Yasashi:
We'll see how this turns out....