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Official Touhou Project Magazine 2016: w/ Uni Akiyama and ZUN's music CD
HalfGrand:
Now *this* is an interesting development in the Touhou "brand". I remember ZUN has always been talking about in interviews how he wanted to help other people in the doujin scene and this is a good platform for doing just that. I will defiantly be interested in how this turns out (especially the world building stuff).
Yesterday, shooting games... Today, a magazine... Tomorrow... An anime?
Also, dose this mean that ZUN thought it would be fun to get involved in magazine printing? I remember ZUN saying that he likes to get into things if he thinks they will be fun to make... like his games.
cuc:
In today's Nikenme Radio stream (source: Tohomemory), Okonogi and ZUN indicated that ZUN is checking over the magazine's manuscript with great care, giving directions about how sentences are better phrased. ZUN said the process recalls BAiJR, and the magazine will be the same old thing (as they have always done), nothing groundbreaking.
Of course, the implication is that the magazine is being produced by Okonogi, ZUN's long-time editor responsible for BAiJR, PMiSS, CiLR, SoPm and WaHH. It looks like from now on, all new official Touhou publications will come out through Kadokawa, and the Ichijinsha era will eventually come to an end.
Another detail from the stream is that ZUN mentioned Touhou was first publicly exhibited in some form in 1995, which was not known before. He also said Touhou have three different 20th anniversaries, which fans have interpreted to mean anniversaries for three different milestone moments of the first Touhou game - for example, the start of development, the end of development, and the first time it was publicly shown.
cuc:
Someone has found an ad spread in today's issue of Dengeki Moeoh. The spread has confirmed that the Touhou magazine will contain an in-depth interview about Touhou 15, and a "new serialization": "Touhou Kourindou" (Provisional Title), with illustrations by Genji Asai.
The old "Touhou Kourindou ~ Curiosities of Lotus Asia" stories ended serialization in 2007, and was collected in one volume in 2010. Recently, Marisa had introduced Kosuzu to Kourindou and its owner Rinnosuke, an action they must feel some regret for.
hungrybookworm:
I was hoping for another prose thing so I'm very happy about this! Looking forward to Kourin being snarky around all the newer touhous. (Good thing this magazine comes out around the same time as comp ace so I can ship them together... though the bigger question is, are my Japanese skills ready for Rinnosuke's giant folklore heavy speeches...?)
N-Forza:
I am 110% down for this.