I especially get tired of hearing this from Mima fans who, for some inexplicable reason, expect Mima to appear in every Touhou game
Mima was involved in four of the five original Touhou games. She was important enough to be recurring, being absent ONLY for Lotus Land Story, and yet Yuka and Alice are the ones resurrected for the Windows series? There is a completely unexplained history to Mima, going from a schoolgirl with a bloody knife to a master sorcerer to maybe an evil spirit to claiming she's not a ghost to being a ghost anyway. We even get a return to Makai, the same Makai from Mystic Square, in SA, which would've been the perfect opportunity to bring up a few story elements involving Mima, Shinki, and even Alice by association.
I don't know about most of the Mima idiots, but I, for one, want to see her acknowledged beyond the cover of an Akyu's Untouched Score. She was far more important than Yuka, and without her, there'd be no Marisa. Mention her in passing. Let her show up out of nowhere. It doesn't matter. She's a fan favorite, even in Japan; be a cool guy, for once.
No, instead, we get goddamn Sanae, the Luigi of Touhou. Do we really need two playable mikos
again? I'm glad that Youmu's in the game, because why not; she deserved a little something better than her IN treatment, but damn, we're not asking for something unreasonable, like playable Byakuren, Rin Satsuki, or some Seihou character. We want someone who was important to the history of Touhou to continue to be involved. Reimu's always around. Marisa's always around. Alice's always sometimes around. Aya and Sanae will always probably be around. Hows about you give a nudge to lady who loves her Fantasia cosplay?