I still can’t believe the Lunarian sisters’ reputation still hasn’t fully recovered due to KKHTA.
Isn’t there only one terrible Gacha that is Lost Words? Also the series’ doing well enough in Japan itself to the point of not having to worry about nor cater to western tourists.
I think their reputations were bad from the get-go because people didn't take too kindly to a bunch of new characters coming out of nowhere and beating up their favorites. I still see some acting butthurt about it. That garbage sure didn't help though.
There was another one that got shut down, Touhou Cannonball. It's marginally better than L*st W*rd because a bunch of cute Live2D models came out of it.
Ought to start asking about the (((Lunarian))) question.
KanColle sapped a good third of Touhou fan artists just on its own before Azur Lane came along and ganked it in return, and practically none of those artists have come back. FGO has also had a pretty disastrous effect on Touhou's popularity among fanartists.
I disagree with this. Excluding AI slop, Touhou only sees about a quarter, I would say, as many posts daily on Pixiv as it did about six or seven years ago, despite Pixiv growing in activity (even excluding AI slop). Again, when was the last time we actually saw a PV on par with what Innocent Key or IOSYS used to put out from around 2006-2014? Akatsuki's the only circle that even bothers at all, and again, all of theirs just use two or three PNGs of the character in focus and maybe some 3D models for non-character elements if you're lucky.
Interesting, I wasn't aware just how much the series has declined in terms of fan creation volumes.
Unfortunately I don't know that much about PVs. I am also gonna be honest I used to just see Touhou as no different than other "anime" back in those days. I only started to gain interest rather recently through playing Mystia's Izakaya a couple of years ago.
I think it's just because that era of passionate fan creation is gone. I don't really see outstanding fan works with that level of detail in more popular communities either. But again that's just my very limited perspective so you might want to correct me on that.
This is on of the best things happening with Touhou right now. Tourists and gooners go out, kids come in. It makes sense: Touhou's official content is pretty family-friendly, the parents are not afraid to let the kids enjoy it. Of course there's a lot of r34 fan content, but it's something you can filter to a certain degree. Also, the majority of fangames are pretty tame, being a good initial contact with the franchise. Give Mystia's Izakaya to a kid who played Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley and you can be sure the kid is gonna like it.
The insane monetization of everything is to blame. People used to create content out of passion; nowadays everything needs to be monetized - because if you don't do it, somebody else will. Internet 2.0 was a mistake.
Lost Word only survives because of art, music, and the sunken cost fallacy of the whales. Having "Touhou" written on the name also helps massively, and indeed it's impressive how it can hold itself together against other gacha giants. But the gameplay is very outdated and repetitive in a bad way: the battle system is an obfuscating mess and I'm sure some shit doesn't work properly. It also bothers me how the characters are just static pngs during story scenes, when Live2D models are piss easy to make nowadays. Comparing it with Uma Musume is not even fair.
Fuck, I'd play Touhou Slay the Spire.
Truly, Patreon, Fanbox, and Fantia have been a disaster for the Weeb Master Race.
Fan-passion projects getting drowned by the sea of coomers to sites generate.
I don't think it'll be too bad, so long as he keeps making music, and maybe writing some manga.
Touhou has the advantage of a long legacy, even if it lacks chink money for marketing. It's sad that Touhou is losing its throne, but the series as a whole got very lucky. It came out before all those chink gatcha and idol games. I still fail to understand why people would ditch touhou in favour of crappy gatcha games. . A part of what makes touhou good is that it lacks the corporate corruption and greed of gatcha games. Touhou is all organic and community driven.
I remember there was a lot of unfounded copium about this being a real Cave game rather than a Gatcha.
There are some overlap but in general most gacha players never really cared or even knew about Touhou. Gacha titles also pay artists and creators for content. I know Genshin definitely does.
This is why I like Touhou. It is a cultural miracle that would never happen again. For me it reminds me of the old internet, a place where people actually come together to create and discuss things.
The music for TH20 is not very good… and the plot for that new manga of this literal who kicking every character’s ass pissed off a lot of fans, especially Satori fans. Not saying he doesn’t have it anymore but he better get his shit together.
Touhou music as a whole has felt lacking since 16. It feels like ZUN has just been remixing the same few songs barring some exceptions like stage 4 17 and the soundfont he's been using for the modern titles sounds like ass compared to older titles like MOF. Gameplay wise though, TH20 is the best the series has been in a decade.
This could be just because i'm a foreigner and wasn't around back then, but otaku culture as whole feels as if it's suffered the same fate as Touhou. You look at the early 2000s and everything was more personal, the games and art were all made by individual artists and small teams. Now I look at it and everything looks so fake and corporatized. I've seen so many videos of expensive booths, so obviously paid for by massive companies and it just takes away from the indie touch that what makes Touhou and VN's so charming.
I've seen the demo. It's pretty cozy
I've seen this guy way too many times before. The algorithm keeps shoving his unfunny tweets in my face.
This, right here, sums up the current state of western 2hu fan base. These people act like literal cartoon characters with their absurd pettiness.
God speed Mr. 94 Civic. Thank you for your service.
They're buying fabric from here.
I liked it, but I do wish he would focus more on melody over sounds. He's got a good ear for melody, and he does insane shit when he fucks around with time signatures...
Archiving all this might be a good idea. Since the origin is Discord, it can be taken down because of drama.