starshine said: -Comparing Hakurei Reimu with Anon-
There is a difference, it's understable when people react to characters like her since, well, Touhou is the parent franchrise of yukkuris, o a bit of reaction to them is understable or comment in the lack of it.
No idea what you're saying there, except it sounds suspiciously like you're giving a fuck where the human character comes from, when it has little to no bearing on anything.
starshine said: No idea what you're saying there, except it sounds suspiciously like you're giving a fuck where the human character comes from, when it has little to no bearing on anything.
Well Starshine, not every mister or miss in yukkuri works is an "anon" per see, and in fact, a great deal of the first "humanoids" dealing with yukkuris in the beginning were touhou characters.
Touhou no matter what some people may claim, have an important place in the yukkuri fandom, so sometimes expecting an extra reaction from a touhou characters showing up like Skribulous mentioned is understable.
You don't need to be so agressive and offensive about the posibility of someone focusing on the human characters instead of the yukkuri, specially if it's a Tohou.
Nobody is being offended or insulted because of it, so you shouldn't act, based on your 2 comments, like if it were such a offense.
Touhou at this point is barely related to the yukkuris, except as a source of new yukkuris and the occasional cameo. That's all it provides, really.
If more than a handful of the works featured here on OYP or on the fanfic group made use of spellcards, danmaku, Gensokyou or the characters of Touhou as more than a namedrop, then I would concede that you had a point.
However, very few yukkuri works give more than passing references to any of the above. They overwhelmingly focus on urban or rural environments set in a modern era, with no connection to a mystical land of youkai and magic, cut off from our world. Gensokyou and the world of yukkuris are largely two separate beasts these days.
Sure, most of the early works placed signifigance in Touhou characters being involved. But then again, yukkuris were wholly different things to begin with. Why not attribute importance to the fact that these yukkuris can speak? Or are smaller than their progenitors and a different shape? Or that they lack the ears of the originals? Yukkuris have evolved, moved on past their roots.
Is there a human element to many yukkuri stories? Yes of course. There is. Does Touhou have any real significance? Not anymore; the fandom appears to have moved on.
Attributing significance to the human element being a shrine maiden just reads out of place. I use the term "Anon" to signify that the human element is faceless, universal and their true identity is largely irrelevant; yukkuri stories can happen to all walks of life. There's no singling out needed.
Hmmm, that's cute and all but, you know that the "importance" Skrib was talking about was a silly "hey she looks cute as school girl and nobody commented about it"
Basically a silly slapstick comment like all the comments we had in the past about "yukarin", "yuyuko-sama's or eirin's "dem deibus" ", etc.
You are basically making a massive case out of something trivial, no need to make a disasstified statement when someone implies the notion of going "hey Chen (original touhou) looks cute here!" or something like that.
Besides, there is an importance in humans's identity in yukkuri stories, the stories do change al of based if the human is an anon or not, and sometimes they tell something the other can't.
No need to act like if it were such a troublesome or "out of place" thing when it isn't at all. In the end we can say that you just prefer humans to be anons, it's an opinion, not a fact, the whole "human importance" being out of place.
You know, I actually agree with Starshine. Yukkuri exists pretty much independently of Touhou nowadays, apart from the dropping in of a new yu now and then and the odd cameo.
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