/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Touhou gameplay doesn't translate well to a moving picture, because the concept of flying forward constantly in a corridor while rapid-firing some paraphernalia or energy ball for a couple of minutes doesn't make for an entertaining confrontation. Touhou plot is very vague and transmitted only through a few lines of dialogue every few minutes, which makes it hard to imagine what sort of personality the characters have or what the overarching story even is.

The result is almost always a boring, cringeworthy production that upsets fans because of how the writer imagined the characters to be and how the fight scenes are made to look like budget Dragonball Z.

We already have examples of what Touhou anime could be. It's all mediocre. It's not making a killing. A studio funding this is not going to change jack. Zun isn't the problem, Touhou isn't the problem. It's just not a game series that will ever translate well to anime unless the gameplay and the writing evolve to a somewhat different genre of game.

Be thankful that you even have manga works that are considered canon, and are even of relative high-quality depending on what you're looking for. If all you're looking for is a door to enter the universe, you could play the games on easy or read the wiki.

And please, for fuck's sake, stop asking for a Touhou anime or wondering why no studio is picking up on this "goldmine", because it'll probably just be like putting more mediocre productions out on the market that's already saturated with mediocrity.