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>>39980399
No.

>>22048880
>Which touhou girls has the best character design
>Not your favourite waifu, but your fave design
Which, OP? Best or personal favorite? They can be different things.

Though in my case they're the same. It's Suika. Suika not only has one of the most striking and WHOA designs out there, you can see who she is just from her silhouette. She has one incredibly unique feature in her rather strange, branch-like horns that, seriously, NO other character or creature IRL has, and these are just a few surface level, immediate traits.

Getting deeper, Suika's design tells you everything about Suika very quickly without being obnoxiously meaningful. It isn't a design that tries hard or seems like something nobody would ever wear. The only peculiar thing, really, is her sphere, pyramid, and cube, and if anything because they are singularly strange they command attention. Looking into their meaning tells you more about her character, showing you that beyond the surface she's surprisingly cultured and philosophical. Which is true! She is, in fact, one of the wisest characters in Touhou, despite common portrayal.

Suika's sleeves are torn off = she's a roughhouser
Suika's shirt is button-up = she minds her horns (more importantly, ZUN thought about it)
Suika's horns are sloppily decorated = she's cute, but slapdash about it. She's definitely a GIRL, not just a macho oni.
Suika's chains = she is exceptionally free. The chains are bound to nothing that holds her in place. They're also cumbersome, but that is counterbalanced by
Suika's long, flowing dress which = the idea that she's physically loose, light, and airy. Chains? What chains. Who cares about them? It's like they aren't even there. She's strong enough that they don't matter, and with that her design largely evokes "flowing". This is helped also by her very, very long hair.
Last but not least, once again, those fucking horns = she is *ANCIENT*, she doesn't groom them, and they are IMMENSE. She's clearly EXCEPTIONALLY proud of what she is, and those horns tell fucking HISTORY just by looking at them. They SHOUT "I AM AN ONI! LOOK, BITCH" I adore her horns. I have to repeat, it's awesome how messed up and weird they look. They really do look like "I let these grow for a thousand years and groomed them exactly 0 times". They're like, misshapen, bent, look like they're probably been scarred at several points. It's awesome, and one of her features that's not actually "cute", meaning seriously, they stick out.

And of course, she has the gourd. She loves to drink, just loves it.

Even her strange binding on her ponytail, that bar wrapped with cloth, is primitive-looking. Character detail!

So, to summarize, every part of Suika's design tells you something about her while also not seeming forced. Nothing about it seems like it's weird to wear, but it's also extremely unique. On top of everything, she's just pleasant to look at. This is the design I measure all other designs against.

>>21527326
No, Suika.

But I like Patchouli's design a lot, yes. Very fluffy soft cute