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>>18539927
Pondering, conflicting thoughts, hesitation. Possible hint of embarrassment. Could be either >>18542297 or something much more serious such as >>18542387.

>>17351484
Sort the videos by views under that tag and work from there. If you can't into Nip (neither can I), It's the 2nd alternative in the drop-down menu.

So "Cookie " is not the original name of anything. It's the nickname people on Niconico gave the original "Marisa and Alice's cookie kiss" fan collaboration video. Eventually, people also started using the "Cookie " name and tag to refer to parodies of the original video mentioned above.

Due to the bad voice acting, strange pronunciations, campy story, and artwork of wildly differing styles and quality from all the collaborating artists, it was considered humor gold. Cookie parodies are almost exclusively music videos created with sound and voice samples from the original video, arranged together with sprites cut out from it (these kind of arrangement are called MADs on Niconico). They are kind of like Niconico's answer to those fan-made TF2 videos that have been all over Youtube the last decade, using sprites instead gmod. So the answer is naturally no, the voice actresses are not involved in these parodies, the parodies are often of mocking them after all.

I don't understand all the actress hubbub either, but that's how obsession works in most of these communities, I guess. Since girls are close to non-existent in the autistic Touhou fandom, the voice actresses soon became idols of worship for some, despite all the mockery. Eventually, instead of referring to the characters in the video by their actual names in the Touhou Project, these worshipers started referring to them as their voice actresses instead. As most Japanese still live in an age where internet privacy is a thing, they are only referred to by acronyms of their online names. UDK is the actor for Marisa in the original video, RU is the actor for Reimu, and so on.

Now, there are "kind of" sequels to the original Marisa and Alice's cookie kiss video. UDK and RU chose to go on and record a few Touhou voice dramas, which fans later chose to call season 2, or "Cookie ". Of course, it didn't take long before some fan made animations in MMD to go along with these, and now there was even more material to keep the memes going (as I said though, 90% of the parody material to this day still comes from the first video).

UDK and RU eventually disappeared, but other voice actresses, artists, and writers continued making Touhou fan collaborations in the same spirit as the original Marisa and Alice's cookie kiss video. Many of them have come and gone by now (after all, it has been 7 years since the first video) over the different "seasons". Therefore, the same Touhou characters are referred to by different names in the different "seasons", as the actors change.

So to conclude, "Cookie" is loosely referring to these kind of Touhou fan collaborations since 2010, the obsessive fandom that goes along with them (where characters are referred to as off-brand versions using their actresses' acronyms), and all the parodies/memes.

>>16699125
It does indeed look like something out of a children's fairy tale book, now that you mention it. As if Touhou was a fairy tale told by the Brothers Grimm.

Koto Inari's works evoke quite a lot of emotion for me when I look at them. I feel bad for the qt, vulnerable 2hus being scared, depressed, and hurt. But there's also room for happiness sometimes, although in a rather morbid sense.