/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Interested in this thread as well, though what I'd like to hear about is non-H manga doujinshi, as they otherwise seem to get no discussion. What's some good stuff?

SSiB and WaHH are my favorites. WaHH and the Fairy Manga are the only two that get updates somewhat consistently, WaHH more so. CoLA gets a new chapter once in a blue moon.

None, just play the games.

Fairy manga is honestly the best. They don't pretend to be anything more than fairies playing around. No letdowns involved like with FS, WaHH or SSiB. Inaba x2 is good 4koma slapstick as well.

>>19167493
WaHH Aunn is cute!

FS, because Suzy, Acute, FT and the Crimson Slayer.

>>19167517
Ganbare no Otome-tachi | The Cheering Maidens

>>19167912
Lewd fairies doing lewd things is super funny thought.

>>19167912
This

>>19167517
The non canon doujin fairy manga that the artist of the canon fairy manga makes sometimes.

>>19167966
She's the Crimson Slasher, get it right!

>>19167493
WaHH has gone from meh to very good with time, for FS it's the reverse.

Fairies are nice but there were never actually interesting in the first place.

SSiB, well, if someone hasn't read it yet, it might be ok. It got most of its bad reputation due to Lunarians being seen as Mary Sues vs main characters, but nowadays more people would probably cheer for them vs Reimu and Yukari.

>>19169155
Lunarians are Mary sues though and deserve to get harassed by faeries.

>>19169213
Screw you, Junko

>>19169250
t assmad moonbitch.

I like three fairies the most, but WaHH is just as laid back and enjoyable a lot of the time.

>>19167493
The best is...

Counting it as a whole, Sangetsusei, and especially Visionary Fairies in Shrine. It has the best level of consistency of quality, while also being surprisingly lore and character rich.

After that is a toss up to my feelings, but WaHH probably should take it, especially after the last few years of it. It's gotten a lot better, but was spinning its wheels for quite a while.

Forbidden Scrollery would be first if not for its ending, which drags the entire series down. The ending denies the inherent promise of the premise, the themes, and pretty much everything about the series. It's kinda like an loltouhou ending for a very not loltouhou manga. ZUN dropped the ball, and it kind of taints everything else because, well, now most of the manga doesn't mean anything. Rising tension? Implications? Foreshadowing? Forget all of it, /laugh track.

The undisputed worse is SSiB for being really fucking boring, confused and shit in tone, introducing annoying characters who show off in annoying ways, and being rather confusing. The best thing about it, however, is that it's fucking stupid. The comedy of SSiB that you get from all its rocket-related bullshit is fucking GOLD. CiLR is also mostly good but has a problem of being boring for half its chapters. Inaba does not count.

>>19167517
You must read Vector Spectacle.

>>19167517
Read Immortal that saw the death of the universe. ALISON is GOD

>>19170548
That shit's saaaad

>>19170445
Fairies manga is a curious case because it's very good in all aspects while at the same time being completely uninteresting to read. It's like reading a pretty wallpaper.

>>19170603
Still does what it's meant to do, so I feel like that's more of a matter of taste. It's a slice of life series foremost

Fairies manga is for lolicons.

>>19170653
I like fairies and think they are cute in a non-sexual way. Except fucking Clownpiece.

Fairies manga is boring shit.

>>19170445
>Tension.
>Touhou.
>Waiting tension.

Forbidden Scrollery is the best if you ignore the last chapters, the rest is pretty enjoyable.

>>19170790
did someone just say "tension"?

>>19170765
Fairy manga is the truest to Touhou.

>>19170661
This, except I also don't sexualize the clown. Fairy manga is cute/casual and also builds the world a little.

>>19170701
stinky clown feets on my face

>>19170445
>FS ending meme
zzz, tl;dr

>>19171306
Who are you quoting?

>>19170802
I want to marry Suzu.

Fairy Manga is the most fun and Hirasaka loves drawing cute things, and putting in group shots of parties.

WaHH is the one that's probably closest to what you'd imagine a "Touhou Manga" to be. Pretty much every new issue is a small problem that is resolved by the end, constant guest characters that rotate in and out (pretty much a new one every chapter), and jokes/banter.

>>19170445
>Rising tension? Implications? Foreshadowing? Forget all of it, /laugh track.
I don't know why this meme exists on /jp/, just because Kosuzu didn't die or get maimed doesn't mean the tension didn't exist. They found a way out of the situation. Plenty of horror or dark stories have people who find a way out at the end, it doesn't nullify the emotions and mystery of the situation at all. The only problem with the ending was that it was a bit rushed. All of the rules and darker themes in FS still exist, the tension was wondering if Kosuzu would find her way through it, and she did. FS had plenty of comedy in it too. It's not my favorite manga but the anger at the ending is way fucking overblown.

>>19169155
>It got most of its bad reputation due to Lunarians being seen as Mary Sues vs main characters, but nowadays more people would probably cheer for them vs Reimu and Yukari.
I don't give a shit about how powerful they are, I give a shit that they're so aggressively fucking boring

The Watatsuki's deserve everything they get, Hecatia, Clownpi and Junko did nothing wrong

>>19173078
>I don't know why this meme exists on /jp/,
Fuck off. A common opinion isn't a "meme". The fact is that there was a promise of something darker that was not followed through on. I didn't say she had to die or be maimed, but she didn't have anything of consequence happen to her despite the warnings that there was danger in what she was doing.

>>19173078
also
>the tension was wondering if Kosuzu would find her way through it
That was never the case, especially by the title in case you missed it. It's "forbidden scrollery", and the idea wasn't "how can Kosuzu get away with it", it was always "will Kosuzu go too far doing things she's not supposed to", because from the word "go" there is a clear and stated threat in her reading things she shouldn't read, and this is maintained and skirted many times. Yes it has comedy, but that doesn't mean that it can't be serious (which is what it mostly was whenever it discussed the blatantly dark matters of human villagers tampering in youkai business). Yukari essentially handwaves it all although it really was a problem, a problem we'd seen come to a head at least twice previously with grizzly results, and the result isn't satisfactory. I didn't say I was mad, I said the work suffers for an ending that was not consistent with the themes. I would have still been fine with a happy ending, but this was not how it should've gone.

touhou fans receive more of what they have been receiving for sixteen years straight; outrage ensues

more at eleven

>>19173482
Touhou fans receive a different sort of story that maintains its difference for a long time, but reneges at the last moment and poorly. People are disappointed and mention it's inconsistent. Idiots call this rage.

>>19173507
i feel like if you expected this manga to end any differently from the way every single other touhou story has ended because of a few dark and edgy interludes the problem was with your expectations

>>19173531
I feel like that's a pretty absurd assessment given what happens in itl

Gensokyo will never be grimdark. Deal with it.

>>19176060
Nobody really wanted the ending to be grimdark. For me it fell flat because Kosuzu didn't really meaningfully interact with anyone at all during the final episodes. She got effectively replaced by this scroll demon thing, who got defeated, and that was it. I wanted to see Kosuzu making some kind of decision or something.

>>19176072
2 bad lol

>>19176072
>For me it fell flat because Kosuzu didn't really meaningfully interact with anyone at all during the final episodes.
I don't see how you can say this when she had very long conversations about humans and youkai with Mamizou, Akyuu, Aya, and Marisa before talking to Yukari. She did make a choice. She made the decision to tell Yukari that her conclusion was that youkai were not inherently evil, and that she would trust in Yukari's plan to save her from being seduced by the power of the scroll and the youma books. Her choice was to trust in Yukari instead of Akyuu, Reimu/Marisa, or Mamizou, who were not being 100% honest with her and instead giving her half-truths that she could not really accept. She made the decision to stake her own path by trusting Yukari's plan.

>>19170802
the last chapters aren't that bad.

this FS shit again

Kosuzu didn't even turn into a Youkai by her own accord and was just manipulated by Yukari.
In the end she learned, yeah, Youkai are still dreadful as shit after all.
Reimu learned that she probably should've told Kosuzu more about everything.
Would be tasting that dreadful edge if she got destroyed.

Do remember that Kosuzu already got turned/possessed by a Youkai earlier in the Manga and nobody gave a fuck about it.

>>19176072
>Nobody really wanted the ending to be grimdark
Vocal fags during the last chapters were literally screaming "haha Reimu is finally going to kill that shitty Suzu, ebin non spell card with Yukari incoming" A common opinion my ass.

When's the next chapter gonna be out, /jp/?

>>19170548
I'm glad this gets mentioned. I consider it the pinnacle of Touhou derivative works.