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>>20665388
best zun art ever

This is one menacing gesture to handshake.

>>20665395
Imagine a visual novel with EoSD-PCB ZUN art

>>20665725
imagine a zun art with zun art! :o

>>20665388
Did anyone ever find out who this girl in the cover was?

>>20665741
Unfunny redditfag

>>20665725
His drawings from that era are so eerie and beautiful

>>20665962
>Unfunny redditfag
explain yourself, you're the one who brings unrelated comments to this thread
>>20666237
"EoSD-PCB ZUN art" are not drawings, pleb, they are the game themselves, retard, that's why it says "art"; can't you read?

>>20666300
>explain yourself
Sure: You're an unfunny fuck.

>>20667764
rude

>>20665725
Actually, that art style originated in ZUN's Seihou and pre-EoSD sketches. You also seem to be implying it's superior to his modern art. It's not. He improved a lot.
>>20665962
The girl on the cover is one of the eight wise men. She was the killer, she was the pierrot. She was Justice Lawrence Wargrave AKA U.N. Owen. This all happened in Gensokyo way before Reimu was even born, by the way. Before the PC-98 era. As soon as she stepped into Gensokyo she became a youkai. The shrine maiden at the time (pic related) didn't really think much of this or cared at all. She just saw the blond girl walk outside of Gensokyo casually and that was that.

>>20667764
great explanation dude, you left me without arguments u.u

>>20671909
DONT FUCKING TALK ABOUT ART IF YOU'RE GOING TO SAY MUH SKETCHES YOU MONGOLOID
drawings* you fucktards, drawings*
art is something else, something bigger than a freaking a painting

why are you this dense??

>>20672276
why don't you put all that ban evading and autism into something better: spamming the virtual youtuber threads so they could fuck off from /jp/

>>20665725
jesus christ how horrifying

>>20671909
>As soon as she stepped into Gensokyo she became a youkai
But how and why?

>>20665741
I can get behind this.

>>20672276
I read your post in Nassim Taleb's voice.

>>20675219
Who knows? The CD just says
>Yes, that was the day we were lost in this paradise. And right away, I stopped being human.
The girl was a murderer, so I suppose that's one way to become a youkai.

>>20678975
What if she became the god of death instead?

>>20665388
I always wondered what the fuck it was meant to even be. Backstory for some character that ended up being cut? An early concept for Gensokyo? It's too weirdly elaborate to be nothing.

>>20665725
I want FSN but with EoSD era ZUN art.

>>20681774
That's just silly. Besides, the CD says
>That was the new relationship between humans and youkai
>>20682058
It's just a reference to And Then There Were None and Shanghai Genya. ZUN really loves mystery novels so he made his own short story to accompany his music. But it's weird how he made an new shrine maiden, instead of using Reimu. Since Shanghai Genya and And Then There Were None takes place half a century+ ago then it's reasonable to assume the same is true for Dolls In Pseudo Paradise. In fact, the murderer on the cover is wearing very old-fashioned Western clothing. And in one section the wise men have an opium party. Opium parties were popular from the 19th century to early 20th century, especially in China. Shanghai Genya takes place from 1910 to 1930 (the Meiji period). And Then There Were None takes place in 1930. So this takes place during the early 1900s, which means this shrine maiden is the shrine maiden before the shrine maiden preceding Reimu. Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17 was created for DiPP and remixed for EoSD. Meiji 17 is 1884. Considering that the story described the wise mens' opium party as "exotic", meaning they're not Chinese. Shanghai between 1849 and 1943 was occupied by the French. The girl on the cover is wearing a feathered hat, not uncommon for the French to wear at the time. Thus, the wise men were French people living in Shanghai that happened to stumble upon Gensokyo. They got into "paradise" by moving to a mountain in the east and entering a hole in a peach tree. This is a direct reference to Peach Blossom Spring, in which a Chinese fisherman goes finds a grotto of peach trees covering an opening in a mountain. In the other side of the hole, a paradise existed. There's a lot more but...

TL;DR This is all just one big reference to a bunch of books that ZUN likes.

>>20682058
first learn what art is before demanding something, faggot

If you can read Japanese, I recently found this series which is pretty interesting.
It's a serial murder mystery starring Kosuzu based on DiPP and in particular the short story associated with it.
I didn't check if there was a translation
https://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/45184403

The main riddle is almost as obtuse as the epitaph in Umineko, maybe even harder because it's not translated and requires knowledge of Hiragana instead of just rearranging roman letters. There are also references to the creator's earlier series, though you don't need to watch them to understand this.

>>20686236
Post some more. This is interesting.

>>20686418
I can barely understand this but thanks, anon!

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>>20691778

whats the source of the pic in the op? is it just the other side of >>20671909 ?

>>20694159
I think it's just fan art.

>>20671909
I want ZUN to write more stories about Gensokyo's past before Reimu's time.

>>20665725
That's the best ZUN artstyle

>>20706199
where dat

>>20708795
my place

DiPP is ZUN's most genuinely heartfelt and artist creation.
I don't think he really topped it since.

>>20718172
DiPP is a meme, you dip.

>>20719456
DiPP isnt real, is our parents.

>>20718172
I agree, but Ghostly Field Club comes close.

this is gay

>>20667764
>Sure: You

>>20665725
I hate when ZUN does ZUN art.