/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I don't often say this, but Reimu actually is my favorite touhou.

Seething with madness & hatred yet?

>>7554904

Not really, she's just kinda boring.

Now if you said your favorites were the Watatsuki sisters, we would have a problem.

>>7554890
What's wrong with Darwinism? Were you homeschooled or something?

>>7554914
In modern media 80% of Darwinists are either evil, powerful old men or jerkasses.

>>7554913
I like the Watatsuki sisters. Deal with it.

>>7554914
>>7554921

What this guy said.
Pretty much all of them are either dark/edgy, SO evil, or complete asshats.

The only decent ones (imao) I've read so far are Munsu, Askeladd, Blackbeard, Kanta, and Reimu.

>>7554923

Nope, I'm not going to deal with it.
How dare you have a different opinion from my own!
You no longer exist to me!

>>7554939
Please get a trip so its easier to filter you

>>7554945

Sounds like someone can't take a joke.

>>7554913
>Now if you said your favorites were the Watatsuki sisters, we would have a problem.
Reported.

Reimu is the worst.

>>7554890
...this picture - isn't it backwards? With most fruit, when they are easy to remove it means they are ripe and thus good. We never grew any apples in our garden, but I don't think they differ significantly.

>>7555004

Most likely.
Your explanation makes sense.
I just think the author was trying to be DEEP.

Darwinist Nun.

There is a joke in here somewhere.

>>7554923
I like /a/. Deal with it.

>>7555004
I had an apple tree, but it only gave baking apples, so there was no easy way to tell if windfalls were good compared to the ones on the tree.

>>7555033

You what?
HURF DURF QUALITY POST GTFO MY /JP/!
Sarcasm.

>>7555024
Miko =/= Nun, you nigger.

A miko can have le s3x.

>>7554921
>jerkass

I'm guessing you frequent TVtropes because that's the only place I've ever heard that word.

>>7555051
>le s3x.
>le

Wow, /jp/. You really are getting extremely shitty when the subject is Touhou.

>>7555060
fuck you!
i was drinking some tea when i readed that.

>>7555073
That's because all the kids from /a/ go here to discuss touhous.

This is proof that 2hus are the cancer killing /jp/ and need to be moved to /v/ as fast as possible.

>>7555060

I don't think TVtropes invented the term "jerkass."

>>7555092
So how long is this new round of bitching going to last?

1 week? 1 month? I don't really mind I'm just curious.

>>7555092

>>7555051
I'm sorry oh great and mighty scholar of Japanese theology.

>>7554890
>>7555044
Windfalls are the ones you crush to make booze.

It's strange. Reimu seems perfect for me, but I like Marisa better.

>>7555107
As long as it takes to force you 2hufags off the board or make moot intervene and tell you to go to /v/.

Maybe if he is merciful, he'll give you your own board, though probably not. But then again, even pokeymans got one.

>>7555111

I wonder what would happen if I mixed apple cider and tequila.

Good idea?
Bad idea?

>>7555123
He did give us a board, it's called /jp/.

>>7555123
>>7555108
>>7555092

The fact you fuckers are actually using sarcasm to defend a faggot from reddit really makes me wonder what is going on over this board recently. I'm guess that springform faggotry was bound to bring this kind of people over.

>>7555113

Marisa is more entertaining... and has FINAL SPARK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAbACOuvWc

>>7555136
Tell me then, why is it /jp/ and not /2hu/?

Why are people fighting and not posting Reimu pics? What are you even fighting about?

>>7555130
That sounds horrifying.

>>7555155
Because it was originally called Japanese Culture. If you have been here for more than a month you would know that.

>>7555130
silver tequila maybe, gold tequila no fucking way, Blue Agave and other tequila not worth wasting the tequila.

Hard cider is good by itself and easy as fuck though.

Probably wouldn't be bad with cheap bourbon.

Though with apple slices, cinnamon, everclear/diesel ,a coffee filter and a couple weeks can make something along those lines as well if you're extra extra lazy.

>>7555123
I'll give you 3 days before you get tired of it.

>>7555104
It didn't invent the term "trope" either, but when you see someone use it, it's still a sure sign to stay away.

>>7555111
Despite being a retard he's right, though.

>>7555162
Oh, I know, and I have in fact been here more that a month. But the point is: touhou is shit. It's the kind of shit people are wallowing in over at gaia and /a/, and touhou fanbase is by now so infested with gaiafags that it's the most cancerous after narutu, TTGL and evangelion.

>>7555123
As much as I hate touhou, without it /jp/ would just be like /a/ but with less anime and more 12 year olds trying to force memes.

>>7555189
>evangelion
Don't go there, bro.

>>7555189
Why go to a board that mainly talks about it then complain when they do? That's like going to /co/ and not liking comics.

>>7555167

Thanks!

>>7555189
So you like things based on its fanbase?
That way you will never like anything

How is Reimu a Darwinist in any way?

Hell, evolution doesn't even apply to 95% of Touhous.

>>7555200
He's one of those new strain of "2hu" haters arouns here as of late, i can't tell if these guys are just trolls or honestly retarded.

>>7555222
I don't think it's more than one person.

>>7555208
At a place like this the fanbase is pretty much the outward face of anything you might be talking about.

And also, how would you possibly be able to pursue any hobby on the internet without interacting with the fanbase?

>>7555199
>Don't go there, bro.
Why? I thought it was pretty well established that the eva fanbase makes the narutards look like literature critics from Harvard?

>>7555245
Easy, play the games, collect pictures, read decent doujins, not a single interaction with the fanbase needed

>>7555272
Don't mistake the post-Boom fanbase with the originals.

/jp/ hates darwinism or what ?

Well doesn't matter, Reimu thread.

This could have actually been an on-topic thread, but one retard trolling plus a few retards apparently fresh from /a/ replying to him suffice to get everything flooded by their mental diarrhea.

>>7555245
>>7555277

Since the thread is already derailed I might as well make a comment.

Personally, I feel the Touhou fanbase is one of the better fanbases in existence, simply for all the creative shit that comes forth from it. You have the doujinshi, the fan-made games/spinoffs, and various other projects.

They are pretty chill for the most part.

What do those other fanbases do apart from circlejerking and doing a comparative analysis, of their favorite series, to every other similar work of fiction?

Do they actually get together and do anything worthwhile?

I didn't think so.

>>7555631

That is because so far as what i know, There's no franchise that is a sandbox/Open world as Touhou Project. You are given a world, bunch of characters and settings. The rest is yours to play around with.

Sure there is canon and stuff, But as ZUN allows people to have fun, thus making everyone has their own definition of what this and that characters are. Also in every Touhou fans exists a Gensokyo of it's own. It's like a hordes of parallel world of Gensokyo

>>7555631
For some reason, people tend to exclude the productive part of the Japanese fanbase when they're discussing the "Touhou fanbase," mostly because they're thinking of the retards that you run into on the internet.

>>7555752
Sandbox alone would do nothing. You have to give people tools and materials to build their world from. Otherwise all you get is... well, sand castles.

People (both those praising and bitching about fandom) always fail to realize that pretty much every bit of setting and characterisation it plays with has been introduced by ZUN himself at one point. Without the initial creator providing the vast and solid foundation, nothing of that scale could possibly grow and thrive.

And yes, there is another "franchise" similar to Touhou. It's for a different demographic, though. Hetalia. In a way, it's actually better than Touhou, since it doesn't even require the creator to do anything past designing characters, people can just take from centuries of world history.

I laugh everytime someone from the newest brand of /jp/ers starts blaming Touhou for ''killing /jp/'' when it was one of the two main reasons that /jp/ was created in the first place.

I only wish there was a tripfag that posted the original moot thread from Easymodo everytime someone brought up the topic the same way Kinectimalspammer posted in every nuke.jpg thread that was made by foreign trolls.

>>7556887
I only wish people would have enough common sense to, you know, ignore things like that.

Like, you, for example. The thread was getting back on topic, but you just had to post the meta-shit again. Why?

>>7556900
I laugh every time somebody even bothers responding to the people who say "Touhou out of /jp/" because it means that they're either new, gullible, or autistic.

>>7554934
>Askeladd

Dear friend, you're awesome.

>>7555334
Social Darwinism. Usually portrayed as a jaded, unempathetic worldview in fiction. (For a western example, see Magneto from Marvel comics.) I think it fits Reimu, since Zun's always given her kind of a detached attitude when not resolving incidents.
Que sera sera, as it were. If the weak fall by the wayside, she doesn't particularly care.

>>7557109
Truly a figure who knows neither compassion nor mercy.

>>7557109
It must be blissful knowing you are the main character in a game and no enemy can kill you unless the author wants to get edgy.

>>7557132

Doubtless, it would be quite the twist.
I just wouldn't like seeing any Touhou characters actually dying off.

There's the "Death Trance" thing in TD, meaning "Touhous witness a deathly vision" as if they really are about to die... and yet no human touhous really die.

it's probably better if you don't think about it too much

>>7557109
>portrayed as a jaded, unempathetic worldview in fiction

That doesn't mean that anyone jaded and unempathetic is immediately social darwinist.

You know, if she really was one, she would never have agreed to the spellcard rules. She'd prefer battles of life and death, survival of the fittest, things like that.

Touhou 1: Reimu goes on a genocidal rampage.
Touhou 2: Reimu seeks revenge for Mima's revenge for Reimu's previous rampage.
Touhou 3: Reimu interferes with academia and scientific progress.
Touhou 4: Reimu kills a youkai who tried to help her.
Touhou 5: Reimu orphans Alice and destroys an entire world for its creator's belief in free enterprise.
Touhou 6: Reimu places a little girl under house arrest.
Touhou 7: Reimu prevents an innocent girl from being revived.
CoLA: Reimu mugs a youkai for reading.
Touhou 7.5: Reimu breaks up parties.
Touhou 8: Reimu strips away Gensokyo's defenses against a Lunar invasion.
Touhou 9: Reimu attacks people for no good reason.
Touhou 10: Reimu oppresses other religions.
Touhou 10.5: Reimu endorses slave labor
Touhou 11: Reimu cuts back funding for alternative energy sources.
Touhou 12: Reimu persecutes Youkai Jesus.

>>7557439
>would never have agreed to the spell-card rules

...wait, that was stupid on my part, she had little say in this and the only alternative was no fighting at all.

Still, kind of hard to be a social darwinist in a world without evolution and natural selection to speak of.

>>7557439
>>7557460

If Reimu did that she would not be doing her job correctly.

Too many characters have powers that could incredibly upset the balance of Gensokyo, which means Reimu wouldn't be doing her job right.

The same reason that youkai aren't allowed to eat one another. She probably doesn't care either way, but it could be a problem if a youkai got so powerful (from consuming others) that they could potentially destroy the balance. Her job is to keep the balance.

Not to mention, no matter how dire (from a mundane standpoint) she will not get involved with human affairs. She does her job, quite thoroughly, and leaves it at that.

Reimu's methods may be kind of questionable but she, more or less, puts her feelings to the side to do her job.

>>7557450

Touhou 6: Reimu enforces environmental standards.
Touhou 7: Reimu puts the dead to rest.
Touhou 8: Reimu puts an end to a terrorist plot to destroy the moon.
Touhou 9: Reimu straightens out the corrupt bureaucracy in the judicial system.
Touhou 10: Reimu deals with religious intolerance.
Touhou 11: Reimu promotes nuclear non-proliferation.
Touhou 12: Reimu defends the world from extraterrestrials.

>>7557450
Way too copypasted, go back to TVTropes where the other Marisafags reside, the thing I hate is not the copypasta itself, but that those faggots think it's dead serious, when the original author wrote it as a joke.

>>7557460
>she had little play

Au contraire, she was the one that imposed the rules after youkais started whining about fearing death and avoiding the lack of fights, which she agreed on. Note that she fought without the spellcard rules from Touhou 1-5.

>>7558683
>human affairs

Can you specify what you mean by that?

I suggest we focus on posting Reimu instead of doing senseless debates.

>>7558795

Situations that occur between humans that don't effect things on a wide scale.

>>7558827
I agree.

Yes yes

Is reimu allowed to have sex?
I mean, she won't live for ever and a new miko has to take over the shrine some day.

>>7559016
She's a shrine maiden, one of her main duties is to have a husband to which she'll have her children with, the children then becomes the successor at an early age.

I think that once she's married, she's removed from all duty and left to take care of and instruct her child.

>>7559024
>one of her main duties is to have a husband to which she'll have her children with, the children then becomes the successor at an early age

[citation needed]

>>7558765
The only idiots who could take it seriously are secondaries.

Hah?
Reimu's a Darwinist?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZCUT8AFE0

Reimu thread on /e/

>>>/e/1406339

>>7559057
Mostly everyone in Gensokyo is darwinist.

>>7554890
I think the reason Reimu isn't unlikable is cause she doesn't use Social Darwinism to justify social inequality. Though she believes in Darwinism and has the ideals, she doesn't show preferential treatment to strong or weak youkai. You're strong? She beats your ass. You're weak? She beats your ass. Everyone gets an equal chance at ass-kicking. An equal opportunity ass-kicker.

>>7559084
Hey 2hufags, why not just relocate your 2hus permanently to /e/? And maybe also to /c/.

All you do is semi-lewd imagedumps, coupled with "discussions" along the lines of "which 2hu u wanna fuk" anyway.

>>7559162
So... you had another topic you wanted to talk about, then?

>>7559162

Shut the fuck up NEET faggot.

>>7559165
Why do you even bother responding to a troll?

>>7559165
Well, we could start with eroge or idols for instance. You know, actual otaku related stuff.

>>7559170
Nothing better to do.

>>7559183
>eroge or idols
...Both of which are already commonly, regularly posted topics.....

>>7559190
>regularly posted topics.....
Yet 2hu threads usually fill up 2/3 of the front page. IF we're lucky.

>>7559196
Idols have a quarantine thread and the eroge threads stay pretty well consolidated. Touhou could afford to consolidate, but then we'd be so slow as to be damn near unpopulated.

I'd like for you to consider a broader topic base than we already have.

>>7559196
>Complaining about the quality of posts while shitposting.

>>7554890

lol.. bad apples...

>>7554890

Oh Reimu...

Reimu is a raging bitch. The only reason anyone puts up with her is because she would break your fucking legs if you get in her way.

>>7559403
Just think of it would feel to be her husband, when she finally gets one...

>>7559403
That's what makes her good. I hate that carefree joy full attitude bullshit. Reimu just likes to take it easy with no interruptions and even though you are making her seem worse than she is.
Its part of her charm being a hard ass.

>>7559409
Throws you to the ground, threatens to kill you if you're not erect, and then pisses on you when climaxing.

...feels good, man.

>>7554890
That represents a fundamental misunderstanding of Darwinism.

Incidentally, most media, even if it tries to vilify natural selection, fails to understand it hilariously.

>>7559409
Having to cook the meals, help clean the shrine while she sweeps the grounds, entertain her friends when they come over by being the 70s housewife figure, and getting to cuddle with her at night as a reward for all your hard work.

Sounds pretty damn good to me. Well, that last part probably won't happen, since you'll likely be sleeping in different beds, or she'll kick you away because she's too hot.

>>7559487
but do I get to fuck her armpits?
thats all I care about.

>>7559450

It seems to have two different meanings.
There's the scientific term, then there's the term used in entertainment. Similar to the term "antisocial" having two different meanings.

>>7559487
>different beds

Psst, SSiB revealed Reimu only has one bed, when she carried the unconcious Reisen into her shrine, she had to sleep outside while the bunny slept in her bed.

>>7559767
Oh, that's true.

So I guess it's sleeping on the floor for Reimu's husband.

I think Reimu would like having a husband. Someone to help out around the shrine; isn't she always complaining about how nobody helps her clean up after parties and stuff?

>>7555156
What's this from?

>>7560523
A husband from /jp/, who would slink away during parties, away from the loud drunkards and loquacious youkai, only to come out of their bedroom in the wee hours of the morning to ensure his wife is covered in a blanket before going back to sleep, then again later on to help Reimu clean up as the hung-over trodded away?

>>7560576
I'm sure she'd love just that.

Wait for it...

>>7561033
>TouhouxMacross
I'm lovin' it.

>>7559038
It's all true.

I know, shocking.

What Remiu is suggesting is that the best apples are those that don't fall off the tree and die without spreading their genes. Where in reality the best apple would be the one that fell of the tree and got to spread their seeds. This shit does the opposite of what OP suggests and makes Reimu seem like a dumbass that is trying to be deep and edgy.

>>7561061
Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's just saying the ones that didn't fall were either in better condition or just tasted better.

>>7559450
On the part of OP, you mean, because that dialogue has nothing to do with Darwinism whatsoever in the first place.

>>7561061
You can't force outside-world facts into Touhou, Gensokyo is run by beliefs and fiction, the way things run are based on what people believe they are. Like in the old ages where everyone believed in polygamy and thought that every natural event was caused by their god/common belief. Not to mention, apples that are knocked down by the wind, while somewhat carrying their purpose, are by no means any better than the ones that stayed.

You may as well be criticizing them for believing in ghosts as well.

>>7561061

To be fair, she gets told by Marisa a few pages later.

>>7561106
That's just Marisa doing her usual assholetry, friendly stuff. There has to be a balance between disgraces and fullfilments in every character, the most recent example is Marisa falling through the fairies' traphole.

>>7561061
They aren't speaking about genes.
They aren't speaking about genes.
They aren't speaking about genes.
Or evolution. Or natural selection.

They are talking about the wind, being a reasonable magical being it is, just like every Gensokyoan natural force, sorting through the apples by throwing the bad ones down to the ground.

>>7561061
She never said ''best'', she only said that the apples that stayed were the strongest ones. The ones that fall, while fullfilling their duties, only mean that they are less fresh and start to rot away the moment they leave the tree.

>>7561061
Apples that ripen also get to spread their seeds. In fact, they get to spread their seeds a fair distance away from the original tree where they are more likely to thrive, rather than in the shade of the original tree where they will have to compete with the mother.

The development of fruit is an evolutionary benefit because otherwise trees wouldn't bother expending energy creating fruit; they would simply drop the seeds to the ground.

Reimu 1, Anonymous 0.

...Contributing.

>>7561106
Isn't it sad, Dai-chan?

I'll clear all of yer youkai mischief troubles.

For a fee of course

Chillin'.

Fighting makes friends.

>>7561126
Well, fruit that fall off the tree get eaten too, so it's not quite so clear cut as that.

She's a darwinist, but also begs for donations?

>>7561255
She doesn't beg, she asks. Politely. And then she gets them.

What if she didn't get them, you ask? Well, that's where Darwin gets into the picture. Sure, there were people who didn't give donations. But then natural selection happened.

>>7561255
>begs for donations

Heh heh, keep being like 90% of Touhou fandom.

>>7561270
But she's so cute when she does.

Today, too...

>>7561316
That "That was you" face reminds me of a Creeper.

Reimu looks good in black.

>>7561316
It's true.

A bird is fine too.

>>7562363

I think Reimu could look nice in just about any color.

Marisa on the other hand...

I don't get it

Whoosh.

what does 'darwinist' mean? Is that code word for sane human being? I am sick of all the retards and their creation myths

Darwinists are fucking godless scum

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clankers all the way bitches

>>7570142
>>7570151
What a way to make me regret bumping this thread.

>>7570142
Only in America. See how they corrupted the word liberal.

>>7557450
What? No 13? Or it is still in demo phase?

at least I have a purpose

>>7570142
What OP actually talks about is the so-called "social darwinism", which has in fact little to do with Darwin's actual theories. It's basically a glorification of extreme individualism and egoism, motivated by the fact that evolution works by eliminating unfit individuals from the gene pool, which is a good thing and should be encouraged.

The movement died out when people who actually understood the theory started pointing out that fitness does not equal wealth, strength or anything of the like, just the ability to produce offsprings, and that the ability of cooperation and empathy is an important evolutionary trait.

>>7570183
>>7570183
>>>/a/

>>7570229
>evolution works by eliminating unfit individuals from the gene pool, which is a good thing and should be encouraged.

False. The unfit individuals aren't all eliminated, they serve as stepping stones for the greatest men. That is how evolution works.

Little does Reimu know, interference from superior beings upon the au-natural 'darwinist' theory by way of zoos or pets throw a wrench in the whole of it!

>>7554921
Probably 90% of protagonist are "Darwinists" (that phrase alone shows you are at least an idiot, or even a creationist). Just because it never comes up for the vast majority doesn't mean they are creationists.

Lewd women.

>>7574451
I have a new fetish

>>7573337

>>7580387
Reported for reminding me of that shitty daily thread.

>>7583149

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