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Do you genuinely love touhou or did you just arbitrarily latch onto the series?

I've heard that people with autism will become obsessed with things for no particular reason and they aren't even able to explain why they care about it so much. Kind of like how ducks will imprint on the first thing that they see.

>> No.10058136

>>10058126
You're implying that autistic love is not genuine, CIS scum.

>> No.10058141

Noo... Isn't that aspergers? Though most of them seem to notice it.

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>> No.10058163

About as arbitrary as any other shmup I've picked up over the years. The series has lost most of it's novelty in the 8 years and all I can stomach these days is PCB.

>> No.10058174

I love it, though I'm guessing that a lot of it has to do with fanon and not just the games (which I still do like), but then again I can't really explain why I do considering that shmups aren't even close to my favorite genre.

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>heard Hina's theme on youtube
>thought it was awesome
>played mountain of faith
>hina was meh but for some reason really liked aya's stage
>a momoji was fine too
>snowballed from there

>> No.10058179

People with Asperger's often form obsessive interests but that does not mean they are not real interests.

>> No.10058188

I like touhou and VOCALOID very much but I really can't enjoy them to the fullest because the fandom for them is horrible.

>> No.10058202

I like it for the music, and the general challenge it presents.

I do not, however, see how it is at all possible to become this obsessed with it. Especially to have an image board that moves at any decent rate with so many threads about it constantly in circulation.

I thought it was a joke for the longest time upon first arriving at /jp/ years ago. They seem completely serious about it, though. Even as my understanding of the complex shitposting culture deepens, I still cannot understand the musings of the "Touhou Otaku"

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I love Touhou because it gives me something to practice on that I can feel like I'm progressing with. I am piss-awful at shmups in general, but I just love to keep playing and practising and getting better. Some of the fan content is pretty cool, too.

>> No.10058214

Listened to the music for years, had a a favorite song, and came to like the character assosciated with that song. Started playing the games, favorite character changed dramatically, enjoy the challenge and the fun little references to japanese history or legend ZUN sneaks in.

>> No.10058234

>>10058179
Sometimes I wonder if psychologists are just jealous that nobody ever becomes passionately obsessed with psychology.

>> No.10058247

I don't really like touhou or know anything about it aside from a few character names I picked up from being here.

I just think /jp/ is cute and I like watching you.

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>>10058202
I think part of what makes Touhou awesome and popular is that it's a very pretty game. The bullets are all colorful, the music is nice, it's just a nice-looking and sounding game overall.

Compare to something like Dodonpachi, where all the bullets blend together in one solid colored blob, and the music is bland. The newest Dodonpachi has dubstep in it. The games are fun, but they're ugly.

>> No.10058286

>>10058261
>DDP
>Cave games in general
>ugly
Pretty much completely disagreeing with this statement. Have you even seen stuff like Futari in HD? The stage design and layouts are far ahead of anything ZUN will ever do with Touhou.

I'll give you that the music is mostly better... in terms of composition anyway. His arrangement is pretty much shit.

>> No.10058290

I saw videos of some guy playing some Touhou games one day and it was interesting enough. I just kinda spent an afternoon watching it and that was that.

Then like maybe a year later out of the blue I was bored and somehow remembered the name Perfect Cherry Blossom and I went and played it and it kicked my ass, but I loved it and its music and visuals and bullet spam. I never really played a shmup before that, and it was super fun and I even got a few friends to play it too.

I kinda wonder where this giant fanbase came from, but I'm glad it's there. I really only care about the comedy fanworks and the music albums, though.

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Or this, I don't even get why everyone likes this game. People act like it's the best STG ever and it sucks. The scoring system makes no sense, and the screen is constantly full of numbers. It's ugly.

>> No.10058323

>>10058261
>The newest Dodonpachi has dubstep in it.
For one song. And the saw wave is only 16 bars. Not not even that pronounced, closer to what actual dubstep should sound like.

>> No.10058336

>>10058323
DubDubPachi

>> No.10058331

>>10058286
Honorable Bug Princess looks just like every other Cave game, you get to a boss and the whole screen turns into pink glitter.

>> No.10058335

I have legit autism and learn to hate every game I play.

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>Kind of like how ducks will imprint on the first thing that they see.

OP I'm pretty fucking certain that has nothing to do with an autistic person's tendencies to develop narrow, obsessive interests.

>> No.10058351

>>10058331
God I'd love to see you complain about Ketsupachi.

>> No.10058366

>>10058351
Sorry, I just realized I'm being over-critical and kind of mean. Touhou's just spoiled me that's all, it's the prettiest STG ever!

>> No.10058369

>>10058366
Go back to le /system11/

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>>10058369
I LIKE THIS SITE AND THE PEOPLE ON IT SO DON'T TELL ME TO GO ANYWHERE

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>>10058286
>>10058178
Lepic greenteme arrowx

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Came for the games and enjoyed them somewhat. I played each for a few weeks but didn't really want to master them or anything, just have fun with them and get to see the story/characters. Then I got into the music and started downloading tons of albums, and liked that a lot. And then I started to focus on the artist fanwork, doujins and picture collecting, and sharing what doujins I bought and scanned. And somewhere along the lines I gradually fell in love with a certain Touhou and started to like a few others in particular and couldn't get enough material of them, so I ended up checking Pixiv on a daily basis eventually. I still play the games from time to time, but the fanwork is really what is keeping me with the series.

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>>10058126
The game series leaves me lukewarm, but that's not what got me into it.
Touhou Party Barrel on the other hand...

Sage for talking about myself.

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>>10058477
Party Barrel?

I got into it about 2 years ago when I was away from home on co-op. I was bored one day and I remembered a picture my brother had shown me of a blonde girl with a funny hat that had eyes on it. I remember him saying that it was from something called Touhou. So I looked up this mysterious Touhou and encountered Mountain of Faith. I found that while I got my ass kicked; I had fun. Then I looked for the other games since it was the 10th, there had to be more.

TLDR: I blame my little brother.

>> No.10058829

Touhou combines my two favorite things: lolis and video games.

>> No.10058897

>>10058126
>Do you genuinely love touhou
Definitely.

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