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18. "RE: Lack of artistic talent leads to boggle..."
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   LAST EDITED ON Sep-17-20 AT 09:57 PM (EDT)
 
>I really hate that the black outfit Remilia costs as much as a decent
>video card, I wouldn't expect that quality to come for $50, but if it
>were somewhere south of $200 I'd probably already have a charge on my
>credit card just due to the artistic merit of the item (you can count
>the chain links on the fiddly little decorative chains, I'll pay 3
>figures for that, just not mid 3 figures.)

I know! There are cheaper Chinese knockoffs available of at least the white/silver version (I haven't noticed the black one, but I haven't really looked), around 60 bucks, but they take forever to ship and who knows if they're actually any good? The pictures look fine, but they might be pictures of a Japanese original for all I know. Is it racist to instinctively distrust Chinese online vendors? :/

>This reminds me indirectly, is it just expected to be a needle in a
>haystack finding non loli/chibi Touhou art?

No, not that bad. I mean, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil has been out for 17 years, and the characters have stayed popular the whole time, plus they've appeared in other Touhou games since, which has kept them current in the fandom. The Remilia pics alone on danbooru run to 41,000+ with more still being added.

Sturgeon's Law applies, of course, but even so, that's a deep pool. The playable Touhou characters run even higher, into the high 50s (Hakurei Reimu, for instance, currently stands at 57,000+); the only character from anything I can think of offhand who has more than that is Hatsune Miku, who's currently standing somewhere above 64,000 after this year's birthday surge at the end of August. It takes some sifting (and some judicious tag blacklisting, in my case), but there's good stuff to be found.

e-hentai.org, despite its name, also has some worthwhile non-H Touhou doujins in English scanlation. I'm rather partial to Satou Kibi's. Super cute, doesn't fuck with your head. Fair warning: a lot of Touhou artists like to fuck with your head, and every character can be and has been flanderized to the hilt (especially—wouldn't you know it—Flandre). Fanon is especially unkind to Meiling, which I cannot fathom since she's awesome.

If you take a deep dive into that stuff, you will lose a bunch of time, but you will also probably notice a few bits and pieces that seem familiar from Gallian Gothic. I haven't riffed any plot wholesale, but I've run across an appealing design idea here and there (such as The World, which is actually a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure reference that a clade of the Touhou fandom has adopted for Sakuya owing to the resemblance of her special ability to that of one of the Jojo characters).

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                              RE: Lack of artistic talent leads to boggle... Astynax Sep-17-20 8
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                                  RE: Lack of artistic talent leads to boggle... Gryphonadmin Sep-17-20 10
                                      RE: Lack of artistic talent leads to boggle... Astynax Sep-17-20 13
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