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dranxis
Jul 12, 2013

Delicious tears of disappointment
I've read all the official manga and literature that's been translated. For doujins I've only read a smattering though.

Curiosities of Lotus Asia was kind of difficult to get through, but I loved Cage in Lunatic Runagate. Very introspective, it really helped develop the Imperishable Night cast. For me the most enjoyable mangas are Forbidden Scrollery, the Three Fairies cycle and Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth. (I know that last one wasn't written by ZUN though)

On one hand I would like to see more fantasy adventure stuff, but I don't think ZUN is interested in writing manga like that, when he can make games instead.

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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

a cartoon duck posted:

It took a long time until someone stepped up to translate Hopeless Masquerade

To be fair, Hopeless Masquerade was delayed mostly because of technical problems. As we've heard in this thread, Tasofro are apparently some pretty lovely programmers. The text itself was done on the wiki within a week. I should know, since I did most of it.

Krysmphoenix posted:

That said, I agree that the official stuff should have more interest with regards of being translated. About the only reasonable excuse I can think of why more people aren't jumping on that wagon is that someone already has been translating the official stuff and has claimed dibs, whereas for the doujin some translators might go "Hey, I found this, no one's going to claim dibs, let's do it!"

Unfortunately this excuse doesn't work since the only reason I "called dibs" on Wild and Horned Hermit is because the previous group was like 5 chapters behind (10 months).

ikaragu posted:

I read them, and I like them some of the time, but I find myself wishing they would go deeper into the fun fantasy stuff. Wild and Horned Hermit started off pretty promising with Kasen squashing ghosts and acting like she was up to something, but a lot of the time it's just Reimu and friends hanging around the shrine explaining stuff at length, which makes Gensokyo seem like a pretty boring place where not much happens most of the time. The fairies manga were pretty similar, and Forbidden Scrollery has lots of cool fantastical elements but also threatens to go that way. The only Touhou manga where the characters did go off on a fantasy adventure was Silent Sinner in Blue, and from what I understand everyone hated that (and I don't blame them given the danmaku battle section - some of the individual spells were cool, but the whole thing just took forever and went absolutely nowhere).

I can understand that. It bugs even me that ZUN keeps teasing us with Kasen's backstory/secret plan while keeping it completely irrelevant. I'd be pretty sad if he felt like he couldn't delve into it until the end of the comic or something.

Cage in Lunatic Runagate is probably ZUN's best work overall.

GeeCee
Dec 16, 2004

:scotland::glomp:

"You're going to be...amazing."
I'd consider reading official manga if I knew where to find it. :goleft:

Other than that I mostly have Hang In There Kogasa-san and Hang in There Kogasa-chan on my daily webcomics check.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
They should be linked to under the appropriate page of the touhouwiki, which is a one-stop-shop for all your Touhou... um... citation needs. I would recommend ignoring the summaries and just going straight for the text dumps/translations, but I'm crazy. The official manga are also usually hosted wherever manga is ordinarily found.

Why do I need to cite things from Touhou so often...?

Clarste fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Feb 12, 2014

AdorableStar
Jul 13, 2013

:patriot:


Clarste posted:

They should be linked to under the appropriate page of the touhouwiki, which is a one-stop-shop for all your Touhou... um... citation needs. I would recommend ignoring the summaries and just going straight for the text dumps/translations, but I'm crazy. The official manga are also usually hosted wherever manga is ordinarily found.

Why do I need to cite things from Touhou so often...?

Is there a reason you don't use the wikia?

Not Dave
Aug 9, 2009

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The official mangas are likely to also be on any one of numerous scanlation sites. That's where I read Hermit, Scrollery, and the Inabas. I have no interest in Sinner in Silent Blue, and I think I read half of The Three Fairies? I'm really bad with keeping up with manga as it's translated for various reasons. I don't have any particular preference over it or fan stuff, and most of the fan stuff I read is from it being brought up in this thread or literally tripping over it looking for something else. Say whatever you'd like about the quality of the fan comics, I just think its cool as hell that touhou has lead to atleast a fraction of nonpornographic doijin market making it to the internet.

Potsticker
Jan 14, 2006


Kheldragar posted:

Is there a reason you don't use the wikia?

millions of terrible advertisements and bloated page design. And that's just wikia in general.

Dr Pepper
Feb 4, 2012

Don't like it? well...

Because it's horrible.

Basically Wikia kept making the layout of the site more and more obnoxious so more ads could get shoved on, the people actually responsible for running the Wiki had enough of it and ditched the place. With it now run by corporate managers, the wikia wiki quickly became a cesspool as any sort of moderation stopped and vandalism reigned supreme.

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Wikia's are aesthetically terrible.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
In addition to all that's been mentioned, the content of the wikia is literally just copy-pasted from the touhouwiki whenever someone gets around to it, so it's less up to date. I can't think of a reason to use it.

ElMaligno
Dec 31, 2004

Be Gay!
Do Crime!

Clarste posted:

Why do I need to cite things from Touhou so often...?

Sometimes when I am witting my essay on "Youmu GhostXUnzan: The shipping in spirit" I extensively quote the wiki. The wikia is however terrible and doesn't approve of my shipping.

AdorableStar
Jul 13, 2013

:patriot:


Clarste posted:

In addition to all that's been mentioned, the content of the wikia is literally just copy-pasted from the touhouwiki whenever someone gets around to it, so it's less up to date. I can't think of a reason to use it.

I guess I only use it because I listened to its podcast for a long time. :shrug:

Takoluka
Jun 26, 2009

Don't look at me!



Kheldragar posted:

Is there a reason you don't use the wikia?

Apparently, there was some community fallout as well, so pretty much everyone who runs the wikia is horrible. Or so I'm told.

leather fedora
Jun 27, 2004

The closest acceptable translation is
"die properly"
I translated/edited large sections of pretty much every text-intensive book (BAiJR, PMiSS, GoM, SoPM, CiLR and CoLA) on the wiki (the good one), but that was back when I had plenty of free time and I could go those by myself for the most part. I wouldn't mind helping out with the comics, but the process seems much more complicated and I never bothered to actively seek out other people to work with. I wouldn't mind helping you out in the future though, Clarste.

I own all of the official books, including the very first Three Fairies book.

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

leather fedora posted:

I own all of the official books, including the very first Three Fairies book.



That's good, because the three fairies own and are the best characters. Holy gently caress are they cute and awesome.

TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT
Oct 12, 2008

this is what happens when you take UI design away from engineers and give it to a bunch of hipster art student "designers"

Takoluka posted:

Apparently, there was some community fallout as well, so pretty much everyone who runs the wikia is horrible. Or so I'm told.
The community voted to move the wiki from Wikia to a self-hosted solution. After migrating the content, the Wikia copy was set to "this page moved to ..." links and locked. Then a Wikia admin stepped in, unlocked the wiki, banned the existing editors, and reverted the content. In revenge, a bunch of trolls stepped in to fill it with OC characters and slashfiction.

a cartoon duck
Sep 5, 2011

TOO SCSI FOR MY CAT posted:

In revenge, a bunch of trolls stepped in to fill it with OC characters and slashfiction.

Which wiki is that, because the non-lovely one has entries for my original character, Bleimu The Hedgehog.

AdorableStar
Jul 13, 2013

:patriot:


a cartoon duck posted:

Which wiki is that, because the non-lovely one has entries for my original character, Bleimu The Hedgehog.

Shouldn't the Japanese have 夢 in her name rather than that simplified Chinese 梦 thing? :spergin:

leather fedora
Jun 27, 2004

The closest acceptable translation is
"die properly"
Not sure how a fairly major(?) Chinese fan character made it up there, but it's still much less than what you'd see on the Wikia.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

leather fedora posted:

I translated/edited large sections of pretty much every text-intensive book (BAiJR, PMiSS, GoM, SoPM, CiLR and CoLA) on the wiki (the good one), but that was back when I had plenty of free time and I could go those by myself for the most part. I wouldn't mind helping out with the comics, but the process seems much more complicated and I never bothered to actively seek out other people to work with. I wouldn't mind helping you out in the future though, Clarste.

The process isn't really that complicated, if you have a basic familiarity with photoshop. Heck, I don't even own photoshop: I just downloaded a free open-source thing I found on google. I guess the hard part would be where you have to tear out all the pages of your book in order to scan them properly, but luckily I've been spared that.

Having a second or third eye go over the translation would be very helpful though. I'm sure you're way better than me at this.

fuepi
Feb 6, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

leather fedora posted:

Not sure how a fairly major(?) Chinese fan character made it up there, but it's still much less than what you'd see on the Wikia.

I tried to find Neko Scarlet but I guess it was taken down or something.

Takoluka
Jun 26, 2009

Don't look at me!



Devour or Fire posted:

I tried to find Neko Scarlet but I guess it was taken down or something.

Neko Scarlet is a national treasure.

Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

Takoluka posted:

Neko Scarlet is a national treasure.



Tewi, those wings look ridiculous and you might wanna get that head wound looked at! :v:

leather fedora
Jun 27, 2004

The closest acceptable translation is
"die properly"

Clarste posted:

The process isn't really that complicated, if you have a basic familiarity with photoshop. Heck, I don't even own photoshop: I just downloaded a free open-source thing I found on google. I guess the hard part would be where you have to tear out all the pages of your book in order to scan them properly, but luckily I've been spared that.
I know how to use Photoshop a bit (enough to put together my doujins) but I don't know if I have the skills to make things like sound effects show up as more than footnotes, but maybe I'm being too hard on myself/looking for excuses.

The second part is definitely more problematic, since I only buy the books and not the serializations, and I don't have a scanner.

But yeah, either hit me up if you have PMs or contact me (NForza) on the wiki when you have something that needs a look.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

leather fedora posted:

I know how to use Photoshop a bit (enough to put together my doujins) but I don't know if I have the skills to make things like sound effects show up as more than footnotes, but maybe I'm being too hard on myself/looking for excuses.

The second part is definitely more problematic, since I only buy the books and not the serializations, and I don't have a scanner.

But yeah, either hit me up if you have PMs or contact me (NForza) on the wiki when you have something that needs a look.

Oh, you're NForza. That explains some things. I've seen you around editing stuff. Actually that makes me think of that time when we had Marisa being super-casual in SOPM and the accompanying debate. Personally I have to continually resist the urge to make her talk like a cowboy.

Anyway, I'm probably not the best person to reassure you about editing sound effects, since I leave most of them alone myself... Most of them are probably easier than WAHH's habit of having plaid speech bubbles though; I'm just too lazy to do the obvious sound effects.

Raenir Salazar
Nov 5, 2010

"According to Wikipedia" there is a black hole that emits zionist hawking radiation where my brain should have been

I really should just shut the fuck up and stop posting forever
College Slice
I've only glanced at the youtube lyrics once or twice as I'm working but something about the tone of voice and the few lines I've seen for this Patchouli song by Shibayan Records makes me think "This is now Head Canon."

Raenir Salazar
Nov 5, 2010

"According to Wikipedia" there is a black hole that emits zionist hawking radiation where my brain should have been

I really should just shut the fuck up and stop posting forever
College Slice
I need help finding a song, its a Bad Apple arrange I know that much, I'm pretty sure it only has the word "Apple" but is otherwise was only various Japanese characters in the title on youtube.

My Youtube googlefu is weak. :(

SirSlarty
Dec 23, 2003

that's wicked

Raenir Salazar posted:

I need help finding a song, its a Bad Apple arrange I know that much, I'm pretty sure it only has the word "Apple" but is otherwise was only various Japanese characters in the title on youtube.

My Youtube googlefu is weak. :(

This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9I5_VEy0iY

Raenir Salazar
Nov 5, 2010

"According to Wikipedia" there is a black hole that emits zionist hawking radiation where my brain should have been

I really should just shut the fuck up and stop posting forever
College Slice

You sir, are a beast. :swoon:

Justus
Apr 18, 2006

...
Mexican Touhou fans.

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

:stare:

Dark_Tzitzimine
Oct 9, 2012

by R. Guyovich

HOLY poo poo, this is magical :roflolmao:

If all the mexican fandom is like this I need to get in their meetings.

Dark_Tzitzimine fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Feb 26, 2014

Command Ant
Aug 9, 2010

I can make you
worth your weight
in gold!

Whoever translated this into English took a whole bunch of creative liberties, but that doesn't make it any less magical.

SirSlarty
Dec 23, 2003

that's wicked

Is is bad that at the point when Keine, Meiling and Yuugi were... conversing, I thought "Stage 3 boss fight!"?

Raenir Salazar posted:

You sir, are a beast. :swoon:

No prob. I vaguely remembered it because it didn't have ultra high squeaky vocals.

Stage 3 talk ITT

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
Stage 3 has a lot of the best Touhous. Meiling, Alice, Yuugi, Yoshika, and Unzan.

Also someone (not Livingtrope) bought a new Touhou emote no one will ever use.

:livintrope:

dranxis
Jul 12, 2013

Delicious tears of disappointment
I'll use it. I had been messaging someone on Tumblr and asked if their blog was spoiler free for a certain series. They told me "Oh yes, I just checked and there are no spoilers." I look at their blog and within one minute I see fanart that strongly suggests two of my favorite characters are going to die. I know it's just fanart, but there were haloes involved.

:livintrope: NEVER TRUST TUMBLR :livintrope:

That felt good. Back on topic, I'm working on a 1cc of PCB for the first time. I wanted to use SakuyaA, but... is it just me, or is Merlin a lot harder than the other two Prismriver sisters? I've switched to ReimuA because I still find the homing bullets help me on stage 4, but she's a lot weaker...

BlitzBlast
Jul 30, 2011

some people just wanna watch the world burn
If you're having trouble with Merlin, just manipulate the fight to battle the sister you have the easiest time with.

Also Reimu A being weak just means you actually have to dodge. :colbert:

AdorableStar
Jul 13, 2013

:patriot:


Ammat The Ankh posted:

Stage 3 has a lot of the best Touhous. Meiling, Alice, Yuugi, Yoshika, and Unzan.

Also someone (not Livingtrope) bought a new Touhou emote no one will ever use.

:livintrope:



I originally thought :livintrope: was from KLK or something because I still have no clue who that character is.

HMS Boromir
Jul 16, 2011

by Lowtax
It's Seija. Have you not played DDC? She's the best thing to happen to Touhou in years.

AdorableStar
Jul 13, 2013

:patriot:


HMS Boromir posted:

It's Seija. Have you not played DDC? She's the best thing to happen to Touhou in years.

New characters are not characters. :colbert:


No, I haven't. :negative:

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a cartoon duck
Sep 5, 2011

dranxis posted:

That felt good. Back on topic, I'm working on a 1cc of PCB for the first time. I wanted to use SakuyaA, but... is it just me, or is Merlin a lot harder than the other two Prismriver sisters? I've switched to ReimuA because I still find the homing bullets help me on stage 4, but she's a lot weaker...

Never pick Homing Reimu when you can pick Needle Reimu except when you want an additional challenge. Anyway which part of stage 4 gives you enough trouble to consider homing bullets? The stage is pretty daunting until you realize that most of it is basically directly aimed at you and can be streamed, plus the spiny spinny things in the middle of the stage only shoot when they die, so they're pretty easy to re-stream as well. Once you got the streaming part down stage 4 isn't too bad.

Also Seija's got the best gimmick, gently caress the haters.

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