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== Gensokyo is Reimu's childhood fantasy ==
Reimu really is the miko of her family's small, run-down shrine, but only in our world. With this comes an awful lot of free time and boredom around the shrine. In order to keep herself entertained, she thought up Gensokyo as a small child, as well as the characters, as something akin to imaginary friends in an imaginary setting. Perhaps influenced by real people and real events, Gensokyo, its residents, and the happenings that occur there are just as exaggerated and wacky as you might expect from the mind of a little girl with not much else to do. This would also explain the increase in complexity and refinement as the series has progressed - Reimu's grown up and thinks more clearly and in greater detail.
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Kanako asked ZUN to place herself, Suwako, and Sanae into his series, in order to drum up more faith in OUR world. Yukari met her during a drinking session (see another WMG below concerning Yukari and ZUN's drinking friendship), and they agreed that it was a good idea.
Now, while the Moriya Shrine gains fans in the game (benefitting ZUN), the '''real''' Shrine on our side of the fourth wall enjoys more pilgrimages and more faith (helping Kanako). [[All According to Plan|Just as planned]].
== The Hakurei Shrine is for REAL on our side of the Fourth Wall. ==
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* Or maybe they left in protest of the Spell Card rules.
== The Grimoire of Alice is a [[
Apart from the usual incredible power possessed by the book, it also gifts its bearer with longevity. It's also part of the reason she left the Makai, as it was part of an [[Noodle Incident|Incident]] that estranged her from Shinki.
* Must I take this to its logical conclusion?
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** A donation or two goes a ''long'' way - Reimu's only grumpy because of her lack of donations.
*** It's actually true. In one of the ''Nature Deity'' stories, Yukari gives Reimu food. Marisa playfully accuses Reimu of accepting bribes.
* As a corollary to this, ''Yukari [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225101151/http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=4488362 took] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921003545/http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium
== ZUN is in fact [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|retelling the tales of Gensokyo accurately]]. ==
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Seriously. How else do you explain the fact that she's in ''every'' official Touhou game from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'' on? She has to be either offering him sexual favors, or sweet-talking him with "Ooh, can I be in ''this'' game, too?" at regular intervals.
* She's always either defeating the opponents without realizing it in PoFV, defeating the opponent by ''taking pictures of them'' in a spin-off game, to holding back in the most recent game. Then again, Aya is quite popular with the target demographic...
** In said spin-off game, she outdoes the series' main character Reimu Hakurei in defeating [https://web.archive.org/web/20110125174924/http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Shoot_the_Bullet:_Characters not only more characters in a single game than Reimu has so far], but defeating notorious opponents such as Eirin, Shikieiki, Flandre, Yukari, Mokou and Suika. Not to mention that Shikieiki conjures, as her final attack, Aya's mirrored image against her, and although this mirrored image does use bullet barrages like any of the former and latter opponents, Aya defeats it. By taking pictures of it.
*** Where was it stated that Aya actually defeated anyone in Shoot the Bullet? I thought she just got the pictures she needed and that was it - almost like a photo shoot. After all, the danmaku duels aren't in any way dangerous, and maybe getting hit causes her to lose any pictures she had.
*** Even if non-letal, I guess it hurts. Isn't it a good reason to dodge everything?
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== '''Every single character''' is based on someone ZUN knows. ==
How prominent of an appearance a character has in a game reflects how much contact he had with them in real life during the making of that game. He never admits this to protect his friends from [[Loony Fan
Obviously, he moved sometime between the PC-98 games and the Windows games. This explains why almost none of the PC-98 characters returned in the Windows games; the few who have either moved as well or are/were frequent visitors.
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== Maribel Han and Yukari Yakumo are the same person. ==
The basic idea of this fan-theory is that when Maribel sleeps, she dreams that she's Yukari, and when Yukari sleeps, she dreams that she's Maribel. Detailed in [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Maribel_Han her entry] at the Touhou Wiki. It is also worth mentioning that there is no official romanization of her name, so that instead of "Han" her name might actually be "Hearn"
** Furthermore, Hearn was the first non-Japanese-born to have written extensively on youkai, so...
* Alternatively, Maribel is Yukari's puppet, and the true Yukari is yet to appear. When Maribel sleeps, Yukari hijacks her body and gaps her into Gensokyo. When she's done with her, Maribel is sent back but gets to keep the partial memories of what has happened. Because Yukari thinks it's funny to do so.
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* '''Gluttony:''' Yuugi Hoshiguma, the stage 3 boss, is an oni, which means that she's a ''real'' drunkard.
* '''Greed:''' {{spoiler|Rin "Orin" Kaenbyou, the stage 5 boss, likes collecting souls a little bit too much, and evidently doesn't mind "collecting" them from the living (by killing them), as well.}}
* '''Sloth:''' Kisume, the stage-1 mid-boss, is a ''tsurube-otoshi''
* '''Wrath:''' Yamame Kurodani, the stage 1 boss, is described in her profile thusly: "She has no qualms about fighting humans. She has a bright, combative personality." In other words, she's really easy to rile up.
* '''Envy:''' We already knew that Parsee Mizuhashi, the stage 2 boss, was a personification of jealousy.
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== [[Justified Trope|Justification]] for [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]: Gensokyo's nature as a land of illusion. ==
Look at it like this: Rinnosuke has firmly established that, if there is sufficient [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|active disbelief]] in a given
* His theory is nowhere near as firmly established as some would like to believe. Too many things from the outside world, which decidedly do ''not'' depend on belief to exist, show up in
That said, outside of the obvious out-of-character explanation that the [[Lady Land]] is [[Author Appeal]], males ''are'' known to exist in significant qualities in Gensokyo—they just aren't given the spotlight (with Rinnosuke, Unzan, and Genji being the exceptions as of this edit).
** ''Technically''... ''All'' of the electronics shown are future-generation, since Gensokyo [[All There in the Manual|"is in what the outside world would call the Meiji Era (1868-1912)" ("but there are many items that belong in subsequent eras")]]. Unless of course ZUN meant that Gensokyo is [[Born in the Wrong Century|Set In The Wrong Era]] rather than running concurrent to the Meiji Era, and either he or the translator failed to express the proper meaning. [/nitpick]
*** Gensoukyou ''split off'' during the Meiji era, and has mostly stayed there technologically. The games are set roughly at the time of their release.
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Cirno's power is defined as "Manipulation of Cold." She mainly uses it to make ice. ''But'' who's to say that's the only use of such a power. If she can manipulate Cold, then she can make things colder... or less colder, AKA heating things up by taking away the "cold" in it. She could also instantly reduce something to ''Absolute Zero.'' This destroying it in an instant. Or perhaps taking away so much cold that it burst into flame or even melts or just ''vaporizes.'' Sadly, Cirno's not smart enough to use her power in such creative ways.
* Kind of supported by the fact that Shikieiki judges Cirno to be a menace and thinks that she's a fairy with "a little" too much power.
* The theory's also been put around that Cirno's ability to manipulate cold is just the only bit she's managed to understand of her true ability, the ''ability to manipulate matter at the atomic level'', at which point she pretty much becomes [[Watchmen (comics)|Dr. Manhattan]].
* There's a fanfic (called "The Last Stand of Cirno the Valiant") about Cirno training to get stronger, getting closer to that point, but then the rest of the cast descended on her like a bomb. How would you feel when it looks like you'll be upstaged by a "weak ice fairy". On the bright side, she takes out Yuuka, who just lost the last bit of sanity she had.
{{quote|'''Yuuka''': (After raping Cirno with her hand) You lose.
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** She was sealed along with Rumia, obviously.
*** A doujinshi along almost these exact lines: Cirno and Rumia were once among the mightiest of youkai, but both lost much of their powers and mental faculties fighting in Yukari's disastrous Lunar Invasion.
*** That doujinshi (''[http://www.mediafire.com/?3njogn3njlj Three Dark Times]''){{Dead link}} also claimed that Yukari, Cirno and Rumia were the only three participants in the Lunar invasion, which doesn't seem too credible. Then again, this is fanon.
* If she combines this power with Utsuho? Their combined ability will produce ''cold fusion.''
** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|That was terrible]].
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* This troper has another take on Cirno's power. According to me, Cirno DOES have the power to make something drop to Absolute Zero, thus killing anyone instantly, just like the original poster theorised. According to me, she IS able to use it. However, just like every other being in Gensokyo, she's forced to abide the Spellcard rule! Her skill in Danmaku is weaker than her skill at properly manipulating cold, and that misleads everyone into thinking she's weak. Her power is on par with the most powerful beings in Gensokyo, but just like them she can't use it, for such is the rule. If Marisa ever fought Cirno without Cirno playing by the danmaku rules, Marisa would freeze instantly, and then Cirno would make her shatter to pieces and laugh.
* Further evidence, especially of the spellcard thing: Cirno has appeared five times. First two times she was one of the wimpiest bosses in the game. In her fourth appearance she's tied for third and fourth boss, though she's fighting against Aya at the peak of her author favoritism so nothing short of Yukari stands a chance. But in her third and fifth appearances, she appears as a playable character. In ''PoFV'' she's still an "early" boss but is capable of beating up a bunch of A-listers if you follow a non-canon story path, but in ''Hisoutensoku'' she's on the same level as, and has a storyline where she beats up Marisa, Alice, Utsuho, Sanae, and Hong Meiling. Looking at China, she was a pushover in ''EoSD'' too but can hold her own in ''Hisoutensoku'' as well; it has been stated in canon that she's good at martial arts but not at spellcard battles. Why this leveling of the playing field for those two? Because in ''IAMP'', ''SWR'' and ''Hisoutensoku'' the characters are no longer following the spellcard system, but a hybrid of the spellcard system and real fighting. So Cirno and Hong Meiling get to stop playing their solely weakest suits and get massive boosts in power... which only makes sense if Cirno also had a great deal of power which she was unable to use in spellcard battles but can draw upon in ''SWR''. If she was allowed to fight without spellcards altogether, she would probably be able to take anyone. And now there is Fairy Wars in which she is the only playable character...
** Addendum: Meiling was a joke character in ''IAMP'' because she was out of
*** Also, don't forget that the entire cast of fighting games (And so ''Hisoutensoku'') is composed of very high ranked characters.
* Cirno should be able to use [[Kurt Vonnegut|Ice-nine]], no?
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== Sakuya is a Lunarian. ==
Her themesong is called "Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial." Kaguya, a Lunarian, has the ability "manipulation of eternity", which is quite similar in effect to Sakuya's "manipulation of time." Also note that according to Eirin's profile, Eirin was "surprised" to see Sakuya during the events of ''Imperishable Night'', and she doesn't seem to be concerned with her own mortality when Remilia brings up the subject after defeating [[Bonus Boss|Mokou]]
* Alternatively, ''Sakuya is Eirin''. Due to an accident involving the Luna Dial, Eirin accidentally created a younger, amnesiac temporal double of herself, whom she quietly shipped to Earth's future (i.e. contemporary times) to avoid ... political problems. And then she made the Elixir for Kaguya and got actually exiled to Earth, oh well.
** Or, ''Sakuya was created using Kaguya and Eirin's DNA''. This explains all of the above, without the discrepancies included.
** This editor still prefers the {{spoiler|"Sakuya is Shirou, Eirin is Archer"}} theory in this case.
*** This editor feels {{spoiler|"Eirin shot the arrow that gave Sakuya her time manipulation. Making Sakuya Dio Brando and Eirin Enya Geil"}} is a much more plausible explanation anyday.
*** Yeah... I'm not sure the {{spoiler|"Sakuya is to Eirin as [[
**** They're both washboards if we go by ZUN's art.
* Another possibility; it is mentioned that the Lunarians used Earth as a prison/place of exile, which strongly implies that Kaguya and Eirin are not the first or only Lunarians to end up on Earth. So here's what I think: either Sakuya is such an exiled Lunarian, or one of her parents was. Especially the latter possibility would explain why Sakuya is commonly considered human in spite of having time-space manipulating powers that are far beyond what even modern human technology is capable of, and it would also neatly explain why she is in possession of a Luna Dial (which might even be some kind of secret or forbidden technology, and the fact that she, or her parent, acquired one could very well be the reason he/she got exiled to Earth in the first place).
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* Flesh regeneration really isn't ''that'' hard to manage. It's just most "outside" Liches are cursed by gods for accomplishing immortality. Skull faces are not pretty, and any god-like being in Gensokyo would sooner die then have [[The Beautiful Elite|anything not be pretty.]]
** Well Kanako does mention that a smile is more effective in attracting believers than intimidating them with her powers.
*** Pff no wonder she was losing followers. ''[[Black and White|* Get's back to the important work of sicing his creature on some poor hapless villagers*
* Not unless she went about turning into a youkai a really roundabout way. According to ''[[All There in the Manual|Perfect Memento In The Strict Sense]]'', all you need is to learn a couple of spells that apparently aren't that difficult if you have ready access to magic books.
** The series is rather schizophrenic about that. Marisa refuses to say whether she's capable of studying immortality or choosing not to; even when the context should bring it up. (Like when discussing the Hourai Elixir.) Also, Hermits seem to go through a lot of trouble for something "easy" for Magicians to do.
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== Sakuya is a close relative of Youmu. ==
Both Sakuya and Youmu have pale gray/white hair (most likely a recesive gene). Sakuya has time magic which could have been used to train Youmu to become super fast. Sakuya may have been the "oddball" of the family and not been able to learn swordsmanship or the family was divided into certain weapon sections. It is not clarified what Sakuya's real name is, so her last name could indeed be Konpaku. Maybe she was a vampire hunter and when defeated by Remilia she was [[Easy Amnesia|hit in the head and had severe amnesia]], never remembering her previous life. Youmu may have been young at this time so she didn't remember Sakuya causing the battle in ''PCB''. Although Sakuya is estimated to be
* Alright, so where's Sakuya's "Myon"? Surely you're not forgetting the most important distinguishing feature of a half-ghost.
** The "myon" might have wandered off when Sakuya forgot about being a Konpaku.
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== Aya isn't ZUN's girlfriend, but rather, his ''[[Author Avatar|self-insert character.]]'' ==
It makes some amount of sense, if you think about it a little bit. First, there's the [http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5514/zunandayacomparisonef3.jpg matching outfits] (as well as the black hair and [[Nice Hat]].) Secondly, Aya, being a tengu, ''loves'' to
== Yukari's first Lunar Invasion was actually a plot to eliminate the most powerful youkai of Gensokyo ==
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== Yukari's gaps are connected to [[Fullmetal Alchemist|the Gate of Truth]] ==
In addition to the creepy eyes, her [https://web.archive.org/web/20121104033928/http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/File:YukariPCB.png official sprite in PCB has hands coming out of it] and they aren't hers, much like the titular Gate in FMA. Considering that a gate is just another boundary...
== Shou is Pudge from DotA ==
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# Hina, yes, she can apply every curse on someone she wants. This implies eg. "Imperius" of ''[[Harry Potter]]''. A curse which causes the cursed person to lose it's will and that person will only do the bidding of the one, who layed the curse upon it (in this case Hina). So she has omnipotence by forcing another Omnipotent being to do what she wants.
** [[Sarcasm Mode|Yeah, cause the Imperius has never been resisted, and certainly not by a half-trained human teenager before...]] I don't think it'd work on Omnipotents.
* As pointed out further down the page, Yuugi, who was explicitly holding back the only time we've seen her to now, has the "Power to control supernatural phenomena". That may mean she can just say "Oh, you want to alter my fate/rewrite my history/will me out of existence? Well I say that's ''not'' going to happen. What now?" In the end, though, I think what we end up with is a high noon
* Don't forget Sanae, who can create [[Deus Ex Machina|miracles]].
* Except that the powers aren't absolute. If they were, practically every character would break the scale. Yukari couldn't gap to the moon, she had to wait for specific conditions. Satori can't read people's thoughts if they're too far away. Yuyuko can't kill people who are immortal, Cirno can't freeze the nuclear furnace, Remilia's skill is implied to be tied to name-fortunes, meaning Yukari would have to accept a new name to get fate-changed, and even then it's a general fate, not a "you die in two seconds from X" deal. It's plausible that abilities flat out fail if contested against a stronger being- Yukari saw through Keine's history-hiding and ignored Suika's gathering, for example. Finally, the only (I think) specific canonical instance of one ability going against another was the last phase of the Kaguya fight, where she tries to break the eternal night enchantment. If abilities were absolute, she'd just be able to manipulate eternity to break it instantly. Instead she has to distract the protagonists with a barrage and break it in bits while they're recovering.
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== The Touhous are substantially less powerful than the games suggest. ==
This is my oft-trumped WMG, so I might as well plant this mutha here for safekeeping. The idea is this: all the characters' assorted useless-sounding superpowers, with the handful of really unspeakably stupidly powerful ones, work just as described and no further up or down the power scale. Danmaku is in fact a separate magical skill used to solve problems or blow off steam in a violent-feeling but non-violent fashion; skill at danmaku is independent of one's innate mystic powers. The 'Soak is not merely a place for monsters and such to hang out, but a sort of nature reserve to keep those too weird to live and too rare to die from getting steamrolled by superstition or the march of progress, as well as segregating the truly terrifying from a world where they would do the most bad.
It is fortunate that so far all the big nasties have consented to fight using the harmless-but-flashy danmaku style, because otherwise all sorts of planetary holocausts could've gone down by
* Reimu can still fly away from reality and watch as stuff passes through her while wiping her enemy out. She's still so broken.
* Now. When you say "The Touhous" I read "A few of the Touhous". Suppose Danmaku was indeed harmless (and it's not, because no matter what you say, danmaku IS related to someone's mystic powers, Mokou throws fireballs, and Utsuho mini-stars!). Well, suppose it's harmless, for whom is it a disadvantage really? Rumia, with the power to make it dark? Lily White, with the power to announce spring? Flandre will still blow you up in one hit, and Remilia can manipulate fate with all the implications of it, and Sakuya can freeze time and beat you up, and Mokou is immortal, and Yuyuko can kill you with a thought, etc. Hell, even Cirno Baka has the power of "manipulation of cold". She chills you all the way up to absolute zero, you die, end of story. Basically, there's rather "a handful of useless superpowers" and "a lot of really powerful ones", not the other way around. You do have a point by saying, I quote, "It is fortunate that so far all the big nasties have consented to fight using the harmless-but-flashy danmaku style, because otherwise all sorts of planetary holocausts could've gone down by now". In fact Danmaku really has the objective to give mortals like Reimu and Marisa the ability to fight badasses like Flandre and Yuyuko without getting killed on the spot. But this is not a WMG anymore. It's frigging canon. It's in ''Perfect Memento''.
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This is made up from one thing: Sariel is the Final Boss of ''The Highly Responsive to Prayers'', a Stage 20 Boss. If the power scaling goes up as expected (With EX-Bosses equaling Stage7 and Yukari equaling Stage8), she could singlehandedly destroy Gensokyo, [[The End of the World as We Know It|the World]] and [[Chuck Norris]].
* We also shouldn't forget Yuuka Kazami in Lotus Land Story, now should we. She was the boss for both Stage 5 and Stage 6!
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130113034224/http://doyora.deviantart.com/art/Not-Even-Drop-91078512 Combined with the above post, do I even have to say it?]
* Sariel is really a stage 4 boss. Stages in ''HRtP'' are divided into 4 levels, then a boss. I think.
** Nope: There are four stages without a boss, and a boss stage after each of those sets. And because of the split route, there are ''six'' characters that would build the top tier: YuugenMagan, Mima, Kikuri, Elis, Sariel and Konngara. Also, I'd rather rate the character's power by their win ratio, as it would imply Yukari would be at ''zero percent'', as battles done in teams are not legit for the ladder (bad luck for you, ''IN'' pairs). Reimu's and Marisa's wins in SA still count, as they only take a skill of the youkai with them, making those not participate in battles.
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Alright, so Byakuren's not quite an expy of Shinki (borrowing one spellcard? Jeez), but she's apparently close enough to piss off some fans. If ZUN did this for his own personal amusement, my guess is that for the next game he will create another character borrowing at least a few of Mima's spell patterns, to [[Unpleasable Fanbase|further enrage us]] and/or emphasize the point that [[Brother Chuck|Mima's not coming back]].
* Who would know, maybe he did it before, But [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Patchouli_Knowledge we] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yuyuko_Saigyouji didn't] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yukari_Yakumo know] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Sanae_Kotiya who.]
* Hell, We even have a New [
* If he did that, half the fans would just insist that it's Mima operating under an alias anyway.
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== Despite how she seems to act, Reimu's turned into a [[Blood Knight]]. ==
In both of her scenarios in ''Unidentified Fantastic Object'', she acts like she's bigoted towards Youkai when she's talking to Byakuren, but we all know she's made friends with a good number of them. It's possible that she just wanted a good adrenaline rush, and thought that Byakuren would give her the challenge she needed, so she essentially [[
* On the other hand, Reimu may have serious identity issues about being both the Hakurei Maiden as well as a growing girl, because her emotions may get in the way of some of the harder parts of her duty (although this may not be a problem at the moment in the currently peaceful Gensokyo). Danmaku play may be something she can really identify with herself, as her identity role while in danmaku combat is very simple. Therefore, she developed an addiction to danmaku play to escape from any possible conflicts between her life and her duty.
* It should be noted that for all the Yokai Jesus or Martin Luther King jokes we make; Hijiri focused on peace for Yokai more than for humans. Marisa and Reimu mention that humans still need protecting; and that will result in conflict with Yokai.
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== Wriggle Nightbug was originally a boy ==
Gensokyo has some sort of [[Gender Bender]]-inducing field, and Wriggle wears pants because she only recently made the switch-over and hasn't adjusted. This also explains why there are so few males known of in
== Gensokyo actually has a matriarchal society. ==
There are only four known males in the land, with the rest being insignificant characters who apparently spend all their time at home. Of the male characters, two are servants for female characters. one has mysteriously vanished without a trace, and one runs a shop that, despite a prime location, is inexplicably devoid of customers except a few "nuisances." Obviously, the males [[Stay in the Kitchen]] because that's what society expects of
* It's likely that something in Gensokyo's gene pool or magic field causes only women to gain magical powers, and therefore the men simply don't participate in the conflicts (i.e in the games) because they can't, due to magical ineptitude. They exist, they're just so unsignificant we don't see them. The exceptions being a FEW animal youkai, such as Genjii, and some elementals, like Unzan. Rinnosuke is one of the men who would normally not be seen in the games due to absense of powers and therefore of importance. He gets introduced in a book and from what I know, never does any fighting whatsoever.
* I might as well post my theory on the subject: Most of the major (humanoid) youkai in Gensokyo are shapeshifters, who take [[Moe Moe]] girl forms to distract youkai hunters. This in turn leads to the humans assigning youkai hunting to the religious and to women, who are less easily swayed by feminine wiles. Thus, most of the characters we encounter (youkai hunters and youkai) are female, with menfolk in minor roles and behind the scenes.
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== Hong Meiling is actually a human, not a youkai. ==
* Although she's repeatedly described as a youkai, it's never been clear what sort of youkai she would be, and indeed, she seems more like Gensokyo's human population... except for the implication that she eats people. It's possible that she's just a cannibal, and people have assumed that she's a youkai because eating people is something they
* Remember when she described herself as "just a normal person" in ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil''...
* There's been some evidence that she's a Hong, or rainbow-dragon. While it's not exactly confirmed, the fact that her fighting style uses rainbows and her Chinese origin gives some evidence in favor that she is a Hong.
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== Marisa is connected to Maribel Hearn and/or Yukari Yakumo ==
On the drama CD "Dolls in Pseudo Paradise", the character described in the story attached to "Reincarnation" is considered to be Mima, and her daughter is then Marisa. ''But Mima looks nothing like Marisa''. Then who could it be? Why not look at the [
== Powers have an inverse effect on usefulness ==
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And then they'll all go have tea.
* You forgot the [[Brutal Bonus Level|Extra Stage]], where [[The Woobie|Tok]][[The Chew Toy|iko]] (having [[Took a Level
== Sakuya is a former werewolf. ==
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(Just a note here: I'm taking the fact that every boss's power goes up by the same amount each stage; that is to say, Youmu is to Yuyuko what Shou is to Byakuren.)
Let's start with Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil. Since Reimu and Marisa defeat everyone in that continuity, that places the two of them at the top of the metaphorical food chain in Gensokyo. Next is Perfect Cherry Blossom. Since Sakuya was a stage 5 boss in Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil and she defeats
Imperishable Night is where it gets a little weird. Since Reimu and Marisa are only stage 4 bosses in this game, that means that they are weaker than Reisen, Kaguya, Eirin and Mokou. Because every boss's power goes up by the same amount each stage, that means that Mokou is, canonically, the strongest up until this point. Since Mokou is never in any other games, though, we can't gauge her power level against other youkai.
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(A word on the next two games, Subterranean Animism and Unidentified Fantastic Object: they are widely regarded as the hardest games in the Windows continuity of Touhou; therefore, I will rule their characters' power levels as a bit higher than the rest of 'em.)
Reimu and
Granted, I know that anyone can win spell-card battles (trust me, attempting to 1cc UFO lunatic will teach that to you...), but Koishi and Mokou are just the two that are the "favorites to win", shall we say.
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As Duke Nukem forever was cancled, something MUST take it steed as there must always be a Duke Nukem forever. Touhou, was given this role.
Think of it like this.
Touhou 12 and 12.3 comes out. We then skip over Winter Comiket. Now Double Spoiler Comes out, as Another spinoff. Recently declared on July
There will never be a Touhou 13, as the highly anticipated Touhou 13, which is the Storm after the calm (claimed by Reimu in TH 12.3) will never happen.
* [[Poison Oak Epileptic Trees|DEAR GOD,]] [[Big No|NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!]]
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== ZUN can actually draw very well. The reason he doesn't is because if he did, the epicness would collapse the universe. ==
Why not?
* Why would he intentionally draw badly? Simple: He's like the guy who made [[
** In fact, he created a ''real'' copy of Gensokyo before he made the games, so there are now ''three'' Gensokyos in existence:
== Alice is actually infertile. ==
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In response to this, Yukari, Mima, and Shinki all went on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] and killed nearly all of the PC-98 cast.
Then Yukari kidnapped three girls from somewhere and used border hax to brainwash them into being Reimu, Marisa, and
Mima and Shinki appreciated the gesture, but weren't comfortable with the [[Replacement Goldfish]] scheme, so they made Marisa and Alice neighbors for their mutual protection, then quietly abandoned them and receded from society. Out of loneliness, Shinki started teaching the imprisoned Byakuren some of her spells.
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== Reisen has the [[Persona 3|wild]] [[Persona 4|card]] ==
I got the idea when reading the following lines from the [
{{quote|So, basically, Reisen is the ultimate of not being able to tell anything. She's, I think this is the right term, somewhat sociopathic with the ability to apparantly completely change her personality to match whatever she needs for the current situation. For all we know the cute, helpless bunny appeal is all one big facade to rule us in.}}
This is precisely what the wild card does, it lets you change your persona, your personality, at a whim. [[Persona 3|Meaning that if she manages to somehow get Sakuya's "The World", she might even be able to seal away the moon.]]
Note that this has hardly any basis in canon. Which probably is why I think this would be awesome.
== [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kasen_Ibara Kasen Ibara] is the new version of the previously [[Dummied Out
How does this make sense, you ask? Well, Kasen is called a "horned" hermit, and kirin do indeed have horns (not that I'm stating that she's a kirin, although it could be a possibility...). Also, the entry for [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Rin_Satsuki Satsuki Rin] states that she had the attack types Flower Sign and Wind Sign associated with her, and the name Kasen is written with the characters for "[[Green Thumb|flower]] [[Blow You Away|fan]]", so...
* I would like this: let's see what kind of spell cards she knows, before deciding.
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* One last thing: Reimu explicitly mentions having gone to Makai previously in UFO.
** No, no she doesn't. She indicates familiarity with Makai, but it's entirely possible she'd simply heard of it.
* The first boss in Lotus Land Story was never actually named ("Orange" being a nickname from the game coding), so she might have been a younger Meiling, prior to her service with the Scarlet Devil
== Marisa is part (half?) Dutch. ==
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To everyone else, the various youkai look like, well, youkai. Reimu/Marisa/Sanae are excluded from society because they don't mind the appearances of the youkai, either because they are insane (Marisa), are used to it (Reimu) or are just going along with everything because they were placed on the top of the youkai mountain (Sanae).
* So the player is actually Akyuu? Because she has drawings of the characters the way we see them, and describes a number of them as looking human
* Alternately, the player characters see through the "cute girl" disguises of the
== Various theories on characters. ==
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** ...Kogasa's appearance is so surprising that she made me lose count?
== Yukari is Gensokyo's [[Hidden Villain|Hidden]] [[Evil Overlord]]. Reimu and Marisa are her [[Unwitting Pawn
Gensokyo was once a haunted region of Japan, a place of total chaos caused by youkai, until it was sealed from the outside world. That was when Yukari brought down the other youkai's power and dominated the area. Some youkai began obeying her, and she gathered enough youkai to try and invade the moon. This failed, and it's likely that the youkai began losing trust in her with this bold move. Many youkai are also rebelling against her, trying to reset Gensokyo's state to a pure, uncontrolled anarchy. Reimu (and probably, her ancestors) was appointed by Yukari (knowingly to Reimu or not) to exterminate hostile youkai who threaten Yukari's power, as Yukari was too occupied always doing it by herself, or she was simply lazy. Most of the incidents are either caused by said rebellious youkai, or Yukari causing it herself behind the scenes, as a way to test Reimu/Marisa's skill.
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This also answers a question that's bugged me for a while, why she didn't just gap to the Moon in [[S Si B]] and had to manipulate a border to reach it, her body doesn't reach that far.
== Hong Meiling is a member of The [[Triad
Supporting this:
* Her name is Hong Meiling, and she is a gatekeeper. An alternate reading for ''hong'' is the character 洪, and "gate" is ''men'' (either 門 (kanji) or 门 (simplified Chinese)). Combine the two, and you have "Hongmen," the name of an influential Chinese secret society sometimes also called "Chinese Freemasonry" and with alleged ties to the Triads.
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* If this was true, then Kaguya would be Hera, and Mokou would be Hephaestus.
* Which makes sense, since they're both immortals(gods) and Kaguya and Mokou hate each other.
** It is stated that Eirin has aspects of the god [[wikipedia:Omoikane
== [[Seihou]] is the future of the Earth outside the barrier. ==
We know that for Maribel and Renko, [[Future Food Is Artificial]]. This will eventually result in ''all'' plant life but cacti becoming extinct. In desperation; mankind begged, pleaded, prayed for this one species of life besides themselves to save them. It couldn't. It was just a cactus. Mankind despaired. But within the Gensokyo Barrier, because of the dreams of man, cacti with an abundant amount of [[Mana]] started appearing. Out of compassion and self-preservation (Gensokyo needs the outside world to survive) this dream breed of cactus was sent back. Miraculously, it retained its powers and "Saboten Energy" was born.
* [[All According to Plan|Just As Planned]] by Yukari, I would easily wager.
** Rather, they're a hybrid. There was something special about the cacti in ''[[Seihou]]'', whatever killed off life wasn't just mankind taking in resources and not replenishing them. Cacti were immune to whatever killed off all other plantlife and the smiles of children. Let's call it an "Illusion Drought." The Gensokyo Dream Cacti were born from mankind hoping this would save them; but they would not have survived the outside world for very long. '''Someone''' crossbred the Gensokyo stock with the ''[[Seihou]]'' stock; creating a type of mana/power that would exist in the outside world; but was terribly unstable.
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== Rin Satsuki was Yukari's sister and she was the one who killed Mima ==
Because of this, Yukari [[Ret-Gone|retgoned]] Rin Satsuki to prevent her from killing anyone else. However, this activated Rin's {{
== Maribel isn't Yukari ==
She's [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|Mima]]. Upon discovering that Mima failed to cross the Sanzu River, Yukari started tearing apart the PC-98 continuity to find Mima. This caused Reimu's hair to change from purple to black, and caused the gates to Makai, Jigoku, and the Dream Worlds to be closed off. In fear, Rika and Rikako ran to the Kappas to hide, as they were fellow scientists, Meira fled back to... her samurai friends, Kana stops going outside her old house, Ellen, Chiyuri, and Yumemi all flee back to the outside world, Orange fled to the Dream World, Kurumi stayed where she was, as Yukari didn't care about her, and Yuuka's mansion was fine because Yukari didn't want to start a fight with Yuuka. Genjii and Ruukoto were taken by Yukari: Genjii because Yukari [[Reality Warper|boundary-haxed]] Reimu the {{
== [[Faceless Eye|YuugenMagan]] was Yukari. ==
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On the other hand PMiSS was released very late in '06 (12/27), so the possibility of a new Touhou game isn't that much of a stretch either. This could go either way, but since there's been at least one every year since '07 a lack of one in 2012 will likely come as a shock to quite a few. This is more of a heads-up than anything, but the next Touhou game might be coming a little later than expected.
* [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
== The plot of [[TH 14]] will be triggered by Mamizou starting trouble with foxes. ==
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== Remilia Scarlet isn't lying when she says she's a descendant of Vlad Tepes. ==
* Remilia has been alive for nearly 500 years. It is entirely possible she was born in Europe and later moved to Japan. During said time in Europe, she met Patchouli, which would explain Patchouli's relatively <ref>
== Hong Meiling is a Rainbow Dragon youkai. ==
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== Reisen is Yukari's spy. ==
(Not to be confused with the manga character, "Reisen II"; this entry is about Reisen Udonge, the Imperishable Night Stage 5 boss)
Right away this WMG sounds like an uninspired [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]] crackpot theory, but hear me out (warning: this will be a long WMG entry, so I also tried to use a lot of spacing in order to avoid turning it into one big fat wall of text).
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In the official print works, it is stated that Reisen's behaviour is quiet and mysterious, whenever she visits the human village (which she normally only does in order to shop for groceries or buy medicine at the request of Eirin). It definitely suits the personality of a secret agent, someone who "has no face". At the very least it's an expected behaviour of someone trained to become a spy/saboteur/assassin. This isn't the best canon source alluding to her inherent nature of being a natural spy, though; this is taken from Reisen's SWR profile, included with the game files: "She can change her personality completely to match her circumstances." So Reisen is very good at adjusting her personality, being kind of an enigma as to what her real personality even is.
She is a trained spy, so wouldn't you expect her to, you know, do some actual spywork? Well, from what little canon sources we have about her dubious past, Reisen "fled the moon after humans invaded it". It's likely she was simply sent on a mission instead, because since the Lunarians were ''at war'' with humanity at that exact point, the Lunarians must've started sending agents to Earth in order to, well, have them do what secret agents do against the opposing side.
Now let's venture into the actual theory. So where does Yukari fit in? If you've read some of Gensokyo's backstory, it's often repeated that long ago, there was a war between Youkai of the Earth and the Lunarians. The Youkai were led by Yukari (this '''is''' stated in canon alongside the story). The Youkai of the Earth lost the war; it's also added in the story that Yukari deliberately started the war in order to teach the Earth Youkai themselves a lesson, that they shouldn't attempt to invade the moon and instead should refrain from blind conquest, be it against any foe, such as humans. Nevertheless, it is fact that Yukari once led a war against the moon, so at one point, she was an enemy of the Lunarians (and a huge enemy at that, being the ''leader'' of the faction they're waging war with). The war is said to have happened "long ago" but Lunarians are known to have an exceptional life span, so Reisen could've been alive back then (though Lunar Rabbits are implied to have shorter lives... If Reisen is even an actual Lunar Rabbit, she could be a Lunarian pretending to be a rabbit, one of the WMG entries above has already explored this idea). Whether she was there during the war or not, it's not crazy to assume that during or after the war, Yukari would like to at least keep an eye on the moon... Plant agents directly on the moon's surface to inform Yukari of what's going on there. Reisen could be one of them.
But how does Reisen transmit information to Yukari? Lunarians probably do have technology matching Earth's human society (their rabbit army's got assault rifles for crying out loud), so Reisen could easily ''send'' information to a recipient on Earth, using technology. The problem is back in Gensokyo, where the residents still are technologically primitive for the most part, which probably includes Yukari. It should be noted that Yukari is familiar with human society so she isn't that shabby about technology the same way most of Gensokyo's inhabitants are.
Maybe they are using devices to communicate. But here's an alternative, far more interesting concept; Reisen's power is that she can manipulate wavelengths, as explained in her PoFV profile. This of course includes soundwaves. Perhaps her skill is so good that she can send soundwaves ''herself'' and talk to Yukari, from the moon. Therefore she doesn't need appliances to do it, which besides, is risky, because she could easily get caught using those things, sending information to the Earth.
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"Fine, she's a sleeping agent, so why doesn't Reisen 'wake up' during the incident, seeing how it's a crucial moment and Yukari probably desperately needs to know some info?" That's easy to explain. While the incident is ongoing, Reisen ''does not know where Yukari is''. Yukari is traveling with Reimu. While before, when Reisen transmitted signals to Yukari, whenever that happened Yukari must've been at a set location, awaiting Reisen's signals. Reisen is talented at sending wavelengths but she is '''not''' omniscient, so she doesn't simply know at all times where any person is and knows how to send wavelengths directly into that person's brain, unless she knows exactly where that person is. Reisen currently cannot send information to Yukari, they cannot stay in contact during the events of IN.
Until Stage 5 when Reimu & Yukari meet Reisen. This is where things get interesting (and admittedly, gets [[Epileptic Trees|a bit wacko]]). Now that Yukari meets Reisen in person, they definitely could exchange info, right there and then... But they shouldn't, because you know, Eirin can't be too far away and Reisen obviously does not want to get caught by Eirin as Yukari's spy. This is where a spy's favorite method of exchanging secret information comes in: '''signals and code language'''. So following the WMG, Reisen is in cahoots with Yukari. Reisen wants to help Yukari reach Kaguya and resolve the incident, because she's in Yukari's service.
How does Reisen accomplish this? First, during the pre-battle dialogue, she simply hands out some exposition to Yukari in order to deliver information about the incident, how Eirin sealed the moon, and so on. But how does Reisen deliver this without appearing suspicious? Simple, she coats it in the typical "I'm a villain explaining my plans in detail to the hero" monologue. Eirin buys it, as anybody would; Reisen at that moment just seems to behave like a stereotypical gloating antagonist who's too forthcoming with information, in order to taunt the hero. In Eirin's case she probably thinks Reisen is just being a dumb rabbit. But this isn't all Reisen does.
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At the moment, they're in a very long hallway, with an insane amount of doors. Only one of them leads to Kaguya. Ever paid attention to Reisen's sprite ingame? She is constantly '''making a gesture''' with one of her hands, making a 'pistol-shaped' hand gesture. This is how Reisen shoots danmaku bullets from her hands, but there is another use for such a hand gesture; '''pointing at things'''. Also yes, Reisen does battle Reimu & Yukari, but maybe she is doing ''something else'' during the battle, signaling to Yukari in some way. The hand gesture could've been occassionally gesturing towards which doors Yukari should/shouldn't pick once the 'battle' ends, which doors are the right/wrong ones.
But that alone doesn't hold up of course. Reisen said pre-battle: "I have sealed ''all'' the doors". '''If Reisen was truly loyal to Eirin and wanted to absolutely make sure her plans would go through, with no chance of Reimu & Yukari finding Eirin/Kaguya and stopping them, she would have kept ALL the doors sealed, or at least the correct door would've been more well hidden.''' But she didn't; it doesn't take long before Reimu says after the battle "Look, that door over there, that one isn't sealed!" Reisen immediately reacts [[Bad Bad Acting|"Oh no! I forgot to seal that one..."]] First of all, if this isn't an inside job, how could Reimu spot the only unsealed door so quickly, out of hundreds of doors in a virtually endless hallway?
Because '''Reisen sabotaged the door''', either by leaving it unsealed all this time or unsealing it at some point during the night while Eirin wasn't noticing. Since there are hundreds of doors, during the battle she was also gesturing, pointing her finger towards the direction of the right door. All this in order to secretly aid Yukari (perhaps Reisen subconsciously helped Reimu figure out where the right door was too, as Reimu could've "picked up" on Reisen pointing her fingers somewhere). Her reaction when the heroes find the correct door is to act surprised, also adding "master will be mad at me". But if Reisen was truly loyal to Eirin, once Reimu spots the right door, wouldn't she deny it, saying something the likes of "o-oh, that door? [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|No, that one is sealed]]". But instead she exaggeratedly goes "Oh no, you found the unsealed door!" in order to stress that indeed, that's the correct door. She also does it in order to come across as sincere to Eirin, to press the illusion that [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Reisen was being]] [[Villain Ball|an extraordinarily dumb henchman]], who forgot to seal the one door that definitely should've been sealed. To Eirin it would be believable since Eirin sees Reisen as her pet, so she doesn't expect her to be all that smart.
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Bonus: It's canon that Reisen ''has'' worked as a spy before, in the service of Eirin. She was sent to the Lunar Capital occassionally in order to gather information. It's also stated Reisen used her telepathic abilities in order to carry out this mission, which means that the "Reisen can use her powers to communicate with someone on Earth while she's on the Moon" theory in this entry appears to be a canon ability she already has.
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