^^^ Wait, does Japanese folklore have female tanuki? Do they use their boobs to fly instead of comically oversized scrotums? Semi-serious here, it just hit me that I've only seen "traditional" tanuki be anatomically male or featureless.
I've always had the headcanon that Mai was INITIALLY being 100% serious in her confessions, but every time, at the last minute, she'd think "Wait, this is gonna be REALLY funny" and sabotage her own confession. She's not even shy or anything, she's just too much of a troublemaker to properly confess.
^Yes, the anime was announced March of 2025 and started streaming at start of this month, July 2026. There are currently 3 episodes out and it will continue airing weekly, probably until it hits the usual about 12 episode season.
Surprised to see nobody mention that the touhou games do in fact have plot many being pretty interesting. I don't even care about debunking that guy touhou games have neat story especially the more recent ones
Just a reminder for those who may not know, this drawing comes from a collection of character design practice sketches created before the show was produced. The images were uploaded in 2014 but were likely drawn earlier, before the 2013 OVA. Some of the girls resemble the characters from the show because Yoshinari reused and refined elements from his earlier practice designs. Hence, the drawings have no relation to the series itself.
Unfortunately we live in a world where not even the main series was allowed to get a complete anime so there's probably no way the Light Novel would get an adaption. As nice as it would be to see both. On that note, I've never read the LN series but I'm pretty sure at least that it's about this couple https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/bloom-into-you-light-novel/
^The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really Really Love You. It's a weird one, because the series as a whole is definitely a fairly risque hetero harem romcom, but these two characters specifically keep recreating a mid-2000s yuri dynamic inside of it.