kind of deep so I didn't get much of it... Why the flowers didn't bloom earlier... or what was Yuuka's fears... or something

The only thing that I can piece together is that, since Youkai has a role when they were born (in Yuuka's case, flowers), and since Yuuka didn't make the sunflower bloom, she thinks that she's ending... or something like that...

Well, anyone care to explain?

This lost me half way through. I repeat the above comment - can someone explain what happened?

beautifull... this is why i'm never bored by touhou djs

yuuka too needs to love and to be loved, but if a human needs those things to live, a yukai needs the same things to die

oh,poor Yuuka just want a love

The best guess I have is that this doujinshi is one colossal Japanese mindfuck.
Seriously, it's like, she's flirting with Reimu, then Reimu's trying to kill her, but Reimu can't kill her, so she wakes up in her field as if the entire fucking story never even happened. It almost makes me think that there are pages missing.

The entire story was a dream, from the point where she apparently vanishes to the point where she wakes up in the sun. It's not necessarily the real Reimu, but a combination of memory and her own concept of Reimu blending together.

So in a way, the story didn't even happen.

^ Mind blown.

Great art and fascinating subject.

This might be one of the most beautiful Touhou doujins I've come across. One of my favourite aspects of the project is how brilliantly it portrays the otherworldly, inhuman, alien logic of yokai, never presenting them as saints or demons or beasts or gods, but simply as entities that drift across time, occasionally drawing close to human ideas, only to slip away before we can gauge their motives. The existentialist reflections of a yokai who's both incredibly ancient and divorced from the ideas of age are extremely fascinating, especially in contrast to the nature of an ephemeral shrine maiden who takes on an eternal position and puts an end to fantastical beings. The dusky, stained-glass, grim fairytale artstyle really elevates these melancholic themes, and lends the story the impression of pressed flowers- beautiful and vibrant, yet compressed past their lifespans, just like Yuuka when she tries to interact with people.

Don't get it

Ah I think I get it.

So at the end it says "Even sunflowers get tired".

That must mean that Yuuka was getting bored of living so in an attempt to escape she probably "kept sleeping". The first few pages imply that she hibernated through fall, winter, and maybe autumn too.

The encounter with Reimu at the shrine was actually AFTER that "nightmare" which was just shown as a flashback. At the end of that nightmare Reimu (implicitly) told her the name of her favorite flower and so that's why Yuuka knew Reimu's favorite flower at their shrine encounter despite Reimu not remembering telling Yuuka about it.

At that shrine encounter Yuuka thought that Reimu would be angry because Yuuka was "picking on her". Reimu responded "What are you talking about?". Here Yuuka realized that she just had a dream nightmare which Reimu had no idea about.

At the last pages we see Yuuka waking up to probably summer.

What Yuuka feared is not knowing what to do in her Youkai life. What Yuuka wished/wanted is to be acknowledged/loved as an existence. And the end of the fight she realizes that Reimu is the one who "loves" her as "Reimu would never kill her". She finally knew what to do in her Youkai life. So she finally woke up and visited Reimu with her favorite flowers.

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TLDR:

Bro had an existential crisis nightmare.

Got saved by love and woke up feeling good.

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