hmm.. the art is good..

Gensokyo blood sports.
...Tenshi played Stalker?

Fairly cheerful for a Stripe Pattern book. Still, main drawn is the art, as usual

I wish Stripe Pattern would hire a writer or something. His art is going to waste on GRIMDARK GRIMDARK

Blasphemy! Why is Cirno not there despite its title?

Other than that, haha... hahahaha! Tenko gonna get Sanaelated!

I never know what's happening, but at least it's nice to look at, right?

Hmm, this does make me think about how the physical battles of the Tasogare Frontier fighting games fit into the Touhou world of danmaku.

Yeaaaa, Touhou Fight Club

A common pattern of Gensokyo characters being afflicted with boredom, a desire for stimulation, and immersion in the thrill and/or senselessness of violence. I think it's the curse of having too much power, or having nothing left to attain, that sort of empty feeling, something which the author often connects as inherent to being a Touhou protagonist, their curse. Hmm. They all have great atmosphere, I definitely feel the savage senselessness and despair in every doujin, but maybe that's why I only came closest to liking Beautiful World and Gungnir. They're too dark AND too senseless, and while "senselessness" is a key part of Gensokyo, one of its foundational truths... every character is not like 'this', the specific way they're all portrayed by Stripe Pattern, and it's, not, Gensokyo enough. It's just not. These are something else, not the underlying themes of Touhou. Too much despair I would say, in these depictions, too much despair that's not there.

Well, it's nice to read their afterwords. They put a lot of heart and work and thought into every doujin (geez just look at that art) and they do intend to tell a type of complete story. It's nice maybe to keep them in the back of the head, to think about them at the darkest times. ...or maybe not. I have to say they do use some interesting storytelling techniques, like the two timelines here which violently intersect, cutting off Sanae's "redundant" section. Ah and they really like using repetition, of a single phrase or a single concept throughout an entire work, building on that one idea minutely towards the end.

Blasphemy! Why is Cirno not there despite its title?

Haha I thought the same. Looking at the title, I thought Stripe Pattern was finally going to have a more lighthearted piece, but nope.

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Nice....Fight Club x Touhou.
Ironically, boredom causes many conflicts irl as well.

what's wrong with the artist, i checked his works but it has stopped since 2013. where is he now and why he stops drawing ?

@thanh200110 He seems to have a part in Fate/Grand Order and New Danganronpa as illustrator around the time.

Not sure why he's still nowhere to be found though, those jobs should already be done