^ I meant more "being presented to you constantly" in the sense of searching by keyword (or looking at a tag on this site) than sifting through daily/weekly updates. When there's as large of a content backlog as Touhou has, it can constitute a surprising percentage of what comes up in a single or double-keyword search. Regardless, I don't fully agree with HellAQA, but I was relating my personal experience with Touhou to play devil's advocate rather than bash on them like everyone else.

And your last bit is exactly what I was referring to Touhou having a problem with. Some people (myself included) have difficulty appreciating content without context, and in most cases the solution is simply to explore the context. For the reasons I specified above, that is very difficult to do with Touhou.

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that's clearly Sayaka x Haru
please tell me it's Sayaka x Haru

^I mean Touhouwiki exists and should turn up very readily in any halfway relevant search...

Seems like they're very good friends

Haru and Yuu are basically the same person lol.

Miki is a minor character, one of Hisao's classmates. She's an upbeat jock like Emi, and her left hand is amputated for reasons I don't remember if they ever explain.

Just noticed their necklaces are in each other's colours.

Got get priorities straight. Or gay, I guess.

@Beefaroni
Looks literally nothing like that though. It's an egg vibrator.

Yet another issue that could be solved with a lesbian orgy.

Yeah, knowing them they're still gonna be "I bet she's not into me, though" even after doing this all the time.

Are their parents together too?

^ I'm not an idiot.
Yes, there is a wiki, a repository of raw information that does little more than illustrate how vast the amount of content is and how incredibly hard to follow the structure of the series tends to be without prior knowledge. Does that solve any of the problems I mentioned in my first comment?

To be clear, I'm not interested in Touhou and nothing anyone says is likely to change that at this point. I was conveying my past experiences with thinking to try out the series and, metaphorically, finding myself at the entrance to a labyrinth instead of a clubhouse.

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It's Yuu. Haru doesn't have the ahoge. Yuu is actually the first one of them tagged for that picture on the source.

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^you were talking like ole Wikipedia was the only readily available source in English.

And D E E P L O R E is a tad inevitable with any franchise quarter-century old so eh.

It also depends on your nose pads with the right ones it will keep your glasses in place but some just make them slip.

Cute bunny!

OH MY

So much is happening here, I love it!

^ I mentioned Wikipedia specifically because it was brought up before. And I did mention sources more broadly as not being useful when attempting to break into Touhou as a series. Touhouwiki is easy to find and that's about where its positive qualities end in that regard.

I think if I were to reduce it to single issue, it wouldn't be the quantity of content, but how fragmented it is. Most large franchises have a core installment or linear series thereof that will give you all the basics, and Touhou lacks that. The games are the closest, but they're not in order, most of them seem very episodic, the emphasis on the story in-game varies wildly, and some aren't even translated. So, if there even is a good jumping-off point, it is very hard to find.

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^I'm not sure we're looking at the same Wiki and game series here.

Oo..ooh (@_@)

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^ Upon closer review of the very jumbled timeline page, the games are generally in chronological order, but I think that's the only point I had outright wrong. I'll be honest, I didn't look very close because I don't really know what I'm looking for and, as I already mentioned, I don't care very much.

I assume you're already involved with the series, and so I'll defer to you on facts but my original points were really more about my subjective experience. In any case, this topic's really wearing on me and I'd like to be done with this conversation.

I think if I were to reduce it to single issue, it wouldn't be the quantity of content, but how fragmented it is. Most large franchises have a core installment or linear series thereof that will give you all the basics, and Touhou lacks that. The games are the closest, but they're not in order, most of them seem very episodic, the emphasis on the story in-game varies wildly, and some aren't even translated. So, if there even is a good jumping-off point, it is very hard to find.

Every single game, manga and spinoff is translated, the series follows an extremely linear timeline (roughly one incident per year), the Touhou wiki is widely considered to be extremely readable, comprehensive and accessible, and even if you're not into that, the TV Tropes page is extensive and has Cliffs Notes on every last character. As a whole, the project is considered accessible and fun precisely because it doesn't hit you with dense, complex lore or devote a hundred pages to explaining the magic system, but encourages thinking for yourself and interpreting various concepts and statements. That's the reason it has so many fanworks- the canon isn't an encyclopaedia so much as a launchpad.

Personally, I think you just seem to have a vested dislike for the franchise, probably because it didn't meet your expectations at an early point. That's perfectly fine- nobody's going to hold a gun to your head and order you to love Touhou. But if you insist on making claims about the series that are objectively wrong and misrepresenting it (to actual fans, no less), you're obviously going to get criticized. If you find it esoteric or weird or meandering or irreverent, then just say so- it's a sentiment that thousands will share, and considerably more honest than lambasting the games for not being 'in order' or translated.

Edit: Just saw your comment, never mind.

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Nico looking at Nozomi's breasts is just noice