I was quite happy to find this doujin, it's rare to see one try something a bit more artistic than just the standard yuri fluff(not that is a bad thing, just it does get a bit stale with volume).

I appreciate that the author was willing to actually make the Lunarians different from earthlings in a way that seems natural to them, yet fucked up to us. To Eirin, she knows her students know how unchanging and boring the Lunar Capital was to Kaguya, so being able to see Kaguya so openly expressive, and twistedly affectionate is precisely how Eirin intended to show them, as it said in the story, "everything is A-Okay here on earth". The students get a shock over how violent and unexpected the scene was, but they also get to see Kaguya genuinely enjoying herself compared to how she was on the moon. Alongside, while they can't just spy on Eirin herself, she isn't really being "the brain of the moon" here like she was on the capital, showing she is clearly content with her life, even if it is a violent one.

The violence mixed eroticism also shows pretty well how different Kaguya is from Mokou, despite both being immortals. To her, who spent so long living in bland stagnation, emotional extremes like that are probably the most pleasurable thing she can find(resembles the Slaneesh cults from Warhammer 40K). But then Mokou, who was original a normal human, while she has lost her fear of death and blood due to all her deaths to Kaguya, she still "holds on to her dignity" by being disgusted at the sexual elements of it and tries to keep a clear seperation between types of "emotional extreme" in a way Kaguya doesn't.

Plus the backstory stuff was excellently added, considering the constraints of the fixed-point storytelling structure. It explains everything in a way that, only by reading ALL of it can you really understand the story in it's fullest. Its only a single line from Tewi, but how she mentions "the story is like a polyhedron" is entirely accurate. Looking at it from any single perspective is missing the entire point, you need to read the story from each character's point of view, and everything starts falling into place quite quickly. Looking at it from only one perspective will give you a weird mess of a plot, but together, it is excellent.

ObtainCheese is very clearly failing to do that, and expecting something the author is not trying to deliver. That isn't the fault of the author, but their own. While people like to ship everyone in touhou, in cannon, there are only maybe one or two actual loving relationships going on. The yuri tag itself doesn't say anything about whether a ship is wholesome or not, just that it is a yuri ship. Expecting two of the darkest characters in Touhou to have a wholesome and loving relationship solely because of personal biases is the reason why I doubt ObtainCheese will ever realize how good this story really is.

Really the only issue I can bring up with the doujin is that there are a few places where the author seems to have just resused the same panel twice in a row, such as where Keine is walking towards Kaguya and stops, the only difference in the two panels is the sfx trailing behind Keine, or how Kaguya just blankly stares during Mokou and Keine's conversation for 8 panels only barely moving her eyeline where she likely would have been fidgeting around somewhat. However, the author addresses that with the mention of how hard it was to draw from a fixed point, so I can forgive such minor "lazy" decisions considering the quality of the doujin overall.

Plus Tewi appreciation. The girl is extremely old, probably one of the oldest characters in the series, 1300 years at minimum and if she really is the Rabbit of Inaba, she would be one of the 5 oldest overall. Her catching on immediately that the mirror was a lunar tool was surprisingly in-character, compared to every other doujin with relegates her to "prankster loli". You don't live 1300+ years without being pretty clever(or immortal in the case of fairies).

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