Is Patchouli really asthmatic in canon?

Yeah, she mentions having Asthma in the ex stage for EoSD. Which is odd now that I think about it, because she's said to be a natural born magician, so I assume that means she was born a youkai? So youkai, the creatures born from human fear and imagination, can have asthma. Can they have other medical conditions? Like, do they have to worry about the common cold, or cancer?

The Magician article in PMiSS notes that youkai magicians are somewhat unique among youkai for being basically identical to humans physically (or even weaker in Patchy's case), with the only difference being their natural ability to use magic. They're not even born unaging but have to figure that out the same as human magicians, just with something of a head start in terms of magic skill.

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Unfortunately, it will also be ending after chapter 11.
https://www.tumblr.com/chireikiden/794742615668146176/an-announcement-by-azuma-aya

I was just curious, what makes a doujin semi-official? I know that this and that one about the human village girls are considered semi-official, but not why

I wouldn't bother with the "semi-official" label myself, since it just muddles things for no reason.

When people use it, they generally mean that it's one of the monthly manga published through Strange Creators of Outer World, the Touhou magazine that mostly just refers to these online manga these days. It's certainly some mark of quality to be selected/have one's comic greenlit for it and given all that visibility (plus money), but when people extend this to imply whatever kind of personal approval by ZUN (he doesn't run the magazine but has some involvement with it), it's mostly just a fun thing to think about but doesn't really mean anything.

They're also by definition not doujinshi, since they're published (even as print editions) by KADOKAWA, one of the largest publishers in Japan. It's like continuing to call an indie artist indie even when they're drawing for Disney. But the term "doujin" is just really deeply ingrained in the fandom to refer to non-canon stuff.

There's a full list of the SCoOW manga here:
https://chireikiden.tumblr.com/about

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The opening bit with Sanae explaining which of her moms tops the other is amusing (seems they switch, good for them), but the theological implications of Kanako intentionally syncretizing a pre-existing husband with Suwako are actually intriguing, considering how gods in-setting are shaped by belief.

To follow up on this (you personally may or may not know, but it's a fascinating topic):

The two main gods worshipped at the real life Suwa Grand Shrine are named Takeminakata (husband, also known as Suwa Grand Deity) and Yasakatome (wife).

Kanako is obviously named after Yasakatome, but takes most of her role and backstory from Takeminakata, who in the version of the legend that ZUN is obviously using invaded the Lake Suwa region and conquered it from its native gods, including one named Moriya (represented by Suwako).

This means that Kanako basically represents both sides of what in real life is a married couple of gods, while Suwako is the native god she secretly kept around. Various Touhou authors have done different takes on this, but here with risui the implication I choose to get is that Kanako is mostly Yasakatome, while Takeminakata got the credit for Kanako's work (being the man) only to end up syncretized out of the equation (because he was disturbing the yuri, I guess).

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mmmm i dont really enjoy the implication that koakuma's top secret room is probably something het related even if its for an one off gag
if the author decides to return to it i would love for it to be just a plain normal room it would be way funnier
otherwise pretty enjoyable ch!

What implies it's het related?

frankly its just an educated guess going off risui's previous stuff but i still could be wrong its the option that makes the most sense

Far as I'm aware, Risui's output is like 99% yuri.

Of course Kaguya would be a himejoshi.

Popping in to note that I made a couple embarrassing mistranslations on pages 8 and 18 of chapter 42. They've been fixed now.

Most notably, the part about how the Miyadeguchi were scapegoated as traitors against humanity and the Hakurei, not accomplices of the Hakurei in betraying humanity. Basically a very tunnel-visioned misreading of "betrayed humanity with the Hakurei" when it should've been "betrayed humanity and the Hakurei", which led to a couple further misinterpretations.

Chapter 28 (and 28.5) are the latest released so far. The schedule is irregular and affected by Ashiyama's other projects, but future chapters will be translated whenever they happen to come out!

Yo is this part of the semi-official doujins of the likes of "The Magician who loved a Fake" and "Gensokyo of Humans"? Cause if that's the case I'll be getting those physical prints pronto when they do get published. Semi-official Remari is truly blessed.

Yeah, it is.

To reiterate for posterity, whereas volumes 1-3 were originally published as entire books and then split into chapters for the Pixiv release, volume 4 was compiled out of chapters that were originally published in five separate batches: 19-21, 22-24, 25, 26-27 and 28.

While Ashiyama made slight changes to a couple chapters to make them work better, this difference in format is still somewhat visible. Volume 4 is also the longest thus far.

Wait a minute! Where is the Youmu x Reisen tag on chapter 6?

give us Not Reisen x Youmu or bust

Also Mokou x Keine, surely?

To whoever is scanlating, quick nitpick

A castle is a specific term that refers to a fortified manor, that had a license to do so. (known as a license to castle)

Unless Remilia has that she's got a Manor or Mansion, not a castle.

This is a pretty weird point, and I don't even know where to start with it, but it was addressed to me for some reason ("whoever"... the credits are right there) so I'll respond to it in pieces.

1. 99% of the time the Scarlet Devil Mansion is called a mansion, but in that specific line Remilia inarguably calls it a castle, presumably metaphorically in a "my home is my castle" kind of way. Did you think the translator decided to call it a castle on a lark, or that I should've changed it in translation because it didn't fill a technical definition?

2. A technical definition of a castle literally couldn't matter less when it comes to informal use, even less so in fiction. A person or character can call something a castle regardless of whether it technically is one. Heck, even official uses don't always follow the definition.

3. It's in fact "a" technical definition of a castle that you're applying across time, space and fiction for some reason. There are plenty of "castles" and words translated as castle around the word that follow completely different definitions or none at all.

Ashiyama recently updated the Pixiv version of the series to include certain minor changes that he made in the latest re-release of the books. At the time of writing, on Dynasty, we've only changed Ch. 1 due to the upload system being uncooperative. It's the one with the most significant changes, though, so maybe that's fine for now.

Ch. 1: Pages 1-9 redone with some new art and a couple pages that were in the original book release, but omitted from the Pixiv version until now. Also included a title page for "Part 1" of the series, which apparently includes books 1-2.
Ch. 3: Pages 10-11 redrawn to have more realistically sized money.
Ch. 4: Page 1 has a new introductory quote.

Besides those three, all future chapters will be using the latest version from the get-go.

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Is this still self-published if it's under Comic Walker? Or is Comic Walker just a distribution platform and it still qualifies as a doujinshi? I mean, damn I can't believe Meiling x Sakuya is so popular they published this derivative work under Comic Walker.

It's not strictly/strictly is not a doujinshi given it's published by Kadokawa. It's part of the same Strange Creators of Outer World publication scheme as e.g. Gensokyo of Humans, The Shinigami's Rowing Her Boat as Usual, or The Tiles That I Cannot Cut Are Next to None, which basically means monthly publication for hand-picked Touhou doujin artists. The doujinshi label just gets slapped on as a shorthand for "non-canon, no involvement by ZUN".

The great thing is that these chapters originally came out in 2016, five years before Megumu was introduced.
(The Iizuna-Saburou they mention as one of the strongest tengu is also her.)

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Why did marisa not want to eliminate akyuu right then and there?

If you mean chapter 29, supposedly 24,300 points was simply the most she could get out of Akyuu in that instant.
If you mean chapter 30, she felt she had to slow down if she didn't want to risk being countered by Remilia or Youmu.

i thought if one player runs out of points the match immediately ends, so Marisa would come out on top in ch. 30?

Yes, that's correct. If Akyuu ran out of points while Marisa was in first place, she would instantly win.

The point wasn't that she had to slow down how quickly she was taking points from Akyuu. She would love to eliminate Akyuu as soon as possible. It was that if she rushed forward in order to take them, she could get tripped up by Remilia or Youmu and end up not getting them at all.

Why did marisa not want to eliminate akyuu right then and there?

If you mean chapter 29, supposedly 24,300 points was simply the most she could get out of Akyuu in that instant.
If you mean chapter 30, she felt she had to slow down if she didn't want to risk being countered by Remilia or Youmu.

Youkai don't just naturally fall unconscious after being possessed, it happens as a result of Mizuchi draining them of energy before she leaves. So if she doesn't do that (because she's in a hurry or bad shape or something, I guess), they're fine immediately after just like any human would be.

(Presumably she can drain magical energy from humans too, but they don't care so much because unlike youkai, their bodies don't literally run on it.)

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For full context: Unlike Gensokyo of Humans and Magician Who Loved a Fake, which were published through Strange Creators of Outer World, this is Ashiyama's self-published doujin that's been going since 2015. He's been working on it before, in between, and sometimes during those other series.

Most of the series has been originally published as books, which were then divided into chapters for the Pixiv release used here.

The plan is to upload two chapters a month, and once we've caught up, just do them whenever Ashiyama publishes more.

How many are out and how frequent do they update?

Right, forgot to include that.

There's 28 chapters right now, with the latest having come out a couple weeks ago. The actual release rate is uneven, though, and depends on what else Ashiyama is working on. Generally faster when he doesn't have another series going, obviously.

For full context: Unlike Gensokyo of Humans and Magician Who Loved a Fake, which were published through Strange Creators of Outer World, this is Ashiyama's self-published doujin that's been going since 2015. He's been working on it before, in between, and sometimes during those other series.

Most of the series has been originally published as books, which were then divided into chapters for the Pixiv release used here.

The plan is to upload two chapters a month, and once we've caught up, just do them whenever Ashiyama publishes more.

Yeah, apparently there was a bunch of trouble with Dynasty's upload system (whether due to user error or the system itself), mixing up the page order and somehow overwriting the previous chapter too. Both should hopefully be alright now.

Aaand that's all the "missing" chapters uploaded too. With that, the series is done, unless of course the artist comes back to do another installment later on.

I only now noticed that there's a couple more bonus 4koma at the end of the collected tankoubon, so I'll probably post those eventually, but that's it.

Thanks for reading!

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Also, looking at the pixiv, the author has the title translated on there as "The Magician in love with a Fake", any reason for this change?

That title first appeared on the cover of the tankoubon, i.e. after five chapters had already been translated and released. It's close enough (even if somewhat inferior imo) that I probably would've used it had it been there from the start, but I saw no need to force myself to adapt to it that far in. With the exception of "Gensokyo of Humans", which was added in the second chapter and was better than my original translation, I don't take the English titles on the cover of the books very seriously anyway. ("Foul Detective Satori" on the milder end, "There aren't many tiles that can't be discard" on the other.)

I don't think even Ashiyama was too committed to the English title, for that matter, since the same Pixiv release also calls it "A Wizard in Love with a Fake" and "The Wizard Who Fell in Love with a Fake". It seems the SCoOW tankoubon are all adding them to the covers as a matter of course, basically just as a design element. (https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/101271998)

Personally I think the question of past or present tense isn't too relevant either, being a series/book title.

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did marisa waste her bomb for a cat?

"Waste"?

To explain the weird new chapter numbering: the first chapter of Go For It Gensokyo -Four Seasons- is actually the tenth chapter of Go For It Gensokyo as a whole. Chapters #1-9 were published in the (currently defunct) Strange Creators of Outer World magazine starting in 2015.

I did the first 3 chapters as a package deal due to them being so short, but the remaining chapters 4-9 should be coming at a roughly monthly pace.

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