Yohane is a treasure

This is what could happen if Koishi was aware of the influence her power can create around her, she'd be the ultimate matchmaker

Reisen acting like she hasn't chugged tons of poisons already

Nue: "Good girl, keep going straight."
She can't, in more ways than you'd think

Rumia is wild on every aspect: she's homeless, hunts her own food while also frequenting a friend's business, gets drunk, gets her favorite spot stolen by a bird nest, tries to crash in someone else's home and passes out at their front door, needs a home and buys a tent, pays for everything using the highest value bill available and tells everyone to keep the change, casually reveals that she's actually rich, lets her friends sleep on her money.

Remilia: "You. Me. Going out for a nice midnight walk.
Killing a couple of bystanders, then sharing a glass of their blood.
I'm just kidding, it's just a joke. Unless you want to, then it's not a joke.
Just think about it..."

"The richest woman is not she who has the most, but she who needs the least."

Orin: "I won't assault them!!"
Satori: "But you want to!"
Orin: "You're wrong!!"
Satori: "You can't hide it from me! You know I can read you!!"

Beautiful ♡

This leak of Touhou 18.5 is looking great

Jay Kristoff said that "Fate deals us our hand, but we decide how to play it", but Reimu looks like she could win without playing any cards.

It seems that the Flan of Anger also likes Remilia a lot, but she's always upset with Remilia because she had a baby with Sakuya in her dimension and she probably felt left out once they started to focus on the baby. I think she's just cold and rude to hide the fact that she also wanted to be closest to Remi (maybe not in the same way that the Flan of Lust wants XD) but in her dimension she's at least in third place, behind Sakuya and the baby.
...Either that or they never got along in her dimension XD

Reimu: "Help me solve incidents like in the old days!"
Alice: "How?"
Reimu: "You'll be Genji."
Alice: "What?"
Reimu: "You'll be Genji."

Good to see more of my favorite ship

^ Absolute homolove. I cannot live, I cannot die

Not gonna lie, as soon as I read the title I immediately assumed it was Homura Subaru's work XD
But the author's art and name does not dissapoint, Hakurei Reimari, I shall follow your works with great interest XD

I love how these stories have developed from Marisa x Reimu having Alice as a third wheel, to adding Yuyuko x Youmu into the stories, and then making Marisa and Youmu get along because they are in the same predicament trying to improve their relationship with the one they love, so they feel and share the same worries.

But then in "Gathering Spring" Youmu and Marisa almost fell in love with each other, Marisa was able to just forget about it while Youmu is still conflicted about it. I wonder if future works from the author will continue with Youmu's struggle to view Marisa as "just a friend".

...And Reimu is always totally aware of everything that's going on and she just rolls with it to tease Marisa XD

Last time I got to enjoy some Remilia x Satori was from Yohane's works,it quickly became one of my favorite ships

There's been multiple representations and ideas about Reimu's successor and every time I become more interested in a series of stories focused on how everybody has grown and carried on with their lives after Reimu's death and the new Hakurei Shrine Maiden has to follow the same fate, solving incidents caused by everyone that Reimu faced in the past just to toy with her and everybody is amused by the idea that, yet again, the "Hakurei" has come to stop them.

The author never disappoints

Imagine having to watch out for yourself so you don't steal your girl from yourself

At the very end of it, I thought Marisa was going to tell Miko-chan something like "You know... there were plenty of youkai that cared for the previous shrine maiden as well" to encourage her a bit, to let her know that there were youkai that also wanted to lend Reimu a hand every now and then, so in that sense Miko-chan and Reimu are similar. She struggles to become a shrine maiden that can match up to Reimu's exploits, she probably only heard about how good she was, but she never learnt about how she was lazy and greedy too, Miko-chan already has the diligence to do the job, now she just need to work up on experience.

There are a lot of stories that touch the subject of "the next generation of the Hakurei Shrine Maiden", but this one makes me entertain the idea of an actual series about the next Hakurei that tries to make a name for herself and outperform Reimu, struggling to keep up with Reimu's natural genius to solve incidents, living under her shadow and being constantly tormented by the thought of "the previous shrine maiden was better" while everyone else that met and fought Reimu simply watch in amusement as the next generation continues to keep the balance in Gensokyo, and they begin to notice traces that spark some resemblance to Reimu as they watch her grow and improve.

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I would assume that Reimu becoming immortal would be an option too. Maybe becoming a Hermit or a God, where she would have to give up her status as the shrine maiden. Though it's mostly a question of if Reimu would actually do that, rather than whether she can or not.

I think that Sanae mentions at one point that since they are shrine maidens they can ascend and become goddesses, but Reimu tells her that she has no intentions (or doesn't care) about becoming a goddess. And I can totally see Reimu being more inclined to accepting her death and resting in peace rather than taking more responsibilities on her shoulders by becoming a guardian or guide of Gensokyo

Judging by the wings it seems that the copies have a specific emotion related to them. Upper-left is sadness, lower-left is love, lower-right is some kind of breakdown (her eyes are a void, no color), and upper-right seems to be the original one and she's angry that her copies cling to Remilia more than she does XD