Very fun that Sadako is confirmed as like suspiciously strong for a witch who came out of nowhere. It figures after all she's not just some newby she's just been in exile for multiple centuries. Which I imagine will be coming up sooner rather than later at this point.

edit, re-reading chapter 1 made me realize Sadako has a tv in her house. and old one admittedly maybe 1930-1940s. But also with the way things are framed that city didn't look like it existed as more than a farming town in the way back when. So she's either younger than I assumed and cities can grow fast, or she is still centuries old but up until like 80-90 years ago her mom/guardian still looked after her before presumably going out to buy some cigarettes and never returning.

Though of course Hanako's weird resistance to magic is probably the more pressing weirdness to the witches.

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yeah, that's also why I referred to Rumia because as you say Rumia is one of the best example of youkai who attack humans. Pretty much everyone else has moved on to other things (somehow).

but Rumia is THE youkai who still attacks humans, that's the thing she does, and it's something a lot of fanworks will use her for. Because practically no other youkai bothers with it anymore, and like yeah, Rumia is a smallfry compared to most characters in Touhou, but a weak youkai is still a lethal danger to humans, and within the boundary of Spell, as you say Rumia really is one of the youkai who could make most use out of the system.

I love this expression, just happy to be here.

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the double page 12-13 is misplaced at the back because it doesn't follow the 00page scheme.

Aside from that, it is interesting because sure Yukari would be treating Reimu extra well so her damnaku plan can get some ground but also. like any good Yukari, who knows what she's actually thinking/planning here.

Definitely nowhere near as bad as I expected given the tags, but I can see a hopeful ending here where our protag finally finds someone willing to stay with her without exploiting her for sex.

And in that sense I do agree someone should kill that teacher for having a student come to him with real problems and reacting to it by exploiting his power over her like this.

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power scalers coping...

Also holy shit is Okina being smeared in this work lmao. She's getting murdered and not just by Meiling the gamer.

Kurata after meeting Kira's brother "do not worry for my mother has beaten the comphet out of me a long time ago"

on my knees crying because this series could have been just genuinely incredible. The magical girl plushie theme is just genuinely visionary. Sometime just makes gold you know.

Well, at least the four chapters we got are just so the best.

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I see it's one of those, well I don't think it'll be a virgin birth by the time thos 9 months are up. But you know what I mean.

Bai yan is interesting to me because her entire reasoning here is, oh Xiao Lu is so nice to me and it's obvious she likes me and I'd love to reciprocate but alas I want to life a normal life and can't give her what she wants, but I do want to continue recieving this love because it's got that je ne sais quo...

Like Bai Yan is shitty and she isn't unaware that she was using Xiao Lu but my god this is barely denial anymore she's just straight up going "I'm probably gay but I live in a society so idrc"

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she's a puppygirl...

many webtoons have what I would characterize as a parkour civilization conception of social hierarchy

Lmao, you're not wrong.

What's that? Oh god!

It's the Pyshological tag rushing into the ring with a steel chair!

me when I definitely didn't like being kissed by a girl and don't want to do it again "alright, yeah, sure, let's kiss again so I can make it clear how much I hate it."

alright, that's a very fun way to justify falling for three very different individuals over the course of two days. I guess on a sub-conscious level there was just something there laying in common.

so as of right now it's not a jealousy arc yet, because both Tongtong and Xiao-Lu are too in love with eachother to care. But I do like that Bai Yan is here to flirt with Xiao-Lu. Now Tongtong will have no choice but to show her girlfriend who she belongs to and wouldn't you know Xiao-Lu has been looking for a way to get rougher during sex lmao.

....yeah, I cannot say I like this development.

This is a really fast turnaround, I only heard about this series starting a couple days ago, though I suppose Sal Jiang is a big enough name for us here that no time is wasted before scanlations get to work. And I'll thank y'all for that I did want to get to read this as soon as possible lmao.

A weak Reimu who needs the spellcard system as much as the youkai do to make fighting actually possible (and thus continue existing by making a game of it all) is interesting,

but also it's really funny that the youkai everyone always uses to show off how dangerous and scary youkai really are is Rumia. This little clown who bonks into trees because she can't even see where she's going half the time.

Yeah she's the danger, because she really is.

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oh no.... Erika you really shouldn't have called off the date.

I get it, I really do, you want to give Komichi less to worry but she was looking forward to it!

Yeah I can't say I like the feelings this story leaves me with not just because of how the senpai has her hopes dashed but also because it really feels like Endou-san realized what kind of life she's now going to miss out on all but far too late.

When the senpai talks about how love is looking in the same direction you can just see Endou realize that yes there's one person here with whom she's been doing that and it's not her to-be-husband.

It's heartbreaking really.

If you make a list you could post it to the touhou subreddit but you can also make a list on your dynasty-scans account which would be easier for users here to find. What fandoms do you mostly follow right now and do you jump between fandoms or are there certain staples you keep coming back to? Dynasty also has some decent Kemono Friends and Lucky Star stuff but obviously not as much as touhou.

I actually rarely read fanworks, mostly because I'm just not actually that into many fandoms. Like I do play arknights so there's one, but I just had been wanting to get into touhou for a long time now and I didn't know where to start until I bought mystia's izakaya. Which ended up being a really good decision due to that game's large cast and the devs dedication to staying as close to official characterization as they could. If I do end up making a best of touhou, I'd probably just make a forum post here on dynasty because honestly I'd be doing it mostly for myself and I don't use reddit outside of necessity so I don't particularly mind if few people end up seeing it (again if I do make it).

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That's an impressive amount of reading, do you always get this interested in a series' fanworks or did something about touhou particularly interest you? Also can you make a list of what you thought were the best touhou works and authors? It would be interesting to see what's the best out of the all the fanworks created since touhou got popular 22 years ago.

To a degree yeag, when I get into a new series I always start chronologically and once I get the time to play the official games I am going to start with the first. I also just figured that since the touhou works on this site alone stretch back nearly twenty years that a lot of good work had to be buried underneath a mountain of time and that was certainly true. If I'd have to make a list it would take some time though and I'd probably want to do it in a standalone post somewhere.

Alright, after getting into touhou when I bought mystia's izakaya at the start of february this year I also started reading touhou fanworks with the purple summit. Now on october 3rd I have read (or at least skimmed there were a couple that were imo awful) all touhou works on the dynasty reader.

Only took me 8 months to read 3196 works. Read some more too because sometimes a work would have a sequel or prequel but it was only on danbooru so I'd have to read it there. All in all it gave me a lot to read over the summer when my job kept me far too busy to do anything more than read a couple minutes at a time.

Truly incredible direction for this to go. Not only do we get the drama of a misunderstanding we now also somehow get the completely reasonable explanation. Amazing!

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