was Letty being a fairy A Thing that was believed back in the day? this is like the third doujin so far to say that...

Edit: ok not sure if any other doujins say that, I definitely read this one already and forgot. Still though lmao

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People treating fatness with the same level of concern as like, recreational drug use, when “fat” is something you can literally just BE, is always kinda sad. Like i should just be shouting “AWOOOGA” here and instead I gotta be woke or whatever. (Also re:lore- adventurers canonically fluctuate body weight quite a bit due to how resurrection works in-universe, which I suspect has led to some of the fanart interpretations? Also theres portions of the manga where Falin is drawn a bit more heavier-set, though by no means “fat” necessarily.)

Oh and for the record, AWOOOOGA eyes pop out of my skull wolf whistles

oh my god look at the size of those EARS!!!

ohhh shoot this is Mizutataki? I knew it felt like a precursor to the “official” slice-of-life-y manga style but it actually being by the Lotus Eater’s author was more than I reckon’d. (Trying to read all the TH doujins in chrono order lol.)

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Not sure why people were confused regarding the timescale on the “man she loved” thing, story makes a point that there was a while between her finding the witch and waking her up. Theres enough room in there for an ill-fated romance with some generic audience-displeasant townsguy without it being cheating of w/e. Bi rights i guess?
This does read as allegory for questioning/denial/closeting & the coming out process. Pretty good! :3

DDC was my first touhou game (first one contemporaneous to when i got into the series, that is!), so this whole chapter was a scrumptious nostalgia cake to me :3. God i hope the explanation for the copycat possessions isn’t stupid.

I really love stories giving girls the opportunity to be criminally perverse in more subdued, realistic ways. It feels like fictionland tends to play more towards the extremes when it tries for that whole behavior zone.

Theres…. Something to Touhou that makes people wanna give neurological conditions (or fantastical analogues thereto) to even the characters that DON’T already canonically have them. This one’s a pretty well done look into characters loosing their humanoid characterization, but the vagueness-of-cause leaves the ending a weird midpoint of horror and tragedy. Not sure how worried I should be for Reisen here.
Edit: Bit of a Flowers for Algernon scenario?

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Absolutely delicious. I like the detail of more famous historical figures having their books significantly annotated and rewritten, good metaphor there. I think the books are less "memories" than actual "history" as a whole, memories and the past itself interlinked rather than one or the other.

i could see this going for another zillion years if this date goes inconclusively/mediocre (i say in a desperate attempt to have that not happen). …. I did feel a wave of relief this chapter. Heres to character development progressing the story~!

Addendum: also jumping on the aliens plot bandwagon. Its gonna happen i swear

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scott pilgrim reference!!!1! (this is a moment where fictional characters thought processes seem… Alien. how old did you think she WAS when you started- ack ech grumbl etc. this does present an even weirder middleground for the series in general- looks and acts like a kid is not a kid but is not an adult and strictly speaking is not NOT a kid either? lmao. i’d’ve preferred it if she was like 23 or something for simplicity-of-gimmick’s sake, morality issues aside xp, but hey)

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It could’ve ended worse, but I do feel like this is missing something by not being a 20 volume behemoth entitled something to the effect of “Paraphilias Amongst The Lesbian Community - Trauma And Forgiveness” that steadily transitions from fictional narrative to longform essay by about the 2/3rds point. (I do think the ending was too abrupt, but the actual components OF it seem like what would be included in a better-paced ending, and if it had to end this soon I’m glad it ended this way??? In retrospect I’m mostly surprised Meguru never had a Big Plushophile Moment, it felt like that was the direction her brand of repression was going in lmao.)

they had popular youtube songs at around similar times in a similar niche (including some by the same artist?) so IMO it does make sense ppl are putting them together.
(Now to wonder how literally one should take the implications of beheading in this XP. i’m sure Teto’ll be fine either way its all in good fun. Good safe fun.)

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I’d begrudgingly call this “interesting” but I come away with the impression that the convolutions of the narration are all dressing up a whole lot of nothing actually in particular being said.
Maybe there IS a solution in there? It feels easy to try and exonerate Seki as unreliable and guilt-ridden distorting her own narrative (especially considering the authors art of the ship that Doesn’t seem like an abusive mess? not that they necessarily share continuity, merely an artist making that sorta tonal 180 is inconvenient to my personal sense of taste lol) but on the other side of things that feels TOO clean and also still leaves out a bunch of loose ends (Kag’s role in this, whatever Eirin herself is doing, where the hell the idea of ‘selling’ her came from, etc) that while perhaps easy it seems insufficient as a catch-all Vortex Ending Explained theory. And then if we accept shes somewhat at fault for parts of it but other parts are fabricated or taking unjust responsibility, Which, etc. This feels like a thematic hole where interesting interpretations can be put in but not really taken out again. Best case scenario (compassionately not writerly) is Waka had an accident and the only cure is for Seki to take Pill Which Induce Vivid Hallucinations Of Living In The Worst Possible Whump Timeline You Can.
Also something something angst/violence/abuse of my comfort ot3 how scandalous le gasp they’d NEVER do that etc etc <- that IS my actual initial reaction which I’m looking past for the sake of not being a complete rube. But to be frank it probably is coloring my more intellectualized takeaways from this XP.

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Boob verification in progress

A really sweet Yuiman oneshot? AND its by Aya Azuma? Praise this development!

Been a while since i read the first volumes, but. While Agott does start off rough (genuinely well written as a kid trying to weaponize ingroup knowedge against a newcomer) I just… it feels like the writings on the wall so early that this is A Petty Grudge To Be Outgrown type of thing that i struggle to give benefit of the doubt to people outright hating her. Idk, the power of mean girls shines within you

There are real life cases of "older than they look", some adults are tiny and I've heard that when you're that small it can be easier, and even more affordable, to shop for clothes that fit from kids selections, especially shoes.

In terms of this story and fiction though, the gap between physical appearance and real age creates it's own novel situation, for lack of better wording. I remember there was a comedy series awhile back where the MC was in kindergarten but he looked like a full grown man so the police kept arresting him for stuff like hanging out with his friends lol

I mean, in this case its more that her appearance and behavior DON’T differ, just her actual literal age from both . Its definitely a deliberate decision (if either was changed this literally just Wouldn’t be the same story anymore) but idk the exact reasoning - it being “plausible deniability” seems rather *im*plausible though given what other actual age difference comics are allowed to exist lmao

meanwhile, plotting complaints aside (D.S. does seem to…Challenge. the limits of Touhou’s storytelling, even if its broadly enjoyable still XP), I’m happy to see Sukuna again! (…”i saw [Shinmyoumaru] and i clapped!!”)

i enjoy the panel in the last chapter where the narration bubble is discussing how some things “always stay the same” while the scene is highlighting Ariya, fun little relevant thematic convergence there when the manga started before th20 was even out

Roropull draws a decent amount of yuri already, but the greediness in me hopes they never draw a man again with stuff like this ^w^

Feel pretty bad for the girl that just got murderized, the sense that the cast is a bunch of people trying to live normally while unbeknownst to them at least two grizzly bears (with ursine sensibilities towards violence) live among them is tangible.
...I'm. Hesitant. About taking a transfem reading of Niehara TOO literally, given how they're swimming in a bit of a Themes Of Being Explicitly And Intentionally Predatory Soup, can border on pejorative iconography if handled bad, but its hard to deny the connotations? This is one of those fields where horror themes interact strangely (IMO uncomfortably but other people seem to like it) with Queer narratives even when stories AREN'T being deliberate in their coding, it'd feel like a mistake to not bring it up xp. As much as that flashback did tell us I'm left wondering what their broader context is, since (as with Takahashi) we know very little about what their life was like BEFORE assuming the human disguise. How much of monster behavior is instinctual versus learned to begin with is kinda up in the air, whether monsters have some sort of "society" of their own, that sorta thing. I think it could do a lot to inform broader readings of them as (directly) analogous to IRL social situations. Not sure the narrative as it stands even NEEDS to explore in that direction though, it'd just make trans readings taste better or worse lol. Theres definitely something being said with the way Niehara uses gender (and age?) as a tool to manipulate the "context" of their relationships & their own image though.

hell yeah go grandpa

surprisingly compelling, i think the mix of moe art & relatively (but not too terribly) serious writing turned out pretty well! glad i wasn’t the only one thinking of Heavy

The comment about the “brain of the moon being on the earth” (in relation to Eirin?) is kinda fitting in retrospect of Th20. Could be a translation thing though (not sure if the connotations of “brain” are more specific to “person” there or whether the larger leap to 20’s whole deal could also fit! xp), not presuming premeditation either way.
Reisen (with the floppy ears) is wayyyyy too cute in some of these panels lmao.