It’s inspiring to see a catgirl and a birdgirl getting along so well!
(Birdgirl doesn’t appear to be wearing a bikini bottom under her wrap, there, so it would seem she’s planning on them becoming EXTRA good friends)
last edited at Jul 15, 2026 9:44AM
ninryu
Jul 16, 2026 2:03AM
You aren'te familiar with Touhou? Okuu and Orin are both Satori's pets, they're basically family.
Tamahime
Jul 16, 2026 9:31AM
I don’t play the games and can’t be assed to keep track of the characters much without an actual (manga/anime) story. I know a few of them from years of fanart (Patchouli, Reimu… some other girls with funny hats…) but for the most part they’re just part of a cloud in my brain labeled “Touhou ships.” XD
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 12:10AM
ninryu
Jul 16, 2026 4:14PM
Touhou has several official manga. I think they're all on Dynasty.
Tamahime
Jul 17, 2026 12:05AM
Well, I never had any interest in those because:
They're not yuri
They're "stories set in the world of Touhou," not "the Touhou story," which is a distinction WITH a difference to me.
As far as I've ever understood it, Touhou is the progenitor of the "cute girl avatars in a battle game" genre that begat all your Genshins Impact and your Arks Knight and all the rest (which I also have no interest in aside from pretty yuri shipping art). It didn't have any kind of story until fans glommed on to their favorite characters and started making doujin of them.
Speaking, again, just for myself, I don't care about the interrelationships of gacha game characters, v-tubers, and the like. They're just assemblages of traits that designers expect fans to be attracted to and want to collect/follow/whatever. If the couple didn't begin in an actual context with history, continuity, and agency, they're just pretty pictures to me.
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 12:07AM
Gray Shadow
Jul 17, 2026 12:44AM
Touhou is...not a gacha game. Not remotely. It's a doujin (indie) game series of bullet hell games made by one guy and it predates gacha games as a concept by way over a decade. Maybe do a quick google search before you act smug and condescending about your superior taste
ninryu
Jul 17, 2026 1:20AM
Some people really have a hate boner for Touhou for no reason other it's popular.
Zesc
Jul 17, 2026 5:44AM
^^^ I mean there are a lot of things wrong with the above take, but to continue the pile-on: have you ever even seen the original Touhou sprites?
This is Utsuho's official design ... and actually, "assemblages of traits" describes it pretty well. Just not in the way you think.
EDIT: Touhou Wiki is paying the very much pro-fascist monopolist Cloudflare to prevent "hotlinking", meaning you might get an error 403 if you don't use privacy settings/addons to supress Referer (sic) sending. Just copy the URI and open it in a new browser tab.
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 8:37AM
ninryu
Jul 17, 2026 7:55AM
Each part of her design has purpose. She's based on the three-legged crow god, Yatagarsu, and nuclear fusion. The arm canon (the "third leg") is a nuclear control rod and the gray thing on her leg is modeled after the "elephant foot" from Chernobyl. Yes, it's busy as hell (heh), but there's a lot of thought going into each character.
Don't get me started talking about Touhou, I can yap about it for days.
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 7:57AM
Tamahime
Jul 17, 2026 8:48AM
Holy shit do people take things personally on this site sometimes. These will be the last responses I make to any of this, because the bad-faith interpretations of what I said and pile-ons just aren’t worth the energy, and a new batch of images will be posted tonight to sweep all this away.
I never said it WAS a gacha game, I said that in my view it was the ancestor OF gacha games - simple non-story-based gameplay that provided a framework for a world of cute girl avatars.
How in the world do you interpret anything I said as being “smug” or about my “superior taste?” I went out of my way to explicitly say it simply wasn’t for me personally, and in no way disparaged you or anyone else’s love of the games or any related media.
I don’t HATE Touhou, JFC. I don’t care about it outside of liking the fanart and some doujin with themes that I enjoy. Not partaking in most of the media or knowing the intimate details of the vast army of characters involved is in no way the same thing as “hating” something.
The original sprites have absolutely nothing to do with anything I said. I’m talking about all the character design details, worldbuilding, and relationship tree-ing that have built up around the character via the fandom.
Sure, I in no way am discounting that the designs are deliberate and (for all I know) quite thoughtful in their detail. All the “cute girl army” type media are crafting their characters precisely to attract loyalty and interest from various types of fans.
So yeah, that’s the last I’ll say about this. Good luck, have fun.
Zesc
Jul 17, 2026 8:48AM
^^ Exactly. She's a '00s DeviantArt OC meant to appeal to exactly one person: ZUN. You can't compare that to any of the generic, skintight moéblobs Mihoyo and the wanna-be-Mihoyos (and Vtuber agencies, I guess?) focus group tested into existence. Edit: got ninja'd.
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 8:51AM
Gray Shadow
Jul 17, 2026 9:53AM
^^Okay have fun continuing to be wrong on the internet
FluffyCow
Jul 17, 2026 10:55AM
Damn, “Arks Knight” and Vtubers catching strays in this thread makes me sad. Also even as someone that generally enjoys gacha games, and there is Touhou gacha, I know comparing the original Touhou to gacha makes no sense and will piss off a lot of people. That’s just stepping on a landmine for no good reason lol
Lifeisfunguys
Jul 18, 2026 10:19PM
people just have to get the last word it seems
ciurk
Jul 22, 2026 3:02PM
Surprised to see nobody mention that the touhou games do in fact have plot many being pretty interesting. I don't even care about debunking that guy touhou games have neat story especially the more recent ones
RheaBRS Jul 13, 2026 8:28PM
TANLINE YURI!!!!!!!!
Liliaĵa Jul 14, 2026 2:52AM
OkuRin my beloved!
Yuri Yuriyuri Jul 14, 2026 12:02PM
Oh my god they're so hot
BlueishOrange Jul 14, 2026 7:26PM
Rinkuu are so pretty
Lifeisfunguys Jul 15, 2026 1:08AM
peak
Tamahime Jul 15, 2026 9:20AM
It’s inspiring to see a catgirl and a birdgirl getting along so well!
(Birdgirl doesn’t appear to be wearing a bikini bottom under her wrap, there, so it would seem she’s planning on them becoming EXTRA good friends)
last edited at Jul 15, 2026 9:44AM
ninryu Jul 16, 2026 2:03AM
You aren'te familiar with Touhou? Okuu and Orin are both Satori's pets, they're basically family.
Tamahime Jul 16, 2026 9:31AM
I don’t play the games and can’t be assed to keep track of the characters much without an actual (manga/anime) story. I know a few of them from years of fanart (Patchouli, Reimu… some other girls with funny hats…) but for the most part they’re just part of a cloud in my brain labeled “Touhou ships.” XD
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 12:10AM
ninryu Jul 16, 2026 4:14PM
Touhou has several official manga. I think they're all on Dynasty.
Tamahime Jul 17, 2026 12:05AM
Well, I never had any interest in those because:
They're not yuri
They're "stories set in the world of Touhou," not "the Touhou story," which is a distinction WITH a difference to me.
As far as I've ever understood it, Touhou is the progenitor of the "cute girl avatars in a battle game" genre that begat all your Genshins Impact and your Arks Knight and all the rest (which I also have no interest in aside from pretty yuri shipping art). It didn't have any kind of story until fans glommed on to their favorite characters and started making doujin of them.
Speaking, again, just for myself, I don't care about the interrelationships of gacha game characters, v-tubers, and the like. They're just assemblages of traits that designers expect fans to be attracted to and want to collect/follow/whatever. If the couple didn't begin in an actual context with history, continuity, and agency, they're just pretty pictures to me.
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 12:07AM
Gray Shadow Jul 17, 2026 12:44AM
Touhou is...not a gacha game. Not remotely. It's a doujin (indie) game series of bullet hell games made by one guy and it predates gacha games as a concept by way over a decade. Maybe do a quick google search before you act smug and condescending about your superior taste
ninryu Jul 17, 2026 1:20AM
Some people really have a hate boner for Touhou for no reason other it's popular.
Zesc Jul 17, 2026 5:44AM
^^^ I mean there are a lot of things wrong with the above take, but to continue the pile-on: have you ever even seen the original Touhou sprites?
This is Utsuho's official design ... and actually, "assemblages of traits" describes it pretty well. Just not in the way you think.
EDIT: Touhou Wiki is paying the very much pro-fascist monopolist Cloudflare to prevent "hotlinking", meaning you might get an error 403 if you don't use privacy settings/addons to supress Referer (sic) sending. Just copy the URI and open it in a new browser tab.
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 8:37AM
ninryu Jul 17, 2026 7:55AM
Each part of her design has purpose. She's based on the three-legged crow god, Yatagarsu, and nuclear fusion. The arm canon (the "third leg") is a nuclear control rod and the gray thing on her leg is modeled after the "elephant foot" from Chernobyl. Yes, it's busy as hell (heh), but there's a lot of thought going into each character.
Don't get me started talking about Touhou, I can yap about it for days.
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 7:57AM
Tamahime Jul 17, 2026 8:48AM
Holy shit do people take things personally on this site sometimes. These will be the last responses I make to any of this, because the bad-faith interpretations of what I said and pile-ons just aren’t worth the energy, and a new batch of images will be posted tonight to sweep all this away.
I never said it WAS a gacha game, I said that in my view it was the ancestor OF gacha games - simple non-story-based gameplay that provided a framework for a world of cute girl avatars.
How in the world do you interpret anything I said as being “smug” or about my “superior taste?” I went out of my way to explicitly say it simply wasn’t for me personally, and in no way disparaged you or anyone else’s love of the games or any related media.
I don’t HATE Touhou, JFC. I don’t care about it outside of liking the fanart and some doujin with themes that I enjoy. Not partaking in most of the media or knowing the intimate details of the vast army of characters involved is in no way the same thing as “hating” something.
The original sprites have absolutely nothing to do with anything I said. I’m talking about all the character design details, worldbuilding, and relationship tree-ing that have built up around the character via the fandom.
Sure, I in no way am discounting that the designs are deliberate and (for all I know) quite thoughtful in their detail. All the “cute girl army” type media are crafting their characters precisely to attract loyalty and interest from various types of fans.
So yeah, that’s the last I’ll say about this. Good luck, have fun.
Zesc Jul 17, 2026 8:48AM
^^ Exactly. She's a '00s DeviantArt OC meant to appeal to exactly one person: ZUN. You can't compare that to any of the generic, skintight moéblobs Mihoyo and the wanna-be-Mihoyos (and Vtuber agencies, I guess?) focus group tested into existence. Edit: got ninja'd.
last edited at Jul 17, 2026 8:51AM
Gray Shadow Jul 17, 2026 9:53AM
^^Okay have fun continuing to be wrong on the internet
FluffyCow Jul 17, 2026 10:55AM
Damn, “Arks Knight” and Vtubers catching strays in this thread makes me sad. Also even as someone that generally enjoys gacha games, and there is Touhou gacha, I know comparing the original Touhou to gacha makes no sense and will piss off a lot of people. That’s just stepping on a landmine for no good reason lol
Lifeisfunguys Jul 18, 2026 10:19PM
people just have to get the last word it seems
ciurk Jul 22, 2026 3:02PM
Surprised to see nobody mention that the touhou games do in fact have plot many being pretty interesting. I don't even care about debunking that guy touhou games have neat story especially the more recent ones