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mgosdin
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 Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 8:20 am
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Touhou seems to be making itself at home here in North America, I was at the MegaCon earlier this year and was looking over a collection of Touhou character figures at a dealer's table. I ended up talking with a cosplayer from Hong Kong who was saying that there were more figures, including some rare & collectible, than what he could get in the stores back home.
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leafy sea dragon
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 12:16 pm
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Is this the first commercial western release of a Touhou game?
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BodaciousSpacePirate
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 12:54 pm
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| leafy sea dragon wrote: | | Is this the first commercial western release of a Touhou game? |
Touhou 14 had a digital-only western release through Playism in 2015, but as far as I know, this is the first physical media release (although this game is technically a Touhou fangame, and not a canonical part of the ongoing storyline).
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Cyberphobe
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 2:57 pm
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Doesn't surprise me Flandre was chosen. She's continued to be one of the series most popular characters despite the fact that she's been rarely seen in the series.
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Polycell
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 3:10 pm
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| mgosdin wrote: | | Touhou seems to be making itself at home here in North America, I was at the MegaCon earlier this year and was looking over a collection of Touhou character figures at a dealer's table. I ended up talking with a cosplayer from Hong Kong who was saying that there were more figures, including some rare & collectible, than what he could get in the stores back home. |
There are a bunch of Touhou figures; I ended up buying a Remilia and a Yuyuko figure just because I liked the way they looked. I never ended up playing the games, which means this is my first Touhou purchase since those two figures - and just now was the first time I realized it was PS4-only.
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Arakiba
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 6:52 pm
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| Cyberphobe wrote: | | Doesn't surprise me Flandre was chosen. She's continued to be one of the series most popular characters despite the fact that she's been rarely seen in the series. |
To be fair, that's true of a good amount of the cast. Some just show once or twice and are still fairly popular.
And I mean, this is the fandom that latches onto nameless/artless midbosses (i.e. Koakuma, Daiyousei). We're a weird bunch, Touhou fans.
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leafy sea dragon
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 7:47 pm
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| Arakiba wrote: | | To be fair, that's true of a good amount of the cast. Some just show once or twice and are still fairly popular.
And I mean, this is the fandom that latches onto nameless/artless midbosses (i.e. Koakuma, Daiyousei). We're a weird bunch, Touhou fans. |
Having been a fan of The Simpsons, South Park, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and One Piece, all of which have had random rarely-seen characters become very popular weith their fanbases, I assure you that behavior is definitely NOT weird.
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