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I will admit that I'm relatively new, only two years in, and I did misunderstand a lot, but I'm not that ignorant.
>probably because you don't actually know where it's from and have just repeated something you read
I know where it's from and why I might've misundertood it. Picrel is also from there and from it, just like from other earlier printworks and interviews, Touhou seemed like a different setting than what we got later. Like you've said, outdated info.
>the games and the printwork have the same overall tone
The newer ones do, the earlier games felt like they had at least some contrast with the then current printworks, cementing the whole "fake conflict" premise. I think the divergence started to become less and less apparent since BAiJR. Then again, I could've misunderstood those as well.
>If you only care about the series for its gameplay why are you even in a thread literally called "ZUN and canon"
I honestly don't know. I've been coming to these threads ever since I've read all of the official printworks except AFiEU, and all I've got for it were migranes, "stick-to-canon-or-die" autism infection, and a lack of grind. It wasn't fun or educational in the slightest, yet I keep coming here for some reason.
Slightly off topic, but in case this isn't just bait and you really are just someone more educated in lore, what exactly am I missing here? Even among fans so dedicated they've learned japanese to read the source material there's no concensus on whether Touhou is grim or not, or to what extent. Any time I reread printworks I just come to the same conclusions, and the usual arguments (holidays and festivals, youkai trade, best medicine in the world, divine blessings, people seemingly content in the manga) just don't seem enough to consider it balanced, it's at least 65% grim, I think. But again, I'm pretty new, and there are some knowledgeable fans that still hold the opposite or, at least, less severe opinion, so I must be not getting something, right?