/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>13102461
Oh no, Kosuzu is becoming a satanist.

>>13102465
I'm digging Marisa's design here.

The crow strikes again?

>>13102480
Ha, Pedobear made it to Gensokyo.
About time.

And that's it i guess.

Really like the art.

So, more usual Touhou flowchart.

AN ANCIENT EVIL AWAKENS
AND ITS QUICKLY EXTERMINATED
NOW HAVE THIS LAST PANEL OF GIRLS BEING CUTE

Not that I dislike this.

>>13102610
>implying anyone care about what a namefag thinks

>>13102502
"Silly youkai, you have no right to live unless you look like a little girl."

>>13102617

>>13102476
That's one damn serious Reimu

>>13102610
Can't wait for that butthurt shitposter to flood the thread as usual.

>>13102778
This chapter is so bland even the most faithful FSfags won't try to defend it.

>>13102797
Oh here you are.

>>13102778
>>13102812
Did you get a sick burn in one of previous threads? I don't understand why would you post this otherwise.

And if you just want to troll, I would wait for a thread with translation.

Bump.

I will just wait for it all to finish to read.

Waiting for individual chapter is a real killing.

More on the evil wizard Youkai

You may use your imagination on what happened to KSZ

>>13106465
is that the Count in Touhou?

>>13106465
Looks like the Count with a silly hat

Dammit I though Mima was gonna come back.

The evil-wizard-youkai guy reminds me a lot of the silhouette in the 14.5 demo. Hmh.

>>13106479
Mima is an evil wizard, so maybe it's Mima's Dad

He looks like that dude from Chargeman Ken

>>13102667
That's because the ones that are little girls play by the rules.

The ones that get killed/sealed tend to be the "I'M GOING TO TAKE OVER/DESTROY THE EARTH/KILL ALL THE HUMMENZ" type.

>>13102458
and now we wait for translation, I wonder how much we are going to wait this time.

>>13102458
fuck I am 3 chapters behind in this one.

>>13106923
>Utsuho wants to destroy the world at one point
>Seija wants to rebel against the system.

And yet these guys are still alive.

>>13107092
They played by the spellcards rules.

>>13107100
Except Seija. She says fuck you to the rule at 14.3

>>13107111
>>13107111
And she managed to survive.
Seija > old wizard youkai

>>13107111
Seija was being hunted that time, and wasn't doing anything bad. But more importantly, cute little girls are rational people who can be reasoned with.

>>13107190
>But more importantly, cute little girls are rational people who can be reasoned with.

Only if they're 2D.

The explanation given in >>13102515 is that village humans aren't allowed to turn youkai.

That'd make Reimu not just a murderer, but also a species traitor.

>>13107111
Seija won all her battles. That kinda raises your survival chances.

>>13107190
>cute little girls are rational people who can be reasoned with.
Clearly not Reimu.

>>13107459
>Seija won all her battles
Only if you finish the game.
Otherwise, she get captured and ends up in Yukari's Fun Dungeon of Torments and Tortures.

>>13102458
>put black paper behind page
>scan it at such a low dpi that it doesn't even matter
>saved in RGB

For what purpose

>>13107497
>saved in RGB
Amateur job.

holy shit guys I dunno about you but I wanna impregnate akyuu!!!!!

>>13107497
Go ask that at Futaba. Clearly the westerners master race are good at computers than them.

The art in this has really gone downhill huh

>>13107497
Yours may have a cleaner white, but it lacks of some detail too.

>>13108623
No, it doesn't. Stop confusing fading for details.

>>13102458
How many months until translation?
Also you're crazy if you think he's not the shadowy character in ULiL.

>>13108582
Nah, it doesn't.
I fail to see any noticeable drop in quality.

>>13108948
You're extremely slow if you don't know that shadowy figure from ULiL is Hanako (from the toilet). How did you manage to avoid all the spoilers? I bet you don't even know that Mokoushit is playable in ULiL.

>>13109005
>Mokoushit
Now you've done it.

>>13108948
This particular story has absolutely nothing to do with ULiL

>>13109005
>>13109319
Cap this post and set it as your wallpaper so your screen can burn as much as you will when the game comes out.

>>13108725
Please stop confusing contrast for quality.

>>13110277
You obviously don't know anything about scanning. The raw scans in >>13102458
do not look like the actual manga page in terms of contrast/tones. That happens when scan anything - a photograph, a comic page, a piece of notebook paper. The color and contrast will always be off due to the way the scanner exposure works. The image scanned will always look lighter than it is in its original form. Get rekt little nyuga

>>13102495

>>13110317
This has been explained to retards like you thousands of times already, but I'll be nice and do it once more. Halftones are not supposed to be perceivable to the eye. They represent shades and gradients in a medium that does not have enough different colors to represent them directly, and they look like shades and gradients when you look at the sheet of paper that has them printed over. If they didn't, they wouldn't be used in the first place.

For all its low quality, the original scan shows shades and gradients as they're supposed to be seen. Your destruction of it does not. It's not just a loss of detail (though that's also a problem, of course) - the real problem is a loss of clarity. Making halftone patterns perceivable (which is pretty much all you've accomplished, aside of pumping up contrast much above what even a highest quality paper could achieve) makes it harder, if not outright impossible, to perceive what they're supposed to represent.

>>13110954
>Halftones are not supposed to be perceivable to the eye
Dumbest shit I've read all day. Manga uses screentones. Not halftones, this isn't a technicolor comic. You can post again once you've actually held a physical manga and scanned it. Until then, fuck off.

>the original scan shows shades and gradients as they're supposed to be seen.
It looks exactly the same as the leveled pages. You can see the screentones in the original scans.
>It's not just a loss of detail
There is no loss of detail. Or clarity.
>Making halftone patterns perceivable
Leveling does not make screentones more perceivable. It affects contrast only.

Your entire post is full of shit and wrong on literally every point. Congratulations.

itt people who have never held a physical book in their hands trying to tell others what to do

>>13106469
>>13106465
It's like one of my shonen fighting manga

>>13106465
Kosuzu rape doujins when

>>13112288
>Manga uses screentones. Not halftones
Potayto, potahto.

>There is no loss of detail. Or clarity.
>Leveling does not make screentones more perceivable.
If your eyes automatically smooth the picture, maybe it's time to have them checked.

>It affects contrast only.
You did not just affect the contrast. You wouldn't be able to just affect the contrast, since the scans are already highly contrasted between black and white. What you're doing is removing the midtones. And since the resolution of the scanner does not align with the resolution of the printing press, most of the midtones are found on the edges between black and white parts. This means less detail, visibly jagged edges and, in the worst case, a disgusting moire where the halftones used to be.

>>13113365
>Potayto, potahto.
No, they are literally two different things. Just fuck off. You obviously don't know anything.

Reimu's ofuda is like fucking hand grenade.

You stick it to them youk and it fucking explodes.

>>13112597
Soon™

>>13113448
The hell is a Fucking Hand Grenade? Do you count to three, or to five before throwing it?

How to fix /jp/
Everyone use a name
Everyone use a trip

>>13113457
>How to fix /jp/
>turn it into a forum
Go away FSS. We get it that you're mad about motk banning you, but we're not going to slaughter /jp: for your convenience.

>>13113449
It makes youkai explode and me all giddy.

i just want to see more chapters of kasen giving lectures to people not living their life correctly.

is that too much to ask?

>>13113487
This is not Wild and Horny hermit.

>>13113487
In that thread? Yeah.
Kosuzu and Akyuu are cuties, I want to see more of them.

>>13113491
Hey I made that joke first! I'll sue you!

>>13113491


fuck youre right.

what is this manga even about.

>>13113506
It's about that girl who really likes books in the human village.
>>13113499
Please forgive me.

>>13113468
>fss
nope
>slaughter
nope
Think how much better /jp/ would be if that scanning retard could be completely filtered in all threads from this point on? Better than word filters, better than recursive hiding, and anyone dumb enough to keep replying to him can also get caught.

>>13113533
So we should turn /jp/ into a forum because you don't like someone?

>>13113533
We have a janitor for deletion of flame, off-topic and troll posts.
Well, had.
I think he died because I see drastic drop in amount and quality of moderation since the beginning of 2015. And we don't have moot to complain about it anymore.

>>13113764
It's a good thing, perhaps we're finally free.

No one translates the official Touhou mangas anymore?

>>13113829
I guess primary people who can read Japanese won't bother translating it and keep it for themselves.

>>13113777
No. Go full mod or go home. Not this rusky roulette garbage.

>>13113953
God no, it's like we're saying we should go full retard instead of half retard.

>>13113829
The guy who translates them has been having more and more trouble getting his hands on them.

>>13113901
>>13114011
I see, thanks. Is that somewhat related with the decline of Touhou popularity that's been happening recently?

>>13114131
>Touhou popularity decline
Citation is needed man.

>>13114148
You mean it never happened after you know what arrived and dozens of people who made fanworks migrated to that?

>>13102458
I would love to take part in the discussion but I dislike reading/watching/playing unfinished stuff.

>>13113533
People will always reply to retards. Think of all the people who are dumb enough to talk to you.

>>13106465
>>13106469
A is for Ass

>>13107459
How is she a species traitor? It's a youkai that died, she's not betraying anyone.

>>13106465
Oh I get it.

If you're a male youkai, you die, if you're a female youkai, you don't.

>>13107190
>and wasn't doing anything bad
she stole items and caused an incident by lying to others.

>>13107459
Then why hasn't she killed Byakuren, who was a villager-turned-youkai?

>>13115654
Statute of limitations. You can't punish someone for something she did several hundred years ago.
Though I agree that Gensokyo would be a much better place if Byakuren was killed by Reimu.

>>13115677
Futo please.

>>13114011
But he's skipping chapters that have been around for ages. Find a better lie.

>>13113764
How to fix 4chan
Bring back the text boards
Remove the blue board concept
Make the extension accessable from the front page.

>>13113764
you can use 4chan.org/feedback to complain about things, and not everything you dislike is a troll post, grow a thicker skin

>>13115677
>Statute of limitations. You can't punish someone for something she did several hundred years ago.
now you're just looking for excuses that don't exist in Gensokyo.

>>13102476
>>13102502
>>13102515
>>13106465
Suddenly Reimu becomes super cool. Harukawa even made this common >>13110317 shot in particular where one character is serious and the other one is barely keeping up, looking silly.

Guess it's because she's tackling an incident and it's not a cute girl behind it this time but rather count Dracula.

>>13113448
kasen's arm was blown to bits by touching reimu's yin yang balls.

>>13113487
>kasen giving lectures to people not living their life correctly.
And instead lie to them all the time?

Can't wait for the end where she's finally found out and gets a gohei up the butthole as retribution.

>>13115623
In Gensokyo, youkai are privileged, while humans live in a ghetto, kept in eternal XIX century for the sole reason of preserving an ecosystem of belief that keeps youkai alive.

As it turns out, Reimu is a kapo who prevents other humans from leaving this ghetto.

>>13117355
Murdering someone who means you no harm and only asks to be left alone is not what I'd call cool.

>>13121407
Reimu is the oppressive force that stops the residents of Gensokyo from fulfilling their true destinies as salarymen and OLs.

>>13121407
>youkai are privileged, while humans live in a ghetto, kept in eternal XIX century for the sole reason of preserving an ecosystem of belief that keeps youkai alive.
How is murdering a youkai, i.e: HER JOB, which even youkai themselves accept and like, traitorous? The traitor is the villager that turned youkai, just like Byakuren, who wasn't killed by Reimu for some reason despite being one of the biggest threats to her job.
>Murdering someone who means you no harm and only asks to be left alone is not what I'd call cool.
It's a youkai, a human traitor at that, it deserves to be exterminated, and what makes Reimu cool is how she looks through all of this, no other touhou has been this cool.

>>13121428
you don't have to be a youkai for that.

>>13121407
>youkai are privileged
you what.

there are laws that say youkai have to be beaten up, they can't do as they please (like say, eating humans) anymore, they are shunned by humans and are hanging on a thin thread of existence, if the barrier were to go down or if humans stopped giving a shit about youkai, they cease to exist.

privileged my ass.

>>13121449
If Byakuren could be killed in the first place, you'd assume people would do it the first time around rather than sealing her in a comfy corner of Makai. But I digress.

We're now seeing exactly why the upper-class youkai accept and like Reimu's job. They're safe behind their centuries of tradition and immortal bodies, not to mention spellcard rules, while their pet miko runs around destroying human dissent and any potential competition to their reign while it's still young and vulnerable.

>>13121475
That's like saying you can't do as you please because you're not allowed to endanger the ecosystem by hunting protected species of animals. How about everything else?

>>13121533
>If Byakuren could be killed in the first place
Why wouldn't she be? There's absolutely nothing implying she's the least bit immortal or resistant. All she has is youkai status, which as you can see in this chapter isn't much of a protection when it comes to Reimu.
>rather than sealing her in a comfy corner of Makai.
Sealing someone for eternity is far worse than death. Ever heard of Garlic Jr?
>We're now seeing exactly why the upper-class youkai accept and like Reimu's job.
Except it's every youkai, even the lowest of the low: fairies.
> any potential competition to their reign
what.
>How about everything else?
Read the whole post next time, it is everything else, there are laws that say they should be brutalized and their existence removed any time they're spotted, they are persecuted beings just like jews in WW2 and christians in their early days. Thing is Reimu has a soft spot for youkai, this chapter is for some reason is the first time she has actually done her job as it really is and should be, mercilessly.

maybe she just likes girls.

>>13121614
>Why wouldn't she be?
Again - she's still alive despite some people really wanting to get rid of her. Why would she be still alive if it was possible to kill her?

>Sealing someone for eternity is far worse than death.
Unless they take it easy and use the opportunity to do some training. We're talking about a buddhist monk here. Buddhist monks are perfectly happy to seal themselves and meditate until nirvana.

>Except it's every youkai
Except it's not. Just the strong ones. The weaker youkai fear and despise her.

>Read the whole post next time
You should consider that maybe the parts I did not reply to might have been not worth replying to. "There are laws that say youkai have to be beaten up", really? There are laws that say they can do as they please (as long as they don't harm humans physically) and will only face a danmaku match in response. I could go on, but what's the point.

>they are persecuted beings just like jews in Israel
Fixed it for you.

>>13121896
>>Except it's every youkai
>Except it's not. Just the strong ones. The weaker youkai fear and despise her.
???

>>13121925
The fairies are a special case. And that was long into OSP, after they've been living near the shrine for years. Look what they thought about her in SaBND.

Also, PMiSS:
>strong youkai tend to like her, while weak youkai fear her
It doesn't get any more explicit than that.

>>13121974
>ナイフは血の通わない金属ですから had been translated as "the only thing I touch humans with would be my cold steel"

>>13121896
>Again - she's still alive despite some people really wanting to get rid of her
They wanted her to suffer for her betrayal, again, sealing eternally is far worse than death. Stop making meaningless assumptions, she's not immortal in the slightest.
>Unless they take it easy and use the opportunity to do some training
Too bad this isn't the case seeing as how she didn't do squat for 5000 years.
>The weaker youkai fear and despise her.
Please, look at the fairies, don't try to cheat by saying ''eh those are an exception''. All the weak youkai still show up at the parties in her shrine, including the ones that aren't even about food like the halloween one where Cirno was dressed as Godzilla.
>You should consider that maybe the parts I did not reply to might have been not worth replying to.
Oh so you're saying ''I can't counter-argue them so I'll discard them''.
>really?
Yes, that's why it's not only allowed but ENCOURAGED for people to beat up youkai, especially Reimu who's job is just that.
>Fixed it for you.
Thanks for agreeing that youkai are in the shitter in terms of respect and are actually hunted down, their genocide is a human goal.
>>13121974
Read the manga, their whole purpose in life is to be acknowledged by Reimu, and they achieve it in the very end, in this case the mere fact of becoming Reimu's SERVANTS is enough to make them happy.

Fearing a guardian means you respect their strength enough to consider them a threat to your abilities.

>>13121974
>It doesn't get any more explicit than that.
ZUN himself says Akyuu is full of shit, and you can confirm that with >>13121925. You do know Akyuu hates the shit out of youkai (except Yukari, or at least, she doesn't show it and is just trying to survive), remember that FS chapter where she angrily denies Kosuzu's claims that a youkai might just so happen to be innocent?

>>13121896
>she's still alive despite some people really wanting to get rid of her. Why would she be still alive if it was possible to kill her?
You're goddamn stupid, would you make your enemy's suffering end instantly or make him suffer for all time?

Also remember how news of a youkai getting exterminated is something either ignored or praised whereas news/rumours of a human getting attacked is an emergency.

>>13121974
>The fairies are a special case
look closer, it's not just the fairies.

>>13122203
>Stop making meaningless assumptions
Said a person who thinks seclusion is a punishment for a Japanese buddhism practitioner.

>she didn't do squat
She did lots of squats. And push-ups. And a magical scroll made of pure sutras that makes her body invincible at will.

>All the weak youkai still show up at the parties in her shrine
I'm not sure what's that supposed to prove. The fairies made her a fair because they wanted to cheer her up, which is a valid example of them liking her - but the others simply being at the shrine when there's a party means nothing other than they like parties.
Again, refer to >>13121974 for a glimpse of what youkai who aren't reckless or self-assured think of Reimu.

>to beat up youkai
In a firework throwing contest, you conspicuously forgot to add.

>Thanks for agreeing
It dawns on me that you have zero reading comprehension.

>Read the manga
Touhou has manga?!?

>>13122229
>ZUN himself says Akyuu is full of shit
He didn't really.
Akyuu herself did in-story, including an explanation of why and how. It's not a free "ignore everything she says I don't like" card.

>Akyuu hates the shit out of youkai
Nope. She's just adamant about keeping appearances.

>>13122253
I would get rid of my enemy in a way as quick and permanent as possible. Anyone who isn't a movie villain tier idiot would do the same.

What is happening in this thread?

>>13122565
ITT successful grimdark troll is successful.
He even invoked godwin's law.

>>13121449
>just like Byakuren, who wasn't killed by Reimu for some reason despite being one of the biggest threats to her job.
Byakuren isn't a threat to Reimu.

>>13121533
>If Byakuren could be killed in the first place
Could be killed is different than is practical to be killed.
>destroying human dissent and any potential competition to their reign
yes because human dissent was definitely the only problem here

>>13121614
>Why wouldn't she be? There's absolutely nothing implying she's the least bit immortal or resistant.
They didn't have the ability to kill her because youkai are stupidly tough and regenerate. It's much easier to use some magic shit and seal them. This is the case for basically every youkai during the era of human exterminators pre-Gensokyo.

>there are laws that say they should be brutalized and their existence removed any time they're spotted
no there aren't jesus christ

>>13122229
>Akyuu hates the shit out of youkai
Akyuu writes a book specifically for the purpose of pumping up the danger of youkai for the benefit of humans and youkai alike? Yeah she must fucking hate their guts.

Both of you are being completely insufferable. Goddamn.

>>13122506
>Said a person who thinks seclusion is a punishment for a Japanese buddhism practitioner.
You seem to think that sealing in an alternate dimension for eternity is the same as the traditional, non-fantasy concept of seclusion. You do know that Byakuren thanks the heroine for unsealing her? And who knows what that seal was, it could have been a miniature confinement with eternal torture.
> a party means nothing other than they like parties.
You don't seem to understand that the sheer fact that they're going to a party of a ''MERCILESS MURDERER'' means something? You wouldn't go to a party hosted by Ed Gein would you?

Also haven't you noticed that the ''youkai who aren't reckless or self assured'' you refer to are the very same fairies who explicitly like her and made that festival out of the blue? They surprised her and pleased her.
>In a firework throwing contest
What? No, it's all the time, look at Marisa in stage 4 of IN, hunting youkai is a sport just like hunting animals in the real world, except is the season is all year long.
>He didn't really.
He did, check ZUN's word at the end of PMiSS.
>Akyuu herself did in-story, including an explanation of why and how.
Bullshit, the fairies contradict what she says, as does every weak youkai since they visit her and aren't running away in fear instead like Akyuu claims.

cont.

>>13122506
>Nope. She's just adamant about keeping appearances.
Okay first of all Kosuzu is the last person Akyuu needs to keep appearances with considering Kosuzu is the one defending youkai in this case and her close friend, not to mention, at the end of the chapter whatever adamant appearance she needed to keep was thrown away by Akyuu saying she was wrong and Kosuzu was right right in the open.
>Anyone who isn't a movie villain tier idiot would do the same.
Well in this case it's a whole village of extremely honoraboru japs who are offended by treason more than muslims, you know why there has been so many creative, horrifyingly painful methods of execution throughout history rather than just opting for the fastest, most painless one? Remember crucifixion? That was made for the sole notion of keeping the criminal writhing in pain as long as possible before he died of blood loss.

Seriously, I can't believe you deliberately ignored the above and opted for making some crazy shit about immortality, especially back then when youkai murder was the most common thing and no spellcard bullshit either.
>>13123042
>Byakuren isn't a threat to Reimu.
Yes she is, holy shit, she's the biggest threat to her after the moriyas and has the ''villager-turned-youkai'' sin which seemingly warrants death.
>than is practical to be killed.
Reimu would objectively be in a better position if Byakuren was dead because it means one less religious group to compete with.

cont.

>>13123042
>They didn't have the ability to kill her because youkai are stupidly tough and regenerate
What, you think youkai weren't ever able to be killed before Reimu? If anything the shrine maidens before Reimu were the ones killing youkai instead of befriending (the girls anyway) them. It's not just the shrine maiden who could kill youkai either, it's anyone with spiritual power (everyone who can do danmaku has spiritual power).
>no there aren't jesus christ
As I said Marisa is practicing youkai hunting in IN stage 4 and the act of exterminating youkai is something that is praised. Meanwhile every 1-2 WaHH/FS chapters there's something that merely MAY endanger a human and suddenly it's an emergency.

It's not just humans who encourage youkai brutalizing, it's also other youkai, see: IN and SA where Reimu and Marisa's youkai partners ask and even force them to beat up whatever youkai they find and call them an enemy if they aren't, see: Yukari with Yamame and Satori, especially Satori who offered tea to Reimu and she accepted before being denied by Yukari.
>Akyuu writes a book specifically for the purpose of pumping up the danger of youkai for the benefit of humans and youkai alike?
How is it benefitting youkai? If anything it's making them more feared which affects their human relationships, look at Yuuka who does shopping in the human village, her article in PMiSS is bad propaganda for her image.

Also the mentioned FS chapter where she's PISSED at youkai being ''good''.

>>13125685
>it could have been a miniature confinement with eternal torture
But it was not, and she emerged from it happier and stronger than ever. Fact.

>MERCILESS MURDERER
More like a bully and occasional mugger. The recent merciless murder is kind of a first for her, no reason to believe it applies to regular youkai with so much prior evidence to the contrary.

>hunting youkai is a sport
Just like tennis. You know Reimu and Marisa mostly have danmaku matches between themselves, right? It's a convenient conflict resolution method.

>check ZUN's word at the end of PMiSS.
Sure, let's check.
>an objective rather than subjective point of view was the goal
>those who have the most realistic perspectives on things are, as expected, the humans of Gensokyo, with their optimal levels of judgment and reasoning. For that reason, instead of myself, I had Akyuu come forth.
I smell irony, but if you want proof of Akyuu's unreliability, you're better off checking her own words.

>>13125709
>Kosuzu is the last person Akyuu needs to keep appearances with
You misunderstand. She insists that Kosuzu keep appearances. Ordnung muss sein, she wants to preserve the integrity of Gensokyo's society. They even specifically discuss how Reimu is exempt from hating on youkai due to not being a villager.

>Akyuu saying she was wrong
Only that never happened, stop making shit up.

>Remember crucifixion?
A case of a certain Jewish sect guru aside, crucificion was a perfectly effective execution method. Sealing is clearly not.

>''villager-turned-youkai''
Byakuren is not from Gensokyo, and the village likely didn't even exist at her time.

>>13125741
>Marisa is practicing youkai hunting in IN stage 4
And half of the bosses are "practicing" human eating in their respective stages.
>Of course, you're all smart players, and you won't take everything they say literally...

>How is it benefitting youkai?
They feed on human belief (more specifically, fear). They need to be feared. They're keeping human population in the village like herd animals for this sole purpose.
That's a fundamental part of the setting. Do you have any idea about Touhou lore at all?