Mima Love?

[iK]

Yay we have a mima cycle that's awesome.  Kind of want to read over another mima thread now.   :V

http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,12034.0.html

Here's a recent thread that turned into Mima-matic shenanigans quickly. Just do a CTRL+F for Mima and behold.

[Moerin]

Yay we have a mima cycle that's awesome.

Is it bad that the first thing I thought of when I saw this was Mima riding a motorcycle?

...Mind you, that would be awesome, so.

[haoreos2]

Is it bad that the first thing I thought of when I saw this was Mima riding a motorcycle?
...Mind you, that would be awesome, so.

Considering she has no feet, does that mean she'd be almost horizontal, just holding on to the handlebars?
She races towards the cliff at 200kmph, her enemy hovering over Gensokyo unaware of her presence. Nearing the cliff, she slams down the breaks and releases her hold, arrowing towards the unwary fool, slamming into her at great velocity mere moments later.
As Mima somersaults onto her bike straight from the assault, a quiet sound can be heard from the unfortunate victim, almost lost in the roar of the engine, itself drowned out by the sound of sheer style; "Dude. So awesome," she breathes.

Google images gives me no images of biker mima. I am disappoint.

[iK]

No results for Mima+Motorcycle on Danbooru either.

Quite Disappointing- TAKE THIS; IRON FIST.

[game2011]

Considering she has no feet

Mystic Square, 'nuff said.

[Aba Matindesu!]

> how many Mimas can fit into a game
i read this the same way one would read "how many people would fit in a car"

anyway minecraft has

Spoiler:

not

4815162342 lines of code so replace every line with a "draw mima" function

[PhantasmStardust]

So I wonder how you all found out about Mima and came to like her?

For me it was that Twilight Spark video and I liked the bgm, so I found out it was Reincarnation, then I found out she was linked to Marisa as her possible Teacher.

[DeltaSierra4]

So I wonder how you all found out about Mima and came to like her?

For me it was that Twilight Spark video and I liked the bgm, so I found out it was Reincarnation, then I found out she was linked to Marisa as her possible Teacher.

As a Touhou fan who got into Touhou after playing all the danmaku games, I grew fond of her after playing PC-98 games. I'm not exactly fond of Reimu (or the PC-98 Marisa), so if I had to choose a character I like from the PC-98 cast, Mima had to be one choice.

[Skyler]

I've never played the PC-98 games (I want to, but I don't know where to get them or how to set them up) but I like Mima because I tend to like prankster-ish characters. She also seems rather sinister, and I like that too.

I knew she existed, but I wasn't that interested in her at first, until I heard Reincarnation. I liked it, so I looked up more information about her. I went through a stage of really really liking her and now I just think she's cool :V

[shadowbringer]

Is it bad that the first thing I thought of when I saw this was Mima riding a motorcycle?

...Mind you, that would be awesome, so.

is it bad that I'm now imagining Mima riding a motorcycle while Judas Priest's Painkiller is playing?

Yeah I still don't get Mima?  She's not part of the window series yet I see she's very popular for some reason.   Yeah I would really love to know because random people in English and Japan love Mima a lot.  Anybody care to explain why everybody loves her?

I don't understand how Mima's fandom goes in the west or Japan, I guess I can't help you about how others view her, at least not without speculation, sorry. The fanworks (games, 4koma, doujinshi, fanarts, mods, not sure if there's more) featuring her seem to be difficult to analyze, regarding the topic's subject, either, because it seems difficult to me to try to find out
1) if Mima is a necessary character in a story/game/drawing, what made the author choose her;
2) if she's optional (not necessary for a game's plot, even if she may be an unskippable boss, for example), what made the author choose her as well.

Maybe (maybe) she gives enough room for people's creativity, maybe people have their own reasons for liking her (being, despite the boastful attitude, someone seemingly even more determined than Marisa, for example

Spoiler:

unless PC-98 Marisa wasn't as determinator-ess as her Windows self

, also being the closest thing Touhou has to a wizard, also being the only akuryou-type *character* featured in the games, the astrology theme, and the possibility that she gets to fight Reimu again, or Marisa, or liking her personality).

IdiotsOpposite: Oh, don't get me wrong, remaking old threads once in a while is probably good if anything. Like telling an old joke to a new crowd, you'll probably get at least a few people who haven't heard it before, and everyone who has can just turn their attention elsewhere. Besides, it's kind of ridiculous to expect someone to go through an entire subforum to see if the topic was already made.

also, threads that are unused for 14 days in TARC are locked.


Personally, I'd like to know more about her past (*if* possible), before she stopped being an evil "evil spirit". What (besides her *coughagecough*) made her become an evil spirit, and what made her change her "evil" personality. Also, more info on her concept (and later, Marisa's in SoEW) would be welcome. *If* possible.

[Drake]

I think Mima in SoEW turning into the Mima in PoDD and on is heavily influenced by ZUN's desire to make Touhou into a relatively carefree, whimsical and silly series. Reimu was quite carefree already, and Mima turning from an "evil direct antagonist" into "I can't even remember why I'm evil anymore, also I'm not actually dead jeez!" and the like for basically every character in PoDD sort of suggests that.

[iK]

So Mima's basically Team Rocket.

Glad we got that figured out.

[Cosmosis]

I have no clue who Mima is or what role she played in the old games, but after watching this Walfas, I began to like her anyway.

[Drake]

but that's probably one of the most terrible representations of mima ever ;;
(and basically every character that showed up)

[Lessens]

those faded (watercolour?) drawn pictures.

Looks like pastel, or maybe just plain colored pencils.

[iK]

Looks like pastel, or maybe just plain colored pencils.

Aoshi must have some awfully soft coloured pencils to get solid looking colours.

Also yes, that grossly 1-dimensional depiction of the characters was...uh

grossly 1-dimensional.



Huh, my diction was nice, but then I ran out of lexicon.