Miscellaneous Questions Thread 2 (Please look here before anywhere else)

[Zil]

It's bullet cancel items piled on top of each other.

[Drake]

The yellow ball is just a bunch of the yellow point items on top of each other. They come from canceled bullets, which tells you why they often show up when bombing large fairies and such.

EDIT: DAMN IT ZIL

[Delfigamer]

No plurality modifier in japanese. Youkai.

I meant "youkai", not japanese 「妖怪」.  :yukkuri:
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Well, what does vsync patch do?

[PJ]

I meant "youkai", not japanese 「妖怪」.  :yukkuri:

The plural is still youkai  :V

Well, what does vsync patch do?

With VSync disabled, the graphics card may try to show more than one frame at once. When that happens, you have "screen tearing", where different sections of different frames are shown at the same time. VSync fixes this.

[Drake]

He's talking about the patch for Touhou, so it's the opposite. The Vsync patch eliminates said vsync caused by your graphics card in order to preserve game fluidity, because vsync, while useful, causes input lag due to the program having to stall processing to match it.

[Goldom]

Question: the wiki has (what seem to be) ZUN's comments on every single spellcard in the series. IN has these shown in spell practice, but where are they coming from for the rest of the games?

[Arcorann]

Every enemy Spell Card in the game has been cataloged in this list. Each one contains a screenshot, the name in both English and Japanese, where you will see it, and a few unofficial comments from our writers.

Any spell card comment that doesn't have an original Japanese version is unofficial.

[Alfred F. Jones]

Question: the wiki has (what seem to be) ZUN's comments on every single spellcard in the series. IN has these shown in spell practice, but where are they coming from for the rest of the games?

They don't. As I understand it, the wiki editors just added them as flavour text.

[Goldom]

Ah, I'd never been to the root page for them to notice that comment. Thanks.

[Sungho]

Just to confirm, the Moriya in Mononobe no Moriya has absolutely no relations to the Moriya in Moriya Suwako or whatever it was based on, and is a simple coincidence, right?

[cuc]

It's just a coincidence. Mononobe no Moriya's name is written 守屋, while the Moriya god/Suwako is 洩矢.

The Moriya Shrine in real life is 洩矢神社, while the Touhou version is 守矢神社. ZUN changed one character, simply to differentiate the fictional shrine (which hosts both Kanako and Suwako) from reality.

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No plurality modifier in japanese. Youkai.

Youkaitachi

[Ran-Rii]

But technically, Yokai-tachi will be a direct first person reference to the Youkai, like Kisama-tachi or Tomodachi... And canonically Yokaitachi never appeared, so...

[_cf]

But technically, Yokai-tachi will be a direct first person reference to the Youkai, like Kisama-tachi or Tomodachi... And canonically Yokaitachi never appeared, so...

妖怪達も ヨッササ

Is IOSYS canon? The Internet seems to think it is.

[Tengukami]

You're aware that IOSYS likes to use a lot of comedy in their lyrics, right?

[_cf]

You're aware that IOSYS likes to use a lot of comedy in their lyrics, right?

Yep. And yet, they're a huge force into creating the secondary memes. Or were, there's quite some time I don't see an IOSYS video go viral.

Time for a miscellaneous question, then: Did IOSYS treat TD? I was reading Fightest music thread and got sad for not knowing catchy remixes of Miko and Mamizou's themes. To this day I can't hear Eirin's, Kaguya's or Tenshi's themes without remembering the popular remixes. This is lacking to the most recent games. I even used to feel the same about Byakuren, but this is fixed now.

[Ikari]

I've got a few random questions about the threads sections' names. The questions are pretty silly.

1) First of all, why ''Dayousei's Cold Storage''? Wouldn't Cirno work better?

2) Secondly, why ''Letty Journal?'' I mean, why Letty of all people? (...My hypothesis being that it's a LJ joke)

[Tengukami]

I've got a few random questions about the threads sections' names. The questions are pretty silly.

1) First of all, why ''Dayousei's Cold Storage''? Wouldn't Cirno work better?

Because what is now the Shrine Maiden Caf? used to be called Cirno's Perfect Math Class. As most archive-worthy threads arose from CPMC, calling the archive after Daiyousei made the most sense.

2) Secondly, why ''Letty Journal?'' I mean, why Letty of all people? (...My hypothesis being that it's a LJ joke)

Well, the acronym is LJ, i.e., like LiveJournal, a place for angsty, no-one-understands-me blog posting.

[Ikari]

Because what is now the Shrine Maiden Caf? used to be called Cirno's Perfect Math Class. As most archive-worthy threads arose from CPMC, calling the archive after Daiyousei made the most sense.

Aaah, that makes a lot of sense! Thanks for the information.

Well, the acronym is LJ, i.e., like LiveJournal, a place for angsty, no-one-understands-me blog posting.

As I thought. I'll just never be able to remove the idea of Letty writing in a journal while whining about how everyone calls her fat.

[cuc]

Just to confirm, the Moriya in Mononobe no Moriya has absolutely no relations to the Moriya in Moriya Suwako or whatever it was based on, and is a simple coincidence, right?

It's just a coincidence. Mononobe no Moriya's name is written 守屋, while the Moriya god/Suwako is 洩矢.

The Moriya Shrine in real life is 洩矢神社, while the Touhou version is 守矢神社. ZUN changed one character, simply to differentiate the fictional shrine (which hosts both Kanako and Suwako) from reality.

Huh, I knew I forgot something important. While in real life the Moriya god and shrine are both 洩矢, their priest family is called 守矢. The Moriya clan is by tradition descendants of the Moriya god, and very likely the ancient rulers of the Suwa region, before they were conquered by the Yamato people (mirrored in the mythology of Take-Minakata and the Moriya god). In fact, Sanae's given name is taken from the Moriya family's current matriarch, 守矢早苗,

The real life Sanae Moriya, 78th generation leader of the Moriya clan


As an interesting side note, according to one Wikipedia article on a certain Moriya priest of the 16th century, there actually had been a rumour in history that the Moriya clan was descended from Mononobe no Moriya, whose family members might have changed their names to escape persecution. So the medieval Japanese noticed this coincidence too.

[game2011]

So she's, you can say, real-life Sanae, right?

[Ikari]

I knew she only dyed her hair! 

I'm tempted to go see that woman and ask her to bring me to Suwako...

[cuc]

I have just read a story saying ZUN intended TH4 (Lotus Land Story) to be the last Touhou game and the end of his doujin career. But on his way back from Comike, inspiration for more music struck him, so he made TH5. Can anyone verify this story?

[Delfigamer]

I have just read a story saying ZUN intended TH4 (Lotus Land Story) to be the last Touhou game and the end of his doujin career. But on his way back from Comike, inspiration for more music struck him, so he made TH5. Can anyone verify this story?

I can verify he had drunk beer.

[cuc]

Nope, it's completely untrue. How can someone fabricate a story like that?

[Tengukami]

Where did you even read this?

[cuc]

I saw it on the Chinese Wikipedia entry for Touhou Project, and the source is a rather low-quality article about Touhou that originally appeared on a Chinese fantasy magazine in 2008.

In China, the better Touhou articles are generally found on anime magazines.

[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

"Better" in what sense?

[Arcorann]

I have just read a story saying ZUN intended TH4 (Lotus Land Story) to be the last Touhou game and the end of his doujin career. But on his way back from Comike, inspiration for more music struck him, so he made TH5. Can anyone verify this story?

http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Mystic_Square/Music#Stage_1_theme

What was that about "completely untrue"?

[cuc]

http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Mystic_Square/Music#Stage_1_theme

What was that about "completely untrue"?

Thank you! That's exactly the help I needed. I stand corrected.

"Better" in what sense?

Well, just speaking of that article: its author was blatantly making stuff up when writing about the PC-98 games. That's why I found the article untrustworthy at first. It turns out the author did get this particular story right though  :V.

As for the anime magazines in China... Touhou is huge in the Chinese anime fandom, so there are a lot of people who are fairly knowledgeable about it.