I've started reading this week, up until Tojiko's article.
First I'll discuss the controversial issues though:
- The lunar capital and the dragon's palace are different places (Eirin lied to Urashimanoko -- Urashima Taro -- about the Lunar Capital being the Dragon's Palace)
- The *travel* between the moon and earth doesn't seem much difficult to do (lunar emissaries did that, Reisen 2 did that), but it seems that most of the damage Reisen 2 took was from trying to escape from the Lunar Capital. The "it's difficult" thing may be interpreted as the lunarians not wanting the moon to be contaminated with Earth's impurity. About Eirin using the fake moon, (*if* what she said is true, at least), it was to block the way between the moon and the Earth, since there seemed to be the threat of another lunar war (during IN, sort of expanded in SSiB and CiLR), and Eirin could possibly want to avoid having the lunar emissaries coming for her.
- Makai and the former
hell are different places; Murasa, Shou, Nazrin, Ichirin and Nue were ejected from the former hell by the
geyser
, together with the Holy Palanquin ship (r.i.p.), then used the ship to travel to Makai (Hokkai region), the player is aboard the ship during stage 4 as it's travelling to Makai. Some bad endings in UFO iirc have Marisa
, while she was very well able to leave the former hell. (also lol ZUN "having no idea about how Makai was supposed to look like" during UFO's production phase)
- I thought that Suika took a piece of heavens for herself.. by force? Or Tenshi agreed to give her some of her territory.. or had to. Suika > Tenshi.
- Tenshi sounded deceptive when she secretly
, so if the word that "heaven was full" came from her (because I don't remember most stuff accurately when I need) came from her.. maybe she wanted even more territories, or she would plot (alone, or together with fellow celestials) to take the earth's surface (partially or completely) for herself/themselves. Maybe. (what if she and the Namazu from Soku are actually a foreshadowing?)
- the bits about lunarians living as humans are ambiguous, as for example Yukari doesn't consider Eirin (if Yukari isn't lying, I mean) to fit within the youkai society, so, "live like a human" (like Kaguya was said to be trying to live, and socialize more) could mean to live with the manners of humans. But at the same time, it's never stated that they're *not* humans, either. There may be (outside Touhou) indications that Tsukuyomi took with him fellow humans, the purest (or less impure) that he could find (if my memory doesn't betray me yet one more time) to the moon. But.. if you notice for example how Chang'e was made a villain in Touhou, I guess the best measure is to wait for more information.
- I don't know how Fujiwara and ninja are associated, but the Fujiwara clan was (it seems) very influential during the Heian period, politically speaking.
- Miko's mention about how Futo
burnt a temple is (very *probably*) her explanation about why her own temple got destroyed, in real life.
Next, the stuff from the book. I don't have much to say, except that
- I tried to read Kisume's article, but it's still untranslated. (like other articles as well)
- I liked the lots of new information that seem to add to the existing lore, for example, how tanuki have turned into complete humans at the outside.
- Mima could summon
lightningz!1!11- personally I think that this is a great time for people to start trying to write fanfics or even develop fan games (that try to use canon information), at least until another major source of canon information comes (like, for example... a Super BAiJR Hatate Edition)