(long snip, including Japanese discussion)
First off, if ZUN is just not going to reply, why is it in his guidelines to contact him for grey cases that aren't covered in the guidelines? It's awfully poor to say "please contact me" and then...well, not be contactable. Or at least odd. ZUN's copyright statements (and I'm reading them *right now*) say to *ask his permission.* I think someone who does this should explicitly answer instead of A) hoping that a lack of response is taken as a no, which is in no way clear because ZUN receives a zillion emails I'm sure, or B) leaving people hanging until the project kinda gets swept under the rug when he would have said yes. Yes, ZUN can do what he wants. No, I think "radio silence" is not good form here.
Two: the complaint from Yonjin about ZUN not allowing animations does not apply here, to be a bit pedantic. It's specifically 2d animations, and *explicitly* not 3d-rendered ones, that matter. This is in the actual copyrights document: "* By this I mean so-called "traditional cell animation"; computer-generated 3D animation and 2D illustrations with special effects processing aren't included in this restriction."
This is computer-generated 3d animation. It's not under that restriction.
Three: Wow, this all escalated quickly. People said "Saijee, you need a small demo," and Saijee obediently rushed to make it...now you're all complaining that he was spending too much time doing the demo you told him to make, when he blasted it out as quickly as he could, as per your instructions. So he rushed the small demo, and now everyone's demanding he just shut down everything and quit all this before he gets a response at all, if he will. You asked him to be proactive and try to have discussions, and then you got mad when he did and claimed he's totally wrecking the hell out of the Western fandom forever. I'm unsurprised he isn't back here yet, because you all look like you will never be satisfied with anything he's doing. Nothing he does is good enough it seems.
IF ZUN says yes, he says yes, if ZUN says no, he says no. I'll throw out the horribly unpopular opinion here and say Saijee should see this through to a response, and then behave accordingly from there. ZUN is the lord of Touhou. ZUN is the one who matters here. And I would love to see the folks complaining in the East keep an open mind and give this kind of thing a chance. Saying "I'm glad there is international fandom but they have to do it our way" is...well, closed-minded if you ask me. (And I'm talking about the other folks involved in the conversation over there, not ZUN, since he hasn't said anything on the matter that we know.)
There is no guideline on Western indie style efforts, and I really think this whole debacle, once it's over, will have done us some good if a conclusion on that matter happens. Otherwise, it's a big hole waiting to be filled.