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I wanted to see if the Touhou Sort updated with Ten Desires characters and Kasen (and Hatate and whoever else I'm missing) but when I went to look, alas it had not been updated in ages...so I did the Japanese version! The artwork on the Japanese one appears to choose a random image from Pixiv to represent the character, or rather the most recent as many images changed especially when I went through voting on the more popular characters. Since it's all in Japanese I will simply put the top twenty-five or so of my results.
1. Minamitsu Murasa
1. Houjuu Nue
3. Kamishirasawa Keine
4. Fujiwara no Mokou
4. Komeiji Koishi
6. Nazrin
6. Toramaru Shou
8. Hijiri Byakuren
9. Yakumo Ran
9. Komeiji Satori
11. Shikieiki Yamaxanadu
11. Reiuji Utsuho
13. Saigyouji Yuyuko
14. Miyako Yoshika
14. Mononobe no Futo
16. Yakumo Yukari
17. Mizuhashi Parsee
18. Kochiya Sanae
18. Moriya Suwako
20. Inubashiri Momiji
21. Alice Margatroid
22. Tatara Kogasa
22. Kasodani Kyouko
24. Usami Renko
25. Kaenbyou Rin
I imagine Mokou would do that if she were the only one there capable of saving people. She does guide lost souls through the Bamboo Forest after all. It is also because I played waaaay too much Touhoumon the night before and Mokou is my starter, so I kind of run through everything with her. The reason I'm noting this dream particularly isn't because it's a Touhou dream. (but that helps) It's that, as far as I remember, I haven't had a purely good dream in a rather long time. Lately I've either been having ridiculously bizarre dreams or nightmares, which I find rather weird. (Before I started having nightmares, I hadn't had any since I was a child...so it was strange)
S'all from me. Spotto out.
1. Minamitsu Murasa
1. Houjuu Nue
3. Kamishirasawa Keine
4. Fujiwara no Mokou
4. Komeiji Koishi
6. Nazrin
6. Toramaru Shou
8. Hijiri Byakuren
9. Yakumo Ran
9. Komeiji Satori
11. Shikieiki Yamaxanadu
11. Reiuji Utsuho
13. Saigyouji Yuyuko
14. Miyako Yoshika
14. Mononobe no Futo
16. Yakumo Yukari
17. Mizuhashi Parsee
18. Kochiya Sanae
18. Moriya Suwako
20. Inubashiri Momiji
21. Alice Margatroid
22. Tatara Kogasa
22. Kasodani Kyouko
24. Usami Renko
25. Kaenbyou Rin
Notice there are zero EoSD characters here, ohohohoho! In fact, I like (57) Edo Explosive Pawn more than (62) Flandre Scarlet! That was only because the image for that character looked like Shanghai so I thought it was Shanghai, and accidentally gave it many votes. (I like Shanghai more than Flandre Scarlet. Alice made my top 25 too, all due to Morino Hon's Omoito series [NSFW ads, so have adblock if you for some insane reason do not already]) The only other oddity besides nice placings from a few TD characters is Keine taking that third spot Koishi had for over a year. I'm sorry Koishi, I am finding myself going for the Keine tag before even yours. Otherwise all is very predictable and not too much new from what I gather. Either way I shall note any major discrepancies from my first Touhou Sort to now!
Suwako used to be in my top ten all those months ago and I know exactly why. First, I came into Touhou thanks to the fighting games and I enjoyed using Suwako in UNL or Hisoutensoku or whatever the name of that game is most commonly called now. Not only that, but she had a nice design, a really awesome theme, and I read some pretty well-done doujins of her backstory, which were recommended to me on TvTropes' fanfiction recommendation page. However as time went on, she didn't really get...better, I guess? I couldn't find reasons to like her even more and then other characters simply surpassed her. Nothing negative really went into her fall from 7th to 18th.
Yuuka was once in my top twentieth, but took a major plunge. I don't think I know why, actually. I may have enjoyed some Yuuka-centric 4komas back then, and my opinion of her hasn't really changed all that much. She isn't a favourite nor do I dislike her, so she's just there for me. She just happened to fall, I guess.
Flandre took by far the hugest dip in my rankings from 15th to 62nd. I had her higher than even Remilia that time simply because I was a new Touhou fan and all new Touhou fans are by law supposed to like the EoSD characters. However as time went by I found nothing special about Flandre, and so she went down the most. The rest of the cast are okay, but the game itself went down as time went on. I just do not care for this game whatsoever, oh well.
Wriggle also fell substantially, but she was up high at first due to Touhoumon and her saving my ass several times, so yeah. After that nothing came to mind that made Wriggle special.
Tewi also fell...I never was too fond of her. The Eientewi video helps though as I love singing the song, and for a moment my friend Souless liked the character too, and when friends like characters they tend to go up, but as I went through fanon the only constant personality for Tewi was being an asshole and that's not all that appealing sadly.
The playable characters (bar Youmu, she just stayed where she was) all went up. In the beginning when I liked EoSD there are always the even more popular characters I must not be quite as fond of...just to spite them or something. I dunno, I have that way of thinking for pretty much anything I like. Maybe I am that unpopular shallow and childish wannabe secretly PARU-PARUing them all and then jumping the gun for underdogs, but I love Reimu, Marisa, and especially Sanae far more now. I think I was with a large amount of the western hatedom Sanae had in the beginning, but realized that my hate was foolish and petty, and so it was vanquished.
Orin shot up thanks to a multitude of reasons, such as having ridiculously awesome themes, being liked by a friend, the manga Chirei De, and all that jazz. I think she was only low in the beginning simply due to my dislike of her hair style. Braids and straight fringes aren't really my thing, but even so she's too awesome to have such a low ranking and thus her ranking soared.
Finally, the biggest jump in rankings from 34th to 3rd is one Keine Kamishirasawa, and in a more minor jump, 14th to 4th for Mokou. I've always liked Mokou. It's kind of hard to dislike Mokou, what with her badass motif, her pants, her phoenix, her fire, her eternal grudge against Kaguya, her tragic backstory, etc. However for Keine in the beginning I never cared for her, not one bit. The reason she jumped up? I call it the Aoi-dono Phenomenon, where she uses her amazing powers of charisma to hypnotize my mind to like her favourite characters. She did this before with Mariam and Yuuna. But rather than throwing all blame onto Aoi-dono, it's more like she opened my eyes to the potential of the characters that she liked. After all, we do share a few more interests than a lot of other friends I have. So for Keine, I realized that she had an awesome hat, awesome colour scheme and design, and even turned into a were-hakutaku. She was more than that teacher archetype doujin after doujin shoehorned her into! Her themes are awesome, especially her stage theme and she shares an epic theme with Mokou as well, which I also sing over and over and over again! But ultimately, the reason she shot up was the pairing, MokouKeine. The most adorable pairing ever, even more than PinkieShy which I said before and it still stands.
See the strange thing is, MokouKeine is the pairing that goes with the pattern of why I like pairings. I liked KazuSayo because it was adorable and heartwarming. I like PinkieShy for the same reason. I like practically every pairing for the same damn reason; it warmed my heart and made me aww. Yet my favourite characters in Touhou are not Mokou and Keine, there are two above them. They are called Minamitsu Murasa and Nue Houjuu and with the release of SOPM, their reputations and personalities are more tarnished than ever.
Yet they are first, amidst all the patterns and similarities of what I like counted up. Murasa is a jackass murderer who might as well have the personality of a psychopath. Nue is a remorseless and rebellious prankster. I call them the children or idiots of Myourenji, but they're my favourites, no matter what fanon or canon does to them. If I find out Murasa still goes around dunking people's heads in water, I'll consider that pretty awesome rather than "that's pretty fucking horrible" and if I find out Nue...well, if I find out anything new about Nue at all, I'd probably take it in stride as well. And the pairing, MuraNue. Even if MurasaxIchirin makes more sense in my little stupid pattern thing, even if Mamizou the tanuki got introduced, I'll still like MuraNue anyway. Even if the two never even interact in canon! The pairing is still feasible, it's just not as apparent as Mokou and Keine! They are the exception!
I mean really, I wonder. If I wanted a more immature pairing filled with hate and disdain, why not swap it? Why not like MokouxKaguya and MurasaxIchirin instead!? I DON"T KNOW. I wouldn't be able to tell you why I like Murasa and Nue so much. Yes there is some dude (or girl iunno) in the western fandom who pretty much controls the character of Murasa with their outrageous pieces of artwork and comics, but I've developed my very own headcanon for the two characters, so while that artist may have jump-started the interest, I fuelled the ship the rest of the way myself. I don't know why or how this even works, but I love MuraNue...for no reason at all.
Sorry for that rant coming out of nowhere, had to finish it somehow. P:
I shall end this rather silly and unnecessary post (like all my posts, really) with a ridiculous dream I had!
Suwako used to be in my top ten all those months ago and I know exactly why. First, I came into Touhou thanks to the fighting games and I enjoyed using Suwako in UNL or Hisoutensoku or whatever the name of that game is most commonly called now. Not only that, but she had a nice design, a really awesome theme, and I read some pretty well-done doujins of her backstory, which were recommended to me on TvTropes' fanfiction recommendation page. However as time went on, she didn't really get...better, I guess? I couldn't find reasons to like her even more and then other characters simply surpassed her. Nothing negative really went into her fall from 7th to 18th.
Yuuka was once in my top twentieth, but took a major plunge. I don't think I know why, actually. I may have enjoyed some Yuuka-centric 4komas back then, and my opinion of her hasn't really changed all that much. She isn't a favourite nor do I dislike her, so she's just there for me. She just happened to fall, I guess.
Flandre took by far the hugest dip in my rankings from 15th to 62nd. I had her higher than even Remilia that time simply because I was a new Touhou fan and all new Touhou fans are by law supposed to like the EoSD characters. However as time went by I found nothing special about Flandre, and so she went down the most. The rest of the cast are okay, but the game itself went down as time went on. I just do not care for this game whatsoever, oh well.
Wriggle also fell substantially, but she was up high at first due to Touhoumon and her saving my ass several times, so yeah. After that nothing came to mind that made Wriggle special.
Tewi also fell...I never was too fond of her. The Eientewi video helps though as I love singing the song, and for a moment my friend Souless liked the character too, and when friends like characters they tend to go up, but as I went through fanon the only constant personality for Tewi was being an asshole and that's not all that appealing sadly.
The playable characters (bar Youmu, she just stayed where she was) all went up. In the beginning when I liked EoSD there are always the even more popular characters I must not be quite as fond of...just to spite them or something. I dunno, I have that way of thinking for pretty much anything I like. Maybe I am that unpopular shallow and childish wannabe secretly PARU-PARUing them all and then jumping the gun for underdogs, but I love Reimu, Marisa, and especially Sanae far more now. I think I was with a large amount of the western hatedom Sanae had in the beginning, but realized that my hate was foolish and petty, and so it was vanquished.
Orin shot up thanks to a multitude of reasons, such as having ridiculously awesome themes, being liked by a friend, the manga Chirei De, and all that jazz. I think she was only low in the beginning simply due to my dislike of her hair style. Braids and straight fringes aren't really my thing, but even so she's too awesome to have such a low ranking and thus her ranking soared.
Finally, the biggest jump in rankings from 34th to 3rd is one Keine Kamishirasawa, and in a more minor jump, 14th to 4th for Mokou. I've always liked Mokou. It's kind of hard to dislike Mokou, what with her badass motif, her pants, her phoenix, her fire, her eternal grudge against Kaguya, her tragic backstory, etc. However for Keine in the beginning I never cared for her, not one bit. The reason she jumped up? I call it the Aoi-dono Phenomenon, where she uses her amazing powers of charisma to hypnotize my mind to like her favourite characters. She did this before with Mariam and Yuuna. But rather than throwing all blame onto Aoi-dono, it's more like she opened my eyes to the potential of the characters that she liked. After all, we do share a few more interests than a lot of other friends I have. So for Keine, I realized that she had an awesome hat, awesome colour scheme and design, and even turned into a were-hakutaku. She was more than that teacher archetype doujin after doujin shoehorned her into! Her themes are awesome, especially her stage theme and she shares an epic theme with Mokou as well, which I also sing over and over and over again! But ultimately, the reason she shot up was the pairing, MokouKeine. The most adorable pairing ever, even more than PinkieShy which I said before and it still stands.
See the strange thing is, MokouKeine is the pairing that goes with the pattern of why I like pairings. I liked KazuSayo because it was adorable and heartwarming. I like PinkieShy for the same reason. I like practically every pairing for the same damn reason; it warmed my heart and made me aww. Yet my favourite characters in Touhou are not Mokou and Keine, there are two above them. They are called Minamitsu Murasa and Nue Houjuu and with the release of SOPM, their reputations and personalities are more tarnished than ever.
Yet they are first, amidst all the patterns and similarities of what I like counted up. Murasa is a jackass murderer who might as well have the personality of a psychopath. Nue is a remorseless and rebellious prankster. I call them the children or idiots of Myourenji, but they're my favourites, no matter what fanon or canon does to them. If I find out Murasa still goes around dunking people's heads in water, I'll consider that pretty awesome rather than "that's pretty fucking horrible" and if I find out Nue...well, if I find out anything new about Nue at all, I'd probably take it in stride as well. And the pairing, MuraNue. Even if MurasaxIchirin makes more sense in my little stupid pattern thing, even if Mamizou the tanuki got introduced, I'll still like MuraNue anyway. Even if the two never even interact in canon! The pairing is still feasible, it's just not as apparent as Mokou and Keine! They are the exception!
I mean really, I wonder. If I wanted a more immature pairing filled with hate and disdain, why not swap it? Why not like MokouxKaguya and MurasaxIchirin instead!? I DON"T KNOW. I wouldn't be able to tell you why I like Murasa and Nue so much. Yes there is some dude (or girl iunno) in the western fandom who pretty much controls the character of Murasa with their outrageous pieces of artwork and comics, but I've developed my very own headcanon for the two characters, so while that artist may have jump-started the interest, I fuelled the ship the rest of the way myself. I don't know why or how this even works, but I love MuraNue...for no reason at all.
Sorry for that rant coming out of nowhere, had to finish it somehow. P:
I shall end this rather silly and unnecessary post (like all my posts, really) with a ridiculous dream I had!
I went to Toronto to visit my brother, and started walking on this large modern bridge. (perhaps an overpass from the airport? I'm not entirely sure. We're pretty high up as far as I know.) As we walk I run into my friend from Toronto, Akira. We chat for a bit and I decide to go with her and her companion downstairs. My brother stays upstairs for one reason or another. We decide to take the elevator down, keep in mind we're on the top floor. Suddenly, the elevator breaks down and rather than just not being able to open or falling dramatically, somehow it ends up hanging off the outside railing by the cords. (I have no clue) We are hanging there in sheer terror, the cords threatening to snap when FUJIWARA NO MOKOU comes to save the day! She somehow uses her amazing strength to bring our hanging elevator shaft to the top of a factory-building with its pipes and stuff, and presses a button that opens the floor of the elevator, where we step out. Then Hatate, who must've been there to cover the story or something, ends up getting entangled in the cord and falling between the oversized pipes of the old building, all the way down. Luckily, as a tengu she survives and we leave the area all happy, the end.
I imagine Mokou would do that if she were the only one there capable of saving people. She does guide lost souls through the Bamboo Forest after all. It is also because I played waaaay too much Touhoumon the night before and Mokou is my starter, so I kind of run through everything with her. The reason I'm noting this dream particularly isn't because it's a Touhou dream. (but that helps) It's that, as far as I remember, I haven't had a purely good dream in a rather long time. Lately I've either been having ridiculously bizarre dreams or nightmares, which I find rather weird. (Before I started having nightmares, I hadn't had any since I was a child...so it was strange)
S'all from me. Spotto out.
