#mystias izakaya is also the first touhou game ive encountered that writes the characters as yokai that are just depicted as anime girls | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

kirbyddd · 2 years

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its kind of absurd how far ive made it without becoming a touhou fan

ive always been super inspired by japanese folklore, ive always been super inspired by colorful ornate multilayered costume design with frills to the max, ive always been super inspired by danmaku (the patterns and animations not the gameplay lol), touhou soundtracks have been my goto for inspiration music my entire art life, like 90% of the stories ive written are surreal whimsical mishmashes of wide ranges of paradoxical concepts with heavier undertones, i cut my worldbuilding teeth on reinterpreting scattered shinto mythos as structured spiritual heirarchy the same way tolkien did with european paganism in his early days

but out of everything thats failed to catch me for years, the thing thats finally gonna get me is the game about running an izakaya

i literally cannot resist izakaya and yatai their spirit has occupied a spot in my soul since who knows when i was first exposed to then

#mystias izakaya is also the first touhou game ive encountered that writes the characters as yokai that are just depicted as anime girls #instead of just anime girls with a few yokai traits #its like Ohhhhh i get it now. touhou is supposed to be Spirited Away but with the Moemon sprite mod #in a well written one the moe part is just on the surface and theyre actually just straight up yokai. Bad Ass #but now ive got the conundrum of do i get into touhou or keep distance cause i wanna still write yokai stuff without being influenced by it #then again i think touhou is more wide than it is deep so maybe itd be fine #i already love okami and oreshika #though i resonate far more with Totoro and Spirited Away. shinto lens and dynamics but original mythos with a unique dynamic of its own #rather than literally adapting existing legends #man watching totoro when older and realizing its hidden layer about building an original mythos for a region's forest and wind was amazing #it was like YES i loved totoro when younger and now i find all along it was about the same kinda stuff i write this is where im meant to be

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