The first Malaysian Touhou doujin booklet, only at DFC booth this CF weekend. Get it while it's hot~

Touhou has one of the fastest growing fanbase in Japan. It's one of the more popular bullet-hell games, and coined the term danmaku shooter. To quote anon: "Even the bullets shoot bullets!" (this is not true, but you get the idea). It's produced by Team Shanghai Alice, which in reality is a one-man studio.

Part of why it grows so fast is because of its semi-C.C.-like licensing. Basically you can make any form of derivative work from the games as long as you:

1. Credit ZUN as the original creator


2. Do not claim it as an official work


3. are not making it for commercial mass production

And the rule also applies to the derived work. Sorta like GNU-GPL in a way I guess.

In short, it gives doujinkas a heckuva leeway. Not just for mangakas mind you, but for amateur game makers and musicians as well. So you are able to make use of existing material to sell to an existing fanbase that would in turn help expand the vibrancy of that fanbase and attract more people to the series.

Anyway, the incredibly large roster of characters has developed the need for canon and fanon. Touhou is one of the few trends where usage of fanon is widely accepted (other non-Touhou examples would probably be like the gender-bended Haruhi Suzumiya version of Kyonko's design for example).

Let's take one character, Cirno as a sample. In canon she's some ice fairy who first appeared as a stage boss in the sixth game.

( Long blablabla (with videos!) Not for the time-impaired )

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The melancholy of that song haunts me to do a pic from one of the poignant moments in the vid.


If I were just to say it was a fan-art of Cirno, it wouldn't make much sense. Thus all that trivial stuff beforehand is necessary to explain the progression. Hope you guys now appreciate as to how Touhou really works. :)

More conceptualising Elrona. This is now officially my most undecided what-and-how-to-do-it project yet.

Doodled during a drink-and-draw session with Ezel & Keiichi of CF, Alan Quah, Sheldon Goh, Hafidz Mahpar, Faisal Tan and Muid Latiff. Also some band played Latin music in the background. Nice time had by all. Attended a Pekomik meeting before that.

Ganked from piratelicker...
• Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper on their LiveJournal.
• Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
• Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!




Windows 7 desktop is actually one of the wallpapers on rotation from the Nanami Madobe theme. I made the Ubuntu wallpaper combining the ubiquitous logo with the Ubunchu gang. Normally I just use Windows' default scenery wallpapers, but was using the Win7-tan theme for kicks. Since Win7 had some anime thing going on, I decided Ubuntu should get the same treatment instead of it's I'm-so-serious theme. There's loadsa icons on the Win7 desktop, but very little on Ubuntu, because I don't have that many Linux stuff anyway. :P

Finished watching Ghost Hunt yesterday, and the second last story arc about a huge manor that used to be a hospital/orphanage (Thief 3's the Cradle?) renovated into some bizarre surrealist dream was among the creepiest anime I've watched. It was genuinely scary at times, which is hard to do considering the medium it is in. Wonder why there's no season 2 being made, this series definitely deserves it.

I'm following Kobato, because Madhouse seems to have gotten it right, judging from the not-over-the-top first two episodes. I also like the concept of a mahouless mahoushoujo in this. Will maybe continue watching Haruka Nogizaka's Secret 2, although that first episode is low in lolz, although I did appreciate the weird Excalibolg insert.

In the trial list are: Kimi ni Todoke, The Book of Bantorra, Darker Than Black 2, To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, and Sasameki Koto for teh lulz.

Alice and Kev has ended! While the ending is quite open (literally), it was a pretty remarkable story, since I keep seeing Sims 3 as a game and play it like so. This guy set up a simulation of a homeless family in it, seeing through the lives of sims that don't have any simoleans. How will they eat? Where do they sleep? Do they even have a life?

One of the most profound and eye-opening gaming blogs I've ever read.
Alice and Kev

Nitori in her undies(?) running on treadmill. Play the Juuden-chan ending theme in the background for maximum efficiency.