Thread 49629031

im going insanae

good luck, don't get lost

>>49629031 (OP)
novideo miko

>>49629090
miko hatsune

>>49629031 (OP)
It starts with one, one thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to explain in due time
All I know, time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day, the clock ticks life away
It's so unreal, didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryna hold on, d-didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard, and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter

>>49629123
that's beautiful anon thank you

>>49629090
RTX on

>>49629031 (OP)
>insanae
go back to r/2hujerk and don't come back retard

>>49629123
Realistically speaking, does Sanae listen to Linkin Park?

>>49629354
While your accusations probably aren't entirely unfounded, that joke's been around for more than a decade. There's even a comedy doujin named "Ridiculously Insanae" that consists of a couple pages of ridiculously insane things happening. Par for the course for someone with no common sense.

>>49629361
Off course!

>>49629354
You seem rather knowledgeable about them and their lingo

>>49629369
>comedy doujin named "Ridiculously Insanae"
Somewhat younger than Sanae-san gunning for the pope, which doesn't use that joke, but it has insane Sanae too.
I now wonder what's the ratio of doujins with eccentric Sanae to straight up insane depictions.

I'm going IN sanae

>>49629760
How? She wasn't introduced until MoF.

>>49629361
Not sure how popular Linkin Park was in Japan. It’s more likely she listens to Asian Kung Fu Generation.

>>49629712
I feel like most comedy doujins that involve Sanae make her completely batshit crazy and turn up the eccentricity to max, which I love. It somehow fits her to do retarded nonsensical stuff.
>>49629806
There's a mod you can get for IN which replaces Remilia&Sakuya (I think?) with Sanae&Suwako. I forget if they play any different.
>>49629927
Oh hey, I actually like those guys.

Can someone redraw this with Sanae saying "I'm going inSanae"

>>49629031 (OP)
I lost a big chunk of sanaety from the lack of a green girl thread, I don't remember anything from the time between the last archiving and this one being made. How do you guys cope?

>>49629123
I googled "retro console" on Ebay for funsies after seeing picrel. Would you believe me if I said the second result was a Wii? Plenty of Dualshock 3s below that...

>>49632260
I did the same and the first result is a DS
IT'S NOT FUCKING RETRO THERE IS NO WAY THAT IT'S RETRO YOU CAN'T PUT THAT SHIT NEXT TO THE GAMEBOY

>>49632260
I would in fact not believe you as it was the third listing after a Game Boy and a shitty Chinese handheld NES clone

>>49632339
>Console bundle RETRO
I'm fucking losing it

>>49632180
I'm on it Chief

>>49632180
Done.
>>49632291
How are you going to feel when people start using that term for something like the 3DS?
>>49632339
>BOXED Nintendo Wii
>Was: $149.95
Sanny does not deserve to see what the older console market has become. Or maybe she would? Not sure actually...

>>49629123
The 360 is 20 years old already, pushing on 21. I'll never call it retro, but game stores are going to start doing that...
Speaking of consoles, what consoles would Sanae own?

>>49633006
Its... Peak... I Used to work at an E-Recycler and we had a shelf dedicated for Wiis, One day I just sat down and factory reset all of them and we sold them for like 20 bucks a pop... Most had controllers and all of their accessories and there were a few in box. For one of the best selling consoles in the world I can't imagine why people are spending that much for them...

>>49632260
I generally like big breaks between threads, and this one wasn't even that long.
>>49633030
As soon as you slap the epithet "retro" on something, you make it have some sort of value. I guess this one IS boxed, but even then the price seems too high for something that anyone can get for cheap. It's pure goods peddling.

>>49633006
Cute Sanae with an even cuter frog headband

>>49629031 (OP)
>im going insanae
insanae/sanae

>>49633006
very good

>>49633023
>what consoles would Sanae own?
A Wii and a PS2 are some of the obvious ones but I'd like to think she also managed to get her hands on a GameCube as well. I'm tempted to say 64 and PS1 too but that might be a stretch, maybe one or the other when she was little.
For handhelds I think she'd strictly be DS and GBA, she might have a few original GB games but she just strikes me as that kind of purist is all. Slightly unrelated but I also think she'd be a fan of the Switch and be the kind of girl to have one of those colored plastic see-through Macs of her time at home.
Would she have bothered to hold on to something like the Super Famicom though, or maybe even any Sega consoles? Sanae playing the Dreamcast does sound cool in theory imo.
>>49633030
>>49633100
Thank you both! I'm honored, muchos gracias
>One day I just sat down and factory reset all of them and we sold them for like 20 bucks a pop
>Most had controllers and all of their accessories and there were a few in box.
I'm sure to the people that managed to buy what you fixed up you seemed like a saint. I have a few GC games that are still marked at around $20 or even $15, big titles for the system too.
Where did it all go so wrong...

>>49633147
20 bucks is about what they were worth at the time. IDK why they were left to sit on the shelf for so long, especially since most of them worked completely fine. I wanna say the in box examples were sold for like 40 or 50 bucks, but still not the ridiculous sum people are asking now. the worst part is most of em getting sold for these outrageous fees are just gonna sit on some man child's shelf and never actually get used.

>>49633508
Sanae is cultured and makes sure to use her retro consoles at least three times a week so they still feel loved

>>49633552
If you don't play games on your old consoles regularly they'll turn into tsukumogami. Please don't anger your PS2.

>>49633552
Wii port of 2hu when

>>49633556
>If you don't play games on your old consoles regularly they'll turn into tsukumogami.
They will turn into one anyway, once they hit enough years. The question is whether your consoles will be of depressed, clingy, unfashionable types, or youkai with healthy personalities.

>>49633630
Well, yeah, they get a soul after 99-100 years if I'm remembering correctly, but the vast majority of myths are of them hating their owner and people in general for being abandoned. You just ought to make sure your PS2 loves you in the end.
And Kogasa is very fashionable, despite what Sanae may say.

>>49629031 (OP)
I hope you sanaety eventually recovers.

>>49636236
I'm afraid the damage is irreversible. There's nothing we can do.

>>49629031 (OP)
voy pereimudiendo

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3200060/SANAEs_sylphid_breeze/
July 10th/11th

Sanae is a bit overzealous in youkai exterminating, but she really is a kind and sweethearted girl you know

>>49636236
Once your sanaety reaches it's end, you're never getting it back.
>>49636628
I played the demo for this too, it was fun. I'm glad Sanae's getting a cute game like this one.

>>49636628
sanae super star? this looks sick

>>49638653
I wanna wife her!

>>49638862
Sanae, please don't hang out with anyone from the Sonozaki family. You're going to start learning some gruesome things if you do...

Do you think Sanae-san is okay with Suwako-sama and Kanao-sama doing this to her as they please?
I'm not talking about her growing used to it. I'm asking if she really thinks it's okay and she really is fine with it.

>>49636628
>2d platformer
Into the trash it goes

>>49639687
It's Kirby, anon. How can you hate Kirby?

I daisuki them video games and shit, desuyo

>>49629031 (OP)
being surrounded by shills blackpillers /pol/bait and retards tends to drive you insanae

>>49639719
I love Sanny but I HATE 2d platformers
She, as a fellow boomer, understand because she knows and appreciates other forms of perspective in gaming

>>49639749
I agree that it's an oversaturated genre, one that I don't even regularly play, but I find it acceptable for this game. I like Kirby, I like Sanae, and I'm willing to let any prejudice against the oversaturated market of 2d platformers go right into the trash if it means I get to play a cute game where Sanae is the main character.
Speaking of platformers... what would Sanae's favorite game genre be? I'm thinking RPG, considering that's the only one she canonically even mentions. I struggle to see her playing something like an RTS.

>>49639779
>what would Sanae's favorite game genre be? I'm thinking RPG, considering that's the only one she canonically even mentions. I struggle to see her playing something like an RTS.
Maybe because I too am inclined to think she greatly appreciates RTS, I believe she'd have a penchant for isometric real time tactics games, such as Commandos or Desperados.
Not naturally tho, but I believe once she was introduced to these kind of games she'd no life them autistically.
Other than that, I see her easily being super into FF, Pokemon, or any stat heavy turn based combat game.

Headcanon here but I can also picture her creating super cute homesteads and farms in games such as AC and Stardew Valley.

>>49639824
Most of the time I just go off of feels, so that's why I said she might not like RTS. Though I do think that RTS does sort of come with the turf of autism, so... possible.
>AC and Stardew Valley
She's a girl, anon. If anything it'd be an anomaly if she DIDN'T like these games.

>>49637271
Yeah, just a bit overzealous.

>>49640270
Kanako-sama's strongest warrior!

>>49639779
I could see her being a connoisseur, though she’s gotta have her mech games.

Dork playing on the gamedork

I love her

>>49637271
Exhibit A: Picrel

>>49643863
Her starry-eyed :D here brings an indescribable joy to me, I want to tackle-hug her onto a bed and pepper her stupid little face with smooches all over until we're both completely exhausted. I love this woman.

Trying to be scary, are we? That's cute, watch this.

>>49649315
Anon I come here to escape from thinking about why it'd be better if society finally just imploded in on itself, not to be reminded of its endless assortment of shackles.

>>49650188
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my Sanae.

>>49629031 (OP)
https://youtu.be/86RjNOA16cA?si=wKXyR0EKqPPCuTTv

>>49646016
Cute maiden easily distracted by cute things

>>49643863
For sure, although I think most mech strategy games are turn based.

Slow day today, huh, Sanae? You lazybones.

Sanae has some really cool art. And somehow, it feels different from the cool art of Aya or the Hifuus.

>>49657239
It's not like this board has fast days.
Also summer sanae.

>>49658212
I feel like a lot of it captures her essence quite well, I have a lot of art like this saved, but I rarely get the chance to post it.

>>49659478
I like this one, particularly.
As for the feeling... a lot of art of this type does just have the character be a small part of the landscape surrounding them, but I feel like it fits quite well for Sanae.
This one I feel captures the feeling of loneliness in a foreign land fairly well, and I imagine that's how Sanae felt for quite a while. Gensokyo was completely foreign and alien to her, an entirely primitive, barren, wild land that she once felt a sense of superiority over but then came to love.

>>49659495
Also a big plus when people portray Moriya Shrine like how Sanae described it in MoF.
>This is the Moriya Shrine, a long-forgotten shrine of the past.
Anyways, that's all from me.

>>49659478
I wouldn't say it captures her essence, I think the cooler art of her often leaves out her cheery attitude. Those landscapes make her look way more detached.
Whenever I look at those images, I am reminded of her stage theme, specifically of its title. She is almost always the subject of her environment, as opposed to a part of it. That part she shares with the other three I mentioned, but where she is unique is in the fact that, while she experiences her environment, she is also connected to it to a much larger degree, being her shrine and all.
At the risk of sounding pretentious, her relation to her surroundings is interesting to contemplate, it's almost zen in a way. She experiences her newfound self, which is that Primal Scene of Japan, which she watches.
I wouldn't say that necessarily makes her better, but it certainly makes her unique.

>>49659743
Sanae is for sure a cheerful and :D character, but that's only part of her. When I say it captures her essence, I mean that it captures the other part of her that's only ever briefly touched on in MoF, where in her omake it says that she was scared to go to Gensokyo, where she thinks that the people are primitive when she arrives. I feel like these images capture that feeling of dread or feeling lost, she's made to be a small, perceiving part of the image hopelessly tiny and overpowered by the wild landscape around her. It all ties back to her stage theme, as you said, "The Primal Scene of Japan the girl saw" (or watched, if that's the translation you prefer), just her, alone, perceiving this land that's completely alien to her, all the while feeling unsure and scared. Later on, that gives way to her completely assimilating and feeling at home in Gensokyo.
So while it may not capture the essence of Sanae as we see her now, it captures the essence of how she was in the past, way back in MoF.

Sanae wants to cosplay, too!

>>49660400
She's so good at it, I bet she did cosplay in the outside world!

>>49660508
She's a weirdo nerd, so it's not entirely off the table. Though she probably just did it for herself...

>>49660547
Agreed, I had a lot of cool outfits as a teen that nobody but my immediate family saw, and I didn't even post them online or go to any happenings. I feel like she has a mahou shoujo outfit lying around somewhere in her old home...

>>49660592
She’s definitely forced her gods to cosplay, too, much to their chagrin.

>>49661152
kanako is a perfect match for haman lol

>>49661152
>>49661822
I'm glad that someone noticed that and drew that image, it fits so well

>>49665989
It’s not the only one where Kanako cosplays Haman. There’s a doujin where Kanako wants to try different haircuts, and the last one is Haman’s cut (at Sanae’s request, of course).

Why is she like this?

>>49669343
Cause she's great and awesome? Are you stupid or something???

>>49669343
She's coping with the fact that she never managed to finish university so she has to flex her intellect on peasants who haven't ever gone to school in the first place
She does this in canon material too she's such a braggart I love her

Man I love ChatGPT

This guy makes cool art, some of it is trippy though

>>49669343
does sanae offer analysis tutoring

my courses next semester use evans and rudin and those books make me want to die

>>49676126
Ordinarily my first thought would be to tell you to just go find Ran instead, but she's not all that accessible... getting to her is a problem of it's own.
Sanae on the other hand is easy to find and she expresses at least twice that she's good at math. Her education probably didn't get that far but hey no one ever taught her about nuclear fusion either and she still knows that, so...
Probably.
>>49674910
I like to imagine that she's very professional in public but extremely autistically energetic in private. Optimistic most of the time, though.
I genuinely don't think she's ever been shown being sad or grumpy.

Isn't it weird how Sanae never talks about her outside world family?

>>49677916
Personally, I've always assumed that they're simply dead and have been for some time.
Sanae is the head of her clan, as ZUN points out in an interview, and the head priestess of her shrine (well, she's the ONLY priestess of her shrine). She has no elders, no superiors, yet someone had to have taught her how to do miracles, as the technique isn't actually written down, going by her character profile.
I'd assume that someone would be her elder, a grandparent or parent considering her family has served the gods of Suwa for generations, yet it's Sanae that's the head of her entire clan.
ZUN's pretty bad when it comes to character backstories so we'll never know for sure, but them being 6 feet under just makes the most sense to me.
Maybe they died when she was really young and she had to be raised by her grandparents until Kanako went to Gensokyo, maybe they died when she was older, etc.

You have my respect if you can name at least half the games in this image

Sanny makes me realize I kind of miss being close with someone. I miss feeling trust and safety, and she seems like the kind of girl who'd understand; she has the kind of hug that could wash away years of built-up cynicism and distrust.

>>49658212
>it feels different from the cool art of Aya or the Hifuus.
True. Aya's art, when it is background/environment driven, tends to have action or turn very picturesque, sometimes with a darker mood due to her being a youkai. There are often other people in the background, angles from bird's-eye view are very common for more than one obvious reason, if the scenery happens to be oppressive, she still looks as if in her element.
Sanae's pictures are more toned down, neither as bristling with energy nor with dangerous undercurrent, more contemplative, but still hopefully optimistic. You can tell this is a girl enjoying the scenery she fits in, on some psychological level. This optimism full of tender hope pushes towards things that are alive but calm, like mountains, trees, bodies of water, composing well with green hair and blue skirt, incidentally.
On this level it contrasts with Hifuu, who are usually either in liminal, decayed environment, or modern, fast-paced city landscape that is not really alive.

>>49684294
I know… I really wish I could have a girlfriend like that.

>>49681928
Destroy All Humans, Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island (I can see the Yoshi in the art), Gran Turismo (not sure which one, but probably 3), Castlevania… can’t tell which entry, I presume the green cartridge is Pokemon Emerald. I can see “Rally” on the bottom cartridge. Not sure what game that is, but whoever drew this really loves his racing games.

>>49677916
They ostracised her after she was caught bad touching her younger brother.

>>49685529
Why would she beat up her brother? What did he do?

>>49681928
I looked up the full resolution image, so here's the games the other anon missed:
Advance Rally
Gran Turismo 4
On the shelf:
Train Simulator Real THE 京浜急行
Road Trip Adventure
Monster Hunter 2
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Devil May Cry (?)
>>49685448
You were right that the guy who drew it really likes racing games.

>>49684355
>composing well with green hair and blue skirt
You're right on this one. I have a lot of images of Sanae in forests, relaxing around rivers in the shade, etc.
She looks like she belongs there.

>>49684355
I don't quite know what this image reminds me of, but there's something amazing about it.

The only flaw with this image is that she’s using a DSi, or maybe a 3DS. She’d have a DS Lite at latest.

Why can't she just be normal?!

>>49691320
How dare she have fun?
But where are they? Gensokyo doesn't have any seas.

>>49691392
Bold of you to assume it's a sea. It could be a lake. They have multiple, and some of them are quite large.

Posting pilot suit Sanae because how come more people haven't though of this before?? It fits her since she's actually a mecha fan
I know lots of artists don't like drawing actual mechs since they just don't know how to and it's tedious to them, but this is fairly simple
>>49691392
Your idea of fun is bringing an AK to a beach?

>>49694057
>Your idea of fun is bringing an AK to a beach?
Only if an APS is not available.

maybe if you got rid of that yee yee ass hair bow you'd get more donations in yo shrine

>>49629031 (OP)
Go insanae then

>>49629119
The full gif. Keep it with you

>>49696566
Well past that point by now
>>49696587
Awesome...

>>49684294
I once met a girl like her, in the church. Hugging her truly was a refreshing and heartwarming thing

>>49696593
I didn't planned to actually enter the thread, so I originally would reply that and go away lmao

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3200060/SANAEs_sylphid_breeze/
ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!
Sanae's game is out!

>>49684294
>she seems like the kind of girl who'd understand; she has the kind of hug that could wash away years of built-up cynicism and distrust.
Shame that girls like that don't exist.

>>49696609
I need that.

>>49698074
Cool. I might not buy it immediately but I've been looking forward to it. This guy's pixelart is very charming.
>>49699222
Gensokyo is real, you just have to own a gun to open the portal to reach it.

>>49698074
tenshi pushed me off the screen and then joined me shortly after, softlocking the game. the final boss chimata pushed me off the edge killing me after i killed her. i couldn't find the ice powerup and i assume there's a fight or something with nazrin i missed too since she's in the background during the normal tenshi fight. i softlocked the nitori mech fight by grabbing the hands with suika's power while i was looking for secrets. the second marisa fight on hard is fucking brutal when you only have the umbrella, i turned on the chicken hat because i'm a bitch.

>>49700691
Oh well, it is one guy after all. Did you contact the dev to let him know?
And was the game actually fun

>>49701016
i only complain if i like something so i guess i had fun.
i didn't see a feedback form other than just shooting it off into the steam forums. no thanks.
the softlocks are amusing and probably won't happen to many other people; you have to intentionally try to bring suika's suplex to the nitori fight. the only thing i really would've liked changed is adding autofire to the shump sections because i was hurting myself doing them but i just found out there's a charge shot that homes and pierces during certain phases where the boss is invincible to normal shots. the store page shows it and the pause menu does too, but if you don't pause during those sections you wouldn't know about it i don't think. owned for not doing a button check.

>>49699443
I'll just wait till overworking does that for me, or maybe yukari will come and deal with it for me....

>>49701390
Just make sure Yukari drops you off somewhere nice and NOT near a bunch of malevolent youkai.

>>49706345
Hey mister. You wanna build Gunpla?

>>49706636
Y E S
What does she have? Probably a bunch of older stuff, I'd imagine...

Summer!

>>49710043
Is Sanae a summer person?

Sanae raped me...

>>49707408
Probably stuff up to mid 2007. Give her a PGU and watch her brain melt.

>>49710405
Summer fits her pretty well since she's energetic and positive and I associate that with summer
If she were in HSiFS, she'd be the summer character too, either that or fall since she works for Kanako

>>49714543
I feel like there's a case for cozy winter Sanae as well: summer is popular girl season, winter is dork hibernation season. A whole three-four months of darkness, cold, and an environment that actively keeps you from going outside. It would be the perfect time for her to stay inside, wrapped in blankets, 100%-ing whatever retro titles she fancies.

Not to mention, winter is the season of hugs and cuddles! With how poorly insulated traditional japanese buildings are, you'd be spending a lot of nights falling asleep wrapped in one another's arms, or sharing a snug blanket on with her on the sofa, made (Ludovico style, if need be) to watch pre-2000's anime with her. (Also, could you imagine caring for Sanny if she ever caught a cold? Kissing her on her little stuffed nose, doting on her as you do what you can to help her through it? Ruffling her hair as she naps, sleeping her way to recovery...)

>>49701390
Remember to ride the train a lot, and make sure to carry two or three unopened Gunpla kits with you at all times. The first you'll do to get where you need; the other you'll do to make a certain girl very, very happy.

>>49636628
Sanaerby
Kirbnae
Sannyrby

>>49714717
Winter fits her interests, Summer fits her personality, she's upbeat and has loads of energy. Though...
I'd love to be sitting next to her, huddling for warmth as we're wrapped in the same blanket and snow is piling up outside. She's playing some retro vidya and I'm probably falling asleep beside her.
>could you imagine caring for Sanny if she ever caught a cold?
I love that scenario. I'm a big fan of doting and caring for people so carrying Sanae to bed, caring for her and helping her get better sounds amazing to me. Giving her snacks and pets and making sure she's nice and snug and comfy is what I dream of.
Building Gunpla with this dork while watching the snow fall outside... I ought to stop writing, I drank aagain and I'm not sure how much longer I can write coheerent sentences.

>>49714717
Well, if you can get in touch with Yukari, you might be able to strike a deal with her to gap over your completed kits and supplies.

Sanae is retro

Imagine receiving a confession letter by Sanny-chan

>>49723805
I tear it up in front of her, then wipe a tear off her cheek and tell her "I'LL KILL YOU". Dramatic music plays as I walk away.

>>49724484
I open it up in front of her, wipe a tear off my cheek and tell her "I LOVE YOU!". Sappy music plays as I hoist her up into my arms and bridal carry her into the sunset.

>>49724484
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOO
I AM RIGHT OVER HERE
SO COME AND KILL MEEEEEEEE
I imagine this is how Gundam fans romance each other

>>49724501
You failed at the mating ritual.

>>49724501
While I'm sure this would work as well, you were supposed to act out scenes from Gundam so you can subtly telegraph to her that you like the same things as she does. She would then spend the next year's worth of time following you around asking if you're going to kill her now. Then she's just going to start asking for you to do it. Not because she wants you to kill her but because it's some weird in joke romance that no one but you really gets.
Watch Gundam Wing.

>>49724509
>>49724516
I see, I shall pull back into lurking until I can start passing skill checks. Until then, thanks for filling me in.

>>49724503
I mean, there are other ways for Gundam fans to romance. For instance, the Sekiha Love Love Tenkyouken is particularly sappy. You could also toss out some Char quotes, telling your girl she could’ve been a mother to you or to blame this on the misfortune of her birth. Not to mention, when you’re getting freaky, you can say “Everyone use my body!”

And let’s not even get into hamburgers.

Wind Priestess doesn't think to use the wind to cool herself off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CljIKz4y7UI

my sanae looks strange, almost like she's monkeying around...

I love Sanny

Reminder that, Sanae, as a priestess of the Suwa Taisha, most likely knows how to kill, butcher, disembowel and skin a deer and has done it countless times before. They have (or well, had) a whole festival about this where at the end they offer deer heads to the kami.
Suwa Taisha is unique in allowing people to hunt deer, even though hunting is usually frowned upon.
See? She can be cool! And a little morbid. She's not all cute.

Does Sanae like tea?

>>49737474
The fuck do they even have to drink in Gensokyo besides tea, water and sake? I'd assume she does, everyone drinks it. I doubt they have coffee or soda unless I'm forgetting something

>>49737538
Many flavours of sweat.

>>49699381
I would say, I hope you deserve it. Even if it's one of the few times I've been truly happy in all my life, I feel like shit because she is such a sweet and good girl, while I'm a sick bastard who will always be a monster. Good thing that we will never see each other again

>>49737403
I would willingly help her with the taxidermy shenanigans

>>49738448
You'd need to prepare and place 72 of those around Moriya Shrine. That's a big time investment.
I forgot to say, but Sanae, as THE head priestess of the shrine, is also expected to participate in festivals where the participants demonstrate their military prowess, so she also needs to be good with bows, be able to shoot bows from horseback, be skilled at falconry, etc...
I struggle to see this dork being some sort of archery master or skilled warrior, since I see her as too nerdy, but Kanako IS a war god, while also being a god of wind and rain, so I guess her only representative should also be good at the things she's the god of.

...

>>49742741
Ta-daaaaahhhh

>>49742743
My plants doing well....irrigation is the future

>>49742782
Always remember to treat your plants with care

>>49742818
What kind of sanae are you going to plant this year?

>>49742830
Peppers, of course! The original (and the easiest to grow)
I wonder how many other undiscovered Sanae species there are. Maybe cabbage and broccoli Sanaes exist out there

>>49742830
>>49742884
We could definitely update the planter too now I believe, we'd just need to settle on which ones would work best for her more recent hair designs.

>>49743444
This one's always cool to see, though I'm unsure how her disappearance works, whether everyone just forgot she ever existed after she left or if people still remember her.
>>49743112
She seems to me like the character with the highest amount of different hairstyles.

Sanae and her Sanae lived alone in a small Sanae on a Sanae. Sanae kept to herself, drawing Sanae and playing with her Sanae as her Sanae watched Christian Sanae on the Sanae.
Sanae was simple, and they were both Sanae.
That was, until the day Sanae's Sanae heard a Sanae from above: "Your Sanae has become corrupted by Sanae! She needs to be Sanae!"
"I will do my best Sanae to save Sanae, my Sanae, "Sanae's Sanae replied, rushing into Sanae's Sanae, removing all that was Sanae from her Sanae.
Again, the Sanae called to her:
"Sanae's Sanae is still Sanae! She needs to be cut off from all that is Sanae in the Sanae and confess her Sanae."
"I will follow your Sanae, Sanae. I have Sanae in thee, "Sanae's Sanae replied, as she locked Sanae away in her Sanae, away from the Sanaes of the Sanae.
One last Sanae, Sanae's Sanae heard the Sanae of Sanae calling to her:
"You have done as I asked, but I still Sanae your Sanae to Sanae. To prove your Sanae, I will ask one more Sanae of you."
"Yes, Sanae. Sanae, "Sanae's Sanae begged.
"To prove your Sanae and Sanae, I require a Sanae. Your Sanae Sanae will be the Sanae. Go into her Sanae and end her Sanae as an Sanae to me, to Sanae that you Sanae me above all Sanae!"
"Yes, Sanae," she replied, grabbing a Sanae from the Sanae.
Sanae, watching through a Sanae in the Sanae, trembled in Sanae. Scrambling around her Sanae to find a Sanae, she noticed a Sanae to the Sanae, hidden under her Sanae. Without Sanae, she flung open the Sanae just as her Sanae burst through her Sanae and threw Sanae down into the unknown Sanae below.

>>49743112
Spinach

>>49747332
Parsley
Your opinions will be taken into consideration

>>49746791
Even through all that, I still recognized that as the Binding of Isaac opening.

>>49752190
The binding of Sanae?

>>49752353
Sure. Let's go with that.
The entirety of Gensokyo is just Sanae's imagination going wild while she's locked in a box.

>>49752389
Everyone is Sanae wearing a different-colored wig, and Rinnosuke is Sanae crossdressing to express her inner... well, I forget what TBOI was about. Also, Chen is Guppy.

>>49752488
>I forget what TBOI was about
Mommy issues about getting murdered by mommy.

>>49752488
I think the girl wig is Isaac masquerading as his pious mother, probably because he sees himself as damned to go to hell, so he's imitating someone he thinks is following God. Something like that.
Tsukasa is the other pet whose name I forgot.

>>49752488
>well, I forget what TBOI was about
Domestic abuse, the authors relationship with religion(his family was extremely christian) and how weird it was to grow up in such environment.

I wonder how long this thread will last
>Sanae with ponytail
>I love Sanae
>I love women with ponytails
>therefore, I want to marry Sanae with ponytail

>>49639667
All I know is that I should be the one doing that to her, with her consent of course

>>49753534
Most character threads are like that, Sanae threads are somewhat unique because every so often someone posts something interesting and that's what people discuss for a while.

>>49753534
39-44 days. My source? Pulled it out of my ass.
>>49753544
Yay! We get the award of best monotonous thread!
I'm kidding. I like it here, and yes, all character threads are monotonous.

>>49753544
>>49753556
To be fair, it's better like that. A nice environment with autistic talking here and there. It reminds me to a thread on /v/, it was just an screenshot of Touhou 19 demo, but somehow anons managed to talk about everything for like 12 hours straight, almost nonstop. And that's why jannies shut it down, because no one was talking about video games lmao

>>49753578
Not to blow smoke up our collective asses, but I feel like Sanae threads do a pretty good job at "talking about everything".
It's not been a very long time since these threads have had a huge uptick in quality, but in that short amount of time I've come to expect discussions about the most random games, philosophy, blood sacrifices, how Sanae feels about the outside world, her alienation, interests, various fun facts about Shinto, some guy talking about Sanae's armpit sweat and then having an extremely cerebral discussion about how it would probably taste better than Reimu's, Gundam and mecha in general, etc, etc.
I feel like we do a good job. Sometimes.

>>49753601
I'll come to /jp/ more often then, it sounds like the kind of thread I would like to participate. I've said some things weeks ago on this thread, like talking with the anon who loves Sanae and thinks that she could heal him from all his cynicism, or the anon who talks about taxidermy. Its good to check this thread after several days, and it's good to know that people still bumping it

>>49753629
Well, it's slow, and there's often weeks where there aren't any real interesting discussions.
But if you feel like you have something interesting to say, and it somehow relates to Sanae, then that's great.

>>49753556
It's not monotonous, it's slow and steady!
>>49753578
>>49753629
I don't think you should mention being from /v/. Sanae threads are nice, but others might not be.
But yes, Sanae threads are some of the best, one of the flagship threads of /jp/.

>>49753644
You know what they say. Slow and steady wins the race, how cliché

>>49753656
>It's not monotonous, it's slow and steady!
>Slow and steady wins the race, how cliché
We thought just the same thing
>I don't think you should mention being from /v/
I'm not from /v/, to be honest. I just made that thread I mentioned and that's it, it's a good memory to me. I tried to post on /v/ again some days ago, and but nothing truly remarkable happened

God don't exist

>>49755965
That's one of my favorite doujins.
If you guys haven't read it yet, it's "What if the Living Goddess of the Moriya Shrine read Dawkins' 'The God Delusion'" by tagawa gengo. She changes religions like 4 times.

>>49756016
What is this bag? Sanae?

>>49756027
One thing leads to another...

>>49756027
The first and only member of the communist party of Gensokyo...

>>49756935
coochie coo

>>49757066
Don't do this to me. Now I want to kill myself due to that image

>>49757072
Anon, you can't leave us for Gensokyo so soon!

>>49757081
Can you blame him, when this is waiting for (you)

>>49757081
>>49757110
Don't worry you two, I'm not going anywhere. I accepted that maybe that kind of image is not that bad for my mental health

Summer's cooler with friends!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qma0yy3Wc_M

>>49757121
Mirae Somang makes the cutest damn videos

>>49757213
Hits it out of the park every single time, without fail, year after year. Sure some of it's cliché, but it's so mind-numbingly moe you can't muster the brainpower to care.

>>49757120
Love for a waifu can be converted into motivation and willpower, if you can process and refine it mentally, it was a really big part of what made me get myself together when I was in the dumps. Always remember you're doing it for her, anon.

anon has been gone insanae for quite some time I better check up on him

>>49757326
I don't think that would work for me, but it's good to know that it worked for you
>>49757357
And how was he?

>>49629031 (OP)
Sanae is a strong independent black woman who don’t need no man!

>>49757499
he's deeply insanae

>>49757530
>who don't need no man!
Kek

>>49757326
>Love for a waifu can be converted into motivation and willpower
You know I have actually tried that and it was horrible, my mind just goes immediately to the worst things like:
"She's not real and if she were she would hate you",
"You're never going to be worthy" and so on.
I still try and do the things I want to do regardless, so I guess it doesn't really matter.

>>49678741
I always just assumed that Kanako and Suwako raised her.

>>49757600
>"She's not real and if she were she would hate you"
>"You're never going to be worthy"
The idea would be to revert that possibility. Maybe if the waifu exists she won't be your girlfriend, but at least she wouldn't despise you. Anyway, as I said this kind of thing doesn't work for me

>>49757357
No worries, love and hate walk side by side

>>49757618
After her parents died? Or the whole time?
Either way, she went to school, we know that much. What's her address? If the school calls her home, who picks up if Kanako is raising her? Does Kanako even own a phone? Can Kanako and Suwako shapeshift into normal people, or is there just a purple haired lady and a blonde kid masquerading as Sanae's parents? If her parents die and Kanako and Suwako take over raising her, how does she not get sent to an orphanage? By the time they go to Gensokyo, their faith is so faint that they can barely manifest themselves, let alone masquerade as Sanae's parents.
>>49757600
>>49757637
If someone dislikes themselves deeply enough, it really won't serve as motivation, I've found, even if it doesn't make sense. With Sanae in particular, she's always shown being kind to humans, and as a religious leader, she ought to be kind and gentle and reassuring... which she is shown being.
But these kinds of things don't work for a lotta people. Personally, I've managed to get some use out of it, primarily by motivating myself to work out harder.

>>49758227
>primarily by motivating myself to work out harder
Just what is needed, simple

>>49758227
Very good questions. I assume that it wasn't so bad until not long before they came to Gensokyo... and that they had to play a careful juggling act to keep the authorities from realizing that half the time the teenaged girl is just living functionally alone in the shrine.
Such a thing would, undoubtedly, wear on them...

>>49758227
I think in my case it's about the comparison, you compare yourself (relatively average) and Sanae/Other 2hu(literal perfection) and it's like what are you supposed to do? It's not like I hate myself (at least no consciously) but isn't that setting the bar a little too high?

>primarily by motivating myself to work out harder.
Just make sure to not overdo it like I did, we don't need another cripple in his 20s (^^;

>>49758832
I feel like that's a fault of how ZUN writes the characters. They either have no flaws, their flaws are their entire character, or they have flaws, but you rarely see them.
Sanae has flaws and problems of her own, she's overconfident, a braggart, overcompetitive, is willing to twist the truth and embellish her own feats while not crediting others, etc.
But I feel like it's only natural that if you like something or someone, you make it out to seem saintly, while you put yourself down and look at your own characteristics through a more realistic lens. Most of us see our characters as absolute saints, where even their imperfections are perfect, and a lot of people apply this to real persons as well, but that's being a bit unfair on yourself...
As I said, not everyone can get a lot of, or any, use out of it, but if you can it's a great but easy motivator for simple things. I, personally, realize that I'm first and foremost doing this for myself and because I see a need for improvement in myself, but motivating yourself to improve FOR yourself is always more difficult than doing it through a proxy, at least that's how it is for me.
>Just make sure not to overdo it
No promises, but I feel like I know my limits and play it safe. Cripple club's at least a couple decades down the line for me.

>>49760078
>I feel like it's only natural that if you like something or someone, you make it out to seem saintly, while you put yourself down and look at your own characteristics through a more realistic lens
>Most of us see our characters as absolute saints, where even their imperfections are perfect, and a lot of people apply this to real persons as well, but that's being a bit unfair on yourself...
And that might be due to low self-esteem, which realistically is common amongst people like us. I won't wonder why

Good ol' thread

>>49742782
The yield this year is great

>>49764484
I used to be skeptical about GMOs until I grew my first batch of Sanyaes. I've never been happier, and Trader Joe's has lost a customer!

What made Sanae support TYD?

>>49764772
You try hanging around youkai for a week and see how you feel...

>>49746648
>This one's always cool to see, though I'm unsure how her disappearance works, whether everyone just forgot she ever existed after she left or if people still remember her.

I hope ZUN addresses that someday, but I doubt he ever will.

>>49756016
holy shit Suwako is actually the flying spaghetti monster

>>49765016
Has she considered that it's more of a tengu problem and she shouldn't put the blame on all youkai?

Lovely

>>49765214
I ain't ever met a good youkai

So cute

Sanae with silly hair styles

More Sanae without any more context

>>49768280
Context is just a shoehorning of common sense, after all.

>>49766323
No, Sanae! You're meant to keep the balance, not to beat up random youkai!

>>49767411
1 ahoge - happy
2 ahoge - very happy
no ahoge - depressed
now you see, keep the stem on your sanae

Sanae is a good girl

>>49766323
What about Keine?

>>49770303
Such a good girl. The best girl!

>>49770322
Well those types of youkai don't count. Why? Because I said so. Obviously that's a human, she's perfectly integrated into human society and that's the society she chose. Same for Rinnosuke

>>49770372
What about Reimu?

>>49770399
Moriya Shrine policy dictates that I cannot describe or comment on what types of beings she associates with, and who she works for, as she is a valued friend

>>49766323
You live on top of the largest youkai nest in all of Gensokyo. Put your gohei where your mouth is.

>>49774716
She had to unplug her Famicon mid-session because some thunder rolled in, which may or may not be Kanako-sama's way of letting her know break-time's over.

>>49774759
you can't have your cake and eat it too
what, she wants to live in fantasy land and be a NEET that never does any work too?

Ah, Sumireko-chan! What does "ts pmo icl ngl r u fr rn sybau oml" mean?

Not to pat ourselves on the back too hard. but I feel like Sanae threads might just win the /jp/ "most improved" award given what they were like not that long ago. One of the few things about this board that's actually gotten better in recent years.

>>49780542
Honestly, I'm just happy that there is at least a 1 good thread on this board. You know, a lot of other character threads are just image dumps or horny posting.

>>49780711
Which is interesting considering how is Sanae portrayed by fanon views

>>49780542
It depends on a few things. Like by what metric they improved, what you consider an improvement, over what time period you judge that improvement, etc.
But, as somewhat of an outsider, I think Sanae threads had the biggest overall improvement. It is also notable that this change happened very quick and from some very unexpected sources.

>>49780728
If you said that 5 years ago, sure I'd agree, but things have also changed on a bigger scale as well. I see the boomer meme everywhere now, and hardly anything negative.

>>49780884
Think it's matter of perspective, I haven't seen that meme in months, but I have been seeing the "Sanae is a pervert meme" quite frequently.
I think it's just about which communities you visit, rather than some big shift in the fandom.

>>49780711
I wouldn't say image dumps or hornyposting is bad per se, a character's thread is a reflection of what the people that like that character want to talk about in relation to that character. If that means espousing their love for her thread after thread by talking about how they want to lick her feet, then that's what they want to talk about. Those threads are also pretty much always alive and well, so it's clear that there's a lot of fans of that character that enjoy talking about that stuff. I don't mind it. You can always leave an interesting SFW post or question in a thread like that and see if anyone wants to talk about it with you.
What I would say is that I'm glad that there's a thread or three where people talk about random stuff that you don't expect, or threads where people make interesting headcanons.
>>49780995
It is a matter of perspective, it all depends on what places you frequent, but I'd say the % of things you see in places a lot of people frequent has changed to be more positive. I haven't seen anything of the sort you say you see frequently for around a year or so, and I do think newer people in general have more positive opinions on all the characters.

>>49781541
But that the problem, I feel that most image dumps are just that, there is usually no discussion going on, and when some anon tries to start one, it gets few replies and doesn't really go anywhere(just remember the reimu one).

>>49781755
Then it's just not meant to be, you can't force discussion if there isn't an audience of people that wants to talk to you and that can provide fun responses. The most you can hope for is small talk and theorizing, and that's more than fine.
My expectations for threads are always low, so if something even remotely interesting happens, I'm happy with it.

>>49769753
it's not just any random youkai, it's tsukasa and she's an annoying piece of shit so she deserves it

>>49781819
I usually find it fun to discuss her geeky interests and what she would or would not know about at the time. It’s funny to think that she probably has no idea who Hatsune Miku is.

>>49785932
If you take the release date of MoF as the date she went to Gensokyo, she missed out on Miku by a matter of mere months
I wonder if she'd like vocaloid/if she'd be a huge Miku fangirl

An interesting thing I've noticed with Sanae's design that relates to the history of Suwa Taisha - if you take ZUN's word at face value, then Sanae is the Ohori of Suwa Taisha and also the head of the Suwa clan, IRL this would make her the descendant of Suwa Myojin (In Gensokyo, this would be Kanako) but in reality she's more of a mix of the head priest of Suwa Taisha and the Ohori, i.e. she is a descendant of the god Moreya and also a living god herself.
How does this relate to her design? Every new Ohori used to be sworn in in a ceremony where the head priest makes a Mishaguji possess the Ohori's body - this is how they become gods.
Sanae's divinity of course doesn't rest on that, but she does have a snake in her hair. Apart from representing Kanako (alongside the frog that represents Suwako) I feel like it's also a reference to how Suwa Ohori became gods, as the snake itself is actually alive and very Mishaguji-like, it has autonomy... even though it mostly just hisses at people.
Side note, after a decree was passed abolishing hereditary priesthood, the secret rites of the Moreya clan and the tradition surrounding the Ohori of the Suwa clan were eventually lost.
The current, real life Sanae (who is a grandma and part of the Moreya clan), has no knowledge of the rites and rituals of her clan. Gensokyo Sanae however is explicitly stated to have learned and mastered them at a young age, which is kinda funny.

What do you all think Sanae would look like if she was a real person? I imagine she would look pretty much like she does in the games, except obviously a real Japanese girl, with brown eyes and dark brown hair, (or maybe she'd have green hair and either blue or green eyes, idk), her hair would have little bit of a wave in it, down to her shoulders but she sometimes grows it longer and cuts it shorter, and she'd wear normal clothes most of the time, and she'd be really cute

>>49788439
>Gensokyo Sanae however is explicitly stated to have learned and mastered them at a young age, which is kinda funny.
Sounds like she had a natural talent for miracles, if she could do that so young

>>49788775
The closest you can get to Sanae IRL in terms of both name AND function is Sanae Moreya, who is the current head of the Moreya family and descendant of the god Moreya. I am genuinely convinced that the only reason Sanae is even NAMED Sanae is because ZUN just copied the name of the real person. She's an 80 year old grandma born in 1945. See attached picture. I know that's not the answer you're looking for though.

I'd say... Imagine a plain Japanese girl, wavy black hair, but with some sort of striking feature - something like blue or green eyes. In general maybe somewhat of a rural flair, Nagano isn't very urban in the first place, and Suwa less so.
>Sounds like she had a natural talent for miracles
Yeah, says so in her character profile:
>When she was young, Sanae had mastered the secrets to call upon miracles
IRL, descendants of Suwa Myojin became gods at an early age and were trained to do the ancient rituals of Suwa by the head priest.

>>49789086
>The closest you can get to Sanae IRL in terms of both name AND function is Sanae Moreya, who is the current head of the Moreya family and descendant of the god Moreya. I am genuinely convinced that the only reason Sanae is even NAMED Sanae is because ZUN just copied the name of the real person. She's an 80 year old grandma born in 1945. See attached picture. I know that's not the answer you're looking for though.
Anon, I don't think you quite got what I was saying, I didn't say "who is the IRL person that most closely resembles Sanae?", I just asked "what would she look like if she was real?"

I know Sanae is inspired by her, and Sanae is definitely not an 80 year old grandma, she would be like 30 now, and she definitely wouldn't look like that

>IRL, descendants of Suwa Myojin became gods at an early age and were trained to do the ancient rituals of Suwa by the head priest.
Yeah, I meant Sanae in particular would've had a natural talent, and her ancestors would've been probably in their teens before they mastered the techniques

I don't know what you're talking about. But the closest I've got to Sanae irl, was that girl from the church. And if you make me remember her, I'll end up shooting myself

>>49789113
I'm aware, and the end of the first paragraph I say that what I'm saying isn't what you're asking at all. I just used your post there to clip an addendum onto my original post, which I could've done by just replying to myself, but oh well.
The second part of the post is replying to what you're asking. I don't think she would look special or stand out in any significant way appearance wise except for eye color; blue fits best because I think it's a charismatic and very striking color. Short, pale skinned, probably somewhat conventionally attractive by Japanese standards. Hair's a tossup but I stand by wavy black hair, and she's also somewhat forgetful at times so I'd say her hair could be periodically messy.
I'd also like to say she wears glasses. We know she actually owns glasses, so I feel like a real Sanae would wear them.
As for her having natural talent, again I just used that as a way to fix something onto my original post, but she's definitely talented and a stand-out in her family by all accounts, and it was expected that she'd get large amounts of believers simply from the merit of her being so young yet so talented with miracles. I think a real life Sanae would also be similarly extraordinarily skilled, if not in miracles, than random things you don't expect. Sorry for not providing a full response to your post in my first one lol
>>49789141
Anon, I told you that you can't leave us for Gensokyo so soon. At least take us there with you.

>>49789158
>I'm aware, and the end of the first paragraph I say that what I'm saying isn't what you're asking at all.
I must've misinterpreted your post, then, because it sounded like you were saying "Sanae is an 80-year-old woman, I know that isn't what you wanted to hear"

Sorry

>>49789158
Alright then, come with me for a last ride

>>49789170
The blame's all mine, it's late for me and I'm not exactly paying as much attention to what I write as I would otherwise, I'm mostly just shitting out stuff that's interesting to me.
The love in your heart ought to be steadfast even if she were an 80 year old grandma though! Or a frog, or a snake, or whatever. Only when you come to terms with it does she turn back into the Sanae that you were looking for. That's a whole category of fairy tales, for some reason.

>>49789207
>The love in your heart ought to be steadfast even if she were an 80 year old grandma though!
It definitely is, I would love her no matter if she was 30, 80, 150 or 8 million

I love her so goddamn much, I would spend eternity with her

>>49788775
I don’t think blue eyes are out of the question for Asians, so I’d say she has vibrant blue-green eyes which might be considered a miracle. They sparkle when she smiles, and particularly when she’s geeking out. I imagine her hair is gently waved, and is very silky to the touch. The plant-like ahoge probably depicts her on days when she’s feeling lazy and doesn’t want to fix her bedhead.

She’s on the tall side, and she’s curvier than average for her age, partly due to genetics and partly due to her sweet tooth. Her normally delicate hands have evidence of cuts from times she’s working on Gunpla and slips with her hobby knife.

>>49779271
Sanae might be the one person who would have an easier time talking to Renko than with Sumireko.

>>49791066
Honestly I think she really would have bright blue eyes, despite being fully Japanese, and she would wear brown contacts so she wouldn't freak people out

I've never liked how she looks with green or yellow eyes, they just don't suit her at all, blue eyes look really good on her, they complement her green hair perfectly and tie her whole design together

>>49773854
If a touhou game had a playable characters that had more bosses than the others it would be fucking awesome.

>>49791066
>I don’t think blue eyes are out of the question for Asians
Specifically Japanese where some of them did have blue eyes, the further north you go the higher the % of someone with naturally blue eyes (I think because of Ainu people which have select Caucasian features) but still rare
Also her greatgreatgreatgreatgreatancestor is a blonde woman and she's a goddess so naturally blue eyes aren't too far of a stretch

>>49791324
>Also her greatgreatgreatgreatgreatancestor is a blonde woman and she's a goddess so naturally blue eyes aren't too far of a stretch
Yeah, but Suwako's eyes are yellow, not blue, so Sanae couldn't have inherited that from her, though I guess divine genetics works differently to human genetics

>>49791324
That’s assuming anime hair color translates to real life. Suwako might not be blonde. That also assumes that gods can’t simply change appearance at will. How that would work with genetics, I don’t know.

>>49791506
If the color didn't come about with the invention of hair dye then I say it's their real hair color
>That also assumes that gods can’t simply change appearance at will.
She chose the appearance herself and her real self is just a native land spirit, i.e. she is the land of Suwa
If that's the form she gave birth in then I'd say the genetics of the form she's currently in do pass down, she could probably choose another form and her genetics would be different
I only really mentioned Suwako because my mind went to blonde hair - blue eyes often coming together but she doesn't have blue eyes and no ancestor with blue eyes lol
Unless she just has some recessive blue eye gene in her current form, that's my excuse for being stupid

2hus would NOT look like 2hus because uhhhh... Ummmmm... Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Well... Uhhhhhmmmm....

>>49791666
Because I said so. My argument is bulletproof, and you fail.

>>49791126
There are people that have an easy time talking to Sumireko?

>>49792798
Not really, but with Renko bringing up physics at every opportunity, referencing video games the moment she feels too comfortable, and her constant very dense autistic babble, she is the harder one to talk to for most people. That's why Maribel often spaces out and lets her rant when they're talking. On the other hand, Sumireko is more annoying, uses stupid jargon, and is probably louder than she should be, but the things she says are way less dense.
I think Sanae has the perfect type of autism to be able to hold a conversation with Renko, but also the worst type of autism for dealing with Sumireko.

>>49792836
now that you mention it they do seem like theyd get along well and im glad that renko has another potential friend
im just sad that ZUN wont ever let them meet

>>49794178
There is still hope. MoF, despite having some of the most iconic tracks, got largely skipped in the albums, so the possibility of a side story where Maribel and Renko investigate Sanae's disappearance, by their time an urban legend, and somehow get transported to the Moriya shine is still on the table.

Hiding behind Satori

>>49795236
Did they ever interact? Because I've had this idea for a while that, if Sanae tried to resolve SA, she would have ended up not fighting Satori, because of Satori's wit and unwillingness to fight and Sanae's good-naturedness.

>>49796154
I wouldn't count on it. The only reason Subterranean Animism even happens is because of Kanako and Suwako, and while these two usually keep Sanae in the dark, she genuinely loves nuclear power.
If anything, if Satori poked around Sanae's mind she'd find her thinking deep inside that nuclear explosions are fucking awesome.

>>49796208
True, but I think Satori would be able to use that to her advantage, or use the secret weapon against Sanae,"Let's talk about Gundam lore over some tea!", unless Sanae decides not beating up her neighbor would be too much of a common sense decision.

>>49795236
>Satori: Don't use me as a shield!
>Sanae: Here I am, do your worst
>Satori: Hey!

Wow, this artist doesn't get Sanae at all, she wouldn't use a human shield or a youkai shield, she's not a coward

I just thought of something

I've always wondered why Sanae is so unusually powerful when her divine ancestry is many generations back

I don't think these things just skip 50 generations, so there must be a god in her family tree much more recently than that

I think her father was descended from Suwako, and her real mother is actually Kanako

Kanako certainly treats her like a daughter, in fanworks at least, and she cares about Sanae a lot in canon as well

Just something I thought of

>>49798198
She's powerful partly because of her own skill, partly because she's a god (and she's one because some small amount of people believe in her, not because of descent) and majorly because her powers are borrowed from Kanako and Suwako
Her own spell cards are clever but not too terribly powerful (Marisa compliments her on being crafty, she uses her own ritual preparations as a spell card which allows her to borrow one of Kanako's moves as a follow-up card), so most of her power comes from Kanako and Suwako letting her go wild with their powers, most of her miracle spell cards correspond to domains that Kanako rules over, like Moses' miracle uses Kanako's power as a god of rain and water, Rice shower uses Suwako's power as a harvest and land god, etc
Perhaps the strongest card that is really HER OWN is Nine syllable stabs, a priestly technique

>>49798198
>I've always wondered why Sanae is so unusually powerful when her divine ancestry is many generations back
Suwako's genes are just that dominant
>I think her father was descended from Suwako, and her real mother is actually Kanako
Le Frog was the one who had the idea to bring Sanae into Gensokyo with them, implying that they were originally not going to take her with them, so Kanako didn't even think about her first. She does care about Sanae, but she's more the 'auntie living with us' type

>>49798292
>Frog was the one who had the idea to bring Sanae into Gensokyo with them
Is this headcanon, or is it said somewhere? Genuinely curious, I've never seen it mentioned, but it seems like an interesting idea

>>49798268
>(and she's one because some small amount of people believe in her, not because of descent)
People believe in her because she can work miracles, she's been able to since she was a little girl, and she explicitly gets that power from Suwako, it's innate to her even if she loses all her faith

>and majorly because her powers are borrowed from Kanako and Suwako
Some of them, yes, but she's pretty strong under her own power, too, she was only using her own powers as a god in TD, she wasn't borrowing anything from them

Also, to add to this theory, Suwako has yellow hair, Kanako has purple hair, which is very similar to blue (I know it's not the same, but just assume it is for the sake of argument), and when you combine yellow and blue you get green

>>49798292
>Suwako's genes are just that dominant
No, they're not, it's stated in her MoF profile that it's unusual for anyone to master the power of miracles that young, even her own ancestors

I don't think she's the type to abandon her own family, either, even if it was to move to the land of her dreams

I think her father maybe died shortly before she went to Gensokyo, and that left her with just Kanako, and that's why she went with her

>>49798299
>Is this headcanon, or is it said somewhere?
It's headcanon, Suwako was asleep the entire time Sanae lived in the outside world and she was only barely aware Suwako existed

Again, just a theory

>>49798305
>and she explicitly gets that power from Suwako
Sorry, I just realised that makes no sense and completely invalidates my argument

Her ancestors all had the ability to learn how to work miracles, which they got from Suwako, but she just always knew how to do them, and my theory is that she gets that from Kanako

>>49798268
>not because of descent
But thats how native gods work. if they don't have followers worshipping them, even a small group of them, they start vanishing away. Sanae, being part human, doesn't die straight away if people don't worship her, but she loses all of her divine qualities

>>49798313
>Sanae, being part human, doesn't die straight away if people don't worship her, but she loses all of her divine qualities
I really don't think anyone worshipped her the moment she was born, Sanae was probably born in the 90s, and Japanese people didn't really take Shinto seriously in the 90s except very old people, it was just tradition, and no-one seriously believed the Ohafuri (or is it Ohouri? I can't remember) were living gods, it's just a belief

It's said somewhere by ZUN, can't remember were, that the Japanese lost all their faith in living gods when the emperor renounced his divinity in 1945 (he wasn't the same type of living god though)

I think since then, Sanae's ancestors haven't been able to work miracles at all, and that's why people just gradually forgot that there was ever such a thing as living gods

As a side note, I think this picture was shortly after they moved to Gensokyo, I don't know if Sanae has always been able to fly or if she only gained that power when she moved there, but she looks very excited, either from being able to fly or not being forced to hide who she really is from the world anymore

>>49798349
ZUN:
>The idea of "living gods" itself doesn't exist anymore ever since Emperor Hirohito passed away. After the Declaration of Humanity, that concept probably worked its way down to Suwa, too. There may still be an Ohafuri, but they aren't divine, so I figured it'd be fine to bring that concept to Gensokyo where the gods are still thriving.
But also:
>Sanae is currently Kanako's Shrine Maiden, but the reason she can create miracles is because she is Suwako's distant descendant.
Sanae's entire bloodline can do miracles, it is part of her whether she's a god or not, and her divinity is attained, not inherent, through the act of doing miracles
>There were few who would worship even a living god who had attained divinity during their life as a human.
Note: attained divinity

>>49798387
>Sanae's entire bloodline can do miracles
Yes, but Suwako's genes would be so weak at this point that they would require faith along with the divine blood to work miracles, but I'm saying Sanae doesn't need faith, she can work miracles whether people believe in her or not, and being able to work miracles is the definition of godhood

Her ancestors might've been as strong as her in the distant past, but they're not now, because if they could work real, genuine miracles that even the biggest skeptic would recognise as a miracle, they shouldn't have lost all their faith after 1945

Gods get stronger with faith, definitely, but I think there's just some innate divinity in Sanae that will never go away, even if people stop believing in her

All gods have domains, living gods probably do too, Kanako's a god of the sky, Suwako's a god of the earth, but we've never been told Sanae's domain, and I think she's maybe a god of miracles

I have no proof of this, of course

>>49798299
Got my sources mixed, so this is not the official case, my bad.

>>49798164
They're clearly just messing around, their faces show it. I don't think Sanae would make jokes like that, but she's not doing it seriously.

>>49798600
I'm getting dangerous YASSYvibes from this.

>>49799028
I dunno, maybe I'm just bad at reading faces, but Sanae looks genuinely worried

I think if it was a joke she'd be smiling, she's one of those people who can't help but keep their real feelings off their face after all

Whatever, I'm just taking this too seriously I guess

>>49799085
>keep their real feelings off their face
show their real feelings on their face*

Wow, I can't type

>>49799085
I think if Satori was really about to be used as a human meatshield she'd be more worried and less just... slightly annoyed that Sanae is messing with her? She just seems annoyed with Sanae and is looking at her specifically, instead of whoever or whatever is about to hit the two of them. Sanae seems like she's putting on a serious face to go along with the bit.
But it's not like the artist thought that much about this, we're just adding foreign meaning to an art piece that probably had none, death of the artist and all that.

>>49799100
Well, probably, yeah

Like I said, I'm just taking this too seriously, Sanae has been my favourite Touhou character since 2012 and so many people just don't seem to get her, I especially don't like the "Sanae is a youkai bully and a racist" interpretation

I'm sure she has at least some control over her facial expressions and can fake a worried look

It's just a silly drawing on the internet and I've always been an overthinker

>>49799119
I'm always glad to see someone who sticks by a series for so long, and especially someone who sticks by a character for so long.
>so many people just don't seem to get her
Aside from everyone having their own slightly different personal interpretation, most people don't 'understand' the characters, even if they are their favorites. There's a large amount of people who base their favorites on hearsay, rumors or memes, which I feel is a shame.
Sanae isn't a bully by any means, though I personally don't mind her being portrayed as a youkai hater sometimes, if it's funny.. Her antics in Touhou 12 made too many people view her the wrong way, though. She's not malicious or hateful, she's just way overconfident and in over her own head, plus she likes to listen to her gods instead of doing her own thing. In most accounts we have of her she's a goody two shoes who means no harm and helps her friends. She's cocky, sometimes shady, but genuinely wants to help people and her pals.

>>49788775
Maybe something like >>49743444

>>49753556
I was 3 days off!!

>>49799085
I think it's just a joke on their height difference, considering Sanae is still very much visible behind Satori

>>49788775
My headcanon is that she dyed her hair not long before she came to Gensokyo, possibly as a final act of rebellion against the people who nearly let her shrine fade away.

>Bump limit reached
It was a pleasure

This one went by so quick I didn't even notice we were sliding!!! We're going to lose our green girl thread!!! I'm going to go insanae!!! AH!!

>>49804762
Oh. There's another Sanae thread. I completely forgot. This revelation gladdens me.

>>49629031 (OP)
Hope your sanaety recovered. Goodbye thread.