Two years ago, Mokou set forth toward Kaguya with a Sukusuku-shaped rental car. A series of events sent her to the moon and onto a lengthy adventure. This is the post-thread for the concluded story of an immortal, her magical car and those they met along the way.

Taxi for the Mokou Gang is a collaborative Touhou story spanning a series of 12 threads (13, including this one). Any anon on /jp/ could participate and dictate the next story beat with a doodle and a description. This thread is to celebrate and reflect on the story we put together in this manner. Feel free to add to the epilogue, discuss past parts, share arts and opinions, ideas that never came to pass, and so on.

Past threads:
Spoilers are locations visited within that thread, included for reference
Pt. 1 >>43875260 (Gensokyo > Moon)
Pt. 2 >>44325569 (Moon > SDM > Mugenkan)
Pt. 3 >>44916296 (Mugenkan > Yuuka's Room)
Pt. 4 >>45844749 (Yuuka's Room > Mugenkan lawn)
Pt. 5 >>46787507 (Under Mugenkan)

>>49685590 (OP)
Pt. 6 >>47209010 (Gobrin Templ)
Pt. 7 >>47457969 (Gobrin Templ > Sea Cucumber)
Pt. 8 >>47827917 (Mugenkan Roof > Beanstalk)
Pt. 9 >>48314004 (Space)

>>49685597
Pt. 10 >>48648429 (Moon landing > Lunar Park > Lunar Tunnels)
Pt. 11 >>48954903 (Lunar Tunnels > Popcorn Mines)
Pt. 12 >>49325397 (Popcorn Mines > Lunar Capital)

Thank you to all the contributors, no matter how few or minor your contributions may have been. In a format like this, any one post has the potential to steer the course of the story.
Thank you to the regular posters. On top of their contributions, they continued to push the thread during lulls in activity. A communal story can not exist without a community.
Thank you to the readers and lurkers. An audience is a great motivator for artistic efforts. It is for you that we were able to realize an ending instead of simple abandonment.
Thank you to the rest of /jp/ for tolerating our existence and allowing these threads to peacefully exist unmired by drama, arguments, shitposters and other derailments.
Thank you to the jannies for cleaning up the few shitposts that made it through and for doing it for free.
Thank you to 4chan for bringing all of us together. And for finding the will to return to life so we could put an ending to this tale. Surely that's the only reason this site came back.
A special thanks to Rebecca for the original drawing and design of Sukuvan. If you ever learn about these threads, I hope you don't mind our usage of your art and can appreciate the creative efforts your work has inspired.

And thank (You) for being here.

Part 12 summary (spoilers, obviously):
The gang looks for Koishi in the popcorn mines, who has kidnapped Nazrin and Wriggle. The gang receives knowledge that Kaguya has planted a Namekian-scale bomb on the moon. Mokou rips off Chiyari's tail, allowing Mima to grow in its place. The team splits during the pursuit with Koishi. Mokou defeats Koishi and rescues Nazrin and Wriggle. Mokou, Nazrin and Wriggle (Team 1) are subsequently blasted to the Dragon Palace. Sukuvan is hijacked by Agent 047 (Team 2), who seeks Sagume in the Bio-Labs to do something about the bomb. Yuuma and the fairies (Team 3) take on the popcorn kaiju rampaging towards the Bio-Labs.
Mokou shuts off most of the power within the Lunar Capital and makes her way to Kaguya. The great showdown ensues. Kaguya employs a lot of stall tactics but without Sukuvan this is just another weekend for the immortals.
Team 2 is in the Bio-Labs. They restore Yuuka and awaken the fairies' waking dream selves back to their proper body. They find Sagume in a condition unable to speak due to her previous injuries. Team 3 takes physical control of the Orbital Slingshot. Sagume writes 047 a multi-pass; 047 may now move with full authorization of the moon.
Team 2 makes way to the Orbital Slingshot. Lunar Control detonates it remotely out of spite. Yuuma downs one of the Kongade Lemon Bappers and launches Sukuvan (crewed only by reunited Yu-Myon and Yu-Youmu) towards the Dragon Palace and into Kaguya, who is held down by Mokou. Kaguya is defeated... and transformed into a baby. I don't have an explanation.
Team 1 is gapped back to the celebratory picnic between the moon rabbits and the rest of the gang. 047 finds and stops the bomb with the help of Okuu. Junko comes to return Sukuvan who only had a 2-year rental agreement. Chimata is gapped in by Yukari and presented an offer by Mokou: treasure from Bishamonten's Pagoda (and no beating) for Sukuvan. Chimata accepts and Sukuvan is now Mokou's.

Here is the end card. Feel free to sign it even if you're a reader or passing-by. I hope it'll be a fun reminder of that time a bunch on anonymous strangers got together and put together something on a whim that lasted for two years. Feel free to expand the dimensions if more room is needed.

And with that, I think all the front matter is done. I actually got the OP up within my estimated timeframe this time. Enjoy the afterparty, everybody!

I felt inspired enough to draw the end panel I was talking about last thread. I was about to post it but I got hit with the post timer and the thread went into archive within the meanwhile.

>>49685617
nice! i have some stuff i'll post little by little: unused ideas, a few old sketches and so on. let's try to keep the thread alive for a while. here's a doodle to start.

sit down because we have some big director's cut here: an original unused scene. that's right, the friendly fairies... were not supposed to be friendly at all!! i wanted tene to have some minor role since forever but the original idea was for the vampire hunters to have an antagonistic competitive nature toward the main gang. i wanted anons to choose between lending over elly (and yuuka(s)) or clash with the fairies. clashing with fairies may sound small stuff for our heroes but consider they're all equipped for battle, and there's cirno among them. cirno with a BIG axe! so whatever the choice the gang was supposed to lose something (maybe chiya's tail? lololol). in the end i backed down and never posted it, probably because we had a fight (elis and elly) only little before.

this original crappy sketch was conceived after lily was introduced as part of the vampire hunters. i still cant believe anon mistook lemontene for lily. the vampire hunters were still not so friendly here. the gang back then was in need of directions and an option could have be to hire a fairy of choice as a guide. personally i would have picked lily, just to make some lotr joke about her name later, but the idea was for anons to discuss about the best option.

an old orin doodle made for a scene to introduce a canvas that never been. this was again during the underground dark forest arc, after the gang got the necessary directions from the crow or a fairy and before the dream machine twist. the passage for the dragon palace was supposed to be in a graveyard, and there was supposed to be some kind of puzzle stuff to find the right grave or whatever.

I also have some unfinished stuff, this one was supposed to sort out who would go and stay for the trip to the moon, I discarded it when another anon submited something else before me, I do remember I was gonna include Luna as a passenger for the trip.

>>49687257
cool, i love mokou in the top right panel. i remember back then there was the intention to refresh the party quite a lot. me, i wanted some sort of return to form, where the main cast was just mokko, yu-myon and sukuvan. so wriggle joins nazrin (to keep her company) and let the hell beings return to their place to report to anzu or whatever. in the end it worked fine, if not better, with a big cast anyway.

>>49686708
>still cant believe anon mistook lemontene for lily.
Gomen, I kind of forgot tene was a thing so I though it had to be lily if anything.

>>49687257
>blackface Chiyari
Chiyari is such a goofy character in this series; I love her for it. She was one of the simpler characters to draw and you can put her anywhere. If you needed a victim or someone to blame, you pick Chiyari.
>>49687340
Truthfully I think I would've preferred the party reset. Not that I didn't like the party, but a return to the core 3 (Mokou, Yu-Myon, Sukuvan) would have been much simpler on the art side of things. Especially when the impurities would get into the mix later on.

>>49685590 (OP)
>Two years ago, Mokou set forth toward Kaguya with a Sukusuku-shaped rental car.
wait, is this real? I am sure this started last month?

>>49687570
the impurities were fun to doodle once you get the handle of it. it's surprising they got so much screen time, at first i was a bit puzzled, i wasnt sure about them and their role in the big scheme of things.

dang I cant believe it's over. I never participated in these thread but I am going to miss the Sukuvan on the catalog. Have some art I got for the Ssukuvan.

>>49687626
I made the impurities to establish a conflict between the gang and the moon, being impure and all, and tie them to junko's plan to screw the moon. They were supposed to be agressive towards lunarians and I planned for them to invade the lunar capital and cause chaos but I couldn't put much emphasis to it often, (the best attempt I did was this animation https://files.catbox.moe/modsxc.webm but it was seen as filler), and the other anons painted them as friendly and background characters. So they were just there not doing very much exept alert lunar control. I almost made it though when the gang was driving through the underground with pic related, Mokou was gonna end up driving in the capital and drop impurities somewhere in the place, the impurities would attack lunarians while the taxi drives off somewhere else, all while looking like a game of crazy taxi, I didn't ad this because another anon submitted something else.

>>49688169
I always forget to remove uneccecary sketches

>>49688169
i see, i guess with the pop-corn keeping the moonies busy their original role kinda got usurped and they filled other niches.

I had an idea lately about having the cucumber crew doing something crazy in their own corner, at first I thought about them escaping containement with Kosuzu wreaking havoc then I thought of including the lunar princess. Speaking of them I expected them to appear later after we got in the moon, with their absence justified by being in vacation and would actually be competent in contrast to most bunnies. I stated I had a sequence in mind if the gang encountered them with yorihime fighting chiyari in a touhou 19 danmaku fight since the latter is giga broken there and would leave at a cliffhanger where Chiyari is about to win. By the way I finished pic related, I thought it would be too cool to leave as just a concept.

>>49688819
remember Suzuvan, bowtie kappa or that one impurity the sukuvan left at the lunar tunnel while rolling around ? They are reccuring characters here

>>49688819
i like to think kaguya sent toyo and yori on vacation elsewhere because there can be one and only hime on the moon. also it's fun how the yorigami sis are currently missing in action. are they rotting in a dank jail? they managed to escape? who knows.

>>49688915
They are in the hallway next to the room where the brawl is happening watching along the rest of the cucumber crew

>>49688919
in the pic, sure. but in the story they were busted by the purification squad.

>>49688927
Yeah, thought it wasn't show. I always assumed the rest of the crew got busted as well, but later we see suzu take the suku tengu so either they never got captured or they escaped.

>>49688950
the sis only got caught because they tried to steal the udonge tree. punished for their greed. suzu and the kappa were probably smart enough to flee from the park and stay away from trouble. hopefully.

>>49688976
Poor sisters...

>>49688819
I actually want to advance this a bit more, i'll see if I can keep it up

>>49689474
i wonder who are the good guys here.

>>49686777
>underground dark forest arc
I remember I did not care for that direction. We had cleared an underground jungle scene recently beforehand and now we were doing an underground forest inexplicably under the moon? I don't feel as strongly about it now but it felt too much like a retread at the time.
>>49690432
Loonies are never the good guys.

>>49691663
>I remember I did not care for that direction
i just wanted a dark fantasy arc :<
a pity it was cut short.

this old doodle was made with a purpose: there was a time where i feared the power of the grimoire would let anons abuse it. so dai would appear and fake some tears and cirno (tene too? i dont remember) was supposed to steal the magic book from the sukuvan, be smug, then fly away. this was way before the vampire hunters, the doodle is dated 20/09//2024 so we're talking about thread #7. i always kept the doodle just in case, but anons were creative enough to ignore an all-powerful magic book.

>>49691663
>Loonies are never the good guys
That's a good point ! So the other side must be the good one !

>>49692060
i dont know if i can cheer for a giant baby with an old man face and a weird name. only suzu can like this kind of weirdos.

>>49691741
We could always do a gaiden story about the vampire hunters in the Forest of Magic some day.

>>49692241
i wouldnt be against it. fairies are cute and cool.

>>49691935
It's funny how infrequently the book came up. Literally a pocket deus ex machina able to justify just about anything and we didn't use it very much.
I think it was still nice to have as a safety net. If we ever wrote ourselves into a corner, Mokou could always turn to the book.

you may remember this "thing" that later became the gobrin temple. the gobrin temple is an idea, a great idea, of another anon. the "thing" was the primitive goblinu warchief sitting on her throne. and the warchief was...

... urumi! she was travelling there for reasons and casually elected warchief thanks her big horns. she couldnt refuse such an honour. you dont want to piss off a primitive goblinu. urumi was supposed to save sukuvan in the nick of time, but only after the horns would be back in their place. since the bunny ears are a big ranma joke the hot water from the stew was enough, but kong magic erased any kind of side effects on our sukucar. that's why when mokou washed him\her\it later no transformation happened. after it sukuvan was supposed to become an honourary member of the primitive goblinu tribe and then the gang would just get back to their travel.
the outfit is a parody from a certain bovine character from a certain vn.

>>49694744
COW TATTIES

It's finally over huh

>>49695255
it's something to be happy about, no need for tears. a good story must have a proper end.

One bit I tried pushing that never even became relevant is that the Yuuma Mokou transformed from Yuuka's underwear wasn't the actual Yuuma but just a facsimile. It's why I always referred to the character as Yuuma!Pantsu in the cast list. The real Yumma was supposed to be (is?) still out there somewhere, perhaps wondering where the hell Chiyari went off too.
>>49695279
Bless anon for using his survey prayer to see Mokou and Sukuvan through their journey. And it managed to be in the same year nonetheless!

>>49698205
Yuumas faction values independence so I doubt she's too worried.
It's fun learning about all of these original ideas that got taken in different directions by other anons.

Mine was when I drew Kogasa's umbrella poking from the dark ceiling, intending for a spooky surprise as the van moved forward. Instead we sped up past that scene and the purple umbrella somehow became a pile of purple goo chasing our heroes.

Oh yeah, >>46791470 does look quite Kogasa-ish in hindsight. I wonder how much would have changed? It's easy to think Kogasa could have spooked Sukuvan and the running process would end largely the same way, with the gang lost in the dark and getting caught in a net trap. But how different would the Lemonkong encounter have gone if the slime wasn't bullying them?

A trivial detail I noticed rereading that thread is we started part 6 at the one-year anniversary. We finished part 12 just a little past the two-year anniversary so we were pretty consistent on thread length (about 2 months per thread).

>>49700216
>We finished part 12 just a little past the two-year anniversary so we were pretty consistent on thread length (about 2 months per thread).
True, in the end things balanced out, between slowdowns and post-thread breaks.

a couple of old sketches for the final fight between mokou and kaguya. one...

...and two. it was supposed to be some epic battle shonen like thing. some fighting, then they kamehamehameha each other but kaguya (thanks the secret help of gappy) get the upper hand. but just before losing the rest of the gang and some old friends (pretty much anyone appearing in the story) join little by little and thanks the power of friendship they defeat the hime-sama. there was a certain point i also had a guitar battle in mind, inspired by the fairy power rangers scene, but i can barely use mspaint. too much trouble to animate the whole thing.

I wanted to do a summary like this for every thread, complete with a running joke where one of the panels would be something that didn't actually happen. This image is probably my most high effort piece for this series. It took me like three days of free time and I still had to omit the first half of the thread from the summary. I settled for textual summaries and a manga-inspired cast list for later threads.
For the cast lists, I tried to include at least one image from every unique poster I could identify.

>>49701994
Your idea looks like it would've been pretty neat if we played the battle straight. Especially since from your doodles it looks like they're fighting through astrally-projected spirits instead, which would probably be a lot easier to manipulate on a canvas than humanoid action shots.
>i also had a guitar battle in mind
This would've been rad. Imagine if their battle actually turned out to be a "battle of the bands" type and everybody throughout the story filtered into the audience to cheer on the side of their choice. But then I'd be secretly hoping some musically-inclined anons would step up and post the Mokou riffs and Kaguya riffs battling each other.

>>49704974
i loved the summary pics, a pity a couple of threads dont have them. thread 1 got the best one, but classic humble summaries were also fine and fun.

fresh doodle, old idea, about the final showdown: kaguya being an hokuto user. dont ask me where she learned it, but you can guess who teached her.

>>49708242
Man Chiyari just can't escape random changes to her body.

>>49704974
Absolutely loved your summary pictures every time they came through. They were a nice addition to the character profiles that picked assorted characters along with their current situation
>>49708242
The immortal battle turned silly really quick, but I can't really complain. I think the silliness fitted neatly with the thread's tone

>>49708242
the showdown turning into a baki looking fight would have been so cool.

>>49709688
>I think the silliness fitted neatly with the thread's tone
I agree, it worked better than expected.

I want to apologize for "reserving" the Yorigami sisters and then doing nothing with them. Work got in the way.
Sorry.
The plan was to have them lose to the Rabbit Team and escape. Then they would get distracted with some lunarian treasures.

>>49710951
they still got a lot of screentime for two small fries and they managed to spill some money from the gang too. money later seized by the corrupted lunarian police.

>>49692060
The blonde one removed the impurity on the rabbit and now she is siding with the moonies, it's a 3v3 now. Also that attack looked like an instant kill, she must be taken care of fast.

>>49715936
elmer was right, you can never trust a rabbit.

>>49695255
owari da...

>>49715936
I'm convinced that bunnies are treated worse than fairies

tene as a circus owner, an old gyate edit for a circus canvas. the circus thing was probably inspired by sam & max. i dont remember much about it, back then the gang was jumping around from place to place; as long as it was fun enough it was fine.

>>49710951
Don't feel too bad about it. I don't think anyone else expressed having any plans for the Yorigamis.
>>49721063
If it was during the Mini-Mokou era, the gang could have been part of a flea circus. An alternate means of meeting Wriggle perhaps?

>>49723861
back then mokou was stilli mini, yes. there was also the chance for shou and other animalhou to appear.

a doodle to keep mokou busy. (>>49725064)

>>49725341
Cool comic anon. I'm honored you made something out of my doodle

>>49704974
A small, easily overlooked detail: In the end picnic scene when Sukuvan is returning from the Dragon Palace, I put a bunny holding a baby bunny sitting next to Traffic Light-kun as a reference to the pregnancy gag.

>>49730262
indeed i didnt notice it. it's a cute detail.

a yu-sakuya. i'll be honest, i dont remember much about this old doodle, again, save the fact that i wanted a yukkuri gang member since awhile, but the gang was already so big. the doodle is dated 22/03/2025, a little before the pop-corn mines and after a week long slowdown, so i was probably trying to find something for the next arc. but she wasnt useless, her cute smug face was a remind to not forget about yukkuries and the little role yu-youmu and yu-kutaka had toward the end was also thanks this easy maid.
this is the last of my old unposted sketches\doodles btw.

>>49733666
Very easy Saku-yu.

I'll look through my folder this weekend for unposted stuff. This one was titled mokotaxi-epilogue and it was dated to the end of the first thread (August 11th).
The panels currently read as
1 4
2
3
I'm not quite sure why the format is like that. I think I was doing the drawing on the side and then planning to rearrange it to be all vertical when I was done.
Anyway I remember the idea behind this comic. The plan was to highlight back to when Suika kicked the rock pile and sent a big rock flying into the sky. The rock ricochets off Shining Needle Castle. Meanwhile Kaguya breathes a sigh of relief as Mokou flies off to the moon. Then the rock lands on her and she explodes into [P]s.
The only thing that confuses me is the timestamp. It was made after the post asking if we want to do a thread 2 to finish the story. Kaguya hadn't been the focus for like half the thread by that point and Mokou was tire deep in moon shenanigans. I guess there is a reason I abandoned it after all. Maybe it was part of a hypothetical rushed ending?
A better direction would have been to make the viewer think I was going to drop the big rock on Kaguya but instead I drop the castle on her.

>>49735038
Also I can't unsee the smug face in Shining Needle Castle.

I posted this very unfinished submission at the end of fourh thread, I didn't get the strenght to finish this before the next thread started, but it was supposed to go like this : the tengu watching the battle between the gang and small yuuka (flowerhead at the time), would fly away in the sky only to end up attacked by an eagle spirit. That eagle would later swoop down at cirno, who was in a lake at the time, and posses her. Then both would arrive at the battle in the balcony to help the gang, and yes the combination of both was supposed to reminisce of petshop from jojo.
>>49735065
Sukuna sure was mischievious in this story, even her castle radiates malice.

>>49735038
back then i wouldnt have called it a rushed ending. it's definitely a good gag, especially the spoiler one. it could have worked.
>>49735129
>Then both would arrive at the battle in the balcony to help the gang, and yes the combination of both was supposed to reminisce of petshop from jojo.
that's another good one. a pity it wasnt delivered, though yuuka may disagree.

This one is April 6th, 2024. This was after Mokou's hallucinogenic episode and her recovery from poison but before Yuuma got dragged away. I thought Mokou having a recurring hallucination would be amusing but I ultimately opted to not post it for whatever reason.

>>49739243
this would have been cool. btw i was the one to make the vibri scene, and i wanted to make a whole arc in vib ribbon style too. i backed down with the hallucination excuse because i perceived some confusion from anons, and that's fine because vibri is not even touhou. and in the end i got something vaguely similar with the castlevania-like arc, i cant complain.

>>49739256
Such an arc might've worked out if we limited it to exploring the darkness beneath Mugenkan. Maybe it would have been fun if made each arc have its own distinct art style. Or at least a few arcs anyway.

>>49739370
sukuvibri... is so cool!!! and since vibri is a bunny(?) i'm sure we could have played it out into touhou with a twist. truly a missed chance for some kino arc (though the poison death sequence is among my favourite ones of the whole story).

Thread 11, March 21st 2025. A rejected canvas! It was to follow the end of the SukuKart sequence where Sukuvan was hurtling out of control. You can even still see the rabbits from the post that would've been prior to this one (>>49152199).
Sukuvan's tumbles through a window and lands on a pile of pillows in the reception area of Sweet Sleep Labs. The gang would finally be able to get to the bottom of the sleeping fairies and Yuuka. Fortunately this plot line was able to be recycled as part of the Bio-Labs segment.
I think this is the only I rejected because I was beaten to the punch. It's unfinished. I still needed to add bakus and frills to the pillows and toss in a sign or door.

>>49742191
I hate when I reformat a sentence multiple times and end up leaving artifacts of past sentences in there.
>Sukuvan tumbles through a window
>I think this is the only one I rejected
More typo trivia: I almost listed Sagume as "Saguya" in this thread's cast summary. Though no typo of mine will top the one that granted us Suzuvan (which was not me).

>>49742191
the hime-sama loves to sleep, it makes sense the bunnies have a research lab dedicated to this ancient art.

The next one quickly followed a step or two from the last one (>>49167735). Mokou has just rolled into darkness and lit a TNT barrel for light. This panel was supposed to show some of the surrounding buildings around the gang.
This one was rejected because I realized I had misinterpreted the environment (>>49158001). Originally I thought Sukuvan rolled into a back alley before realizing Sukuvan rolled into some sort of interior. Putting the gang in a back alley would just be confusing and incorrect so I dropped my joke and shifted to a more proper locale one could find TNT: a mine. Which happens to be in middle of the city.
Gee, the moonies sure would benefit from hiring a better city planner, huh?

>>49746235
This would have been, so fucking funny.

>>49746235
Bunnies are looney tunes material

>>49746235
>Gee, the moonies sure would benefit from hiring a better city planner, huh?
the moon is a small barren place, and bunnies like cramped places anyway. safety issues are secondary.

>>49685590 (OP)
ummmm

an old doodle posted in an old tene thread. it's interesting(?) because that's when the babhuya ending was conceived for the first time. we're talking about middle of thread #9, when the gang was yet to land on the moon. i expected the next thread to be the last, so i was quite worried about how end things in a nice way. the gang took their sweet time, as usual.