You didn't forget Touhou's first ever:
>human boss
>boss with dialogue
>vehicle-riding character
>extra stage boss
>character with more than one appearance as a boss in a single game
Right, anon?

>>49798820 (OP)
Not canon, not touhou.

>>49798820 (OP)
who?

>>49798851
Narumi!

>i like pc-98 characters do you think im special yet

>>49798862
I don't know who that is

>>49798820 (OP)
Canon, touhou.

>>49798833
Go back to work ZUN

>>49798820 (OP)
Not canon, she is only loved by shitty slippers, and most of her content is fanmade. Peak shithu material right there. Hecatia can only dream to suck as much Rika does.

>>49798820 (OP)
Has Rika always looked somewhat like Yatsuhashi or is it just that art in particular?

>>49799254
I will draw Rika dressed as Hecatia when I can

>>49798820 (OP)
Boring, generic goon dialogue, no substance, unremarkable appearance, extra is just a regular enemy skin but bigger, even the engineer gimmick gets easily replaced by characters right after the next game.
Easy to forget, really.

>>49799453
Technically, she's not even the extra boss. It's her tank.

>>49798820 (OP)
Paizuri

Rika has one fan on this site and it's an AI slopper wwwwwww

>>49799465
Are you retarded? She's the one driving it, what a terrible argument.

>>49799753
There must be some 2hu who doesn't have a single fan here.

>>49799753
Anon... she has 3.

>>49799796
It's outright said its her tank we're facing, not her

Smells like samefagging low effort trolling in this thread

>>49799855
>0 Hisoutensoku votes
/jp/ really does fucking suck nowadays doesn't it

>>49799453
At least she has dialogue, unlike certain characters.

>>49800179
Dialogue doesn't translate into personality, most of those 2hus have one aside being a goon

Big

>>49800276
Tankers are meant to be small and compact.

>>49798833
>>49798878
>>49799254
>>49799453
>>49799465
>>49799753
>>49800192
It appears my superikaority has led to some contrikaversy.

SoEW was the first Touhou game I played all the way through (mostly because the Windows games didn't work on my Linux machine at the time) and Rika was my first favourite character, I still have a soft spot in my heart for her

This picture in particular makes me feel pretty nostalgic

>>49801086
>Rika was my first favourite character
Cool! Why did you like her?

>>49801137
I dunno, I've always liked technology and engineering, despite not being an engineer myself, and she's pretty cute, even if 90% of her design is fanon

Pretty shallow reasons to like someone, I know, but I didn't really like any of the other characters in the game that much so she was sort of my favourite by default

Also the idea of someone living in a magical fantasy world based on pre-20th century Japan just straight up attacking someone with a tank is hilarious

I wish we could get more fanart of Rika in her cape from her small sprite, but with the combination of her uniform's grey color and her braids, I realize she'd end up looking waaaay too much like Narumi. You guys think ZUN ended up reusing her character design inadvertently all those years later?

>>49798820 (OP)
GEE RIKA, TWO WHOLE THREADS IN LESS THAN A YEAR?

>>49799753
Much to my own surprise, there's a few more.

>>49801137
I echo what this >>49802276 anon says, part of the appeal of Rika to me is the absurdity of her entire character, using a tank in a game based on pre-20th century fantasy Japan immediately makes her stand out, and it's the same thing with her clothing (even if, as you said, half her outfit is fanon), I think it's easy to dismiss her design because she looks normal to us, but very unique when compared to the rest of Gensokyo, even if that whole contemporary look wasn't exclusive to her given that a game later we got Rikako and Chiyuri. I can also relate with the part about technology and engineering, and can definitely agree with the cute part. The uniqueness of her stage 1 outfit is part of why I way prefer it to her EX outfit, which I actually used to just dislike, but it's grown on me.

I wanted to add to what anon has said about Rika, though, because part of why I like her so much is that, to me, she's the definition of punching above your own weight. She's just a stage 1 boss, and a human on top of it all, but she managed to create a bakebake army, several goddamn TANKS and even went on to reappear as an extra stage boss. She has a feisty, confrontational personality and seems to have the villain cliché of underestimating the heroine while overestimating herself and her creations, which I've always found to be kind of cute when applied to certain characters. She radiates energy and the way she does it is extremely contageous, makes me feel like switching sides and taking the fight to the Hakurei myself. Also her being smart is hot.

Design-wise, well... there isn't that much to go off of, but as I touched on before, what we do see is cute and unique. I have a thing for brunettes AND braids, so she kind of has an unfair advantage when it comes to that. And despite being fanon, the theorized off-screen part of her outfit is very cute, and somewhat hot with the shorts which I also have a thing for.
All in all, she's just very cute, but in a realistic way. It's a level of modest cuteness that feels achievable. Girl next door type of cute.

>>49802356
>more fanart of Rika in her cape from her small sprite
Me too, even if I can just gen it myself (and, speaking of which, I'm surprised I haven't until now). I wish we could see more fanart of Rika in general... but we exaust this topic everytime we bring up the more unpopular 98hus.
>You guys think ZUN ended up reusing her character design
Yes! That was actually my first thought when I saw that Rika sprite.

>>49803598
Looks like Yumemi

>>49798820 (OP)
Who quote? She didn't drive mecha so she's forgettable

>>49805576
Tank beats mecha, though.

>>49805622
*flips your dumbass tank* say what now, loser?

>>49805656
uhhh, i unflip it?

>>49805622
>>49805656
Tank beats Hakurei!
Tank beats mecha!
Tank beats EVERYTHING!

>>49801086
Did you manage to beat the extra stage?

>>49808635
Maybe? I definitely tried very hard, and I remember seeing the ending, but that might've been a video

I have vague memories of beating it, but I might've just imagined that

If I did, it was probably over a decade ago

>>49808712
No, wait, I just found this screenshot I took of when I beat the stage, my PC-98 emulator wasn't configured properly so all the text isn't displaying right, apparently it was in 2010

>>49808712
>If I did, it was probably over a decade ago
Oh, I didn't think it'd have been that long ago, my bad.

>>49808970
Damn, respect! Evil Eye is one of the hardest bosses in the franchise. Rika's one of my favorite characters and even I haven't been able to beat SoEW's extra.

>>49810769
>Evil Eye is one of the hardest bosses in the franchise.
He was certainly a tough little bastard, I remember that much

What makes the battle particularly annoying is how repetitive the music is, it's not a bad track but it gets grating after a while

Sure, you could just mute the music and put something else on, but is that even Touhou at that point?

Extra Love is great though, honestly one of my favourite extra stage themes

>>49812188
I meant to upload an image with this post

Punk Rika I genned for the AI thread.

>>49808970
Wow, nice! As much as I love Rika I also haven't been able to beat Evil Eye Sigma yet.

>>49812188
>how repetitive the music is
Yeah... as much as I hate to admit it I have to agree with you, both of Rika's tracks get a little repetitive. Not much progression or variation in terms of the melody, makes me wish there were more arranges out there.

>>49798820 (OP)
She looks south-american

>>49814748
Where in south america do you have girls that look like this? Asking for a friend.

>>49814303
I like the evil eye toque, very cute

>>49799329
Not if I gen her first.
...can't believe I didn't do this sooner, honestly.

Lore time!

So I’ve been playing Rika in a few RPs, and I’ve headcanoned her normal enemies (bakebakes and evil eyes) as drones whose shells merely resemble youkai. Her drone army consisted entirely of Bakebake drones until one day during a field test on a tank she ended up in Makai and encountered YuugenMagan. Her aesthetic inspired the final design of her then-to-be-completed flying tank, Evil Eye Sigma, and as such she upgraded her drones to Evil Eye drones to match. She still used her Bakebake drones while she had them, but she would retrofit them to Evil Eye drones whenever they needed repair. After the events of SoEW, Rika only had an empty prototype Bakebake shell left. She considered melting it down for scrap, but couldn’t bear to let it go. Now, typically I have Rika meet Sanae in RPs, who then turns her onto Gundam and mecha in general. Inspired by Haro, Rika then converts that last shell into a Bakebake companion robot.

>>49819736
>playing Rika in a few RPs
What do you mean?

>>49820641
Discord role plays. Basically collaborative writing in which players control characters to tell a story. An RPG with few game elements.

>>49820709
so just normal roleplay between 2 people where you pretend to be characters?

>>49820721
More than 2 people. And not sexual. It’s collaborative storytelling. We also have incidents with boss fights. Character balance is handled more by feel than by any game systems.

>>49820856
You dont ever do sexual roleplay? Lame

>>49820856
I see, not my kind of thing but that sounds kinda cool, and I like the headcanon you came up with for the bakebakes.

>>49799855
>there are people on this board who have fucking 1CC'd HRtP
Jesus Christ how horrifying, that game is unholy.

>>49822783
It's pretty great in its own right as long as you don't mind the bombs giving you seizures.

>>49820904
There are minors on these servers. Doing ERP is a great way to break Discord TOS. Hell, we had problems with that in our first server.

>>49798820 (OP)

>>49802356
So I'm not the only one who noticed

>>49822848
I didn't say I didn't like it, but from the two or three times I played through it it feels like it'd be an absolute nightmare to tame it but maybe that's just inexperience on my part; like an STG has pretty obviously tight controls even if you suck at it, HRtP feels a lot wilder.