Thread 50083314

Hiking with your 2hu is good for the mind and body.

>>50083314 (OP)
Sanae - Sanae, that's not fair. Stop fucking flying, I can't get up there, Sanae.

>>50083314 (OP)
I read that as "Milking your 2hu is good for the mind and body." for a second.

When do I get out of this mental asylum and get to live in the mountains with the kappa?

>>50083420
Is Nitorare good for you?

>>50083314 (OP)
I went to Mt. Ooe last year in honor of Yuugi. It was a 3 hour walk on a completely empty mountain road to get to the part of the mountain that had the actual hiking trail. Very quiet and peaceful walk, wouldn't have wanted to get there any other way.

Turns out you could take a bus to and from the trail. It just happened to not be running on the day that I went.

>>50083397
Well stop being a groundpleb and learn how to fly then, anon

It's not that hard, Sanae's been able to fly since she was a little girl, you're not weaker than a little girl, are you?

>>50088650
What if she is just jumping really high?

>>50091533
>You can fly?!
>No, jump good!
Man, imagine how weird it would be if everyone in Gensokyo was just jumping around everywhere instead of flying

Thread-related image to make this post somewhat on-topic

>>50092282
Imagine going for a hike in the mountains and encountering a young lady who looked like she was dressed for a leisurely stroll through a garden, parasol and all.

>>50083314 (OP)
Most 2hus are Youkai and going to secluded places with them sounds like a very bad idea

>>50083314 (OP)
Most 2hus are good girls and going to secluded places with them sounds like a very good idea

>>50094742
>>50094992
I'm going to need a tier list ranking 2hus by safety to be around in an isolated area, just to be safe.

>>50094742
>Most 2hus are Youkai
Is this even true anymore? In the last game we had
>Ubame: youkai
>Chimi: questionably a youkai (predates the concept of youkai)
>Nareko: god (dosojin)
>Yuiman: god-human
>Toyohime: questionably a god (lunarian)
>Ariya: god
>Nina: questionably a youkai (shen are from Chinese mythology rather than Japanese and are more closely related to dragons than youkai)

It seems like gods are more common in the setting than youkai at this point

>>50096946
I feel like doing a quick count in response to this post. Only counting Windows canon, explicitly named (humanoid) characters that actually appear unobscured on screen/panel...
It's not even fucking close, youkai blow every other category I set completely out of the water.
By my count, there are:
5 "Misc" race (Reisen I and II, Seiran, Ringo, Mayumi)
7 Ghosts (Prismrivers, Yuyuko, Soga, Eika, Mizuchi)
7 Fairies (Cirno, CP, Lily, Eternity, Luna, Star, Sunny)
11 Humans (Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya, Mokou, Sumireko, Satono, Mai, Kosuzu, Akyuu, Maribel, Renko)
11 Special Humans (Youmu, Kaguya, Sanae, Tenshi, Seiga, Futo, Miko, Yuiman, Rinnosuke, Toyohime, Yorihime)
18 Gods (Eirin, Shizuha, Minoriko, Hina, Kanako, Suwako, Sagume, Junko, Hecatia, Joon, Shion, Okina, Kutaka, Keiki, Misumaru, Chimata, Nareko, Ariya)
Which leaves a staggering 74 Youkai. I am fully willing to admit that I've probably missed a few characters, and some characters are very difficult to categorize (Akyuu seems to think Eiki is a youkai, but you could just as easily argue she's a god. Eternity is implied to be a god, and Eika is referred to as a god despite also being directly listed as a ghost in her profile. Lunarians are a complete mess, and I didn't even count the animal family leaders as anything because I have no fucking idea if they're youkai or animal spirits or if there's even a meaningful difference between those two things), but that's all moot when you could combine every other race and youkai would still come out ahead with a pretty healthy lead. Even when you get games that seem to be giving gods a lot of attention, ZUN is usually pretty quick to pop out a SA or UFO or UDoALG which just pumps out like 5-7 new youkai. As a comparison I think the most god heavy mainline Touhou game was MoF and that only had 5 gods out of a cast of 9, 6 if you really want to count Sanae as a god somehow.

>>50097213
Yeah, thinking back on it most games do have a Youkai-majority cast, FW and MoF are outliers in that sense and even if ZUN made it so every game was god-only from now on and no more youkai were introduced it would still take a long time for the ratio of youkai to other characters to change in any meaningful way

Just my recency bias talking, I guess

Also Sanae literally is a god but if you had to count her as one or the other she's definitely human

>>50097343 (You)
I guess what I was mostly thinking of is that youkai mostly aren't described as being super dangerous to humans anymore, some of them still eat people but then you have youkai like Kogasa who gets along with humans and just ineffectually tries to scare them and Byakuren who actively tries to get along with both races, youkai mostly just act as eccentric humans rather than demonic monsters from ancient Japanese myths so what >>50094742 is saying is wrong, it's perfectly fine to go to a secluded place with a 2hu, even a youkai, as long as it's not someone like Seija or Rumia (though the latter is probably barely a threat to anyone with two functioning brain cells)

Also I have to post samples because every picture like this is fucking massive (this one was 12 MB)

>>50097343
>Also Sanae literally is a god but if you had to count her as one or the other she's definitely human
That's why I put her in special human, she's basically a human but her status of arahitogami is noteworthy enough that it's worth putting her in the "ascended human" bucket. Similarly, lunarians that aren't explicitly listed as gods in their profiles weren't counted as gods either were put into special/ascended human, and Yuiman's "god-person" designation is ambiguous enough that you could put her in the god bucket. The main reason I didn't is because she's directly compared to the standard lunarians.
Of course you could throw all the "special humans" into the god category (even the ones that obviously aren't gods or god adjacent) and it still wouldn't be anywhere near close to the youkai numbers.

There is already another thread about it but it does make you wonder where the line between yokai and kami really is.

>>50106305
I mean in a very basic sense kami specifically seem to require faith and worship while youkai are more flexible in their dietary needs. Like you're much less likely to be eaten by a kami than you are by a youkai. The reason they feel so similar is that they're both ultimately born of and sustained by superstition, and they both struggle to survive in a modern context.

>>50097366
Miji is a good girl and is very wifeable

>>50106476
Maybe there will be a renaissance for them soon, with more people these days becoming superstitious and religious again.

>>50083314 (OP)
Momiji would keep you in tip top shape
10 miles hiking every day with the wolf

>>50106305
I don't remember where I read this but I read somewhere that youkai and kami are fundamentally the same sort of being, the major difference being that one lives off fear and being hated by humans and the other lives off worship and being loved (or at least respected) by humans

Being spiritual entities, they're highly susceptible to what people think of them, so this fundamental difference in how they approach humans leads to two very different classes of being

I don't know if this lines up with canon or conventional Shinto wisdom, though

>>50112829
>>50122195
Momiji is a good girl, I agree

One day I'll visit this place...

>>50138302
Never

>>50083401
Based.