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The contemporary designs, stripped of such hierarchical signifiers, reflect our age’s flattening of “being” itself. Where once character design participated in the Great Chain of Being through symbolic density, we now encounter forms that, while superficially pleasing, lack the vertical dimension that connects the visible to the invisible, the temporal to the eternal.
This is the deeper tragedy, not that hats have vanished, but that the capacity for hatfulness, for crowned completeness, has been forgotten in favor of a democratized aesthetic that recognizes no transcendent ordering principle.
But have hope! For ZUN has begun to regain his stride, and Touhou 20 will be for many a return to form to the older games and designs. Even in what we have seen of new 2hus, we are beginning to see a return to form that follows function. Even in spite of the AI drama with the backgrounds, I have hope in ZUN. We WILL have our hathus back
The contemporary designs, stripped of such hierarchical signifiers, reflect our age’s flattening of “being” itself. Where once character design participated in the Great Chain of Being through symbolic density, we now encounter forms that, while superficially pleasing, lack the vertical dimension that connects the visible to the invisible, the temporal to the eternal.
This is the deeper tragedy, not that hats have vanished, but that the capacity for hatfulness, for crowned completeness, has been forgotten in favor of a democratized aesthetic that recognizes no transcendent ordering principle.
But have hope! For ZUN has begun to regain his stride, and Touhou 20 will be for many a return to form to the older games and designs. Even in what we have seen of new 2hus, we are beginning to see a return to form that follows function. Even in spite of the AI drama with the backgrounds, I have hope in ZUN. We WILL have our hathus back
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