>>50122622
While I do not condemn those wishing for Touhou, its world, and its character to follow a certain direction, sometimes even belonging to that crowd myself, I wish nothing more than for ZUN to retain his freedom as an author, even if it is to spend 2 months on the most trivial of happenings, or overuse certain tropes and story beats, stuff the game full of boring streaming, offer subpar presentation on spells even by his own standards, the list goes on.
Maybe i'd feel more strongly about this if I ever paid for his products, or try to put myself in the shoes of those who do, but I don't. Long story short, a part of what I find so interesting about ZUN is to witness the evolution on an independant, mostly solo author through his works. The road he's had from this passionate, otaku media loving developer as reflected from the references & traces scattered all over PC-98 & early Windows, to a man that has had time to mature, had time to be formatted by society even through his unconventional life, developed new interests, saw the world around him change. It is all very... human, more than interviews, ZUN's works speak for him, and it is rare for any piece of media to metaphorically share a life story as throughly as Touhou in its entirety is fascinating. Seeing the psyche of a man from his early 20s to nearly his 50s is beautiful.