>>49898112
Oh, she is special, I was just making a general statement.
>>49898137
I think Lacadio Hearn's works probably had an impact of ZUN. I recently read Kwaidan and there's quite a lot of stuff there that gets reference in Touhou. I feel like the Hourai story, which I think is Hearn's original work, might have influenced some elements of Gensokyo. And ZUN had the whole "Hourai Girls" thing going on at some point too.
>>49898835
It's not that I think European women are ugly or anything, but in Japan, it felt like I was running into the most beautiful woman I have ever seen every two days. And they were all quite ordinary people - shopkeepers, hotel workers, cooks, miko, office workers leaving their job. I was kind of shocked by this and I feel like this makes me into a kind of walking stereotype, but I can't help it.