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is there anything in touhou that isnt?

>>40035310
NIgga wat, Wild and Horned Hermit is the least boring Touhou manga. Forbidden Scrollery is ambien in comic form.

>>40035689
I haven't read the others yet, if WAHH is the most exciting, what the fuck could the rest be like

>>40035310
All touhou manga is like that
ZUN wanting to keep the status quo = no high stakes

>>40035310
>>40035957
Zun is not good at plots. Or pacing. Or any writing skill other than making entertaining characters (and he flubs that up half the time.) There are really only two reasons to read official manga: lorefagging and/or you like reading the characters bounce off each other. WaHH has a few good character chapters (any with Suika, the Kogasa blacksmith chapter) but if you're reading for the story it pretends like it's going to have (Kasen's quest for her arm) you'll be disappointed.

>>40036291
Oh, you can also read official manga for the art. Watching Aya's art evolve over the course of WaHH is great.

>>40035957
Just wait until you get to the real shit, where you not only have nothing happening but also shit art.

>OP needs to have his shonen enemy of the week manga to be entertained

>>40035310
Status quo is the highest order God in Touhou and this applies to all of its manga. Nothing major can happen because that shakes up the natural order, and Gensokyo's entire existence is heavily structured on maintaining the balance. If that falters, everything falls apart, which is why stakes can't happen outside of the games.
You don't usually come for a gripping narrative or some big game-changing twist, you come for the character interactions, variable artwork and actual indicators of characters with character, something you almost never see in the games unless you're one of the main two heroines or reoccurring.

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>>40035689
These 2 are my favourite of the touhou printed works. "Boring" just works for it

>>40035310
The only good manga is the collective fairy manga. It has character development, lore, cuteness, progress, hotbloodedness, and not just tied into the games but spawned a game of its own.(Caused by the protags pissing off Cirno so much that she went around kicking their asses). There's even stuff like them changing homes that gives a continual time flow instead of keeping the status quo. The journey from being the worlds weakest creatures, getting stomped on by Reimu and everything else all the time, to making friends, to essentially becoming Reimu's children, and even being praised by her is heartwarming. The artist's other doujinshi about them are nice as well.

>>40035310
>>40035975
>>40042046
Literally this
It's just the slice of life in Gensokyo, business being as usual with the protagonists chatting around, talking about incidents, visiting the human village and that sort of stuff

The status quo of gensokyo is ever-stagnant, youkai dominance with human oppression

i actually liked the way it was chill

>>40035310