Day 32: Benben’s Sister

[Juuni]

Wait who’s this? Oh hey Benben. Oh okay I know who you are now.
Day 32: Yatsuhashi Tsukumo

Yatsuhashi is definitely a character. Her design is weaker than her sisters, so she gets pushed away from the spotlight quick. Fortunately, so many people made benben’s sister jokes that it balanced out and made her show up with Benben a lot. I like the lore they have with raiko, and it’s the only little tidbit they have. Overall, simple side character with a funny meme.

[Gri]

That's a common meme? First I've heard of it (I mostly play the games, and don't spend much time online except for this place).

And here I though you've made a pretty funny joke.

[Juuni]

To be fair, I do make all sorts of stupid jokes for these (see, my Chiyuri bingo). But I’ve seen the joke on AspreyFM’s streams, so I just decided it was enough to be known by a couple of people.

[Eulogous]

This is probably a hot take, but I honestly prefer Yatsuhashi over Benben. Sure, she has a boring hair color and her ZUN art does her absolutely no favors, but she's one of the better interpreted Tsukumogami, 2nd only to Kokoro for me at least. The way the Koto is worked into her design isn't "have literal object stapled to them" and I really like that.

Though, I've never really liked how the strings look like they're constricting around her skirt. Koto is something you sit down and play, and even her ZUN art kind of gets that across with her posing, but the way it looks is already awkward and it just gets even weirder when fanart goes all in on it.

Something like this keeps the overall same posing, but the positioning of the strings looks nicer:

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[Gri]

I don't have any preference, btw. I think it's just that Benben is an easier name to remember than Yatsuhashi.