touhou project: year in review, 2024 (kind of)

[koakumas]

welcome, you're here because of a year in review, eh?

this is basically like a questionnaire!! also thank you guys so much for 1 year on moriya shrine, and ofc, all the support!!!

let's begin the questionnaire

 

1) What was the best thing from the community of this year?

honestly, all the FA that came in, so many have gotten improvements (like me)!! also we got koishi project and lyrica live dropped another thing!!!

2) What changed for you within the community throughout 2024?

basically what you changed in 2024 in the community, for me, it's the activity on moriya shrine and my FA

3) What's your contributions to Touhou?

writing stories, artworks, and that game im making!!

4) Why have you stayed in Touhou until today?

still have that heavy interest in touhou, plus whats the use when i lose interest and i have now 6 fumos to deal with?

5) Last comments of 2024 Touhou before we move towards 2025 Touhou?

this is the year where i really contributed to the touhou space with my arts, writing, and that game

 

that's all, really, i'm running out of good ideas

happy new year and see y'all in 2025!!! 

[Pinky Cat]

1) What was the best thing from the community of this year?

Cirno's Bomb-Tastic Adventure by yomogi_soft. Not only is it the best Touhou puzzle game to be released on mobile devices, but it also made me get out pen and paper to solve its puzzles. Let's just say that finding out factors of numbers was not what I expected out of a Cirno fangame.

 

2) What changed for you within the community throughout 2024?

I started to interact more with the Touhou community, which that first step was creating a Moriya Shrine account to post information about a forgotten doujin circle called Distant Union.

3) What's your contributions to Touhou?

It's research into Touhou, whatever it is on unused content for Touhou fangames, investigating into old Touhou fanbooks, discovering the world of Touhou mobile games, or simply looking online on different Touhou communities. Outside of that, I decided to write about the Touhou books I been collecting and reading over the years under the thread Touhou Reading Log.

4) Why have you stayed in Touhou until today?

Touhou has so many connections to other works outside of the Touhou sphere. Frankly, I am surprised at times on how other creators have been influenced by Touhou in some form will go on to create something else entirely separate from Touhou that sparks a sense of appeal.

5) Last comments of 2024 Touhou before we move towards 2025 Touhou?

I didn't get around to saying what my personal wish that the Touhou community could do more in that thread, so I say it here as my final comment: the Touhou community should continue to expand its international relations. Watching the broadcast for BBEX 17 has reminded me of how far Touhou has gone in terms of connecting with Touhou communities of different languages. If it continues that way, I have no doubt that Touhou will be in a fine place for the future.

 

That all I have to say, so have a good new year! 

 

[vanyk]

1) What was the best thing from the community of this year?

It is hard to say, really, so many things happaned and I could forget some of them (lol). Here I would only mention Western fandom.
Patches: Praises of Buttered Heavens (PoBH) definetely the best mod which came out this year. fullhouse patch for 18.5 is quite fun.
Fangames: Touhou Roguelike is interesting. IotDF is quite fun. TCL got a great update. There is one unique Chinese Touhou inspired game I liked, it has so many good idea.
Fan Music: Stability of Broken heart definitely is the best. Silent Clangorous Discordance it quite a unique album.
Animations: Touhou Rickroll and The Youmu & Mystia cartoon. Both are great.

2) What changed for you within the community throughout 2024?

I began to communicate more in Touhou fandom. Got more interested in Japanese and Chinese Touhou communities.

3) What's your contributions to Touhou?

I think this article is my biggest contribution to Touhou community.
Also I was adding info for Lost Media list and helped some people here.

4) Why have you stayed in Touhou until today?

I still have a heavy interest in Touhou, and there still a lot of things I don't know about.

5) Last comments of 2024 Touhou before we move towards 2025 Touhou?

This year was quite interesting, and I hope the next one will be interesting too. I also hope that Western Touhou fandom would be much more interested in different kinds of fanworks as there are some kinds of them which are not very popular in the Western Touhou fandom.

 

That is all I'd like to say. Have a happy new year!