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She’s making some Devious Machines Day 60: Rika Rika is a very neat little character. She hasn’t really gotten any fangames(besides one notable exception) and is actually intriguing within the game she is in. Her whole mechanic thing is really uncommon, but there’s something really funny about thinking about a boring brown haired girl driving a tank or a ship shaped like an eye. Her character is pretty undeveloped, but I see most interpretations go for the excitable and curious kind of way, and I think it’s fitting and would be a cool contrast to nitori. Her only notable fan work is Shanghai.EXE, where she is a part of the main group of characters. She is really fun in that game and I wish she’d be used more as a character in other works. I don’t know her theme, her design is pretty boring, and generally the only thing holding her back is her lack of presence. Overall, cool concepts, very little execution.

Recently, I have found something really interesting. The Chinese Library of Alexandria of Touhou Doujin content which was also burned several years ago. It had over 10 thousands of different items (For now, Moriya Shrine has less than 1 thousand items). Today I will tell you about Down Touhou Wiki or Down Station. I'll start at the very beginning. In 2012 several large-scale resource sharing websites stopped services one after another. Touhou fan content sharing instantly returned to the era of torrent seeds, and some files have been lost. But misfortunes never come singly. At the end of 2013, TLMC announced that it would stop updating, which meant that no one would collect and organize new files on a large scale (Taimowang (台魔王), the main provider of Touhou fan music resources around that time in China, also disappeared). When the Touhou fan content was facing destruction, in order to protect it, nine persons stood up and established the Down Station with THBWiki support. After the efforts of many people in the first one or two years they went from archives of ancient times to archives of the latest exhibitions, from doujinshi to albums and games, the Down site has gradually become the website with the largest amount of Touhou fan resources, supporting a large number of Touhou fans. However, as time goes by, policy changes on resource sharing websites have caused many resources to become invalid. Faced with such a large number of resources, it takes a lot of effort and time to check the invalid links one by one, find available files, and transfer them to the backup server. In addition, the Down site was originally a website created by someone in a short period of time. The system stability and security were worrying, and the stability of the backup server was also not good. It often self-destructs and downloads fail. For most maintenance personnel, there were more interesting things to do than continuing on the Down station... Of course, the above were not the main reasons for closing the site. The last straw that broke the camel’s back was: In the current copyright environment and the increasingly close relationship between the Chinese and the Japanese fan communities, so they thought it was not appropriate to do something like this site. They thought everyone should use legitimate channels to support fan creators. After that the project was closed. So yes, it was self-destroyed (with THBWiki help) in January of 2018. They promised that they would make a shipping guide, but the site is *down* now. And some content from there may be lost. Now you know what can happen in similar situations, so I hope something like that will not happen with Moriya Shrine. The only Chinese alternatives (I know are left) are lilywhite and thdog. And here comes the punchline. 8 months later (August 18, 2018) in the official magazine of THBWiki there was an article where DoujinStyle was mentioned as one of Touhou sites (in neutral-positive tone). If you didn't know it is a pirate doujin site with Touhou music and games. So THBWiki just advertised a pirate site after they closed their one "because of legal reasons". So The Library was burned for nothing. To be honest, it is quite sad. What do you think about this?

The returns of the bingos (Yeah. I really got nothing to say about Rika)

1 rika my favorite pc and general character, also is so different from the rest of the cast. 2 mima, 1st for the meme 2nd she's a honest antagonist no tragic backstory , just a villain 3 Rikiako very interesting idea and foil to yumemi with a great sharp outfit 4 eiki and harsh but fair and honest judge will call you out on your flaws with the intention to help 5 byakuren , she's nice nuff said , anyway beside the magnificent Steiner joke, her ideas raise questions like is the status quo right?, how much should we forgive? 6 singoku , cool idea having a two in one boss also I like to think of them as a team rocket style duo 7 keine I find the the duel nature also the fact she genuine desire to help and protect help like mokou is refreshing

Just finished voting myself. Thanks for linking Suwawako's video by the way, I'd forgotten he did that. And while I had planned to vote, I had forgotten when the start-end dates were. My own vote went something like this: 1) Remilia Scarlet (I relate with Remilia, because I am handsome, charismatic, sophisticated, and keep children in my basement) 2) Flandre Scarlet (Consistently coming in 5th or 6th in a series with 200 characters isn't bad for a literal basement dweller with no social skills. Maybe she'll hit 1st place again.) 3) Mima (Keep the dream alive) 4) Cirno (Canonically, she's a weirdo always picking fights. Fanonically, she is a humble 3rd level boss who through perseverance, made many friends and grew to be one of the most recognizable figures in the series. Its the American dream) 5) Daiyousei (Despite her personality revolving around Cirno, I actually quite like Daiyousei's fan persona, and think it makes a nice contrast to some of the more...flawed girls in the series) 6) Kogasa (Kogasa isn't my favorite character. Far from it. But she is the character I am most protective of. The spooky umbrella lady needs her love) 7) Suwako (Purely as thanks for Suwawako...Yumeko was going to go here anyway...its not like she's going to break 130th place, much less her 50th place record back in 2007...) I'm just sad I couldn't vote more, but its probably for the best. Most of the other options I considered were the popular picks. Reimu's one of my favorite heroines for her flawed personality, but...c'mon, she's in like the top three constantly. She doesn't need the help. And while I wish I could vote for Yukari and Sakuya as well...Eh, they'll do fine.