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I recently saw a Touhou iceberg that claimed "Touhou 20 will be the last game". Of course, the chance that this is actually true is very unlikely but it got me thinking: For how long with we be getting new official content? First, let's get this out of the way. I strongly believe that even if Zun stops making games, music and manga, the community can continue to supply new content indefinitely. From games and manga to original characters and stories, I think that this community can create anything to keep itself going. But let's get back to the original question. If I remember correctly, Zun has stated in an interview that he's going to work on Touhou for as long as he feels like, which is good. I'd say that Touhou still has a lot of potential to evolve even more and further explore the lore of already existing characters while introduting new ones. But let's say you had to guess for how long will we be getting new official content from Zun, what would your answer be? I personally think that it's going to be for around 8 to 10 years, but that's just a speculation based on nothing but random thoughts I've had. Now let's talk about the official content itself. New games are releasing just fine, thought Touhou 19 sparked a lot of controversy as you might know. A new chapter of Foul Detective Satori is being released every month, same with Lotus Eaters. The only complaint I have is that we haven't gotten a new "proper" CD in over 7 years since the latest one only has 3 tracks, but I don't mind it that much. So, for how long do you think we're going to be getting new content? How do you think the Touhou Project is changing and how much do think these changes are going to affect its longevity?

I can't fucking take it. I see an image of a key and then I see it, I fucking see it. "Oh that looks kinda like the limbo keys" it started as. That's funny, that's a cool reference. But I kept going, I'd see a clock with time that showed 8:00, I'd see that I'm on the 8th page on my school homework, my last notice to pay my electricity bill is 800$ , I'd notice that it's been 8 days since the last time I touched a woman. And every time I'd burst into an insane, breath deprived laugh staring at the image as the limbo keys ran through my head. I'm scared to open my door when someone asks me to. It's torment, psychological torture, I am being conditioned to laugh maniacly any time I see keys which are anywhere close to 8. I can't fucking live like this... I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't! And don't get me fucking started on the words! I'll never hear the phrase "its blue!" again without thinking of limbo. Someone beats the level after incredible amounts of time and effort and I can't say anything other than "it's blue!" I could watch a man complete limbo blindfolded at 60hz and all I would be able to say is "It's blue!" and laugh like a fucking insane person. And the word "blue" is ruined. I can't live anymore. limbo has destroyed my fucking life. I want to eject myself from this plane of existence.

And/or make sure people need to pay attention to his spells to see which of his bullets are fake. We had this question asked specifically in the context of Danmaku games in my topic to ask for spellcards of people's OCs, Which you answered to with Oscar Diggs' character in what was then still Illusionary Nirvana's iteration of him. I believe part of the reason for that is writing convention. What interesting story can you make with a normal (and thus not important enough to mention) human that would not include the question of Youkaihood? (Disregarding Reimu's ruthless extermination of villagers turned Youkai, that is.) It is much easier for the average Touhou fan, who know more about the Youkai part of the Gensokyo equation than the human villager one, to empathize with the Youkai. Though I feel like they've overdone it... What's also noted down is that the Villagers are meant as sheep to fear the Youkai to exist out of their belief: so giving them a vehicle to become powerful enough to not fear Youkai is... well, you get the point. It is this strange dichotomy - Youkai in the human village, yet forbidden from entering in the first place - that gives us a conflict that is being used by everything that even touches upon the village. Most people simply don't read that far into the situation to understand the concept and the reason why ZUN made that decision. Also, what counts as a true human to you? One who can't use magic; or one who uses magic that does not require turning into a different being? Because one actually can't partake in battle and the other has to use magic that barely exists. Even Christian witchcraft can be argued to slowly turn you into a demon or an angel depending on what flavour your magic is. And then the part actually directed towards me; I truly do enjoy putting my long nose into other people's business. Well, you could've at least spent a line making it clear that he shares inventory, then this misunderstanding would not have happened. (But who am I to talk?) I assume you haven't heard of the spellcard: 'Gun sign: "3D Printer Gun"' then? I don't exactly care whether or not a person seems like a good gal or not, and considering the amount of knowledge Oscar had about her he would have gone along a similar line of reasoning as what I stated. Both my and Oscar's line of reasoning mixed into each other, which led to that very suspicious attitude I wrote in. As for her other methods of being an omen of the destruction of his less than ordinary but still cozy life, she isn't in direct contact with anyone threatening aside from Reimu. Given time, she would be able to utterly crush any chance of a normal life Oscar has, but that time won't exactly be given without a good reason, and anything concerning the Hakurei miko will involve useful explanations to weaponize later. Oscar is an anomaly, which is enough to get him on the bad side of nearly everyone who actively cares about the balance of Gensokyo. Though there are more reasons than that as to why she wouldn't like him. On a side note, Yukari must be interested in this random human who wandered all the way from the furthest corner of Gensokyo to the human village in a day and seemingly recruited a Youkai as a helper.