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approaching one year of moriya shrine this 30th i'm so grateful for all of you guy's support, thank you for staying with me until now!

i may not have spotify mobile but i have this STILL HERE is a genuine banger, fight me

Welcome back to the Moriya Shrine, CountVonNumenor. I can't speak for the entire Touhou community, but I say the state of the Touhou community is not different from 2023 in that the community is growing slowly, and new fanworks are created on a regular basis. Nothing major happened within the Touhou community between 2023 and 2024, so let me present my slice of Touhou news from 2024 as an update on what ZUN and the community has done this past year. Official May 3 - Taboo Japan Disentanglement It is another Hifuu Album with a story. https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Taboo_Japan_Disentanglement May 31 - Touhou Guideline Changes The big change is that "indie game websites" are allowed on the acceptable list, meaning a website like itch.io is now allowed to sell Touhou fan games. The second change is mention that crowdfunding is not allowed without ZUN's permission. https://x.com/richard_effendi/status/1796539548287336605 July 8 - Touhou 19 v1.10c After one year from its release, a balance patch is released that made balance changes to every character and fixing a number of bugs. The includes nerfing Chiyari’s to have clearable wisps and bluffing Nazrin’s scope speed to name a few of the changes. Safe to say, this is more balanced than the initial version of Touhou 19. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2400340/view/4220517501592769690 July 29 - ZUN Manuscript In a radio stream back in July 29, ZUN commented that he been busy writing some manuscripts. It been speculated that this could be a future Touhou printwork. https://moriyashrine.org/forums/topic/6276-a-new-livestream-with-zun-kind-of-a-interview-too/?do=findComment&comment=20165 Community February 8 - Touhou Danmaku Kagura Release After the successful crowdfunding campaign back in 2023 to revive Touhou Danmaku Kagura, this rhythm game got its release on Steam. https://danmaku.jp/igG3s3wtMyN0R1Oa1x7CQ/ June 5 - Crowdfunding Permissions On this day, Kyoto Fantasy Troupe is accepted for fundraising its 3rd episode of The Sealed Esoteric History. At the same time, the Korean Touhou orchestra got declined for fundraising, forcing them to change their funding strategy. https://x.com/fantasytroupe/status/1798323908669755837 https://x.com/THorch_KR/status/1798324092812353971 May 10 - TouhouFest 2024 News Report TouhouFest 2024 is broadcasted on Torrence’s cable network on a report that showcases the aspects of TouhouFest while TouhouFest attendees talk about Touhou and the convention. https://youtu.be/X_TCJbXei_o?si=73xjg9mcNDfApXNK Summer - Cyberattacks on Touhou! On June 8, Niconico went down for about a month after a ransomware attack occurred on Kadowara’s servers. Then, during early July, a wave of DDOS attacks occurred on multiple Chinese Touhou websites, shutting down services like the THBWiki. Thankfully, all of these services have since recovered, and it does not appear any permanent website migrations occurred after this incident was said and done. https://moriyashrine.org/forums/topic/5870-chinese-touhou-websites-are-under-attack/ July - Seasons of Gensokyo Seasons of Gensokyo is another Touhou zine collaboration after Welcome to Gensokyo that once again features art, stories, and comics from over 100 contributors. https://gensokyozine.itch.io/gensokyoseasons August - Mystia Izakaya Anime Announcement Its release is aiming for summer 2025. Concept art has also been released in the meantime. https://moriyashrine.org/forums/topic/6495-touhou-mystias-izakaya-anime-seems-to-be-on-the-works/ August 15 - Imperishable Night 20th Anniversary Across the Touhou community were fanworks related to Imperishable Night to celebrate its anniversary. There too many fanworks to cover in this post, but the tag fanworks used for the anniversary is #ImperishableDay. https://youtu.be/UHwbk9fgs9w Winter - Riverside Wonders A charity zine where all profit will go to Care for Gaza in helping the needs of Palestine families. The zine is planed for preorders by the end of the year. https://thriversidezine.carrd.co/ December - BBEX International On December 31st, 2023, the Hispanic community magazine BBEX, releasing its first international issue, showcasing community works from the rest of the Western Touhou community. With the success of the pervious event, BBEX international is running again this year and has announced that the premiere of the next issue will happen on December 29th. https://x.com/POfBoundaries/status/1865896113573617779 Vanyk's Japan Touhou Circle Research Teaser Vanyk has been building an extensive data table on Touhou circles and Touhou events within Japan to analysis changes in the Japanese Touhou community. Currently, he is in the progress of writing an analysis piece based on his data. https://moriyashrine.org/profile/38795-vanyk/content/?type=core_statuses_status&change_section=1 If you need more info on what happened in 2024, I recommend Suzunaan's monthly news videos. Despite the commentary being Spanish, their videos are still watchable as each news item has images. Plus, every video has a source list down in the description or comment section. If you have any more questions on the Touhou community, feel free to ask.