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Aya: (hmm… quite the interesting place. I might be able to find some nice bits of news if I just sit and listen. Though it’s quiet now, there’s no telling of what could happen with anybody who walks in.) *She takes a quick nod to the mysterious bartender and sits down at the bar.* Aya: “Ah, I’m not in the mood for much right now. Thanks for the offer!” *She opens up for notebook and begins to take in the noise of her surroundings, listening for anything from anybody that could draw someone’s attention. While waiting, she begins to outline articles, like one on the cafe, to pass the time while listening.*

Oh hey, the black and white magician! Wait, sources say that she’s a completely unrelated person Day 30: Yuki Yuki is neat. I like the magic duo that she has with Mai, though she’s definitely the weaker of the two characters. Honestly, I’d like to see her again if she shows with Mai, as they could be a super fun pair to see, with their magic being pretty different than usual iirc. Overall, half of a whole with a lot of potential.

Alright, let’s get the fun part done then. Name: Aya Shameimaru Age: est over 1000 Sex: Female Species: Tengu Abilities: Manipulate the wind, Fastest in all of gensokyo(self proclaimed, but never proven wrong) Occupation: reporter Personality: Always has an ear to the latest stories, and stops at nothing to get the story. Sociable and prides herself in being honest, but others find her to exaggerate frequently and twist some truths. She doesn’t try to cause problems, but when people interfere with her work she definitely doesn’t enjoy it. She also has a more serious side when necessary. Background: Being a reporter, she’s been everywhere. Involved in around four incidents earlier, she’s out looking for the latest story again, when a new building on the edge of the village piques her interest. Curious, she dons her undercover reporter clothes and sets off.

Red headed Cop princess Day 29: Kotohime I like the fact that Kotohime is in touhou 3. That game specifically gets better characters usually because each character actually has a small bit of lore. Kotohime gets two bits, one on her being some kinda princess, and the other being her dreams of being a cop iirc. In general, her lore is kinda incoherent, so it’s not very important. Her design is very meh, and the purple is weird with her hair tbh. Overall, a less important but nice PC98 character.(honestly, I thought she’d be lower tbh.)

Tokoyoyoyoyo fairy girl Day 28: Eternity Larva Larva is another nice small character. Nice design, nice personality, and not much else. Her whole thing with her being the tokoyo god or whatever is very confusing imo, but it’s nice for her. Overall, she belongs to the kinda large category of small characters with no huge issues, but held back by having not much character than their small stuff.

Oh, so it’s pretty similar to what I’m used to lol. In that case, the dreamy cafe one looked kinda interesting to me.

Zombis who is getting exploited by a wicked hermit Day 27: Yoshika Miyako Yoshika is character I feel bad for. She basically got resurrected by Seiga and then be forced to do her bidding. However, Yoshika has some cool bits with small details, which is good to see in a relatively minor character. For example, she sometimes spouts poetry because she enjoyed in it life, and her paper on her face is a to-do list. This just makes her into a cool bit part character, but I still feel extremely bad for her. Also got screwed out of most stuff, due to Seiga not showing up much anymore, so she is kinda left to the wayside. Her design is nice too.

While I wouldn’t be opposed to it as a DM for dnd and someone who likes role playing from time to time, I’ll say that the lack of knowledge of most stuff you mentioned may make it difficult.(hell, I didn’t even know about play by post until just now). If it where to start up, I wouldn’t really mind it though.

A fairy who is the most fairy like of them all Day 26: Sunny Milk Sunny is the pure, unadulterated concept of a fairy. Upbeat, energetic, and mischievous, all wrapped in a bright package and stapled onto the fairies of light. I like Sunny’s concept, and I don’t mind seeing her at all. However, it won’t change the fact that I really don’t care for the fairies that much, since they really aren’t my kind of character. I’m still always happy to see her though, as you always know some funky antics will happen when she shows up.

Rika will come later, since I’m doing based on my sorter results. Rika is in 91st, and today being Satono was 126th

D-Lux shafted character - Mario version Day 25: Satono Nishida I wanna preface this saying that okina is one my favorite characters, as it’s relevant to my opinions on this character. In which, HOLY HELL THIS CHARACTER GOT MEGA SHAFTED. We only see okina without her servants, which weird because that’s to only way her servants can get screentime. So they basically got tossed off in the forgotten character bin that is touhou 16’s cast (besides Aunn and okina) and never seen again, even though they have the opportunity to be seen. As for Satono specifically, I don’t like her design as much as Mai’s, and it’s as simple as that. Overall, this character got mega screwed out of showing up. Hell, fans treat her better tbh.

OH MY GOD IS THAT THE GRIM REAPER Day 24: Elly Elly has a nice design. She definitely doesn’t do much other than guard yuuka’s mansion, but I respect her for that. She’s also the titular bad apple girl, as it’s her stage that it plays in. She’s just another one of the slightly underwhelming PC98 characters to be honest. Overall, a character that guards a mansion and is associated with one the biggest touhou phenomena ever.

Angry bucket that can and will kill you Day 23: Kisume Guess who’s back from being in the middle of nowhere! So kicking the marathon back on is Kisume. She’s definitely another character with midboss syndrome of not getting much character because of no dialogue, and is more fanon driven because of it. She fills the role of showing the more directly murderous and dangerous youkai, kinda like Rumia except a bucket. However, that’s all Kisume gets besides the small detail of her head possibly not being hers. Her personality isn’t much except murder, and there’s not too much to talk about in that regard. Overall, a Rumia type character with nothing else to her name.

Cirno’s fanon Luigi Day 22: Daiyousei Dai doesn’t exist in canon. She is very much a fan character that happens to be rooted off a midboss in EoSD. Dai is a nice character, and I see her do some fine things in fanon, but never anything important. She’s a nice side to cirno, and I kinda appreciate that for her in fanon, being the big sister fairy sometimes as well. Overall, a neat little character that the fans basically made, but she never became too much.(plus, I’ve never been huge on the fairies)

Angel who is very blue Day 21: Sariel Sariel is another one of the PC98 characters that aren’t too notable. I like her design, mostly because wings are really neat. I kinda hope if we see makai again that we see her along with the other makai residents.

Gamer moonie Day 20: Kaguya Houraisan So kaguya I find to be one the most annoying characters to me. I’ll start with some positives about her because she definitely has them. Her whole part of lore is neat, and I enjoy the hourai elixir story arc. I like the fanon interpretation of her at certain points, as some manage to not make her annoying and instead an actual part of eientei. However, I also don’t like a decent amount of her character. I find her very annoying, as she chooses to just be lazy and let rabbits do her work, and I hate those kinds of spoiled characters when done like this. She just never does anything interesting and doesn’t show up to any good effects. Overall, a character with some great aspects and some bad aspects, but commits the real greatest character sin of being annoying.

Swordswoman with a neat design Day 19: Meira Meira continues the trend of PC98 characters with a neat design and not much else. Meira specifically doesn’t even have much of a place in the universe, only doing anything in her debut game. That’s kinda how it is with these characters and me, is that without lore or fan content, I won’t really care too much. But don’t worry, we will son get to more interesting topics, like kaguya tomorrow. Also, I will say I have something coming up for July 17-21 that I will be taking a quick break from this for, as I’ll be completely offline entirely. Overall, Meira has a cool design and not much else.

PC 98 maid except not actually a maid Day 18: Mugetsu Mugetsu is definitely one of the PC 98 characters people latched onto. The getsu sisters in general are part of the most wanted PC98 characters, and honestly for good reason. They actually are interesting and have some excellent designs, along with good themes. Mugetsu in particular I don’t like as much, mostly because I’m not huge on the maid aesthetic and I like her sister a lot more. Mugetsu is the more relaxed one, but honestly that just made her a bit less interesting. I wouldn’t mind her returning if it means we get Gengetsu though.

reganeet ytsgna Day 17: Seija Kijin Seija is a character that I feel is supposed to be hated. She has barely any redeeming qualities, cheats, and Stockholm syndromed shimmy to make herself stronger. She generally doesn’t have a great personality, and I hate the speech tick of saying a ton of opposites, as it just makes her more annoying than anything. She accomplished being a more villainous character, but I feel the fans lost that part of her and tried to make her into something she isn’t. I also don’t really like her design as well, but her theme is excellent. Overall, villain character that got fandom treatment in a bad way, coupled with her not being my favorite type of character.

A really terrible ghost, so bad she’s gotta move out. Day 16: Kana Anaberal Kana was so bad at being a ghost that she’s needing to move because the guy she’s haunting wasn’t scared of her. That’s basically all kana has. I will say that touhou 3 has the most fleshed out characters in all of PC98, even more than characters like shinki in some cases. I’ll talk about that specific example quite a while later, because I really love her concept and execution of her character. PC98 in general has a lot of interesting concepts that just never came to be, and it honestly saddens me with some of them. Overall though, kana is a neat little bit part character that I think wouldn’t be too bad to return.

No, she’s kinda boring in my opinion, especially since she’s from a game with some well designed characters like elis, shingyoku, and Sariel. She just doesn’t stand out to me.

The forgotten fourth oni Day 15: Konngara Konngara is another PC98 without anything. She doesn’t really do much, and only shows up in one game. I don’t care for her design either. I’m gonna take this post to talk a little about other things that tangentally relate to Konngara, but is a common problem. Basically, whenever a character doesn’t have much, the fans do one of two things. They either leave the character where they are, or try to make something out of them. It’s happened with characters like the getsu sisters, where some huge fans of them make a ton of art of them to show that they are cool designs, and mostly people will give them a fangame. So sometimes, characters can end up being fandom creations, like Koakuma, daiyousei, and the getsu sisters. Anyways, sorry for the kinda boring posts, it’s just that the PC98 characters aren’t very interesting to me and I don’t have much on them. The bingo stuff will start to pick up a bit pretty soon.

Just your average makai person Day 14: Louise The only thing I find notable for Louise is her potential. She could be a nice lens into makai life as a whole, which is an unexplored part of lore. I like her design too, with it being pretty unique as a whole. Generally, she could fill a role of showing makai to us as someone whose experiences with it, which would be nice.

If you knock over this girls stone stacks, I’m coming to your location and rapidly approaching Day 13: Eika Ebisu Eika is a character with some potential. I feel like she currently is used to flavor the Sanzu River a bit more with some inhabitants, kinda like Urumi. But I feel like she could do some more stuff, like show more of the kinds of spirits that live in that area of hell, along with potentially other spots in hell. In general, Eika is part of an unexplored part of the lore, which is hell. Who knows though, Eika might not even show up again because she’s a stage one character. I do like her design and concept, and kinda wish she gets used for when we finally learn what hell is all about. Overall, one of the characters that got very little but has potential to be a neat little small character.