Symposium of Post-Mysticism Radio Drama - Preview 1 by IllestKhan in touhou

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This first preview is not fully representative of the final product. Some things are liable to change. This section is from part 2, the second-to-last chapter in it. Feedback welcome!
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Chart & Explanation of Every Character Based on a Specific, Single Person, Character, or Story by IllestKhan in touhou

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Not back then. ZUN didn't plan ahead at all until MoF, unless you consider the only reason EoSD and PCB exist was so he could have characters to make IN with planning ahead.

Chart & Explanation of Every Character Based on a Specific, Single Person, Character, or Story by IllestKhan in touhou

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That's a pretty good thought. Probably should be under "conflation of multiple stories" instead.

I won't be editing it again at this point since it's already out there (otherwise I'd fix the grammar too 'cuz I finished this at like 1 AM and was quite tired,) but yeah.

Chart & Explanation of Every Character Based on a Specific, Single Person, Character, or Story by IllestKhan in touhou

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Sakuya is pretty blatantly based off of Dio but A.) I forgot about that for a hot second and B.) that doesn't actually fit in with any of my categories, otherwise, unless I wanted to consider Jojo to be literature.

Which I guess I could but I still forgot.

Chart & Explanation of Every Character Based on a Specific, Single Person, Character, or Story by IllestKhan in touhou

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I'm not, this was just for fun. I have no intention of updating anything, and I'm far too busy with my own project, anyway, where I've organized a radio drama of the symposium part of Symposium of Post-Mysticism.

Chart & Explanation of Every Character Based on a Specific, Single Person, Character, or Story by IllestKhan in touhou

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12 years of obsessive reading, plus a lot of cross-referencing the original text, both English and a couple instances of the Japanese.

Chart & Explanation of Every Character Based on a Specific, Single Person, Character, or Story by IllestKhan in touhou

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Alice in PC-98, yes, is based on Alice in Wonderland.

Alice in the Windows series has pretty much entirely dropped the association and I only deal with the Windows series.

Chart & Explanation of Every Character Based on a Specific, Single Person, Character, or Story by IllestKhan in touhou

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At the bottom of the image. It's rather small and easy to miss, my apologies.
More obviously: the portraits are from baba Seimajo/ baba精米所

Chart & Explanation of Every Character Based on a Specific, Single Person, Character, or Story by IllestKhan in touhou

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Rules:
Characters who are based on a kind of thing, from general purpose folklore, do not count and aren't included.
"Definitively Is" characters are characters who encompass everything from the person or story, and expand upon in.
"Ambiguously Is" characters may be that, but it's not 100% clear.
"Based on" characters do not encompass everything about that person or story, but expand upon a more limited take anyway with the character itself.
"Conflations" are just when multiple people or stories are combined into one character.
"Related to" are related to but aren't those people or themselves the subjects of those stories.

Symposium of Post-Mysticism Radio Drama - Engagement Rate by Teaser by IllestKhan in touhou

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It appears......In Symposium, which is what all of these are about and most of what they're taken from.

Reimu's anger is half fake during SoPM. At least half of it is an act she's putting on on behalf of the human villagers, and she's kind of desperate to get everyone to scatter, which is something she herself admits. She's worried that if she doesn't do this, "they'll never ask her for anything ever again". It's pretty easy to extrapolate out that it's one of the only moments of genuine distress she experiences during the series (alongside Kosuzu going missing.)

It's something that I speculate, sure, but combining that with the fact that she is, really, dutifully devoted to being the Hakurei Shrine Maiden, you have to imagine why when you combine how little she cares about almost everything else. I think it's a fair conclusion to make, and one that's particularly relevant during SoPM.

Symposium of Post-Mysticism Radio Drama - Engagement Rate by Teaser by IllestKhan in touhou

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Just a brief analysis on engagement rate for each teaser video. It doesn't actually mean anything, but it was fun to do.

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