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| After one encounter with the Great Red-White they know better than to misbehave again.
| I'd assume that ZUN finds character creation and development to be an entertaining process, so they enjoy making new characters. And seeing as Touhou dominates the doujin world, having more characters continually breathes life into the options doujin creators have available to them.
| I'm guessing ZUN enjoys the character creation process more than creating the plot ("plot") for the incidents.
Characters also occassionally reappear (especially in the print materials) so it's not like he forgets about the old ones.
| It's like all the enemies become our friends after getting a bonk from Reimu
| I feel like he does that only for character he really feels like using. A lot of older characters could easily be protagonists due to the fact they're humans so resolving incidents could be in their veins (Rika, Meira, Kotohime, Rikako, you name them), but iirc ZUN had complained something about writing Mima in Touhou 3 and 5, as she felt kind out of character in regards to her SoEW stance.
| Don't get me wrong, she still is an evildoer, but now she's more like "unintentionally doing chaotic good". If she was to reappear, I don't think she'd be any different from Marisa. The only difference they'd maybe have is that Mima would use the "rocket"-like oattern like MarisaA in EoSD and PCB.
WELL, with Yuuka on the other it seemed like he was on the right tracks. I'd personally love to see her again, but oh well. But I feel your pain. A lot of things remain unexplained.
| For example, does Iku work for the Lunar Capital? Or is the Dragon Palace of her's somewhere else? The problem I see with Lunar Capital as her home is "why would the lunarians send their messengers down on earth to warn the earthlings about natural disasters?" Like, the moon is enemies with earth, so her role makes no sense, unless the dragon palace is somewhere else and the dragon god is actually the one that contributed to Gensokyo.
| Still, I feel like we should get a phantasmagoria game from time to time, to flesh out the characters that were created. Who even remembers characters like Yatsuhashi nowadays?
| >>ca6306
I think, and I might wildly off, but I think ZUN deliberately give only a few details about most his characters because he likes letting the fans interpret them their own way. Fleshing out characters is just not his style.
| >>774997 maybe true. He does flesh out some characters that he's confident with, but that's about it. It may be for the better of the series.
| >>774994 I literally forget Yatsuhashi is a thing despite the rest of the cast of DDC being more memorable. Hell even her sister Benben at least has a easy to remember name
But yeah the best take on this I've seen is that the characters are like a goblin character with a cool one liner in a D&D campaign that the fans adpot.
It's both kinda cool and kinda frustraiting. Like I love how the cast will always feel fresh in a new game but never elaborated on
| Like yeah I want someone to actually use the characters for something again cause they're interesting, but at the same time UM was great and I love almost every single newhou in there
Maybe the best solution would actually be another phantasmagoria game. Even if I personally don't enjoy the side to side random pattern gameplay
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| Does anyone know why ZUN doesn't reuse characters? I mean why does every new Touhou have to introduce all these new characters? Why not have older characters start another incident?