I’d say all this on the touhou subreddit but it’ll be Mass downvoted. I used to love touhou so much for months, I have plushies, figures, art on my wall, games and I even have a giant blue reimu fumo. I stuck pictures of touhou characters onto the walls of my school, I got my teachers to play it, I made a touhou stop motion for my school work. in summer 2025 I met a creep hyper obsessed with it and he did bad things to me and I fell out of it. I try going back to it and even ignoring my experience it just feels so bland and hollow, none of the characters have any depth because once you see them you never see them again, reimu and Marissa barely have any depth they don’t really feel much different from their versions in touhou 8 except maybe they are a bit less childish. The games themselves don’t really improve imo they just get gimmicks, the actual games feel indistinguishable past a certain point the only difference is the music (which I love) I think touhou 20 was kinda my final straw with the series bc it just felt like nothing and the fanbase went insane because a character returned like that should be the bare minimum… I didn’t really like majority of the character designs and the game was just frustrating idk… I don’t hate touhou I really wish I could get into it again bc I have so much touhou stuff and I think the world has a lot of potential, but when there’s like 100 characters with little to no depth and majority of their personality is telling reimu to die idk… the fans make good fanfiction and their own stories but bc of this it’s all disconnected, in one manga reisen can be a competent character then in the next she’s being abused and has a humiliation fetish. The community is a whole other thing but it’ll be too long, just the average fandom attached to anything with a vaguely anime style twists it into a loli sex thing idk…

this post will make 0 sense to majority of this site bc I think touhou is like only popular with men atp i rarely ever see any women liking it and this site is majority women.