Having an existential crisis with Kogasa!
>>15252822
She's tougher than she thinks. Kogasa will pull through.
Is she the most depressed 2hu?
>>15253090
i FUCKING LOVE geta
>>15253136
She's a pretty happyhu.
>>15253136
Parsee is.
Kogasa is more bipolar, feeling like shit if she cant scare you, but extremely happy aside from that.
>>15252822
I would say we could get along over mutual problems with how we see our lives, but I would probably just go to Eirin for counselling and pills.
I dont get why she is worried about "Muh lack of purpose" I would just tell her thats how every human feels, no one is born with a purpose (excluding royalty, but most of them arent useful anyway).
Holding hands with Kogasa!
Kogasa really is the most compelling 2hu. Here she is, a usually inanimate object that was somehow magically granted conscience, and to what end? So she could do something she sees no real rational reason for, and that she's bad at it anyway? I think many on /jp/ can sympathize.
>>15253744
Hold it closer, Kogasa.
>>15253738
She is worried about a lack of purpose because she is literally a Youkai that came about from being a neglected unused object.
After 100 years of being a forgotten unused umbrella before you came to life; you'd probobly have a complex about being useful as well.
>>15253904
Kogasa has no use, neither do humans. You find your own purpose. Even then you dont really have a use as life isnt something that needed to exist, it just does.
Besides Kogasa has more of a purpose than most people. Some people have their purpose as treating the sick (Eirin), convicting criminals (Eiki), teaching others (Keine) , guarding things (Meiling), spreading religious crap for the sake of it (Miko, Byakuren, Sanae and Reimu) and serving others (Sakuya). Kogasa doesnt do any of these, she just makes people happy.
She is so miserable
>>15254008
She truly is youkai moe.
>>15253713
She looks prettier and more mature with longer hair.
>>15254008
Kogasa just needs some good friends. There are plenty of other useless low level youkai around.
>>15254782
She's friends with Kyouko, another moe youkai.
Not gonna lie, in terms of moe I think the Buddhist faction s pretty OP, only SDM comes close.
Speaking of which, Kogasa could just work for Remi as her parasol. Remi enjoys having servants, and Kogasa wnats to be used.
Allthough it's cuter when she's purposeless.
>Recently, a youkai carrying an umbrella, even when it's not raining, has been seen wandering around the human village. Its identity is, surprisingly enough, a babysitter.
>She acts on her own accord. If there are crying children in the east, it startles and comforts them, and if there are laughing children in the west, it startles and makes them cry. Those are the aspirations of Kogasa Tatara
>
"I don't really get the whole picture, but in the outside world, babysitters fly through the sky using an umbrella[1]. When I heard of that, I decided to take a shot at it myself. I mean, children are pretty easy to scare. "
It hurts me to know I will never reach Gensokyo, gain insane levels of power and protect that smile.
>>15254631
The perfect babysitter!
>>15254008
Kogasa is also a blacksmith (WaHH). She might not be very good at his occupation (scaring people), but smithing is a pretty good hobby to have.
I'd say Kogasa is a real human bean tbqh. Would get spooked by.
I love heterochromia.
>>15253297
They are cool. It looks like in >>15253090 those are one tooth geta, which seem impractical.
It looks like the girl in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPd1aJMIdV0 can run in them though. Must differ a lot depending on the length of the tooth.
I don't have a foot fetish but I would sure as hell lick Kogasa's slender feet.
>>15257040
The problem with them isn't running and walking, but standing still. You can't stand still with them even for a second. That's what I heard, anyway.
>>15253136
Only when sanae bullies her. Which means she feels depressed very often
>>15256732
Oh I know that.
It just doesnt sound good to say she sells youkai extermination tools on the side.
>>15256732
Honestly Kogasa is a model for peace in Gensokyo.
She's trusted enough by humans to look after children (One of the highest levels of trust a job could have) despite her scaring people powers, and the whole gigantic tonguebrella.
Dunking with Kogasa!
>>15257771
You gotta do what you gotta do to make a living.
>>15257843
Good point. She's really the hero of our generation.
I bet she'd be super fun to play with. The unmatched king of hide-and-seek.
>>15257843
You know I wonder, youkai need belief from humans to survive, but does that belief have to come from fear? I mean I'd believe someone was a supernatural being if they displayed their powers in front of me, regardless of if they intended to harm me or not. Maybe youkai are just too stuck in their spooky thing innawoods ways to see that there are other options.
>>15258610
You're headed into dangerous territory, kiddo.
>>15258610
>You know I wonder, youkai need belief from humans to survive, but does that belief have to come from fear?
You question the party line tovarishch?
>>15258610
Maybe it's just belief in general, rather than belief in their powers. Maybe just the belief that a ghost for example is, well, a ghost, it's enough for them to live off of it.
Showing others your powers is a pretty surefire way to get belief, though. If a kappa drilled my ass I'd know for sure that it was a kappa.
However, Kogasa always carries that umbrella around with her because of reasons we all know, so it's easy for her to get recognition. Maybe that's the reason she has an easy-going life unlike most other youkai.
>>15258610
I think it depends on what supernatural being it is. The lines are blurred sometimes, especially with belief vs faith.
It's canon that people (or even groups of people) can become a god though faith, and that running out of it will revert them back to whatever they were before- but that some gods (like Suwako) really will pop if they run out of faith. Could a youkai become a god and live that way?
Artifact youkai can transpose their entire being onto another object (Raiko, etc). IIRC in one of the older print works Tanuki can become 'stuck' in human form if they settle down with humans for extended periods.
Yamabiko are dying out because of lack of belief.
Why is Sanae so mean to her, anyway?
>>15258725
Well I suppose some species like Yamabiko would have it tougher than others. Then again, there are multiple versions of some legends and mythical beings. Maybe if someone made a new version of the Yamabiko myth where they're dog-like youkai that copy sounds they hear in a similar manner to parrots, and that version became popular, could they continue to exist even with knowledge of how echoes really work?
>>15258762
The human village is Zun's tongue-in-cheek parallel.
>>15258762
That also brings in the question, how would the changing beliefs of humans affect the look and behaviour of youkai? Obviously the more detailed the description the less room for speculation, but still. Going by your example, would the 'second generation' Yamabiko have dog ears and generally behave like wild dogs, except the whole 'shout things back to the person who said it' aspect? In any case, I'd wager that such Yamabiko would generally be a spook factor rather than a simple explanation of echoes.
Some nice food for thought.
>>15258610
Keep asking such questions and going down that line of thought and you might just get an unpleasant visit from a certain shrine maiden.
>>15257363
I'm sure you could if you tilted the teeth inward or outward. As long as your feet aren't parallel with each other you should be able to stand.
Hobbling along in geta sounds like the mechanical equivalent of rollerskates.
>>15258610
>You know I wonder, youkai need belief from humans to survive, but does that belief have to come from fear?Wait a goddamned second, I've heard this story before...
>>15258610
No, but many of the youkai in Gensokyo wish to eat or kill humans and are doing what is in their nature to survive anyway. Kogasa is a rare case where she sucks so bad at spooking people she gets her belief otherwise. If she was good at terrifying people she would just do that. Rumia/Mystia/Chen/etc can attack humans and get belief that way and I think youkai like Rumia just want to attack and eat people because it's her nature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzvfr7urWY4
>>15258725
>Could a youkai become a god and live that way?
I'm pretty sure many Kitsune were worshiped as outright gods.
>>15257040
Cool video, thanks dude. I thought she was going to fall over.
>>15258738
Because Sanae hates all nice things
>>15258725
>>15259993
Not just kitsune, oni and tengu are also worshiped in certain Japanese villages.
>>15253713
>>15254631
I couldn't disagree more. Her original hairlenght is the right one. Next time you guys are going to tell me you're into older women or something equally as silly.
My existential crisis is ever-present.
>>15271607
An older Kogasa sounds kind of nice, actually.
>>15272280
It's all about tastes, I guess. I like mine fresh, out of the oven, personally
This has to stop
>>15258725
>Yamabiko are dying out because of lack of belief.
>>15258762
Why not just kill those who doubt yamabiko exist?
Pic related, your partner who deals with corpse disposal.
Also Keine needs to be dealt with. She could just eat history, and something without history wouldnt exist. Keine is bad for youkai.
>>15272672
Keine covers up history. If somebody exists that knows the truth, they aren't affected by Keine deleting its history.
>>15273003
Reimu knew about the village but couldnt see it.
>>15258762
>dog-like youkai
>copies sounds it hears
Holy fuck kyouko is a skinwalker
>>15258610
It's less fear and more mystery, youkai can be beneficial but they should always remain unknown because they're essentially walking, talking tall tales. The more well-known they are, the less they become.
This is best seen in that fairies chapter where Aya spooks the shit out of Reimu without lifting a finger, not because she's powerful but because she plays into the basic human fear of the unknown.
>>15273369
Look up 'Jackalope' and have a bit of a chuckle.
>Jackalopes possess an uncanny ability to mimic human sounds.A rabbit with antlers that mimics human voices.
