It is a wonderland filled with nothing but beautiful beings.
>>15302603
God damn, Marisa is HUGE!
I really like these, thanks OP.
>>15302603
I sometimes wonder what is over those hills, but then I get sad.
>>15302836
Didn't Marisa try to go there and said she arrived where she started? I think that was in a canon work.
I'd love to go to Gensokyo. If it was like my headcannon then I'd had a nice time, if it wasn't I'd end up dying and that's good too.
>>15303062
>>15303067
Shinmyoumaru is so adorable
>>15302836
There's nothing. If you try to go, the landscape just repeats. Wild and Horned Hermit 25. What 15302845-san said was correct.
Nice drawings.
No matter where in the world they live, humans truly are so similar to each other.
>>15303804
>>15303809
I like to think that this is also Gensokyo.
>>15302845
Gensokyo confirmed for toroidal pocket dimension.
>>15303946
I was actually thinking about S3 and topology when the poster mentioned this. I wish I knew more about topology, it was mentioned in a knot theory book I was reading.
I prefer grimdark Gensokyo.
>>15303047
If you're lucky, you'd die at the hands of a qt youkai! And then become her nourishment.
>>15303062
A tall tale to be told today Aku?
Is there even a 2hu, old or new, that could pass as a normal person and blend in in a crowd? The closest I can think of is Rika and Rikako, provided the latter had black hair instead of purple.
>>15304325
A lot of them with normal clothes
>>15304325
Raiko could easily pass for some hipster.
>>15304325
depending on the suburb and it's proximity to labs/hospitals or clinics, she could pass by without incident (IF going about normal business)
>>15304325
There are plenty who aren't visibly inhuman, so in that sense, >>15304381 is right. If we're including their outfits, Rumia, Renko, and maybe Kosuzu?
>>15304546
I think Raiko includes the magical drum kit, so probably not.
>>15305357
If we think about akihabara/ikebukuro tho...
>>15305357
I'd think the red eyes would make a few people do a double-take with Rumia.
Thank you for making me so comfy..
>>15304325
>>15305408
Sure, in a world where Touhou cosplayers exist, none of them would be out of place.
>>15307419
The green hair and goofy outfit are hardly inconspicuous. She screams 'anime protag'.
>>15304325
Reimu in Japan, would just look like a regular miko.
Rumia, providing she isn't in her dark sphere.
Meiling in mid 1900's China.
Yukari, in the 19th century.
Reisen, with a hat to hide her ears.
Yuuka in the early 1900 French Countryside.
Murasa and Chiyuri, in a port.
Koishi, canonically.
Mamizou, canonically.
Sagume, in Paris, if she manages to hide her wing.
Junko, Akyuu, maybe Kaguya in China or Japan during a festival.
Sakuya, Yumeko and Ruukoto in Europe during the Renaissance.
Yuki, Rika, Rikako, Renko, the Watatsuki sisters.
>>15302845
>>15303946
More like iteral dreamland where amount of stuff generated by your mind is limited.
Reimu said it's a boundary of sense on the previous page.
>>15308029
green hair could be explained away as a bad (or cheap) dye job with 'not the best water' used.
>>15309253
Also ran and chen by the same way mamizou: They are bakemonos so they can change forms
>>15309302
>>15303946
No, it's a place in Japan, you just can't get there from here. The barrier is non-Euclidean magic bullshit, but Gensoukyou itself is just an ordinary location on Earth.
>>15309591
This. It's a physical location "deep in the mountains" surrounded by a metaphysical boundary which prevents sentient creatures from passing. Inanimate objects, as well as some animals, are perfectly capable of passing. A human would find themselves presumably experiencing the same thing as Marisa in >>15309302
The question is, unless literally nobody has encountered Gensokyo's barrier from the outside, why hasn't anybody attempted to investigate this anomaly?
>>15310127
Think about the geometry, such as it is. From the inside trying to go out, there's nowhere to go, so you end up with the weird looping thing and ending up where you started. But from the outside, if you would go into the barrier, you instead just go around. Like, imagine cutting a hole out of a sheet, then stitching it back together. There appears to be a continuous surface, even though an area is actually missing.
As for how GPS and surveying equipment and whatever else can't detect any inconsistencies, well, it's magic, ain't gotta explain shit.
>>15310127
>>15310208
Aren't there some 2hus who moved into Gensoukyo from the outside?
How did they enter?
>>15310987
From outside to inside mystical beings can pass, they just can't leave
>>15310208
Wouldn't the behavior outside be just like the barrier wasn't there? I see it working like a filter, if something meets the requirements when passing through it, it'll be sent to gensokyo, if not it'd pass like nothing was there
>>15310987
>>15311363
Mamizou - It's thought that Nue left and retrieved her using the Gensokyo Occult Ball, which is in Mamizou's possession come ULiL.
Sumireko - Broke through with the collected Occult Balls after using an astral form to implant them while she slept. Got booted out when sent back through with the balls (IIRC).
Not supposed to be in Gensokyo. Entering while she sleeps actually causes a doppelganger to split off in the form of the lost dreams she should be having while she's in Gensokyo.
Moriya Shrine, Scarlet Devil Mansion - Unknown how they moved in all that they did.
However, at least in the SDM's case, it's thought that they're still able to travel to the outside somehow, as evidenced in the chupacabra chapter as it's wondered how they're still able to get their hands on all those outside world things.
Hecatia - Being the ruler of all Hells, her domain supercedes Gensokyo. She must have gotten her modern clothes from somewhere, after all.
Touhou's who have once or can still travel outside include:
Nue and Mamizou (I think they still have the Gensokyo ball)
Sumireko (obviously)
the SDM (again, chupacabra chapter)
Yukari
A few during ULiL (Kasen, Mamizou, Marisa, Ichirin and a couple others)
Rinnosuke (once in CoLA by accident).
Also random youkai on hunting quests, if the passage in PMiSS still holds up.
>>15311930
And then there's this piece of shit and her cunty sisters, who just strolled down to Gensokyo like it was nothing.
>>15311930
I wonder if that hole that appeared in fairies story is already closed.
Being in muenzuka makes easier to cross the barrier due to the 3 worlds joint, I wonder if going to the correspondent place in outside should make easier to enter as well
>>15302603
Is there a version of this that's labeled?
>>15310127
Who says people haven't? Humans have penetrated the barrier before, for all we know the secret is semi-guarded and the point of entry placed under watchful eyes at all times.
You can't keep thinking Gensokyo's a real place! It's just you deluding yourself!
>>15334604
Actually, by definition (and Yukari's powers), it's NOT real. Gensokyo is a realm of "fantasy," on the opposite end of "reality." It can't be real, because that's not how it works.
In other words, Gensokyo exists as a "fantastical" place and you can do nothing about it.
what a great thread, so many beautiful pictures, now I am left a bit sad
>>15311930
Raiko got out at one point to get her gear.
>>15334861
Is that a bomb or the sun setting?
>>15309591
>>15310127
>>15334726
So is it realm of fantasy or a real place?
>>15335387
sun setting - captain's delight tomorrow
>>15309302
Stupid Marisa. You need at least 70 stars to progress.
>>15309591
What does " non-Euclidean " mean?
>>15337027
It's a physical location given over to the realm of fantasy. Only creatures that have passed into fantasy can enter it (with some exceptions). It's not real in the sense that it houses creatures and places explicitly considered fantasy, but it's a physical location, not an alternate or pocket dimension. Read PMiSS.
[bullshit time] Gensokyo is real. It's mathematic. Since it's the place where unreal / Fantasy / dream things go, Gensokyo exists because of those things's inexistence. Hakurei Border is just the boundary between dreams and reality, so you cross it each time you're dreaming / daydreaming. Touhou's Gensokyo is theoricaly Maribel's, since she visit it in her phantasms. That's what she ressembles Yukari. Yukari is her projection in her own world, like Sumireko is the projection of Renko, the friend she share her dreams with, with Sumireko able to enter the realm.
[/bullshit time ]
>>15337376
Geometric laws other than the ones we're used to. For more information, check google.com. ;)
Gensokyo indeed
Kapa secret base
Here's a comfygensokyo-based medley i made, by the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y-M4hSGlPk
>>15302743
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>>15338678
I want to live in that house so badly, /jp/.
>>15338770
you can live inside a volcano if you apply yourself
>>15339039
I can hardly believe something like this place exists. It's like it's straight out of a fantasy story. Has this been depicted in media before?
>>15339039
I don't know if it would be amazing or hirrible to live there.
It's close enough to Tokyo, but the only way to go there and back is by a ship that doesn't often run, or helicopter which costs a fortune.
There are only 160 residence as well, and no restaurants whatsoever. Only inns for tourists, what would you even do for work there?
>>15339599
>>15339957
I don't think it's particularly uncommon, actually. I'm pretty sure only scientists live there to study, like they do at the South Pole.
>>15334726
According to Dr. Freak, gensokyo exists in a quantum state
>>15341804
Remember when quantum meant something?
