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Wotan Manasal
[...] a canon anime would totally kill the Touhou franchise, in my opinion.
How is that...? o 3 o.
Ahh... it's a bit long to explain, but I'll do my best.
whee 1. In order to comply with the mass audience's tastes and expectations, it's highly likely that whatever team gets to be in charge of producing it
will have to both distort the original storylines and add new twists and plots totally alien to the original Gensokyo spirit. More specifically:
- Introducing love relationships;
- Creating an abnormal amount of
highly story-relevant male characters (******** NO);
- Changing the character's personalities to make them look either absolutely good or absolutely evil (which is something that never happened in the games - hell, the plots of most of them are based on misunderstandings and on each side thinking ill of the other);
- Telling the story from the point of view of only one character (Raymoo, obviously);
- And so on.
2. What makes all the doujin art and music possible is the high versatility, vagueness, and self-contradiction lots of aspects of the Touhouverse have. An anime would shift lots of those aspects to a rigid state. Examples:
- Lots of doujin music has dialogues between characters. Guess how many
doujin songs like that will be released
after each Touhoe gets an official voice. None.
- Same as above for the clothes. Say goodbye to alternate outfits art after the anime shows them with the same attire in every single episode.
3. As Meiling said, Touhou will get lots of new fans, who (unlike most pre-anime fans) are much more prone to s**t up the whole fanbase by constantly bitching about powerlevels and making half-assed doujin art (I don't blame those who really can't draw or write; I talk about those who make a generic Walfas strip and think they're on, say, TAMUSIC or IOSYS' level).
4. Maikaze has already shown us what danmaku will look like in TV screens. That beautiful patterns and designs we know and love will be reduced to generic explosions. The only way to show them at their full beauty would be to show spellcard battles from an above point of view (just like in the games), which would suck a** because it would imply viewing the characters from the same angle for hours on end.
5. Finally, and most important of all: Most new fans won't give two shits about the games.
...At least fanmade anime is, by definition, unable to go mainstream and make everything mentioned above to happen.
