Talk:(9)Professor Layton vs (10)Barret Wallace vs (19)Reimu Hakurei 2013

So, that explanation... I'll contest the "pedophile" assertion but little else. The main appeal is actually the music--as polarizing as Touhou Music is in VGMC, it's one of the series' major draws--and the root of everything else. ZUN, the creator of the series, is a musician at heart and basically created the games as a vehicle to showcase his musical creations. This is why the only official art that isn't atrocious comes from various spinoffs that ZUN licensed but didn't create singlehandedly like the main series games (and yes, the characters don't look quite so childish in those games), and it also means that there's very little in the way of canon to get in the way of fanfic writers because ZUN isn't really focused on story either...which, given that 99% of Touhou characters are female, means loads of yuri. Also, Touhou is itself doujinshi, so doujin works based off of it are usually accepted and in fact a lot of the "canon" side games came from established doujin circles. So, yeah, the Touhou fandom really isn't built on the strength of the games themselves. It's built on memes and fanworks. Spirit Tsunami (talk) 20:37, October 17, 2015 (UTC)