Hello anon. All the interviews and commentaries I’ve read over the years but as far as I can remember none of them ever mentioned much about ZUN’s design work beyond some of his character designs. Which is sad frankly, personally I’d really like to know a bit about his process, since I’m really fond of his artistic style in general.

It’s possible it might have been talked about in one of the SCoOW articles since I haven’t read all of them yet, I have some backlog there. So if it’s been covered there I wouldn’t know.

Looking at menu bgs, loading screens etc it’s all p heavily Japanese in style. While there’s a fair chance ZUN draws some of the things he uses from scratch it wouldn’t surprise if he uses only existing assets, creating collages.

I don’t know anything about how ZUN makes them, but regardless you could try to recreate the style using photoshop or other image manipulations programs. In terms of how to do so, we’re getting into photoshop tutorial territory, which isn’t really something I’m qualified to do. I do have some experience with photoshop however, and assuming you have some rudimentary photoshop skills I’d probably recommend playing around with layer opacity, layer blending options (shadows, glow effects and stuff like that), layer adjustments (hues, selective color) or new fill layer -> gradients…. I also love playing around with artistic filters personally but its kinda hit or miss lmao

It’s easy to find assets and inspiration on google, so for what you have in mind it would help best to start there, and use the things you find to make your own collages. In fact writing this post has made me curious to see if I could try and do something like this myself… Although I don’t really have ZUN’s artistic talent it could be a fun challenge. The more you look at say, the loading screens (which are some of my favorite pieces of his), the more you realize how intricate some of them are. Some of them in particular were most likely quite time consuming to make. It’s also fun that you mention the music CDs because I remember when I first bought some of them, I was really blow away by how pretty the insides of the jewel cases were.

Good luck in your artistic endeavours, anon!

kilgamayan:

The Fanmade Touhou LINE Stamps project has gifted Renko Usami, the Western Touhou Fandom, and everyone else in the world with “Maelibery harness”, which is, quite frankly, the best Romanization of her name to date and the one I hope becomes canon.

Hello!

Pretty much all music players should allow you to tag or label music to make it searchable to an extent as far as I know, at least local players. I personally use iTunes because I’m a casual and that was what I was using when I started out. There’s a lot of other music players like foobar and the like, and frankly there are other people who’re much better at that stuff than I am. I really can’t compare the different options to one another because I just don’t know enough. Which player you end up using will most likely also depend on your own preferences and needs, so I recommend doing some research on your own.

The vast majority of Touhou arrange music dls don’t come pre-labeled with what the original the track is an arrange of. There’s exceptions, but they’re rare, like the Korean website Subterranean Library always did this for some reason. Anyway, this means that if you want to sort your files you’ll need to tag them manually. This takes a lot of time, at least if you have a large collection. When I was younger I always extensively tagged any additions to my collection because I wasn’t really doing anything else with my life except putting all my free time into Touhou music. 

If you feel like you need that time sink in your life though, I suggest doing it in a way so that the work can’t easily be undone. IF you start tagging files, make sure that the tag becomes part of the file’s meta data. For example, in iTunes, adding a track copies that track to your iTunes library. Then, if you alter the files information in iTunes (say, add “Lullaby of Deserted Hell” in the description box), this alters the file in the library. This means that if you search  “Lullaby of Deserted Hell” on your PC, the file should still show up. On the contrary, say you just drop a whole bunch of audio files that are all “Lullaby of Deserted Hell” arranges into a playlist, when that playlist is deleted or if you need to uninstall the player, all the work you put into it will be gone. 

Exactly how to go about this will depend on the player of your choice, and I’m afraid I can’t give you any more detailed tips than this. 

As for like, more practical tips I’d just say you’ll need a lot of time management and find ways to tag or sort many tracks in a short amount of time. There’s a lot of options these days for Touhou music databases with all the info you need easily accessible. Tagging tracks by original can be very rewarding because it makes your collection more dynamic and much easier to navigate. But yeah, there’s no fast, pain-free way to do it, at least not as far as I know.

Good luck though! Hopefully you’ll find a solution that suits your needs.  

tanukifucker91:

him, about power struggles in totalitarian regimes: its a simple game but its hard to play

me, fucking above and beyond bc he wont actually tell me anything and only makes allegations: what do you mean

him: it’s like that game, pong,

me: *about to lose my goddamn mind because how stupid does he think i am*

i had a conversation about politics with a man today. remind me to never do that ever again thanks!

moonlitnight-boners:

Happy Birthday ZUN~☆

Pop-chin without the Tame Monkeys

Today I was in another card shop in Akihabara and they were selling this Minion chocolate fountain for some reason

More posters from the Toranoana Akihabara shop

Toranoana Akihabara Touhou display

Third image shows display case of the Tokyo Active NEETs albums, complete with video footage of a live recording, but since every single display in the shop played music it was impossible to hear anything…

Final image is a poster signed by Amaterasu Records’ Sae Tsukiyama

Touhou displays in Toranoana, Akihabara