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You might want to PM Red Star about that. He had a bunch of stuff on Germany.
On a similar note, it might be worth exploring how the UASR's formation ends up affecting race films and the people who worked on them. For example, I could see someone like Nina Mae McKinney finding more success in Hollywood compared to OTL.
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I understand, but what would fashion look like in the present-day, in a less militant time?
How does fashion evolve with the radical social trends of the 1950s-1970s?
I honestly haven't a clue yet. That's something that will have to be developed organically. Mainstream fashion in the 50s will look very similar to the 40s fashion as the new "mainstream". Probably simplified a bit, but it won't be so much about what is cutting edge as what the new normal is. There'll be various subcultures with different fashion trends. Probably traditional African revivalism in clothing in the black community, probably a beatnik subculture developing in the urban areas.
For changes lore-wise i think Seija Kijin might have a more symphatetic portrayal,became heroine outright or a 180-degree reversed(pun intended) personality/backstory.
I'm not all that familiar with her character so why do you believe that she would have that changed character compared to OTL? I'm not arguing, just curious.
She's for all intents and purposes Youkai Lenin/Makhno(although sort of manipulating Shinmyoumaru) so either she got a symphatetic portrayal or a different personality,more emphasis on her manipulative and contrarian nature than her "the weak shall rule the strong" motive.
Finally a fellow Touhou fan,btw.Favourite character?
I'm partial to either Flandre or Remillia for my favorite character, followed by Reimu and Yukari.
Edit: Man I can't believe I've forgotten about Cirno until right now, she's up near the top of my favorite characters from Touhou.
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Imperialists!Marisa Kirisame shall expropriate your property! 
So yeah,mine's Marisa,followed by Sumireko Usami and Yumemi Okazaki of PC-98.
So yeah,mine's Marisa,followed by Sumireko Usami and Yumemi Okazaki of PC-98.
What can I say, I like the Scarlet Mansion dynamics and with Reimu, I lean on her not really enjoying her job but doing it because she has to for the sake of the denizens of Gensokyo as a whole. I like Yukari because I fully respect someone like Yukari, who can have plans so in-depth that she was able to fool both the Lunarians in their home and Eirin (who for people who are not into the Touhou community is probably the single smartest person in the solar System and is millennia old) in Gensokyo.Imperialists! Marisa Kirisame shall expropriate your property!
So yeah,mine's Marisa, followed by Sumireko Usami and Yumemi Okazaki of PC-98.
Though I could see in the Redsverse a rather intricate and nuanced analysis about Gensokyo's purpose and the conflict between the Youkai and Humans, as the fact that Youkai and Humans are by their nature enemies would be something that would rub socialists and communists the wrong way and be a point of contention from a character from the modern day, as they would serve as a sort of Audience surrogate in the world of Gensokyo. For example, Sanae, who being raised in a Japan that has been fully socialist since the second world war and with their own complicated and nuanced understanding of their own history, would naturally have quite a bit of dissonance in her values with both Reimu and Marisa, who are both raised in Gensokyo, a place that separated from our world in the Meiji era and thus is essentially a feudal society which in a world like Reds would likely get milked for all that it's worth in analysis and story potential, if not from the side manga material, than from fanworks of Touhou, thanks to the likelihood of Japan's culture ITTL being very introspective with their past with a nuanced and complicated understanding towards it, with it being likely that their perspective of it leaning to the negative. We'll also likely see the portrayal of gods in Gensokyo being to the negative a bit more thanks to ITTL Japan having a more negative viewpoint to Shintoism and quite possibly Buddhism, which sadly may make Byakuren Hijiri not be the same as OTL since she's a Buddhist monk, I hope not, I genuinely like her character and I could see Zun deliberately subverting expectations that quite a few Japanese would likely have ITTL by having one of the most noble and sympathetic characters being a Buddhist monk when ITTL Buddhism is likely at least somewhat connected to Imperial Japan and Feudal Japan in the popular conscience.
Huh, I find especially ironic that ITTL Sanae will likely be consistently portrayed as one of the most sympathetic to Youkai as Marxist thought pushes for we all to band together as a world wide brotherhood, celebrating our differences in both creed and ethnicity for betterment of all sapient life which would include Youkai in Touhou, when IOTL Sanae is famous in the fandom for wanting to 'exterminate' Youkai and not being a real big fan of them.
TL: DR the part after the first paragraph is basically me ramblimg my thoughts on what differences Touhou would actually have as Zun, being raised in a different world would have different perspectives on the world around him and thus would subconsciously or consciously put that different perspective into his works.
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Dude...that's awesome.
Well,i like Marisa because she's the most "human" cast out of all the protagonists and Sumireko for being generally relatable fellow 16-17 year old highschooler.
Sumireko might work as a relatively obnoxious Marxist type,then.(Sanae represents the good side of the Outside World,while Sumireko is more haughty and sort of represents Outside World's excesses)
Eh,i like Reimu too,tbh.In Redsverse she could be portrayed doing for the common good of Gensokyo(Well,in OTL too.)
Well,i like Marisa because she's the most "human" cast out of all the protagonists and Sumireko for being generally relatable fellow 16-17 year old highschooler.
Sumireko might work as a relatively obnoxious Marxist type,then.(Sanae represents the good side of the Outside World,while Sumireko is more haughty and sort of represents Outside World's excesses)
Eh,i like Reimu too,tbh.In Redsverse she could be portrayed doing for the common good of Gensokyo(Well,in OTL too.)
I admit I'm also not very knowledgeable about Sumireko either. Perhaps we can work on a work for here about Touhou ITTL besides my ramblings since I have not a fully clear idea on some characters which I presume you likely have the same thing with other characters and as a group we could bounce off ideas for Touhou stuff in the Redsverse, so what do you say?
If your interested just PM me about it.
I also greatly like Marisa by the way.
it happensI have absolutely no idea what you guys are talking about
I have absolutely no idea what you guys are talking about
Serious (and pretty long) answer:We're talking about Touhou Project,a long-running series of side-scrolling shoot'em up/danmaku(bullet hell) video game set in Gensokyo("Land of Illusions/Fantasy"),a part of Japan cut off from the rest of the world(the "Outside World") in 1884 by the Great Hakurei Barrier and became a menagerie of youkais and gods forgotten by the rapidly changing world.However we (usually) play from the viewpoint of regular humans,Reimu Hakurei the shrine maiden/miko of the Hakurei Shrine(thus tasked in keeping the general order of Gensokyo) and Marisa Kirisame,an ordinary magician.There are sometimes other characters,the "usual" main game roster are Sakuya Izayoi,maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion,Sanae Kochiya,another miko of the Moriya Shrine hailing from the outside world that arrives in Gensokyo,Youmu Konpaku the half-ghost gardener of the Netherworld and recently Reisen Udongein Inaba,a moon rabbit.Exceptions are the fighting games(Immaterial and Missing Power,Scarlet Weather Rhapsody,Hisoutensoku(SWR's expansion pack),Hopeless Masquerade and Urban Legend in Limbo) and the duel shmup Phantasmagoria of Flower View,that gave a larger roster of Gensokyo's denizens.
The storyline usually consists of "incidents" that the girls needs to solve,that seemingly life-threatening but sometimes are of mundane reasons(such as Remilia blocking the sun because she can't stand walking in the sunlight) or literal dangers to the very existence of Gensokyo(Saigyou Ayakashi,Utsuho wanting to blow up the surface,Junko triggering Lunarians' exodus to Gensokyo,that will cause "impure beings"(read:all of Gensokyo's residents) die off).The story is also integrated to the gameplay,you don't kill bosses you face,you merely incapacitate them thanks to the Spell Card Rules that is made to allow humans to fight on equal standings with powerful youkais,gods and literal reality-bending entities.The Spell Card Rules is implemented in game by the intricate bullet patterns.Amidst the games,there are also official printworks made by mangakas in collaboration and official consent from ZUN telling another incidents/stories or the backstory of Gensokyo(which i daresay is one of the most detailed worldbuilding ever).
What's astounding that the main game series(and the shoot'em up spinoffs,the fighting ones are made with assistance by another circle) is literally made by a one-man team,Team Shanghai Alice that consists of only one person,Jun'ya Oota a.k.a ZUN,that works on everything from storyline to programming to the (gorgeous) theme songs.(Other than the games,he also releases music CDs.).It also have an enormous and dedicated fanbase(The series was inducted into the Guinness World Records in October 2010 for being the "most prolific fan-made shooter series".[2][3] The Touhou Project has spawned a media franchise including commercial fan books, music, light novels, and manga, in addition to the main series.),coupled with ZUNs lax copyright on fanworks made the fandom literally made anything as mentioned.(I even personally knew some Indonesian-language fanbook circles).With the OTL's already immersive backstory and the collaborative works between fans a Redsverse Touhou would be even more interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_Project
https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Project
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Touhou
I am a Japanese RPG that few understand. Ready to discuss the Western, or Resident Evil - what! The plot itself is quite "revolutionary".
Centauri-1
Centauri-1 is a BBC science fiction TV series that aired from 1974-1977. The program, set in the far off future year of 2016, centers around a scientific spacecraft called "Centauri-1", which is headed to the star system Alpha Centauri. This is because of a potentially habitable world discovered in 1996. It was an international mission organized by the United Nations, using a "Daedalus" drive (a fusion rocket, which pelts Deuterium/helium-3 with electrons, which induce fusion, and thus energy to the rocket), to push the craft at around 40% of the speed of life. The craft is helmed by a French captain, and includes a British first officer, an Indian science officer, a Chinese helmsman, an American navigator (played by a Canadian), a Soviet communications officer, and a Brazilian psychologist. The main source of tension is sometimes the international tensions between the crew members, but mostly the time it takes to get to Alpha Centauri, and the isolation that takes over most of the crews members.
The third season finally saw the crew arrive on the planet, which they dub, "Prometheus". They discover it teeming with exotic creatures, including one called the "Djarys", which are creatures who have a agarian society, which is slowly developing. A debate soon arises among the crew, with the American and Soviet advocating moving them towards socialism, while the other crew members stress allowing them to development. Eventually, they are discovered, and brought forward to the leader of the Djarys, who welcomes them. Had the series gone on for a fourth season, it would've explored the relationship between the Djarys and humans.
While criticized for its cheap production design, it was praised for its atmosphere and scientific accuracy. The creators actually got advisers from the Anglo-French Interplanetary Society to help them conceive of the Centauri-1. Many of the set and creatures were recycled from Doctor Who. The show was also noted for its international, non-stereotypical crew, which is emblematic of the Detente time. Despite its cancellation due to low ratings, it gained a cult following, and is seen as one of the great British sci-fi shows of 70's. It was circulated in the UASR and USSR in imported VHS form for years, before an official release on television in 2003.
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Originally, this was going to be a discussion on the best BBC sci-fi shows other than Doctor Who. Then, I though, "Why don't I just write them all in one?"
Centauri-1 is a BBC science fiction TV series that aired from 1974-1977. The program, set in the far off future year of 2016, centers around a scientific spacecraft called "Centauri-1", which is headed to the star system Alpha Centauri. This is because of a potentially habitable world discovered in 1996. It was an international mission organized by the United Nations, using a "Daedalus" drive (a fusion rocket, which pelts Deuterium/helium-3 with electrons, which induce fusion, and thus energy to the rocket), to push the craft at around 40% of the speed of life. The craft is helmed by a French captain, and includes a British first officer, an Indian science officer, a Chinese helmsman, an American navigator (played by a Canadian), a Soviet communications officer, and a Brazilian psychologist. The main source of tension is sometimes the international tensions between the crew members, but mostly the time it takes to get to Alpha Centauri, and the isolation that takes over most of the crews members.
The third season finally saw the crew arrive on the planet, which they dub, "Prometheus". They discover it teeming with exotic creatures, including one called the "Djarys", which are creatures who have a agarian society, which is slowly developing. A debate soon arises among the crew, with the American and Soviet advocating moving them towards socialism, while the other crew members stress allowing them to development. Eventually, they are discovered, and brought forward to the leader of the Djarys, who welcomes them. Had the series gone on for a fourth season, it would've explored the relationship between the Djarys and humans.
While criticized for its cheap production design, it was praised for its atmosphere and scientific accuracy. The creators actually got advisers from the Anglo-French Interplanetary Society to help them conceive of the Centauri-1. Many of the set and creatures were recycled from Doctor Who. The show was also noted for its international, non-stereotypical crew, which is emblematic of the Detente time. Despite its cancellation due to low ratings, it gained a cult following, and is seen as one of the great British sci-fi shows of 70's. It was circulated in the UASR and USSR in imported VHS form for years, before an official release on television in 2003.
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Originally, this was going to be a discussion on the best BBC sci-fi shows other than Doctor Who. Then, I though, "Why don't I just write them all in one?"
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