I'm pleased to see that Zounose can make comics that aren't grimdark bullshit, and who yet manage to be interesting and somehow mature. I really like his art style.
Thanks to whoever translated it. Probably Lavender. Thanks Lavender.
I'm pleased to see that Zounose can make comics that aren't grimdark bullshit, and who yet manage to be interesting and somehow mature. I really like his art style.
Thanks to whoever translated it. Probably Lavender. Thanks Lavender.
Nah, most of Zounose's stuff isn't really "grimdark"
It's certainly on the harder to stomach side a lot of the time, but there's a definite method and purpose to it. I may not always feel cheery after reading something of his, but he does a good enough job selling the way his Gensokyo works that I can usually appreciate it.
Grimdark stuff is usually depressing and miserable just for the sake of being depressing and miserable, with no real value in it beyond being dark and edgy.
I'd say few of his dark works are truly good. He does a poor job of keeping it within 'too much' and 'not enough' in most of them.
The cannibalism gets you the first time, but once you're used to that it becomes obvious that he lays it on too thick. Oooooo monsters eat ppl, ppl taste good, scary scary.
I'd say few of his dark works are truly good. He does a poor job of keeping it within 'too much' and 'not enough' in most of them.
The cannibalism gets you the first time, but once you're used to that it becomes obvious that he lays it on too thick. Oooooo monsters eat ppl, ppl taste good, scary scary.
Kind of this. People probably like this guy's works, but I just don't get his writing philosophy. It's like he's trying to do a serious drama with dark fantasy elements but can't bring himself to drag Touhou out of its cheery kitchen sink so it ends up coming off as genre blind.
If he actually had an alternate canon setting to work in he could really excel in writing a dark fantasy Touhou.
At this point I think is work can best be describe as grimn comedy. Oh yes some of the stuff he brought out is dark, and when its dark, it gets very dark, but yet there is still an underlining comdey behind that. The Can story and vote to eat a guy story are such example.
*Gensoukyou, but the youkai are actually youkai, with all that entails.*
That's what he writes, it really is that simple.
What do that mean by that?
Hatate is shown here to be just a plain, headstrong girl in this story. She even betrays her Tengu allies. That's kind of going against Japanese folklore isn't it? I'd hardly consider the canned meat story to have anything to do with it either, and the story about Yuuka taking over Gensoukyou is just silly. None of those strike me as having deep Japanese folklore.