So I don't get what Sakuya is implying here. Anyone can help me?

DanmakuShooter said:

So I don't get what Sakuya is implying here. Anyone can help me?

That she's batshit insane.

So basically, she thinks it's weird that she lives under the same roof as a bunch of maneaters without them expressing interest in her fleshy bits, and naturally comes to the conclusion that it must be because she's unappetizing. Thus she tries to "season" herself to test if she can make herself desirable because... she thinks it's important that she's tasty?

Like i said, insane.

KhorneFlaeks said:

That she's batshit insane.

Yeah, I gotta agree. Not a fan much of this, thought she was doing it to test Meiling and be sure she won't eat her. That would ve been reasonable. But this is the total opposite wow.

KhorneFlaeks said:

That she's batshit insane.

So basically, she thinks it's weird that she lives under the same roof as a bunch of maneaters without them expressing interest in her fleshy bits, and naturally comes to the conclusion that it must be because she's unappetizing. Thus she tries to "season" herself to test if she can make herself desirable because... she thinks it's important that she's tasty?

Like i said, insane.

She has been always this insane since Vintage. The girl even wanted to have a taste of her own leg! At first I just thought she wanted to check whether she still remained human or had turned into a youkai, but the last bubble, yike.

She whose contact with humans are fairly limited to ingredients*, their worth are mostly dependent on how appetizing they can be.
What of her worth then? A human living for so long in the midst of the man-eaters yet touched by none. Is she even worthless than the ingredients she prepared everyday? So on a whim, she tried something out.

That's how I interpret it at least.
It's a very twisted way of thinking, but considering whose work it is, it's actually pretty mild. After all, this is the same Sakuya who gives up her leg as proof of her mortality.

* The shrine maiden and her black-white friend aside.

Valentine322 said:

She whose contact with humans are fairly limited to ingredients*, their worth are mostly dependent on how appetizing they can be.

This is a really good summary of the rough style, of sort, of non-human ways people in actual touhou canon think like. Including the humans, sometimes.
I don't particularly like zounose myself, but his comics are overblown yet far, far closer to actual canon than all the nice and sappy stuff we see here more. And people don't often like actual touhou canon shoved into their face since they can't accept that pretty, cute girls are selfish, uncaring inhuman murderers. This probably would not happen if touhou opponents were drawn like they mythologically "are" (ie. horrible monsters) instead of as cute girls.

Would drop the series' popularity 90 percent, of course.

Dawnfire said:

This is a really good summary of the rough style, of sort, of non-human ways people in actual touhou canon think like. Including the humans, sometimes.
I don't particularly like zounose myself, but his comics are overblown yet far, far closer to actual canon than all the nice and sappy stuff we see here more. And people don't often like actual touhou canon shoved into their face since they can't accept that pretty, cute girls are selfish, uncaring inhuman murderers. This probably would not happen if touhou opponents were drawn like they mythologically "are" (ie. horrible monsters) instead of as cute girls.

Would drop the series' popularity 90 percent, of course.

I presume you mean "Touhou Head Canon", because the girls really don't act close to this even in the official manga series, at least as far as I remember. Closest is Mamizou using Matori to amass her own hyakki yakkou, if I remember the plot points correctly, or otherwise youkai using human characters to get what they want (IE, SSIB). As well as Sakuya feeding the Scarlet Sisters.

Individual characters are all over the place as well, from the faeries to the youkai to the gods to the humans. You've got the actively malicious (Seija), the busy bodies (Marisa, agruably), the ones that generally mind their own business (Letty White), pranksters (Star Saphire and co), plotters (IE, Sages) etc. Touhou isn't all light and sugary, but it's not dark and bitter either.

Dawnfire said:

I disagree about calling any fanwork "closer to canon". Ever. What he did is really no different from other artists: take one part of canon - and that's not even strictly necessary - then shape it up however they want.

Nice and sappy stuff do happen even with the darker implications of the series, like Reimu coming up with over-the-top scheme to make money for her shrine (WaHH) or throwing a drinking party and getting their asses drunk (most of the time but it's been happening a lot in Suichouka) or the fairies being... fairies (Sangetsusei). You can't really just write off one over the other if you want to talk canon.

Even beef cattle has the heart.

They’ll be saddened if they are damned worthless even as meat.

If you guys just read the afterword he says that this was more of a joke. He liked the ludicrous idea of sakuya getting unreasonably offended over not being eaten over all the other humans the other girls eat.

Yoshiciv said:

Even beef cattle has the heart.

They’ll be saddened if they are damned worthless even as meat.

Oho, we've got a beef whisperer here.

Imaginator said:

If you guys just read the afterword he says that this was more of a joke. He liked the ludicrous idea of sakuya getting unreasonably offended over not being eaten over all the other humans the other girls eat.

We know, but that doesn't make her any less crazy in this particular instance.

Imaginator said:

If you guys just read the afterword he says that this was more of a joke.

It's fine, isn't it. Overthinking matter within limits is a privilege of the reader after all, even if the story wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

Why is it always the exact same debate/conversation within hours of any Zounose work going up?

Except when it's the same "Oh wow, a Zounose story without eating people?" comment and then the same debate.

Wonder if this counts as sex appeal

Levander said:

Why is it always the exact same debate/conversation within hours of any Zounose work going up?

Except when it's the same "Oh wow, a Zounose story without eating people?" comment and then the same debate.

Some people like having the same conversation on loop forever.

Levander said:

Why is it always the exact same debate/conversation within hours of any Zounose work going up?

Except when it's the same "Oh wow, a Zounose story without eating people?" comment and then the same debate.

Well I think its just what makes his work so popular, people start chatting about it because of its grim comedy. Although, people started talking because one dude asked for clarification since they didn’t understand what was happening, which sparked everyone to talk.

Although we might also just have people who have never seen his work here as well.

Whoa,talk about danse macabre.
Although for Sakuya dancing with death might gives thrill rather than fear or paranoia xD

There's an innuendo somewhere in this