The Tsukumo sisters aren't getting enough love from what I've seen. There's only been two interesting doujins with them, and they're not even the focus of the story.
Personally, I think Benben's design is very beautiful. Dunno about Yatsuhashi though.
monhan said: The Tsukumo sisters aren't getting enough love from what I've seen. There's only been two interesting doujins with them, and they're not even the focus of the story.
As someone suggested in another comment section, the three new tsukumogami suffer from being new tsukumogami. They have no history that can be played upon and it's really hard to go anywhere with them. Their interactions with the protagonists didn't really leave much to work with. Until someone makes a "battle of the bands" doujin, or they manage to step into the Aki's popular due to lack of popularity shtick, or Akyuu writes about them, they're going to have to survive being very one-off characters.
They're not ENTIRELY without history. Or at least Raiko isn't, since she was already a tsukumogami within Gensokyo before the Mallet woke her up with rage and she left for the outside world to find an alternative.
Someone in the human village (or perhaps even some youkai!) was using a living, feeling taiko drum that was at least a hundred years old (family heirloom?). Given how even "sleeping" tsukumogami seem to move around or act on their own (even if it's just doing what the user wants), it should have been impossible to miss that.
So this user (whom Raiko said had magic of his or her own) does NOT take the taiko drum to the Hakurei shrine to have it ritually cleansed/quieted/sealed, but apparently continues to use it even though mistreating it or letting it go unused for too long might turn it into a hostile youkai.
Therefore, someone could write a story of Raiko running into her old owner. Someone she apparently felt content being used by before she woke up, but from whom she now wants to remain independent.
I don't know if Benben and Yatsuhashi were already tsukumogami themselves, but if they were, they might likewise have owners looking for them.
Well, I said something like this in a previous post about them, but...
The problem is more something of a "Conservation of Ninjutsu" nature. The thing is, the Akis and especially the Prismrivers suffer from not being individuals, but being a set.
Basically, how easily can you tell The Tsukumos apart? They appear together, they fight together, and their identity is together. It's not that you can pick one out and talk about her individually, it's just that one is the blue-haired one, and the other has brown hair.
It just seems weird that they aren't showing the others when you see Lunasa walking into a doujin alone.
Conversely, other groups like the 9-balls are all distinct individuals. There's nothing at all weird about seeing Mystia get her own doujin or Cirno getting her own, where the others don't appear.
Because of this lack of inherent individuality, it makes it harder to make them anything other than cameo characters in the background. Because they aren't played up much, they don't get much attention or memes or people thinking about them. Probably the most popular of the Prismrivers was Merlin just for being the one with the glitch.
The Akis sort of get saved by being the "Autumn" group, which can put them up with Lily and Letty (and Yuuka if Rappatu) or else as the curb-stomped ultra-weak goddesses. (Hey, that's how Kogasa got her start, so don't knock it...)
Anyway, Raiko may get a chance out for reasons Red Inugami mentioned, (although it seems quite obvious Waggysaggy, Kagerou, Sukuna, and Seija are going to run away with all the fanfare of this game,) especially since she's at least unique, but I doubt the Tsukumos will.
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