#bougetsushou

[mashounen2003]

A friendly reminder that Reimu Hakurei is kind to both humans and youkai, from chapter 1 of Silent Sinner in Blue

Originally posted on the "GensokyoLife" subreddit by "Some_Fig_6566" in the 15th of April 2026 [https://www.reddit.com/r/GensokyoLife/comments/1smicxp], then cross-posted to the "touhou" subreddit in the 14th of May 2026 [https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/1tcxcjj].

This will be relevant for something I'm planning to post in a few minutes...

[somnanana]

[inversionimpulse]

You know, I don’t think the narrator’s suggestion really holds up. If Yorihime’s only interest in Reimu’s stories was the possibility of Eirin’s involvement, her enthusiasm would dip when it became clear Eirin wasn’t involved in a given story and run dry when it became clear that almost none of Reimu’s stories involved her at all.

With that possibility discarded, I think what we’re left with is that Yorihime is just really fascinated with the Earth and/or Reimu

and I think that’s very endearing.

(we already know Toyohime is fascinated with the Earth from her narration in Runagate chapter 3, but we don’t get Yorihime’s perspective on that incident, so her opinion is more difficult to divine with certainty)

[mashounen2003]

I'm sitting down and actually looking up what exactly happened in Silent Sinner in Blue (I did have a general idea of what its plot was, but ignored lots of details), and I'd like to point out one thing I found really funny about the battle of Reimu & co. versus Yorihime.

Apparently, despite Yorihime being able to summon the entire Shintou pantheon including big-name heavenly kami such as Amaterasu, Reimu still has one advantage over her: being able to "float" out of Yorihime's reach. Now I understand this is referring to being able to escape reality itself (?) and it's the basis for her Spell Card "Innate Dream" "Musou Tensei" "Reverie Nature" "Fantasy Nature" (I had seen Reimu use it in Touhou 8 when she's the Stage 4 boss, but I thought it was just a form of teleportation and she was using Yukari-esque boundary manipulation, which Reimu could also use to a limited degree in other Spell Cards such as "Duplex Danmaku Barrier"), but…

When I heard of this for the first time, I thought it was literal, and Reimu could levitate while Yorihime couldn't. So I imagined at first that Reimu using her "floating" power in the battle against Yorihime was just like this: