More first impressions from me eight books later

Follow-up to this post from a few days ago.

Since last time, I've read a lot. Turns out it did help me remember some characters and storylines !

 

• Curiosities in Lotus Asia

This was very interesting. I didn't expect to see "outside world" technology so much. It was funny to see Rinnosuke interact with it, although pretty frustrating at times when he came up with bogus explanations like he actually knew everything. Also, I have to say I disliked Reimu and Marisa's (mostly) attitude towards Rinnosuke and his job. It seems like they didn't have any respect, and I was expecting better from them.

I have to say I'm extrememly intrigued by Yukari. Not only is she extremely powerful, she also seems to know more than everyone else about the outside world's technology. Hmm...

 

• Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

I finally finished it ! A lot dryer than I thought it would be, but it was rather entertaining.

 

• Seasonal Dream Vision

Not much to say here. A few comics, not the best.

 

• The Grimoire of Marisa

I've skimmed through it, but I was not familiar with most characters so I've only read a few pages for now. I'll get back to it later.

 

• Silent Sinner in Blue
• Cage in Lunatic Runagate
• Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth

The best one. I was very pleasantly surprised there. When playing Imperishable Night, I thought the Moon story was going to be a one-time thing, because it seemed a bit too much compared to the usual setting. But no, there was an entire storyline to go with it ! I liked it a lot, and what's more, it made the characters involved stick in my memory :D Now I remember about Eirin, Kaguya, Reisen, Tewi... I'm glad that it helped me so much, now I feel like I "know" the characters a lot better.

Also, Patchouli studying Apollo 13 to build a rocket was the best thing ever and confirms her status as best girl.

And Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth was hilarious.

 

• Memorizable Gensokyo
• Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Interesting read as well. It made me realize how mysterious Sakuya's past is. I've tried to find information about it and found some emails from ZUN where he says that he was planning to give more backstory but the occasion never came. Any recent news about this ? Or will we never know ?

 

Now I have to catch up with the games to read anything else, since I think every remaining book is at least after Mountain of Faith so I have to familiarize myself with the second Windows Generation. And before I get to that, I would like to play more with the First Generation and beat Embodiment of Scarlet Devil in Normal, so you probably won't have more reactions from me before a while :P