Ahoy dear friends,
Just to tell you a new project has just been released ! That’s a MME plugin corrector, for the MMD community, to correct errors like ”incorrect number of arguments to numeric-type constructor”.
I know I’m not the only one ! That’s why I did that, so that other people won’t be stopped by such annoying errors !
I hope you’ll enjoy it ! 
Hiya everyone !
I just wanted to post a quick note about the new page I added here… It’s about a nice program I designed that allows every touhou fan to read more conveniently all these wonderful fanworks !
It’s on there.
I hope you’ll like it !
Hiya,
Before I start talking about Touhou, I’d like to tell you that my website
http://fyrtorn.netii.net
finally looks like something ! So please keep an eye on it, because it’ll grow bigger and bigger !
Touhou isn’t only about these shoot-em-up games. This world gets bigger and bigger as the community revolving around it slowly grows… So this time, I’ll tell you about Touhou M-1 Grand Prix.
Touhou M-1 Grand Prix is a series of Touhou animations featuring an imaginary Manzai contest in Gensokyo. What is a Manzai ? Wikipedia says this :
Manzai (漫才?) is a traditional style of stand-up comedy in Japanese culture, which usually involves two performers (manzaishi) —a straight man(tsukkomi) and a funny man (boke)—trading jokes at great speed. Most of the jokes revolve around mutual misunderstandings, double-talk, puns and other verbal gags.
So… You have guessed it, it’s a series of funny Touhou-related videos, where a pair of girls try to make the audience laughs. They even invented grades and a notation system for it !
As far as I know, 5 different contests have occurred so far, as the video got released during each year’s Reisaitai (a giant japanese anime convention). Translations are very incomplete though, so a lot of stand-ups are not available in english…
Here are my favourite ones :
Heya Touhou fans,
Touhou’s universe has grown larger and larger, as ZUN-sensei kept working on each game… So it’s no surprise that new touhou written works appeared. The following links are what I have found so far.
As for now, here’s what I’ve found :
Heya everyone !
I would just like to drop a little note here about my Fyrtorn project. I have created a new website for it ! Although it’s pretty empty for now, you can see how it’s like on this address :
http://fyrtorn.netii.net
.
Expect more soon !
Hello fellow readers,
I’m still surprised my blog has as many visitors. I wonder why, since I haven’t made a post for 3 months… But do not worry, for I am not dead (I wouldn’t be writing this article now otherwise, right?). I just had quite a lot to deal with work which was becoming pretty intense, as well as some odd… events happening in real life (although not exactly, but here is not the place to talk about this).
As for now, I would like to make you discover a new game I found earlier rotting on my hard disk drive : Blue Lacuna.
This is the story of a Wayfarer, a person able to travel through dimensions. However, Wayfarers cannot control neither when, nor where they travel. In this game, you have to answer a Call, which is basically an inner feeling that another Wayfarer in a different dimension needs help. Yet, as you arrive in this new world, mysterious events start to unfold…
You can discover this story here. Hope you’ll enjoy it !
Hello dear friends,
As we’re on September 9th 2011, it’s time to celebrate the 3rd Cirno Day !
People who aren’t familiar with Touhou will probably wonder what this is… So let me explain.
Cirno is an ice fairy who first appeared in Touhou 6 : Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (I will probably make a post about Touhou one day, but not right now). She happened to simply attack the player without any reason as the latter was trying to solve another incident. Even though she is a pretty weak boss, she can still be considered as one of the strongest fairies in Gensokyo.
So far, nothing’s wrong. However, Cirno progressively became known in the Touhou community as a… simple-minded character. And then… ZUN (Touhou’s creator) decided to play his part, too. Here’s what you can see in the manual of Touhou 9 : Phantasmagoria of Flower View :
Yeah. It is written “Baka” in japanese, which can be translated into “idiot”. Since that day, Cirno became the embodiment of Gensokyo’s stupidity. And as a reference to this manual, she is often designated as “Baka” or by this symbol, ⑨. It even went as far as this video by IOSYS ! And even ZUN kept playing his part… In Touhou 12.8 : Great Fairy War, Cirno has this not-that-smart behaviour, randomly declaring a war against other fairies !
How silly.
Therefore, it simply became natural that Sept. 9th 2009 (09/09/09, or ⑨/⑨/⑨), which is also the 252th day of this year (and 2 + 5 + 2 = 9) became the very first Cirno Day, celebrated worldwide with a lot of fanwork specially dedicated to the poor fairy. And that’s how ⑨/⑨ became Cirno’s Day, still celebrated by Touhou fans all around the world.
A little example of dedicated fanwork.
As for myself… well, I took a screenshot of the very instant of this day :
I haven’t even cheated !
And as an additionnal gift for reading all this, here’s a nice Cirno comic
Hello dear followers,
I now officially have a twitter feed ! And I’ll be updating there both Fyrtorn and this blog’s instant news ! Here you go.
EDIT : I have created a now dedicated Twitter feed, just and only for this blog ! Hope you won’t be spammed by all my useless ranting about Fyrtorn again 
Hello geek-ish friends !
I’ve been trying to run my own server lately, to serve my Fyrtorn project (it’s not dead btw, far from it… I’m just having some trouble with it, thanks to Mr. Murphy)… And I happened to run into some hard disk drive trouble. Thankfully, I rediscovered the power of the famous Hiren’s BootCD, a multi-purpose tool I would like to tell you about.
Hiren’s BootCD is a very nice bootable CD (roughly, it starts when you switch your computer on). It has many useful computer-emergency tools that can save your OS and data. It’s particularly handy when you have to deal with corrupted HDDs : you can use it not only to retrieve data from lost partitions, but also to repair a HDD, to remove bad blocks, to manage partitions or even to perform a low-level format on it ! (the last emergency procedure to save a HDD, it tries to totally erase data on each sector of it and doesn’t only delete partitions)
It’s not the only things this bootable CD can do though : if you are having trouble with ferocious viruses, with your internet connection, your filesystem or even if you have lost your password, it will provide you some help !
To conclude, it’s definitely a very nice CD that could make your life significantly easier if you have it under hand. Get it !
Hello everyone !
Today, I’d just like to share with you this wonderful link. It’s finally an anime with Touhou characters ! (although it’s only 14 min long, and isn’t dubbed at all) You should check this out, because both graphics and music are awesome ! And the most surprising is that… it’s entirely fan-made.
Animation: 満福神社 (Manpuku Jinja)
http://manpukujinja.blog135.fc2.com/
Music: 幽閉サテライト (Satellite Prison)
http://www.yuuhei-satellite.jp/
(copied right from Youtube, but they deserve it)
Congratulations to them ! Let’s hope they’ll keep up the good work !
