I know Nakatani intended for Yutaka to be a seemingly boring main character to contrast Aru, but I think she overdid it with Yutaka and so a lot of their dynamic feels bland and lacking some substance. It may be because I've read Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer which has a similar concept but was...
It would be in line with Okina's attitude in Hidden Star in Four Seasons where she saw potential in Marisa and tried to recruit her as a dancer.
I've seen another ReiMari artist (Shi Chimi) make a doujin on this topic. In that work, Okina saw a lot of potential in Marisa and thought that her...
Speaking very strictly on official touhou material, we don't know anything about her past. All we know about her past is that she was childhood friends with Marisa and acquainted with Rinnosuke prior to the start of the series. (There is complications from older games but they're largely ignored...
As a major fan of the ship and the character dynamics in official and fan works, I felt like the conflict was choreographed for a while now and I was just waiting for it to happen
The surprising part for me was that it came during the date chapter
This seems like a chapter that will be better received after a series re-read or after later chapters.
For monthly readers, things seem slower and so a conflict like this seems like an unnecessary delay to the fluff, but this conflict has been alluded to since near the start with Reimu’s...
I think given how Reimu's story ended the last time we saw her in chapter 11, she has become aware of some of the romantic undertones of their friendship such as feeding each other food and becoming flustered over that. She still seems caught up in her own thoughts at the start of this chapter...