Making another post just to recommend @Myaga0514 again, since they've finished both Touhou-styled album stylized after WBaWC sequel game: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOSvCoiSVzcQept3EyKT2lQIe7QRaRIZI

Catching up on a lot of these. Haven't posted in the thread but have been lurking a lot. I'm creating a youtube playlist that I'll share with many of the albums in the thread and more. Wanted to follow up with some of my thoughts:

• Beastly World of Drifting Desires was excellent. I though the st4 boss theme was excellent and driving but the whole album captured the WBaWC mood with a unique theme and instrumentation. I particularly enjoyed how the St6 theme crescendo'd into the final boss theme. Very reminiscent of DDC for the shinmyoumaru fight.
  
• Empyreal Garden of Amusements was good. I need to give it another listen to but it sounded like something special. I remember liking the last 3 stage themes a lot. I Lol'd at the ex stage "yooooooo!!" audio clip that finds its way into a bunch of touhou songs (think Watatsumi's Wadaiko Deluge from Sapphire Panlogism)
• After a 3rd listen on the treadmill I think Memory of Dreams Pillow might be a masterpiece. The Ex-stage theme "dense forest" in particular is great. I have not fully sat down and listened to Eternal Childhood Dream which I ripped off youtube
• orange, who also goes by white blugt or orange blugt (and who i think is the mastermind behind memory of dreams pillow) also released a christmas themed mini-album for free on bandcamp which I recommend

All in all I hope my fellow touhou doujin album appreciators are doing well. I don't really know of any western language corners of the internet that are interested of these and I've even tried /jp/.

> Stand ourselves (so that we can get a better sense of how much shorter than her we are).
> "I'd be disappointed in myself if I gave you any less, Miss Iizunamaru."

>You almost but not quite come up to her chest.
>The daitengu nods, unreadable as ever. You want to think she is amused by your confidence, but perhaps that is wishful thinking.
>"As would we," she says. "I'm sure you can show yourselves out?"

> When the situation relaxes and there is no risk of impoliteness or disrepect,look at Koakuma Peacefully...

> ...how is her expression and body language ?

> Does she still seem to take "social interaction's opportunity, to Iizunamaru the Daitengu" in the "misunderstood and exaggerated sense"?

>Koa seems to be confused about what happened, if anything. JUdging from her expression, she seems to feel something went over her head.

>_

> Stand ourselves (so that we can get a better sense of how much shorter than her we are).
> "I'd be disappointed in myself if I gave you any less, Miss Iizunamaru."

> When the situation relaxes and there is no risk of impoliteness or disrepect,look at Koakuma Peacefully...

> ...how is her expression and body language ?

> Does she still seem to take "social interaction's opportunity, to Iizunamaru the Daitengu" in the "misunderstood and exaggerated sense"?

That's super interesting. How far along in learning Japanese are you that you can speak it in your dreams? I find that trying to apply any learned skill I have in dreams makes me feel like I've suddenly forgotten everything about it. I've been playing the piano for over half my life, for example, and while there are dreams where I find myself playing the piano as competently as in real-life, the second I try to focus on what I'm actually playing and attempt to deliberately play any particular way, it all starts deteriorating. I've studied enough French and Japanese to be past what we might call any "preliminary phase" but I'm not comfortable enough with either for it to come more naturally than playing the piano. I wonder if languages are different somehow...?

I'm not actually very advanced in it admittedly. I have a B in GCSE Japanese as a grade but I actually wouldn't call myself conversational in it yet. I'm getting to the point where I can get the gist of a conversation by  listening to it though. I'm currently doing a course on Irodori with a small club of people. I'm on the first level of the course but it is being very useful.

I actually think I communicate in different languages in my dream because that has been the best form for me to learn in. The language I've had most success in learning was BSL (British Sign Language) and I learned that because of a VR chat community in which I talked to people for 1 hour exclusively in Sign Language. Because of that I've prepared my brain to try and get myself into semi-embarassing situations where I will give my best attempt to try and communicate in a language I'm learning. I also expect to get it wrong so I think that's why, although I often get the same thing as your piano skills, I will often try with what I can remember and that has varying results.

> "Of course. Thank you for your time, Miss...?"

>"Iizunamaru," the daitengu says. "You have given us great expectations, we look forward to see them fulfilled"

>_