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I feel the Canon section of the Touhou page should be re-worked a bit, since it has some misleading and some downright false statements.
First of all, everything not directed by ZUN isn't canon, or even official, period. All the fanimes, fangames, or fanwork, are just that: Fanon, and should be treated as such, like it is for all the rest of the verses. Even if Zun DID state the fan stuff is semi-canon (Which he hasn't), it would most likely works like the Extended Cthulhu Mythos.
Secondly, PC-98.
This wiki as a whole seems to treat PC-98 as outright non-canon, and the Verse page seems to treat it as "Ambguiously canon". I personally feel that PC-98 should be considered a Secondary Canon that gets overwritten by the most recent games if inconsistency happens.
Reasons are: Zun did quite some statements about PC-98, yet only 2 of them ever hinted at it being non-canon. One being about EoSD being a clean new start, and one about how we should ignore PC-98. However, both of those were made incredibely early in the new Touhou generation, and many much recent statements and proof shows the opposite.
Zun have repeadtly stated that the PC-98 setting still exists, but just doesn't get to be shown on-screen. Not only that but some characters, places or events are directly mentioned in-games, such as the Return of Alice an Yuuka (Both of them mentions previous encounter with Reimu and Marisa), Byakuren's Spell Card mentions Shinki existing in Makai. Oh, and Makai itself existing.
He also stated that while inconsistency between the ol' games and the new ones happens, Newer stuff takes precedence over old stuff.
So, in short. Any mentions of Fanon should be removed from the Verse page, and PC-98 be bumped to Secondary Canon.
I don't know if this means we should scales the old characters (Moon to Solar System) to the new ones (City to Country), I think it should be discussed further.
Also, small stuff, but I think the Verse page could be renamed "Touhou Project", since it is its full name and stuff.
First of all, everything not directed by ZUN isn't canon, or even official, period. All the fanimes, fangames, or fanwork, are just that: Fanon, and should be treated as such, like it is for all the rest of the verses. Even if Zun DID state the fan stuff is semi-canon (Which he hasn't), it would most likely works like the Extended Cthulhu Mythos.
Secondly, PC-98.
This wiki as a whole seems to treat PC-98 as outright non-canon, and the Verse page seems to treat it as "Ambguiously canon". I personally feel that PC-98 should be considered a Secondary Canon that gets overwritten by the most recent games if inconsistency happens.
Reasons are: Zun did quite some statements about PC-98, yet only 2 of them ever hinted at it being non-canon. One being about EoSD being a clean new start, and one about how we should ignore PC-98. However, both of those were made incredibely early in the new Touhou generation, and many much recent statements and proof shows the opposite.
Zun have repeadtly stated that the PC-98 setting still exists, but just doesn't get to be shown on-screen. Not only that but some characters, places or events are directly mentioned in-games, such as the Return of Alice an Yuuka (Both of them mentions previous encounter with Reimu and Marisa), Byakuren's Spell Card mentions Shinki existing in Makai. Oh, and Makai itself existing.
He also stated that while inconsistency between the ol' games and the new ones happens, Newer stuff takes precedence over old stuff.
So, in short. Any mentions of Fanon should be removed from the Verse page, and PC-98 be bumped to Secondary Canon.
I don't know if this means we should scales the old characters (Moon to Solar System) to the new ones (City to Country), I think it should be discussed further.
Also, small stuff, but I think the Verse page could be renamed "Touhou Project", since it is its full name and stuff.
(since it's still Spell Card Battle)
