Time for random garbage.



Not too long ago i saw a facebook group called "I hate it when i ask what is it, and people just say "it's a long story." "


Well, it's true that it's quite annoying when people say that and you get even more curious.

But then, like some gp essays we do, we gotta consider both sides.


There is a time when i will thought of saying it's a long story.

The thing i want to explain is really really long and i am afraid it might bore the other party and affecting the overall atmosphere badly.



Go watch this ridiculously hilarous video below from Touhou M-1 Grand Prix ( A competition of 2-man comedy acts, to be exact it's mostly 2-girl).






If you were to ask me why am i laughing so much as though my chronic cold has worsened to an asthma attack, i would have said it's a long story, literally and figuratively, and you will dread that i told you a grandma story, and you will probably not understand if i told you straight instead of reading it here.

The reason why Kaguya and Mokou are immortal and are bitter enemies dates back to many many many centuries ago.


Kaguya was once a princess of the Lunarians, a race of people living on the Moon.

She was exiled to Earth over a thousand years ago for the crime of using the forbidden Hourai Elixir to make herself immortal.

Arriving on Earth one day, she was found by a bamboo cutter and dwelt among the humans she had once despised.

Though the Lunarians looked upon humans with contempt, Kaguya came to love her new home.

Tales of her unearthly beauty led men from all across the land to seek her hand in marriage, Fujiwara no Mokou's father being one of them, but none could successfully complete her trial of the Five Impossible Requests.

The first was to bring her the stone begging bowl of the Buddha from India.

The second was to retrieve a jewelled branch from the island of Mount Hourai.

The third was to seek the legendary robe of the fire-rat of China.

The fourth was to retrieve a colored jewel from a dragon's neck.

The final task was to find the legendary Cowry treasure of the swallows.




And it seems Mokou wants revenge for disgracing her father as her father did not make it for the impossible requests.


Well to extend the long story...

After years of exile, powerful emissaries arrived from the Moon; Kaguya had been forgiven of her crime and it had been decided that she should return.

Kaguya, however, had grown to love life on Earth and had no desire to return to the lunar capital permanently.

Enlisting the help of her friend Eirin, Kaguya escaped from the emissaries and fled to Gensokyo.

Taking refuge in an ancient manor called Eientei hidden deep within a secluded bamboo forest, the two Lunarians began a new exile.

And after several centuries of isolation, she was eventually reunited with Mokou, who had also used the Hourai Elixir to become immortal, and the two continued their feud, murdering each other on a nearly daily basis.

(many thanks to touhou.wikia.com)






Now imagine if i told you the above background story as part of a conversation, you wouldn't like it right?

But if i don't tell you, you won't understand why i am laughing so much as though my chronic cold has worsened to an asthma attack and you won't get your question answered.

I also read somewhere that everyone has limited attention span. Some people have as short as 10 minutes of attention and then after that what they hear won't get into their head.




And given that, i bet you'd take like, an hour to fully comprehend this blog post.

According to experience if you just skim through the posts like milk, you would ask me questions which answers are easily found in the passage... er no i mean blog post.

Lol.


Comprehension question 4U: Summarise Kaguya's background story.


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Currently hooked on classical Touhou music arranges from TAMusic. Seriously, they are awesome.


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Touhou Fan.


Listens mostly to Touhou doujin music

(Because the creator of Touhou (ZUN) is damn talented, his BGM for the game series are godly, including the game series he made itself, and hence many dedicated groups of musicians do arranges of his original BGM)

("Arranges" are one level higher than "covers")


Very Japanese-oriented, absolutely not Korean-crazy like the crowd out there

Watches Japanese anime



Wants to do, learn and try many, many things, but finds it hard to find the time, commitment, and energy to do all of that


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