I've started getting into the canon, without really interacting with the fandom until I'd played a few games and did a bit of research.
Then I got into the fandom a bit and also began looking at the roleplayers from it around me. Some stuff I'd seen in the past and not cared about because I was canon blind. It just seems like the no limits fallacy is applied to every character to make them incredibly powerful which is where I think the canon's reputation for powerful characters comes from.
It just seemed interesting to me as a new comer who didn't know any fanon that I came to far, far lower estimations of abilities than the majority consensus. And it all stems from this one logical error, like everyone seems to think 'can do [x]' can be stretched obscenely far until bottom level Touhou joke characters are head-canon nigh-omnipotent. I get that a lot of the appeal of Touhou is that it's ridiculous and doesn't take itself seriously, but fans seem to just make shit up all the time.
Re: TOUHOU PROJECT
I've started getting into the canon, without really interacting with the fandom until I'd played a few games and did a bit of research.
Then I got into the fandom a bit and also began looking at the roleplayers from it around me. Some stuff I'd seen in the past and not cared about because I was canon blind. It just seems like the no limits fallacy is applied to every character to make them incredibly powerful which is where I think the canon's reputation for powerful characters comes from.
It just seemed interesting to me as a new comer who didn't know any fanon that I came to far, far lower estimations of abilities than the majority consensus. And it all stems from this one logical error, like everyone seems to think 'can do [x]' can be stretched obscenely far until bottom level Touhou joke characters are head-canon nigh-omnipotent. I get that a lot of the appeal of Touhou is that it's ridiculous and doesn't take itself seriously, but fans seem to just make shit up all the time.