Why do people like this character? She's literally Mary Sue tier.

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>literally

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Sanae a slug!

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If she were a Mary Sue, she'd be constantly stealing the spotlight from Reimu and Marisa. She'd solve incidents with little to no trouble all by herself and she would have no faults.

As it turns out, she mainly relies on her goddesses to give her their powers to use during incidents (Her A and B shots in UFO even say 'As Kanako-sama/Suwako-sama says'). Her Legacy ending in LoLK shows Kanako giving Sanae incident training, which the latter isn't doing too well with. She was called out by Aya and Hatate for being too into youkai extermination. She's very popular with the citizens of the Human Village, but that's her job: she's supposed to gather enough faith for the Moriya Shrine so Kanako and Suwako can continue to exist. I would hope she'd be successful in that regard, and thankfully she is.

So no. Sanae doesn't fill any Mary Sue attributes.

>>16169964
Why don't?

>>16170127
She's a really bland character who relies on other characters to do anything and looks like shit with her green hair.

>>16169964
Being playable has something to do with it I suspect.

>>16170226
Medicine is playable and nobody likes her

>>16170164
Who in touhou isn't bland?

>>16170237
Reimu

>>16170242
Bland in a different way, she's just a frequent grump.

>>16170246
She's actually not, read the works.

>literally
>Mary Sue
>tier
I've got /v/ bingo! What do I win?

>>16170250
She's got the most involvement in most of the works I admit, but that's my interpretation of her character.

>>16169964
Why do people never understand what the fuck a Mary Sue character is?

Just because you don't like someone or find it annoying it doesn't mean she's a Mary Sue.

>>16170164
>She's a really bland character who relies on other characters

Play the games and read the written works, half of her design is doing the opposite.

>>16170297
She's completely useless without her gods.

>>16170312
Play LoLK

>>16170400
No thanks.

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>>16170312
You mean like [i]every miko ever[/i]?

>>16170429
Hakurei's god doesn't even need to show up.

>>16170312
As I said before, Sanae has a good deal of reliance on her goddesses, but she can still be prominent without them (see: Hisoutensoku, TD, LoLK). Saying she's completely useless without Kanako and Suwako is simply untrue.

>>16170483
She's just trying, but she doesn't get anywhere.

>Mary Sue
I want /tg/ to leave.

>>16170403
IN easy mode player detected.

>>16170546
Just because a game is hard, doesn't mean it's good.

>>16170277
A (You)

>>16169964
You spelled Toyohime wrong.
The fact that Sanae got a hero complex doesn't mean she's a Mary Sue.

>>16170558
Except LoLK has fantastic tracks, great atmosphere, a story better than the average Touhou plot and a well-rounded cast.
Besides, there's always Pointdevice mode if one wants to beat the game somewhat easily.

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>>16169964
Sanae is great because it's ZUN's twist on a very popular archtype in both western and eastern fiction.

In lesser works, Sanae would be the point-of-view protagonist character and Reimu would be the occasional rival miko. Instead, she is tolerated by her peers at best or even treated with disdain.

She enters MoF as if taking a wrong turn from a different genre and has had to adapt to Gensokyo's style over time. She can still have her arc, but it's on different terms.

Sumireko would be a later spin on this idea but with a slightly different take.

>>16170436
> Doesn't know that Reimu can use other gods
Pleb

>>16171867
Reimu is the real slut then.

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>>16171852
Sakuya is better playable character though

>>16172010
Considering she really only concerned for Remilia, it seems somewhat forced nowadays to involve the SDM in some unrelated incident.

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>>16172624
Unless it's common old-school incidents we're talking about, Sakuya goes well with those, was nice to have her in DDC.

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>>16169964
Mary sue, my ass. Her initial naivete is more than enough of a flaw for her.

Besides, this complaint is invalid to begin with in Touhou. Say, Eirin is shilled to hell and back by canon itself and literally nobody minds.

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>>16172010
Funny you bring Sakuya of all people up in a thread dedicated to complaining about the mary sue phenomenon.

At least Sanae knows the meaning of the word "fun".

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>>16169964
It's not terribly hard to side with a more positive character when you usually only have an unrepetant thief and a sociopathic bitch to work with.

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Are Sanaefags the most delusional people on /jp/?

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>>16172624
SDM means a lot of money to ZUN.

Sakuya will be playable again because of this.

>>16173167
How are they delusional? There are more people who bash Sanae than defend her in these threads, so seeing the opposite happen here is nice to see.

>>16173167
No. Sanae haters are just fucking stupid.

>>16171780
LoLK is worse than TD.

>>16173478
A lot worse. Doesn't even get us a cast that can really be relevant afterwards outside the meme fairy.

>>16173167
Maybe, but it's fun see them writing wall texts about her.

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Sanny is cute

She's just player 2 character

>>16170164
Her green hair is cute.

>>16173167
This. They are the most transient people.

>>16173831
How did they end up spilling yogurt on their thighs? Those goddesses can be pretty careless!

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Have you guys read Miracle Sanae by Karaage Tarou? It's a nice read and I enjoy the Chewbacca subplot that appeared.

>>16175011
The Chewbacca subplot was actually the best part.
Also, official manga by Karaage Tarou when?

>>16170230
But she is playable only in a game that nobody likes so it doesn't really count

Sanae's hair always seems too green, y'know?

>>16175348
I like PoFV. Medicine is ass to play against, and ass to play as (she breaks the AI) so she's one of the few things making me not really like the game.

>>16174967
What makes you think it's yogurt?

Did Zun intentionally make Sanae just like a Luigi clone?

With Reimu's color mainly been red and Sanae green, Sanae having the same occupation and her also being a secondary playable character.

>>16179348
But Sanae's actually liked, you know?

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>>16179348
So, sharing an ocupation with the main character is now a Mario reference. I take it? You don't call Alice a 2P of Marisa, do you?
They aren't even coloristically compatible with your simile either (Reimu's brunette to Sanae's green hair and Sanae's attire is blue-white in contrast to Reimu's red-white).

Not to mention their mindsets and priorities are as far apart as they can possibly be. Sanae has been indeed intented to be a rival of sorts to Reimu, but ZUN himself said that his intention from the very beginning was to write her as a character with a strong personality that doesn't blend into the background and can be easily inserted into any story.

Personally, I'd really rather have Sanae as the guardian of Gensokyo. Reimu feels more defined by her status as the Hakurei miko rather than her actual difficult personality in relations with pretty much everyone other than Marisa and Kasen and gets a ton of undeserved respect. Sanny on the other hand basically has the mindset of a self-proclaimed heroine of people from the get-go.

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>>16169964
>Loses
>Mary Sue

ok

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Why are people bullying Sanae?