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Why the hell do people think Touhou is so powerful?
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I mean I love the series and setting but WTF.

Large planet level MFTL Cirno? Seriously?

She was unable to freeze a lake where the fuck is "large planet level" coming from?

The most impressive thing done with magic (that can be kind of quantified) that I know of was changing the orbit of the moon slightly.

The highest firepower "showing" that I know of is extrapolating on Yukari being said to be able to "devastate Gensokyo" to being able to life wipe a small country or The Lunarian fan said to be capable of purifying a forest on the atomic level.

Yeah there are more esoteric stuff like using dissolving the boundary between truth and fiction to get to the true moon via a reflection in a lake. But that is hard as hell to quantify.

But there is literally nothing near planetary/moon destroying. This level of fire power also dose not make sense from a narrative perspective because Marisa's Mini-Hakkero is supposed to be impressive yet on the high end it can only store enough energy to turn a mountain into ash.

There is at least a little "truth" in the MFTL component. There are three feats and I believe there is a spell card description that can be used to justify FTL speeds.

While these are all pretty decent but,

  • In Extra of the Wind (#MFTL) Marisa gets food stolen out of her hand by a crow.

  • In Oriental Sacred Place Reimu gets surprised by snow falling on her.

  • Chen gets scratched by normal cats in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red. (Chen is also supposed to be capable of going FTE to normal humans)

  • Characters also worry about travel time and silly shit like "it will get dark before we get home" when if they are relativistic they could do that in less than a second.

  • In Imperishable Night it takes hours to travel from the start to the bamboo forest (Gensokyo is not very big). Though to muddle this a bit they were constantly fighting things along the way.

There are also some feats much lower than the speed of light but still on the higher end of the scale.

  • In Legacy of a Lunatic Kingdom, the player character travels half way around the moon in presumably minutes to hours.

  • In Cage in Lunatic Runagate, Yukari's familiar crosses across the Seas of Tranquility and Serenity on the moon over the course of a conversation.

  • In Silent Sinner in Blue, Remilia presumably travels the moon in a few panels.

Touhou speed is not consistent. I do not think we can definitively call a character that is relying on a degree of power scaling to say they are FTL.

Though as a disclaimer I have not read all the mangas so their definitely could be feats I am missing.

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