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Nowadays, most of the Oriental enthusiasts, it should be said that the vast majority, are in the New Oriental era, of course, this is what I divided, that is, after 2006 and 2007, I began to contact the East. The so-called New Oriental Era is not only because the emergence of Niconico has led to the explosion of Oriental popularity, but also because at this point in time, the worldview setting of Oriental Project has also entered a new stage. If you have been in contact with the East since the Red Devil Township, or earlier, you should be able to appreciate this change.

But most people are not, when most people come into contact with the East, the East is already an era of new worldview, so they can't understand the setting of the Red Devil Township. When many people come into contact with the Orient, they will first read the history of seeking knowledge and dictation, or they will contact it through secondary creation. Seeking to hear the history of the history of the dictation itself is the condensation of the New Oriental setting system, so those who read these first will first understand the New Oriental setting system, and then when they come into contact with the specific settings of the Red Devil Township and the Demon Dream, they will naturally use the new setting system.

No, it should be said that it was natural to integrate the story of the Red Devil Township and the Demon Dream into the oriental setting system that I had already understood in advance. The people who come into contact with it through secondary creation are even more so. Secondary creations usually describe everything in terms of the worldview that the creator understands best. Because many people have a misunderstanding, that is, the Oriental project has a fixed, universal, and universal worldview and setting system that runs through each work, but

This perception is wrong. In fact, the setting of Red Devil Township and Demon Dream is completely different from today's Gensokyo setting. Everyone may be familiar with it.,Knowing that the setting of the old work is completely different from the new work.,There will be such a concept.。 But most people lack the concept of Red Devil Township Demon Dream when the setting is completely different from now. That's right, completely different. Let's take a detailed analysis of how different the Red Devil Township is from the Gensokyo we are familiar with now. First of all, the biggest difference. There is no Gensokyo we know in the setting of Red Devil Township. What is Gensokyo as we know it now, a small world in the middle of the mountains, surrounded by the Great Enchantment of Hakurei and separated from it. And due to the effect of the Illusory Reality Enchantment, there are youkai in this place, and they will attract things that have become fantasy from the outside world to enter. It's a veritable fantasy town.,A fantasy world completely different from the world of science and civilization in the outside world.。 Youkai live happily in this world. This is what we know as Gensokyo, but in the setting of Red Devil Township, in the setting of Red Devil Township, that is, in the setting of Zun in 2002, it does not exist. If I were to describe Gensokyo in Zun's mind at that time, it was a place deep in the mountains of Japan far away from human settlements.

This mountain is uninhabited, and basically no one will come, and this ravine in the deep mountains is called Gensokyo.

This ravine is a paradise for youkai.

Since people are civilized and expel darkness, youkai are expelled from life by humans.

The youkai that inhabit the darkness live here and do not interfere with humans. This Gensokyo is a fantasy town for youkai, a fairyland, and a fairyland for youkai. And for humans, there is only death here. Hakurei Shrine is located on the border of Gensokyo.

Hakurei Shrine has had no gods since the beginning, and the purpose of this shrine is to protect Gensokyo and the outside world. And the duty of the shrine maiden of Hakurei Shrine is to protect Gensokyo and the outside world and prevent inappropriate interactions. Gensokyo doesn't have the enchantment we know, it's just a ravine. This is a paradise for youkai who don't interact with humans. It is a place where youkai live. For the monsters, this is a fairyland, a paradise.

However, for the humans outside, this may be the devil's cave. Or that the Demon Cave is not very suitable, Gensokyo is demonic and destructive to humans.

It is not the destruction that people usually think of when they hear the word "devil's cave", but the destruction of the spiritual concept, the destruction of the concept of the scientific world on which human beings live. It's the collapse of the hierarchy that is no longer human, and the humans who have escaped into Gensokyo will no longer be humans, but confused, and may eventually become youkai.

Lost in it, the principles of humanity no longer apply, and the meaning of humanity is lost, just like the role of the treasures of Gensokyo to the Prizm Liba family (Honkai). However, people from the outside world do not believe in the existence of yokai, so people also deny the existence of this place. Of course, I won't come. Because no one goes, youkai and humans live in peace, and because they don't touch, they are peaceful. So the best way to keep this peace is to not touch. In the ** of becoming a monster, Zun found salvation from the world (the so-called fairyland, the so-called Taoyuan, the so-called Gensokyo).

Between the clean moon capital and the filthy Gensokyo, he chose Gensokyo, and this has not changed to this day. In this way, people and youkai live a life that does not interact with each other. There may be a bit of a problem with this, Red Devil Township does not have a systematic worldview setting, and what I described is more like Zun's understanding of these concepts at that time.

And Zun also relied on this understanding and cognition of the concept, as well as what he thought and thought at the time, to create works, such as the Red Devil Township and Penglai humanoids.

A lot of things are not finalized yet, and they are written where they are thought of and written. It's more like an idea and an idea than a setting. - Getting down to business.

One of these ideas needs to be noted the most important thing is that this Gensokyo is not separated from the outside world. In other words, youkai are also accepting of the culture of the outside world. It can be said that the knowledge level of the youkai and the few humans living in the vicinity, such as Reimu and Marisa, is comparable to that of humans from the outside world. Reimu and Marisa know about air conditioning, know about Western food, know about vitamins, know minerals, know about the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, know that thorium starts to decay continuously from the 232nd and finally becomes a stable nuclide 208pb.

Also know all the kinds of knowledge that we know as humans now. They even go to human towns to enjoy cold drinks and go shopping. They know all kinds of knowledge that Zun thinks of occasionally, and they will do things that Zun suddenly comes up to, and they will use the A that Zun wants to use. Very freewheeling, with Zun's heart and desires. Of course, Reimu and Marisa are generally far away from human towns. Because Gensokyo is not separated from the outside world, there is no so-called knowledge gap at all, and there is no fantasy or fantasy. Knowledge from the outside world is equally introduced to Gensokyo.

But humans in the outside world do not recognize the existence of yokai and blindly worship science. Gensokyo in the Red Devil Township era, the characters in the Red Devil Township era, and the Gensokyo and the characters we know now, are hugely different, and even substantially different. And the Red Mist Mutation in Red Devil Township is actually fundamentally different from the Red Mist Mutation we know. Now we know that in the setting of Red Devil Township, Gensokyo has no enchantment. Moreover, the gathering place of human beings is not in Gensokyo (there is no human world as we know it now), but is located outside Gensokokyo, a human town at a certain distance from the ravine of Gensokyo. The red mist began to emanate from the Red Devil Pavilion in Gensokyo, gradually enveloping the ravine of Gensokyo.

If it continues to spread, the red mist will spread out of Gensokyo's range, or even out of the mountains, and spread to human towns.

In other words, if it goes on like this, the red mist mutation in Gensokyo will affect the lives of humans in the outside world. So what happens next? Maybe it's different from the result that people who are used to the current Gensokyo setting think of at first.,

In the setting of Red Devil Township, the result will be that Gensokyo that is not accepted by people, and Gensokyo that is not accepted by science interferes with people's lives.

And this Gensokyo is incompatible with the idea of humanity, even with humanity itself.

Humans will try their best to get rid of Gensokyo, and get rid of this yokai wonderland where the monsters live peacefully and do not interfere with each other. As for how to get rid of it, it's hard to say, maybe the U.S. military and the Self-Defense Forces jointly dispatched to clear this ravine? Whether the army is useful to this strange place is one thing. In short, if left unchecked, youkai will have conflicts with humans, and eventually this fairyland, which is rare for youkai, will no longer exist. In order to prevent this from happening, it is necessary to have a Hakurei shrine and a Hakurei shrine maiden.

In other words, the Hakurei shrine maiden at that time was Gensokyo, that is, the guardian of the youkai. It needs to be repeated, in the setting of Red Devil Township, there are almost no people in Gensokyo, and the monsters do not depend on humans to exist, and the monsters do not need the fear of humans, and they can live in this monster fairyland safely.

What youkai want is a life that doesn't interfere with humans. That's what the Hirori shrine maiden is protecting. Red Devil Township is the first new work, and there is an essential gap with the Oriental project we are familiar with now. At that time, Zun didn't have the current setting in mind. And until that time, Reimu was still a witch who needed to be cultivated, but it became stronger than the old work, could fly, and was relatively more leisurely. But there is no such strong anti-heaven as now, and there is no very special ability.

And Marisa has not yet been reduced to an ordinary, close to ordinary existence that sets off the protagonist Reimu. In fact, Marisa at that time was still far away from ordinary people and incompatible with humans. Marisa is an antagonist who is the main character. Zun's setting at that time was still very casual. A protagonist, an opponent of the protagonist, and the character is born. Similarly, the boss is also a relatively casual setting, and will use very strange memes, or things that interest you at the time as content and dialogue. There is no complete setting system in the Red Devil Township, and relatively, the plot and setting are more in service of the existence of the game itself. Since the game process is almost 30 minutes, humans in the red mist can only hold out for 30 minutes. Since the last level of the E difficulty is set to be unplayable, it gives Sakuya an ability to reverse time. Because she wanted to play the stalk of Journey to the West, Hong Misuzu said that she had heard that the witch meat was delicious. And for the convenience of the game, for their own pleasure, the plot can appear all kinds of very casual, and even unreasonable things. Of course, in fact, there are a lot of small A designs designed by ZUN buried in it.

But no matter what, the plot of Red Devil Township is very full of loopholes and contradictions, because zun is not actually seriously designed. Before the Eternal Night, the plot was not as important to Zun as the game itself. Until the time of making the Eternal Night Copy, Zun also lamented that dialogue should not be removed if it broke the coherence of the game. In addition, not only the Red Devil Township, but also the Penglai humanoid at the same time as the Red Devil Township, as well as the HIT paintings at that time, also highlight this casualness. Since we have now come into contact with the follow-up works, when oriental lovers want to understand the works of zun at that time, they always have to use the existing new thinking to apply the works of zun at that time.

But in fact, this is unreasonable, when analyzing the Penglai humanoid text, we should first forget the settings and roles of all works after the Red Devil Township. Instead of taking something new and putting on something old. Zun's casual creations at that time should not be over-interpreted with new ideas that came up after several years of zun. You shouldn't use the new works in the back to set the old works of that time. In fact, whether it is C62 or C63, the Penglai humanoid may have a different worldview from the Red Devil Township.

It can even be said that at that time, Zun did not have the idea of constructing a complete world view. It is more likely to improvise a worldview in order to create a work. So the Penglai humanoid is the Penglai humanoid, the Red Devil Township is the Red Devil Township, and the later works are the later works, and I think it's inappropriate to put them on a horizontal line to cross-consider. And the characters in it, especially the characters who appear in Penglai's human form, are more like actors than characters.

There was a need for a shrine maiden here, so I took out a shrine maiden, that is, Reimu, and put it in. So what happened in the Penglai humanoid, what was seen in the Reimu in the Penglai humanoid.

Reimu in the Red Devil Country is something I've never seen before. Reimu after the Red Devil Township has never been seen.

It can even be said that the Reimu of these different works is a different person, just an actor performing in different works. These works are not interoperable with each other, and people don't actually share them. It is absolutely incorrect to think that the story in the two Penglai figures is a story that takes place in the main worldview of the Oriental Project. Therefore, when analyzing these two stories, we should also completely detach ourselves from the main worldview of the East. According to my discussion with Atrican, we agreed that the Penglai humanoid of C63 is actually the Penglai humanoid of C61.

Regarding this and my understanding of the Penglai humanoid, I will have the opportunity to write an article in detail in the future (it seems that there are a lot of digging pits) again. Not only the Red Devil Township, but also the Demon Dream of the Demons, it wasn't until after the end of the Eternal Night Copy that Zun began to consider systematizing the setting and system of the East. Many people may know that the demon dream once came with a Gensokyo wind and soil record.

But then Zun invalidated the setting, saying that it was a wrong setting. Actually, it can be seen from the fact that Gensokyo Fudoki is placed in the manual of the demon dream.,At least when the demon dream was released,The setting conceived by zun is just like the one described in the Fudoki.,

At the time of the demon dream, the Gensokyo in Zun's mind, from the remote ravine of the Red Devil Township, the fairyland of the monsters, has become a place for human monks to seal the monsters in order to expel the monsters. Although there is no change in the exclusion of yokai by humans, at least Gensokyo was born with the attribute of closure from the youkai dream. Although it is a human seal monster.

This changed when the eternal night copied, and the enchantment became maintained by youkai. Of course, there are some subtle changes, such as Qiluno changing from a monster to a goblin, because when he was in the Red Devil Country and in the early stage of the Goblin Dream, the goblin was still too low-level.

Later, the new character Hibiki Yugu, whose identity is Yamahiko, also thinks that Yamahiko is a very low-level elf in the mind of the demon dream. The setting of the East has been constantly evolving, always changing. The setting of the era of Red Devil Township is now completely gone, and the changes have been turned upside down. Because of the gap, it is impossible to use the current concept to understand the setting at that time, otherwise there will inevitably be a lot of doubts. Typical questions such as why Reimu and Marisa are so familiar with the information of the outside world in the Red Devil Township dialogue, after clarifying this, naturally no longer bother