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Pursuant to my goals of making Touhou TFs are moral imperative, have a quick TF of myself into Hakurei Reimu. If anyone can tell me anything about Shinto practices, I'm all ears. I know this thing is called a gohei...? That's something, right? RIGHT?! #transformation

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You think knowing about Shinto is a prerequisite to being Reimu? Reimu doesn't even know what god is in her shrine. You're overqualified by acknowledging you don't know anything, really.

idk much about touhou beyond haha funi fruit song, but smth tells me you're gonna be dodging attacks from someone (or something) for a bit of a while

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gohei It's called a gohei, a wand used in Shinto rituals. Being a shrine maiden, it's basically part of her equipment. While characters in Touhou are mainly depicted as firing projectiles at one another, she does occasionally use the Gohei as a melee weapon.

Gohei is right. If you were to translate the line on the right into more natural Japanese, it would be most natural to write it as "私は巫女じゃない!神道なんて知らないわ!".

Oh, thank you very much! I'll make sure any future versions of this drawing I post are updated. I still have a long way to learn with Japanese, so I appreciate the help and corrections ^^

I consider it a personal goal to open up more people to the wonders and fun of anime character TFs! I still love furry, animal, creature, etc, TFs, but there are so many wonderful characters to be that are just regular old people and I think they also deserve TF love!