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Touhou II: Story of an Eastern Thread
The Touhou Project is a series of 2D vertically-scrolling danmaku shooting games made by Team Shanghai Alice, with three fighting game spinoffs co-produced with Tasogare Frontier.
For those who don't know what danmaku is, it's Japanese for "bullet curtain" or "curtain fire". Also known as Bullet Hell; here's a picture.
Don't let that scare you off though, the game is usually not that intense. The fighting games are great to play if bullet shooters aren't your thing.
There are currently 19 official games; 5 for an old system called PC-98, and 14 for Windows. The PC-98 have nearly no connection to the Windows games. You also don't need to play the games in any order to enjoy them; I would personally recommend starting with Imperishable Night or Perfect Cherry Blossom, games 8 and 7 respectively.
Previous thread
The fan base for Touhou is absolutely huge; basically everything that you can find besides the games is fan-made. The huge list of fanfiction, fan-games, music, images, etc.
Wikipedia
The Touhou Wiki, for your reading pleasure. Don't feel that it's necessary to read it; enjoy the Touhou series however you like. The front page of the wiki has links to the different game descriptions. There's also a page for fan-games located here.
Music
A Youtube playlist over 150 unplugged/classical based music and song remixes of the different tunes found in the Touhou games.
A Youtube playlist over 100 metal/rock based music and song remixes of the different tunes found in the Touhou games.
Bad Apple; probably the most famous touhou fan video, thanks to the Cirno News Network (CNN) sharing it on the air.
Images
Danbooru (NSFW) is great for finding images of Touhou characters, but I would recommend browsing with Firefox+Adblocker to remove some of the NSFW content.
Safebooru is the SFW version of Danbooru, but again, you may google it at you're own risk.
Google is fairly good, but the quantity can be a little limited.
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If anyone thinks of something for me to add, just post about it.
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Whoo, new thread! Posting for the sake of posterity, and a checkmark so I can find it later. :smalltongue:
Also, you forgot to mention the first game. Not quite a bullet shooter, more of an Arkanoid/Breakout sort of thing. Then again, no one really cares about the first 5.
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Yay, new thread. I need to post more music in here :smalltongue:
Also marking the thread
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Onwards, to new-thread yayness~! Let us taunt those who play on easy modo and steal precious things!
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Yeah, it was the Curtainfires I was thinking about Mage. Just an amusing little bunch of NPCs, really.
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While Touhou references in WoW is awesome, that's not enough to make me wanna go back :D
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Who here plays Touhou Hack and Slash?
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I personally actually really liked the first one and put a decent amount of time into it, but that may have just been me. -.-
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Drizvolta
Who here plays Touhou Hack and Slash?
I have it, although it's gotten sort of boring doing single-player. Netplay on that, even locally with one of my friends who lives about 5 minutes away from me, seemed rather laggy.
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Tono
I personally actually really liked the first one and put a decent amount of time into it, but that may have just been me. -.-
Eh, didn't like the first game that much. Had no idea what I was doing, so that might have been why. The danmaku ones were okay too, but seeing as I was already spoiled with the newer games, they lost some of the appeal. I still 1CC'd Lotus Land Story on my first run of the game though, which I thought was hilarious.
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Finally got the two songs I was missing for Sengoku Gensokyo: remixes of Maiden's Capriccio and Suwa Foughten Field.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-1imm1nZnM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHvR-1Bjt28
I especially like the latter.
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Touhou hack and slash looks like a fun, little diablo-like time waster, so I'd probably enjoy it. Anyone care to do a multiplayer game of it(probably during the summer, if schedules clash)?
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Mirrinus
The first is quite good, feels like it should be in a DW game, but the second is truely deserving of Kanako's divinity(I mean seriously, she's a goddess, remixes of her music need to reflect that more often.:smallbiggrin:)
And just a little myuusak of my own. Oh, and while I can remember; did anyone here ever save/find an alternate link to Taboovampire's horrible series on youtube? If you don't know what I'm talking about it's the last song in Koishi Hell.
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I want to ask something. What is Reimu's and Marisa's main theme song/leitmotif?
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Speaking of Sengoku Gensokyo, could someone help me download it? I can't read Japanese, and Google Translate doesn't seem to work on the site, so I can't for the life of me find the download link.
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Fri
I want to ask something. What is Reimu's and Marisa's main theme song/leitmotif?
I think generally people use Maiden's Capriccio - Dream Battle from Imperishable Night for Reimu, and Marisa has a bunch of different themes (I remember hearing somewhere that she has the most themes of any character).
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Volatar
Speaking of Sengoku Gensokyo, could someone help me download it? I can't read Japanese, and Google Translate doesn't seem to work on the site, so I can't for the life of me find the download link.
Try looking on this image board thread.
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Originally Posted by
Fri
I want to ask something. What is Reimu's and Marisa's main theme song/leitmotif?
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Originally Posted by
Rolaran
I think generally people use
Maiden's Capriccio - Dream Battle from Imperishable Night for Reimu, and Marisa has a bunch of different themes (I remember hearing somewhere that she has the most themes of any character).
Yeah I think most people just go with the IN themes for them, meaning "Maiden's Cappricio - Dream Battle" and "Love-colored Master Spark." Maybe it's because those are the only actual theme songs for them in the main shooter games.
Caution! Link spam imminent!
Of course, they have other ones too, but they're from the more gimmicky games. Reimu has both "Mystic Oriental Love Consultation" and "Dichromatic Butterfly" from the fighters, and "Colorful Path" from PoFV. And then there's Marisa, who has seven theme songs, two of which are "Love-colored X" and sound rather similar. "Vessel of Stars," an old song from the PC-98 games, became more popular once it was remixed in the fighters, but then most of her others are again from the "not main" danmaku games ("Dim. Dream" (PC-98), "The Witches' Ball" (not a Touhou original, but remixed into "Dance of Witches" for IaMP), "Oriental Dark Flight" (PoFV), and "Magus Night" (Fairy Wars)).
As you can tell, lots of songs for the main heroines. Also, for the most part, any songs remixed for the fighters came from either the PC-98 or Seihou games.
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Also, this is technically not Reimu's theme, but often seen as one. And Marisa, while it's not in any game, also gets Magician's Melancholy as her theme.
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memnarch
Try looking on this image board
thread.
Thanks. :smallsmile:
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Miscast_Mage
And just a little
myuusak of my own. Oh, and while I can remember; did anyone here ever save/find an alternate link to Taboovampire's horrible series on youtube? If you don't know what I'm talking about it's the last song in
Koishi Hell.
Sounds like Touhou themes in G-major, it's a bit of a meme to make things sound very scary.
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Drizvolta
Sounds like Touhou themes in G-major, it's a bit of a meme to make things sound very scary.
Yeah, but TabooVampire had their's a particular pitch/tone/whatnot, plus most of the other g-major mixes are just ear-shattering walls of noise; observe. Still, just searching there I've come across some good ones, the version of Koishi's being almost exactly the same as TabooVampire's. Now the only thing I'm missing is TabooVampire's deepmix of Marisa Stole The Precious Thing.
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On the subject of music (though hopefully not on the subject of things sounding horrifically scary), does anyone know good electronic resources for composing Touhou-style? I'm thinking I might do some Touhou remixes now that I have a decent-quality keyboard, but I don't know which tools are available, or are best for composing in WAV format. I've already worked out an A-capella arrangement of "History of the Moon" that should, at least in theory, be compatible with any Common Meter song.
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Everyone has seen the Bad Apple Shadowgraph video.
A lot less have seen it on a laser scanner.
But no one, until today, has seen it in a Terminal window.
My friend Kuraitou has done just that.
Download. Run HALT.exe. SabiReference.exe is the same thing in his old system.
Forum thread for his HALT project.
By the way, you should include a link to the last thread in the OP memnarch.
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And thanks to one of your links, I now have a new screen saver.
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A lot of people probably haven't seen the one that "hurts your eyes and ears", either. Of course, I could be wrong. :smallwink: On that note, Russian Bad Apple is relatively awesome, too.
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FantasyFoxMan
Hah. No.
THIS harms your ears. And has nothing to do with Bad Apple.
Seriously, don't blame me if you click on that. You have been warned.
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Everyone has seen the original Bad Apple. Maybe even the screensaver version, the scanner version, and other versions, but have they seen the English version?
Yes? Well crap. I wanted to feel like I was contributing. Still pretty good IMO.
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memnarch
That's awesome. I want that screensaver now.
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Eliirae
Everyone has seen the original Bad Apple. Maybe even the screensaver version, the scanner version, and other versions, but have they seen the
English version?
Yes? Well crap. I wanted to feel like I was contributing. Still pretty good IMO.
Weeeeeeell, the original isn't quite like that.... There's a lot more shooting involved... :smalltongue:
Then download it; there's a link on the video.
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memnarch
Right. Bad choice of wording. The Bad Apple that's insanely popular. Sorry Orange! (It is orange's theme, right? Or is that Elly?)
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I was kidding about it being the original, sorry.
And it's Elly's stage theme; you can hear it if you watch towards the end of the vid.
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No one gonna mention Bad Apple's little sister, Bad Apple & Good Orange?
Oh, and why doesn't elly's boss theme get more love?
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Bad Apple? I don't really hear much of Lotus Land Story's third stage theme there. As far as music from Lotus Land Story goes, I prefer Decoration Battle and Faint Dream ~ Inanimate Dream.
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Speaking of music, I've uploaded five more tracks from Touhoumon 1.8. I can't quite place the Rocket Game Corner theme, though.
I really, really hate the random Touhoumon cries in the background.
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Associate
Speaking of music, I've uploaded
five more tracks from Touhoumon 1.8. I can't quite place the Rocket Game Corner theme, though.
I really, really hate the random Touhoumon cries in the background.
Not much a fan of 8-bit music, but I love the Road of the Apotropaic God one. The first is really hard to pin down, everytime I start to hear one tune, another kicks it out of place. Gah. I think I heard Voile, the Magic Library in there somewhere, and possibly some Locked Girl ~ Girl's Secret Room.
Oh, and the U.N Owen Was Her? sounds more like Heian Alien. I'm actively trying to hear the U.N Owen Was Her? and I still don't notice it.
Oh, and I found some touhou songs done in PC-98 style. Enjoy~ :smallbiggrin:
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Miscast_Mage
Oh, and the U.N Owen Was Her? sounds more like Heian Alien. I'm actively trying to hear the U.N Owen Was Her? and I still don't notice it.
Maybe it's because I haven't heard Heian Alien much, but I keep hearing UN Owen. Compare the riff here from 0:18 to 0:30. That's what it reminded me of. Upon listening to Heian Alien, however, yeah, that's definitely it. Come to think of it, I haven't really heard newer themes much at all. Some parts of Heian Alien are similar to the aforementioned riff, so without previous exposure to the original song, I assumed it was UN Owen, which I'm very familiar with. :smalltongue:
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Associate
Maybe it's because I haven't heard Heian Alien much, but I keep hearing UN Owen. Compare the riff
here from 0:18 to 0:30. That's what it reminded me of. Upon listening to Heian Alien, however, yeah, that's definitely it. Come to think of it, I haven't really heard newer themes much at all. Some parts of Heian Alien are similar to the aforementioned riff, so without previous exposure to the original song, I assumed it was UN Owen, which I'm very familiar with. :smalltongue:
There are some resemblances between the two songs, but I don't really get the whole "lol Nue copied Flandre" thing I've seen being thrown around. And while we're on the topic of blurred lines between ex-boss themes, have some kooky remixes.
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Drizvolta
Eh, they strike me as a little samey and boring with the drum and bass. The sax in Necrofantasia was nice, though.
I don't think these have been mentioned: Touhou songs in a traditional style (and then some).
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Drizvolta
I rather enjoyed some of those, thanks for the links.
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So, Touhoumon. I want to start playing it, but I haven't a clue which 'mons to pick. I think I'll be starting with Sakuya, though. Any advice?
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dgnslyr
So, Touhoumon. I want to start playing it, but I haven't a clue which 'mons to pick. I think I'll be starting with Sakuya, though. Any advice?
They're basically all equal. You can pick almost any of them and not really worry about their being under/overpowered. In short, pick whichever you want.
That said, Marisa's speed/SpA-heavy and can evolve into an annoyer or sweeper, if memory serves. Sakuya is essentially a tank. No clue about Reimu.
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And after a great deal of thinking, I'm increasingly starting to think that my dislike of Remilia is fundamentally irrational. There are lots of reasons I should like her. I love her theme, she's a serious, important character with a background full of drama and passion that can be used and I love most of the characters she surrounds herself with. My best bet, apart from her stealing Sakuya from Meiling and me generally not liking child characters, is that she tends to get screwed over in fan portrayals. She seems to either be shown as a simpering moeblob or gets so reduced to just a few manifestations of coolness that she's a flat boring character.
So I want to ask if you can link your favorite art, doujins, remixes of Septette and so on just to let me see some more of her and try to tell if I'd like her better if I saw the actually good fan portrayals of her.
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Sure, I'll take a shot at that. Here's a video I linked at some point in the last thread. Manages to portray Remilia as having feelings and emotions, without dropping into the whole "simpering moeblob" thing (which drives me nuts as well). Also has some cool moments, without making the character nothing but. And I'm not sure it's possible for someone with a brother or sister to watch it and not cry. (The song, sadly, is not Septette, but some Vocaloid... thing.)
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Terraoblivion
She seems to either be shown as a simpering moeblob or gets so reduced to just a few manifestations of coolness that she's a flat boring character.
So I want to ask if you can link your favorite art, doujins, remixes of Septette and so on just to let me see some more of her and try to tell if I'd like her better if I saw the actually good fan portrayals of her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdlMdyURwtk
Does Evangeline McDowell count as a fan portrayal? :smalltongue:
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Terraoblivion
And after a great deal of thinking, I'm increasingly starting to think that my dislike of Remilia is fundamentally irrational. There are lots of reasons I should like her. I love her theme, she's a serious, important character with a background full of drama and passion that can be used and I love most of the characters she surrounds herself with. My best bet, apart from her stealing Sakuya from Meiling and me generally not liking child characters, is that she tends to get screwed over in fan portrayals. She seems to either be shown as a simpering moeblob or gets so reduced to just a few manifestations of coolness that she's a flat boring character.
So I want to ask if you can link your favorite art, doujins, remixes of Septette and so on just to let me see some more of her and try to tell if I'd like her better if I saw the actually good fan portrayals of her.
Charisma Breaks are always a problem for Remilia, but Shino, who is famous for this portrayal, makes her charismatic in The Place Where I Live, which centers around Meiling.
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Charisma Breaks = depth, surely. She's a lonely child who's been forced to wear the mask of a wicked adult etc. etc.
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She is respected by most youkai, but her charisma doesn't stem from her personality; rather, it comes from the fear that they have for her kind. She has one younger sister; nothing else is known about her family.
See? No one really knows her, they just fear the "terrible vampire" who doesn't even kill people. Anyone with that kind of life would seem petty and selfish (and she actually does treat her servants pretty well, even canonically throwing parties for them). She just started the Scarlet Mist Incident to find a friend.
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For all the hate that Buront gets, atleast the series he's in gives us this portrayal of Charisma.
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dgnslyr
So, Touhoumon. I want to start playing it, but I haven't a clue which 'mons to pick. I think I'll be starting with Sakuya, though. Any advice?
You've since cause me to replay the hack, sort of. The 1.8 version, where all the types are weird and there are less unique moves. Liking it less, so far.
At the moment, I've got a team of five (an Momiji, who cuts things) after finishing off Surge.
C Reisen (starter), Kisume, Wriggle, C Satori, C Yuugi, all at level 28. Satori is... Ditto with an extra attack, so far. I hope that changes. Reisen's gradually becoming less effective, Wriggle is the polar opposite (started out pathetic, getting better, much better post-Needle Arm), Kisume is fairly tanky/a weakness-sniping toolbox, and Yuugi basically just smashes everything to pieces.
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Thanks everyone. I must admit that I didn't like the picture you linked, Drizvolta, it came off more ridiculous than cool or charismatic. I think I get what you were trying for, but it just doesn't work for me. The other three were great though.
I knew Priere, it was the one portrayal I really liked Remi in since the first time I saw it, in fact it was the thing that first made me wonder why I didn't like her. The other song did more to make Flandre look likable and sympathetic than Remi, since even if it wasn't intentional the older Scarlet came off as kind of a jerk in it. Thankfully Patchy stepped in to help.
And the doujin was of course nice, I love Meiling being treated seriously and it also helps that Remilia came off genuinely charismatic and intelligent. Shino didn't resort to asserting it or just going to just going over the top in place of genuinely showing her be charismatic.
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memnarch
So...many...spears...
Not that I've tried looking very hard, but it seems like a LOT of not-moe-blob pictures of pretty much everyone have their signature weapon/object somewhere if they have one.
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Well, I went hunted for them specifically, as searching with the epic tag didn't give me enough results. :smalltongue:
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Cogwheel
They're basically all equal. You can pick almost any of them and not really worry about their being under/overpowered. In short, pick whichever you want.
That said, Marisa's speed/SpA-heavy and can evolve into an annoyer or sweeper, if memory serves. Sakuya is essentially a tank. No clue about Reimu.
The thread has moved on since this, but I'll bite. I chose Sakuya as my starter (assuming we're talking about Aqua/Yui's version here), and one trick I like with her is to play her as a tank/sweeper. In battle, I spam Luna Dial until a frozen condition sticks, buff Attack through the roof with Mind's Eye during free turns (or while tanking hits, if you want), then go to town with a good hard Physical smack, usually STAB Sculpture. Can't decide between tanking or sweeping? Have your cake and eat it too. Works best with FSakuya, who's got even higher defenses than regular ESakuya.
Reimu acts best, if memory serves, as a mixed sweeper type. However, if you like to keep around a supporting mon such as a Cleric or Baton Passer as I like to, NekoReimu is an amazing BPer. She gets Baton Pass, Bulk Up, Calm Mind, and Substitute all as part of her normal moveset, along with Speed Boost as ability and decent defensive stats to keep her alive through all that buffing. If you feel like it, you could have NekoReimu buff for six rounds and then Baton Pass your sweeper of choice a full x4 boost to all stats and a decently-sized Substitute, too. That's the extreme case, of course.
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Associate
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Speaking of which, I have a few choices for the sixth slot on my team in 1.8. Ignore everything you know from Aqua/Yui, it won't apply here. That said...
Letty, Rumia, Suika or no one yet. Thoughts?
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Cogwheel
THIS harms your ears. And has nothing to do with Bad Apple.
Oh, Cog, you're silly. This is the most beautiful music in the world. I have no idea what you're talking about. :V
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Cogwheel
Speaking of which, I have a few choices for the sixth slot on my team in 1.8. Ignore everything you know from Aqua/Yui, it won't apply here. That said...
Letty, Rumia, Suika or no one yet. Thoughts?
Depends on what you want out of the sixth slot. Given the choices, I assume you're currently going through Rock Tunnel?
Letty is mostly a special attacker with some utility powers that she can learn through move relearner (Wish). Could also be played as a Sleep Talker. Rumia is a physical tank, while Suika is a dedicated special wall with lots of hit points and SDef plus Sand Stream. So yeah, choose your poison. That's assuming this is all pre-Elite 4, because after that your choices literally triple. :smalltongue:
Here's a link to the Japanese wiki with 'dex.
EDIT: Also, I just noticed that the Touhoudex on Touhou Wiki is now complete. Niice.
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Oh, god, yes, Touhoumon. I haven't played that in a while, but I played through one of the newer versions that changes EVERY type around.
I remember my team by the end of the game was Reisen, Yuugi, Wriggle, Aya, Byakuren, and, of course, Cirno. :3
I had Kogasa, too, but I swapped her out as her stats weren't entirely great. A bit of a disappointment, that. I love Kogasa. :smallfrown:
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memnarch
Are we posting Remilia pictures?
I can help there.
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Associate
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Thanks for the link! Much more helpful than the English version. And yes, before beating the Elite Four. Just downed Koga, though.
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FantasyFoxMan
Oh, god, yes, Touhoumon. I haven't played that in a while, but I played through one of the newer versions that changes EVERY type around.
I remember my team by the end of the game was Reisen, Yuugi, Wriggle, Aya, Byakuren, and, of course, Cirno. :3
I had Kogasa, too, but I swapped her out as her stats weren't entirely great. A bit of a disappointment, that. I love Kogasa. :smallfrown:
That's the version I'm playing now, having already finished the Aqua version that, uh, hates you. Though this version is kinda tricky for some gym leaders too (I hate Koga, let's just leave it at that). Also, we share half a team. This time around, I've got Reisen, Yuugi and Wriggle. Wriggle was on the team last time too.
Aaaanyway. Once again, I am indecisive. Storming the Sylph Co. now, and about half done with that, mebbe more. Team of Yuugi, Patchouli, Wriggle, Reisen, Kisume, Satori, with the last two (well, mostly Satori) as something of a weak link. All fully evolved, with Satori at L38 and the rest at L39.
However, I'm tempted to train a few others up as well. Blame it on the turbo function. So, here are some options, with a role and level in parentheses.
C Yukari (no idea, probably sleep-based, has Metronome, L30), C Parsee (probably an annoyer, L16) have been sitting around for some time.
Hourai (L22, no clue, becomes a Goliath Doll), C Suwako (no idea, L7, is Suwako so I'm a tad biased), C Komachi (survival/annoyer, as far as I know, L30), C Suika (already covered, L33) and C Ran (L33, no clue) al lcame from the Safari Zone.
C Yorihime (yes, I know, but she does seem to be a very good sweeper, and is L25), as well as Akyu (L25, Smeargle by another name) were picked up from events.
Finally, the slot prizes include C Eiki (5500 coins), Genjii (500 coins), and Gyokuto (no idea, 9999 coins). I've got the Japanese version, so in English, that last one could be Shingyoku. Ran and Patchouli are available too for some reason, but I have both. Any of the ones on this list would probably be level 5.
So, any suggestions?
Edit: Yuyuko or Youmu are also an option, I guess.
More edit: Eiki can be found at the Safari Zone as well, and is L27 or so there. Also, the giant catfish from Hisoutensoku can be caught there. I could also head over to the power plant early in an attempt to catch C Flandre (L26, apparently).