Just from this picture alone I actually think Reimu's in the taxi/transportation business and not just a poor shrine maiden anymore.

Likewise said:
Just from this picture alone I actually think Reimu's in the taxi/transportation business and not just a poor shrine maiden anymore.

Like we have same mind!

Who is driving? Oh my God, bear is driving! How can that be?

What's more amusing is seeing a cab driver wearing a suit. That's either a panda who thinks highly of his position/dedication, or a very expensive ride/cab service.

The_Shadow said:
Who is driving? Oh my God, bear is driving! How can that be?

Is there any internet left for The Shadow to win? He should get some!

Likewise said:
Just from this picture alone I actually think Reimu's in the taxi/transportation business and not just a poor shrine maiden anymore.

Yeah, that's a relief. I guess some people are just born a danger to open buffets.

Also, once again, Gensokoumuten packs reams of possibility into a simple background detail. No, not the taxi.

yah, the yin-yang was a big "Whoa, Reimu has her own business?"
It could be the taxis are just part of the whole of Hakurei stuff.

... suddenly, I'm imagining trips to Makai and Gensokyo via Hakurei travels...

The_Shadow said:
Who is driving? Oh my God, bear is driving! How can that be?

Well as long as its not a Loin, They'd have no where to run.

The_Shadow said:
Who is driving? Oh my God, bear is driving! How can that be?

Ah I see what you did there.

somethingsomething said:
Is there any internet left for The Shadow to win? He should get some!

If there isn't we need to make some especially for him as that was pure win.

Tetrominon said:
Also, once again, Gensokoumuten packs reams of possibility into a simple background detail. No, not the taxi.

Good eye! I looked again and saw the cross (church) in the background. Does this mean Gensokyo (-Muten edition) has developed a new religion? Or maybe, after rising to unprecedented levels of awesome, they opened the barriers and conquered Earth.

Tenebrous said:
Good eye! I looked again and saw the cross (church) in the background. Does this mean Gensokyo (-Muten edition) has developed a new religion? Or maybe, after rising to unprecedented levels of awesome, they opened the barriers and conquered Earth.

They got the insternet and read comics about us earth people and figured. "Hey one of those religious places worships a skinny guy on a cross. We should worship Chen or something!" and thus the chuch of Chen is born.

Or it's just you know a Christian church. Christianity was around in Japan before the canon date Genosyoko was sealed off, centuries before actually. It would not be at all unknown to the older residents there of.

Whether any active practitioners would be among the population is harder to say. Christianity was never a truly huge movement in Japan and its followers suffered significant persecution at various times. It was banned outright for over 200 years from the very early 17th to mid 19th centuries and anyone participating it forced underground. Which to a certain extent given that Gensokyo was supposed to be some haunted backwater few people went might make it an ideal place for such things.

Given what other stuff we see I also find it hard to buy that the Christian religion is “wrong” or the like either. The sheer amount of faith in the Christian god would seem to assure he’d be real and very powerful.

I'm not sure about Hakurei Transport, true that yin-yang balls is usually a Reimu trademark but Yukari also has a yin-yang pattern on her dress, also judging by the dash lines on the taxi too seem similar.
Yakumo Transportation sounds like a better guess.
By road, sky or via train, with Yakumo Travels arriving at your destination is as easy as falling through a gap~ ("Yakumo Logistics ltd." is a subsidiary company of "Border inc." all rights reserved.)

Yakcorp, not Border Inc!

15 posts and no mention of cute Rumia dangling off her parent's hands? For shame.

AyKay said:
15 posts and no mention of cute Rumia dangling off her parent's hands? For shame.

I was going to when it was posted, but I couldn't think of anything to say really, beyond just that. aside from the fact that this cute Rumia is clearly a lot younger than shes usually depicted because shes damn short too

ShadowPhalanx said:
What's more amusing is seeing a cab driver wearing a suit. That's either a panda who thinks highly of his position/dedication, or a very expensive ride/cab service.

It's actually fairly common in Japan...

ShadowPhalanx said:
What's more amusing is seeing a cab driver wearing a suit. That's either a panda who thinks highly of his position/dedication, or a very expensive ride/cab service.

jojorocko said:
It's actually fairly common in Japan...

Common over here in New Zealand too.

I only just realized that Rumia is likely levitating herself instead of being picked up in this picture. And the adorableness then promptly increased by tenfold.