I’ve been eating watermelons a lot lately, and then I began wondering… what’s up with watermelon smashing? And what’s the connection between Suika and watermelons? Oh wait, I’m sure “sui” means water, so that may have something to do with it. Well I don’t actually know and I’m just making this up. But yeah. Watermelons.
I’ve been eating watermelons a lot lately, and then I began wondering… what’s up with watermelon smashing? And what’s the connection between Suika and watermelons? Oh wait, I’m sure “sui” means water, so that may have something to do with it. Well I don’t actually know and I’m just making this up. But yeah. Watermelons.
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Hurling watermelons at unsuspecting people is also a summery thing to do.
sui’s kanji is west, ka as in fruit. fruit from the west. 西瓜。
“”Suika” (as 西瓜, with different characters) can mean watermelon, a fruit the Japanese commonly enjoy in summer. Here, though, it means something like “gathering fragrance.” Her surname literally means “the wind is blowing”.” -Touhou Wiki
I believe watermelon smashing is a Japanese thing… No idea where it started, though.
lol I shall answer the melon smashing thing… It kinda started as a summer game often played on the beach where knives arent available. A person is blindfolded…spun around couple of times.. and then that person has to smash the watermelon with a stick. A Japanese Pinata basically. Watermelons are big and easy to hit…plus they prevent summer dehydration with its high water content.
I was waiting for Unnamed Character to start advertising the Sledge-O-Matic.
Here’s hoping watermelons are added to the create.swf to be made into watermelon danmaku.
They’re already there. :O
You just can’t smash ’em.
There’s even the watermelon sword.
スイカ（water mellon) as apose to 西瓜
http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/3654/watermelonsmashingxh1.png
Watch out head phones character!! I wouldn’t trust her with a bat like that!!
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8866/watermelondanmakubl6.png
@anonymous: there is a watermelon in create swf.
@thegame: Oh, that gives me an idea! I should add a blindfold as one of the eyes in create.swf next update.
@Pingy: http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7838/watermelonsmashing2gl6.png
Headphones girl moe~
Hmm … Should also do the helmets the moon-bunnies have in SSiB! And maybe a shotgun-thingy as an item …
And maybe a PC-9*danmaku’d*
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m148/Person_Man04/P6270331.jpg
Did this a few weeks ago. It forced me to do that to it.
Watermelons being shot at with high powered rifles is a thing of beauty. Did it in the short time I was in the Boy Scouts at summer camp and it was great.
@KirbyM: Blindfolds… hehe.. That’s a little suggestive…
Watermelons, i can eat alot of watermelon i don’t get tired of it, specially being this a tropical country they are a very common find.
@thegame: Nooo!! *closes eyes* I cant watch. >.
I have already smashed a few melons at the beach. Only sad thing is that i haven’t eaten any yet lol.
Make a woodmelon object. Then we can smash the wood with the watermelon sword >:D
Watermelon smashing is an age old tradition where they cost 40 USD per melon to make sure that the foolish peseants will never know the sweet taste of watermelon unless it has been smeared with dirt and sand.
So remember, don’t be fooled. Stab your watermelon today. :D
I did blew up a water melon with some home made fire works and shot a frozen orange through one with a spud cannon.
It exploded in a very satisfying manner both times does that count?
BTW This flash needs a Galigher reference since he smashes water melons with a huge mallet in his act and melon bits and juice goes everywhere from the sheer force of the sledgomatic.
I can’t believe no one has seen the connection yet.
@Nitori_Macguyver: I already did make the Gallagher connection… several posts up. :3
I’ve had a chance to smash a watermelon this summer. I completely missed when it was my turn…
I never smashed a watermelon in my life, but it sounds like fun. Too bad I’m too busy eating them.
luls
I’m eating watermelon right now, and it’s delightful.
SUIKA IS WATERMELON IN JAPANESE. DIFFERENT KANJI THO LOL
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/5021/watermelonsmashing3of6.png
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/4531/watermelonsmashing4wh9.png
*ponders other PC-98 characters* Yumeko (Shinki’s knife-throwing maid) … PC-98 Alice …
Oh yeah! Maybe miscellaneous “spell card” backgrounds! (Which I’m guessing, with no justification, that you can get just with some kinda repeating-pattern-thingy …)
Maybe a “shadow” thingy which you can put under characters to make it clear that they’re flying …
Hmmm… too bad I don’t like watermelon.
Why not? Watermelons are tasty and muffinous. :x
Or at least waterous …
Watermelons are the best!
If you are thirsty and want a snack you can have as big a piece of your watermelon you want!
You can collect all of the seeds and try to grow a watermelon plant in your backyard!
You could put a face on your watermelon and make a new friend!
Also, @thegame Is some one gunna help poor headphones character? ;_;
@Pingy:
Or, you could hold all the seeds in your mouth and spit them out like a watermelon seed machine gun. I tried that, it’s fun. And sticky.
@OniNeko
Watermelon seed danmaku!
@Pingy:Well nothing happened to Headphones Character. Since Nameless Character didn’t smash the watermelon Headphones Character is going to grab it and run off with poor watermelon. It already got a bruise on it.
Hmm, what about … WATERLEMONS?
Oh yeah, another idea I had was Kitty-Eyes like in the Happy Flame Time doujins (such as Worship Me At Both Shrines)
Was that a mini-Gallagher reference I saw?
I got an idea how about an air cannon that shoots small water melons .
I saw these mini water melons at the store and I have this 8″ diameter pipe that has been waiting to find a use for something I used part of it in a Tesla coil.