>>119183196>>119183220Reimu won for two reasons, her franchise's legacy and her own individual strength within said franchise.
Touhou is over 20 years old and has a deep connection to 4chan and otako culture as a whole. it's still alive and going strong while never selling out to big companies, outliving many rival franchises over the years. It was one of the pioneers in Japanese indie culture which would later influence the current day indie market. Back in its prime it was so huge that you couldn't go anywhere on the internet without seeing something referencing it. Basically, imagine the MLP boom multiplied by 10 but without the brony part (at least not in the west).
As for Reimu herself. On her own, she is a full package as far as characters from this franchise go. There are a lot of Touhou girls but not every one of them gets a lot of screentime. Reimu is the protagonist and has a well fleshed out personality that contrasts very nicely with her looks and unique combat style, leading to tons of great interactions. Basically, she is the type of character that you can put anywhere and the story writes itself. Some people have other characters as their favorites but it's generally agreed that Reimu is one of the better ones, to the point of she topping popularity polls every single time.
Anyways, just throwing this here since this is /co/ so I don't expect you guys to know any of this. What you need to know is that her victory was fairly earned and a lot of the people complaining about it afterwards were probably newfags who didn't do their homework and thought she was just generic fapbait or something.
