Ah Youmu, my favorite Gardener/sword instructor/cook/housekeeper/errand girl/swordswoman/bodyguard/incident resolver/accomplice thief of Spring, listen man she wears many hats since the person she works for, Yuyuko, is all of lazy, a glutton, often unreasonable noblewoman, and a ghost which makes her quite a handful to be in service to. Also, while the total implications of this are still lost on me to some extent, she (Youmu) is also a Half Human Half Phantom which means she has a ghost half that is always with her which I don't think this game showed from what I saw that said she is still to my knowledge considered a living being and not dead/undead or what have you like her boss is.
I expect to get to know her more as I take on this journey. I've romanced all kind of creatures in other games this year, but a phantom/ghost is a new one ;)
Almost nobody in 2hu has an official age, FANDOM editors are just trolling. Also time actually passes in-universe (in canon stuff anyway). We're like 20+ years on from the start of the series at this point. So yeh.
Seeing you effectively make up everything as you went was equal parts painful and hilarious lmao. Welcome to touhou, good luck figuring out who's legal and who isn't because their designs can change with basically every god damn game. Obligatory lore blurb of each character just in case you care: Cirno - your player character. She's an ice fairy, as you can tell, but far from the brave hero we see in this game she's a brash, eager... Moron. We do love our little dumbass fairy though. Daiyousei: The 'princess' who in reality is just another regular fairy alongside Cirno. The two are seemingly close friends and... That's about all we know about her. We don't even have a CANON name for her, Daiyousei just meant "big fairy" and that's what the fanbase calls her. Remilia Scarlet: the tutorial boss you only vaguely show. Funnily enough despite being just the tutorial boss she's one of the strongest characters in the setting. She is a vampire and the head of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, with the power of controlling fate itself. Clownpiece: A HELL fairy this time. The reason she wears an American flag bodysuit is because when she was on a mission from her boss/mother figure to fuck shit up for a bunch of deities living on the moon, she saw the American Flag we put up there and made it about 80% of her entire personality. She is an S tier prankster, and the torch she carries can literally drive people to insanity Marisa Kirisame: the witch. One of the two constant protagonists of the mainline series, she proclaims herself as the "ordinary magician", as she is about the only magician in the setting we know of that has willingly chosen to stay human rather than becoming a youkai (demon/monster/whatever). She's a kleptomaniac and eats mushrooms for fun. Tewi Inaba: a famous rabbit from Eastern Folklore, who's power is to brings good fortune. Despite that, the little bunny is a god damn war criminal with the 'pranks' she pulls. She lives in Eintei alongside the other rabbits, such as Reisen Udongein Inaba: a MOON rabbit who fled to earth after deserting the Lunar armed forces. She has PTSD but can also manipulate wavelengths to create hallucinations and make people see/hear things, earning her the nickname "Lunatic Red Eyes". She's a good girl and is chronically overworked. Youmu Konpaku: the gardener. A half-ghost girl (don't question it) who lives in the ghost realm (not to be confused with the 5 other afterlife locations in the setting) as the gardener and assistant of Yuyuko... I forget how to spell her surname. She tries to be serious but has a very dorky side underneath, including canonically being HORRIBLE at holding her beer and also being, ironically, scared of ghosts. She has the power to cut almost anything Suika Ibuki: the oni. As betrayed as you were by her tiny stature, Suika is actually quite ancient and VERY powerful. One of the 3 great oni who live in old hell (don't question it) Suika is arguably the strongest. Her power is manipulation of density, hence why her attacks involved changing her size and splitting into mini-suikas. Nitori Kawashiro: the inventor. Leader of the Kappa, who in touhou are seemingly all inventors and engineers, Nitori is either a coldhearted businesswoman or cheerful helper and friend to all humans depending on the interpretation. She's very good, and as a youkai is probably several decades if not centuries old. Her power, like other kappa, is control over water. By the way the cucumber thing wasn't a euphemism it's common folklore that Kappa like cucumbers as food. Aya Shimaemaru: the reporter. Owner and sole journalist of the Bunbunmaru newspaper, Aya is a crow tengu who lives on Youkai Mountain (as does Nitori) and is very much your typical sensationalist paparazzi. She is canonically the fastest character in the entire setting minus people who can cheat and teleport. Reimu Hakurei: the miko. Final boss in this game, but actually the main protag of most, Reimu is the sacred miko of the Hakurei Shrine and protector of the Hakurei Barrier, which is the key force that permeates the setting of Touhou. in canon she's kinda rude, kinda lazy, and kinda greedy, but that last one is mainly because she's poor due to lack of donations to the shrine. She's best friends with Marisa, and her power is to "float through life" meaning that she can technically just autododge any attack if she knew how to use it fully and wouldn't be barred by the spellcard rules that keep everyone in the setting level and fair. Doremy Sweet: the dream. Ill keep this short because i admit i don't know Doremy too well. She's a youkai who's in charge of dreams, and feeds on them. She can watch people that enter the dream world and im pretty sure can also enter those dreams should she want to. No clue where the nun costume came from she doesn't normally wear that.
I realise this is a LOT even for a short blurb but if you're gonna keep with the series at all, might as well learn some of the faces I also welcome others to add things I missed, especially spellings of names and locations. Some of the names in this setting are painful
@@Caliboyjosh10 oh god as honoured as I am I would suggest you do more reading than just my comment for that video lol (I mean you probably know that but I figured I'd say it to make sure) Some characters like Remilia, Youmu, and especially Reisen are probably gonna lead you down some pretty deep holes given the fact that getting full understanding of them kinda requires you understand their surrounding groups lol. That said it's worth it; ZUN - the creator of the franchise - put in surprising effort making quite interesting characters, and the fan base has expanded upon it even more. If I could give any serious advice, I think I'd suggest to not discard fanon just because it's not strictly canon. Due to how ZUN handles the copyright of his series Touhou can be very much a collaborative work, and the community really help fleshing out some of the characters who haven't managed to score much content last the game they debuted in; Nitori for example. The other semi-serious advice I can give is: "Welcome to the rabbit hole, good luck."
I'm gonna create my own fan fiction and it will be fanon too. I always do more research once I begin editing, but so far the comments you and others are writing are too great to not showcase in a follow-up video. Someone wanted to make sure the obvious fake names aren't real and that I made them up. The comedy writes itself.
If this is getting put in a video, as someone who does know Dorermy I would like to clarify some things about her. She is the ruler of the dream world in Touhou and not only has the ability to enter people's dreams at will but also the ability to change them to whatever she wants. She also can freely clone herself while in the dream world and knows everything the clones know. The ability to clone oneself into infinite different copies no less than the original is a defining characteristic of gods in Touhou (even though this is only said in lore and the ones that we have seen have never done so), so Doremy's classification as a youkai is a bit iffy but she is still called one in the games.
@Caliboyjosh10 Just mean because the art of the official art makes every character look like children, but it does it for even the actual mature characters as well like the pink haired woman who does actually look like an adult.
Lol, the original touhou does have the character have a childish kind of design, but it's more akin to. General lack of quality. As in, it took 16+ games for a character to have breasts in the original artstyle.
The issue comes from the original games being built by one person. Great programming, good sense of difficulty and bullet hell design. Admittedly mediocre artstyle. Improving though.
This is my timeline of me getting into Touhou >Luna nights >Is impressed >Getting to know more about the series >Plays the actual games >It's kinda fun actually >Ends up playing lolk >Suffer
Luna Nights is for sure next on the list. I keep reading that LoLK seems to be the hardest one. That might need to be saved as a reward for winning the war or something.
@@Caliboyjosh10 It's a game where you could be spending an hour or 2 or more on a single stage. I could only beat it with Reisen on Legacy on normal for now.
Seriously I love some fights taking hours. Nine Sols (a Hollow Knight and Sekiro mashup) this year had two fights that took hours to conquer. I was disappointed in Elden Ring for not delivering the challenge and I'm glad this game did and that this is only the beginning. I'll gladly become a weeb if they can deliver the challenge🤩
@@Caliboyjosh10Haha, trust me, you will die, like, alot. But it's part of the learning process. This is me being stuck on one spellcard for an hour because I ran out of bombs Managed to make a breakthrough and beat the entire game though. th-cam.com/video/SdCiVzrMXNo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1QU-2dRSqSKGt6iw
wait until he gets to hear that Touhou is actually a bullet hell game series made by ZUN (Windows games start at EOSD/Touhou 6 btw, first five are PC98 if anyone's interested.)
I was born to play bullet hell boss rush games. I've missed out it seems a great franchise because I didn't have any weeb friends to recommend Touhou. But now I know and I'm on board the bunny train to see where this adventure takes me
Fun fact the official touhou franchise has a 99% girl cast but it isn't sexualized and the characters are actually well written! Especially if you are a fan of japanese, chinese mythology and look into the books and mangas. Still peak touhou introduction. Any good touhou fan learns of touhou through anything other than the official material😂. The music with Bad Apple or the fangames. If you want to try the official material I would recommend to start from the beginning of the windows era with Touhou 6 the embodiment of scarlet devil. It basically starts the new canon with games made in windows (yes touhou is that old that the first 5 games were made before the 2000s in a japanese OS, the pc98 computer)
The next video will for sure be Luna Nights, after that I don't know if I'll do an original game and then alternate between fan games and OG. I'll be able to know once I start streaming Luna Nights, forming ideas for it's video, and such. But I am excited to see how far I can take this is. I'm even thinking of dressing up as maid for the intro because Sakuya is dressed like one in Luna Nights. Shit's gonna get weird
It's not Rabbit and Steel's fault I didn't like the game. I just don't like the roguelike genre too much but I like to try one every year because you never know if it will be the one to break the mold and really enjoy it like Slay the Spire, FTL, or Noita. The bunny aspect and only boss fights were a huge draw. But then came along Hero of Ice Fairy to do exactly what I wanted without the downside of roguelikes *starting over gets boring for me*. I love boss rush style games and I hear Touhou is kind of famous for among other things it seems.
Well, I'll have to see which of the vertical ones I'll try and cover next as there are way too many to try them all, and that's not including the fan games.
2:17 Its pronounced the same way you say "Raisin", just spelt phonetically. Most japanese names are spelt out in the exact same way for each sound, arter a while you can kinda pick out which characters are being used in the spelling.
There were some hints here and there, like the previous boss being called Nightmare Miko, but yeah, it was quite epic. Also, she being the final boss immediately made me deduce it was all a dream.
Ignoring my admittedly massive other comment on telling you about the characters... If you want another touhou game to play, while i haven't played it personally I've heard near constant praise of Touhou Lunar Nights. It's a metroidvania that will actually feature some familiar faces from here!
That is the next game I plan on streaming/covering and hopefully find a way to make another dumb video about. I love metroidvanias. After that, I will have to rely on the fanbase to help pick the good ones, otherwise they will lose.
I never played this one and to see a non-touhou fan plays this made this look genuinely fun , and Doremy is the final boss , damn (fitting since she's the ruler of dream world) . Anyways , I am quite surprised that a certain hags , an immortal and a large cutlery is not here, *oh boy* (Wanted to mention byakuren but idk what to call her other than bike mommy 😂)
@Caliboyjosh10 yup , even though she wasn't supposed to , somehow she have it (maybe because of the fandom) , I still can't fathom how (don't worry about the age , she's definitely a hag )
Hey don't worry man. If you're using the Fandom wiki like the screenshots suggest it's not as reliable a source as the official wikia. Plus if we're going by the in-universe timeline it's possible everyone would be at least twenty or so years old by current time (or at the very least, five or so years). Touhou fangames go hard, and the lore goes deep. Worth looking into in the future.
You don't know me, but I'll make up my own lore if it's too complicated to keep up with. That's something you and Warhammer have in common I do already know of Touhou Luna nights and wanna stream/cover that game next most likely. Excited to see how far I can take this new adventure.
Not only is the Fandom wiki not reliable, but depending on when you looked at it there is a chance it was being raided since that happened relatively recently. Edit: Also, you don't have to worry about actual age since, currently, every character in Touhou with the exception of Sumireko is old enough to drink. Whether or not the character physically looks like an adult is another story though. All the fairies have been stated to be physically somewhere in the middle school range, Remilia and Flandre are probably supposed to be physically somewhere in their early teens, Medicine probably is physically underaged since she is a doll that got brought to life, Kisume looks like a child in a bucked but according to lore that could just be a served head, and Sumireko is a high schooler. I may be forgetting someone, but those are probably all the characters you have to worry about in that regard. Everyone else who you think looks underaged is just short and not busty (Suika), or drawn that way because of the artist. There are also characters that were supposed to be physically underaged, but no one, not even ZUN, really draws them like that so don't worry about those ones.
well, do I need to nitpick about ages of characters.... First, all the fairies... they are childlike spirits of nature, so they are all "really 1000yo, officer", regardless of actual age. For whatever reason, many fans often attribute massive knockers to Daiyousei, though... Reimu and Marisa are actual humans, actually - although, again, the "at least" stuff leaves some leeway, especially as both are confirmed in canon to consume alcohol. Consider that, ultimately, the mainline canon series of Touhou games (and manga and novels) is quite long; the story covers several years at least. You could consider them "legal", if you care. Suika... well, that one's another "1000yo plz don't jail me". Also a heavy drinker. She's basically never fully sober. Also, she has another oni friend who never gets really drunk (despite drinking heavily as well), which is mostly portrayed as a big muscle mommy. Youmu is a "1000yo FORGIVE MEEEE" - her fanmade portrayals tend to go back and forth. Other characters featured are, generally, safe - although, in fact, almost no character in Touhou is safe from being portrayed as either little girl, a bombshell, or a milf. Fanartist gonna fanart. Lastly, the canon portrayals in ZUN's games (except these done in collab with another group, like the fighting games) are very much non-sexualised anyway - unless you get hots for any knee showing, or, in later games, some character art looking not completely flat. funny thing is that, partially, the "clothing damage" trope for defeating a boss is very much present in Touhou - but it's much more symbolic in canon games; it almost never shows any skin, and even then, not in a horny way (unless, again, any micropixel of any part of torso or thigh overclocks your neurons) Luna Nights is up next? Well, if you like metroidvanias, this one will be very much enjoyable - and it's very much fanservice free (unless the very fact of the protagonist being the resident meido is invoking rigidity in someone)
Thank you for clarifying this up. I'll be using this as reference all future games. I do want to get a maid outfit.....but for me for the video, because that will counter anyone getting "excited" about maids
This day marks the beginning of an eternal war against Warhammer fans to see who will win. If you want to take part, I'm hoping to stream early December the next Touhou game, after the Warhammer video comes out on Nov. 30th. We'll stream over on www.twitch.tv/calibrojosh10 to go through the list of games and pick the next one to play and make a video on. If you can't make it to any streams and want to know what's going on, join the Discord. If you like the videos and don't want to join the discord, you can support me through Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/Calibrojosh
I'm a typical American, I don't know shit. I never knew this IP existed until playing this game. and now I have to play more to see where this journey will take me
@@Caliboyjosh10 oh yea the older games arent available through legal means and the newer games dont come with english translations so wont show up on steam unless you allow japaneese as a language in the filter when looking for touhou games you either have to pirate every game or download english translations only for the newer games. if you wanna try the game you can try touhou 6 first (its the first canonical game and the older games are SO OLD they might have trouble running on modern hardware, hell touhou 6 does sometimes). other good touhou games for trying for your first time could be touhou 7 or touhou 8, although every touhou game has a gimmick except touhou 6 so that might be the easiest to learn. the gimmick used to be explained in a piece of paper that came with the original games but we obviously dont have those so you have to like look the gimmick up online for most of the games so you arent confused. ITS HARD TO GET INTO THIS FRANCHISE MAN AND THE FAN GAMES AND THE SPINOFF GAMES LOOK 100X BETTER THAN THE ACTUAL GAMES 😭😭😭 this game franchise are like some of the best and hardest bullet hell games though. if you REALLY WANNA FEEL THE PAIN try touhou 11 on lunatic mode, i havent tried any later touhou games other than like 12.5 (yes they go into decimals) but thats like the hardest old touhou game also skip touhou 9 that game is very mid singleplayer as the AI cheats. hope this schizo post helps edit: oh yea the music in this game series is like REALLY good, look up U.N. owen was her, luna dial, necrofantasia, love colored master spark. these are just some of the ones i like but if they feel too slow for you, theres some remixes that will make your adrenaline spike. dBu's magus night, "Magus Night ~ 3ºRemix" and "Love-coloured Master Spark ~ 5ºRemix" reuploaded by linkstarzelda, Armageddon by optie animation, of course the very classic night of nights. why do d**gs when you have touhou music? anyway rant part 2 over have fun trying to find these if you try to. wish you luck future weeb!
I'll start making a touhou playlist. I already own the songs from this game. I love all kinds of music, which you will soon see as every video has some form of a montage using music, so I'm excited to see that playlist grow I do want to play the hardest game touhou has for sure. Sadly if the game ain't on steam and not English, it's gonna be hard to play any of those games. I do have a feeling the fangames are where the real fun will be had, as Touhou Luna Nights seems to be the next game to try out. Also they censored the words drugs, damn TH-cam hates medicinal activities?
You got into Touhou through a Fangame Funnily enough Touhou doesn’t even focus on romance or saxual themes which is ironic considering all your comments
I'm having a blast with this, the next video could just be reading half of these for 5 minutes and it would be amazing. I mean I did encourage it with a video and my comments that further encourage it. But I'm just getting started. I just gotta find a way to turn Touhou Luna Nights into a dating sim for next year.
@@Caliboyjosh10 well just keep in mind unlike most other Games like it it isn’t sexual at all except for 1 person things like Cat and Bnuuy girls are less based on turning you on and more focused on other things like fantastic insults Also you said Touhou wrong it’s said as Toe Ho
@@DeadMedia-vf4je Well.......... about that. Upcoming I turned Hades and Space marine 2 into something way too sexual in ways that I didn't intend but one comment while playing/streaming can change things. Like someone commented here that I gave them all the wrong nicknames, and so now I will always do that moving forward. I might never actually learn their names now. I've been told before about Toe-ho. I will have to now make fun of myself for saying it wrong. If I'm gonna make fun of other people, it's only fair :(
@ Raptoro made a great Video about every Incident that happens in Touhou so that you can 1 understand there names 2 understand the characters 3 understand the setting It is 2 and a half hours longer but it is worth a listen
@ well I’m just saying Touhou isn’t a sexual franchise and your depiction of it in this video was kinda misleading Sexual jokes are welcome in the Fandom but depicting Touhou as only really having sexual elements is a bit misleading as only 1 character in Touhou is openly sexual
Should’ve played Gouyoku ibun first. That game is less horny while also being way funnier. Though since the game is official, there is no native english translation. You need to download an english translation patch. Edit: Also Touhou is pronounced like the godzilla company toho. Toe-Hoe. Edit: 2 Also Suika ain’t 11. TLDR SUika is part of a group of 4 oni. And there is this old Japanese legend that one of these oni got their arm cut off and the other onis were driven off. Suika is a confirmed friend of that 1 armed oni, so we can assume Suika fought in that battle. Which would make her literally centuries old.
I just played this game because Rabbit and Steel wasn't for me and I needed another bunny bullet hell game and stumbled upon this game. Then I enjoyed it, apparently mispronounced its name, and had a blast making this video. Now the Touhou rabbit hole will start and I am now gathering a list of games to try in this fictional war against Warhammer fans to add some tension. It seems the fan games are going to be easier to buy and play. Once we run out of those, I'll become a weeb and then will play the official ones and won't need an English translation patch :)
this videos title is confusing... touhou always exists in everyone lives but almost everyone dont even know it. i mean theres a reason why best way to describe touhou is "touhou music is a bullet you cant dodge". funny bullet hell joke. but anyways... this is cool and all but now go play an actually good touhou fangame that doesnt discriminate characters with random fan stuff at least this game doesnt have any of the really awooga characters...
Well, you can't just say play the good ones and not mention which ones they are? I do agree the soundtrack for this game is amazing and I can't wait to add more from the other games :) Also, how does this game discriminate? and what are these awooga characters you speak of....... asking for a friend?
You gotta play the original games at some point, I really look forward to seeing that, you'll definitely die at least 100 times (try to beat them on lunatic if you can)
Once we run out of the fan games to play, I will for sure play the hardest of the original games, even if some of them aren't translated. I'll just have to stream those and get them translated in real-time or something
@@Caliboyjosh10 There is a program called THCRAP (Touhou Community Reliant Automatic Patcher) that as long as you tell it where the game folder is can translate almost if not all the official games plus some fan games.
@@Caliboyjosh10 The translations for most, if not all, of the official games can be gotten through the Touhou community reliant automatic patcher (which TH-cam won't let me abbreviate).
I don't need to be told this. Fan art is usually spicer than the original. Just look at Baldur's Gate 3, we got a normally unattractive orc/githyanki woman that in no way could possible be drawn sexy. Then you see what fans create and say "ok, didn't know they could do that." Never heard the term fannon until this game. I now know what to call some of the stuff I create.
Of course you would play the game where you play as the dumb ice fairy that has the mentality of a chihuahua. Fairies in Touhou (toe-hoe) are known for having single-digit IQ. P.S. wait till you see the drunk ogre’s drinking buddy.
they are intentionally nicknaming all the characters, those are not their actual names, for anyone confused
I went to wiki to confirm I gave them the right name. You calling me a liar?
@@Caliboyjosh10 yes
Love when gamers who dont known touhou play touhou fanworks. Its always super gamer.
Well the game was good enough to be made into a video, let's hope that trend continues.
For a Touhou fangame
It's TOO MUCH LEWD
TOO MUCH!!!!!!
How do you think I felt?!? It being my first game into this franchise.
I guess fangames offer fanservice the main games don't offer :O
Ah Youmu, my favorite Gardener/sword instructor/cook/housekeeper/errand girl/swordswoman/bodyguard/incident resolver/accomplice thief of Spring, listen man she wears many hats since the person she works for, Yuyuko, is all of lazy, a glutton, often unreasonable noblewoman, and a ghost which makes her quite a handful to be in service to. Also, while the total implications of this are still lost on me to some extent, she (Youmu) is also a Half Human Half Phantom which means she has a ghost half that is always with her which I don't think this game showed from what I saw that said she is still to my knowledge considered a living being and not dead/undead or what have you like her boss is.
I expect to get to know her more as I take on this journey. I've romanced all kind of creatures in other games this year, but a phantom/ghost is a new one ;)
Her other half explains why she can multiple. I don't know about Aya though, maybe she's so fast she can be in several places at the same time here?
Almost nobody in 2hu has an official age, FANDOM editors are just trolling.
Also time actually passes in-universe (in canon stuff anyway). We're like 20+ years on from the start of the series at this point. So yeh.
They trolled me?!?!?
I'll make note of that for the next video, it won't happen again.
Thanks for letting me know
Seeing you effectively make up everything as you went was equal parts painful and hilarious lmao. Welcome to touhou, good luck figuring out who's legal and who isn't because their designs can change with basically every god damn game. Obligatory lore blurb of each character just in case you care:
Cirno - your player character. She's an ice fairy, as you can tell, but far from the brave hero we see in this game she's a brash, eager... Moron. We do love our little dumbass fairy though.
Daiyousei: The 'princess' who in reality is just another regular fairy alongside Cirno. The two are seemingly close friends and... That's about all we know about her. We don't even have a CANON name for her, Daiyousei just meant "big fairy" and that's what the fanbase calls her.
Remilia Scarlet: the tutorial boss you only vaguely show. Funnily enough despite being just the tutorial boss she's one of the strongest characters in the setting. She is a vampire and the head of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, with the power of controlling fate itself.
Clownpiece: A HELL fairy this time. The reason she wears an American flag bodysuit is because when she was on a mission from her boss/mother figure to fuck shit up for a bunch of deities living on the moon, she saw the American Flag we put up there and made it about 80% of her entire personality. She is an S tier prankster, and the torch she carries can literally drive people to insanity
Marisa Kirisame: the witch. One of the two constant protagonists of the mainline series, she proclaims herself as the "ordinary magician", as she is about the only magician in the setting we know of that has willingly chosen to stay human rather than becoming a youkai (demon/monster/whatever). She's a kleptomaniac and eats mushrooms for fun.
Tewi Inaba: a famous rabbit from Eastern Folklore, who's power is to brings good fortune. Despite that, the little bunny is a god damn war criminal with the 'pranks' she pulls. She lives in Eintei alongside the other rabbits, such as
Reisen Udongein Inaba: a MOON rabbit who fled to earth after deserting the Lunar armed forces. She has PTSD but can also manipulate wavelengths to create hallucinations and make people see/hear things, earning her the nickname "Lunatic Red Eyes". She's a good girl and is chronically overworked.
Youmu Konpaku: the gardener. A half-ghost girl (don't question it) who lives in the ghost realm (not to be confused with the 5 other afterlife locations in the setting) as the gardener and assistant of Yuyuko... I forget how to spell her surname. She tries to be serious but has a very dorky side underneath, including canonically being HORRIBLE at holding her beer and also being, ironically, scared of ghosts. She has the power to cut almost anything
Suika Ibuki: the oni. As betrayed as you were by her tiny stature, Suika is actually quite ancient and VERY powerful. One of the 3 great oni who live in old hell (don't question it) Suika is arguably the strongest. Her power is manipulation of density, hence why her attacks involved changing her size and splitting into mini-suikas.
Nitori Kawashiro: the inventor. Leader of the Kappa, who in touhou are seemingly all inventors and engineers, Nitori is either a coldhearted businesswoman or cheerful helper and friend to all humans depending on the interpretation. She's very good, and as a youkai is probably several decades if not centuries old. Her power, like other kappa, is control over water. By the way the cucumber thing wasn't a euphemism it's common folklore that Kappa like cucumbers as food.
Aya Shimaemaru: the reporter. Owner and sole journalist of the Bunbunmaru newspaper, Aya is a crow tengu who lives on Youkai Mountain (as does Nitori) and is very much your typical sensationalist paparazzi. She is canonically the fastest character in the entire setting minus people who can cheat and teleport.
Reimu Hakurei: the miko. Final boss in this game, but actually the main protag of most, Reimu is the sacred miko of the Hakurei Shrine and protector of the Hakurei Barrier, which is the key force that permeates the setting of Touhou. in canon she's kinda rude, kinda lazy, and kinda greedy, but that last one is mainly because she's poor due to lack of donations to the shrine. She's best friends with Marisa, and her power is to "float through life" meaning that she can technically just autododge any attack if she knew how to use it fully and wouldn't be barred by the spellcard rules that keep everyone in the setting level and fair.
Doremy Sweet: the dream. Ill keep this short because i admit i don't know Doremy too well. She's a youkai who's in charge of dreams, and feeds on them. She can watch people that enter the dream world and im pretty sure can also enter those dreams should she want to. No clue where the nun costume came from she doesn't normally wear that.
I realise this is a LOT even for a short blurb but if you're gonna keep with the series at all, might as well learn some of the faces
I also welcome others to add things I missed, especially spellings of names and locations. Some of the names in this setting are painful
Your comment will be featured in the next video to help explain who the characters are. I'll finish reading it when I make that video
@@Caliboyjosh10 oh god as honoured as I am I would suggest you do more reading than just my comment for that video lol (I mean you probably know that but I figured I'd say it to make sure)
Some characters like Remilia, Youmu, and especially Reisen are probably gonna lead you down some pretty deep holes given the fact that getting full understanding of them kinda requires you understand their surrounding groups lol. That said it's worth it; ZUN - the creator of the franchise - put in surprising effort making quite interesting characters, and the fan base has expanded upon it even more.
If I could give any serious advice, I think I'd suggest to not discard fanon just because it's not strictly canon. Due to how ZUN handles the copyright of his series Touhou can be very much a collaborative work, and the community really help fleshing out some of the characters who haven't managed to score much content last the game they debuted in; Nitori for example. The other semi-serious advice I can give is: "Welcome to the rabbit hole, good luck."
I'm gonna create my own fan fiction and it will be fanon too.
I always do more research once I begin editing, but so far the comments you and others are writing are too great to not showcase in a follow-up video.
Someone wanted to make sure the obvious fake names aren't real and that I made them up. The comedy writes itself.
If this is getting put in a video, as someone who does know Dorermy I would like to clarify some things about her. She is the ruler of the dream world in Touhou and not only has the ability to enter people's dreams at will but also the ability to change them to whatever she wants. She also can freely clone herself while in the dream world and knows everything the clones know. The ability to clone oneself into infinite different copies no less than the original is a defining characteristic of gods in Touhou (even though this is only said in lore and the ones that we have seen have never done so), so Doremy's classification as a youkai is a bit iffy but she is still called one in the games.
No one show Josh the official art of these characters or he might find out he's probably on a list now.
Wait, it gets worse?! What can of weeb waifus did I get myself into now :O
@Caliboyjosh10 Just mean because the art of the official art makes every character look like children, but it does it for even the actual mature characters as well like the pink haired woman who does actually look like an adult.
Lol, the original touhou does have the character have a childish kind of design, but it's more akin to. General lack of quality. As in, it took 16+ games for a character to have breasts in the original artstyle.
The issue comes from the original games being built by one person. Great programming, good sense of difficulty and bullet hell design. Admittedly mediocre artstyle. Improving though.
Dude made a franchise with such mid art, something I can relate too as a non artist.
That explains why there are so many fan art games though
the infection spreads...,, good.......,
You weebs will have to try harder if you want to win the war though. This is just the beginning
Those are a surprisingly tame amount of bullets.
It gets harder?! hell yea. I love me some challenge.
@Caliboyjosh10 I meant for the Touhou series. In the mainline games, there's a reason why your hit box is as big as a bullet.
This is my timeline of me getting into Touhou
>Luna nights
>Is impressed
>Getting to know more about the series
>Plays the actual games
>It's kinda fun actually
>Ends up playing lolk
>Suffer
Luna Nights is for sure next on the list.
I keep reading that LoLK seems to be the hardest one. That might need to be saved as a reward for winning the war or something.
@@Caliboyjosh10 It's a game where you could be spending an hour or 2 or more on a single stage. I could only beat it with Reisen on Legacy on normal for now.
Seriously I love some fights taking hours. Nine Sols (a Hollow Knight and Sekiro mashup) this year had two fights that took hours to conquer. I was disappointed in Elden Ring for not delivering the challenge and I'm glad this game did and that this is only the beginning.
I'll gladly become a weeb if they can deliver the challenge🤩
@@Caliboyjosh10Haha, trust me, you will die, like, alot. But it's part of the learning process.
This is me being stuck on one spellcard for an hour because I ran out of bombs Managed to make a breakthrough and beat the entire game though.
th-cam.com/video/SdCiVzrMXNo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1QU-2dRSqSKGt6iw
Now I know why the spell is called "Trembling shivering star"
wait until he gets to hear that Touhou is actually a bullet hell game series made by ZUN (Windows games start at EOSD/Touhou 6 btw, first five are PC98 if anyone's interested.)
I was born to play bullet hell boss rush games. I've missed out it seems a great franchise because I didn't have any weeb friends to recommend Touhou.
But now I know and I'm on board the bunny train to see where this adventure takes me
Fun fact the official touhou franchise has a 99% girl cast but it isn't sexualized and the characters are actually well written! Especially if you are a fan of japanese, chinese mythology and look into the books and mangas. Still peak touhou introduction. Any good touhou fan learns of touhou through anything other than the official material😂. The music with Bad Apple or the fangames. If you want to try the official material I would recommend to start from the beginning of the windows era with Touhou 6 the embodiment of scarlet devil. It basically starts the new canon with games made in windows (yes touhou is that old that the first 5 games were made before the 2000s in a japanese OS, the pc98 computer)
The next video will for sure be Luna Nights, after that I don't know if I'll do an original game and then alternate between fan games and OG. I'll be able to know once I start streaming Luna Nights, forming ideas for it's video, and such. But I am excited to see how far I can take this is. I'm even thinking of dressing up as maid for the intro because Sakuya is dressed like one in Luna Nights.
Shit's gonna get weird
You have no idea what sort of hell you've entered, bud.
You have no idea what sort of hell you're gonna be watching on this channel. Touhou ain't got nothing on me, bud. lol
YOOO IT'S HERO OF ICE FAIRY IN THE THUMBNAIL!!
oh wait nvm the entire video is about hero of ice fairy
;-; noooo dont hurt R&S
It's not Rabbit and Steel's fault I didn't like the game. I just don't like the roguelike genre too much but I like to try one every year because you never know if it will be the one to break the mold and really enjoy it like Slay the Spire, FTL, or Noita. The bunny aspect and only boss fights were a huge draw.
But then came along Hero of Ice Fairy to do exactly what I wanted without the downside of roguelikes *starting over gets boring for me*.
I love boss rush style games and I hear Touhou is kind of famous for among other things it seems.
@Caliboyjosh10 yes!! hero of ice fairy is straight up "what if touhou was horizontal instead of vertical"
Well, I'll have to see which of the vertical ones I'll try and cover next as there are way too many to try them all, and that's not including the fan games.
2:17 Its pronounced the same way you say "Raisin", just spelt phonetically. Most japanese names are spelt out in the exact same way for each sound, arter a while you can kinda pick out which characters are being used in the spelling.
I know not who you speak of. I only know of Bunny Waifu
@@Caliboyjosh10 the medicine seller
I didn't know I needed Aya with glasses in my life. I love her fight here. Also Doremy's fight goes so hard.
There is a reason I put Aya on the S tier for both lists. I can't wait to see more of her in other games.
Game looks fun if frustrating. Welcome to the Touhou fandom. The music and all the great covers got me.
I didn't expect Doremi to be the last boss, great video btw.
There were some hints here and there, like the previous boss being called Nightmare Miko, but yeah, it was quite epic. Also, she being the final boss immediately made me deduce it was all a dream.
Ignoring my admittedly massive other comment on telling you about the characters... If you want another touhou game to play, while i haven't played it personally I've heard near constant praise of Touhou Lunar Nights. It's a metroidvania that will actually feature some familiar faces from here!
That is the next game I plan on streaming/covering and hopefully find a way to make another dumb video about. I love metroidvanias. After that, I will have to rely on the fanbase to help pick the good ones, otherwise they will lose.
I never played this one and to see a non-touhou fan plays this made this look genuinely fun , and Doremy is the final boss , damn (fitting since she's the ruler of dream world) . Anyways , I am quite surprised that a certain hags , an immortal and a large cutlery is not here, *oh boy*
(Wanted to mention byakuren but idk what to call her other than bike mommy 😂)
You can call Byakuren youkai Jesus or Namusan. Fans will get it.
@IERServer ah , make sense , oh well I think those 3 is fine for now (should've put idol nurse , kinda disappointed myself on that one)
There's a bike mommy to go with mech mommy?😍
@Caliboyjosh10 yup , even though she wasn't supposed to , somehow she have it (maybe because of the fandom) , I still can't fathom how (don't worry about the age , she's definitely a hag )
congrats! you are now ready to 1cc Touhou Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom on Lunatic difficulty!
I don't know what you just said, but I'm ready to die 100 times
@@Caliboyjosh10 such a young man, not knowing what lies ahead 😢
@@Caliboyjosh10 multiply that death count a 100 more times
don't tease me like that, a person can only get so excited to die that many times 😍
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correction: lore accurate anime jesus christ
Not a weeb but hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
hello fellow non-weeb. I have a feeling we'll become one sooner or later
Hey don't worry man. If you're using the Fandom wiki like the screenshots suggest it's not as reliable a source as the official wikia. Plus if we're going by the in-universe timeline it's possible everyone would be at least twenty or so years old by current time (or at the very least, five or so years).
Touhou fangames go hard, and the lore goes deep. Worth looking into in the future.
You don't know me, but I'll make up my own lore if it's too complicated to keep up with. That's something you and Warhammer have in common
I do already know of Touhou Luna nights and wanna stream/cover that game next most likely. Excited to see how far I can take this new adventure.
@@Caliboyjosh10 Good luck falling down the rabbit hole. Fun times down there.
Not only is the Fandom wiki not reliable, but depending on when you looked at it there is a chance it was being raided since that happened relatively recently.
Edit: Also, you don't have to worry about actual age since, currently, every character in Touhou with the exception of Sumireko is old enough to drink. Whether or not the character physically looks like an adult is another story though. All the fairies have been stated to be physically somewhere in the middle school range, Remilia and Flandre are probably supposed to be physically somewhere in their early teens, Medicine probably is physically underaged since she is a doll that got brought to life, Kisume looks like a child in a bucked but according to lore that could just be a served head, and Sumireko is a high schooler. I may be forgetting someone, but those are probably all the characters you have to worry about in that regard. Everyone else who you think looks underaged is just short and not busty (Suika), or drawn that way because of the artist. There are also characters that were supposed to be physically underaged, but no one, not even ZUN, really draws them like that so don't worry about those ones.
thanks for clearing that up, now I can be taken off the watchlist.
@@BringerofAkwardNews you forgot kosuzu who is probably underaged too and akyu who can't be of age (rip)
touhou hero of ice fairy miyoi spotted
instant like
As I play more and as I get to know them more, I'll be able to refine my waifu teirlist. But I can already tell you have great taste ;)
This is very nice, AMAZING. 👍
Yooo you found the best touhou fangame. NOW, TIME FOR THE REAL SH*T.
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well, do I need to nitpick about ages of characters....
First, all the fairies... they are childlike spirits of nature, so they are all "really 1000yo, officer", regardless of actual age. For whatever reason, many fans often attribute massive knockers to Daiyousei, though...
Reimu and Marisa are actual humans, actually - although, again, the "at least" stuff leaves some leeway, especially as both are confirmed in canon to consume alcohol. Consider that, ultimately, the mainline canon series of Touhou games (and manga and novels) is quite long; the story covers several years at least. You could consider them "legal", if you care.
Suika... well, that one's another "1000yo plz don't jail me". Also a heavy drinker. She's basically never fully sober. Also, she has another oni friend who never gets really drunk (despite drinking heavily as well), which is mostly portrayed as a big muscle mommy.
Youmu is a "1000yo FORGIVE MEEEE" - her fanmade portrayals tend to go back and forth.
Other characters featured are, generally, safe - although, in fact, almost no character in Touhou is safe from being portrayed as either little girl, a bombshell, or a milf. Fanartist gonna fanart.
Lastly, the canon portrayals in ZUN's games (except these done in collab with another group, like the fighting games) are very much non-sexualised anyway - unless you get hots for any knee showing, or, in later games, some character art looking not completely flat.
funny thing is that, partially, the "clothing damage" trope for defeating a boss is very much present in Touhou - but it's much more symbolic in canon games; it almost never shows any skin, and even then, not in a horny way (unless, again, any micropixel of any part of torso or thigh overclocks your neurons)
Luna Nights is up next? Well, if you like metroidvanias, this one will be very much enjoyable - and it's very much fanservice free (unless the very fact of the protagonist being the resident meido is invoking rigidity in someone)
Thank you for clarifying this up. I'll be using this as reference all future games.
I do want to get a maid outfit.....but for me for the video, because that will counter anyone getting "excited" about maids
@Caliboyjosh10 oh hell yeah bro 😂
I know you're new to the series, but the way you pronounced stuff like "Touhou" and "Reisen" personally hurts my soul.
How was I supposed to know? I hope this isn't what I get remembered for :(
This day marks the beginning of an eternal war against Warhammer fans to see who will win.
If you want to take part, I'm hoping to stream early December the next Touhou game, after the Warhammer video comes out on Nov. 30th.
We'll stream over on www.twitch.tv/calibrojosh10 to go through the list of games and pick the next one to play and make a video on. If you can't make it to any streams and want to know what's going on, join the Discord.
If you like the videos and don't want to join the discord, you can support me through Patreon:
www.patreon.com/c/Calibrojosh
This game is peak, hope you're able to find more cool touhou fangames
I hope so too, let's hope your side keeps picking good ones. Don't wanna lose to those warhammer fans :)
Bro didn't know the original games
I'm a typical American, I don't know shit.
I never knew this IP existed until playing this game. and now I have to play more to see where this journey will take me
@@Caliboyjosh10 oh yea the older games arent available through legal means and the newer games dont come with english translations so wont show up on steam unless you allow japaneese as a language in the filter when looking for touhou games
you either have to pirate every game or download english translations only for the newer games. if you wanna try the game you can try touhou 6 first (its the first canonical game and the older games are SO OLD they might have trouble running on modern hardware, hell touhou 6 does sometimes).
other good touhou games for trying for your first time could be touhou 7 or touhou 8, although every touhou game has a gimmick except touhou 6 so that might be the easiest to learn. the gimmick used to be explained in a piece of paper that came with the original games but we obviously dont have those so you have to like look the gimmick up online for most of the games so you arent confused. ITS HARD TO GET INTO THIS FRANCHISE MAN AND THE FAN GAMES AND THE SPINOFF GAMES LOOK 100X BETTER THAN THE ACTUAL GAMES
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this game franchise are like some of the best and hardest bullet hell games though. if you REALLY WANNA FEEL THE PAIN try touhou 11 on lunatic mode, i havent tried any later touhou games other than like 12.5 (yes they go into decimals) but thats like the hardest old touhou game
also skip touhou 9 that game is very mid singleplayer as the AI cheats. hope this schizo post helps
edit: oh yea the music in this game series is like REALLY good, look up U.N. owen was her, luna dial, necrofantasia, love colored master spark. these are just some of the ones i like but if they feel too slow for you, theres some remixes that will make your adrenaline spike. dBu's magus night, "Magus Night ~ 3ºRemix" and "Love-coloured Master Spark ~ 5ºRemix" reuploaded by linkstarzelda, Armageddon by optie animation, of course the very classic night of nights. why do d**gs when you have touhou music?
anyway rant part 2 over have fun trying to find these if you try to. wish you luck future weeb!
I'll start making a touhou playlist. I already own the songs from this game.
I love all kinds of music, which you will soon see as every video has some form of a montage using music, so I'm excited to see that playlist grow
I do want to play the hardest game touhou has for sure. Sadly if the game ain't on steam and not English, it's gonna be hard to play any of those games.
I do have a feeling the fangames are where the real fun will be had, as Touhou Luna Nights seems to be the next game to try out.
Also they censored the words drugs, damn TH-cam hates medicinal activities?
FCKING HARD PROFILE PIC
to refrence ed edd n eddy bunnies practice the multiplication table.......like way too much
well if you're into bunnies, that ain't a bad thing ;)
@Caliboyjosh10 👍
You got into Touhou through a Fangame
Funnily enough Touhou doesn’t even focus on romance or saxual themes which is ironic considering all your comments
I'm having a blast with this, the next video could just be reading half of these for 5 minutes and it would be amazing.
I mean I did encourage it with a video and my comments that further encourage it. But I'm just getting started. I just gotta find a way to turn Touhou Luna Nights into a dating sim for next year.
@@Caliboyjosh10 well just keep in mind unlike most other Games like it it isn’t sexual at all except for 1 person things like Cat and Bnuuy girls are less based on turning you on and more focused on other things like fantastic insults
Also you said Touhou wrong it’s said as Toe Ho
@@DeadMedia-vf4je Well.......... about that. Upcoming I turned Hades and Space marine 2 into something way too sexual in ways that I didn't intend but one comment while playing/streaming can change things.
Like someone commented here that I gave them all the wrong nicknames, and so now I will always do that moving forward. I might never actually learn their names now.
I've been told before about Toe-ho. I will have to now make fun of myself for saying it wrong. If I'm gonna make fun of other people, it's only fair :(
@ Raptoro made a great Video about every Incident that happens in Touhou so that you can 1 understand there names 2 understand the characters 3 understand the setting
It is 2 and a half hours longer but it is worth a listen
@ well I’m just saying Touhou isn’t a sexual franchise and your depiction of it in this video was kinda misleading
Sexual jokes are welcome in the Fandom but depicting Touhou as only really having sexual elements is a bit misleading as only 1 character in Touhou is openly sexual
Should’ve played Gouyoku ibun first. That game is less horny while also being way funnier. Though since the game is official, there is no native english translation. You need to download an english translation patch.
Edit: Also Touhou is pronounced like the godzilla company toho. Toe-Hoe.
Edit: 2 Also Suika ain’t 11. TLDR SUika is part of a group of 4 oni. And there is this old Japanese legend that one of these oni got their arm cut off and the other onis were driven off. Suika is a confirmed friend of that 1 armed oni, so we can assume Suika fought in that battle. Which would make her literally centuries old.
I just played this game because Rabbit and Steel wasn't for me and I needed another bunny bullet hell game and stumbled upon this game.
Then I enjoyed it, apparently mispronounced its name, and had a blast making this video. Now the Touhou rabbit hole will start and I am now gathering a list of games to try in this fictional war against Warhammer fans to add some tension.
It seems the fan games are going to be easier to buy and play. Once we run out of those, I'll become a weeb and then will play the official ones and won't need an English translation patch :)
this videos title is confusing... touhou always exists in everyone lives but almost everyone dont even know it. i mean theres a reason why best way to describe touhou is "touhou music is a bullet you cant dodge". funny bullet hell joke. but anyways...
this is cool and all but now go play an actually good touhou fangame that doesnt discriminate characters with random fan stuff
at least this game doesnt have any of the really awooga characters...
Well, you can't just say play the good ones and not mention which ones they are?
I do agree the soundtrack for this game is amazing and I can't wait to add more from the other games :)
Also, how does this game discriminate? and what are these awooga characters you speak of....... asking for a friend?
so...
Where is the touhou?
more importantly what is the Touhou?
You gotta play the original games at some point, I really look forward to seeing that, you'll definitely die at least 100 times (try to beat them on lunatic if you can)
Once we run out of the fan games to play, I will for sure play the hardest of the original games, even if some of them aren't translated.
I'll just have to stream those and get them translated in real-time or something
@@Caliboyjosh10 There is a program called THCRAP (Touhou Community Reliant Automatic Patcher) that as long as you tell it where the game folder is can translate almost if not all the official games plus some fan games.
@@Caliboyjosh10 The translations for most, if not all, of the official games can be gotten through the Touhou community reliant automatic patcher (which TH-cam won't let me abbreviate).
the funny part is that the orignal charicters didnt have horny art at all this is all fannon
I don't need to be told this. Fan art is usually spicer than the original. Just look at Baldur's Gate 3, we got a normally unattractive orc/githyanki woman that in no way could possible be drawn sexy.
Then you see what fans create and say "ok, didn't know they could do that."
Never heard the term fannon until this game. I now know what to call some of the stuff I create.
Now try the og touhou
We gotta build up to that by doing fan games first
@Caliboyjosh10 doing it the wrong way around I see lol jk
as long as it leads to more Touhou, that is all that matters
but the american clown is a child too
She was the only one that I didn't notice that while playing the game. But moving forward I now know that
She’s actually been shown with very noticeable breasts in canon art so you’re definitely good
Of course you would play the game where you play as the dumb ice fairy that has the mentality of a chihuahua. Fairies in Touhou (toe-hoe) are known for having single-digit IQ.
P.S. wait till you see the drunk ogre’s drinking buddy.
what game is this drinking buddy featured in?
@ Touhou 17.5 "水没した沈愁地獄 (Sunken Fossil World)”
wait untill they find the actual touhou games
oh god the art in this game you're on a watchlist now 😭
This video is tame compared to the next two. I need to make a lasting impression for this planned war
It’s good if you manage to ignore 99% of the community.
You expect me to be a sane and normal fan, you don't know who you're talking to buddy :)
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