Just for the record this PV is not what happened in touhou 12 guys. This is actually a fan idea of what happened before Byakuren was sealed. Thus the girl is not reimu but a previous shrine maiden of some sort.
Well it is said that Byakuren was sealed for at least 100-1000 years so If 1000 years I think that this was the start of the hakurei maidens and the God they talk about was Byakuren or the first shrine maiden
I really like this one. Explains exactly what Byakuren did to help both humans and yōkai, and how she got sealed in Makai as a result of the humans' jealousy (or something; they might have considered her to be too dangerous) and all without a single word. What a saint.
These guys always make the best out of all the animations. There are some clear animation improvements since last year and the song is also really catchy.
I think the story behind the purple haired girl is that after the events of when she was little, she looked up to Byakuren, and probably assumed that Byakuren was against Youkai, so she "followed in her foot steps", years later, saw the ship, and went looking for Byakuren, attacking everyone else. When Byakuren defended her followers, the girl was not only shocked but also hurt, and thus caused a riot that resulted in Byakuren having to seal herself away?
I love the little details in this that I missed during my first watch: the way the girl's eyes flick from Byakuren's hand on her cheek back to her face, how the chains that seal Byakuren come from the seals stuck to her back, etc.
Carol M I feel that in their case, it would be less out of respect for her religion and more out of respect for byakuren herself, They may not follow the religion to the letter, but let's be honest who does?
Carol M Maybe with zen buddhism but with Mahayan buddhism(great vehicle) it and other modernization, meat eating not all that anti buddism. There so many variation now... Mahayana being the most open. I wonder if that where that Great vehicle spell card came from
It's actually based on Hakurei Miko, a ''Fan'' character. Since Reimu's appearance from the PC-98 era was handwaved, people decided to make up the idea that there was a Hakurei Miko before Reimu and that this is her. It's a very popular concept as it allows people to use PC-98 ''Reimu'' without having to deal with ZUN's weird explanation. TL;DR: It's not Reimu.
@amethystnat I think that was one of Reimu's ancestors... Seeing as the dress style looks very much like Our Shrine Maiden's... But Reimu Started out with the Hakurei Orbs... Not some strange sealing device that locks away others in null-space... There where supposedly at one time MANY Hakurei Shrine Maidens, as well as all other types of Shrine Maidens in Gensokyo to ward off the Youki... Now Reimu is the last Hakurei Shrine Maiden...
waaa Byakuren-sama TwT yo quiero ser como tu, buena persona con todos, aunque a veces me mientan y me lastimen, aun asi.... Si eso pasa solo desaparecere pero no quiero odiar a nadie... Por eso te admiro Hijiri-sama!! :')
+Ruly Tasho Tienes razon.... por ser como soy he perdido muchas cosas valiosas e importantes para mi..., por eso, voy a ser diferente!! Se lo prometi a una persona y eso lo quiero cumplir n_n
@mangalovinfreak The blue haired miko is just an original character for this PV. She does resemble PC-98 Reimu who was at the end of the Bad Apple PV. Technically PC-98 Reimu and Marisa are the same characters as the Reimu and Marisa we know from the windows series.
@WatcherCCG In canon, Reimu is neutral; she doesn't hate youkais nor humans, but help both anyway. She's not a hard worker like Marisa, and she is not as dedicated as Sanae. Fanon tends to portray her as a greedy and sometimes bitchie miko. Byakuren was sealed by the humans that thought she was a youkai hunter; they wanted someone to exterminate the youkai, not someone to lend them a hand. And finally; no Hakurei lineage, no Gensokyo, and that's it.
This is also most likely a video for a fan theory. Since on the wiki it says that Byakuren actually sacrificed a ship full of monks in order to get to Murasa. And that she was sealed away against her own will. But fan theories are fun, and personally I think this one is beautiful.
@Reno750 Its pretty clearly in the intro, here. At any rate, the point being that its understandable from a human perspective that youkai would be distrusted. Although, as far as I know, Byakuren was big on having youkai/human as equals.
shes a women truely worthy of respect ...and dare i say it, adoration, your a lucky ghost to be so close tosomeone so poweful yet so caring and wise...
after helping all those yokai from their misery, not one even had the power to even save her back when she was about to be sealed... such is the fate of the strong I guess... you help people up but when it comes to the point in time when you need helping, no one has the capacity to help you... :(
@watawa4 That can be a possibility too watawa, but in the intro of the video, right before shou knocked the miko down. The miko was carrying a stick in a way so that she can feel what was in front of her. Also, when she was searching for her sack, she didn't look down to search for the sack, but she was trying to feel for the sack. I can see where your going with that, but I wanted to clear things up.
@Reno750 Everyone looks at canon, then goes on to make their own fanon. The fandom owes most of its understanding of touhou through fanon since only a small part have played the games or studied the lore to an important degree. So I'd say that your average fan has no real understanding of canon, nor do they need to, which is the beauty of Touhou.
This is very nice. I was especially moved by the rescue of Minamitsu Murasa; very touching and badass. However, that's not how it happened in canon. And it's funny, sad and irritating that people are forming their opinions of the characters based on uncanonical stuff. Also, people. Please. Any witch who dresses like Marisa is not Marisa. MARISA is the one dressing like a witch. Miko all dress in the miko fashion. There are lots of miko out there who have no relation to the Hakurei.
Byakuren: 1:40 can I hug you cuddle you touch your fluff tail? plaese~ KIsune: .....*thinking to self* what is wrong with her? I am hitting her with fireballs and she wants to pamper me........ that does not sound so bad, KIsune *lets Byakuren spoil her*
@watawa4 IMO she's blind at the start of the video, and the necklace she got given cured her blindness. Let's face it, she's Youkai Jesus, and I'm pretty sure curing blindness is one of the real deal's miraculous feats.
@takulu64 Not to be rude, personally, i doubt that is the case. but Zun does not give specific timelines between the story of one game to another, except on touhou 10-13 where the story is a little more linked. As far as i read there had been others before Reimu, and she is supposed, along with marisa, to be around 16 (something i read about that along on how in gensokio they are already considered old enough to drink) However there is always room for speculation she might or might not be her.
Yes, Byakuren was sealed in Makai, but she's still alive. Also, because they're Youkai, more seen as a threat than anything else. While Byakuren treats them more as equals after she starts realizing how much she needs them, they're killed or exterminated by most people rather than respected.
No. She appears to be just an ordinary human who became a shrine maiden. There has been a lot of speculation in these comments that she's an ancestor of Reimu, but nobody can really say.
the original reimu actualy had purple hair but once ZUN disbanded his old crew he had to redesign reimu (and marisa and yuka) since his old crew owned partial copyright. this is why mima wasn't included in later games and why marisa and reimu look different in in touhou 6 and up.
i see... byakuren met reimus ancestor and she was the one that caused Byakuren to be sealed away only for Reimu to be the one to meet her after she gets out
Touhou 11 form the point of veiw of the bosses is them trying to free her and a few people getting in their way. Ironicly when she was released she goes after the heroes because she thinks the youkai are being repressed by humans not knowing that it is closer to the reverse in Gensokyo
@amethystnat Supposedly if she dies or fails to produce a successor, the dream world of Gensokyo will be destroyed under the effects of the collapsing Hakurei Boarder... @_@, Which is why she's constantly being pestered by Yukari who can help stabilize the boarders while Reimu's... "Getting Busy" :3
@Reno750 With all due respect to ZUN (Because he really does deserve it) it's no real surprise that the average "western" Touhou fain once learning that all these flash's & meme's are based on actual games seldom take the initiative to go play them... And ZUN has no one to blame but himself for that really... He is well aware of his current Non-Japanese fan base & is more then content with leaving the Touhou Project as a Japan based distribution ONLY...
![Touhou Luna Nights - Extra Boss Reimu [No Damage/Time Stop/Snail Time/Skills] + Extra Ending](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mclOj5bYUeg/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Touhou MV] The Song of a Broken Youkai Who Loved a Human [beatMARIO]](/img/n.gif)
Just for the record this PV is not what happened in touhou 12 guys. This is actually a fan idea of what happened before Byakuren was sealed. Thus the girl is not reimu but a previous shrine maiden of some sort.
I love Touhou, but don't know that much about the story, so was she ever released?
She was released at the end of the 12th game and settled in Gensoukyo.
CrazySushiTaxi Soo kinda like a predecessor of Reimu?
@@arturoayala1004 that was an original hakurei shrine maiden I believe
Well it is said that Byakuren was sealed for at least 100-1000 years so If 1000 years I think that this was the start of the hakurei maidens and the God they talk about was Byakuren or the first shrine maiden
I really like this one. Explains exactly what Byakuren did to help both humans and yōkai, and how she got sealed in Makai as a result of the humans' jealousy (or something; they might have considered her to be too dangerous) and all without a single word.
What a saint.
I think its byakuren who decides to seal herself because she thinks shes too dangerous for her kind
Thank you Reiuji Utsuho for bringing back Byakuren and The Palanquin Ship
Thank's to kanako `,:3
i love this episode.
Ah, i found you! And i love your video.
These guys always make the best out of all the animations. There are some clear animation improvements since last year and the song is also really catchy.
I think the story behind the purple haired girl is that after the events of when she was little, she looked up to Byakuren, and probably assumed that Byakuren was against Youkai, so she "followed in her foot steps", years later, saw the ship, and went looking for Byakuren, attacking everyone else. When Byakuren defended her followers, the girl was not only shocked but also hurt, and thus caused a riot that resulted in Byakuren having to seal herself away?
I love the art style, and everything about this, that it made me cry.
This ... this made me cry so much, it's really beautiful and emotional.
なんだろ。だんだんと泣けてくる…不思議…
Am i the only crying when byakuren sacrifices herself to save everyone by sealing herself within makai?
si, eres el unico pendejo ;v
it's okay, I cried everytime
NO I"M CRYING TOO I GUESS
It's raining, friends.
actualy, it's Hokkai. the place where she was sealed. (but still is makai but a other part of it)
I keep coming back to watch this video. It's adorable, sad, well-animated and the music owns.
I love the little details in this that I missed during my first watch: the way the girl's eyes flick from Byakuren's hand on her cheek back to her face, how the chains that seal Byakuren come from the seals stuck to her back, etc.
Poor Hijiri, just because she respected both Youkai and human, and out of jealousy
I wonder what those youkai did to that miko after Byakuren was sealed. It probably wasn't pretty.
They Probably let her go, I doubt they would disgrace byakuren by killing her out of anger.
Well, it's been implied in the manga that the Buddhist Youkai don't exactly follow the rules of Buddhism, like eating meat and whatnot.
Carol M
I feel that in their case, it would be less out of respect for her religion and more out of respect for byakuren herself, They may not follow the religion to the letter, but let's be honest who does?
Carol M Maybe with zen buddhism but with Mahayan buddhism(great vehicle) it and other modernization, meat eating not all that anti buddism. There so many variation now... Mahayana being the most open.
I wonder if that where that Great vehicle spell card came from
PikminXOXO Süppört you mean Hijiri's Motorcycle?
これ見てより聖さん大好きになった
曲と絵がマッチしてて良かった
Byakuren vids never fail to make me tear...
白蓮さん良い人だ…
i cried at the start when shou came up
needless to say
i didn't stop crying
OUCH
MY HEART
???
Oh no... Don't worry! I'm going to fix your heart.
I love these artful type PVs.
Love love.
It's actually based on Hakurei Miko, a ''Fan'' character. Since Reimu's appearance from the PC-98 era was handwaved, people decided to make up the idea that there was a Hakurei Miko before Reimu and that this is her. It's a very popular concept as it allows people to use PC-98 ''Reimu'' without having to deal with ZUN's weird explanation.
TL;DR: It's not Reimu.
I remember watching this as a teenager and crying
Feels. So many feels
すげー感動した
@amethystnat
I think that was one of Reimu's ancestors... Seeing as the dress style looks very much like Our Shrine Maiden's...
But Reimu Started out with the Hakurei Orbs... Not some strange sealing device that locks away others in null-space...
There where supposedly at one time MANY Hakurei Shrine Maidens, as well as all other types of Shrine Maidens in Gensokyo to ward off the Youki...
Now Reimu is the last Hakurei Shrine Maiden...
dont worry guys.. shell be back in exactly 3 days..
Byakuren, you amazing person you.
感動して泣いちゃいました。
This was very good. You may know dream was awesome and touching, but this was too :). I'm so happy now!
これぞ聖人 聖 白蓮
so much feels ;w;
waaa Byakuren-sama TwT yo quiero ser como tu, buena persona con todos, aunque a veces me mientan y me lastimen, aun asi.... Si eso pasa solo desaparecere pero no quiero odiar a nadie... Por eso te admiro Hijiri-sama!! :')
+Shinichi ーくん No odiar a nadie no es muy dificil, solo aprende a perdonarte y a perdonar, solo ten la fuerza de voluntad para hacerlo.
+Ruly Tasho Tienes razon.... por ser como soy he perdido muchas cosas valiosas e importantes para mi..., por eso, voy a ser diferente!! Se lo prometi a una persona y eso lo quiero cumplir n_n
The Saint Of Genoskyo Byakuren
優しいひじりん…
Murasa's face when she said "no, dont let me fall" made me lose it. *sniff* gonna go cry at the scene
I always thought of that part as a "quit it, it's useless" and then byakuren says "never, I'm byakuren bitch"
やはり聖人聖様には勝てないわ
The miko looks like Reimu's ancestor I'm guessing.
+gamrage its a child version of nue en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Nue_Houjuu
+6lettersshadow But Nue's supposed to be a type of chimera isn't she?
That One Touhou Fan to know who is that mysterious girl that looks like Reimu, but they say is Nue, it's a mystery...
Its Reimu herself, Reimu had purple hair
@@re4796 Looks like PC-98 reimu
they are both incredibly tear jerking
@mangalovinfreak The blue haired miko is just an original character for this PV. She does resemble PC-98 Reimu who was at the end of the Bad Apple PV.
Technically PC-98 Reimu and Marisa are the same characters as the Reimu and Marisa we know from the windows series.
なぜだろう？だだの曲なのに…聖の慈悲深さに涙が出る。
聖さんの優しさを感じますよね♪
@WatcherCCG In canon, Reimu is neutral; she doesn't hate youkais nor humans, but help both anyway. She's not a hard worker like Marisa, and she is not as dedicated as Sanae. Fanon tends to portray her as a greedy and sometimes bitchie miko. Byakuren was sealed by the humans that thought she was a youkai hunter; they wanted someone to exterminate the youkai, not someone to lend them a hand. And finally; no Hakurei lineage, no Gensokyo, and that's it.
This video has just become my #1 favorite touhou video, It is so sad it even made my feminine side cry manly tears.
I feel like the next four videos that I'll watch will move me emotionally.
@SurgicalZeal It's speculated Yukari might've even sired the Hakurei line herself.
love this soooooooo much!
Decided to come back and watch this again. :)
A Manly tear was shed that day.
there use to be a translation of this song on youtube but i can't find it anymore Q_Q
this is my daily drug.
@Duekko Don't worry, many of us cried with you. Byakuren has that effect, being one of the most utterly sympathetic characters in the series.
It is sad when the girl is taken into the hole at the ending!
her name is Byakuren and you should become Buddhist
thank you Beth Hardy
This was soooo awesome =w=
You May Know Dream made me cry so hard the first time I watched it...
This is epic
OHH THE FEELS
This is also most likely a video for a fan theory. Since on the wiki it says that Byakuren actually sacrificed a ship full of monks in order to get to Murasa. And that she was sealed away against her own will. But fan theories are fun, and personally I think this one is beautiful.
Brilliance.
So many feels...I certainly like Byakuren more than I did before.
@Duekko My eyes began welling up at the Murasa scene.
@Reno750
Its pretty clearly in the intro, here.
At any rate, the point being that its understandable from a human perspective that youkai would be distrusted.
Although, as far as I know, Byakuren was big on having youkai/human as equals.
shes a women truely worthy of respect ...and dare i say it, adoration, your a lucky ghost to be so close tosomeone so poweful yet so caring and wise...
geez, i'm crying right now
@WatcherCCG wait, it was a Hakurei Miko? Are ya' sure?
@MrBrerfalque Then is she a invented character for the song or maybe a Reimu ancestor?
after helping all those yokai from their misery, not one even had the power to even save her back when she was about to be sealed...
such is the fate of the strong I guess... you help people up but when it comes to the point in time when you need helping, no one has the capacity to help you... :(
@watawa4
That can be a possibility too watawa, but in the intro of the video, right before shou knocked the miko down. The miko was carrying a stick in a way so that she can feel what was in front of her. Also, when she was searching for her sack, she didn't look down to search for the sack, but she was trying to feel for the sack.
I can see where your going with that, but I wanted to clear things up.
@Reno750
Everyone looks at canon, then goes on to make their own fanon. The fandom owes most of its understanding of touhou through fanon since only a small part have played the games or studied the lore to an important degree.
So I'd say that your average fan has no real understanding of canon, nor do they need to, which is the beauty of Touhou.
This was so heart-warming until "that"
I don't know much about touhou, but I'm very happy for this. But it so sad.
This always makes me cry *sniff*
霊夢リボンの色が違う！あと東方キャラ1、2人くらいしか出てないような…
一番初期の時の霊夢だと思うよ
あと全員ちゃんと東方のキャラだよ
well thank you, youve been quite a helpful nekomata *gives you a pork bun*
@snowyarticuno Nazrin didn't appear until after Byakuren was imprisoned, so it makes sense :)
So touching! =( Loved it though.
This is very nice. I was especially moved by the rescue of Minamitsu Murasa; very touching and badass.
However, that's not how it happened in canon. And it's funny, sad and irritating that people are forming their opinions of the characters based on uncanonical stuff.
Also, people. Please. Any witch who dresses like Marisa is not Marisa. MARISA is the one dressing like a witch.
Miko all dress in the miko fashion. There are lots of miko out there who have no relation to the Hakurei.
Byakuren: 1:40 can I hug you cuddle you touch your fluff tail? plaese~
KIsune: .....*thinking to self* what is wrong with her? I am hitting her with fireballs and she wants to pamper me........ that does not sound so bad,
KIsune *lets Byakuren spoil her*
3:09 you gotta love the moment when the boat takes off
@watawa4 IMO she's blind at the start of the video, and the necklace she got given cured her blindness. Let's face it, she's Youkai Jesus, and I'm pretty sure curing blindness is one of the real deal's miraculous feats.
@takulu64
Not to be rude, personally, i doubt that is the case. but Zun does not give specific timelines between the story of one game to another, except on touhou 10-13 where the story is a little more linked. As far as i read there had been others before Reimu, and she is supposed, along with marisa, to be around 16 (something i read about that along on how in gensokio they are already considered old enough to drink) However there is always room for speculation she might or might not be her.
I cant stop crying my mom keeps coming to my room saying whats wrong
Yes, Byakuren was sealed in Makai, but she's still alive. Also, because they're Youkai, more seen as a threat than anything else. While Byakuren treats them more as equals after she starts realizing how much she needs them, they're killed or exterminated by most people rather than respected.
aki is perfect singer for touhou ost
No. She appears to be just an ordinary human who became a shrine maiden. There has been a lot of speculation in these comments that she's an ancestor of Reimu, but nobody can really say.
Ooh, I'd just finished watching this and the other videos from this PVD. This one had a really cute style, but that ending...;__;
if I know the Touhou series correctly, the blind girl was the very first Shrine Maiden, an ancestor of Reimu Hakurei.
the original reimu actualy had purple hair but once ZUN disbanded his old crew he had to redesign reimu (and marisa and yuka) since his old crew owned partial copyright. this is why mima wasn't included in later games and why marisa and reimu look different in in touhou 6 and up.
i see...
byakuren met reimus ancestor and she was the one that caused Byakuren to be sealed away only for Reimu to be the one to meet her after she gets out
Touhou 11 form the point of veiw of the bosses is them trying to free her and a few people getting in their way. Ironicly when she was released she goes after the heroes because she thinks the youkai are being repressed by humans not knowing that it is closer to the reverse in Gensokyo
its why im not worried about her fate at the end.. rest assured, shell be back in about 3 days i reckon
Te vas a defender de Byakuren con una rama...buena suerte.
and i guess yuuka wasnt in command of a massive sunflower field back then..
Excuse me as I cry my heart out... ;_;
涙がぁ・・・!!
@westtxtapper Ditto. I was on the verge of tearing up when they were trying to free Minamitsu.
@amethystnat
Supposedly if she dies or fails to produce a successor, the dream world of Gensokyo will be destroyed under the effects of the collapsing Hakurei Boarder... @_@,
Which is why she's constantly being pestered by Yukari who can help stabilize the boarders while Reimu's... "Getting Busy" :3
The miko was pc98 reimu? Maybe makes sense since this would've happened quite a while before UFO --> back when reimu was still a purple head.
this gave me a feel
@Reno750
With all due respect to ZUN (Because he really does deserve it) it's no real surprise that the average "western" Touhou fain once learning that all these flash's & meme's are based on actual games seldom take the initiative to go play them...
And ZUN has no one to blame but himself for that really... He is well aware of his current Non-Japanese fan base & is more then content with leaving the Touhou Project as a Japan based distribution ONLY...
@PossessedbyPhoenix Which is Hilarious in Hindsight because Byakuren's youkai consider Miko an equally evil person in turn.