@@shirleymaemattthews4862 1. Beacause gatekeeper 2. This is how Touhou fandom works, they don't really exposed due to the lacks of official game commercial
every internet users has 3 stages: new to internet and completely oblivious to touhou slowly getting introduced to touhou and still thinking it is a small fandom realization
I was in my fighting game phase when I gotten into Touhou through Hisotensoku Now Touhou is in my life stream Just like how I gotten into Jojo back then and always saw it everywhere, you have no idea how much Touhou stuff I've seen especially when back then I didn't realize it Except I think the Touhou brainrot I have is stronger than my younger years with Jojo (but then again Jojo and Touhou are similar in a way to me)
I mean technically touhou is the most pure and free piece of entertainment... Lax copyright, from what I seen very friendly fans, and the freedom to make fan content...
I was never able to fully comprehend the phenomenon of touhou. It feels like something that had such a low chance of happening, that it could be compared to the big bang, an unlikely event that had unimaginable consequences. Because a simple bullet hell game turning into, without exaggeration, an internet empire sounds like a silly joke rather than something that actually happened. If people usually say "catching lightning in a bottle", then zun caught the god particle in a bottle.
Clicked on this expecting a video with at least 100k views. I actually coughed when I saw that it only had 13, really cool video, made my school lunch break actually enjoyable
I remember when I was around maybe 7 years old? I came across parodies of Touhou songs simply being played with windows XP or Vista error sounds, specifically the song Marisa stole the precious thing. I think its funny how at the time, I just knew them as just the 'windows error' song, and this was like in 2009 - 10 when TH-cam Poops were pretty much the only thing I watched lol
Oh no definitely, the hidden pipeline of being a late 2000's early 2010's kid simply enjoying youtube videos that you found fun or cool then suddenly being indoctrinated into touhou a few years later is crazy, because you realize it was always there, it just needed you to find it again
yeah same i saw bad apple when i was watching my grandma ipad with my sister oblivous that it was touhou all i know was wow these girls are so cute didnt even notice it made my childhood
I stumbled upon Touhou in 2006 and since then it literally changed my life. Met a girl on an anime convention who was also into Touhou a few years later. We eventually ended up dating and now we've been married for a good couple of years. She's had the privilege to study in Japan for more than a year. She managed to get a physical copy of EOSD and gotten it signed by ZUN at a meet and greet. It is on display in our living room.
Other notable things I think are worth mentioning that could color the series more: 1) Touhou was once a titan of doujinshi works. Being one of the most represented series in Comiket and even led to the creation of their own con, Reitaisai. 2) In EoSD, one of Cirno's attack patterns on Easy mode actually do not hit in front of her meaning you could stand right in her face and not die. This is showcased in the Cirno's Perfect Marh Class MV further showing her as dumb. 3) Touhou has been cited as one of Toby Fox's biggest inspirations when making Undertale. It's gotten to the point where both he and ZUN have collabed for a song in a Touhou rhythm game, remixing one song from each game together. There's a second one on the way as well.
@@Sykroid I don't know why he said was, it still is. In particular there are more fan games made then any other series to this day, I am almost certain.
@@JAMllostthegame I haven't really kept up with anything doujin-related, and I know Fate got big a few years back, so I figured maybe a lot of the internet moved onto that lol. Glad to see it's still popular, even if a lot of it is probably H
Been a hardcore Touhou fan since I was 8 years old. This is the first time I've heard someone else say that it isn't really that accurate to the original song and is more of its own thing. I always thought that but I never really heard anyone mention so. Funnily enough, there is another Bad Apple remix that is unrelated to that one called Little Devil's Apple, which _does_ follow the original melody. It's pretty good too.
Bro i own few fumos but i did not even know where they were from today is the first time in my life i have ever heard about touhou. Actually i have heard the name multiple times but never knew what it meant other than MANY songs i associated with that title. Im so glad the time i had with my doctor was later than i thought and video about Gensokyo and now i have done nothing else than just looking stuff up
7:09 I am a big fan of Inu Sakuya, which motivated me to conduct research on this character. I want to clarify that the information I share is not found on any wiki and is the result of my own investigation. Although the Inu Sakuya figure was manufactured by Gift in 2009, surprisingly, the company did not sell it in any of its stores. This figure was available on three occasions during that same year: at White Canvas (online), Akatsuki no Banket (presential), and Comic x Comic (presential). Inu Sakuya first appeared in 2005, not 2007. Many believe that the comic "Together with Inu Sakuya" is her first appearance, but this is a rumor originating from Danbooru. Someone in the community responded without sources that this comic was the first, which has led to confusion. Inu Sakuya did not appear at the stand set up to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the figures. The initial price of Inu Sakuya was 2000 yen, as her size is smaller than that of a normal figure, approximately 2/3 the size. If you have any questions about Inu Sakuya, feel free to ask me.
@@marisakirisame867If you're referring to the plushies, the first fumos were Marisa and Reimu in 2008. Inu Sakuya is a character with the characteristics of a fumo and was the one who inspired the creation of the plushied fumos.
@@marisakirisame867If we're talking about plushies, the first fumos were Reimu and Marisa, which came out in August 2008. Inu Sakuya fumo was released in 2009. Inu Sakuya is influenced by the chibi style of those years and was drawn by Nejikirio.
When i was around 12 i came across this video of a extra stage clear of touhou 6, and i vividly remember scowering forms to try to figure out how to download it because it looked cool. Ended up on 7 and kept playing it after school nearly every day along with 8 despite absolutely sucking at it, fast forward a while i can safely say i am obsessed 9/10 brainworm would reccomend
Pretty much everything on the internet relates back to touhou it seems, I found out recently that the first ever vocaloid song was a cover of a cirno song by the first vocaloid leon
This doesnt even scratch the surface, touhou is the strongest example in the world of word of mouth advertising, and zun managed it by accident, even Fate and genshin impact havent come close I have no way to prove it but i genuinely think gacha game companies study touhou to replicate its success, they hold onto copyright over their characters but never take legal action against fan art and fan material which are technically copyright infringement
@@Randomshiet-xv4pf fair use laws are outdated and were intended for criticism and similar uses As an example, let's play youtubers including a video game's title in their video title does not fall under fair use, that's how poorly written the fair use laws are
The fan music scene is pretty much the only way I interact with Touhou. There are so many amazing covers/albums that are professional level quality made by the fans.
Touhou was big during flipnote hatena era. I’ve seen animation on it and that’s why I got hooked. (( Early 2010s at the time and the first Touhou character was Flan Scarlet. I was amazed cause of her colorful wings and her cute red dress. I WAS 10! And enjoying the music and other characters!))
To give you an idea of how important ZUN's music is to the series, it's also the oldest known derivative work. It's not a doujin, it's not a fanart or a fangame, it's a MIDI arrangement... of Mystic Square's final boss theme, that dates to February 2000. He has definitely garnered following even before Windows, it's just that unlike Pokemon, which had enough publishing force to effectively revive a dying console, ZUN was just one man who underestimated the demand he'd face, so it was limited in scope (PC-98 was slowly getting replaced by Win 95 at that point). There's a reason the only known player with legit copies simply was around for that Comiket lol.
8:16 just wanna add an extra funky fun fact for any aspiring fumo owners! You can order official fumos off of amiami for abt 80 bucks per fumo! However you have to keep an eye out for when the prereleases drop or you'll miss them cuz they sell out fast! And also be prepared to wait a few months till you actually get them!
I FINALLY KNOW WHAT THIS IS!!! I have heard MANY of these songs multiple times and i even own few fumos i found at thrift shop, but never actually knew what they were called! I really have no idea how i have nevere been introduced to touhou by accident since i had a friend that really liked these games when i was 12
While I had seen a number of iterations of Bad Apple over the years, it completely went over my head, and I had no real idea of what Touhou was until July 2023, when I discovered Cirno's Perfect Math Class on Spotify, then later found out it was about Touhou and watched its music video, then found Japanese Goblin on TH-cam, and things just grew from there. Now, I've listened to hundreds of different Touhou fan songs, have played Touhou 6, and own a bootleg fumo (Cirno). It's insane how deep the rabbit hole goes.
One big aspect you didn't talk about much and the way I got into Touhou is rhythm games and the sheer amount of touhou songs in all of them. When I first found out about Touhou it was mind blowing realising hundreds of charts and songs i had all came from the same place.
3:28 Funny thing is I get introduced to Touhou because of my ego I was in Middle school when I discovered it, it all started when I want to play a hard game on my potato PC (So potato it can't even run Dark Souls 1) So, I searched for lists of "Hardest Game" according to internet and Touhou often got into many of the list I was so broke at the time, I downloaded all Touhou games from Touhou 1 to Touhou 17 on Kanako's Shrine website I picked up Touhou Project because at that point I've been playing bullet hell games since I was a kid but never got to be an expert into it. So I thought to myself bullet hell isn't hard, but it just requires time to master And boy, Touhou was surely easy compared to the bullet hells I've played during my childhood year. On my first hard run on Touhou 6, I managed to beat Meiling without using bomb nor losing a life. Since then, I've become an avid but casual Touhou player Little did I know, it was the first time a game really dragged me into a fandom seriously
A single video on Instagram about U.N. Owen Was Her played on a block music thing sparked my spiraling down the Touhou rabbit hole. I recognized the song from *somewhere,* but I had no idea where. As I went on I found out that some of the eurobeat songs I listen to (Odyssey Eurobeat songs namely), were actually inspired by Touhou songs. And then later, I even found out that my interest in vocaloids has some Touhou roots too. Teto Territory has leitmotifs from a few Touhou songs, namely Beloved Tomboyish Girl. Touhou has been ingrained in my life for longer than I even realized. I never did find out where I recognized U.N. Owen Was Her, though. But all it took was a single random Instagram video
For me, introducting for Touhou, expect some obscure old media I saw as a kid was Soga No Tojiko's 'Caipirihna Dance" Because of this meme, I start exploring one of the deepest internet rabbit holes and saw so many Japanese YMTP and Songs, which included Lucky star, Haruhi, some popular and obscure fighting games, gachimuchi, and of course, Touhou. I cant even tell how I feel about Touhou right now, it's just too iconic yet underground thing nowadays, especially in my country, I even made some clay figures and furst russian Tinkoff meme, damn, maybe I'm not a hardcore fan of Touhou, but I actually love this franchise, it's like a little, likely microscopic piece of me.
yea I mean I like all forms of media mostly cartoons anime and anything to do with puppetry and I don’t have a waifu personally lol but I mean if people do have one I don’t judge but I don’t personally…
The very same day I published my own take on Touhou being everywhere this popped up on my recommendations feed 😂 Your video is much more in depth, and most importantly contains much more Cirno in it. 10/10 Great vid, keep it up.
Amazing job 🔥🔥🔥 I always have such a hard time trying to explain to friends wtf touhou even is. Also I had no idea about that bad apple extended version, fascinating stuff 👀
bad apple, u.n.owen was her, Flandre scarlet, and Koishi Koemiji's heart throbbing adventure those are the things that got me into Touhou and now I'm a fan who has played many of the games and fan games owns a Koishi fumo and am making my own fan work
I honestly probably consumed incomprehensible amount of Touhou media over the years(mostly touhou circles music, i still listen to some of that stuff to this day and will likely continue to do so until the end of my days), yet the only actual official game i played is EOSD(Cleared the Flandre stage, too, after ramming my head into a wall repeatedly by trying again and again because my dumb ass couldn't remember patterns in danmaku games back then). Zun is honestly a legend for starting all of this just because he wanted to write music for games. Fumos were a mistake though. ...why is Sakuya a furry?
As far as i rember, she ever got called as dogs of devil since she is obedient to the SD combo ( flan and remilia )... She is probably a vampire hunter by looking at her dagger but that's just theory and the rest are history..m
I remember back in 2008 when my older brother had EoSD, MoF & Imperishable Night on CD disk. He allowed me to play them on his laptop and ever since I've always loved Touhou. I am really impressed and grateful that the community and the games are still going strong even many years later and I hope it continues to live on for a long time. This is the type of series I cannot turn my back to.
Oh, that Bad Apple extension is lost media. I remember there being clips of it but it must of been removed. I remember Satori, Orinrin, and Utsuho being added too as cameos.
I‘ve known about Touhou‘s existence for quite a few years and just associated it to many many songs but back then I felt like it was too huge of a fandom to get into. A few days ago I actually started getting into Touhou and realized that literally everything is Touhou it‘s crazy
75% of music artists I follow at least had something touhou related to their name. If we're not going to include the music artists that I followed post 2020. I'd say 90% did something related to touhou.
I've never actually gotten into touhou but hearing that the ronald mcdonald video used touhou music was one of those "ooooh that makes perfect sense" moments lol
as a vocaloid / utau fan of course some things overlap like how teto territory one of tetos most popular songs was basically a parody of cirnos math class, not to mention a cover of a version with miku that forgot the name of
Imma just mention that yall probably listened to tiny little adiantum, probably in the one where the dude copied it(basically the crappy remix, he didn't credit the original and monetized on it) and I refuse to mention its name, im bitter about it. Also in 3:30 by most likely you might mean the majority but I'd bet that most of em are probably well acquainted with it... Or at least as of yet
I got into touhou because of the musik. Its so dam mixable that its unbelievable. I kid you not, out of my 700 songs bookmarked, 400 are touhou related.
Having been on the internet for a long time and having played osu for nearly a decade, I've been exposed to a lot of touhou music. And even before then, I would see touhou memes on youtube and such. It's like this cultural elephant in the room that eluded me for years. I don't think I could call myself a touhou fan just yet but somehow I have a deep-seeded fondness for cirno's perfect math class, bad apple, and fumos as if I were a touhou fan in a previous life or something...
Zun is probably the best music composer currently alive. If not the best, at least the most well known top tier composer. The fact that he allowed his franchise and music to be built upon by hordes of talented fans has cemented him as an immortal gigachad. Mad respect.
Touhou is one of the very goated indie series I've ever seen... I like how Zun makes eastern culture and folklore myths in his series which is very interesting.
Honestly the impact of not only touhou memes but Japanese influence on internet culture is stratospherically high, not by having one ultra-popular meme but by having many different memes here and there that made their way into the West. But you could argue that either Germany or Finland are more influential because wojak and apu apustaja came from each respectively but apart from these they are fairly scuffed. Edit: do not get mad that I called wojack a German meme when it was originally drawn by a Polish person, doesn't matter because it got popular first on krautchan, a German site.
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ZUN made Touhou when he was only -1 years old, respect
What really got me into Touhou was me realising Ronald McDonald insanity was a touhou meme
We all grown up now thinking anime girl games are weeb neckbeard discord mod slop, though our CHILD HOODS were based on that anime girl game 💀
I used to binge watch those YTPMV videos when I was in middle school... or whatever these videos were called
And then McDonald's Japan use Marisa Stole Precious Thing song as commercial ad
@kuadralinkzero5197 WHY CAN'T TOUHOU FANDOM BE MORE EXPOSED THAN MHA FANDOM?!?
@@shirleymaemattthews4862
1. Beacause gatekeeper
2. This is how Touhou fandom works, they don't really exposed due to the lacks of official game commercial
every internet users has 3 stages:
new to internet and completely oblivious to touhou
slowly getting introduced to touhou and still thinking it is a small fandom
realization
Me actually thinking that Touhou are still a small fanbase back in 90s era ( PC-98 domination ) but zamn in 2000s it all go boom
The last stage hit me very hard then
thats what happened to me too
My friend once said that "this is not a fanbase dude, this is religion" when i tried to convert him into touhou
Maybe he was onto something
The Touhou brainworm is real
the fact you are trying to "convert" him just proof his point 😂
I was in my fighting game phase when I gotten into Touhou through Hisotensoku
Now Touhou is in my life stream
Just like how I gotten into Jojo back then and always saw it everywhere, you have no idea how much Touhou stuff I've seen especially when back then I didn't realize it
Except I think the Touhou brainrot I have is stronger than my younger years with Jojo (but then again Jojo and Touhou are similar in a way to me)
he will never understand
I mean technically touhou is the most pure and free piece of entertainment... Lax copyright, from what I seen very friendly fans, and the freedom to make fan content...
I was never able to fully comprehend the phenomenon of touhou. It feels like something that had such a low chance of happening, that it could be compared to the big bang, an unlikely event that had unimaginable consequences. Because a simple bullet hell game turning into, without exaggeration, an internet empire sounds like a silly joke rather than something that actually happened. If people usually say "catching lightning in a bottle", then zun caught the god particle in a bottle.
@@zapp5er284 Yes
all of this because some girls fired lasers and balls at eachother, not complaining tho, touhou is peak
I love shooting balls at girls
balls
Reimu's fantasy seal, @@Sir-doge-7166, but I already knew that joke anyway XD
I felt like I was in a secret club when I discovered Touhou in 2016. But looking back, Touhou was hardly a secret by that point.
Clicked on this expecting a video with at least 100k views. I actually coughed when I saw that it only had 13, really cool video, made my school lunch break actually enjoyable
same, this is too good
Actually same lmao
from your perspective it literally uploaded on the day you watched it
give it time
@@bluenightgenso6390 i know but i still expected more than 13
Give it some time, maybe it will
I remember when I was around maybe 7 years old? I came across parodies of Touhou songs simply being played with windows XP or Vista error sounds, specifically the song Marisa stole the precious thing. I think its funny how at the time, I just knew them as just the 'windows error' song, and this was like in 2009 - 10 when TH-cam Poops were pretty much the only thing I watched lol
yeah, i think i remember seeing that when i was really little, too
the "crazy error" easter egg on windows 93?
Oh no definitely, the hidden pipeline of being a late 2000's early 2010's kid simply enjoying youtube videos that you found fun or cool then suddenly being indoctrinated into touhou a few years later is crazy, because you realize it was always there, it just needed you to find it again
yeah same i saw bad apple when i was watching my grandma ipad with my sister oblivous that it was touhou all i know was wow these girls are so cute
didnt even notice it made my childhood
I stumbled upon Touhou in 2006 and since then it literally changed my life. Met a girl on an anime convention who was also into Touhou a few years later. We eventually ended up dating and now we've been married for a good couple of years. She's had the privilege to study in Japan for more than a year. She managed to get a physical copy of EOSD and gotten it signed by ZUN at a meet and greet. It is on display in our living room.
That's awesome congrats
bro is living the life that all touhou fans wish to have
bro won in life
Other notable things I think are worth mentioning that could color the series more:
1) Touhou was once a titan of doujinshi works. Being one of the most represented series in Comiket and even led to the creation of their own con, Reitaisai.
2) In EoSD, one of Cirno's attack patterns on Easy mode actually do not hit in front of her meaning you could stand right in her face and not die. This is showcased in the Cirno's Perfect Marh Class MV further showing her as dumb.
3) Touhou has been cited as one of Toby Fox's biggest inspirations when making Undertale. It's gotten to the point where both he and ZUN have collabed for a song in a Touhou rhythm game, remixing one song from each game together. There's a second one on the way as well.
The amount of Touhou Doujinshi was insane, but I didn't know they fell from popularity. Are they just not made anymore?
@@Sykroid I don't know why he said was, it still is. In particular there are more fan games made then any other series to this day, I am almost certain.
Simple typo on the use of is/was. Also the idea that they fell from popularity is kinda of an extreme stretch, even considering my error lol.
@@JAMllostthegame I haven't really kept up with anything doujin-related, and I know Fate got big a few years back, so I figured maybe a lot of the internet moved onto that lol. Glad to see it's still popular, even if a lot of it is probably H
Ngl the 1st windows era ( 6,7,8 or probably 9 ) is the golden age of Touhou ...
Been a hardcore Touhou fan since I was 8 years old. This is the first time I've heard someone else say that it isn't really that accurate to the original song and is more of its own thing. I always thought that but I never really heard anyone mention so.
Funnily enough, there is another Bad Apple remix that is unrelated to that one called Little Devil's Apple, which _does_ follow the original melody. It's pretty good too.
That one called is an arrangement of the circle Yuuhei Satellite sung by Senya and based on the 3rd stage theme from TH04 LLS.
Yet somehow my sister who is 24 that’s been on the internet for years somehow didn’t know what touhou was until I mentioned it to her.
Bro i own few fumos but i did not even know where they were from today is the first time in my life i have ever heard about touhou.
Actually i have heard the name multiple times but never knew what it meant other than MANY songs i associated with that title.
Im so glad the time i had with my doctor was later than i thought and video about Gensokyo and now i have done nothing else than just looking stuff up
*it was a l w a y s a Touhou reference*
7:09
I am a big fan of Inu Sakuya, which motivated me to conduct research on this character. I want to clarify that the information I share is not found on any wiki and is the result of my own investigation.
Although the Inu Sakuya figure was manufactured by Gift in 2009, surprisingly, the company did not sell it in any of its stores. This figure was available on three occasions during that same year: at White Canvas (online), Akatsuki no Banket (presential), and Comic x Comic (presential).
Inu Sakuya first appeared in 2005, not 2007. Many believe that the comic "Together with Inu Sakuya" is her first appearance, but this is a rumor originating from Danbooru. Someone in the community responded without sources that this comic was the first, which has led to confusion.
Inu Sakuya did not appear at the stand set up to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the figures.
The initial price of Inu Sakuya was 2000 yen, as her size is smaller than that of a normal figure, approximately 2/3 the size.
If you have any questions about Inu Sakuya, feel free to ask me.
Is Inu Sakuya fumo is the first fumo? Or is there any before
@@marisakirisame867If you're referring to the plushies, the first fumos were Marisa and Reimu in 2008.
Inu Sakuya is a character with the characteristics of a fumo and was the one who inspired the creation of the plushied fumos.
@@marisakirisame867If we're talking about plushies, the first fumos were Reimu and Marisa, which came out in August 2008.
Inu Sakuya fumo was released in 2009.
Inu Sakuya is influenced by the chibi style of those years and was drawn by Nejikirio.
I fucking love touhou
It's one of those things that was always there, whether you realized it or not. Definitely the best rabbit hole I ever fell down.
When i was around 12 i came across this video of a extra stage clear of touhou 6, and i vividly remember scowering forms to try to figure out how to download it because it looked cool.
Ended up on 7 and kept playing it after school nearly every day along with 8 despite absolutely sucking at it, fast forward a while i can safely say i am obsessed
9/10 brainworm would reccomend
I got into touhou when i was 5 and now it seems everything i acquire and find relates back to touhou
Pretty much everything on the internet relates back to touhou it seems, I found out recently that the first ever vocaloid song was a cover of a cirno song by the first vocaloid leon
the gigachad AMOGUS?!
This doesnt even scratch the surface, touhou is the strongest example in the world of word of mouth advertising, and zun managed it by accident, even Fate and genshin impact havent come close
I have no way to prove it but i genuinely think gacha game companies study touhou to replicate its success, they hold onto copyright over their characters but never take legal action against fan art and fan material which are technically copyright infringement
MEMES - DNA of a soul
isn't fair use a thing
@@Randomshiet-xv4pf fair use laws are outdated and were intended for criticism and similar uses
As an example, let's play youtubers including a video game's title in their video title does not fall under fair use, that's how poorly written the fair use laws are
@@ItsGamein damn that sucks, i never checked it, thanks for the information man
@@Randomshiet-xv4pfAlso japan does not have fair use laws
The fan music scene is pretty much the only way I interact with Touhou. There are so many amazing covers/albums that are professional level quality made by the fans.
All I know about Touhou is Bad Apple, U. N. Owen was here, Night of nights, the nuclear meltdown song and it is a bullethell game
The only things i rember is that somehow i broke SSG pins and now my PC-98 are just pure FM, no square
Touhou game is too underrated, respect to zun for making a masterpiece
when ZUN really used up the SC-90 to the limit :
Nice,time to introduce Touhou to my friends
The thing I always wanted to know is...WHY is ZUN's youkai CUTE anime girls, That's what I ALWAYS wanted to know!
I’m not even focusing on the video but on the gameplay in the background being really good at the game
Now THESE are the kinda videos I wanna see
Here before this blows up When I clicked, I thought it had 10K+ views. Underrated. And also it's a nice touch you have covered Bad Apple's lost media.
Fellow romanian touhou fan
Gensokyo e București că avem de toate pe acolo
woah it's you
@@just2koishi it's you
Touhou was big during flipnote hatena era. I’ve seen animation on it and that’s why I got hooked. (( Early 2010s at the time and the first Touhou character was Flan Scarlet. I was amazed cause of her colorful wings and her cute red dress. I WAS 10! And enjoying the music and other characters!))
SAME I first got introduced to Touhou through flipnote
Am I the only one still in my childhood that is obsessed with this fandom and always recognizes references from it?!
At least Cirno is strong while playing Armored Core.
Tohou is a brain worm that will infect all life in the Universe! PRAISE BE TOHOU!!!!
IT BETTER NOT BE! I DONT WANT QEEBS RULEING THE WORLD
Seems like i got touhou brainworm since 1997
I did a chirno and fckin misspelled Touhou lmao
To give you an idea of how important ZUN's music is to the series, it's also the oldest known derivative work. It's not a doujin, it's not a fanart or a fangame, it's a MIDI arrangement... of Mystic Square's final boss theme, that dates to February 2000. He has definitely garnered following even before Windows, it's just that unlike Pokemon, which had enough publishing force to effectively revive a dying console, ZUN was just one man who underestimated the demand he'd face, so it was limited in scope (PC-98 was slowly getting replaced by Win 95 at that point). There's a reason the only known player with legit copies simply was around for that Comiket lol.
Is there anything to do with Legendary Illusion - Infinite Being? I haven't heard anything bout it
there is straigth up 4 minutes about fumos alone. What the hell
touhou refrences most of the time where i go...
8:16 just wanna add an extra funky fun fact for any aspiring fumo owners! You can order official fumos off of amiami for abt 80 bucks per fumo! However you have to keep an eye out for when the prereleases drop or you'll miss them cuz they sell out fast! And also be prepared to wait a few months till you actually get them!
Yeah they sold out damn fast that i might used autoclicker
To think that he made the game and music while drunk
I FINALLY KNOW WHAT THIS IS!!!
I have heard MANY of these songs multiple times and i even own few fumos i found at thrift shop, but never actually knew what they were called!
I really have no idea how i have nevere been introduced to touhou by accident since i had a friend that really liked these games when i was 12
People can know certain characters, not where they are from. I knew about Reimu and Sakuya before I knew about Touhou. Same with bad apple.
0:59 amogus
i love how touhou and tf2 are extremely connected together for sharing similarties, being immortal is one of them
It's a shame most people watching this are already touhou fans lol
Yeah lol
Touhou is more like for OGs and rarely newbies joins
Im not i just watch this cause im bored
@@ShupidRayn lol me too
While I had seen a number of iterations of Bad Apple over the years, it completely went over my head, and I had no real idea of what Touhou was until July 2023, when I discovered Cirno's Perfect Math Class on Spotify, then later found out it was about Touhou and watched its music video, then found Japanese Goblin on TH-cam, and things just grew from there. Now, I've listened to hundreds of different Touhou fan songs, have played Touhou 6, and own a bootleg fumo (Cirno). It's insane how deep the rabbit hole goes.
One big aspect you didn't talk about much and the way I got into Touhou is rhythm games and the sheer amount of touhou songs in all of them. When I first found out about Touhou it was mind blowing realising hundreds of charts and songs i had all came from the same place.
I'm a simple person, i see Touhou i watch, like and subscribe.
Really good video for a touhou introduction shows just how big the series is
3:28
Funny thing is I get introduced to Touhou because of my ego
I was in Middle school when I discovered it, it all started when I want to play a hard game on my potato PC (So potato it can't even run Dark Souls 1)
So, I searched for lists of "Hardest Game" according to internet and Touhou often got into many of the list
I was so broke at the time, I downloaded all Touhou games from Touhou 1 to Touhou 17 on Kanako's Shrine website
I picked up Touhou Project because at that point I've been playing bullet hell games since I was a kid but never got to be an expert into it. So I thought to myself bullet hell isn't hard, but it just requires time to master
And boy, Touhou was surely easy compared to the bullet hells I've played during my childhood year. On my first hard run on Touhou 6, I managed to beat Meiling without using bomb nor losing a life. Since then, I've become an avid but casual Touhou player
Little did I know, it was the first time a game really dragged me into a fandom seriously
i love this video so much, i hope this can bring even more people into the fandom and give moar knowledge to those who don't know anything touhou!!!
leaving a comment to boost engagement, amazing video
A single video on Instagram about U.N. Owen Was Her played on a block music thing sparked my spiraling down the Touhou rabbit hole. I recognized the song from *somewhere,* but I had no idea where.
As I went on I found out that some of the eurobeat songs I listen to (Odyssey Eurobeat songs namely), were actually inspired by Touhou songs.
And then later, I even found out that my interest in vocaloids has some Touhou roots too. Teto Territory has leitmotifs from a few Touhou songs, namely Beloved Tomboyish Girl.
Touhou has been ingrained in my life for longer than I even realized. I never did find out where I recognized U.N. Owen Was Her, though. But all it took was a single random Instagram video
To quote a legend comment in the original Bad Apple AMV: “It’s actually scary how I know 80% of these characters despite never played a Touhou game”
For me, introducting for Touhou, expect some obscure old media I saw as a kid was Soga No Tojiko's 'Caipirihna Dance" Because of this meme, I start exploring one of the deepest internet rabbit holes and saw so many Japanese YMTP and Songs, which included Lucky star, Haruhi, some popular and obscure fighting games, gachimuchi, and of course, Touhou. I cant even tell how I feel about Touhou right now, it's just too iconic yet underground thing nowadays, especially in my country, I even made some clay figures and furst russian Tinkoff meme, damn, maybe I'm not a hardcore fan of Touhou, but I actually love this franchise, it's like a little, likely microscopic piece of me.
EVERY-FUCKING-THING ON THE INTERNET. LITERALLY. TOUHOU EVERYWHERE.
It's one of those deep rabbits holes that you can't escape
I got in because of the hentai, stayed because I like the lore.
Fan base is a mixed bag...
Nicktoons/nickelodeon, the muppets and touhou is a staple of my accounts
Are you a weeb or no, also, opinions on the waifu stuff? I hate the waifu stuff 🤮
yea I mean I like all forms of media mostly cartoons anime and anything to do with puppetry and I don’t have a waifu personally lol but I mean if people do have one I don’t judge but I don’t personally…
@Its_hoekin_time Good. Whenever I see the word waifu, it's posted on MAD INNAPROPIATE garbage 🤮
The very same day I published my own take on Touhou being everywhere this popped up on my recommendations feed 😂
Your video is much more in depth, and most importantly contains much more Cirno in it. 10/10 Great vid, keep it up.
Amazing job 🔥🔥🔥 I always have such a hard time trying to explain to friends wtf touhou even is. Also I had no idea about that bad apple extended version, fascinating stuff 👀
i've been a long time fan of this series and still loving it
PART 2 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
Cirno is named after Cirno from "Sarai" manga, ZUN got his inspiration from that manga on Touhou 6, Sakuya included
I dont even know anything about touhou
Somehow i know LOTS of meme from this thing
This video only scratched the surface of the meme influence too.
bad apple, u.n.owen was her, Flandre scarlet, and Koishi Koemiji's heart throbbing adventure those are the things that got me into Touhou and now I'm a fan who has played many of the games and fan games owns a Koishi fumo and am making my own fan work
it’s a great game but i hate its 40 yo manchild fandom
There's a lot of younger fans now too, I think Bad Apple keeps pulling them in.
I honestly probably consumed incomprehensible amount of Touhou media over the years(mostly touhou circles music, i still listen to some of that stuff to this day and will likely continue to do so until the end of my days), yet the only actual official game i played is EOSD(Cleared the Flandre stage, too, after ramming my head into a wall repeatedly by trying again and again because my dumb ass couldn't remember patterns in danmaku games back then). Zun is honestly a legend for starting all of this just because he wanted to write music for games.
Fumos were a mistake though.
...why is Sakuya a furry?
PCB scenario, she is called "dog of the devil" by Yuyuko
As far as i rember, she ever got called as dogs of devil since she is obedient to the SD combo ( flan and remilia )...
She is probably a vampire hunter by looking at her dagger but that's just theory and the rest are history..m
Great documentary, thank you.
God I miss the old internet :( espeically youtube 2006-2012
2005-2018 best era fr
I remember back in 2008 when my older brother had EoSD, MoF & Imperishable Night on CD disk. He allowed me to play them on his laptop and ever since I've always loved Touhou. I am really impressed and grateful that the community and the games are still going strong even many years later and I hope it continues to live on for a long time. This is the type of series I cannot turn my back to.
Can you maybe make TF2's Impact on internet culture video or Maybe a Evagelion video.
everything you see on the internet,is somehow a tf2 referance
The Best Years Of Touhou never ends
Very well researched.
Good job!
Oh, that Bad Apple extension is lost media. I remember there being clips of it but it must of been removed. I remember Satori, Orinrin, and Utsuho being added too as cameos.
Nice video dude! I've watched till the end and left a like and a comment!🎉
I‘ve known about Touhou‘s existence for quite a few years and just associated it to many many songs but back then I felt like it was too huge of a fandom to get into. A few days ago I actually started getting into Touhou and realized that literally everything is Touhou it‘s crazy
i got into touhou and it helped me dodge all the bullets my parents shoot at me every day!!
75% of music artists I follow at least had something touhou related to their name.
If we're not going to include the music artists that I followed post 2020.
I'd say 90% did something related to touhou.
Let's not forget our amazing Touhou metal pioneers as well;
Foreground Eclipse!
(Disbanded in 2013, sadly)
Not many people know that one of the first iterations of the Ricardo Milos meme came from a Touhou fan in 2011, Touhou is literally everywhere.
I've never actually gotten into touhou but hearing that the ronald mcdonald video used touhou music was one of those "ooooh that makes perfect sense" moments lol
Non-stock image plus user name and badge equal legit fumo usually, check version type and look for defects like cirnos middle hair piece from 1 to 2.0
as a vocaloid / utau fan of course some things overlap like how teto territory one of tetos most popular songs was basically a parody of cirnos math class, not to mention a cover of a version with miku that forgot the name of
touhou is a part of that doujin era when we had CLAMP media and other stuff and its awesome...
Imma just mention that yall probably listened to tiny little adiantum, probably in the one where the dude copied it(basically the crappy remix, he didn't credit the original and monetized on it) and I refuse to mention its name, im bitter about it.
Also in 3:30 by most likely you might mean the majority but I'd bet that most of em are probably well acquainted with it... Or at least as of yet
ZUN not only made an amazing series, but changed the internet forever
I got into touhou because of the musik. Its so dam mixable that its unbelievable.
I kid you not, out of my 700 songs bookmarked, 400 are touhou related.
Have i seen this video before? I'm getting deja vu....
Having been on the internet for a long time and having played osu for nearly a decade, I've been exposed to a lot of touhou music. And even before then, I would see touhou memes on youtube and such. It's like this cultural elephant in the room that eluded me for years. I don't think I could call myself a touhou fan just yet but somehow I have a deep-seeded fondness for cirno's perfect math class, bad apple, and fumos as if I were a touhou fan in a previous life or something...
I remember started being one in early 2023, because of IOSYS, I loved their videos, still now!
The internet wouldn't be what it is today without Touhou.
You should also mention how big touhou is in rhythm game scene. It's actually been a staple for every rhythm game to have a touhou category for music.
Zun is probably the best music composer currently alive. If not the best, at least the most well known top tier composer. The fact that he allowed his franchise and music to be built upon by hordes of talented fans has cemented him as an immortal gigachad. Mad respect.
15:36 project sekai mention 💖
actually so happy that it got a touhou collab because now i can force my friends to learn about touhou
If it wasn’t for bad apple then i wouldn’t been opened to the world of touhou project and glad im a huge fan of it now
Touhou is one of the very goated indie series I've ever seen... I like how Zun makes eastern culture and folklore myths in his series which is very interesting.
i don't even like bullet hells, but the fan music is so good bro.
i am so proud to be a touhou fan
Honestly the impact of not only touhou memes but Japanese influence on internet culture is stratospherically high, not by having one ultra-popular meme but by having many different memes here and there that made their way into the West. But you could argue that either Germany or Finland are more influential because wojak and apu apustaja came from each respectively but apart from these they are fairly scuffed.
Edit: do not get mad that I called wojack a German meme when it was originally drawn by a Polish person, doesn't matter because it got popular first on krautchan, a German site.
As someone who owns 6 fumos I LOVE THIS FRANCHISE
Do you all remember the internet from 2007 to 2014? Numerous memes from Donald McDonald's Touhou Mad and NicoNico I really enjoyed every day
Touhou really shaped the 2000s Internet, but that time, im still inside a cave