This song certainly brings out an intriguing part of Alice. She sees herself as only a doll, a perfect doll, but still a doll. A doll's purpose is to serve it's master, but Alice was set free by her mother, Shinki. She was given a life of her own, and a destiny of her own choosing. But all she sees is that her mother cast her away, and Alice would rather be with Shinki as a doll than alone as an independent being.
@@SweetxGuiltThis is my favourite alice headcanon. I like to think that she is like a kid who was sent away by her family to live on greatly; but as much as she enjoys her life in gensokyo, there is always an underlying feeling of nostalgia for Shinki and her servants in Makai. My personal extension of the headcanin is that the windows era Alice is merely a sentient doll controlled by the youthful, now yokai pc-98 Alice, who casually goes back to her Makai family whenever she isn't needed in a gensokyo incident.
Luckily they released this one as an SWF file. The vector graphics of this animation scale to any resolution so somebody could render a 4K release if they wanted and swap in the flac audio from the official release if they wanted. RIP to a high fidelity format given SWF support ends with 2020. Flash files are very good for this kind of preservation.
think that it's about Alice finding out that she's just a "doll" created by Shinki, and she tries to cope by creating her own dolls, but then she sees that she abandoned some of them, and she has a mental breakdown.
Apparently, it's about these dolls who become self-aware that they are Alice's "artificial children". They don't want to be controlled you can do whatever you want to dolls. At the same time, they still want to be connected to Alice. Now they are in confusion on how to lead their life.
Today is the day after I became a Touhou fan. I've now been a fan for 10 years. This was my favorite regarding Touhou back in the day, and this song and video itself absolute holds up to this very day; it's truly a beautiful as a work of art and the touching song only does wonders for the imagery. I love the call backs to Alice's past appearance in the PC-98, Touhou 5 was truly amazing Touhou game, and it's something I hope people who see this check out because it's absolutely worth at least a look. Touhou itself is worth a lot; it's such a wonderful series. ^^
Somehow remembered this song in a dream I saw few days ago. Took me these days to remember the name right. It's been 14 years since my friend showed me Touhou.
This song brings back so many memories when I got into Touhou. When I first watched it, I didnt know who any of the girls were in the Clock. Now I know each of them... Touhou really is amazing.
Alice wants her dolls to be sentient and independent, like another being. Their actions and movement including personality are controlled and simulated by Alice entirely.
I didn't use to be the biggest fan of this song despite its popularity, but now years of growing up and playing more Mystic Square later I can't get enough of it.
I had this playing on repeat back in highschool when I was building a deck for MtG. Now whenever I hear this I think of MtG and my blue/black rogue deck.
This is such a beautiful video, such a beautiful song, I love this so much. The animations, the drawings; everything. I love this. If I was able to like this more than once I'd do it.
I remember listening to this all the time over 10 years ago, this brought a nostalgic tear to my eye... and this is why I'll never clean my "watch later" playlist xD
It could have a shadow relative to a much brighter light source. The shadow wouldn't be that clear though, since it would be formed by the denser smoke near the wick, obviously not by the flame light itself.
Late reply, but it depends on the wavelength of the light emitted by the source. th-cam.com/video/Xnk6RoaOKM4/w-d-xo.html this is a brief demonstration of this phenomenon (not spam, I literally picked the first video I found)
@@lazydelibirdI guess it's because of the fact that IOSYS is a group that contains different people with vastly different music tastes and ways of perceiving touhou, which is why songs like this, accept bloody fate and pray exist simultaneously with marisa stole the precious thing or border of extacy.
+Hijiri Yeah, I always feel that if some characters hide their emotions behind a mask of seriousness, Alice is kinda the opposite... Always so focused on her own work, being nice to others more to be left alone than anything else... Losing herself in her craft, seeking to be always stronger by herself, not wanting to rely on anything else... It clashes so much with Marisa x) Well, the serious loner part, at least. I have to say that I don't support that pairing, though.
Actually the series is called Touhou (pronounced toe hoe) and it is a bullet hell series that has 14 main games and at least 8 sub games. There are only 5 male characters in the series and the rest are all girls. The fanbase has many different opinions about the characters personalities, so if you want to learn about the games and characters you should go on the touhou wiki (not the wikia).
vincze samuel The info for all of Touhou is at en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Wiki . This song is about the character Alice Margatroid, a puppetmaster, and her quest to perfect a fully living doll, one with self-awareness.
in truth, never really cared for IOSYS before discovering this. found their previous songs to be 'eh'. but this is pretty fantastic. the robotic, almost desperate vocals really suit the tone for this song. love it!! !
The feeling I get from this song is very sad, tbh. I think,, maybe the story is that Alice is one of the very few PC-98 Touhou characters who survived past 5 and Alice, who remembers these friends fondly - while everyone else in canon seems to have forgotten about those games and characters entirely - attempted to perhaps help them live on through her dolls?? I don't know, that's the sort of feeling I got from it.
It's simple things like this that always manage to bring me more joy and satisfaction than most of the crap that gets passed as "entertainment" these days. The originality and creativity in the Touhou universe is overwhelming.
@Surullia One is Alice herself, one is Medicine, not sure who the others are. but the little girl with the blue dress and a blue bow on a hairband is young Alice.
officially she is a human that became a youkai through training, but fans speculate that after she became a youkai she lost a part of her humanity and became like an alive doll. I may be wrong though
@Surullia Not quite, another girl, the blond one in this video. Her name is alice and she can use magic to control the dolls, tho she cannot give them their own life, which generally upsets her.
ChariotheJudgement A touhou fan-character. One of the first I think :3 (she appears at 2:17). If you want to know more, read here: :) en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Fan-made_characters/Maybell
Alice was once human, through vigorous training of magic, she transcended humanity and became youkai. Quote from wiki: During Mystic Square, as a stage 3 boss, she attempted to prevent the heroine from proceeding. After the events she returns as the extra stage boss. Because Alice had learnt new types of magic from the grimoire, it is likely she became a youkai before the second encounter due to the high level magic. However, she was still defeated.
@PrincesTomboy Well they use 'heart' differently in japanese. For example, it can also be translated as 'soul' 'spirit' and stuff like that. We separate them, but the Japanese consider it all part of the same thing...I don't know if that makes any sense but...basically it can be translated as a lot of other things besides 'heart'.
@monkeytoes98 well alice is a youkai (i think) and she can live for a long time and she knows that everyone she loves will die so she makes dolls to keep her coompany
oh i think i can crack the code it has the same beat as mountain of faith OP when u humm those words with the tune in your head its got all the right syllables
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This song certainly brings out an intriguing part of Alice. She sees herself as only a doll, a perfect doll, but still a doll. A doll's purpose is to serve it's master, but Alice was set free by her mother, Shinki. She was given a life of her own, and a destiny of her own choosing. But all she sees is that her mother cast her away, and Alice would rather be with Shinki as a doll than alone as an independent being.
thank you much for saving me from googling, this is the lore context i needed!
@@SweetxGuiltThis is my favourite alice headcanon. I like to think that she is like a kid who was sent away by her family to live on greatly; but as much as she enjoys her life in gensokyo, there is always an underlying feeling of nostalgia for Shinki and her servants in Makai. My personal extension of the headcanin is that the windows era Alice is merely a sentient doll controlled by the youthful, now yokai pc-98 Alice, who casually goes back to her Makai family whenever she isn't needed in a gensokyo incident.
How does IOSYS pull off emotional masterpieces like this while still composing things like Captain Murasa's Ass Anchor?
Ugh, Secret HORNI Translations danm all the liesss
Because IOSYS
There's also that album that starts with "Pray", an absolutely beautiful song with the next song being fucking border of extacy!
This sounds nothing like you'd expect from an IOSYS song, but it's honestly my favorite work of theirs
A Pina'colada Before GLADOS PKs you
The infinit Infedelity that is Star ocean till the end of time
私もお気に入りです
It's amazing quality for 240p
Luckily they released this one as an SWF file. The vector graphics of this animation scale to any resolution so somebody could render a 4K release if they wanted and swap in the flac audio from the official release if they wanted.
RIP to a high fidelity format given SWF support ends with 2020. Flash files are very good for this kind of preservation.
really lol
@@nikodem747 okay, to be fair this was 5 years ago when i was watching on a bad screen and everything looked bad, compared to what i have now
Wtf just happened here
Nevermind these are bots
think that it's about Alice finding out that she's just a "doll" created by Shinki, and she tries to cope by creating her own dolls, but then she sees that she abandoned some of them, and she has a mental breakdown.
Apparently, it's about these dolls who become self-aware that they are Alice's "artificial children". They don't want to be controlled you can do whatever you want to dolls. At the same time, they still want to be connected to Alice. Now they are in confusion on how to lead their life.
Today is the day after I became a Touhou fan. I've now been a fan for 10 years. This was my favorite regarding Touhou back in the day, and this song and video itself absolute holds up to this very day; it's truly a beautiful as a work of art and the touching song only does wonders for the imagery.
I love the call backs to Alice's past appearance in the PC-98, Touhou 5 was truly amazing Touhou game, and it's something I hope people who see this check out because it's absolutely worth at least a look. Touhou itself is worth a lot; it's such a wonderful series. ^^
何年経っても褪せない、良い曲
Somehow remembered this song in a dream I saw few days ago. Took me these days to remember the name right. It's been 14 years since my friend showed me Touhou.
Your friend is an OG
Love the melody from 0:43 to 0:55, but it was only used once in this song.
me too D: it really saddens me
This song brings back so many memories when I got into Touhou.
When I first watched it, I didnt know who any of the girls were in the Clock.
Now I know each of them... Touhou really is amazing.
Who are they?
@@DraconisMarchVII go play Touhou 1-5 yourself or look through the wiki.
the touhou fan condition.
watch cuz funny anime looking thing, and after years you know the characters
Okay but IOSYS are iconic tbh and their signature gratuitous sine wave synth shaped my entire music taste to this day.
This was one of the first Touhou related animations I ever watched. It was one of the gates that got me into Touhou.
YES!! it was the same for me too! sorry to bother you! have a great year.
That bridge at around 1:00 minute...
Man, the electric piano just soothes my soul while also filling me with a sense of melancholy.
Alice wants her dolls to be sentient and independent, like another being. Their actions and movement including personality are controlled and simulated by Alice entirely.
your profile is like... Yukari/Beatrice and I love it XD
Yukaritrice confirmed
Man, I checked out the punk it playlist and was looking for lyrics, I didn't know there's a PV of this. Hell yeah!
Because of this song I can't beat MS Extra without crying (ಥ_ಥ)
I didn't use to be the biggest fan of this song despite its popularity, but now years of growing up and playing more Mystic Square later I can't get enough of it.
Still somehow after all these years I can’t believe this is IOSYS it feels to serious lmao
Check out Border of Death, it is also dark and serious, and yeah it’s pretty rare to see IOSYS release songs and PVs like this XD
best song ever
Why Do I remember this in high quality back then... god bringing back the middle school memories now :(
I had this playing on repeat back in highschool when I was building a deck for MtG. Now whenever I hear this I think of MtG and my blue/black rogue deck.
This is such a beautiful video, such a beautiful song, I love this so much. The animations, the drawings; everything. I love this. If I was able to like this more than once I'd do it.
I remember listening to this all the time over 10 years ago, this brought a nostalgic tear to my eye... and this is why I'll never clean my "watch later" playlist xD
It's been a long time, Iosys ...
Even after seven years, this song is still my favorite
This has to be one of my very vavourite songs- emotional and stunning music. Iyosis, where would we be without you?
my favorite IOSYS song since 2010 ;u; i finally found it...
holy moly I didn't even remember I left a comment here 7 years ago
It has been more than 10 years. So many things have happened.
めっちゃ懐かしい。いい曲だよな
I listen to this song so much.
And this PV... is beautiful.
I'm beginning to get into Touhou :D
*god damn my most favorite song in my childhood.*
*_glad I've found it, it's so hard to find I'm glad I've added it into my playlist._*
PROJECT MOON
@@Machinasurge abhgfsdfsdjhgsdufgusguyjHAHAHA LOL yeah. yan ik
Only thing bothering me: how can a flame have a shadow? Its a light source...
It could have a shadow relative to a much brighter light source. The shadow wouldn't be that clear though, since it would be formed by the denser smoke near the wick, obviously not by the flame light itself.
Late reply, but it depends on the wavelength of the light emitted by the source. th-cam.com/video/Xnk6RoaOKM4/w-d-xo.html this is a brief demonstration of this phenomenon (not spam, I literally picked the first video I found)
@@hiimshana thanks
Facts core: Science its not about ¿why? is about ¿why not?
It is 2022 and this song still hits!! We need new songs like this one 😁
tjis is rhe best iosys sont ever
I love this so much, I've watched it countless times and it still sounds good! the atmosphere gives me shivers x3
IOSYS: haha funny nuclear fusion gym, cirnos perfect math class!!1
Also IOSYS:
And they also made Pray, and in the CD border of extacy was the next song
@@lazydelibirdI guess it's because of the fact that IOSYS is a group that contains different people with vastly different music tastes and ways of perceiving touhou, which is why songs like this, accept bloody fate and pray exist simultaneously with marisa stole the precious thing or border of extacy.
Alice Margatroid
最近ハマりだした♪
After 8 years..I finally find this song again.
nostalgie
after 13 years I still love this
alice is such a dark character, a shame that people don't really see that.
+Hijiri Yeah, I always feel that if some characters hide their emotions behind a mask of seriousness, Alice is kinda the opposite... Always so focused on her own work, being nice to others more to be left alone than anything else... Losing herself in her craft, seeking to be always stronger by herself, not wanting to rely on anything else... It clashes so much with Marisa x) Well, the serious loner part, at least. I have to say that I don't support that pairing, though.
What exactly Is her story though..
I think that's a part of the beauty of touhou, zun gives us just enough tidbits to derive a story from, and the rest is up to the imagination.
Shovels
Weeb forced memes are so hilarious amirite xdxd
To People that think this is an anime: This is not an anime, it's from a game called Touhou Mystic Square.
Actually the series is called Touhou (pronounced toe hoe) and it is a bullet hell series that has 14 main games and at least 8 sub games. There are only 5 male characters in the series and the rest are all girls. The fanbase has many different opinions about the characters personalities, so if you want to learn about the games and characters you should go on the touhou wiki (not the wikia).
Yep.
Interesting, can you tell me more about the game and the story behind this song?
Well, this game was in PC-98 Era, and I haven't played it before, so I'm sorry. I guess someone else can fill you in.
vincze samuel
The info for all of Touhou is at en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Wiki .
This song is about the character Alice Margatroid, a puppetmaster, and her quest to perfect a fully living doll, one with self-awareness.
:3 Romantic Children is one of my fav songs :D
Terry Shui Tian
Do you mean "Romantic Children"? It's from the 5th part of the Touhou series (Touhou Kaikidan ~Mystic Square)
In order to get the subtitles, you have to click the CC button
What a beautiful song, sad, but beautiful.
This is a touching song, and the vid is good too. I can't stop to listening and watching this ^^
i had this stuck into my head for a whole month
in truth, never really cared for IOSYS before discovering this. found their previous songs to be 'eh'. but this is pretty fantastic. the robotic, almost desperate vocals really suit the tone for this song. love it!! !
The feeling I get from this song is very sad, tbh. I think,, maybe the story is that Alice is one of the very few PC-98 Touhou characters who survived past 5 and Alice, who remembers these friends fondly - while everyone else in canon seems to have forgotten about those games and characters entirely - attempted to perhaps help them live on through her dolls?? I don't know, that's the sort of feeling I got from it.
TBT TO WHEN I WAS OBSESSED WITH THIS SONG AND TOUHOU
Oh god I heard this song like two years ago and had it stuck in my head FOR A MONTH.
NOW I'M HEARING IT AGAIN.
OH GOD.
OH GOD.
How about again after 10 years lol
I, once again got addicted to this song. I swear this song is really out on the usual meme song Iosys do
@divas905 It's sung by Miko.
And Miku's voice sounds...different. Like...higher pitched and uhh, has that robotic sound in her voice?
How on earth have I missed this video for so long, it's just, I love too much to say
beautiful song, is very nice! my head is obssesed with this song!
It's simple things like this that always manage to bring me more joy and satisfaction than most of the crap that gets passed as "entertainment" these days.
The originality and creativity in the Touhou universe is overwhelming.
@Surullia One is Alice herself, one is Medicine, not sure who the others are. but the little girl with the blue dress and a blue bow on a hairband is young Alice.
Some parts of the lyrics makes me think that Alice is a doll herself... o~o
Well, there's a theory that she was created by Shinki, though it's been jossed by Windows canon.
Finally! I found the original FULL movie and song!
That cannot be described with words, something with a beauty of this magnitude cannot be fully praised with the words we speak.
今聴くとかなりエモいメロディだな
This is the best.
2022 and still listening to this wow
Happy to help :D
Damn... this nostalgia.
I absolutely adore this song and sympathize with Alice...
By the way, this interactive transcript thing is awesome!
It’s been such a long time....
Thank you very much ^^
Why i am crying ?
officially she is a human that became a youkai through training, but fans speculate that after she became a youkai she lost a part of her humanity and became like an alive doll.
I may be wrong though
A beatifuly sad song
I've listioned to it 16 times so far
I can't stop listening to this?! O.o
You edited it very well. I though I was watching the flash.
The best way to spend 5 minutes and 28 seconds of your life :)
i feel in love with this!!!!!
@Surullia Not quite, another girl, the blond one in this video. Her name is alice and she can use magic to control the dolls, tho she cannot give them their own life, which generally upsets her.
I love this so much it is a really good song
that song makes me cry ;_;
Thanks.
great job
Miko has a very good voice and the music is beautiful ;3
Ok my apologies, I saw the subtitles after I replayed it. Sad, deep, soulful, beautiful, haunting.
Huh, just noticed that Maybell's in here...
Who's Maybell?
ChariotheJudgement A touhou fan-character. One of the first I think :3 (she appears at 2:17).
If you want to know more, read here: :)
en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Fan-made_characters/Maybell
Fledera thnx for the info
ChariotheJudgement You're welcome =)
Fledera I don't know kinda looks more like Renko than Maybell.
これわ。。。すごい ;w; ♡
Pikane Kuroki 日本語の仲間がいた…！！
Oh hey IOSYS has a playlist now, and the first is a good and new song!
Alice was once human, through vigorous training of magic, she transcended humanity and became youkai. Quote from wiki: During Mystic Square, as a stage 3 boss, she attempted to prevent the heroine from proceeding. After the events she returns as the extra stage boss. Because Alice had learnt new types of magic from the grimoire, it is likely she became a youkai before the second encounter due to the high level magic. However, she was still defeated.
I Absolutely Love This Song!
1:52 I've been watching this pv since it came out and I didn't realize.
Candles can't project shadows
that was really amazing i loved it XD
Ugh, love this song so much
@PrincesTomboy Well they use 'heart' differently in japanese. For example, it can also be translated as 'soul' 'spirit' and stuff like that. We separate them, but the Japanese consider it all part of the same thing...I don't know if that makes any sense but...basically it can be translated as a lot of other things besides 'heart'.
SOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! And the meaning is so deep *5500000000000000/5* LOVE IT
@angelshalo And that is why the Soul Badge is in the shape of a heart.
@EmeraldEyesOfThunder I'd swear there's already a replay button
never played touhou, but damn this is awsum
@zantanzuken
the orignial is the short version, and the original has that 5-7 animations,
so to fit the animations in, some animations were repeated.
@xXFlyleafXx It's Alice's stage theme in Mystic Square (stage three not extra stage). It's called "Romantic Children."
@monkeytoes98 well alice is a youkai (i think) and she can live for a long time and she knows that everyone she loves will die so she makes dolls to keep her coompany
Still amazing even 240p
oh i think i can crack the code it has the same beat as mountain of faith OP when u humm those words with the tune in your head its got all the right syllables