50 Weird Facts About Touhou

[@raikaria3090]

Who wants *Lilly White* facts? - Lilly White has appeared in 6 official games: PCB; PoFV; GFW; HM [Background]; HSiFS and UM, making her one of the most recurrent characters in the series. - Lilly White is the most recurrent character to not have her own theme music. - Lilly White is the most recurrent character to never have plot relevance - Lilly White is the most recurrent character to not be playable - Lilly White is the most recurrent character to never have dialogue. - Until HSiFS; Lilly White was the most recurrent character to not have a spellcard. She still holds this record if you ignore HSiFS, as no other character has even approached this title. - Strange Creators of Outer World confirms that Lilly Black is Lilly White in cosplay. So Lilly Black isn't actually a character. This is further confirmed in UM; where using the card that specifically summons Lilly White can sometimes summon her as "Lilly Black". This also explains why Lilly Black does not appear in Great Fairy Wars. Despite this; there was an appearance in an older manga; Silent Sinner in Blue; that shows both at the same time; which is likely an error. [And as ZUN's guidelines say, when two things contradict each other; the newest source wins.]

[@Dyzinel]

I didn't care about Lily until I played Touhou Puppet Dance Performance. She's so good there. She holds the record for some stats too.

[@nerd0Chija]

Another fact about Lilly White and correction for one of them Lilly White was originally planned to be PCB's stage 4 boss, but Zun scraped this idea. He actually even composed her boss theme named "Flower of Past Days ~ Fairy of Flower" (過去の花 ～ Fairy of Flower) (so the fact about her having no theme is false), before it was scrapped. Zun is a guy who doesn't like when his hard work is wasted, so he instead released this unused PCB track in the Ghostly Field Club music album (track number 8).

[@AnnXYZ666]

@@nerd0Chija Me speedrunning listening to lily's theme

[@rebeccathumb9584]

she doesn't have in-game dialogue but she does speak in the grimoire of usami

[@summerchilds]

FUN TOUHOU FACT did you know i cried for a hour last night

[@RenDB]

Cool bug facts

[@user-vn6ki6gs8w]

Just one?

[@spidermacho123]

Sometimes that happens.

[@No-cc1fq]

I think thats a feature

[@Tundric_Schwolf]

It be like that sometime

[@Akatsuki-21]

"Flandre pretends that she cannot escape her basement despite having the power to. This is because she has everything she needs in her basement" Average discord mod sir

[@moh.syafrianabie8899]

Remilia: Now that you have some spellcards, you can go outside since your power wouldn't hurt someone anymore. Flandre: Nope I like it here. I got whatever I wanted. Remilia: Flan just go outside touch some grass! Flan: Never!

[@anueutsuho7425]

I'm sincerely disappointed in this fandom that NEET Flandre didn't take off like NEET Kaguya

[@Archedgar]

@@anueutsuho7425 Byakuren is basically a NEET and she's very popular.

[@anueutsuho7425]

@@Archedgar I mean, I thought she was pretty outgoing in the community

[@Archedgar]

@@anueutsuho7425 Was she though? she was sealed away for centuries and probably hangs out alone at a temple by herself now.

[@grahamholbrook9112]

I didnt know okina had that many spell cards, i figure yukari or even reimu would be a runner up

[@Leistria]

The reason why Okina has so many is because she is both final stage and extra boss.

[@Electrosa]

The second runner-up used to be Kaguya because of all the sequential final cards she has.

[@grahamholbrook9112]

@@Leistria right, but we also have characters like satori who has a set for every shot type, and every difficulty that you play on, and eiren, who has spell cards in every route in the game

[@trickwing]

XD

[@abder200]

4:53 So by alice's theory, does that mean chimata can use the full extend of her power because she has the 7 colors of a rainbow?

[@ProstovichMusic]

Chimata have 10 colours on her sprite: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Light-blue, Blue, Violet, Pink, White and... Her shoes seems to have Magenta color.

[@redacted8983]

If Alice thinks color is power, she needs to learn hexadecimal coding.

[@eldritchangel4058]

Tenshi Hinanawi: Am I a joke to you?

[@XziledBlog]

Flandre is a win win too

[@PhantomGato-v-]

Coincidentally, Flan, Chimata, and Tenshi are some of the most powerful characters in Touhou

[@psychicfire8232]

Despite ZUN deciding to make Okina's wheelchair a regular chair in HSiFS, later, in the manga, Okina is in a wheelchair again, so Okina is disabled and ZUN went back on his decision.

[@raikaria3090]

Okina's realms as a god also cover disability. She can choose to represent herself as such or not. I'm pretty sure that's how Okina 'works' in that regard.

[@normlaurant5881]

That's actually most likely not ZUN's choice. According to his afterword in Wild and Horned Hermit, he writes the story itself but sends all dialogues and guidelines in text format, and leaves the mangaka free to portray the story however they think it's fit. So that wheelchair was most likely Mizutaki's idea, not ZUN's. Which doesn't make it any less canon, since ZUN has stated that all manga are collabs and, therefore, whatever the artist does gets his seal of approvation.

[@psychicfire8232]

@@normlaurant5881 A massive character trait wouldn't be left for the mangaka to decide on her own, if ZUN expressed cleary that he didn't want Okina to be in a wheelchair, that the artist would never go after it.

[@FrogFrozen]

@@psychicfire8232 Not necessarily. ZUN has made it clear he doesn't like when Touhous are sexualized in official materials. Alphes still went and sexualized Yuugi and other characters in the early fighting games. Alphes' art was still released with those games as they were. Though, Alphes got permanently removed from contributing to the series after release and hasn't worked with ZUN since. So, there must be more to it going on and Okina being in a wheelchair again really might be just Mizutaki's doing.

[@mikubrot]

i mean. some wheelchair users aren't in them 24/7. my hc is that okina has to manually use magic to move her legs and isn't bothered doing so a lot of the time

[@ShinomiyaSuisei]

Cool fact about Seija, her theme calls Reverse Ideology, and if you play the song back forward, will be the same as you play in normal song, very cool reference for her power indeed

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

Koishi's theme also does this, in this case being a reference to the practice of backmasking.

[@10shi99]

Here's a weird fact for you. Ten Desires is the only game in the series which does not feature a single boss character with long hair. (Futo's ponytail being a possible exception)

[@Fishnberg]

and Ten Desires is the first touhou game that feature synth trance. and most importently ZUN has to do two versions of every song for the game. Miko is the only character in the game that does not have a spirite trance.

[@XziledBlog]

Seiga has it, it's only in a weird style

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

Yukari: "It's technically not animal abuse" Aya: "So it's daughter abuse?" Yukari: Aya: **pichuu~n**

[@AspergerPlays]

Very informative content. But now it's a tradition, sorry. ok here we go. 2:12 Remila and Flendra 2:39 Iki 3:25 Medicine Melancany 4:46 Alice Morgatroy

[@HyperVanilo]

And he pronounces ZUN as 'zhan' not 'zoon', he probably does that intentionally and he will answers, "I do what I want."

[@Suwawako]

It's because "Zoon" sounds like "Zune", a crappy microsoft ipod bootleg. I will not assosiate ZUN with a Zune

[@mystrallsnowlight]

Medicine Melancunny*

[@eggwah]

@@mystrallsnowlight 😭😭😭😭

[@9ball179]

surely hes doing it on purpose, right...

[@Iwantanfc]

7:47 so in short: flandre is a discord mod

[@java2hu639]

6:09 This isn't true. The fight does not take place under the pretense of it being a what if scenario and remains canonical (at least to PC98). Rika specifically mentions the following: > "If only you'd chased me when I ran before, you would've been crushed by the might of my Flying Tank, Evil Eye Σ!!" Which explains that the story takes place in a canon where Reimu did indeed leave Rika behind to enter the real Stage 2, and the fight takes place AFTER the conclusion of the story. The "what if this was stage 2" is purely a joke by Reimu and Rika - a fourth wall break. Because it points out the absurdity if this had actually been the second stage: Reimu: Besides, if I'd followed you when you ran, wouldn't this have been stage 2? Rika: That's right. Reimu: That would have been way too hard!!

[@XziledBlog]

Thanks, this needed to be said

[@SasNostalgia]

1:03 And all of them slaps.

[@Set666Abominae]

Okina (as the manga cap in the video shows) still uses a wheelchair and is a God of disabilities, so ZUN didn’t entirely abandon the concept.

[@stumerkaiba6431]

I will take her wheelchair away

[@Set666Abominae]

@@stumerkaiba6431 normally I’d be furious at the notion of doing something so awful to a person who uses a wheelchair, but if you want to pick a fight with Okina, it’s your funeral!

[@khangquang399]

I think he just abandon the idea that Okina herself is disabled, but keep her role as the god of disability

[@tashkent561]

The mangas aren't written by him tho.

[@khangquang399]

@@tashkent561 it is, ZUN write the manga story, he just dont draw it himself.

[@ailius1520]

I was under the impression the "Fate of 60 Years" was two events: The first being WWII including the atomic bombings that ended it. (As referenced by Cirno's dialog). The second being the Boxing Day Tsunami which occurred late December of 2004 and killed 227,898 people. The trial version of PoFV was released May of 2005.

[@Fishnberg]

Weird Fact: Mokou is a reference to the Fuji Mountain in the secret music comment of Reach For the Moon; Immortal Smoke, ZUN specifcally mentioned that how if the Fuji Mountain were to be errupted it would cost extreme dangers. Hints the fact that Mokou have fire powers, and the name Fuji no Mokou originates...

[@speedstriker]

Yukari: No, I do not abuse animals. I just abuse.

[@Durgemann]

Aya: "Ms. Yakumo, there are allegations floating around that you've committed animal abuse against Ran. How do you respond?" Yukari: "I assure you, I do not abuse animals." Aya: "In that case, how do you-" Yukari: Ran is a shikigami, so she's not an animal anymore, she's a person." Aya: "...so it's just regular abuse?" Yukari: "Yes."

[@PhantomGato-v-]

Regular abuse is common in Gensokyo. Not enough to be spicy, juicy news.

[@lovkarts]

Another fact: Touhou appears as a reference in the sound novel Umineko no naku koro ni, the character Ushiromiya Jessica appears dressed as Marisa Kirisame while tsurupettan plays in the background :v

[@captaindoesyoutube7925]

Apparently ZUN was friends with Ryukishi07 and inspired him to make Higurashi, so Higurashi also has a Touhou reference

[@SHinierthennyourforehead]

holy shit i didnt know that i just started reading umineko

[@lovkarts]

@@SHinierthennyourforehead she has a motherfucking master spark as her meta super in golden fantasia :v

[@SHinierthennyourforehead]

@@lovkarts zamn

[@cryofantasia]

somewhat related, the Flandre part on the song Danzai Yamaxanadu "sono uu o yamenasai!" is an Umineko reference

[@neitoxotien2258]

If I were to add... Did you Know "Animal Realm" is already mentioned by Reimu during Extra stage of Touhou 7. . Did you know in Yachie's character profile, it mentioned that there 4 beasts in animal realm but she is unknown. . Sagume once visited Eientei talking to Eirin but the conversation was unknown and Aya was the witness. . There is more but I forgot some.

[@HyperVanilo]

Koishi mentioned Hell of Blood Pools in ULiL

[@kure_kle]

Hisouten, touhou 10.5, is likely actually referring to the highest of the coloured layers of heaven. Hisoutensoku's title based on the letters actually referring to the one you mentioned in the video, while also being a sequel is commonly considered to be referring to the actual layer you mentioned in the video, fitting since it's a sequel it should be further ascended.

[@M0D776]

Ah, also guys, Fact 51 is that Phantasmagoria of Flower View is the best Touhou Game!

[@Suwawako]

💖

[@DevastatedLimes]

6:04 so shes secretly been in windows canon this whole time?

[@abarette_]

yes

[@privatepessleneck]

I suppose, though it's worth noting that IIRC, Mima's design on that is explicitly an old design, unlike the other characters that have new or redrawn designs.

[@danteshi]

50% Touhou fact 50% Zun fact

[@NareshSinghOctagon]

As it should be.

[@zukukato5100]

fun fact: most of the touhou fanbase haven't played a single touhou game

[@taffy413]

7:57 we also have toyosayomimi no mikos age, and exact birthdate, given that she's prince shoutoku. (shes currently 1448)

[@hereLiesThisTroper]

Here's a wild Touhou fact. Maribel Hearn could be a direct descendant of Yukari Yakumo. How? Maribel's last name is Hearn. There was once a Greek writer called Lafcadio Hearn who went to Japan and immediately fell in love with the place. He wrote alot of accounts about his experience in Japan and eventually changed his last name to his wife's last name, Koizumi, and he named himself as.... Yakumo. It is possible that Yukari Yakumo went out of Gensokyo in the 19th hundreds and married Lafcadio Hearn who she then instructed to change his name to Yakumo. Lafcadio Hearn eventually had children. We can speculate that Maribel might the descendant of one Lafcadio Hearn's children.

[@Waterscy]

Funfact there's a majong game out there whit the touhou cast and you even can play as zun

[@alonectorch]

that's where rinnosuke's theme originates from

[@ReverseCh]

Knowledge incremented

[@Landmasters]

Hell yeah on that first one, I'd always said I bet ZUN took inspiration from Pocky and Rocky but never bothered going to confirm. Makes sense especially with how radically different Pocky and Rocky was to normal shooters at the time

[@akiradkcn]

well, okina was shown to be disabled in the manga so its canon now

[@kalimatronix]

And also was shown to be walking with no trouble in manga, so that's contradictory.

[@uncreativerandomness1239]

@@kalimatronix Well she is a god of the disabled among other things, so it makes sense that she'd represent that aspect at times by sitting in a wheelchair.

[@kalimatronix]

@@uncreativerandomness1239 my new headcanon

[@lilyhayden5732]

@@kalimatronix in real life there exists wheelchair users who are also capable of walking in some circumstances. there are people who use their wheelchairs due to pain but that pain isn't present every single day. I think it was important for touhou to have some representation for this group.

[@khangquang399]

@@lilyhayden5732 Okina is show to both standing in the extra stage and in the manga with no trouble. She is a lot of god combine and god of disability is just an aspect of her.

[@oliviaobjects]

Marisa also (technically) has: Touhou Hisouten (Scarlet Weather Rhapsody) 緋想の天気ラプソディ Love Colored Magic, 恋色マジック (Yes it's just another Love Colored song.) Also this theme is RE-used in Touhou 12.3 Hisoutensokou. 8 themes. 8! JP: マリサも（技術的に）持っています：東方非想天則（緋想天気恋色マジック、恋色マジック（はい、それはちょうど別の愛の歌です）。また、このテーマは東方12.3です。東方非想天則で再利用されます。8テーマ。8！

[@Mima_the_vengeful_spirit]

are you Patchouli? because that knowledge blew my mind!

[@Suwawako]

Yeah

[@Mima_the_vengeful_spirit]

@@Suwawako now I see better

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@Mima_the_vengeful_spiritI like your pfp

[@davimbos9351]

fun fact: Okina strangked clownpiece in visionary maidens of shrine

[@HyperVanilo]

Whoever read the manga knows that

[@davimbos9351]

@@HyperVanilo bro, how can you be in every single touhou related comment section?, i guess that there are a few touhou vids where i hadn't seen you lol

[@xb70valkyriech]

Take this as a compliment, but your vids are now giving me ideas for vids I can make

[@murder_krow951]

9:46 bro I remember playing graffiti kingdom as a kid cause gamefly sent us the wrong game and then said to just keep it. Cool to see that ZUN worked on a game I used to play a lot of as a kid

[@Suwawako]

Cute

[@minami3747]

As far as I know, UFO is not the only game that was affiliated to the DarkHotel virus! Subterranean Animism also got the false postive and was also halted. While I'm not sure it was also a false positive for UFO, we know for sure that's the case for SA

[@CoyotePark]

Oh my god every single character name.. butchered so horrifyingly... I didn't even know it was possible 😭

[@tchitchouan]

what an excellently informative, many of the facts presented here i didn't know before. thank you for your work and research.

[@neitoxotien2258]

Actually some facts I already read them on touhou wiki but still I love that this video emphasize it all.

[@まいち-m1u]

すごい。英語の動画で東方のあれこれがここまで正確に紹介されているのを観るのは初めてだわ

[@redacted8983]

PETA's gonna have a field day on Yukari

[@jadebayoba7073]

1:32 and The Witches Ball~ Magus from Seihou

[@stack2748]

i'm full of knowledge after watching this video

[@pheonix100]

Interesting facts! Great job, didnt know much of theses :)

[@danielbedrossian5986]

Add to Marisa's BGM count the Selene's Light sound track. It's basically her since both Reimu and Marisa has different them on LLS first stage.

[@MrMeoow91]

Even after 10 years of listening to Touhou Music non-stop. I still can’t tell all the character’s theme songs…

[@zereimu]

4:50 "Alice Morbotroid" lmao!!!

[@MAGInHeaven]

Wheelchair okina 😍 I’d still marry her

[@AlexPaulLEWZ]

8:03 Oh shi, if we think about it... if it's 2022 in Gensokyo right now, Akyuu is... going to die sooner or later. :(

[@Quils9]

In Akyuu's article from Strange Creators of Outer World ZUN commented: "She should be fated to have a short life, but she seems to have been living for a long time, and she's only been getting better. Is this a result of medical advances?"

[@coinpoffer]

i cant think straight about "the witches' **ball** "

[@jvts8916]

6:05 you almost had me

[@gooorireimuhakurei4002]

Did y'all know: marisa's height from SoEW seems pretty short,many people say because she is child,but also marisa's height from manga's show that she actually pretty short.so maybe the height comparation of SoEW inspired touhou's manga's marisa's height. 2:each playable charecter from mystic square resembles a charecter from older PC_98 game's.reimu from HRTP,marisa from SoEW,mima from PoDD and yuuka from LLS. 3.ellen a charecter from PoDD might be greek,or maybe her parents are from there,ellen is a greek name means(sun ray).ellen also has a cat named (sokrates)that is inspired from(Socrates)a real greek philosopher. 4.the only male charecter's that made an official appearance are:sin gyoko 3 form(HRTP)genji, reimu's turtle(SoEW) sokrates,ellen's cat(PoDD), myouren hijiri(UFO)and rinosuke and male villagers from background (HM). 4:due to fact that byakruen was banished to makai for thousands of years,she probably knew reimu existence from HRTP and MS. 5.the only charecter's from touhou who destroyed space ship's are:Yuuka(GI) seihou.reimu,marisa and sanae(UFO) although many people say that those weren't REAL space ship.but yuuka litterly destroyed erich's mecha. 5.touhou game's event's are out of order,because marisa learned star magic in 2002,but marisa also uses star magic in PC_98 era,plus,PC_98 is not canon or it is out of order. 6.LLS is the only Touhou game that has two different stage 1 theme,witching dream and selene light.the only game that we can say it has this system too,is TD.due the spirit world and normal version of songs. 7.due the fact that mizuchi start's her haunting from first window's era touhou,EoSD.this make us asking why she doesn't start from PC_98 series.tuss make PC_98 non canon. 8.LLS and IaMP are the only touhou game's that have day and night theme. 9.marisa's red dress from UNL is a reference to ellen

[@gooorireimuhakurei4002]

10.the only PC_98 spell card's that appear in an official touhou game's are(exorcism circle): reimu's bomb from HRTP, Reimu's 2ed class bomb from SoEW, reimu's bomb from PoDD.(orreries sun):marisa attack orb's(also mima use those in SoEW and PoDD,this may be speculation that mima teached her that) marisa's attack orb's from LLS.(Asteroid belt): marisa's attack from SoEW and marisa's bomb in LLS. 11.marisa's bomb's are based around other charecter's bomb.in PoDD,her bomb look's similar to kana's one,or maybe that bomb is based around reimu's 1ist class bomb in SoEW.her special attack,(MASTER SPARK)is based around yuuka's attack from LLS(also gengetsu used that too) marisa's 1st class fast bomb from PCB(Non directional laser)is based around patchouli's attack from EoSD(this one is confirmed by ZUN itself). 12.the first time word (gensokyo)was used in touhou was in LLS.before LLS the world that reimu and marisa lived was called (Eastern land) Window's era fact: 13.alice knew eirin from before because she bought her special pill(butterfly dream pill,yokai type)this pill gives the user a sweet dream,many people say alice bought those because her connection to DiPP. 14.in touhou SSiB,the rocket crew were pawns.due the fact that yukari used yuyuko and yomou in her plan's.while reimu,marisa,sakuya and remilia were fighting against watatsuki sister's.yuyuko and yomou were stealing oldest sake from lunarian's.because they were pure. 15.the only charecter's from EoSD and PCB that didn't appear in IaMP were:Rumia,Cirno,Flandre,Letty and prismiver's. 16:The only charecter's in IaMP that have day/night theme are:Reimu,Marisa,Sakuya,Alice,Youmu and patchouli 17:Satori may never be a playable character,due to her mind reading and recollection of people spell card's. 18:The only charecter's from touhou that appeared as stage 8 boss(that means phantasm or being a boss that is different from other stage bosses)are:yukari(PCB)...mokou(IN) and reimu from(PoFV). 19:the only bosses that are humans from touhou(as what wiki said)are:marisa krisame and fuijiwara no mokou 20:the midbosses from extra stage's from touhou are based around the a charecter that was in that game,but sanae is the only charecter from touhou that doesn't follow this rule

[@youraverageperson6211]

these are some good facts! these should be in the video instead, they are much more unknown and interesting

[@gooorireimuhakurei4002]

@@youraverageperson6211 thank you.:)

[@gooorireimuhakurei4002]

Another fact's:the only game's from touhou that reimu's ufoda's have many different varieties are:(HRTP)red/white/green/yellow/blue/purple/brown and(ISC)she has all the different varieties of ufoda charms that added to game. 2ed fact: reimu's white dress from UNL is probably a reference to CtC 3rd fact:there are multiple songs from seihou that appeared in official touhou albums,the songs include: Dichromatic lotus butterfly (reimu's theme from SG)Lovely mound of cherry blossom~japanese flower(yuuka's theme from GI),Enigmatic doll(muse's theme from GI), Mechanical circus~reverie(marie's theme from SG) ,Magical girl crusade~little little crusader(Erich's theme from SG)and illusionary science~phantom factory(doll phantom)(vivit's second form theme from SG).also midi version of EoSD sounds like SG WAV. 4th:due to PC_98 canon,alice's wonderland was created by alice's grimoire and is placed in makai. 5th:due to which girl solve the incident most,the answer is:reimu by completing 15/18 incident from official touhou game's,marisa sloved 3/18,the incidents are:POFV(due to her dialogue with kutata that she said that she beated yama once)UFO(ZUN officially said that marisa_B is the true route and marisa B discovered both byakruen and nue)LoLK(marisa is the first charecter that obtained occult ball from sagume),that means sanae/sakuya/yomou doesn't solve any incidents until today. 6th:some charecter's attacks are based around urban legend's, sakuya's spell card(jac the ripper)is a reference to jack the ripper,a serial killer that until today nobody knows who is he.koishi and kororo's are based around famous urban legend's too. 7th:ran is based of a Japanese story called nine tale fox,the nine tale fox was a beautiful woman that lived with emperor,however emperor gets sickness and they find out it was she who caused all of these. 8th:tewi inaba was seen smoking in WaHH,she also seen selling coloured at haukurei shrine rabbits. 9th:PoDD incident is purely non canon,due to fact that reimu in SG doesn't know what a robot is,even if PoDD was canon,she had rokotou a maid robot that looks really similar to VIVIT.marisa also doesn't have missile's at home,even tough she got one in PoDD called Mimi chan.ellen shop doesn't exist and kana haven't seen haunting haukurei shrine in window's era.so this incident is not canon,or happens in future. 10th:yumemi uses religious symbols for her attacks,such as her homing pentagram cross'es,to using star of david as bullet's. 11th:all kind of religion's exist in gensokyo,due to the east having it's own religion's, bhuddism,taoism,maniism,consfius,shinto and other religions,also due the french and salanish and british influence on east christianity exist's in gensokyo.

[@Magiftw]

That's a lot of facts.

[@JungéShikisanki]

6:56 lol why is reimu scared of rocks

[@Archedgar]

5:58 NOOOO..... Mima-chan...... Touhou 19 for sure. This time will be different. Also, almost nothing about the newer games? no lunarians? no *CLOWNPIECE* ?!

[@SparkTFS]

Nice video, I didn't know most of these!

[@Nahmona_Hooves]

Thanks, now I can finally impress a girl by telling her that Minamitsu Murasa from Touhou Project has a pop sound in her theme around 2 minutes and 10 second into the song.

[@frogmeister833]

I want a sequel to this video

[@raymariopokenic1561]

i know PC-98 superplayer Miler has like a goldmine of rare touhou items in possession, like one of those rare PC-98 CD's but i forgot what the rest were

[@satoshicukkagu581]

Even now Touhou is still well known

[@Momoyon]

5:13 that is the stage 4 theme, not murasa's theme

[@alchemicfreak13]

i legit didn't know Zun worked on Bujingai, i only even got that game years ago because as a tween weeblet i was OBSESSED with Gackt lmao (still have it, definitely keeping it now lmao)

[@HyperVanilo]

Considering he worked at Taito it's not surprising that he was in part of the game's development

[@jetkirby3981]

Hey nice you got the Brawl reference!

[@limeylime8027]

Fun fact: koishi can kill people by sneezing on them

[@PhantomGato-v-]

The Kishi sneeze counter is op

[@MedsieLovr]

9:12 Great

[@Suwawako]

Yay

[@Re-2005]

I told you Okina is the FDR of Touhou

[@VuuDuccDuyy]

do anyone of you play "Plants vs Zombies modern extension mod",i was find out that this mod used some touhou music

[@VuuDuccDuyy]

1:46 this music is used for day level

[@GrahamChapman]

Did you know that Okina Matara has the most connections in all of Gensokyo? Matarajin is a god in Tendai Buddhism, the secretary of the Yama, and the deified form of Hata no Kawakatsu. Kawakatsu was an official in Prince Shoutoku's court and was said to be the reincarnation of Omononushi, the spirit of Okuninushi that incarnated itself when Okuninushi's BFF, the inchling Sukuna Bikona, passed away. One time, when Sukuna Bikona fell ill, Okuninushi saved his life by letting him take an onsen bath -- this lead to Okuninushi and Bikona becoming regarded as gods of long life and Prince Shoutoku was a big worshipped of them in his pursuit of immortality. Okuninushi was the father of Takeminakata, a.k.a. Suwa Daimyoujin, (who, along with his wife, Yasakatome, is the basis for Kanako; Takeminakata was in one legend even said to have defeated an unruly frog spirit) and Kotoshiranushi (who has wildly been syncretized with Ebisu). Prior to being bestowed the name "Okuninushi" by Susanoo he was known as Onamuchi and was probably best known for being the man who saved the life of the White Hare of Inaba. Okuninushi/Onamuchi's Buddhist name is "Daikokuten" and he is also largely regarded as synonymous with both Inari and Mahakala, the incarnation of time and most powerful form of Shiva from Hinduism. Matarajin also has a "true form" as Kojin, a.k.a. Sanmen Daikoku, three-headed Daikoku, who was variously described as having the faces of Daikoku (duh), Bishamon, and Benzaiten (Benben's namesake), or Shoten (Ganesha), Benzaiten, and Dakini/Inari (Daikoku-on-a-fox). This three-headed form was otherwise known as Koujin, the god of the hearth, or Yashajin, the God of Yaksha. The Yaksha were the spirits that the Oni were based on. Perhaps it's not so strange then that Daikoku's most recognized artifact was the Miracle Mallet, typically regarded as an Oni artifact.

[@palameno]

sirno

[@herohamza1196]

Worst fact about touhou: The moderators of r/touhou banned the term "trap"

[@toaofatome6095]

Wow kazusu has a greandfather? Wow its like evreone has one. Jezz that sure is a importent and intresting part of lore. Nice touhou wiki audio book btw

[@HyperVanilo]

You didn't read Forbidden Scrollery?

[@toaofatome6095]

@@HyperVanilo i did but its obevoiuse she has a fucking grandfather evre human has one. "Omg guys Lisa Simpson has a grandmather!!!!!"

[@Auditor1337]

@@toaofatome6095 are you alright my man?

[@toaofatome6095]

@@Auditor1337 yes my dear 14 yearold on this website

[@ssjcrafter8842]

@@toaofatome6095 are you sure you're ok? bcus wih yor spellng... well, it's very weird to say the least. also you're being rude for no reason, it seems? or why else did you call that person a 14 yo? also, you seem to be really mad about the grandfather mention thing... which while I agree you have a point when you say everyone has a grandparent(well there are exceptions)... it's still a very small thing not worth giving much attention to. would it calm you down to think about it as "we've seen Kozusu's grandfather"? because seeing a character's grandfather is more unique(while still remaining equally small and uninteresting)(used unique because no better word is coming to my brain RN)

[@Mr.SnekMeister]

I’m surprised there wasn’t a single fact about Suwako.

[@gemraldkid6304]

Here’s one. She’s canonically had at least one child due to the fact that she is Sanae’s ancestor.

[@Mr.SnekMeister]

@@gemraldkid6304 Oh wow.

[@dimethylfuran]

1:32 i thought Marisa is a girl :l

[@jordanjackson6151]

I didn't know that Reimu was inspired by Sayo-chan. I was always a fan of the 80's and 90's Taito games. Ki Ki Kai Kai is hard as hell. It's later stateside progressions, Pocky and Rocky and Heavenly Guardian are good fun. Of course Zun was a huge Taito fan. So naturally he would model some games after what the classics were. Highly Responsive to Prayers has a lot of Arkanoid and a little bit of Space Invaders. Funny thing is, now on the Nintendo Switch, there is an official Arkanoid vs Space Invaders game from Taito. And its pretty awesome. If there was a Touhou rendition of that - less like Highly Responsive to Prayers. I'd probably play it. Check it out.

[@HyperVanilo]

10:17 nice fact

[@yaemma8803]

Why does everyone seem to think of th17 as terrible? I think its neat

[@HyperVanilo]

Most of the opinions are from pro player

[@Suwawako]

it's lame

[@neitoxotien2258]

Because of Bullet visibility.

[@HyperVanilo]

@@neitoxotien2258 Bullet hell players complaining about bullet visibility, what an irony

[@misery_shun]

@@HyperVanilo I mean, it's actually true (like how tf do you dodge a bullet if you can't see it). As a person who actually played WBaWC, thanks to its system - you don't see bullets as clearly as you could've as these effects are too bright and big, and with ZUN's later trend of making bullets near white and small - and you can get frustrated with it. You can argue that PC-98 games also suffer from this, but at least these bullets mostly weren't on bright, almost white background

[@faxmachineuser]

5:10 it's the stage 4 theme though

[@vispar8873]

I never knew it. Btw, Very cool!

[@ComradeAtSpace95-Antarean]

Me: *reading the guideline that said "Don't be stupid"* Also Me: Understandable, have a nice day Comrade!

[@monchadoka9762]

I’m watching this and have no idea about this game or that it even existed

[@gratito844]

Adorei o vídeo. Tinha algumas coisas que eu já sabia, enquanto outras que eu não sabia acabaram me supreendendo bastante. Uma parte 2 seria muito interessante.

[@guncatto2625]

I'm sorry but 6:10 is wrong. Evil eye sigma will always be cannon reimu will always fight a sigma male demon eye with bat wings and a halo.

[@alonectorch]

canon until proven otherwise

[@CrowTenguOfBunbunmaru]

So the magician WAS inspired by me, yayaya... Well that's some good news I can nap to!

[@gengetsy1]

Actually the Witches balls Theme is from Seihou Project 1 That theme Came When You fight Marisa in Ex stage :P

[@TheBenchLord]

I like the bit where he claims Akyuu is the only Touhou character with a known age as if Miko isn't exactly 1450 years, 1 month and 8 days old as of when this comment was written

[@Filthynoko]

0:57 jfc this fact always makes me mad as fuck like bro WE COULD’VE HAD KASEN IN A MAINLINE GAME??? IN THE SAME MAINLINE GAME AS SEIGA??? YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE MISSING HERE

[@anonymouspurple3807]

Cool stuff, I didn't know about most of these!

[@JungéShikisanki]

Layla is actually a poltergeist, She plays the percussion in Phantom Ensemble

[@19Pyrus70]

So the SDM girls are partly inspired by Sarai? Does this mean Sakuya's only a C-class maid? Does this mean everyone but Sakuya's gonna become deformed before they die? And how much for Sakuya's "services"? In that manga, the combat maids serve not only as bodyguards & caretakers, but also do assassinations & sexual services for their clients.

[@Suwawako]

I never read Sarai before so I can't comment on that

[@19Pyrus70]

@@Suwawako It was just idle speculation.😅 If you ever get time, you should read as many of the translated volumes as you can find -- I don't think the whole series was translated into an English adaptation. All I really remember was that I kept looking for the next volume (after about 3 or 4) & no more seemed to show up. (This was in the late 90's).

[@PhantomGato-v-]

Because Mistr00s, services are free.

[@19Pyrus70]

@@PhantomGato-v- You saying Remilia & Flanders make Sakuya put out to clients for free?😆

[@PhantomGato-v-]

@@19Pyrus70 no, Im saying Sakuya would defo do it with said two vampires for free

[@trace6314]

2:11 ok i can understand you pronouncing the japanese names in weird ways but did you really just call remilia "remilla"

[@QuakeGamerROTMG]

The pronunciations have to be a shitpost right... right?

[@jkharu2760]

Bruh

[@asterisk4079]

my heart is broken that you think wbawc is a lame game, since it's probably my top favourite from the main series game close to hsifs and all touhou game that has youmu in it

[@whitetoryufu]

冴月麟はZUNさんの口から本当の事が語られてほしいな………

[@Suwawako]

面白い

[@ltxr9973]

Damn I want to read Sarai now

[@doomguy6587]

I don't know anything about tohou besides some characters, Reimu and that one who stops time and trow knifes, but somehow I watch a lot of videos about tohou, can anyone tell me what games I should play to at least understand a bit of the history too? I don't mind playing old games.

[@Azure9577]

Imperishable night, perfect cherry blossom, embodiment of scarlet devil are the beginning games of the franchise Touhou 10 onwards are available on steam

[@raikaria3090]

On Yukari committing animal abuse; it's *so... so much worse than that.* In Who's Who of Humans and Youkai, it is explained that Ran and Chen are NOT the Kitsune and Bakeneko. No; they are the names given to the Shikigami spirits that are *possessing* the still-alive Kitsune and Bakeneko. So Chen and Ran are actually enslaved youkai that are under complete possession against their will; being used essentially as slaves by Yukari. This slavery comparison gets even worse when you add in that Yukari doesn't consider Ran anything more than a machine to conduct her will. De.... youkai-ising [like dehumanisng] Ran... definitely a slavery parallel; and saying her "abuse" is nothing more than "percussive maintenance"... again, a slavery parrarel [Beating a slave that won't work...] Even her naming scheme for Chen, Ran and Herself has the inherent idea that Yukari is on a level above Ran and Chen. Like a slave owner is a class "above" their slaves. Yukari is quite literally a slave-driver. And Ran and Chen are not animal youkai. They are spirits that inhabit animal youkai. Who are nothing but victims. This also makes Yukari's "excuse" correct. Ran *is not* an animal. [But Yukari's crimes are a myriad worse than mere animal abuse]

[@Auditor1337]

ZUN said you can think of ran as the kitsune and that's what im going to do.

[@ssjcrafter8842]

What you're saying isn't entirely correct though? while IDK about Ran being the name of the kitsune or not... the kitsune did consent to becoming a shikigami. and because Aya didn't consent to being Ran's(or probably the kitsune's) shikigami, Aya isn't a shikigami, despite Ran asking her(otherwise why not just force her?) also, shikigami literally work similar to computers. Even Rinousuke compares them. I'm still going to ask for sources about Ran and Chen being the name of the shikigami and not the youkai(by youkai I don't mean the species, I mean the kitsune and bakeneko not being the ones that have the names Ran and Chen). also, Yukari does answer Ran's confusion in SSiB I think(after tricking Watatsuki? don't remember, been a while since I read it). So she's not completely heartless to them(also they do have some freedom, as Chen went somewhere in TH11 ReimuA(ST5). +Ran isn't really an animal, but rather a youkai(well I guess she's both but youkai takes priority) so I wouldn't call that animal abuse... still, Yukari *does* abuse Ran. -thanks for coming to my TED talk-

[@PhantomGato-v-]

Ran and Chen aren't the animals. Theyre the hats lmao

[@Spellweaver5]

>Yukari doesn't consider Ran anything more than a machine to conduct her will That's... not correct? Have you not see the ending of Imperishable Night? She is clearly treating them both like people.

[@PhantomGato-v-]

@@Spellweaver5 tbh It's an excuse to get away with animal and child abuse

[@kendallhudak]

Here's a fun fact for you, the guy who made this video doesn't pronounce ZUN right even once in this video!

[@Bullminator]

Fact --- Reimu also shows up in koikatsu video game --- if you know how to do it :P

[@giladmachluf3663]

I knew... about half of these facts. However, I may be able to add a few wacky facts of my own: Originally, there were going to be more characters in Hisoutensoku, including Wriggle and Kaguya. Reimu and Marisa's themes Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly and The Witches Ball both debuted in Seihou Shuusou Gyoku's Extra Stage. Their Windows-era designs also debuted in this game. Reimu's arsenal is almost entirely outsourced to youkai, with the exception of her talismans. Despite the Spell Card Duels being implemented in order to protect humans and youkai, the Grimoire of Usami specifically has people's safety being threatened by Spell Cards. ZUN has a habit of creating "2-part plots" that start in 1 piece of media and end in another, such as the Izanagi Objects, the Occult Balls and Toutetsu (kinda grasping for straws on this one, but it works). Despite having not appeared in Highly Responsive to Prayers, Marisa is actually tied with Reimu for most appearances in the Touhou games, as the latter is absent in 12.8. The entire Religious War "arc" can be traced back to Kanako! (This is what spawned the "Moriya Shrine Conspiracy" meme.) The only character canonically undefeated throughout all of Touhou media is Watatsuki no Yorihime. COVID-19 was probably a contributing factor to Chimata going to Gensokyo. If any of this is wrong, please do correct me.

[@raikaria3090]

Not quite on Seihou Shuusou Gyoku. While it was the debut of Windows Reimu; Marisa's appearance was not the same as Windows Marisa. Unless Windows Marisa can spawn *Flandre's Wings from her hips* [Her dress also looks a bit different, but that varies anyway from game to game]. Her hat also dosen't quite appear to be like the modern Marisa, but that could just be ZUNArt. Marisa also notably lacks her broom [Although she lacks this in GFW too] And yes; Marisa has this weird habit of spawning wings in PC-98. Also no; I'm not kidding. When Marisa moves in that fight you can see what first appears to be normal wings are actually Flandre's. [Video source: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmnGqmiCmNqen8U&ab_channel=MegamanOmega]. Interestingly Marisa also has the ability to clone herself in this fight... like Flandre. The only real difference Reimu has is she's duel-wielding Goheis, which isn't too strange given her Gohei changes every game anyway. Marisa is basically in some sort of intrim design.

[@giladmachluf3663]

@@raikaria3090 Thank you, I did not know that.

[@tashkent561]

Toyohime and Yorihime might be the strongest characters in Touhou lore, and they never appeared in a game

[@billman__1010]

UM confirms that the yin-yang orbs that Reimu uses were actually made by the game's stage 4 boss, Misumaru. 2-part plots, sure, but with the reveal of 19, we have our first ever 3-part plot (being WBaWC, UM, & the upcoming UDoALG, or Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost). As of 18.5, 100th Black Market, Marisa has finally overtaken Reimu in terms of overall game appearances, making her the series' most prolific character.

[@MehrdadMehdipoor-ym8ku]

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