A Brief History of Touhou and the World

[@raikaria3090]

Mokou isn't just a descendant of one of the nobles; she killed the man carrying the Elixir up Mt.Fuji and drunk it herself; gaining immortality.

[@raikaria3090]

@GussyBaka1972 I... never said she wasn't a noble? I'm saying there's more to her simply being a "noble's daughter" in regards to the Kaguya tale.

[@awkwurdtalke-gamesandgamer8236]

@GussyBaka1972the Fujiwara clan, who FAMOUSLY married their daughters into the imperial family of Japan to maintain control over the Heian court for 200 years. (How many people will catch the reference?)

[@waifutrash_]

​​​@@awkwurdtalke-gamesandgamer8236 I guess Mokou chose the untold 4th way of destines forced upon daughters in edo japan

[@MauricioLSB]

More like Lose mortality

[@pixelito317]

This video makes me reminisce about how 11 year old me was browsing the internet after working in class and stumbled upon satori's theme from th11. Since then I've been wondering around the community for 8 years now, looking at how something so big has started because a man decided to share his college project, I love this saga, and the friends and memories it brought me.

[@ThunderClub]

Same feelings here, despite in my case my love forming for the series fairly recently. TBH even if this video had gotten like 3 views or something, the experiences I've had getting to interact with different parts of the community and getting to meet new people has been really awesome and made it all worth every second. - Rin

[@RanRii]

Had the exact same encounter with Touhou through Satori's theme as well, on KZbin. Have been in Touhou since 2012 and have been following it since.

[@Tsukistar1]

No kidding; way too many hours when I was younger going through fanmade remixes/songs/animations for Touhou, wondering about who these cute characters were but absolutely vibing over the setting the works painted anyways

[@Ultra_7]

Moral of the story: *don’t fall down the 東方 Project Rabbit hole*

[@totallyalpharius507]

Where were you 14 years ago?😅

[@xoantwist2]

i succeeded in doing that for about 6 years, then covid happened

[@MidoseitoAkage]

Fumo

[@seireiart]

Too late m8, It happened already XD

[@flofloflofloflor]

I did that weeks ago..

[@ThunderClub]

This video is something a lot different than I've normally worked on in the past, especially in scope, and has been a huge undertaking. I hope the time and effort has paid off into an enjoyable video for people to learn even just a little about this amazing series and the legacy it has created. Despite the runtime I definitely just scratch the surface of the cool information you could gain from this series, and I encourage you to use this as a launching point, find something you want to dive deeper into and sink into it! I'd love to hear feedback on this video, and appreciate all the help I have gotten from various parts of the Touhou community during my work on this video. After so many months of work, I hope it was all worth the long wait. - Rin EDIT: Hey all, it was brought to my attention in a comment as well as on discord that I was misinformed about Touhou AoCF did not in fact get rollback netcode in its most recent update. I should have done more due diligence on double checking and rushed to make an adjustment in the scripting process, which blew up in my face. I can explain some names being off, but I can't explain major errors and I'm extremely sorry for the confusion on that part of the video. I have clipped it however it will take a bit before it changes in the video itself.

[@mrrp405]

Really appreciate this kind of video, it’s always a lot of fun to hear new people reacting to and immersing themselves in touhou. It’s high quality and well researched (as far as I’ve gotten, as it’s also clearly in depth), as well as nicely scripted. One tiny thing is that Reimu’s family name is Hakurei and not Harukei haha, but even with so much that’s all I can really find for feedback

[@RaiRai214]

I swear, a new Touhou "Explained/Retrospective/History" video is made every other season. And I watch them all every time

[@noahn627]

The thing that got me interrested into Touhou was the Bad Apple animation in r/place.

[@20DX00]

30:55 Holy shit, that was the EXACT SAME WAY I FOUND OUT ABOUT TOUHOU. I was in the computer lab back when I was 12 years old, found this same black MIDI with a good friend of mine and didn't think much of it. I looked up more Synthesia videos which led me to other songs like Necrofantasia and Night of Nights. The black MIDI stuff led me down the OtoMAD rabbit hole which was a whole nother can of worms. A few years later I heard about something called Touhou, and a song called UN Owen was Her, thought it sounded like Death Waltz, played Touhou 14 for the first time and everything just clicked together

[@Karxy]

Touhou has always been in the background throughout my life I guess. I saw the black MIDIs back when they were popular, Bad Apple, some MADs, and that old Auto Mario of the Nico Nico Kumikyoku. Shoutouts to Billy bringing back memories too.

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

Opinions on going down the rabbit hole; like the female charaters

[@ironmaster6496]

Easily my favorite franchise of ALL TIME!!!! Touhou is just...special for me, really special. Also it is amazing and insane how a single person managed to create all of this by himself, ZUN is extremely talented, good video btw

[@tastefullynerdy1161]

Preach.

[@mazako_]

Yeah, I feel you man, It's special for me as well. I found out about touhou like 10+ years ago when I randomly saw "Reward to the dog" on youtube recommended page. Incredible times

[@GensouChronicle]

I'm glad to see this video is finally taking off.

[@gansmith]

This is one hell of a beast of a video chronicling the series. There are so many ways to approach it and you will come on the other side knowing there so many things left to explore. A very good video for a relative newcomer. I admire the effort it took to make. It had great production values along a great and engaging script. Good to know that you are enjoying so much because indeed the fandom has amassed a treasure trove of content anyone can enjoy.

[@ThunderClub]

Thank you so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@trace6314]

you consistently say "harukei" instead of "hakurei" but you pronounce cirnos name, which is commonly mispronounced due to zun doing a bad job converting it into roman letters, just fine. that is honestly hilarious. edit: oh hey i see you used footage from some of the touhou jam games, nice to see that here

[@ThunderClub]

Yeah lmao, I legitimately have no excuse for that. I was super paranoid about getting names wrong (and some definitely are, I'm bad at names to begin with, and no joke actually needed my eyes checked which was not helping) only to repeatedly mess up an easy one of all things hahaha. I hope it didn't detract too much from the rest of the video!

[@cieldaube]

i legitimately thought you had dyslexia because not just harukei, but also you say reitaisai as reisaitai XD

[@MostlyTriangle]

26:20

[@cabbagebutterfly800]

i did NOT just hear you say Harukei

[@BinglesP]

Reminds me of when I first got into Touhou when I was 8, for the first couple years I did that same kind of mispronunciations Most similar to that was "Yamuko" instead of "Yakumo"

[@Axieal-Limitless]

The hell man.... the ending kinda made me feel nostalgic and have shivers down my spine.....

[@GumikoVT]

Thank you for making this video. As someone who has dabbled in touhou fangames like luna nights and gensou skydrift I've always wanted to learn more about touhou but wasn't sure where to start.

[@jo2n847]

This was a very nice and in-depth documentary on the entirety that is touhou. I like on how you didnt just touch only on the meme aspects of the series but also the entire game series as a whole. I especially like the focus on the lore and historical/ mythical backing of the series too. Thank you for making this! Very nice! b(￣▽￣)d

[@nazumi012]

I appreciate the generous use of hisouten/hisoutensoku bgms.

[@pythonsotl]

26:20 Yukaku 💀

[@ElectricNox]

I mean he opened with introducing the main character as Reimu Haru-K, I never had much hope for the names in this video 😭

[@StoneCresent]

The copious amount of fan art I encountered eventually drew me into the Touhou fandom.

[@IllusionistsBane]

Recent update about the Shanghai Alice-chan character: Compile Heart is making a Touhou TRPG for next Spring or Summer. They'll have to contend with Fantasy Maiden Wars.

[@Javifaa]

Not sure it is a good or a bad thing. Compile Heart isn't that well regarded as a developer.

[@IllusionistsBane]

@@Javifaa I know. Is Sting (the Yggdra Union people) a good dev though? They said they're collabing with Sting. BTW, I never finished any of the Neptunia games and found them to be meh at best and infuriating at worst (plot-mandated unwinnable boss fights are STILL a pain).

[@Javifaa]

@@IllusionistsBane it's better regarded, that's for sure. I haven't played any of their most recent games, so… Also, to be fair, Compile Heart (alongside Idea Factory) may not have the best reputation, but they at least deliver finished games that aren't particularly buggy.

[@PneumaAsh]

Where could I find info on this? I frequent Yomoyama News and haven't seen anything about this but am very interested (Compile Heart taking on a Touhou fangame [or semi-official game] feels like when I heard that Illumination was making the Mario Movie. They don't have the best reputation but surely they can do something good if they put their best on it)

[@IllusionistsBane]

@@PneumaAsh Found it out after reading the recent Compile Heart press release about their change in management.

[@tastefullynerdy1161]

Plus, it's the greatest, kindest and most creative fandom on the internet. I've been a fan for more than a decade and I thank ZUN-sama regularly for creating this fantastic world.

[@EinManU]

only 15000 views? only 7000 subs? You, dear sir, deserve more attention - and i'm sure you will. Watched the entire thing beginning to end and wow, I'm learning things even though ive been in this hole from the start. Thank you!

[@andoorutsrx]

As someone that had no clue about Touhou, this is such a perfect video incapsulating what its all about. Good work 💯

[@FlantisFroggu]

1:25:18 I paused the video here and spent a long while doing a bunch of things, I go and click back to the video and my ears became shattered.

[@manrisamanrisame]

legends has it that ZUN's PC98 and all the first iterations of touhou is already in gensoukyou

[@xaropevic7918]

1:38:50 Lol that got me off guard! Great video in general, and from a fellow Mtg enjoyer to top it all off!

[@hypnotwist_]

This is an awesome video! I could really feel your passion for Touhou, Great work dude!

[@PneumaAsh]

30:29 (just referring to the section as a whole) I'm so surprised you didn't mention Last Brutal Sister Flandre S (最終鬼畜妹フランドール • S), AKA the sexond half of IamTehChibeh's upload of U.N. Owen There is an upload of the remix with its Japanese name that has 23 million views, actually having gained traction in the last few years

[@tovishitomeiji5383]

i was the guy who posted (complained) at 1:44:36, and i'm proud to say i eventually got a rumia fumo.

[@ThunderClub]

Fellow Rumia enjoyer! Glad you finally got one! I managed to snag one when she most recently went up for preorder haha

[@jordanjackson6151]

Glad to end the night on this. Awesome vid. The ending was truly a way to go out respectively.

[@Mothlight88]

Great video!

[@ThunderClub]

Thank you so much for watching! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@YuutaTogashi0707]

30:39 It's the original combined with a cover by COOL&CREATE

[@noranekosparks4177]

Its crazy how this series keeps evolving every year, both due to its creator and the fans. Its also strange looking back at the history of the franchise and events. Kinda blows my mind so much bad stuff happened at Touhoucon 2015. Meanwhile I was attending, hosting as part of one of the panels, and having the largest and greatest meet up of my friends, even to this day nothing was so huge! Being a Touhou fan is crazy wild, and wouldn't have it any other way.

[@TohoEggbirb]

This was overall a feel-good experience. It's always fun to reminisce about how we got into something and the impact it had on our lives even if it's just from some silly video game. I love the games, music, art, merchandise and especially the hijacks into other media. Touhou may not be my favourite game but it's definitely my favourite series.

[@blockeontheleafeon]

Your PFP being Keine can't be a coincidence considering what this video talks about.

[@TohoEggbirb]

@@blockeontheleafeon Keine's my favourite

[@blockeontheleafeon]

@@TohoEggbirb I can see that.

[@BinglesP]

Same

[@nekom504]

What a trip through nostalgia lane. Nice video.

[@Shrewbloom]

1:30:00 muse dash i actually what got me into touhou lol (i love my rhythm games)

[@ThunderClub]

Nice! Have you seen that there's a third collab on the way?

[@dogethedoge25]

this is the touhou video of all time

[@asshrimpleasthat799]

I have been waiting for a long-form, comprehensive video essay on the history and significance of Touhou for SUCH a long time. Thank you for making this, it is a wonderful video and I think the best of its type!

[@kross3088]

This was nice to listen too while going through my work day and it's a really well put together video as well! Probably one of the best general overview and history videos on the series I've listened too. I also really love the touch of playing The Eternal Shrine Maiden at the end of the video as well. I never would have thought that I would be in such a deep rabbit hole that is the Touhou series. But it's been a fun year taking in all of what this community has to offer and I wouldn't trade it for anything else.

[@Beepers559]

1:44:06 imma admit, that bootleg koishi Fumo looks kinda cute to me though, might be the eyes or just how silly it looks but I really want one

[@FujiwaraNoSmokou1]

i promised myself not to judge your pronunciations when i started the video but i might have to break that promise after hearing how you said “yuyuko” at 26:20 😭

[@angelsartandgaming]

I've been falling into the Touhou rabbit hole after some Bad Apple memes and, funny enough, my little brother somewhat getting into it BECAUSE of him finding the ancient UN Owen Was Her memes. My brother has even been trying to make his own Touhou inspired course in Mario Maker 2 where you're dodging bullets (or rather flying Spineys, a Koopaling, cannons, and fiery Piranha Plants in his case) and you have to beat the Koopaling boss. So we've both been kinda getting into the series and it's cool that Touhou is a series that's connected us.

[@yukko_parra]

today i just learned there are 100K Touhou arrangements. my previous estimate only accounted for 60K arrangements, oh dear wtf?!

[@HyperVanilo]

Basically it reaches Terabyte

[@seireiart]

and it's still going.

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

Oh man this is an amazing rundown, thank you for this dive into Touhou history! It's really made me appreciate it how magical this Project is. Gotta give a lot of credit to ZUN's loose view of copyright. Isn't it wonderful when the fans of a work are able explore it in their own way openly, instead of having to just take what the Big Boss offers and hide the rest in non-monetizable fanfiction websites?

[@MedsieLovr]

You forgot to mention that ZUN did all of this while he was drunk, great video. Also did you vote for the popularity poll this year? If yes then which characters did you vote for?

[@ThunderClub]

Yep! Suwako, Rumia, Nazrin, Sakuya, Reisen, Suika, Mamizou

[@Zero_de_Nova]

Have you seen this man chucking Beer? I am german and impressed.

[@Kriakye2435]

Great stuff!!! Learned alot about touhou ty

[@marcossegon5433]

God I've actually teared up at the end.

[@sheepcommander_]

YESSS I'VE WANTED SOMETHING LIKE THIS

[@Katzilla64]

This is awesome! Glad that I came across this video.

[@765craven4]

Bro talking about backlash from mispronouncing names a few minutes in as if he hadn't already mispronounced Hakurei twice. In all seriousness I liked the video, great job.

[@RaginKavu]

Yeah...but HaRUkei hurts to hear, tho.

[@rmrmutmpst-gr2ms]

Floor tile guy! that's some serious nostalgia right there.

[@mischiviousteefmonster3900]

Reimu is so cool that she can actually use a rasengan appropriately by first working her opponent into a trap she laid and hitting them with it once they're bound and unable to do anything.

[@izuthree]

17:26 look mum I'm on the telly

[@PuckishAngeI]

"Hey dude how are you-" 1:25:10

[@spaghettiking7312]

We will watch your career with great interest!

[@niaula5557]

Correction: Marisa wrote the current iteration of the Danmaku Rules, and the word at 1:13:00 is Antimony (not Anatomy). otherwise, great video!

[@zombie_pigdragon]

"Marisa wrote the current iteration of the Danmaku Rules" I'm sorry, what? Where?

[@HyperVanilo]

You're also wrong, it's Antinomy

[@jordanjackson6151]

Damn. Somewhere at the beginning he mentioned the Smash Brothers reference. I made the same suggestion in a comment on a fanfic vid just minutes ago. I didn’t know it was even a popular suggestion.

[@Beepers559]

if I may toot a horn for a bit, grave of cherry blossom from lobotomy corp really feels like, to me at least being a fan of both touhou and the PM games, an accidental (at least) reference to yuyuko’s tree. There’s even a hand poking out from under it via a hole in the root system in the artwork for it. But then again that’s just a personal thing I thought was neat

[@YuutaTogashi0707]

My first ever encounter with touhou was probably when I was little, I remember UN owen was her and sakuya's theme very well Then I re-discovered touhou with Bad Apple!! around 2 years ago and now I love the series

[@pining_tree6788]

I see you love rumia, and while I can’t remember its name right now I hope you’re aware of a certain fan series involving rumia

[@ThunderClub]

Touhou Osana Reimu and ReiReimu right? I watched a series of videos of it on a recommendation fairly recently!

[@exxiduss6859]

Thank you very much for your video!

[@ThunderClub]

Thank you so much for watching!

[@ashenwitcheve9970]

Great vid, imma subscribe❤

[@lux_fero]

In all places I didn't expected Billy Harrington from all people show up here

[@haiperbus]

touhou and gachi communities have a lot of overlap

[@dericnk8745]

15:08 damn, i got scared with that noise

[@Rainok]

There's likely a part of the setting of Touhou that's dedicated to lost pens and laundry socks I want to see how big they are

[@valakemedia]

this video rocks

[@AriScarlet]

As a fan of Touhou Project, and the various fan games. this was a well researched video and I'm surprised you don't have more subs considering the amount of effort you put into this. Now I want to try a touhou fighting game lol.Thank you for the great content and looking forward to your future projects!

[@ThunderClub]

Let me know which one you try if you give any of them a shot! They're all mostly good in very different ways and a lot of fun.

[@seikou1762]

I dare to say its not only the biggest doujin series, but the biggest indie game ever

[@pattablefreezingmachine]

damn niko didn't expect that from you

[@leva_22]

58:19 There is no such (or even similar) name in russian culture where did you even get that info from?

[@leva_22]

Good video btw dude

[@auxandanaddiction1310]

I think this video has confirmed that I might be too attached to this series about silly little anime girls. I had to hold back tears in the end there.

[@G973_]

26:19 pink hair is yuyuko. Not a notable mistake, but i just wanted to comment

[@drumpsadorgon]

Poor Rumia

[@ThunderClub]

She'll get her moment one of these days! R-right?

[@MedsieLovr]

Roomba

[@drumpsadorgon]

​@@ThunderClub I will be waiting for that day with my fumo.

[@akiradkcn]

So nanoka?

[@drumpsadorgon]

@@akiradkcn so nanoka~

[@LimaBr_]

Just watched, incredible how touhou got more deep into the iceberg (Funnily enough i got stressed enough with touhou 11 extra stage that i began feeling not so good while playing and after i got the 1cc im 2 months without playing touhou, sometimes i play ulil and only)

[@MrMeoow91]

accidentally came across Bad Apple!! back in 2011 and now I am deep inside the rabbit hole. I am mostly interested in the music and proudly have the infamous TLMC since 2012. There is a new version TLMC "timeout" 1.5TiB to bring the total to over 3TiB. Insane...

[@shrimpCurry]

So disregarding the things you got wrong I cant help but notice that pcb only lasted for about 20sec in this hour long video and it kinda seems like you are actively avoiding the pcb cast through out the video so i am curious on what you think about pcb.

[@ThunderClub]

I think PCB is just fine honestly! There's definitely a few more things I could have said for sure (introduction of visible hitbox being a biggie, Yukaris debut, and Yuyuko being based off a poet from the Heian Period immediately coming to mind, if I were to redo the video these things wouldn't have been omitted) - I think in terms of making the video it also got a bit squished between talking about EOSD which was a huge deal for the series being the first windows game, best selling, tons of stuff surrounding it, and Imperishable Night which also had a mountain of things to go over including probably the wrong call of waiting until then to mention Alice was in PCB and why. Not to say PCB isn't important of course. Admittedly there is a bit of bias on what characters I physically showed more, but there was no effort to avoid showing any cast or anything like that, when talking about Soku I show a competitive Youmu mirror match, and I mention Chen more than once for examples regarding PCB, and I think outside of Letty every PCB character was shown at some point visually in the video. Anyway, sorry for the novel haha, and thank you for watching!

[@Anon21486]

Personally, I do not remember how I was introduced to Touhou. However, I do know that I played Touhou, specifically PCB back in college so that would make it between 2005-2008.

[@Touhou20246]

I also want to mention that I am definitely going to try to get myself a Fumo

[@MultiKommandant]

Dunno if this makes me a weirdo (almost certainly) but I find that the part of the franchise I keep coming back to is the almost slice-of-life anachronism of it, puts me in mind of Spice and Wolf (a series of manga I similarly like) where problems are not resolved through flashy violence (talking more about the mangas than the games here) so much as through personal interactions and individual expertise. Every facet of a character, from manner of speech to fashion choices, subtly establish aspects of their personality and role within Gensokyo. A good example is how their day-to-day clothing is depicted, especially in the official mangas; Reimu wears a casual and rather spartan shrine maiden dress, speaking to both her implied poverty/frugality and the pragmatic consideration that she likely prefers lighter, combat-practical clothing, while Marisa's western-style dress is both elaborate and makes her stick out like a sore thumb with Gensokyo's majority-eastern culture and aesthetic, very fitting for a flashy and eccentric devil-may-care type who never quite fits into the established order of things.

[@fraz66511]

Epic video

[@KamoniBroddy-y1p]

i can already tell this video will get many any likes i have faith

[@WindowsDrawer]

13:19 I'm not even Japanese but that pronunciation of Marisa just hurts. Otherwise great video 32:49 Night of Nights is a remix of Flowering Night from PoFW

[@HyperVanilo]

You do realize that Marisa is also a Western name, right?

[@WindowsDrawer]

@@HyperVanilo Kirisame isn't though

[@them3ds464]

After falling down the Touhou rabbithole for nearly two years now, I have learned alot about this community both good and bad, but even then still I believe that there's a whole fanbase full of dedicated and talented people and this video alone proves it. This was an interesting watch, and despite it's flaws it still came out great. Overall, good work.

[@freshmadgod]

1:32:59 isn't chirno sone kind of ice fairy should it not be summer? I'm new so idk

[@HyperVanilo]

In Touhou 16, basically she became so strong she can withstand the Summer sun

[@cataleptickraken3197]

all fairies usually are aligned to summer, their specific element has no relation to their season

[@unfunniestman]

ZUN was drunker than usual

[@Touhou20246]

I have touhou lost word on my iPhone as well so you are right oh and also I am one of those people who wants reimu in super smash brothers and I also got into touhou during a time in my life when I was around 16 to 18 years old when my favorite grandpa died and when I discovered the touhou project it helped me mourn the lose of my favorite grandpa.

[@ThunderClub]

My condolences. I truly believe in the ability for some series to heal those that experience them in one way or another, and I'm really glad Touhou was able to help you through such a difficult time!

[@FakeFlemishOfficer]

thanks 4 shouting out /jp/.. we're a under represented n now poor part of 2hu. Also also, didn't see if you included this (because the video is bloody an hour long) but it's worth noting touhou hijacking was too intense in /a/, m00t had to create /jp/ for our shit

[@gamefreakDX]

I found Touhou through Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, which I found through a Sakura vs Dio 'One Minute Melee' battle. It was actually my first time playing a more traditional-style fighting game. To this day, I'm still hoping for a Hisoutensoku port to consoles or Steam with proper controller support, I can't get the Switch Pro Controller to work with the fan rework 'Soku Rewired'. I did try one of the Danmaku games and I did beat it. I'm not very good at the genre so despite my hours on it, I didn't really feel the want to go back to another game. Not that I didn't enjoy it either. In other words, I'm more interested in Touhou's fighting games, in terms of the library of games.

[@atomictoaster3393]

I can say that iam one of the "witness" of touhou grew from some doujin to what it is now It was quite amazing path to follow, i didnt play the game now, i stop after the 4th one i think? Now iam just dabble on the music. God... The music, the touhou music basically what carry me throughout my college days, the variety of touhou doujin music is absurd To this day iam still confused why there is no official anime yet lol

[@HyperVanilo]

Because ZUN doesn't want official anime, with a franchise this big you would think he has time to be the director. The anime will also predate his games and the canon, if you want the anime really close to the canon the studio has to cover all games and printworks

[@blockeontheleafeon]

Touhou fans gatekeep just because they haven't played the first ever game. Imagine Mario fans being like this where you're "supposed" to play Donkey Kong or Mario Bros. before playing the other Mario games. Not a great mindset to have, and this is why I'm okay with stuff like leaks and spoilers, it's not really going to ruin the experience if people see more of the franchises or games you like.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

ehh, still kinda pathetic if someone thinks that all Touhou is are Bad Apple remix and Night of Nights remix and Flandre's theme, but doesn't bother trying a single game to see if they like it

[@HyperVanilo]

Completely false, no one ever forces people to play the very first game, it's more lean to suggestion and it depends on the newcomers too

[@blockeontheleafeon]

@@HyperVanilo That's good. I like how this Fandom doesn't gatekeep every little thing like other notorious fandoms out there. Goes to show how civilized we are.

[@HyperVanilo]

@@blockeontheleafeon The gatekeeping is more to the canon part, again it's more lean to a suggestion, if you actually want to invest your time on learning the lore then go ahead, we have an 18 years old wiki, if not then just stay away and enjoy the fanworks but please don't be an asshole in a lore discussion.

[@blockeontheleafeon]

@@HyperVanilo Good to know.

[@tasogarerubica]

I kinda wanted to chime in concerning the insanity of the Yukkuri community from a nipponiki's vantage point. It's kinda insane how prevalent the yukkuri video format has become for jp youtube. To the point that my parents in their mid 60's knows of Reimu and Marisa due to the overwhelming and also alarming spread of yukkuri yt channels. Generations that aren't even knowledgeable of the touhou franchise or even knew of the existence of such a franchise are in contact with it due to these types of content. Which is largely due to how easy it is to produce videos in this format. Step 1: pick a topic to focus on Step 2: research (or hire people to do the research) Step 3: hire people to write the script and edit said script into a video using the easy to use yukkuri movie maker Step 4: profit Now one of the reasons why this format is so consumable as info dump content is thanks to the 2 man script instead of a singular script. Either Reimu or Marissa acting as the informant and the other as the student or reciever of the info. The student role usually asking the right questions that the audience typically would ask, helping with making the information highly digestable. But this also means that misinformation and poorly researched content is rampant within this little corner of youtube. There are tons of notable yukkuri channels that go beyond the fast content route and established themselves as great sources of info. Some notable ones are 俺の歴史ch(My history Ch) who caters to history geeks and students alike, his channel has been goibg strong for so long that he can reference and link to older vids of his for further research and input to a historical event, giving the viewer text book levels of dense info on a historical topic. Another notable one is 変な生きものch(wierd animal ch), where this channel originated as an yukkuri Reimu and Marissa but adopted using vocaloid and created their own characters as their mascot, he's established as one of the goto source for all things regarding animals, plants and lifeforms. Who's also an advocate for proper education on owning pets and means to interacting with wildlife. Yukkuri videos is generally an intriguing off shoot of the touhou community that branched into its own behemoth and likely would be a great case study of thesis topic imo

[@SanzuRiver]

I honestly stopped watching yukkuri content when I moved abroad. I found the highly overproduced German and English content that covered similar topics a bit more appealing.

[@tasogarerubica]

@@SanzuRiver yeah that's understandable. The quality level of content from JP KZbin is surprisingly low compared to the west. There are outliers, but my guess is it's largely due to the difference in the surplus of amateur and professionals in video editing.

[@SanzuRiver]

@@tasogarerubica It's so hard for me to find content I enjoy now in Japanese after consuming so much good foreign content. 女声釣り type content or art is all I watch anymore 😭

[@tasogarerubica]

@@SanzuRiver tbh, majority of the content I watch on KZbin is eng with a dash of JP and majority of the JP ones are either illustrator live streams, top shelf yukkuri like ゆっくりまちゃ or ゆっくり地理学, and one JP anime reviewer トーヤマトール who's generally has a high ceiling to theory crafting while being humble about it. Hmm maybe other than those are really niche channels who are either extreme hobbyist or otakus of a certain topic or fandom. Oh though I did come across a good job channel recently. It's a channel owned by 佐渡島庸平, a pretty prominent manga editor who's quite active in JP mass media. Thanks to his experience and connection to the manga industry, he's able to invite a lot of industry peeps who are rarely seen in the public.

[@SanzuRiver]

@@tasogarerubica I wish I could watch live streams, but KZbin Shorts have ruined my attention span to no more than... like 15 minutes. 😱

[@freshmadgod]

1:30:47 what is the touhou refrence there?

[@HyperVanilo]

UN Ow3n.w4s-h-3r

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

0:56 so that is where the name came from?

[@st4pps]

as someone who lived in flint michigan for most of my life I always get surprised whenever someone mentions it. too bad its cuz the waters shit lol.

[@sunnyinubashiri9839]

You have no idea how much I love this video, I've been a Touhou fan since 2009, I remember clear as day finding IOSYS' Cirno's perfect math class and thinking it was an off branch of Vocaloid, then thinking IOSYS was the name of the game till days later I learned what Touhou was, I remember my days at this one anime forum putting so many Touhou pics i would find in photobucket in my gallery, it feels so damn nostalgic but also so brand new I stopped following Touhou stuff in general when I was around 16-17 but it always had a space in my heart, and slowly trying to catch up with it again I managed to find this video that reminded me every bit of what I loved from it, not only the games, but the communitty and history we got from it Tysm for this video :> Edit: I just realized what my yt name is haha, I had this account since the early 2010's and never changed it, try and guess who my favorite characters were

[@kalimatronix]

45:15 Dear God...

[@ThunderClub]

B U C K E T

[@Hayxu]

B U C K E T

[@spidelated]

There's more.

[@kalimatronix]

@@spidelated No...

[@ziro6319]

As an smt fan stumbling into this series because of artificial dream in arcadia this vid was perfect

[@Touhou20246]

Actually a new oni recently got introduced in touhou 19 or 18.😅

[@HyperVanilo]

Zanmu isn't fully oni, she was a human monk

[@FreedomIII]

that poor sock drawer 🤣

[@gunmunz]

A fan game req for me Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend aka Touhou Slay the Spire Though it does a lot of things different then StS that make it stand out. Just for perspective I have 250 hours in StS (maybe 400 if we include the Downfall mod) but 350 in Lost branch that's how hooked I am on the game.

[@osoaioi]

The mtg dig hit so hard 😭we are all still recovering from the phyrexian flop and touhou is the best cope

[@bayumahendra1797]

Touhou is the greatest carnal desire mankind ever made