A look at the 2022 Touhou Popularity Poll

[@Shyguymask]

Cirno has practically been the face of western Touhou memeposting ever since the era of youtube poops and it's over 9000 and etc, I'm surprised she's not higher if anything.

[@contone]

Well the western fan base is REALLY small, you are probably the largest “western” KZbinr who actually is a fan of Touhou. As a result, most votes probably come from the eastern audience who isn’t as infatuated with Cirno as we are (sadge)

[@NuclearRaven13]

Suika's Song's point increase being higher than herself has a "kobeni's car" vibes to it

[@abder200]

*Oh no not the kobeni car incident*

[@Karasca]

While the character rankings are fun and all it's really cool to see that the fandom isn't greying. All these new people discovering touhou is really impressive.

[@Megapig9001]

The reason that “The Ground’s Color is Yellow” went up so much is because U2 released an official extended version in Danmaku Kagura. EDIT: Gensokyo Mystery Discovery got an arrange in Danmaku Kagura at launch a year earlier. So that’s likely why it jumped so much two years ago, and fell last year.

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

It's clearly because Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is epic.

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

Also, who's the "he"?

[@xaropevic7918]

Wait, U2 listen touhou??

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

@@xaropevic7918 U2 composed most of the music for IaMP, SWR, ans Hisoutensoku, if that's what you're referring to.

[@xaropevic7918]

@@f.u.m.o.5669 The U2 irish band?

[@randommaster06]

The least popular Windows character, funnily enough, tends to get memed on, which makes them more popular.

[@DeltaPie]

Thread of Things That Have Been Told to Me Afterwards - Kutaka's popularity mainly comes from the Chinese MMD community. This is where many of those Kutaka GIFs come from (likely including the toothbrush GIF I showed). - I...completely forgot that I made a campaign tweet for Eika (twitter.com/deltapie2/status/1571256055887441921). How does one forget such a thing? I don't know! Checking around now, at max it could've provided about a quarter of her additional votes, so there were still other factors involved. - The Ground's Color is Yellow was arranged by U2 for Danmaku Kagura, and received an official extension this year

[@jermasus]

I can't believe Onion News Network, a parody channel, just got parodied. Clifford Banes would be proud

[@DeltaPie]

Well, he'd be proud if he wasn't too busy learning karate.

[@Suwawako]

Can't wait for 2023's results in 2025

[@CrystalChris21]

Ayooo no wonder this was so tiring for you, the quality is high as ever

[@DeltaPie]

Thank you!

[@zepaie69420]

Idolatrize World is the peak of Touhou music to me, genuinely breathtaking every time

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

I'd say that's pretty true. It also supports my theory of disparity over time.

[@axslashel]

This says a lot about society.

[@notaduck4891]

This says nothing about society.

[@atwistedb]

@@notaduck4891 yes it does (I am society)

[@yogsothoth915]

What does it say?

[@atwistedb]

@@yogsothoth915 a lot about society

[@notlol1]

U.N Owen Was Her at first place😬😬

[@BinglesP]

As a younger, female Touhou fan that lives in North America(and ethnically European), I'm happy the fanbase in those categories are joining. Granted, I've also been in the fandom for longer(as I joined when I was very young), but this definitely isn't something to gatekeep. Go us, whatever category we share! I'm pretty much always excited to see Touhou get more recognized, especially in the West. More youkai friends to play with!

[@vuonggiahuy3255]

BRO THIS IS ACTUALLY SO WELL MADE

[@pl_by]

Cool video! It's a pity I don't know English well enough to fully understand it. I've recently joined the touhou fandom, so far I'm going through EoSD, though I still like to listen to music more :) It would be necessary to participate in the 2023 questionnaire, for greater representativeness. _(sorry, the comment becomes more like some kind of disconnected stream of thoughts, i just don't know what i can write else)_

[@andreashajidimitri8690]

Im glad that both joon and shion rose up the poll this year.thier theme is hands down one of the best cinal boss themes ZUN has ever made plus they are fun characters that have gained growth.i hope that they will apear in 19 or the next fighting game as a duo once more

[@HyperVanilo]

00:55 More like 17 years after first appearance, she appeared in chapter 1 Cheating Detective Satori, or 3 years if you count Shoot The Bullet

[@Suwawako]

What's funnier is how Keiki's theme has ten times more points than the second place Wily Beast song 😮

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

Because it's epic.

[@abder200]

I loved it, I really wanna see the same video being made for the future popularity polls as well

[@DeltaPie]

I made one for 2021 (though it's admittedly a bit shabbier). But yes, I intend to continue continuing this in future years.

[@abder200]

@@DeltaPie Very epic thank you

[@MedsieLovr]

The Popularity poll will only be based when: > Medicine is first place > Poison Body ~ Forsaken Doll be the most voted song > Most voted ship be Medicine × Me > Most voted rivalry be Medicine × Le haters Etc

[@Sneed-ev4xb]

holy reddit brimstone

[@MedsieLovr]

@@Sneed-ev4xb *Chaddit

[@Sneed-ev4xb]

@@MedsieLovr there is nothing chad nor dit about this brimstone post, meds and bhc required

[@MedsieLovr]

@@Sneed-ev4xb swabag

[@NHDame489]

username checks out lmao

[@valkyriesgaming1808]

I love to see the rise on Yakumo family's popularity, that's all I have to say

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

I (don't) like how almost every side-game is recognized for like, a year (usually less), and then immediately dies.

[@emperortoho]

probably because most of em suck

[@notlol1]

​@@emperortohothe diss on great fairy wars and double spoiler is INSANE

[@emperortoho]

@@notlol1 thats why i said most of em, not all of them suck

[@Karasca]

Looking forward to seeing this year's version!

[@DeltaPie]

I will travel to Las Vegas and arrest Sannyo for voter fraud

[@FolstrimHori]

Subscribing to this channel was the best mistake I've ever made. KEIKI SUPERIORITY!

[@bedsoresttv]

no, the flippant disrespect toward Urumi Ushizaki doesn't bother me at all. unrelated, but, can you hold my baby?

[@clafoutis89]

Reimu Robbed

[@bappityyyy]

The Hifuus need a new story album soon, I need for them to get more attention because they're coollll. Also, I wish I knew where to listen to the Rainbow-Colored Septentrion, as far as I'm aware there's no uploads of the songs on KZbin (that could contribute to the CD not having much of an effect, maybe) Also, an injustice on the popularity poll, at least to me, is that you can't vote for Rin Satsuki. Sure, she hasn't appeared in anything outside of the EoSD code, but for all intents and purposes, Rin Satsuki is a Touhou character, even if she's a scrapped one. Also, if Frontal Attack, despite being a lost song that was only partially found ~5 years ago, was on the popularity poll since at least 2008, then I feel it would only be fair for Rin Satsuki to be on the polls as well. Arguably (before the song was partially found) even more so, considering usually songs are liked for being listened to, which you can't really listen to a lost song. Meanwhile, with characters, they can be carried by fanon looks/personalities and such (like what has happened with Rin). Though, I don't mean to say Frontal Attack never deserved to be on the poll, it does, I just wish to say that if it could be on the poll even when it wasn't found, then Rin Satsuki should be on the poll despite having virtually no canon information known about her. Apologies for writing a maybe weird argumentative paragraph in the comments, I'm just an insane Rin Satsuki fan who wants to vote for her lol

[@DeltaPie]

Nah dw about the paragraph. You'll get your wish one day hopefully! RIN SATSUKISWEEP!

[@bappityyyy]

@@DeltaPie RIN SATSUSWEEPPPPPPPPPPPPP (someday hopefully)

[@yogsothoth915]

Sannyo was robbed. I demand a recount..! Byakuren and crew have obviously been lobbying against the gambling industry! (How else can we explain a Sannyo x Mamizou ship not making it off the ground?)

[@yogsothoth915]

This is a joke. Heck, I myself didn't start liking Sannyo until after the poll took place

[@DeltaPie]

I do agree though, Sannyo was robbed. She can do MIND CONTROL guys c'mon!

[@yogsothoth915]

@Delta Pie oh gotta mention for Megumu as well. There is actually an ongoing MMD series called Iizunamaru-Sama The Rampage, which is all about her desperately trying to get higher in the popularity poll by using various methods, usually abusing her authority over popular characters like Aya and Momiji, or dressing up, it gets ridiculous. It's at 15 right now, but it's been getting English subtitles on more and more of them. Anyway, I thought it was funny because it's related and destined to fail.

[@magicyber909]

12:55 The most underrated male character? There are quite a few possibilities there. Overall though id say that Taisui, Daikoku, Tenryu, and Iwakasa are the least appreciated among the fanbase despite all of them being absolute chads.

[@goldenrain4402]

Sooo... I'ma be honest, I only know the tenryu out of this list, who are the rest?

[@magicyber909]

@@goldenrain4402Taisui is the final boss of both Hisoutensoku and Antimony of Common Flowers. He is a calamity God from Meiling’s dreams who is trying to destroy the world. During Hisoutensoku Meiling fights him as he controls minions with the forms of the people of gensokyo as well as a giant catfish. Then during AoCF he makes his way into the real world and tries to destroy it alongside dreamworld Tenshi. Daikoku (also known as Okuninushi) was a human who helped Tewi during the whole shark incident, so she then hooked him up with princess Yagamihime. Then he got murdered by his brothers a few times over it and had to be resurrected by the Gods multiple times until they sent him to the storm god Susanoo for protection. He fell in love with Susanoo’s daughter and Sudanoo gave him a bunch of challenges to complete in order to marry her. The challenges were all rigged to kill him but the daughter helped him cheat his way through. Eventually they had to run away but Susanoo reluctantly changed his mind and allowed his daughter to marry Daikoku. He then even went so far as to grant Daikoku the title of ruler of the surface world. Even though he now had both a princess and a demi goddess, Daikoku wasn’t done. He then proceeded to go all around Japan and pick up more goddesses and princesses for his harem. Later though Susanoo’s sister Ameratsu decided that she wanted her own son Jimmu to rule over the surface instead. She then teamed up with the her brother Tsukuyomi who is the emperor of the lunar capital and together they successfully conquered Japan and instated Jimmu as the first Japanese emperor. Daikoku was then imprisoned by the lunarians and remains so to this day. Tewi found out about the lunarian traitors Kaguya and Eirin and teamed up with them in order to learn about lunarian society and technology so that she can one day free Daikoku. Iwakasa was a general who was tasked with destroying the immortality elixer that Kaguya gave to the emperor. Mokou finds out that Kaguya gave some kind of mysterious gift to the emperor and sets out to steal it now that it is in transit. She stalks Iwakasa for several days until he gets tired of her attempts at stealth and just invites her to come with him. They make it to the top of the volcano and Iwakasa gets ready to throw the elixer in as ordered but gets stopped by Sakuyahime who warns him that throwing an immortality elixer into a volcano is a very bad idea, telling everyone that the mysterious box contained an immortality elixer. After that nobody knows what to do anymore and they all just wait there for several hours until Mokou eventually falls asleep. She then wakes up to find everyone dead, burned to a crisp, except for Iwakasa. Mokou thinks that Sakuyahime killed them all. Sakuyahime comes back and tells them of another mountain that they should go to, but on the way there Mokou pushes Iwakasa off a cliff, presumably killing him, and steals the elixer for herself. She drinks it and becomes immortal.

[@magicyber909]

⁠@@goldenrain4402Ok so my first answer fully explaining everything got shadowbanned, probably because Daikoku is too based. So I’ll just give you the short version. Taisui is the final boss of Hisoutensoku and Antimony of Common Flowers. Iwakasa is a main character in Cage in Lunatic Runagate chapter 4. Daikoku is mentioned in Silent Sinner but to get more context just look up the wikipedia article on Okuninushi.

[@514komeiji5]

This video is both funny and informative great for you man

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

I know this seems odd, but next time, can you talk about this weird youtuber (perhaps internet troll) who draws hideous art of the touhou girls, mocking them, called "Evil Crash Bandicoit"? Cause I feel like he might be something to research about!

[@DeltaPie]

That's not really something that falls under my interests, sorry!

[@mikubrot]

tbh the rivalries having lots of ships is probably just because people wanted an excuse to talk about em

[@spaghettiking7312]

Make more content, because I love you.

[@sutong_bajil]

Mokou is unique because of her 8th position

[@frickin_chicken]

Niwatari is most high, glory be to Niwatari

[@decoder_main6875]

SODAAAAAAA

[@DylanWedge04]

Biggest win in my opinion was Yumemi (my favorite character) finally reaching 100th place

[@Lemuel928]

So a new seagull gal character in Touhou Franchise?

[@DeadMedia-vf4je]

I proffer the Cirno News Network

[@drakenforge4276]

Hiyo delta!

[@Name_23]

Flan is so overrated ugh.

[@notlol1]

On God!

[@kroel1077]

Shussssh

[@EpikBirb]

I agree

[@remixtheidiot5771]

theynshould just rename rivals as ships lol.

[@troykv96]

Maybe are you a bit busy right now... But, are you preparing to make the 2023 edition of the poll results? :D

[@DeltaPie]

I'm currently working on the Touhou r/place 2023 video which is going to take quite a while (probably until January 2025)! Depending on when I'll get it done, I'll make a separate 2023 edition or combine the 2023 and 2024 editions. Definitely will cover the results at some point in time. I'd be getting through these faster but I am quite busy with school aha...

[@troykv96]

@@DeltaPie Oh damn, that definitely feels like something massive! I see, well I'm waiting with anticipation :D

[@DeltaPie]

@@troykv96 Thank you! Please wait warmly!

[@nico1520]

Misumaru also didn't appear in 18.5

[@yukitakaoni007]

so....as a discord mod of Mystia server, I need to spam more Mystia game...*thonk*

[@haku_68]

Did i miss the 2023 one fuck

[@DeltaPie]

No, it hasn't happened yet. And good thing too lol I would die if this was posted after the 2023 one

[@haku_68]

@@DeltaPie how u doin :D

[@DeltaPie]

@@haku_68 glad I got this done

[@haku_68]

@@DeltaPie yee haw

[@zergrosh7210]

no way

[@neepha7324]

isn't that the onion theme song lmfao

[@DeltaPie]

Yes! Or, as it's Touhou version is known, the Lotus.

[@siyacer]

soinds right

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

Of course Mai is low.

[@ThatOneOddGuy]

What is this

[@vakovah5431]

idk

[@vaderbuild]

idk

[@danielgoncalves2928]

idk

[@DeltaPie]

idk

[@Strangeisntit_real]

idk

[@0jacon0ice0]

No banki :(

[@Robert-xx8jx]

Hi

[@two67gh]

are you nilered

[@DeltaPie]

I wish I was

[@finediner17]

Where Satori?

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

I like how the fewest amount of people like the Fandom. I agree with that, because I'm in the Fandom.