This is such a COOL departure from traditional ZUN instruments I love it!!!!
@MidnightStriked Жыл бұрын
Yooo, PerlDrop. Glad to see you here my guy and I have to agree fullheartedly.
@blue_the_boy_kisser Жыл бұрын
Mongalian Throat Singing's bussin
@BinglesP Жыл бұрын
Same!
@snekgregory Жыл бұрын
Oh hi Perl very cool
@JustSomeoneWhoLikesBears Жыл бұрын
Zun flexing his rhythm skills, he make one of the most intimidating themes of Touhou This game's plot must be crazy, the game feels so melancholic, I mean we're in hell, but Touhou 17 felt more savage than... Sad I'm in so much love with this theme, it feels so menacing
@corbeauwrite Жыл бұрын
Yes it feels melancholic, then powerful with hints of melancholy?
@HyperVanilo Жыл бұрын
From what other said, Zanmu basically did what Rin does during SA event but on bigger scale
@pinkfluffycute Жыл бұрын
@@HyperVaniloits even more interesting that we get to play as orin and beat zanmu with her lol
@popcioslav Жыл бұрын
Actually legit surprised there weren't that many more fanmade Touhou-style songs using erhu before. What a beautiful instrument.
@aclearbluesky2003 Жыл бұрын
Probably because ZUN never used Erhu in his themes before from what I've seen so far, Erhu is definitely not a common instrument in a typical Touhou theme, you only see it in Traditional Japanese style remixes
@ultimate.funkypunky Жыл бұрын
I wonder where did he get it from, it sounds so cool. maybe from a sample pack, if it's a plugin it's so realistic...
@f.u.m.o.5669 Жыл бұрын
Are you implying this is fanmade? Or just mentioning fanmade themes?
@prizmastarz742 Жыл бұрын
you would think wanwan use this instrument first but nah it's Zun
@popcioslav Жыл бұрын
@@f.u.m.o.5669 just mentioning
@rsg5314 Жыл бұрын
One of the most intimidating and loneliest themes I ve ever heard is like if an horror story wanted to have a happy ending
@merefailninja953 Жыл бұрын
Playing as orin and having this theme play was probably the greatest and most chaotic experience i ever had in touhou.
Zanmu's theme is incredible. I can't really tell if that ominous melody is from chanting or erhu, either way it's so, so good. ZUN really went all in with this one! Can't wait to learn more about this character in future works, I bet we're in for some treats judging by music alone!
@blue_the_boy_kisser Жыл бұрын
Holy hell ZUN went insane on this song's instrumentation. Actually wild.
Zanmu Nippaku =King of the Silent Bliss of Nirvana= Species: Human-oni Ability: Capable of manipulating nothingness An oni who's reached the absolute pinnacle of eccentricity. She was originally a corrupt monk who distanced herself from all the ways of this world. She lived through the Sengoku period, and remembers all the cruelty and stubbornness of the world. As a monk, she was forbidden from killing, but sensed a strong disconnect between that and the Sengoku-era culture in which one boasted about the number of heads one had killed. She thought that if they were spirits instead of physical bodies, it'd count as salvation instead of slaughter, and started absorbing phantoms and beast spirits. She also absorbed some beast-youkai spirits, thus discarding her life as a human, but she was wise enough to venture into Hell herself before she fell into it. After falling to Hell, her unparalleled abilities and mesmerizing eloquence gained her the trust of the oni. She herself had transformed into an oni already, but perhaps that only helped things along. In contrast to most haughty and overpowering oni, she became an intelligentsia oni who ruled over Hell via dialogue. She was also the one who proposed that they separate Former Hell, given its age and how paralyzed its functions were, and create a new Hell. As a result, there's nobody in Former Hell who doesn't know Zanmu's name. While it may be possible to control unintelligent evildoers with just an overpowering attitude, evildoers with cunning take more finesse. She was very good at pacifying them at such times. Modern Hell functioned very well as a safety net for evildoers, and it had her fine sense of balance to thank for that. Now, several hundred years later, the Animal Realm's beast spirits have set their sights on taking over the surface world. And then-- whether by coincidence or by necessity-- a particular event returned the surface land's ownership rights to nothing. It'd only be a matter of time until the beasts got wind of this, and began to march up to the surface. The Hell oni who saw this as a threat began to consolidate their forces, as if getting ready to wage war at any moment. If a war between oni and beasts occurred on the surface, it'd quite literally be Hell on Earth. Zanmu remembered the era of warring states. Gensokyo surely had no need for such cruelty. She submitted a request for the oni to wait, in exchange for her taking care of the situation. Then, from behind the scenes, she goaded each beast spirit leader into deploying their troops at the same time. Her plan was to put the groups into a three-way deadlock, have them divide and conquer, and ultimately claim them all for herself. She was well aware of each beast's thoughts. It was simple to make them act exactly as she wished. But she didn't know that there was a human in Gensokyo who'd gathered support from the youkai. That certainly changed things. There was no reason to give it to those measly beasts. She'd leave Gensokyo in the hands of that human. That human not unlike herself, who had gathered support from all the oni and beasts.
@55alegria Жыл бұрын
Ooooh! Interesting. So her involvement was just to stop the 3 matriarcs from conquering the human realm (that explains a lot). I guess she must be one of Eiki's superiors. I wonder what is her relationship with Hecatia, since the latter is the Goddess of Hell and likes anarchy. Perhaps Hecatia also likes Zanmu? I feel like they have a lot in common, even if Hecatia doesn't like the burocracy of Modern Hell.
@4bitsvideos326 Жыл бұрын
@@55alegriafrom what I heard, Zanmu isn't really that affiliated with Hell, just influences them. In a way, she's like a politician, but she actually does good for Hell residents that they like her
@55alegria Жыл бұрын
@@4bitsvideos326 I mean, that's basically it
@nazumi012 Жыл бұрын
are you telling me reimu solved like 20+ incidents around gensokyo and other areas and zanmu has not heard of her
@4bitsvideos326 Жыл бұрын
@@nazumi012 she's from hell, and I don't think she have been to the surface. Also, she's too busy dealing with the Hell Onis and sinners down there
@obamakiske Жыл бұрын
this goes crazy actually
@Skywalker2016GD Жыл бұрын
Crazy? I was crazy once
@EternityLarva Жыл бұрын
@@Skywalker2016GD They locked me in a room.
@TheHanako Жыл бұрын
@@EternityLarva a rubber room. A rubber room filled with Nazrins.
@blue_the_boy_kisser Жыл бұрын
@@TheHanakofumo
@taikentweek5948 Жыл бұрын
@@TheHanakoNazrins made me crazy
@Compact_Youmu Жыл бұрын
Zun is such a genius, he evolved the zunpet to have vocals.
@lapisfengari2428 Жыл бұрын
I really like how weird all the new music in this game is, really just goes to show what ZUN can do when he branches out from what's more standard for the series
@williewillus Жыл бұрын
So everyone knows 2:03 is the Good Spot where the ZUNpets drop, but is anyone else obsessed with the piano countermelody underneath the trumpet and vocal there? It's so classical ZUN, that piano countermelody and the chord progression sounds like something you'd hear in IN, like IN Extra or something. This countermelody gets its own solo moment at 2:48 too. Such a complex and interesting theme.
@Snow1482 Жыл бұрын
the stuff going on behind the ZUNpets is always the best
@hoyitsmiguel Жыл бұрын
Really love when erhu is incorporated, especially seeing it outside of Chinese traditional music which is where it's most often seen, super cool
@vo13nto40 Жыл бұрын
WE MAKING IT OUT OF GENSOKYO WITH THIS ONE 🎺🎺🎺🔥🔥🔥
@kag2576 Жыл бұрын
Man why is it any touhou theme that's got creepy vibes a certified banger. This is a theme I fell in love with instantly, those vocals just bring such a unique vibe in conjunction with everything else. They sound like departed souls crying out from a bygone era. The whole thing has a creepy and pretty melancholy feel. Idk any backstory but this theme adds so much flavour to Nishiro's character.
WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE ANIMAL REALM WITH THIS ONE🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
@馬骨見習い2 күн бұрын
残無の辞世の句 無間に堕在し 五逆雷を聞く 喝下の瞎驢(かつろ)死眼豁開(かっかい)
@CerealKiller Жыл бұрын
This is a Certified Final Boss Theme
@ComeflywithusComediewithus8 ай бұрын
2:48 If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of mallets being used (on what I assume is a xylophone).
@y-ndere Жыл бұрын
This is the most final boss theme ever. Holy shit dude.
@TrueRyoB Жыл бұрын
イントロのかっこよさが異常
@DarknessInStraya Жыл бұрын
Is it just me or does part of the main melody sound like a melody from Immemorial Marketeers (the melody is in the first choir segment before the climax halfway through the song)? It's only like three rising notes but they sound identical. Since Chimata basically caused 19's incident, and Chimata and Zanmu have similar abilities (Zanmu controls nothingness and Chimata can make one relinquish ownership, which is to say the abillity to return ownership to nothingness) I think it's an intentional reference. Zanmu throughout 19 is basically resolving an incident that revolves around a land whose ownership has returned to a primeval nothingness. As a being that manipulates nothingness, her manipulation of the game's events is, in a sense, just an extension of her ability. She says in-game that her ultimate goal is to obtain the future, and the future, unlike the past and present, can only be represented as nothingness, since it is the symbol of possibility. She's very clearly supposed to be a dark Buddha, and no one (like Sun Wukong in the story) can escape from the palm of her hand. By controlling nothingness she controls the future, and so controls you. Instead of the nothingness of nirvana, her nothingness is the nothingness of the empty expanses of hell. She's also like a hell's version of Reimu (their names are even similar) and controls the balance of hell through her genius intellect, as opposed to Reimu who preserves Gensokyo's balance largely through intuition. Only Reimu who can fly above reality can truly escape from the hand that controls nothingness, which is I think part of the reason why in the end Zanmu entrusts Gensokyo's future to her.
@wasted2842 Жыл бұрын
Kingdam
@izayoikizu Жыл бұрын
Probably one of the most repetitive tracks ZUN's made recently (and most of them are quite a bit) but this is actually good here. The instruments are so unique for him, especially the weird vocal and it builds up quite nicely as well, I really like the harmonies in the 2:25~ section. Also, this is probably because of how similar the structure and melodies of ZUN's tracks are, but I can hear hints of Old Yuanxian and Memento of All Organisms here and I think that's cool, works well within the track.
@TheLugiaSong Жыл бұрын
The repetition feels like more of a return to form, I feel ZUN's recent style is a lot more freeform than older tracks, and personally the lack of repetition of bars or patterns has made a lot of tracks less recognisable. It is nice to see that style back here!
@hux0rd Жыл бұрын
I could also hear a bit of a similar melody to Extend Ash~ Hourai Victim, nearing the end of the loop 2:49
@aclearbluesky2003 Жыл бұрын
It's repetitive, but it serves pretty darn well as a final boss theme, the final boss themes we've had in recent times are complex, and it might take a little longer to digest what is going on in the themes, this theme is simpler and get you hooked right away, it reminds me of Flowering Night, The grimmoire of Alice, which are similarly repetitive but still sound great
@デウスミーア9 ай бұрын
最近の東方曲はよりゲームらしくなった感じする。
@yui88c4 ай бұрын
修正パッチにてkingdamからkingdomに誤字修正
@Carlosk12 Жыл бұрын
This theme goes hard as hell
@55alegria Жыл бұрын
Ok, so apparently her power of nothingess is not only "controlling the void of hell", but she can take some emotions and leave you empty... She can make people depressed! She is a little like Yuuma or Kirby (reencarnation of the Void god): she can absorb things such as feelings and souls
@dirtyrat7181 Жыл бұрын
this theme is so compositionally wild for a final boss. it's literally just a single buildup+chorus repeated over and over, but somehow it totally works. i love it
@cchieffkiefbeff Жыл бұрын
i still find it kinda odd how the rest of the themes in udoalg are kinda empty (ha zanmu power go brrr) and yet the girl with the power of nothingness has the most full theme of them all with at least 3 instruments playing per section, not complaining though, zun is at his best when there are more instruments than you can count in a song, just still not over st.strings being rare and not used in stage or boss themes anymore, made them more full and melancholy especially this one
@theturtwig50 Жыл бұрын
ZUN went hard AF for this song. The chanting fits her character very well imo.
@かななは-d7y Жыл бұрын
RTA巫女霊夢に惚れた鬼の曲
@rsg5314 Жыл бұрын
Need a cupcakke remix of this. That Ahhh ahhh has potential to slay 💅
@cobiandiego5896 Жыл бұрын
it actually exists now btw and it slays. check out this link in which someone made the cupcakke remix www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Vw41197gi/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0
@marcar9marcar972 Жыл бұрын
I love how as soon as the song ends it immediately transitions into an ad about enlarged prostates
@gigablast4129 Жыл бұрын
damn vocals
@トゥバンサノオ-h3w2 ай бұрын
虚無感や無常観が感じ取れる
@yoosapkid69 Жыл бұрын
Zun voice really soothing
@Sodaextreme1 Жыл бұрын
Dude this is actually fire
@rynalice87512 ай бұрын
謎の声、本当にコーラスだった。
@kagome4028 Жыл бұрын
これZUNさんが歌ってるらしい
@samcheer_7711 Жыл бұрын
my gosh, every last stage theme really did make my neck shiver
@blue_the_boy_kisser Жыл бұрын
Kingdam ☺
@user-supermukimukiwai10 ай бұрын
キングダムブチギレニキ大量発生で草
@octagb1707 Жыл бұрын
besides the song being TOP TIER, i can't wait for Demetori to make a metal cover of it, hope they keep the erhu
Chorus and voices in touhou music? Chimata's theme mindblowed me when i heard the chorus, i want more!
@daaprentence_2013 Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of The Grimoire of Alice a little, especially with the similar pitches and the main parts of the song (0:22, 0:55, 2:02, and 3:09) sounding similar to those in The Grimoire of Alice. Not to mention that the setting for each song played takes place in the underworld, the fight accompanying them are living nightmares, and the fact both songs have a final fight feeling in them. Well, the last time a song like that was made, ZUN had to switch to windows and we never got to see characters like Sariel, Yumemi, Shinki, Ellen, Kana, Meira, and yes, (*sigh*) even Mima again, but know we haven't even seen the 4th beast leader yet and many other plot holes, I don't think Windows will go anytime soon.
@nico1520 Жыл бұрын
This theme is extraordinary, however I feel like it needed a few more touches in order to reach PERFECTION. With that I mean that I'm missing something like an additional, more developed bridge section between climaxes, because as it is, it can be a little repetitive (though the melody it's repeating is absolute fire 🔥). That and maybe make the ending go a little harder. Even then, this is some of the best things ZUN has ever composed. Instant classic. I can't wait to listen to the arrangements this gem is going to inspire. ❤
Really curious as to why ZUN decided to actually use "Kingdam" instead of "Kingdom" There's no way he forgot that given one of his games has the word correctly spelled (being: Legacy of Lunatic *Kingdom*) ...then again it's ZUN we speak of.
@marinhaalternativa3829 Жыл бұрын
Kingdamaku - King Damaku pun is my head canon
@eyescoldlemonade Жыл бұрын
One of the most emotional final boss themes for sure
@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917 Жыл бұрын
This is right up there with Junko, Shinmyoumaru and Kokoro in term of Emotions
@BinglesP Жыл бұрын
@@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917Some remixes of Byakuren’s theme try to sell the emotion too, I’ve observed
@toyohimeyeswatatsuki6917 Жыл бұрын
@@BinglesP oh yeah i forgot about Byakuren, started out powerful but getting emotional as it's goes on
I don't like the mellow style of the UDoaLG, I would _love_ to hear this theme with more of a battle style to it. It would go so hard.
@wolvekrome2475 Жыл бұрын
How long has it been since we've had a final boss theme that sounded like a final boss? This would still fit even if it was a RPG final boss, its that good
@Octav2000 Жыл бұрын
Approximately 1 game
@elzer1998 Жыл бұрын
For Touhou, ever since Keiki in 2019 actually. Chimata's theme was kind of weak.
@Octav2000 Жыл бұрын
@@elzer1998 yuuma
@Arfadoz Жыл бұрын
@@elzer1998 Toutetsu has TWO banger themes.
@okboi5723 Жыл бұрын
Toutetsu first theme is deff final boss worthy But second theme is more like epic duel battle tbh between her and flan
@czfclone6929 Жыл бұрын
Good af the erhu gives me shivers man, really like when ZUN tries new things with his music and somehow always aces it.
@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712 Жыл бұрын
Really like the voice effects in this. Really gives out some vibes of Chinese Opera.
@dehydratedyaoifan26 күн бұрын
my friend gives me this music and oh my god what were they on when they were making this ITS SO PEAK!!!!!!!
@analienmango8756 Жыл бұрын
The Erhu parts make this theme have an almost..... ....lovecraftian feeling.
@caseydewitt623610 ай бұрын
The dwarf yodeling really adds depth to the song.
@TempoDub721 Жыл бұрын
I'd still prefer Chimata's theme bluntly, but yea this theme is just nice to listen. Admittingly I didn't like this theme at first tho xp
@AdamChan318 Жыл бұрын
Maybe this is mandela effect, but wasn't Zanmu pre-emptively mentioned as the human the oni respect in one of the manga?
@undertaco7120 Жыл бұрын
This song gives me vibes to "Enigma".
@TrueRyoB Жыл бұрын
神曲
@proximaeon Жыл бұрын
I'm still not sire if the voices are just another case like Reisen's theme in 15.5