Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Lunatic Princess | Reacting To Video Game Music!

[@AngelCopout]

It's a little nutty whenever I see Touhou pop up in my feed when it's not from a Touhoutuber because I always forget this franchise isn't as obscure as it once was. Before, people only knew like Bad Apple or, more recently, that one ShibayanRecords cover of Yuuka's theme from TH9. Anyway I hope you like it. Touhou 12 and 13 have some of my favourite tracks personally, though really I love all the music ZUN has cranked out over the years. If you decide to play this game on your other channel, be prepared to lose over and over and over and over.

[@1wayroad935]

The piano segments are especially neat whenever they coincide with you dodging bullets and trying not to die

[@yagikataiser434]

(in other words, all of the time)

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

Touhou is one of the rare series where the music is more well known than the games, so your "odd" outside perspective is actually the normal one here.

[@abemigos9281]

I'd say it's more balanced than you'd think. Sure, there are a ton of western fans that never opened any of the games and are only in for the stale memes, but their percentage isn't higher than the percentage of fans who at least attempted to clear a game on Easy . Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

@@abemigos9281 I have 2 friends that are touhou fans that have played the games, and 2 friends that like listening to the music but never have played the games. The meme stuff isn't really a big deal for any of them. Heck, I've only played 5 touhou games but have listened to music from all of them.

[@KeelHeel]

@@abemigos9281 most streams I come across are from the US, though that's likely the algorithm. At any rate, I come across quite a number of touhou fans on my campus, most so far haven't played the games but I'm trying to fix that.

[@halinaqi2194]

@@KeelHeel I only ever played 2 touhou games, MoF and PCB, with PCB being the only one I 1cc on Normal.

[@KeelHeel]

@@halinaqi2194 nice. I Play 7, 8, 11, 15, 17, and 18. And also 15.5 and 17.5 if you count those. Keep practicing and you'll get better.

[@shadders43]

Ah... in-game, those moments where the melody drops out your hearing gets filled with the sound of danmaku. It's really wonderful and one of those things you only get when you're playing it.

[@temporalwolf7054]

So, this particular song is really interesting to me how it works in the extremely traditional Japanese melodies and instrumentation, as well as the song's name. The character this serves as a theme to is Princess Kaguya, taken straight from one of Japan's most famous legends (but of course Touhou has its own spin on the character that turns everything up to 11 because of course), with the word Lunatic in Touhou not necessarily meaning "crazy person" but rather "someone from the moon" (Luna-tic), though the moon does drive people crazy, keeping that connotation as well.

[@Brashgar]

Oh dang, I didn't think they'd bring out the Retrospective 53 Minutes version. Retrospective 53 Minutes is part of a musical album *series* that ZUN makes, if he can't quite attribute some tracks he makes to the games he makes. Instead, they have a small story with each track, often for a complete, larger story. Though at times he also includes tracks that *have* been put in the games already, often lightly rearranging them at that. Flight of the Bamboo Cutter is a good example of that, and Retrospective 53 Minutes has a LOT of tracks from Imperishable Night. Sidenote, the album series isn't all named Retrospective 53 Minutes. This album is named that because it is EXACTLY 53 minutes long. The other albums have differing names such as Magical Astronomy, or Changeability of Strange Dream, or my personal favorite, Neo-Traditionalism of Japan.

[@KryptikM3]

Actually, I'm pretty sure this isn't the Retrospective 53 Minutes version because that one has a completely different intro, as it's slower tempo with flutes that speeds up into the song's normal tempo afterwards.

[@Brashgar]

@@KryptikM3 There's two tracks in the video, though he only shows the thumbnail of the first one.

[@notdeadever]

I love dolls in pseudo paradise especially its revision of reincarnation

[@yogsothoth915]

"The Touhou community is rampant" lol, sooo true. Like an army of piranha, except, instead of eating you, they keep trying to give you things and tell you about stuff. ......so now I'm gonna do that..... In regards to variations in music, Final boss themes are usually very similar, and are what people recommend most. (I believe Zun's intention is to add a feeling of nostalgia to reaching the end) Though he does have a strangely similar feel in everything I can't quite explain. There is a neat thing to be said about Shoot em Up music in general though, Stage themes are kinda unique for Shooters, while a boss fight song needs to loop, a stage theme on an auto scrolling game can be an exact length (though people do make loops of them) Heck, they can even match patterns to the music. I think Touhou's must famous example of this type is "Mystic Oriental Dream - ancient temple" and "Capital City of Flowers in The Sky" From Perfect Cherry Blossom. I know a game called Cotton Rock n Roll that used this technique for bosses too by putting them on timers. Anyway, this songs title is surprisingly simple to explain Something that can immediately be heard in the song when I say it, is that the title "Lunatic Princess" a double entendre Zun /translation uses sometimes Lunatic means crazy, and is a difficulty level, , but more interestingly, "Luna-atic". Meaning something that pertains to the moon. And suddenly the song sounds like space.

[@aeternusvotum]

Ah, Lunatic Princess ~ Flight of the Bamboo Cutter, my personal favorite Touhou track ♥ I have so many rearrangements of this theme lying around and I just love it. I also like Touhou 8 the most of the games I've tried to play and maybe I'm a bit biased as its main themes are the Moon and the Princess on the Moon :'D And yaaay, the sunglasses! But do take care of yourself, it is good for you to have taken a step back!

[@noxentoxicar1160]

I'm stoked that Jesse loves Touhou music as much as we do! Your perspective is really cool, and I look forward to when you listen to more songs from the later games!

[@8dgh0]

Sadnae

[@naif9464]

@@8dgh0marisad

[@annefrank125]

Now that you know how Touhou sounds, it's time to break your expectations with something like 'Heian Alien' and 'Mary, The Magician', I hope someone suggests stuff like that

[@Colamarine]

Mary, the Magician would be amazing. It's literally the only theme ZUN has composed that sounds the way it is, as far as tone is concerned at least.

[@crowedarken]

and of course, Lullaby of Deserted Hell

[@annefrank125]

@@crowedarken lullaby of a deserted hell is still very much in what someone would expect of a Touhou song, but it's a good song nevertheless. Heartfelt Fancy sounds more unique if we're talking about SA.

[@vianneyb.8776]

Yeah! It would be cool for him to check out some of the tracks from the audio CDs! (well, he did just listen to a remix from Retrospective 53 Minutes, but you get what I mean). Or maybe just a calm menu track, like Sealed Gods.

[@jacoproita9010]

@@annefrank125 yesnt, Lullaby of Deserted Hell sounds more kind of medieval-like

[@NMC213]

want a change? World of empty dreams Lullaby of deserted hell Fires of Hokai The sea where one's home planet reflects Is the same list I gave the last time not trying to put pressure, just saying that IF you see one of those names pop out, then you'll probably be surprised

[@diosilos]

I love World of Empty Dreams so much, it really is unique, and it calls forth within you quite a range of different emotions imo. Unfortunately not a lot of people remember (or even know of) the old PC-98 OST so I doubt it will happen, but I really hope someone submits it to him eventually !

[@butterviking]

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[@mrelectrodude9391]

Retrospective 53 minutes is indeed an album! There are lots of these, mostly remixes of Touhou songs but there are some original works in there as well :) Anyway Lunatic Princess is one hell of a banger so glad you listened to it!

[@Sekainoowaride]

Trust me, their probably already is hours of Touhou Mariachi vers.

[@Sekainoowaride]

Brother I am telling you, the "Demetori" remixes of these tracks, live in my mind RENT FREE. Originals are cool and the heavy rock remixes wouldn't work without them, but I still think the Demetori Remixes do these Tunes more than Justice. They make them unforgettable.

[@leakypeach6250]

Trust me, bro! I wish he was able to react to the Demetori remixes! They're so good!

[@araragisenpai4088]

Big facts right there.

[@Scaevola9449]

Also Undead Corporation. What Million Fireflies Flashed comes to mind.

[@giovanniprovost]

Check out Reverse Ideology by Demetori, it's ... well.. its amazing

[@Minulf]

Demetori's arrangement of Egoistic Flowers is THE GOAT.

[@RPGMel710]

Lunatic Princess is a track that's always stood out even to a non-Touhou fan like me. Ah, the memories of watching a friend play Touhou Soccer.

[@ortrus5911]

I mentioned this before on chat, but a great thing about Touhou is that there is so much to see that even experiencing a small part of it is enough to have a good time. On the topic of mariachi arranges, funny enough I haven't listened to any myself, though I know for a fact there is a big-ish community in Guadalajara (considered by many the mariachi meca), so it wouldn't surprise me if some have been done in the past.

[@IceAokiji303]

I still kind of remember the first time I managed to get through Imperishable Night (my first Touhou game) well enough to get the B route for the final stage. Kaguya shows up, there's some banter with my character duo. Music cuts out for like 2 seconds, then Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess starts playing. The intro part of it sound so different from what was there before. Been one of my personal favourites ever since.

[@KazmirRunik]

The music composer, ZUN, is also the same person who makes the games, including all the art assets. He's got an artistic way of thinking. He even leaves his own music comments on a lot of his tracks, though much of it is mired in the contexts of Japanese culture and the games themselves. He's described the games as a vehicle for his music before, so it makes sense that he's meticulous about the songs he creates even though he's entirely self-taught in terms of music composition (albeit over the course of a few decades now).

[@alejandrotti10]

So here's some Touhou lore about Kaguya. Just like in the tale of the Bamboo Cutter from remote times, she was exiled from the moon. At least in the game, it was because she drank the Hourai Elixir, which is literally a potion to be immortal (and that was made by her dear friend, Eirin Yagokoro, but she remained free, which made her remorseful). After that, the tale was something like the original. Reborn from a bamboo tree, adopted by a bamboo cutter, prettiest girl of the land, had a lot of pretendants, and sent them to find the five sacred treasures. A stone bowl from Buddha, on India; a jeweled branch from Mount Hourai, a robe of the chinese fire-rat, a jewel from a dragon's neck, and a cowry from a swallow. As a fun fact, no one could bring the treasures to Kaguya, so all they failed, but later on Kaguya would have all the treasures anyway, implying that she found all of them by herself. More on the treasures later. From here on, after a not-really-told encounter with the Emperor itself, the story has its own variant. Kaguya would enjoy the rest of the days at Earth, even if she was pardoned by the Lunarians (the moon people). They, however, believed the Earth was nothing but filth and impurity, so they really wanted to take Kaguya with them. However, Eirin was there on that moment as part of the emmisaries that wanted to take her, and still apologetic for not being punished, she decided to betray her own crew to escape with Kaguya into a land they would never find them: Gensokyo. Years passed, and the Lunar Capital became tired of sending emmisaries to find them without any success. Also, in a hundred years, Kaguya and Eirin, already established in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, would meet Tewi, a youkai rabbit of good luck. However, the story would ramp again when a group of moon rabbits were send to the Earth as a response of the flag USA put in their territory on their first moon landing. Nevertheless, one of them, Reisen, was curious about how life was on the rumored lands of Gensokyo. Kaguya, Eirin and Tewi welcomed her with open arms, and they would leave happily once more... If the moon rabbits didn't contacted Reisen to join into another war. Kaguya and Eirin supported Reisen on her decision to retire from the army, but they feared that the lunarians were to find Gensokyo and declare a war on them. So, Eirin decided to create an illusion of the moon, so they could block the track between Gensokyo and the actual moon... Somehow. That lead to the events of Imperishable Night, and it ended with the plan being redundant when the Great Hakurei Barrier (it's origin located in the home of the protagonist Reimu Hakurei), so they were safe for the time being. Some other things happened on future games, but let's end it with her rival from eternity that wasn't mentioned yet. Remember the pretendants of the five sacred treasures? Well, one of them happened to be father of the hot-headed spiteful lucky bastard Fujiwara no Mokou. He was embarrased (presumably for life) after not returning with the treasure, which made his daughter grow hatred on the "lunatic princess". Some time passed on before she knew about the Hourai Elixir that Kaguya offered on her meeting with the Emperor itself. Long story short, she invaded the place with some bandits, there was some murder, she found the elixir, drank it, live a long time dwelling about the consequences of immortality for a human, and after a long time wandering from place to place, she finally moved to Gensokyo, where after 900 years she would encounter Kaguya. After that, they spent another three hundred years murdering themselves in spite of each other, but nowadays they're kinda chill with each other.

[@vianneyb.8776]

I read the comic "The Immortals Who Saw the Death of the Universe" some time ago. A really neat read! It explores what would happen to immortals like Mokou, Kaguya and Eirin when the Earth inevitably dies from the Sun exploding.

[@magicannon6285]

@@vianneyb.8776 I love Alison's stuff, the immortals who saw the death of the universe was my intro to her too

[@witheburning8756]

i'd like to add that Kaguya is currently seeking a way to be useful to gensokyo society, because Reisen and Eirin did.

[@veryredfumoze]

ITS BACK WHAT A GREAT DAY TO BE ALIVEE!!! I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING LOVE LUNATIC PRINCESS!!!!

[@Edyn42]

a bit of a shame that Voyage 1969 didn't appear, but I'm praying that it appears alongside other stage themes in a future video.

[@Meocontuki]

"I miss that sound" he is one of us now lol

[@absoutezeo2126]

Dude is absolutely vibing.

[@dap6386]

I'm glad the CDs' musics are included as well. There are some great songs in those albums that most Touhou fans don't even know about.

[@devildante9]

Touhou 8 is probably my favorite one, I love the scoring system. Also my favorite collection of music, though 7 is pretty strong too. 8 has this "spacey" feeling to it, the story dealing with the legend of the rabbits on the moon, but also with Princess Kaguya (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) which is one of my favorite legends, that the game kinda mixes with Chinese Chang'e goddess. Other stand out songs from 8 are "Lunatic Eyes ~ Invisible Full Moon", "Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke", "Voyage 1969/1970", and "Retribution for the Eternal Night ~ Imperishable Night", but really they are all good.

[@peridrawland5955]

It brings me so much joy seeing you enjoy the music and the ride for each track

[@BK-Vatras]

How nice of Touhou music to trigger a philosophical revelation this video. And yeah, it is great to see totally blind, raw reactions, and the fact people can enjoy these songs (Touhou music, and any other games music) with little to no context is just a testament to how evocative they can be on their own. And even if you'll forget it, a quick note on Retrospective 53 Minutes. This is an album from a series called ZUN's Music Collection, which is... Exactly what it sounds like. They're filled with remixes of songs from his games, as well as fully original tracks. (Plus some nice stories to go with them, but I won't get into those here.) I wonder if it would actually be okay to request a song from those albums... They aren't video game music, yeah, but they are still from ZUN... (And in my opinion, they have some of his best work.) Well regardless, hope you'll enjoy the next one.

[@birthandbreathe222]

This is my most favorite theme in Touhou. I really love the high note of this song. It's been applied in an amazing way.

[@birthandbreathe222]

And if you're interested in themes with weird time signatures. I recommend (as far as I know) Lunar clock luna dial theme - Touhou 6 U.N. Owen was her? theme - Touhou 6 Faith is for the transient theme - Touhou 10 Hartmann's youkai girl theme - Touhou 11 Makai city esoteria theme - Touhou 12 Welcome to youkai temple theme - Touhou 13 The mysterious shrine maiden flying through space theme - Touhou 15

[@SacredFaerie]

Hell yea, one of the best touhou final boss themes... Can't wait to see you enjoy it eternally and instantaneously

[@爛帽子]

I am really happy to see more Touhou requests Flight of the Bamboo Cutter is one of the classics, I hope you will still listen to the rearranged tracks from the albums in future touhou videos

[@needlewind9053]

Lunatic Princess is one of those classic Touhou song up there with 'U.N. Owen was Her?' and 'Flowering Night'.

[@Darkusaido]

This is one of my first 2hu song I heard, aside from Nuclear Fusion and Border of Life

[@linkkicksu]

I love seeing people react to Touhou music It's been my most beloved series for over half my life now and it's always great to see new people checking it out for the first time.

[@soya_kitchens]

We need Jesse to broaden his Touhou horizons! SolidBullet, you've got to send him something like Mary, the Magician, or one of the Dr. Latency's Freak Report!!/Dateless Bar 'Old Adam' original songs!! Also, I've been following you for months, watching you go through these (and even other series' songs) has been super enjoyable! Thank you for making such nice content!

[@sunwarrior25]

This game's entire soundtrack is incredibly catchy. So much so, that I can't help but whistle the entire hour of this game's OST some times! This is one of the few games that I can do that with, the others being "Embodiment of Scarlet Devil", "Mountain of Faith", "Subterranean Animism", "Undefined Fantastic Object", "Ten Desires", and "Double Dealing Character". ...I've been thinking of requesting certain songs from each, but by the time I think of it, I've already spent my money for the month. I'll have to enjoy hearing what you have to say about what others have requested. For now.

[@DoujinDude]

I definitely wanna encourage people to go and look up the S.S.H. remix of this song, some darn good synth and guitar solos that melted my face off.... like S.S.H. always does

[@Khodhum]

There's great music to be found in every Touhou game, but Touhou 8 in particular is the one that really made me fall in love, before I ever played the games myself. We're up to 18 main games now, and I still think 8's soundtrack has not been surpassed.

[@Baba_Lemonade]

Funny timing: I found your channel 2-3 days ago from a recommendation about a Touhou piece. I watched all videos you had on the franchise and was sad to see there weren't any others in the last few months. Then this dropped.

[@TheVnom]

Mariachi cover XD . Theres gotta be already one. Theres already remixes of touhou in so many genres. Theres jazz, the bossa nove is very well known, nu disco, rock and electronic.

[@ReikoFrostwolf]

I searched "Touhou mariachi" and this video was 4th in the search results. Only the first result seems close, an acoustic guitar arrange from Komeiji Records. Surprisingly small selection considering the thousands of arranges and remixes out there.

[@christianvazquez1835]

@@ReikoFrostwolf They are probably not uploaded on youtube due to the indie nature of the covers. And if there are, they must have a difficult title to find, for example two years ago? I found a Touhou album that uses Latin American folk instruments (from Peru if I remember correctly) and it was a surprise because I didn't expect to find something like that by chance.

[@gensokyopsycho]

One of my favorite tracks in the franchise!

[@GensouChronicle]

This Touhou thing seems like a pretty cool anime.

[@johnshriver8416]

Wasn't It a visual novel first?

[@GensouChronicle]

@@johnshriver8416 There's a game!??

[@johnshriver8416]

@@GensouChronicle yeah it's based of the web comic

[@MuffinMansBro]

I'm pretty sure it originated as European cave paintings or something. ZUN is pretty interesting, bringing that style into the modern era.

[@pejman3]

Playing touhou on piano is funny : right hand doing the "main" melody player at a slow or "normal pace" While left hand is crazy going all around up and down at 300 bpm xD

[@Fawriel]

Dude, this song is like a thesis statement. It’s like the most “this is what Touhou is about” song in the franchise.

[@nettaraxy8815]

just wanted to say when you closed your eyes in what looked like pure bliss listening to this it genuinely made me so happy. ive watched a few of your videos now and as a fairly long-term touhou enjoyer, i love your outsiders perspective and glad that you also love touhou music! touhou fanworks/doujin is a little outside the videogame sphere but i hope you were able to discover some cool groups/bands because of touhou, i can see so many people have already tried to get you to listen to demetori lol

[@smol_hornet613]

Man, what a banger this is. The ending of the Retrospective version never fails to give me chills. Really loved what you did with your commentary here, honestly. It's not often a reaction video goes this kind of direction. No, scratch that. I've never seen one do in my life. Coming from inside the 'bubble', I have a lot I could say on the topic - but, in short, all I feel the need to say is that I agree all the way.

[@MotherGapshin12]

You should really try Umineko's soundtrack! It has some of Touhou's energy. I would personally recommend Ricordando il Passato as it is by far the most emotional song.

[@Worm38p]

It literally has a Touhou cover in its OST. The Tsuru Pettan one.

[@brickstonesonn9276]

Here's the closest to a Mariachi arrangement of a Touhou track I could find: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIrZf4ppq6iGnLM Also, I think one of the biggest reasons why we are so into Touhou music is because for every Touhou track there's probably 100+ high quality arrangements of it spanning all genres you could possibly think of, and I'm not even exaggerating. I've got 3 KZbin playlists of just the best Touhou arrangements I've heard over the years, and the combined total is around 1200+.

[@taylorwright7428]

A lot of Touhou music sounds similar, especially instruments wise. But, maybe because I have a good ear for replicating sound, maybe because I'm the kinda person who could listen to the same song over and over and it never gets old, just stops hitting as hard, I've found I remember them pretty easily by the difference in melodies alone! Sometimes things get mixed up, but it's actually really rare. Of course, all the remixes out there help too, lol.

[@friendlyneighborhoodshinigami]

14:38 haha loud is synonymous with touhou community ze

[@DoujinDude]

HEY THAT'S ME! I'M THE NOAH!

[@NightStorm1000]

Man I love those stanky MIDI Trumpets so much

[@zayohyt]

WHAT IS THAT MELODY 😩😩😩

[@Aeosin]

14:33 lol I feel like these descriptors are an understatement for Touhou fans/artists. It's a good thing you're mainly reacting to OSTs, cuz the fan made arrangements made by various Circles are an actual black hole of absolutely stellar work across all music genres.

[@claraladuelliste5769]

there are definitely a bunch of touhou tracks that deviate from what you'd usually expect from touhou tbh, like obviously most if not all still feel like ZUN tracks, but still stuff like lullaby of a deserted hell or the shining needle castle sinking in the sky for example differentiate significantly from the average touhou ost i feel, also some album exclusive tracks don't sound like anything you'd find in a touhou game (still very much recognizeable as ZUN songs though) either way though the "sameyness" is actually what i like about touhou music because they're such an amazing auditory stim for autism lol

[@TheWingrider92]

would love to hear a mariachi arrange of this song

[@raxelgrande]

And there are soo many more interesting themes from Touhou! Check out Satori Maiden ~ 3rd eye

[@seekittycat]

One of my fav touhou osts as a whole 🥰🥰

[@dee6561]

Touhou's music has not only inspired its own massive culture of arrangements and remixes (which, I might add, sounds better than the original songs in many occasions), but it is had a direct impact on the well-known Toby Fox (Undertale).

[@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA]

Holy shit, finally he reacts to TH8 ost, hope he could listen to other th8 osts

[@dileblade7659]

A little thing on touhou music. Zun has cd tracks of music outside of the games. There are a few songs on his tracks that are not in the games, like Zun's theme kids festival innocent treasure. And because of Zun's policy in regards to copyright touhou music is thus taken by fans and they make covers of them all the time with there own twists to it. There are remix covers of just about every touhou song out there with just about every genre of song. You'll find lots on either youtube or nico nico douga (Japan youtube).

[@sirephlyrrian6242]

might i reccommend you Touhou OSTs from the fighting games? (specifically 10.5 and 12.3), that shit slaps so hard, i can't even describe

[@RacoonKeurigMachine]

I only hope one day he may hear Emotional Skyscraper, Necrofantasia, or Nuclear Fusion

[@shanemcdowell3628]

Gotta give "Crystallized Silver" a listen. Super funky, in the good way.

[@mrsquadbot]

Youre probably one of the only music react to tubers thats ever only react to stage and main screen theme of 2hus, maybe you wanna try Desire Drive or The Sea Where the Home Planet is Reflected(tamer remix of the more intense boss theme)

[@memeyartist5591]

love your touhou reaction series!!! it's really wonderful to see another person who just purely enjoys the energy in music, your vids make me smile a ton ^-^ if you'd ever like to hear some crazy versatile music, i'd highly recommend some songs from Toram Online; specifically Irestida's theme, Gwaimol's theme, Gemma's theme, and ESPECIALLY Pedrio's theme :> please don't feel pressured to make a video on it or anything if you don't want to, I just adore these songs and they're very underrated, and I want to share them with people ^-^

[@TheHikariLP]

on the topic of covers, touhou has a shit ton. My favorite ones are the house sets but there is jazz, metal, rock etc. Anything really. Because touhou music is such a vague genre it is very easy to make remixes and covers which go into all kinds of genres. Since you will probably get no requests for the remixes and covers of touhou songs you should check some out. You will definitely find something you like under metal.

[@Yama98989]

Septette for the Dead Princess next

[@BeeCygNus]

Touhou music is really a one mystical rabbit hole imo. First you discover its music and found out it's a banger, then you may like try to play the game or watch someone play it to grasp the feeling of how you will feel when you play the game with that music, and then you can go deep into some lores and stuff then connect with the music (a lot of games do be like that) anyways I saw that you made a video reacting to one of the Super Robot Wars ost, which make me remember that there is a freaking SRW fangames (4 games total for the whole series) in the form of Touhou and have like 100+ banger tracks too.

[@elijahdarden1275]

This was my introduction to Touhou❤️

[@TheDarkness169]

Not sure if anybody’s said this, but highly recommend listening to Demetori’s takes on Touhou music. They make Fantastic rock/metal renditions of all the tracks.

[@Koume142]

wait until someone requests a reaction for most of mountain of faith ost lol

[@Yama98989]

LET'S GOOOOO TOUHOU

[@jorntumrongwit9056]

This track will have *ERIN ERIN TASUKETE ERIN* living rent free in my mind forever (It's a shitpost remix called help me erin and it's neat)

[@hoppefrosk]

There is no other fanbase that is as dedicated and devoted to its content, as the Touhou fanbase. It has admittedly died down in recent years. You could say the fanbase has sort of mellowed out, but the sheer amount of music arranges, animations, nearly professional-quality fangames, and all other miscellaneous fan-content, just completely dwarfs most other fanbases out there. And as the series is very much built around its music, the music arranges are so many, so diverse, and usually so high-quality, that you could probably just keep listening to Touhou music until the day you die, and have still have plenty you never got around to. Pick a track, pick a genre, search, and you'll probably find a whole list of arranges. Especially the more popular and well-known ones.

[@nanoha007]

I see three Touhou 8 songs was reviewed, but the best song of Touhou 8 is the "Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke". Listen to it if you have interested.

[@ShirokamiHichino]

i wish one day you could listen to some covers with lyrics, like the fanmade anime openings, they're just so great

[@GiangNguyen-gx6vg]

PLEASE, more video about Library of Ruina and LopCorp. AHHHHH!!!

[@quentc]

ZUN has such a huge library of songs with a lot of overlap in function/style but having only played DDC I'm pretty partial to that soundtrack for the context I have of when and where the tracks play. Stuff like the EoSD soundtrack is iconic but I'll never have that added factor of something like having my screen flip halfway into Reverse Ideology. I think ZUN is kinda screwed in that regard where context is largely irrelevant for a lot of listeners, since it really adds a lot to the songs in my experience. Just some light thoughts

[@DBinitiate]

If people know Touhou themes, they know either Lunatic Princess or Bad Apple, since these have gotten quite a bit of fame outside of the Touhou community.

[@Minulf]

Welcome to the Rabbithole

[@pliplin-bz9kz]

Ooooh men react to inmortal Smokey

[@smdgg5680]

Please react to Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17 game version and cd version,zun change a lot in game

[@8bitPotatoPC-544]

Please react to other YS Series OST. Especially YS Seven Vacant Interference. YS Series has a dope OST you should listen to them all.

[@zachi2fox246]

I wonder if he would listen to Omori - Worlds end valantine

[@vietnam12321]

I really want you to react to XI - Freedom Dive ↓. Not really OST, but it's so deeply connected to rhythm games that you may as well call it that way.

[@HysteriaAlice201]

Metal Hellsinger soundtrack reaction please!

[@halifay1668]

What genre/combination of them would be the most precise to call touhou tracks?

[@vuhaitran4429]

Most complicated tracks or different tracks of ZUN come from album music and not the games. If you dont want track sound too similar u should listen to them and not games track

[@smdgg5680]

Exactly Lunatic Princess is not the English name.thr right name is Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess

[@seiferseifer]

you still don't know about touhou doujin music circles monkaS

[@misterbin00]

This music has too much vocal remixes and parodies that I can't hear it without hallucinating somebody calling Eirin(Kaguya's subordinate).

[@a1rea4ytaken64]

Can you react to touhou 15: pure furies ~ whereabouts of the heart

[@randommaster06]

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night is generally considered the last game in the golden age of Touhou. It's an amazing culmination of everything that makes the series great up to that point.

[@자비꾼_동방]

oh wow... another touhou :oo

[@JonathanFancher-hr2yv]

Why is there no raps about Touhou

[@pelinalwhitestrake3367]

The only negative thing this theme has is the fact, that it is for a l*narian.

[@pejman3]

Eirin Eirin !

[@gurugurukuma]

Please react to Knight's Errant - Der Langrisser.