Touhou References

[@TomokoKuroki0164]

I can't believe that in Japan there's a shrine of the same name referencing Moriya Shrine. They even have you there for some reason. Guess they watch your videos.

[@thisisaperson1536]

"a shrine" google maps say that there are 5+

[@Suwawako]

You acting like I made Touhou

[@mozzarellamaniac6300]

I believe the Moriya shrine is based on the actual place called Suwa Shrine in Nagasaki on top of Tamazono Mountain which also has a very long stairs branching to the other places near the shrine. People there also celebrate the Onbashira Festival which they'll slide 16 meticulously chosen fir trees which are cut clean to serve as a post down the mountain and erect it on each corners of the shrine complex or (perhaps) replace the old ones.

[@the24thcolossusjustchillin39]

Pretty sure the Moriya stribe is an actual thing iirc, li’e there is an actual shrine with the name moriya

[@HontounoShiramizu]

@@mozzarellamaniac6300 Or perhaps the Moriya Shrine in Kyoto.

[@GenghisConnThr333]

My favourite touhou reference is when Peter Griffin tried to shoot Lois with a bullet.

[@Ayahuasca98]

As someone with extensive knowledge of Touhou and Family Guy sadly that wasn’t a reference.

[@ironmaster6496]

if freaking Jojo's of all franchises gets referenced in family guy anything can happen

[@GenghisConnThr333]

@@ironmaster6496 JoJo, not "Jojo's"

[@Bropower125Games]

​@@GenghisConnThr333 You do know its "jojo's bizarre adventure" right? Jojo's is a perfectly acceptable abbreviation.

[@GenghisConnThr333]

@@Bropower125Games Only Redditors and band kids say "Jojo's"

[@TB58921]

never in my life would i have expected to see a touhou reference in a call of duty game

[@fireblazenotbulgaria3053]

Yeah that honestly suprised me the most, all of the anime ones didn’t surprise me too much but CoD caught me off guard, especially since I’ve played the game in particular

[@ArjunTheRageGuy]

same here

[@Taishisama]

I played cod mw2 a lot and never notice the touhou 6 reference lol

[@LynxFTG]

No I think COD was just referencing the book where UN Owen Was Her came from instead of Touhou directly.

[@TB58921]

@@LynxFTG i doubt it because it also had "06" in it likely referring to touhou 6

[@Izayoink_Saccuy]

My favorite touhou reference is the ice cube I have in my fridge

[@HaikuClover]

_“Is That a __-Jojo-__ Touhou Reference!?”_

[@kingbash6466]

My favorite Touhou references as of recently is any of Sr Pelo's videos. No matter what type of video it is, seeing a Touhou character just exist in the background like they're naturally part of the world always makes me smile.

[@kittytastrophe3455]

when they all started clapping in one of the spooky month videos lol

[@daichungus]

I mean tbh he did say that he’s a fan of the games and stuff.

[@ironmaster6496]

same haha i remember that i was waiting for them to appear on the last spooky month video getting disspointed since it wa sending and no sight of Touhou....then out of nowhere appeared like 4 of them having their own scene and everything, it awesome and worth the wait haha. I swear out of all of the Latam (or just spanish speaking in general) content creators he is the only one i can safely say that legit LOVES the franchise

[@Zombibombi]

Same

[@masterseal0418]

Same. We also got a popular YTPMV-styled remix of the Japanese Ronald McDonald commercials(Ran Ran Ru!) with U.N. Owen Is Her playing in the background called "Ronald McDonald Insanity".

[@ListersHatsune]

>Kaguya sama: Love is war >not mentioning that one main character's name is Kaguya and her friend's surname is fujiwara. >both have black hair and white hair The show is a Touhou reference

[@cris_sad]

in manga Kaguya tells a story about a moon princess who drank the immortality elixir iirc

[@PhantomGato-v-]

@@cris_sad yep, the show is a touhou reference for sure

[@SzaraVytra]

@@cris_sad Both Touhou and Kaguya-sama refers to Kaguya princess tale and they're simply overlapping with parts of the story. They're kind of iterations of the same origin. I wouldn't call it as hijack.

[@cris_sad]

@@SzaraVytra yeah, I was joking about that, but thanks for the explanation

[@senatuspopulusqueromanus2082]

Take your schizo pills sir

[@okuufallout]

I don’t remember where I saw this, but somewhere in the country of Turkey there is what I think is a toy store. On the building, there is a graphic used as the background for the shop’s name. That graphic was a fanart of dozens of Touhou characters in a banner-like size. I also remember reading the Monster Musume manga and seeing those cosplayers. I was definitely not prepared.

[@erenarslan3087]

Plz tell me where you saw that. I need to see it

[@tybaltbutterheart]

Zamn, i need to find that toy store now.

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

@okuufallout Imagine being some innocent old Turkish fellow selling toys to make kids happy, but some fat dudes in fedoras start raiding your store JUST because of the characters on the background of your store's logo! 💀

[@vicente_7959]

In League of Legends, some of the old champion designers were huge touhou fans. Not only Lux is direct a reference to Marisa Kirisame, Orianna was also inspired by Hong Meiling and, later on, inspired by Youmu and Myon. Orianna was called during development as Yomu and her champion spotlight shows a walfa resembling Sakuya instead of her splash art during Phreak's gameplay.

[@RenanMMz]

I strongly believe Yasuo is based on SWR/Soku Youmu as well. In these games, Youmu has a triple slash combo where the third hit is a knock-up and strongly resembles Yasuo's EQ, a projectile-blocking blue wall and one of her spellcards is a knock-up that keeps your opponent in the air with multiple slashes before slamming them to the ground, very similar to Yasuo's R. I may be wrong and he could just be based on samurai tropes, but the wind wall just makes it too similar to be a coincidence.

[@gabbyn.3049]

Youmou's Ghostblade lol

[@ProtoCJ]

Orianna? The robot?

[@chrishaddock5886]

Here is a possible reference I suspect for months; In the Beavis & Butt-ahead 2022 episode “Home Aide”, there is a scene featuring a cereal aisle and the cereal “Rabbit Ears” has a cover design shaped like the ears, hair and forehead of Reisen Udongein Inaba. Never expected a possible Touhou reference in Beavis & Butt-Head. Of course, that was what it looked to me.

[@ironmaster6496]

just saw that scene and...yeah it really looks like Reisen's head, so huhuhu cool

[@bappityyyy]

One of the wildest Touhou hijacks I know of happened around the announcement of Pokémon Scarlet/Violet (before the box legendaries were even revealed), with one of the Touhou spoof logos, specifically one with Flandre and Sumireko. At one point, a regional manager for Gamestop was making a poster for people to reserve copies of the game. Somehow, the person ended up putting the Flandre and Sumireko logos on this poster, and sent it out to be printed by random Gamestop stores all around the Northeastern US. I think there was a lot of places where it happened, but the 3 I remember are Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York. The one sad thing is that I'm only a state away for New York, and if I was aware of the hijack and went tto a Gamestop I likely could of found it. But, I only learned of it after the fact, and didn't go to a Gamestop just by coincidence 😔 I haven't seen any hijacks myself yet unfortunately, but I have my eyes out and hope to someday. Although, two people have recognized some of my Touhou things in public once (keychains on my backpack and my fumos), so that's neat

[@kirimusse]

The Touhou hijacks are one of the best things in the community; they also streamed Bad Apple on a Russian radio before the war started.

[@HyperVanilo]

Why Sumireko? If it's because of Violet Detector I can understand, but I think Yukari is more appropriate, her name literally means 'violet'

[@bappityyyy]

@@HyperVanilo That is true. Although, in Japanese I'm pretty sure Sumireko's name means violet (the flower) child so it's not very far of a stretch. Although, I did see another spoof Scarlet/Violet thing (with the boxes and not logos) with Remilia and Yukari though, so someone did think like that also

[@TheLastFBIagent]

You did NOT just list Akinator as a reference. He can literally guess the most obscure characters, and Touhou has a decent sized following

[@jvts8916]

In the case of Guardian Tales, I think that line might just be dedicated to classic space shooters in general. Mainly because of how much more direct the references to Super Mario Bros., First Blood, Live A Live, FMA, Terminator, Master Chef, Kitchen Nightmares, etc. are. Also because there's a 3D space shooter section as you try to rescue Santa from a terrorist space ship. Would non-GT players believe me if I told them that the game has a rather compelling plot on top of the surreal humor?

[@NixxvyyGaming]

I don't know if im crazy but i think there is another reference on the cruise missile. on the bottom it says "NO:PL-4C3 4-IN4BA" could be read as "No place for Inaba"

[@Mike_Masaki]

Holy shit the cod dev's making two touhou reference on one bomb, that's fucking mental.

[@HartzZuri]

Everyone has talked about how in League of Legends Orianna was also based from Youmu/Sakuya/Hong Meiling, but the Lux reference goes further than that. Each champion comes with a skin on release, and Lux's skin is Sorcerer Lux, which can be considered a reference given the heavy inspiration the champion designer took from Marisa Kirisame. ... Also, her ultimate is called Final Spark. On release, it was called "Finales Funkeln", which is german for Final Spark. This directly references Marisa's Last Spell in IN: Magicannon ~ "Final Spark"

[@ivyflow3r]

since you talked about talking about any other references in the comments, here's one. there is an anime shop in ukraine that uses cirno as a mascot for some reason, and it seems to originally have been exactly where donetsk anime shop is currently related, before moving to kyiv in 2014

[@cool_skeleton_brothers_UA]

it exists, I was in it myself

[@ironmaster6496]

that's really cool and kind of funny considering that Cirno is an ice fairy

[@sunshineskystar]

ah yes the plot of touhou 19 : eternal 2 days operation

[@rinn6962]

out of all things i did not expect Guardian Tales to have a touhou reference

[@davidmapping4041]

There is a lot of very loose references in it, but this one is more direct

[@zoemal]

Alice's theme from SWR was played as a background song in an episode of a long running greek sitcom and let me tell you when it played on the tv i literally run from the other side of the house to make sure i wasnt hallucinating. I immediately looked up the episode online back then but sadly i dont remember the number of the episode now

[@the24thcolossusjustchillin39]

What was the show called?

[@BuruKyu]

it was shocking when i was reading the higurashi spin offs and keiichi suddenly started talking about touhou and gladius among others to distract the villain, he even mentioned he cant beat the "little sister" (flandre) and that he has yet to see yukari

[@ironmaster6496]

i couldn't help but see this video with a big smile on my face, it's great to see Touhou being referenced in various mediums, the ones that i personally experienced where: -The spilling the milk youtube videos, one of the members (Korewaeden)has a lot of fumos which can be seen eveyrtime he appears on camera, also on the videos from his own channel he frequently uses Touhou images for reactions (i really reccommend both channels btw, the guys are pretty funny) -The chilean tv show FTP once did an entire segment dedicated to Touhou, featuring fans inluding female cosplayers who explained the lore and basics of the franchise, pretty badass -A Mexican cookie's brand "galletas troyanas" used imaged of both Alice and Reimu to promote the cookies -The mobile game D4DJ has A LOT of Touhou songs, remixes and even covers, my favorite is their Help me Eirin one, since it's nice to hear the characters being voiced by actual girls this time -A....let's say controversial/laughing stock anime reviewer called Doomentio has an editorial called nostrafort and made a suprisingly GOOD and wholesome Touhou comic -a Tewi Fumo appeared on a russian news report, the reporter even played with her -Of course the now famous Bucket head confirmed moment from KFC's twitter -Finally this is a personal one, but one of the ghost children in an Episode of cartoon network's Villanous looks almost exactly like Koishi but with longer hair

[@HyperVanilo]

There is a picture of DDC Reimu holding a biscuit packaging, I forgot the brand's name

[@ernestofelipoperezprado7395]

Just your typical mexican moment with troyanas and GODoomentio

[@pea_mooch1]

Does that make Touhou canon in the Doomverse?!?!

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

@ironmaster6496 Wait..how is Doomentio controversial, and WHY???

[@FengLengshun]

I'm pretty sure 2ch is read as futaba-channel. Also, still feels weird whenever Cirno is read as Sir-no instead of Cheer-no. Anyways, yeah, Touhou is super embedded in Japanese culture, and because of its doujin nature people can safely reference it or make fan works of it, which is what allows it to be a very evergreen series despite as of late the main games haven't been very popular.

[@ShockInazuma]

I honestly pronounce it as “Chr-no”

[@1MaxVader1]

I've never really heard anyone say Cirno's name, but I've always read it as "sir-no" I'm not sure why you guys read it with a "Ch". I've also never heard anyone say "Suika" and I've always read it as "Soo-Ih-kuh"

[@FengLengshun]

@@1MaxVader1 we read it that way because the original work is Japanese? Japan use a syllable writing system. Every letter is read one way, though there may be differences in tone. Cirno's name is writter as チルノ, Chiruno. Not サーノ or Saano (Japanese writes Sir as Saa, see サー・ナイトアイ Sir Nighteye). So for a lot of us, it's really, really obvious it should be Cheer-no, because that's literally what's written (unless you're going full Japanese and pronouncing it Chiruno ofc).

[@SunaoFamily]

2ちゃんねるとふたばは別のサイトだよー どっちも古いネット掲示板っていうのは同じだけど

[@FengLengshun]

@@SunaoFamily Ah, so they ARE different channel. How is 2channel supposed to be read in hiragana anyways?

[@jadebayoba7073]

4:59 FINALLY I CAN MENTION THIS Not only Lux is based from Marisa Kirisame But also the Mechanical Arranged Ballerina, Orianna, is a direct reference to Touhou Project, since her model is based on a mixture between Youmu Konpaku and Hong Meiling, the devs confirmed this And i believe her Automaton motif is based on Sakuya but this is just my opinion

[@ChromaLuke]

Not to mention Yasuo being literally based off on Youmu from her fighting game appearances. His Q references one of her stabbing attacks with the tornado based on one of sword projectiles, his W is based on the reflective shield thing, his E being based on her dash attacks, and his R being based on one of her spell cards.

[@paveleduard5565]

Don't forget about the item called Youmuu's Ghostblade

[@yukko_parra]

ah yes youmuu's ghostblade. great item ngl. oh and lux is just hilarious, she can contend with being the most played league character of all time.

[@TheLiquidlane]

1:36 it also says "No place 4 Inaba" at the bottom

[@Woogwoogus]

I still remember the time in my grade 10 art class where the assignment was to make three clay figures and got jumpscared by the fact someone from another class/period made a small figure of a Reimu Fumo Still don't know who made it, but I still think about it to this day

[@WindowsDrawer]

You should have found out who it was

[@lGenoxide]

Oh yeah, dont forget that there is a touhou hijack on a Filipino Show called iBilib. It's a show aimed towards children where they show various science experiments using everyday objects and other stuff. Each and every episode has a different cosplayed character by the hosts.

[@zplays117]

Genoxide, what are you doing here?

[@lGenoxide]

@@zplays117 me lookin

[@Taitosalad]

2:22 That’s clearly Kasen wearing Byakuren’s out fit for some reason yet he calls her Yuugi and then shows Yuugi who looks nothing like that. Also Meiling in the back.

[@goodandfren3926]

1:51 And that man ended up becoming one of the Creators of Black Mirror,im am no joking.

[@christianvazquez1835]

Skullgirls has references to touhou and with their last character they did a pretty elaborate color set of Okuu, they even put the effect of her space cape and the atom on her leg (plus the character's helpers have colors from other characters).

[@HyperVanilo]

Wait, Black Dahlia has Utsuho's color palette?

[@christianvazquez1835]

@@HyperVanilo yeah It is a DLC color palette, the colors are Okuu, Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya and Orin if I am not mistaken.

[@HyperVanilo]

@@christianvazquez1835 I guess it makes sense for Dahlia to have Utsuho's color, both of them have a weapon stuck to their right arm

[@GreatChicken2]

Zun contributed to the development of Magic Pengel and Graffiti Kingdom and this is why there is a "Miko of Hakurei" in the series. It's also the first appearance of Reimu's signature Fantasy Seal bomb attack, back then called Dream Seal. Zun if I recall correctly used to work for Taito until 2007.

[@justsomesimplenuclearbirbs4313]

It's not the first time Neptunia has referenced Touhou. Gakuen Game Neptune: Katsudou Dairy's first chapter has the cast trying to come up with ideas for a video game to which Neptune literally recommends making a Touhou clone after making several other unoriginal ideas. Nep's pretty lucky Shanghai Alice wasn't brought into the Neptunia franchise until recently or else I'm sure Alice would've been glad to give Nep the good old Histy treatment. Also, Bullet Heaven (a literal reversal on the genre name Bullet Hell) and Epic Battle Fantasy 3 reference Touhou too with the latter being officially called Epic Battle Fantasy 3.3, having many Danmaku patterns that reference various Spell Cards such as Flandre and Utsuho and on Kongregate the references come from two achievements called Imperishable Player and Ten Desires while the former as an attack called "Bullet Hell" and even completes the reference by having the character Lance say "I'd like to see them get through that with one life and no bombs!" Although I'm slightly concerned about those individuals who wanted to become actual dolls. I wouldn't call that a strange addiction, I'd call that an unhealthy obsession that needs major help. Either rehab or therapy. Venus, one of the folks featured in the same episode as Emily and another person named Justin, literally travelled to the Republic of Korea to have weight loss surgery despite weighing only 53 kg (or 117 lbs) at the time of the procedure. She claimed it took her 50 attempts (which involved calling doctors from around the world) before she eventually got someone to do it which eventually resulted in her going to a hospital after the surgery with injuries on her stomach, requiring stomach medication and an IV Drip.

[@jesusbertaniramirez9681]

In Pop Team Epic S1 yukkuris made an appearance too

[@OuroborosChoked]

Dude, in a recent chapter of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime literally has a white wolf tengu character called Momiji. It's _blatant_ over there.

[@lazydelibird]

Yeah, when I read that chapter, I’m just waiting for a crow tengu named Aya ti show up at this point lol. Also I think Momoji’s hair color isn’t white in the color page. I dunno what color it is (pink maybe?) but it wasn’t white.

[@tou-hou-lover]

Yes, there are a lot of touhou references in the world. But why my friends don't know about touhou. I'm so lonely.

[@cool_skeleton_brothers_UA]

F

[@ironmaster6496]

don't worry pal if they don't know then make them know about it, make them fans even who knows, it worked with one of my friends, who ironically was friends with other guy who also happenned to be a big Touhou fan

[@adoorwithstaronit8573]

This is kinda obscure but its a cool one: In EBF5, there is a pocketwatch item that grants the holder to take an extra turn in battle, directly referencing Sakuya's time manipulating abilities.

[@IodizedNaCL]

matt the creator of epic battle fantasy also made a bullet hell game. it wont be surprising if he added any touhou references

[@multibomble]

That's pretty sweet, somehow never noticed this one. I should really get back to one hundred percenting that game.

[@victorvirgili4447]

There’s also an Undertale reference through Snowflake, a secret superboss. Because why have a love triangle when you can have a reference triangle?

[@thethe5355]

Considering how bullet heaven is inspired by touhou, Matt adding a touhou easter egg in ebf5 is to be expected lol.

[@jamesbrendan5170]

@@IodizedNaCL that bullet hell game's Steam page also directly mentioned Touhou, lol.

[@flandrescarletdevil5844]

2:28 I'm shooketh you didn't mention the Byakuren + Kasen fusion cosplayer next to them and Hong Meiling here...but you said Yuugi and I am looking at the panels of the comics and see no character whose resembling Yuugi... Just Reimu, Marisa, Meiling and Kasen + Byakuren.

[@Dutch-guy-p8t]

And he also doesn’t have to hate Yuugi…..

[@raikaria3090]

You mention Lux's Ultimate's apperance but not the fact *it is literally called Final Spark* Also her old lore she copied spells; and she even has a "spelltheif" skin and another skin which is basically blue Marisa. On the other hand; saying "there's characters called Yuyuko; Letty and Lyrica" are touhou references is a streach since... well they're all names used elsewhere.

[@yukko_parra]

best of all, she's a popular character. truly a hijack to the millions

[@ironmaster6496]

Yuyuko isn't really that common and even if it were....using the three in the same game at the same time is more than just a coincidence

[@Suwawako]

Yuyuko is a stretch, but who would call their character Letty intentionally?

[@ironmaster6496]

​@@Suwawako Girls called Leticia: :'( Jokes aside it's a pretty common name on Latin america XD

[@SoaS93]

I was going through the Umineko VN a few weeks ago, and I believe one of the songs Jessica was singing was called "I'm not some ordinary magician" or something along those lines. reading that really caught me off guard lmao.

[@simonsoffman8255]

Found on a Sonic IDW comic, there were two characters that resemblances a mixture of Remilia and Flandre Scarlet as a Badger (mostly Sticks the Badger) along aside a dog maid that resemblance the time-stopping maid Sakuya Izayoi, judging by her hairstyle and she's even holding a umbrella as well

[@HarunaKaiNi]

in tiny combat arena there's lots of air bases, allies and enemy jets named after various touhou characters

[@russelldoty2743]

Here's one that's the result of a fan: one strip of Heathcliff back in 2020 had a Kitty Korner segment where a Yukari Y. of Gensokyo, Japan mentions her cat Chen running with local foxes (i.e. Ran).

[@resinpoof2904]

That time I got reincarnated as a slime. In the manga there’s a character named Momii shows up as a daughter of the elder Tengu

[@fireemblemistrash75]

COD IS CANON IN TOUHOU, WE RISE

[@chewtag]

Mason we need to go to Gensokyo

[@bowserjrimacasualshutup6754]

3:21 ah yes daemoniken i remember him from exporygon's older videos

[@gnuman1841]

Including Touhou references in obscure and random places is like an inside joke to fellow fans of the franchise. “Hey, I know if you get this reference you like this obscure things too, but if you don’t get it you probably don’t notice it”

[@DrunkenCoward1]

6:10 *Mokou No Fujiwara* I'm not ever gonna let you live that down.

[@dustydowell2182]

A part of me died on the inside....

[@TheFrenchmanBehindYou]

In anime named "Seriously fall in love with me" the mc is playing Touhou in one of the episodes.

[@lazydelibird]

My favorite Touhou Hijack is 100% the return of r/place since I actually had the chance to participate in it. Good times, watching Canada not make their leaf and genshin being vandalized in the process of it was very entertaining.

[@siriveon3549]

"A firework display being sick" I thought the same thing too when I first got into Touhou bullet hell, even better than real life fireworks

[@Poop-lg9zs]

Umineko's reference to Touhou is also present in the original visual novel and Ouguon Musou Tensei

[@Alexander247]

Makes sense since zun and the creator of umineko are friends.

[@Sickcrazyneet]

@@Alexander247 they are?

[@Alexander247]

@@Sickcrazyneet yea. As you may know, umineko and higurashi have a lot of touhou references. And it's very obvious as well. The most notable being 3 characters cosplaying as marisa, patchouli, and alice. But in a interview with Ryukishi07 (umineko creator. R7 in short) he said this: "R7: This is my character, Namekuchi!

[@Sickcrazyneet]

@@Alexander247 bro I literally know nothing about umineko, still cool to know

[@sebastiancortes9104]

i don't know if it's a reference but in Rabi-Ribi if you hold attack button (hammer) and move to the sides you can move slowly like using the focus and also you can watch your hitbox, also the game is bullethell. and some attacks could be a reference to some spells but idk the names, but one of them definitely most be a reference to Marisa's Master spark (one of the attacks of ??? in the last chapter) and in the same same boss fight, you have to endure her final attack (Last spell?) like in some bosses where you have to resist until the time is up. also, there are a few sections like bullet hell just like 2hu. it was a nice video. i'd like to play the taiko game for switch.

[@Koik1]

I allways leave the bell on bc i love this youtube channel, it gives a lot of info and some interesting stuff about touhou. Which makes me like it more its very entertaining

[@Fishnberg]

if the Bang Dream BAD APPLE!! remix counts as a reference then clearly forgot that for another Rythem Game titled called D4DJ they have a special cover for "Help me, ERINNNNNN!!" and couple Touhou remixies~

[@SpectJumm]

7:58 People be hating on the WatchMojo hijack while this exists?

[@AltraHapi]

0:29 is that really a "reference" though?

[@otaking3582]

In Sr. Pelo's "Spooky Month 3 - Unwanted Guests", there's a store called Gensomooru that's literally filled with Touhou characters.

[@HyperVanilo]

Sr. Pelo is a huge Touhou fan, basically he is a veteran

[@Hifuutorian]

If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend looking at the Touhou Hijack account! Additionally, you could mention that Otherside Picnic originally started as fanfiction featuring the Hifuu girls from the CD albums and Roadside Picnic.

[@melody5296]

I never thought that the Tensura Alice was related to the Touhou Alice in any way. I think it's just a coincidence.

[@xSonik77]

i think she also controlls dolls/puppets

[@nekoprankster2184]

I never caught it on my own, but it's most likely a genuine reference, since later in the light novels a tengu named Momiji (whose design is a dead ringer for Touhou Momiji) is introduced.

[@sansnyan982]

I made a bench with Mokou on it once, it's now forever there

[@WillowEpp]

My real life Touhou Hijack moment was when I was eating at a local sushi restaurant and realised all the music was Touhou remixes. 2:29 I see Keine, Kasen in Byakuren's clothes, Marisa, Reimu, and China. Not sure where you found Yuugi. 🤔 2:55 Maid Guy to the right and Mahoro just to the left. Deep cuts. 6:27 Touhou stuff is in a bunch of rhythm games at this point. I have like 80 Touhou songs in Groove Coaster 6:51 Did you look at the rest of the band? They're all in costume. 7:15 Man openly admitting to being influenced by Touhou accused of being influenced by Touhou. Maybe DON'T feed the pointless drama?

[@mikubrot]

i dont think the drama exists anymore tbh

[@Pinkdam]

Kasen cosplaying Byakuren just seems so funny somehow.

[@Exuploshion]

I have one to throw in here myself! In a mod for Terraria, admittedly the most famous one, Calamity, there is a few directly touhou referencing items/weapons! The "Scarlet Devil", though not a spell card, is the name of the game. It's a late game spear that is a slow throw but does a boat load of damage, and releases several homing, red orbs that also do damage. Aka, Remillia's Spear Not the only one. Theres also a summoning weapon called "Resurection butterfly", which copies the name of her spellcard, is a pink hand fan, and using it summons several, small, etherial butterflies and is a clear reference to Yuyuko. There are more, but those 2 are the most fleshed out Though its my own personal speculation that the "Last Prism" in vanilla terraria is also a Marisa reference, if only subtle

[@takenname8053]

Super Nice, didn't know there was so much

[@yunochanishere8616]

U forgot about Momiji too Momiji from That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime manga

[@nine_ten]

Obscure one: Marisa's ultimate attack sprite in Touhou 3 is a trace of the "black nurse" monster in Rance IV

[@MarkStillPlays]

6:47 he forgors the other ones like aya

[@frostbittenwinds9703]

Calamity Mod has a lot of slight references to Touhou but some blatant ones include Hell's Sun, Resurrection Butterfly and Scarlet Devil. It can't really get more on-the-nose than that

[@Sir_Litx]

i remember when a tewi fumo appear in a russian tv news

[@EEErmine]

*mentions Bandori having a bad apple remix* *Doesn't mention D4DJ having a bad apple remix, Help me, Erin!!! remix, and even more remixes of character themes* Okay

[@bowserjrimacasualshutup6754]

also, i remember once i was on the bus and some guy had a pin of ran on his backpack i too internally screamed

[@macoykirisame]

HE JUST PRONOUNCED CIRNO "SIR NO"

[@HiganHellFlower]

The cruise missile in Cold War also says at the bottom NO: PL-4C3 4-IN4BA

[@slashine1071]

Small clearup: 3:52 isn't to do with touhou, but 1946 , a different shmup game. Drinking through every drinks machine will give you clues to what the machines are refering to.

[@primoamoress]

The frog has posted! Wake up everybody!!1

[@AzurBarnitzke]

Not sure if this counts but... McDonald's color scheme girl is Ronald McDonald from u n ownen was her classic MAD

[@archvile8567]

Everything is Touhou References.

[@Suwawako]

My favorite refernce was the one with the bob and watchmojo

[@danteshi]

You missing some of the newer one, like aya and rumia cosplay on pilifino tv station, and a tewi fumo on the russian news tv about a heavly bunny-addicted person

[@bappityyyy]

​@@danteshi I'm pretty sure with the Tewi fumo one, the broadcast was about a bunny museam actually

[@danteshi]

Oh i see, i didnt know russian language so,

[@luank3315]

Wait, you're saying me that i completed guardian tales world 12 and I didn't noticed this reference? Man i feel so stupid now

[@CirnoTheStrongestBaka]

1:59 And from this day forward, CNN was now called “Cirno News Network”

[@ThatRoofPeashooter]

4:19 don’t know if anyone has commented this yet, but in Sister V Sister, in a dialogue Alice says “Hmm, I see…If you’re looking for something forgotten, you should try searching in Gensokyo” So yeah. Gensokyo is canon in the Nep universe… I think

[@chef7658]

The call of duty one was pretty cool

[@Meilingfan]

2:31 Becuase yuugi is the best

[@nftscreenshotter6436]

my man really says "tawhhawh"

[@HirokaAkita]

0:55 I loved Ayakashi Ghost Guild, and i played it a lot from 2011 to the day their servers shut down. In fact, i loved that game so much, that it went to become one of my groundings to eventually became a weeb. Once i became a Touhou fan in 2014, i realized that a bunch of characters from AGG resembled Touhou characters. I dont remember anymore who exactly, but it was a bunch.

[@Irisicaaa]

Ragnarok Online has Touhou References in the Shrine Maiden Hat, Black Witch Hat, Magician's Night Cap. lol

[@heheggb]

idk if somebody pointed out or not, but somewhere around 2010's there were one chocolate factory in belarus and one of the chocolate bars had reimu on it

[@Iwantanfc]

Man, I enjoyed this video! Keep up the good work Suwa! Also at 0:34, you caught my interest with that french documentary mentioning Touhou, i'm kind of curious about what the French as to say about the series (Which i can't say about us Québecois since it does not seem to be popular here)

[@inserttexthere4070]

Oh that documentary is quite famous in the French Touhou fandom It's best known for portraying the fans as sexual predators lol

[@Iwantanfc]

@@inserttexthere4070 man the french are weird

[@speaker6532]

@@Iwantanfc germans*

[@LynxFTG]

2:26 Meiling cosplay spotted.

[@tk_the_onion]

2:23 isnt that reimu, marisa, Meilimg, and kasen/byakuren, not yuugi? Where am i missing a yuugi

[@Epee2134]

I'll drop one more touhou reference from WoW: there's a Death Knight-only ring that class can pick up, called "The Seal of Necrofantasia".

[@DarkDragonRus]

Akinator doesn't count because there is hardly anything you can't find in that early foray into artifical neural network.

[@HoldmyApplejuice]

Yo did you know calamity mod has a lot of touhou references, like scarlet devil and bullet hell in bosses, I don't play terraria at all but my sister does, also I saw someone with a picture of reimu Hakurei on their GCSE art sketch book and I was like screaming inside

[@danteshi]

A touhou hijack throughout the year

[@her3sie]

Just a information arte is not french is ti collab french and germany

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

I can’t believe that every big laser was inspired by Marisa’s laser! /j

[@NuageMH]

2:56 not related to touhou but the one on the left is from mahoromatic if I'm not wrong ! A good old Gainax show

[@mauriciodesouzaalves4908]

I was just planning to make Touhou references in my webcomics too... My OC Kotone Kawasaki, an otaku teenage anti-hero girl with telekinesis, had her design changed and is going to have some attacks inspired by Touhou's bullet hell style! This is because I have recently become a Touhou fan and I think this sort of references fit well the whole anime/Japanese culture fan aspect of my anti-hero group...

[@snippy515]

I didn't even realize there was a Touhou reference in Higurashi. Also love to see that same game have a Higurashi reference with the Rena cameo at 4:21

[@UnderseaRexieVT]

3:03 in Ef, that's actually a Touhou parody featuring Lucky Star characters, Konata vs Akira.

[@kirimusse]

3:57 Oh come on Keiichi; you live in 1983, you literally *can't* reference something that doesn't even exist yet XD

[@St.Trina445]

My guy we all know Yuugi is a cut Asura’s Wrath character for she is not budda. That is why she is featured for she simply is the best.