Touhou's Impact On Internet Culture

[@Монс-й1ь]

My friend once said that "this is not a fanbase dude, this is religion" when i tried to convert him into touhou Maybe he was onto something

[@M1sinformation]

The Touhou brainworm is real

[@L_Nivale]

the fact you are trying to "convert" him just proof his point 😂

[@TarosTheVoid]

I was in my fighting game phase when I gotten into Touhou through Hisotensoku Now Touhou is in my life stream Just like how I gotten into Jojo back then and always saw it everywhere, you have no idea how much Touhou stuff I've seen especially when back then I didn't realize it Except I think the Touhou brainrot I have is stronger than my younger years with Jojo (but then again Jojo and Touhou are similar in a way to me)

[@kajetanbawelnoswiat]

he will never understand

[@karlsnod2784]

I mean technically touhou is the most pure and free piece of entertainment... Lax copyright, from what I seen very friendly fans, and the freedom to make fan content...

[@baotan774]

every internet users has 3 stages: new to internet and completely oblivious to touhou slowly getting introduced to touhou and still thinking it is a small fandom realization

[@marisakirisame867]

Me actually thinking that Touhou are still a small fanbase back in 90s era ( PC-98 domination ) but zamn in 2000s it all go boom

[@Sparkmaster9]

The last stage hit me very hard then

[@SPIOoner]

thats what happened to me too

[@p-chan-therealone]

all of this because some girls fired lasers and balls at eachother, not complaining tho, touhou is peak

[@tristantanzil5796]

I love shooting balls at girls

[@Sir-doge-7166]

balls

[@alyasVictorio]

Reimu's fantasy seal, ​@@Sir-doge-7166, but I already knew that joke anyway XD

[@kier0063]

ZUN made Touhou when he was only -1 years old, respect What really got me into Touhou was me realising Ronald McDonald insanity was a touhou meme

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

We all grown up now thinking anime girl games are weeb neckbeard discord mod slop, though our CHILD HOODS were based on that anime girl game 💀

[@Animeliqite]

I used to binge watch those YTPMV videos when I was in middle school... or whatever these videos were called

[@kuadralinkzero5197]

And then McDonald's Japan use Marisa Stole Precious Thing song as commercial ad

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

@kuadralinkzero5197 WHY CAN'T TOUHOU FANDOM BE MORE EXPOSED THAN MHA FANDOM?!?

[@kuadralinkzero5197]

@@shirleymaemattthews4862 1. Beacause gatekeeper 2. This is how Touhou fandom works, they don't really exposed due to the lacks of official game commercial

[@zapp5er284]

I was never able to fully comprehend the phenomenon of touhou. It feels like something that had such a low chance of happening, that it could be compared to the big bang, an unlikely event that had unimaginable consequences. Because a simple bullet hell game turning into, without exaggeration, an internet empire sounds like a silly joke rather than something that actually happened. If people usually say "catching lightning in a bottle", then zun caught the god particle in a bottle.

[@Kodeb8]

I felt like I was in a secret club when I discovered Touhou in 2016. But looking back, Touhou was hardly a secret by that point.

[@nephuneph]

I stumbled upon Touhou in 2006 and since then it literally changed my life. Met a girl on an anime convention who was also into Touhou a few years later. We eventually ended up dating and now we've been married for a good couple of years. She's had the privilege to study in Japan for more than a year. She managed to get a physical copy of EOSD and gotten it signed by ZUN at a meet and greet. It is on display in our living room.

[@2hu_is_a_pretty_fun_game]

That's awesome congrats

[@MarkStillPlays]

bro is living the life that all touhou fans wish to have

[@renariin]

bro won in life

[@shiena_scarlet_official]

Lucky, have a nice life.❤

[@chupacabra-j2e]

You or someone should draw a fan manga about this.

[@twinfantasytowers]

Clicked on this expecting a video with at least 100k views. I actually coughed when I saw that it only had 13, really cool video, made my school lunch break actually enjoyable

[@veeloth]

same, this is too good

[@MoeFlux]

Actually same lmao

[@bluenightgenso6390]

from your perspective it literally uploaded on the day you watched it give it time

[@twinfantasytowers]

@@bluenightgenso6390 i know but i still expected more than 13

[@VertCPU]

Give it some time, maybe it will

[@rainier2k_4]

I remember when I was around maybe 7 years old? I came across parodies of Touhou songs simply being played with windows XP or Vista error sounds, specifically the song Marisa stole the precious thing. I think its funny how at the time, I just knew them as just the 'windows error' song, and this was like in 2009 - 10 when KZbin Poops were pretty much the only thing I watched lol

[@danceycat6446]

yeah, i think i remember seeing that when i was really little, too the "crazy error" easter egg on windows 93?

[@EmeraldArchive]

Oh no definitely, the hidden pipeline of being a late 2000's early 2010's kid simply enjoying youtube videos that you found fun or cool then suddenly being indoctrinated into touhou a few years later is crazy, because you realize it was always there, it just needed you to find it again

[@TheNoodleMaker]

yeah same i saw bad apple when i was watching my grandma ipad with my sister oblivous that it was touhou all i know was wow these girls are so cute didnt even notice it made my childhood

[@JAMllostthegame]

Other notable things I think are worth mentioning that could color the series more: 1) Touhou was once a titan of doujinshi works. Being one of the most represented series in Comiket and even led to the creation of their own con, Reitaisai. 2) In EoSD, one of Cirno's attack patterns on Easy mode actually do not hit in front of her meaning you could stand right in her face and not die. This is showcased in the Cirno's Perfect Marh Class MV further showing her as dumb. 3) Touhou has been cited as one of Toby Fox's biggest inspirations when making Undertale. It's gotten to the point where both he and ZUN have collabed for a song in a Touhou rhythm game, remixing one song from each game together. There's a second one on the way as well.

[@Sykroid]

The amount of Touhou Doujinshi was insane, but I didn't know they fell from popularity. Are they just not made anymore?

[@wriggletime1412]

@@Sykroid I don't know why he said was, it still is. In particular there are more fan games made then any other series to this day, I am almost certain.

[@JAMllostthegame]

Simple typo on the use of is/was. Also the idea that they fell from popularity is kinda of an extreme stretch, even considering my error lol.

[@Sykroid]

@@JAMllostthegame I haven't really kept up with anything doujin-related, and I know Fate got big a few years back, so I figured maybe a lot of the internet moved onto that lol. Glad to see it's still popular, even if a lot of it is probably H

[@marisakirisame867]

Ngl the 1st windows era ( 6,7,8 or probably 9 ) is the golden age of Touhou ...

[@kasenibaraki3770]

It's one of those things that was always there, whether you realized it or not. Definitely the best rabbit hole I ever fell down.

[@ItsGamein]

This doesnt even scratch the surface, touhou is the strongest example in the world of word of mouth advertising, and zun managed it by accident, even Fate and genshin impact havent come close I have no way to prove it but i genuinely think gacha game companies study touhou to replicate its success, they hold onto copyright over their characters but never take legal action against fan art and fan material which are technically copyright infringement

[@Монс-й1ь]

MEMES - DNA of a soul

[@Randomshiet-xv4pf]

isn't fair use a thing

[@ItsGamein]

@@Randomshiet-xv4pf fair use laws are outdated and were intended for criticism and similar uses As an example, let's play youtubers including a video game's title in their video title does not fall under fair use, that's how poorly written the fair use laws are

[@Randomshiet-xv4pf]

@@ItsGamein damn that sucks, i never checked it, thanks for the information man

[@McDuggets]

@@Randomshiet-xv4pfAlso japan does not have fair use laws

[@hulakururin8111]

7:09 I am a big fan of Inu Sakuya, which motivated me to conduct research on this character. I want to clarify that the information I share is not found on any wiki and is the result of my own investigation. Although the Inu Sakuya figure was manufactured by Gift in 2009, surprisingly, the company did not sell it in any of its stores. This figure was available on three occasions during that same year: at White Canvas (online), Akatsuki no Banket (presential), and Comic x Comic (presential). Inu Sakuya first appeared in 2005, not 2007. Many believe that the comic "Together with Inu Sakuya" is her first appearance, but this is a rumor originating from Danbooru. Someone in the community responded without sources that this comic was the first, which has led to confusion. Inu Sakuya did not appear at the stand set up to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the figures. The initial price of Inu Sakuya was 2000 yen, as her size is smaller than that of a normal figure, approximately 2/3 the size. If you have any questions about Inu Sakuya, feel free to ask me.

[@marisakirisame867]

Is Inu Sakuya fumo is the first fumo? Or is there any before

[@hulakururin8111]

​@@marisakirisame867If you're referring to the plushies, the first fumos were Marisa and Reimu in 2008. Inu Sakuya is a character with the characteristics of a fumo and was the one who inspired the creation of the plushied fumos.

[@hulakururin8111]

​​​@@marisakirisame867If we're talking about plushies, the first fumos were Reimu and Marisa, which came out in August 2008. Inu Sakuya fumo was released in 2009. Inu Sakuya is influenced by the chibi style of those years and was drawn by Nejikirio.

[@monkeeee]

The fan music scene is pretty much the only way I interact with Touhou. There are so many amazing covers/albums that are professional level quality made by the fans.

[@BinglesP]

Been a hardcore Touhou fan since I was 8 years old. This is the first time I've heard someone else say that it isn't really that accurate to the original song and is more of its own thing. I always thought that but I never really heard anyone mention so. Funnily enough, there is another Bad Apple remix that is unrelated to that one called Little Devil's Apple, which _does_ follow the original melody. It's pretty good too.

[@P4R4X]

That one called is an arrangement of the circle Yuuhei Satellite sung by Senya and based on the 3rd stage theme from TH04 LLS.

[@Ohyeahitsnotme]

Yet somehow my sister who is 24 that’s been on the internet for years somehow didn’t know what touhou was until I mentioned it to her.

[@McDuggets]

Bro i own few fumos but i did not even know where they were from today is the first time in my life i have ever heard about touhou. Actually i have heard the name multiple times but never knew what it meant other than MANY songs i associated with that title. Im so glad the time i had with my doctor was later than i thought and video about Gensokyo and now i have done nothing else than just looking stuff up

[@Ghorda9]

tell her that she has already encountered things from the fandom without realising it

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

All I know about Touhou is Bad Apple, U. N. Owen was here, Night of nights, the nuclear meltdown song and it is a bullethell game

[@marisakirisame867]

The only things i rember is that somehow i broke SSG pins and now my PC-98 are just pure FM, no square

[@AutisticFloppa]

I got into touhou when i was 5 and now it seems everything i acquire and find relates back to touhou

[@twofacedmiku]

Pretty much everything on the internet relates back to touhou it seems, I found out recently that the first ever vocaloid song was a cover of a cirno song by the first vocaloid leon

[@AutisticFloppa]

​@@twofacedmiku not even on the internet i mean like in real life too

[@corruptional5899]

When i was around 12 i came across this video of a extra stage clear of touhou 6, and i vividly remember scowering forms to try to figure out how to download it because it looked cool. Ended up on 7 and kept playing it after school nearly every day along with 8 despite absolutely sucking at it, fast forward a while i can safely say i am obsessed 9/10 brainworm would reccomend

[@Ultra_7]

*it was a l w a y s a Touhou reference*

[@Freddles780]

8:16 just wanna add an extra funky fun fact for any aspiring fumo owners! You can order official fumos off of amiami for abt 80 bucks per fumo! However you have to keep an eye out for when the prereleases drop or you'll miss them cuz they sell out fast! And also be prepared to wait a few months till you actually get them!

[@marisakirisame867]

Yeah they sold out damn fast that i might used autoclicker

[@handlebar4520]

the gigachad AMOGUS?!

[@killaknight12]

The craziest feat to me was when the community managed to animate all of Bad Apple on r/place. Nobody even dared to touch that area and everyone was eager to see the final time lapse.

[@sanuku535]

there is straigth up 4 minutes about fumos alone. What the hell

[@kosuken]

I fucking love touhou

[@CoasterCrest]

While I had seen a number of iterations of Bad Apple over the years, it completely went over my head, and I had no real idea of what Touhou was until July 2023, when I discovered Cirno's Perfect Math Class on Spotify, then later found out it was about Touhou and watched its music video, then found Japanese Goblin on KZbin, and things just grew from there. Now, I've listened to hundreds of different Touhou fan songs, have played Touhou 6, and own a bootleg fumo (Cirno). It's insane how deep the rabbit hole goes.

[@parjol9064]

Now THESE are the kinda videos I wanna see

[@NynLoveRats]

Touhou game is too underrated, respect to zun for making a masterpiece

[@marisakirisame867]

when ZUN really used up the SC-90 to the limit :

[@apollonat3329]

Touhou was big during flipnote hatena era. I’ve seen animation on it and that’s why I got hooked. (( Early 2010s at the time and the first Touhou character was Flan Scarlet. I was amazed cause of her colorful wings and her cute red dress. I WAS 10! And enjoying the music and other characters!))

[@Snowonacone]

SAME I first got introduced to Touhou through flipnote

[@bulturst1297]

One big aspect you didn't talk about much and the way I got into Touhou is rhythm games and the sheer amount of touhou songs in all of them. When I first found out about Touhou it was mind blowing realising hundreds of charts and songs i had all came from the same place.

[@CraftedLeah4545]

I’m not even focusing on the video but on the gameplay in the background being really good at the game

[@Dukstless]

To give you an idea of how important ZUN's music is to the series, it's also the oldest known derivative work. It's not a doujin, it's not a fanart or a fangame, it's a MIDI arrangement... of Mystic Square's final boss theme, that dates to February 2000. He has definitely garnered following even before Windows, it's just that unlike Pokemon, which had enough publishing force to effectively revive a dying console, ZUN was just one man who underestimated the demand he'd face, so it was limited in scope (PC-98 was slowly getting replaced by Win 95 at that point). There's a reason the only known player with legit copies simply was around for that Comiket lol.

[@marisakirisame867]

Is there anything to do with Legendary Illusion - Infinite Being? I haven't heard anything bout it

[@ameero9146]

Am I the only one still in my childhood that is obsessed with this fandom and always recognizes references from it?!

[@aliastheabnormal]

At least Cirno is strong while playing Armored Core.

[@Kirmania]

Here before this blows up When I clicked, I thought it had 10K+ views. Underrated. And also it's a nice touch you have covered Bad Apple's lost media.

[@teojmek]

Fellow romanian touhou fan

[@Kirmania]

Gensokyo e București că avem de toate pe acolo

[@just2koishi]

woah it's you

[@Kirmania]

@@just2koishi it's you

[@KittyLover4lifeee]

0:59 amogus

[@ahahahah_1118]

Nice,time to introduce Touhou to my friends

[@ijsdd]

touhou refrences most of the time where i go...

[@XenoflareBahamut]

To think that he made the game and music while drunk

[@WindowsDrawer]

It's a shame most people watching this are already touhou fans lol

[@marisakirisame867]

Yeah lol Touhou is more like for OGs and rarely newbies joins

[@ShupidRayn]

Im not i just watch this cause im bored

[@marisakirisame867]

@@ShupidRayn lol me too

[@haunted_pixel]

A single video on Instagram about U.N. Owen Was Her played on a block music thing sparked my spiraling down the Touhou rabbit hole. I recognized the song from *somewhere,* but I had no idea where. As I went on I found out that some of the eurobeat songs I listen to (Odyssey Eurobeat songs namely), were actually inspired by Touhou songs. And then later, I even found out that my interest in vocaloids has some Touhou roots too. Teto Territory has leitmotifs from a few Touhou songs, namely Beloved Tomboyish Girl. Touhou has been ingrained in my life for longer than I even realized. I never did find out where I recognized U.N. Owen Was Her, though. But all it took was a single random Instagram video

[@Eokoi]

People can know certain characters, not where they are from. I knew about Reimu and Sakuya before I knew about Touhou. Same with bad apple.

[@theotv5522]

To quote a legend comment in the original Bad Apple AMV: “It’s actually scary how I know 80% of these characters despite never played a Touhou game”

[@McDuggets]

I FINALLY KNOW WHAT THIS IS!!! I have heard MANY of these songs multiple times and i even own few fumos i found at thrift shop, but never actually knew what they were called! I really have no idea how i have nevere been introduced to touhou by accident since i had a friend that really liked these games when i was 12

[@-m.zenterra-5001]

3:28 Funny thing is I get introduced to Touhou because of my ego I was in Middle school when I discovered it, it all started when I want to play a hard game on my potato PC (So potato it can't even run Dark Souls 1) So, I searched for lists of "Hardest Game" according to internet and Touhou often got into many of the list I was so broke at the time, I downloaded all Touhou games from Touhou 1 to Touhou 17 on Kanako's Shrine website I picked up Touhou Project because at that point I've been playing bullet hell games since I was a kid but never got to be an expert into it. So I thought to myself bullet hell isn't hard, but it just requires time to master And boy, Touhou was surely easy compared to the bullet hells I've played during my childhood year. On my first hard run on Touhou 6, I managed to beat Meiling without using bomb nor losing a life. Since then, I've become an avid but casual Touhou player Little did I know, it was the first time a game really dragged me into a fandom seriously

[@monotsussy]

i love this video so much, i hope this can bring even more people into the fandom and give moar knowledge to those who don't know anything touhou!!!

[@Lmati29]

Really good video for a touhou introduction shows just how big the series is

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

The thing I always wanted to know is...WHY is ZUN's youkai CUTE anime girls, That's what I ALWAYS wanted to know!

[@PilotTed]

Tohou is a brain worm that will infect all life in the Universe! PRAISE BE TOHOU!!!!

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

IT BETTER NOT BE! I DONT WANT QEEBS RULEING THE WORLD

[@marisakirisame867]

Seems like i got touhou brainworm since 1997

[@PilotTed]

I did a chirno and fckin misspelled Touhou lmao

[@zrudu]

leaving a comment to boost engagement, amazing video

[@yazawanico5595]

This video is great and so informative!! As a casual touhou fan since childhood, I learned some new things watching this video I didn’t know about. I would like to add something to the fanmade songs and MV section though. I was surprised there was no mention of the impact that It’s Always Cirno’s Turn/Kero 9 Destiny and the Teto Kasane fanmade remake of these songs titled Teto Territory had back in the day. Many characters and franchises received their own version of these parodies including Spongebob. Vocaloid and Utau fans alike recognize this as one of the most iconic songs to come from the vocal synth community and the most popular upload of the song on KZbin has over 19 million views currently. Teto Territory has become more popular due to Teto Kasane’s fanbase growing in recent years as well. I’m not sure how many people got into Touhou from it specifically, but it seems to be a widely known fact that the source material that inspired TT is from Touhou. Also, the original video that inspired K9D and It’s Always Cirno’s Turn came from Odenpa Love Girl, a parody video on NND that featured a fan-sung cover of Beloved Tomboyish Girl with silly lyrics that made Cirno sound like an idiot. I may have some of this information incorrect or out of order in the timeline, but I just wanted to mention this because it is significant to Touhou’s cultural impact on other fandoms outside of its own.

[@fumo-fumo-fumo]

I still think it's weird that it's literally everywhere, even in western culture, yet it's still relatively small here. It had like, 12 chances of hitting it big.

[@shooptouhoueurobeat]

Amazing job 🔥🔥🔥 I always have such a hard time trying to explain to friends wtf touhou even is. Also I had no idea about that bad apple extended version, fascinating stuff 👀

[@abd-animation-22]

It's one of those deep rabbits holes that you can't escape

[@ryoga808]

Oh, that Bad Apple extension is lost media. I remember there being clips of it but it must of been removed. I remember Satori, Orinrin, and Utsuho being added too as cameos.

[@Noobinati]

The very same day I published my own take on Touhou being everywhere this popped up on my recommendations feed 😂 Your video is much more in depth, and most importantly contains much more Cirno in it. 10/10 Great vid, keep it up.

[@MASTERCHIEFCRAZY1]

Not many people know that one of the first iterations of the Ricardo Milos meme came from a Touhou fan in 2011, Touhou is literally everywhere.

[@bearishplane17]

I remember back in 2008 when my older brother had EoSD, MoF & Imperishable Night on CD disk. He allowed me to play them on his laptop and ever since I've always loved Touhou. I am really impressed and grateful that the community and the games are still going strong even many years later and I hope it continues to live on for a long time. This is the type of series I cannot turn my back to.

[@KogasaStan]

I'm a simple person, i see Touhou i watch, like and subscribe.

[@MarkStillPlays]

i love how touhou and tf2 are extremely connected together for sharing similarties, being immortal is one of them

[@ziwwl5707]

Oh, I loved the Touhou franchise when growing up, diving into all different circles of it's franchise, some really stood out. Played the first 6 Touhou Games it did have a huge impact on my life and now with increasing understanding of Japanese it even makes more sense to me now. Also I love the Touhou metal circle especially, even finding underground bands still releasing new Remixes or own recreations is amazing and something I can just highly recommend if you love Touhou and heavy music.

[@WobbuffetBoy]

Cirno is named after Cirno from "Sarai" manga, ZUN got his inspiration from that manga on Touhou 6, Sakuya included

[@tchitchouan]

Great documentary, thank you.

[@captaindookey]

I got in because of the hentai, stayed because I like the lore. Fan base is a mixed bag...

[@DeejTiuz]

Good video! Me it was ronald mac donald insanity, u.n owen was her (and their "sparta remix"), bad apple i think

[@EnRandomSten]

I've never actually gotten into touhou but hearing that the ronald mcdonald video used touhou music was one of those "ooooh that makes perfect sense" moments lol

[@zetsuboushinjiruu9350]

i've been a long time fan of this series and still loving it

[@TheruleroftheSkaters]

PART 2 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@RukasuAkio]

The Best Years Of Touhou never ends

[@MrSuperChan09]

Yeah, Touhou is so big that there’s even a reference in Call Of Duty.

[@deinlojr]

i am so proud to be a touhou fan

[@Milty2001]

I remember how touhou was revolutionary to the point where i remember i was at a hospital to get new crutches, and someone came in and wanted to donate a whole box full of touhou fumo, people were going crazy over them, i still have mine till this day

[@Nythiar]

Funnily enough, i’m a fan of touhou because some minecraft youtuber used an orchestral cover of retrospective kyoto, phantasm stage theme and kanako’s theme. Love you Tutti Sound and WAVE, two of the best doujin circles i’ve listened to. I could only hope that more people know their masterpieces

[@playingtj01tv12]

Very well researched. Good job!

[@DiabolicCrusher]

I honestly probably consumed incomprehensible amount of Touhou media over the years(mostly touhou circles music, i still listen to some of that stuff to this day and will likely continue to do so until the end of my days), yet the only actual official game i played is EOSD(Cleared the Flandre stage, too, after ramming my head into a wall repeatedly by trying again and again because my dumb ass couldn't remember patterns in danmaku games back then). Zun is honestly a legend for starting all of this just because he wanted to write music for games. Fumos were a mistake though. ...why is Sakuya a furry?

[@perkunie9764]

PCB scenario, she is called "dog of the devil" by Yuyuko

[@marisakirisame867]

As far as i rember, she ever got called as dogs of devil since she is obedient to the SD combo ( flan and remilia )... She is probably a vampire hunter by looking at her dagger but that's just theory and the rest are history..m

[@mmm1217]

18:26 I wish you'd at least mentioned WHY she's called an idiot in that song. Namely, that on Easy mode, one of her attacks (Ice Sign: "Icicle Fall" Spell Card) has a blind spot in the single worst place in a danmaku battle: point blank range. The attack simply cannot hit you on that difficulty if you get up to her face.

[@jk743]

The internet wouldn't be what it is today without Touhou.

[@guroneko549]

every rhythm game player will live & die for bad apple

[@volcanoraptor8646]

bad apple, u.n.owen was her, Flandre scarlet, and Koishi Koemiji's heart throbbing adventure those are the things that got me into Touhou and now I'm a fan who has played many of the games and fan games owns a Koishi fumo and am making my own fan work

[@duck_best]

I remember that Charlie/penguin0 actually played the touhou games and it kinda makes sense he made the name of the tournament a touhou reference

[@squishyyw]

I‘ve known about Touhou‘s existence for quite a few years and just associated it to many many songs but back then I felt like it was too huge of a fandom to get into. A few days ago I actually started getting into Touhou and realized that literally everything is Touhou it‘s crazy

[@Its_hoekin_time]

Nicktoons/nickelodeon, the muppets and touhou is a staple of my accounts

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

Are you a weeb or no, also, opinions on the waifu stuff? I hate the waifu stuff 🤮

[@Its_hoekin_time]

yea I mean I like all forms of media mostly cartoons anime and anything to do with puppetry and I don’t have a waifu personally lol but I mean if people do have one I don’t judge but I don’t personally…

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

@Its_hoekin_time Good. Whenever I see the word waifu, it's posted on MAD INNAPROPIATE garbage 🤮

[@pixelverse48]

ZUN not only made an amazing series, but changed the internet forever

[@pank3245]

You should also mention how big touhou is in rhythm game scene. It's actually been a staple for every rhythm game to have a touhou category for music.

[@MaidenSynthesis-u2i]

At 2:39 what's the song, I probably haven't played it yet

[@isamiiin4705]

It's Satori maiden ~ 3rd eye from subterranean animism, Touhou 11

[@MaidenSynthesis-u2i]

@isamiiin4705 thanks

[@marisakirisame867]

Touhou really shaped the 2000s Internet, but that time, im still inside a cave

[@leaffallclover]

EVERY-FUCKING-THING ON THE INTERNET. LITERALLY. TOUHOU EVERYWHERE.

[@perkunie9764]

6:47 didn't see anyone mention it here but I'm pretty sure the reason for inu sakuya existing (instead of say neko sakuya or whatever) is the dialogue in Perfect Cherry Blossom. There are two instances of her being referred to as a dog ("dog of the devil" by Yuyuko, "dog meat" by Lyrica) in her scenario, and PCB predates the plush afaik. Also you probably should've included a short explanation for "doujin".

[@liwendiamond9223]

Zun is probably the best music composer currently alive. If not the best, at least the most well known top tier composer. The fact that he allowed his franchise and music to be built upon by hordes of talented fans has cemented him as an immortal gigachad. Mad respect.

[@LolitSpeed]

This is the strongest video on youtube.

[@purpleteaisme]

75% of music artists I follow at least had something touhou related to their name. If we're not going to include the music artists that I followed post 2020. I'd say 90% did something related to touhou.

[@lumiaea]

i feel like the en side of touhou community is quite small, cause most of the fan work and new contents still comes from jp and cn side, en just keeps importing them. which kinda gives me the feeling that en touhou is kinda dead

[@ct2651]

In the grand scheme of thing, anime looking stuff is still quite niche in the west... just check games sales per graphic style and see that anime looking games just sell on average 1/10 of other games.... even for atlus recently...

[@SupaKoopaTroopa64]

If I had a nickle for every time I discovered that a song I like was either inspired by, or a cover of a Touhou song, or at least published by a Touhou-adjacent record label, I'd have enough nickles to buy a good-quality meal (that's not too much money, but it is a lot of music!). Nowadays I've become somewhat familiar with the names of musicians and labels affiliated with Touhou stuff that I'm not surprised very often. Also, for reasons I don't quite understand, all of my most liked KZbin comments are on videos of Touhou music being played on various things it was never intended to be played on. I've never even played the games, and I could only name like 2-3 characters off the top of my head (don't know how well I could spell or pronounce them).

[@ch3rry833]

What in my opinion is important to say is that ZUN wanted to end the series with Imperishable Night, the eighth, but since it got this huge amount of popularity thanks to internet, he decided to not end the series and continue

[@FumoGaming48231]

As someone who owns 6 fumos I LOVE THIS FRANCHISE

[@satericat17]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. One of the main reasons I find Touhou so fascinating is because Zun is so lenient and calm on things related to Touhou. That can lead to... weird things, to say the least, but I just do have so much respect for Zun who created the Touhou games not just for himself, but for anyone who finds an interest in the series. I don't like all of the music from Touhou (I know this to be an unpopular opinion, but I don't like "U.N. Owen was her?" that much) but there are still so many types of remixes of the original music that I know for sure I would like somewhere on the internet. I don't often like popular things, but for me Touhou is a "good" type of popular. For me personally, I love the music and lore from the games (I especially love the Shinto aesthetic). I love the fan creations as long as they aren't too "inappropriate", "provocative", or "fan-service-y". Another thing I have respect for Zun, is that despite the vast majority of Touhou characters being girls, he doesn't have fan-service in any of the games (to my knowledge). I don't know things too deeply about, as the series is more like a "pastime obsession" of mine, but I do plan to play at least a couple of the games one day (I can't buy the games, so I would have to find them free, most likely on Moriya Shrine). I don't think I've ever played danmaku games before, nor do I think I would be very good at it, but I at least want to try the Touhou games, to experience Zun's works with my own eyes. Sorry my comment seems so messy (I have autism and ADHD)! Thank you and God bless to anyone who has read this comment! With love, -Alankuhaa Samuelkah Fischum Eircaru PS Bad Apple is the main reason I know about Touhou. The first I remember watching Bad Apple was maybe around 2020 to 2021, but I most likely watched it when I was much younger though I just don't remember watching it from when I was younger. I was born in 2006, so I was born in-between the releases of Phantasmagoria of Flower View (2005) and Mountain of Faith (2007). Another interesting thing to note is that one of my favorite Japanese series of all time, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, is I think related to Touhou in that Zun and Ryukishi07 (the original creator of Higurashi) are friends in real life. Both Touhou and Higurashi also have the form of popularity that I like in terms that both of the game series are popular, but that it is a more "obscure popularity", in that you often have to do some digging to really know either of the series.

[@Double_Dude]

Nice video dude! I've watched till the end and left a like and a comment!🎉

[@jetblack8086]

for me it started with night of nights, sakuya's rampage, bad apple, IOSYS, chirumiru, and ronald's insanity. Honestly thought it was just a bunch of this weird anime music video things at first Now I played almost all the games (including spinoffs and fangames), finished a few, have a playlist of all my favorite songs from the ZUN albums, own and read volumes 3-6 of Forbidden Scrollery, and own the Komeiji sister fumos

[@dreameyeeveez1394]

as a vocaloid / utau fan of course some things overlap like how teto territory one of tetos most popular songs was basically a parody of cirnos math class, not to mention a cover of a version with miku that forgot the name of

[@SoldadoCatolico]

Honestly the impact of not only touhou memes but Japanese influence on internet culture is stratospherically high, not by having one ultra-popular meme but by having many different memes here and there that made their way into the West. But you could argue that either Germany or Finland are more influential because wojak and apu apustaja came from each respectively but apart from these they are fairly scuffed. Edit: do not get mad that I called wojack a German meme when it was originally drawn by a Polish person, doesn't matter because it got popular first on krautchan, a German site.