WHAT IS TOUHOU? An informational video

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

Touhou is like looking up to see an anvil falling towards you, only you realize that there must be some spaces between the individual atoms composing the anvil, and you might be able to survive if only you could pass between those spaces.

[@Naku_u]

GG

[@Konpekikaminari]

+Lord Sithis you're either lying, trolling or have extreme skills

[@Konpekikaminari]

***** the only bullet hell I've played is friggin' Undertale New is a big word for me

[@Konpekikaminari]

***** watched it Damn...

[@RomantiqueTp]

+Itai Sprachman, what Lord Sithis is saying is true, Touhou isn't as hard as the internet wants you to believe. People only find it hard because almost nobody played a bullet hell before.

[@queencepha]

people always say that you should play touhou but never actually say where to actually get touhou

[@frantic7775]

Ikr I am dying to try it out.

[@sorakitagami9767]

google Moriya Shrine

[@bladebolt1291]

You have to search far and wide for the original CDs

[@BattleCattleSA]

you have to summon it

[@nitya404]

Tell me your secrets *NOW*

[@achronath]

This game teaches you how to walk around in rain without getting wet

[@jsbstn]

just cover yourself in oil

[@AwesomeRandomYT]

@@jsbstn oil floats on water

[@stm7810]

@@jsbstn no, the oil will float above the clouds and leave you behind.

[@braydenoid293]

Well for some reason when I step in the rain it avoids me I'm so fucking ugly not even rain wants to touch me

[@tantejunko]

but we're not reimu we dont have a small-ass microscopic size hurtbox

[@aaal2816]

Guy: *Brings out umbrella because it's raining* Guy that plays touhou: *doges rain in 0.4 seconds* Guy: *Impossible*

[@creationsmaxo]

Now, that would make it a funny meme gag: Imaging teenager girl avoiding all the rain drops during a storm.

[@therealcactoos9457]

Creations Maxo “You can’t headshot me! I have no hit box there!”

[@esalvador4197]

Za Warudo intensifies

[@darkcrypter]

DIO cringe

[@picklesandnori]

Is that melee fox from something about star fox 64

[@williamcote4208]

In a nutshell Touhou is "trying to avoid rain simulator"

[@ketto3268]

Well, you're not wrong.

[@sanstheskeleton6784]

i guess...?

[@theanti-person9113]

easy is like... easy normal is like difficult hard is like trying to avoid a smaller rain or a snowfall without getting wet or snowflaked lunatic is like trying to not have any slowflakes on your coat in a blizzard extra is like... hard mode stage 5 but in a marathon singular stage

[@Mr._Sherwood]

William Côté Easy is trying to avoid someone turning a hose on you. Normal is 5 people turning hoses on you. Lunatic is when they turn their hoses onto mist mode.

[@noellesato311]

Lord Sithis Yeah, Easy. A walk in the park. A piece of cake. Simple and easy. Nothing difficult. Like taking candy from a baby. Alright. Let's take a look at advanced modern theoretical physics. Dr. Gordon here says advanced modern theoretical physics is easy. He's an MiT graduate. It's a piece of cake to him. Of course, advanced modern theoretical physics is easy for you too, right? Of course it is! Because Advanced Modern Theoretical Physics is EASY, ISN'T IT DOCTOR GORDON? YES. EASY. A WALK IN THE PARK. NORMAL OR HARD? MAYBE EVEN LUNATIC? A WALK. IN. THE. PARK. (Unless it's actually on easy mode, even an untrained muggle like me can do even that.)

[@agabrield]

"How hard is touhou?" Yes

[@trickygamer555]

I once played a game that was a bit like this game, but it was just another bullet hell game. I just had to play at the hardest setting, everything was fine until the enemies started shielding each other, forcing me to move around.

[@CPat75]

Imagine if the original ost was replaced by eurobeat

[@timothymclean]

"How many characters does Touhou have?" "Yes."

[@nickasp8928]

@@CPat75 That'll be fucking dope!

[@nickasp8928]

@@timothymclean Yes

[@FredWood41]

Touhou players don't need umbrellas

[@azazel5803]

Frekju just make sure your hitbox doesnt get hit

[@WomanSlayer69420]

as a touhou player, I confirm that we do need umbrellas because we cosplay as touhou characters half the time when we go out.

[@jakedaknight5749]

Unless you're Yukari.

[@lyncario5515]

@@jakedaknight5749 Or Yuuka.

[@bjfifi]

Edward Liu woosh

[@Latency345]

Most of the people who watch these are mostly people who actually know Touhou but are curious as to what other people interpret Touhou as. Edit: I said most, not all. If you’re genuinely new, then welcome. If not, then good.

[@antiquet3301]

This is the video that solidified my interest in Touhou.

[@ferociousmaliciousghost]

I literally only found touhou because I was really bored and typed night of nights. (That was about 3-5 years ago)

[@TheGingerIsNoGood]

So am I the only one or....

[@LunAR-ic7uj]

Parsee Mizuhashi i literally have no idea what it is and I saw it on the comments of a vocaloid video so I searched it up

[@think_of_a_storyboard3635]

It's trying to avoid rain simulator

[@RijaMo]

Ahhh so thats touhou. At first i thought it was a fighting game, then a visual novel, then a bullet hell shooter. Apparently im correct

[@HyperVanilo]

Touhou has fighting games, 6 of them in fact.

[@potatodude3947]

3 for 3

[@kadlifal]

@Cerese at least just by name i knew it isn't anime cuz it already stated it had titles like subterranean

[@denjis_left_nut]

Ye I thought it was a visual novel lol

[@dredgalyst]

I thought it was an anime Then I figured out it was a bullet hell shooter Then I found out it was literally every genre in existance

[@MrX-sw7ho]

"The more beautiful the pattern, the deadlier it is" Miss Junko: *ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT???*

[@Skeke]

Don't give me flashbacks

[@joannamysluk8623]

I love Junko's spell card patterns, at least they are not total clusterf*cks and the lasers look extra nice.

[@waterized_bottle]

_"It's about time to purify your a-holes like you."_

[@konstantinsotov6251]

Fuck you, Junko, seriously.

[@regayudafitra6236]

She just want you dead,that's it.....no beautiful pattern,just straigth up to murder

[@andrewbowers8402]

I love how all the game names are fancy like "fucicious anuerism" and stuff and they just gave up with one of them and named one "Shoot the Bullet"

[@seanguan5721]

Wat? The heck is Fucicious Aneurism?

[@MalachiWadas]

+Sean Guan I'm pretty sure that's like Touhou 100

[@faeire0]

He meant Subterranean Animism. Also of all games, he picked the hardest one to beat.

[@poidachi6003]

@@faeire0 one of the hardest* I mean *ISN'T LOLK HARDER THAN THAT* (for me I guess)

[@faeire0]

@@poidachi6003 Thank you for the correction. Though people find ISC difficult too.

[@kristinembury9960]

Who else is watching this cause they didn’t know the characters from “Bad Apple”

[@greatnovastar]

Me 🖐️

[@kristinembury9960]

@@greatnovastar lol same

[@bricali]

thought I was the only one who was not a fan and just curious

[@primelawliet]

@@kristinembury9960 why do you write same u already wrote "who else" 🦍

[@kristinembury9960]

@@primelawliet I don’t understand you, can you use grammar?

[@SpookyDeadeye]

Fanbase towards Touhou makes look like is something better than just a bullethell game.

[@celeastral-inactive8123]

It certainly does, that's more than half the reason I like the series so much. :)

[@smelyspartan]

A lot of the "story lines" in Touhou are purposely vague, with the story being exclusively told through the places your travel through and the small amount of dialogue your character has with each boss. The music and visual design attract people to the game, and the wondrous world it is set in along with the vague story that leaves much to the imagination makes the series a lot more interesting than you would normally think. The interest to know more with the openness of the story lines leaves tons of room for people to make their own interpretations on things... hence all of the content made by fans (including several fan sponsored short anime series). This breeds the kind of community that can last a long time since it isn't fueled entirely by the content that the creator puts out (which is limited by the creator), but by the content that the fans make in speculation to how certain things could be in the Touhou universe. Well, at least that is my interpretation of how it is. Most people who become fans of Touhou don't stop being fans of it. Many other games will have bursts of hype around the release of the game which dies down, but Touhou stays steady with its community.

[@raccoonchild]

It is. It's a wonderful franchise that mixes the excitement of battle with the charm of folklore and the beauty of nature.

[@freshlymemed5680]

Its like undertale, but the porn isnt questionable and ultimately acceptable.

[@Mr._Sherwood]

...what.

[@animeswitch]

touhou is the spawn of some of the best music ever made.

[@BabyBlueFord]

I think we all should take a lesson from ZUN.

[@denglong7180]

especially the FELT version.

[@rastko7261]

I have listened to quite a lot of touhou music and I can agree with you. Other than black MIDIs that will destroy your ears and children songs(ISOYS or something like that with tons of bunnies for some reason) there is quite a lot of relaxing songs(Xe - Flandre's Xmas night is my favourite) and fast and awesome power metal songs that you can have 5+ eargasms per listening of a song(Demetori - View of the river Styx, Demetori - Love-colored master spark, Dragonforce - Trough fire and flames, and so on). I've never played any touhou games, but I have played some fan-made flash games(Bullet Heaven is the best). Too bad most of the music is quite shitty.

[@ender7278]

This is where Bad Apple came from, right?

[@Ayzev]

+Ender Yep.

[@Starmanstriker]

Imagine how much money an actual anime series would make...

[@cannonical6981]

Yes!

[@girld1ck]

There is😊

[@Person-lh5fp]

Just look up touhou anime.

[@medicineman5344]

There is some touhou animes although all of them are fan made.

[@junrungsritrakulchang188]

Onetime I watched a animation about Tohou vs Undertale and I don’t know anything about Tohou so I mistake it as an anime.

[@creationsmaxo]

You know, when you learn about something by listening to a song based on another song based on a fan-made video based on a indie game, that makes you wonder if it could still be considered an indie game series at that point.

[@FabricioSantos-zy6vt]

@@endermax2106 yes, I'm here for the same reason

[@felipevaldivia9940]

Well, ZUN did say that his best area was music composition and to promote himself he made touhou

[@alextheconfuddled8983]

Geometry Dash Yatagarasu - Using remix of a Touhou song - finding original Touhou song - finding Touhou - pain

[@kadlifal]

Yes bruh i literally had to search for two days and yeah i have never played a touhou

[@Re-2005]

Zun can't draw to save his life but certainly he knows how to make good music and characters

[@polterboo3515]

one guy did all this? I'm impressed, hats off to this guy!

[@fateid8642]

ZUN our lord and savior

[@beefalo2170]

let me give him my unusual

[@lain7758]

And plenty of silly hats at that

[@OverseerMoti]

At times, he worked on the game when DRUNK.

[@bofi2649]

OverseerMoti Now I'm even more impressed.

[@iceloveanime]

Touhou ain't a game. Touhou is life. Or death if you're new.

[@God-ch8lq]

[border of life and death ]

[@mangouschase]

It's like starting against sans?

[@BGDMusic]

Naiji indeed

[@alextheconfuddled8983]

Its a torture device for those who thought dark souls was too easy

[@HouraisanShijuushichi]

@@mangouschase yes but 23x harder

[@ultratortoise21]

"tougher than if diamonds had a baby with megaman zero" I'm using this phrase to explain game difficulty for the rest of my life

[@its_heeho]

I know this is a 2 year old comment, but Megaman Zero is easy if you just act very cautious and pay attention to your surroundings.

[@ultratortoise21]

@@its_heeho please dont talk to me i beat every mmz game before you were born

[@its_heeho]

@@ultratortoise21 I also got through every Megaman Zero game, I didn't have that many issues except for a few stages (The Neo Arcadia stage from Megaman Zero 3 is a great example) all on the original GBA.

[@its_heeho]

@@ultratortoise21 Also, how did you beat the entire series before I was born? Megaman Zero 3 and 4 came out after I was born lmao.

[@its_heeho]

@@ultratortoise21 That's one way of saying, "I am very insecure about not being good at a game series and I don't like it when someone is good at the same game series I am bad at". Also I am FAR from being skilled at Megaman Zero 1-4. (2 being an exception). I am not the next Magnus Zero, but if anything, I am at least comfortable with someone being better than me at a game series, unlike you.

[@rektraknuns8763]

touhou is easy to dodge compared to T H E F A N B A S E

[@Azrielfiend]

1 year late but, "The fan base": "Donate to reimu!!!" "oh its the moriya shrine conspiracy!" "ZA WARUDO" "PADS" "this guy dodges rain" "Mima will be in the next game" "BAKA" "9 lol" "EHHHHH EASY MODO!?" "Eirin help me!!!" "A normal day in gensokyo" "I can't see the background, this must be lunatic." "TOUHOU IS NOT ANIME" "when someone says undertale is harder..." "MASTERSPARKUUUU" "How many breads have you eaten in your life?" "Drunk as i like, demoman theme!!!" "impossible osu! Maps" "Sakuya is rampaging" "Seija filps the table!" "KNIFED" "youmu's half ghost...a sperm?" "what the-"

[@proudmonsterfuck3r]

@@Azrielfiend yep..the fanbase

[@hanu4nb-189]

@@Azrielfiend you had me until there's no armpit joke

[@Azrielfiend]

@@hanu4nb-189 you right

[@TheCapitalWanderer]

the fan base is beautiful ngl

[@novikovPrinciple]

"Pick one?" > Magic > Eirin's shady new drug > Yukari's fooling around again > It's a Moriya Shrine conspiracy

[@Mr._Sherwood]

Templates like that are are forbidden, last I checked.

[@babulbi]

Joke's on you, it was the moon.

[@ezzyshian]

I take the sages...

[@cardboardshelf7800]

I take the code

[@Latency345]

It’s a Trap!!!

[@Rakned]

"Let's get one thing straight. Touhou ain't anime. It's Machiavellian bullet hell shit that's tougher than if diamonds had a baby with Mega Man Zero."

[@chainmengaming]

The Touhou characters are anime, but the games ain't anime.

[@gespenst0083]

Parker Sprague, but diamond is unbreakable.

[@ObviouslyDeven]

@@chainmengaming nah fam, they are drawn japanese-cartoon-style. But not anime. Anime is basically japanese cartoon. So to call characters of a videogame a cartoon sounds as wrong as it is.

[@dynamo965]

@@gespenst0083 nice reference

[@gespenst0083]

Charles Abraham Ventura don’t worry it’s called mods.

[@alienspacebat5218]

There are ➈ types of people: Touhou fans and non-Touhou fans.

[@ill0gicalpine]

I like your style.

[@JohnBoxer]

alienspacebat There is Bronies and Anti-Bronies too. Whatcha gonna do? _My Little Pony is for pussies_

[@NightmareSnake]

John Boxer That comment had nothing to do with anything being said here and is merely propaganda for an unrelated cause no one cares about. Please do not.

[@JohnBoxer]

NightmareSnake Yeah, but it was needed to be said. I hate MLP

[@NightmareSnake]

John Boxer This is a Touhou video. No one cares.

[@christianpiano6765]

What are touhou players? Intense god's that dodge rain for fun.

[@God-ch8lq]

boys play undertale men play terraria legends play tetris 99 gods play touhou

[@wade4456]

@@God-ch8lq there is a lot of harder games than touhou so the people who play them are "Ultra Gods"?

[@God-ch8lq]

@@wade4456 yep, tho i consider stuff like death label "humanly impossible" as only 3 people 1cc'd it touhou is the hardest i consider humanly possible

[@wade4456]

@@God-ch8lq Nah just practicing a few months then your easily a Luna player

[@wade4456]

@@God-ch8lq so in that case I'm a kid man god ultra god?

[@makinru6178]

Friend: What game do you play to relax? Me: Touhou Project. Friend: Ah, i see you're a man of culture as well.

[@sclseullie670]

I clench my ass everytime I play this game no I cant relx

[@akisa7865]

I can't win this game even on easy mode... And to think that i have played a fuck ton of top down railway shooters

[@MRazorK10]

What's nice about this serie is that you can be a fan of the whole pack, or just the soundtracks, characters, gameplays separatly, or at a different level. You don't need to play the games to really appreciate the work of the author.

[@splattim3180]

The franchise that appears everywhere yet less people than expected actually know about

[@gamingsuper9872]

What is Touhou? A game that you can never beat and it's impossible to beat, even cuphead players bow down to this game's difficulty.

[@Jamie-yp7qz]

Edward Liu Try beating it on Lunatic.

[@sylvierose2799]

Come here when you can beat DodonPatchi

[@jakedaknight5749]

Well, it's not entirely impossible. If you want to feel like hell though, play Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom on Lunatic and try to 1cc it. I swear to god you'll suffer a LOT

[@God-ch8lq]

@@Jamie-yp7qz he's not a masochist

[@cecilemimay1037]

I don't think that's really a good comparison, but okay.

[@Kirbachu5]

I've done the math, and, not counting those irrelevant background decorations called people featured in the books, there are 133 Touhou characters. (including 14.5 and 15) Also, the only fairies I'm counting are Daiyousei, the three other fairies (Sunny, Luna, and Star), and Cirno. The rest of them are basically just bullet dispensers.

[@しぐれな霙]

+Kirbachu5 Why count Daiyousei and not count Clownpiece or Lily White?

[@Kirbachu5]

Mizore Iruzust I counted those as well. I just didn't mention them.

[@maple7462]

No, you're way off. There's 363.2 Duodecillion of them.

[@newbtopolis2124]

+Ollie McVey Antonplex. There. Look it up.

[@harrymillar4193]

Kirbachu5 No one ever explained why there are so many of them? I don’t understand why you can’t just count the number of characters

[@nixel1324]

Fun fact about the song Reverse Ideology from the game Double Dealing Character: If you play it in reverse, it stays the same. Seriously, ZUN's a genius!

[@hwtvi3466]

“How hard is Touhou Project?” “Yes.” “...what?” _”Yes.”_

[@noname420]

Im new in Touhou but this sign cannot stop me! My life is already hell.

[@mangouschase]

Stop Sirius black from entering Hogwarts

[@mynameismmandimheretosay7979]

This video was actually my introduction to the series, I searched this up a LONG time ago after I found the name to the series that indirectly gave birth to Bad Apple

[@dadrising6464]

same here

[@annaferns1840]

Same here

[@SakuyalzayoiTheMaid]

*_The Irony Of This Being Recommended To Me Seems To Be Over The Count Of How Many Knifes I Store In The Kitchen_*

[@konaninari9743]

I thought you could just, you know, clone the knives?

[@fishecake2794]

DIO?

[@braydenbanks4228]

Hi Sakuya, best maid EVER... Edit: How are Remilia and Flandre nowadays?

[@Lemincitus]

Honestly thought your username would be DIO but then I saw sakuya DIO is the og knife spammer doe

[@randomspartanhoe4501]

Hey Padkuya

[@ivoryvt]

Can you believe Touhou Project is 20 years old? 2015 was 20 years since Touhou 1 was finished. November 2016 is gonna be 20 years since Touhou 1 was first shown to the public. August 15 2017 is gonna be 20 years since Touhou 1 was released. I wonder what is gonna be in it's next 20th anniversaries.

[@ambiguitedandroid_user0313]

Yeah. It's older than my own life.

[@hannibalkills1214]

I warn ye, don't dig too deep into this comment section. It may start off good but deep there is just pure hatred.

[@shirukutsuki3983]

i'll take that as an advice *click the youtube icon on the upper left*

[@CHETTODUST_]

hannibal kills Im resistant. I have been in undertale fandom (oh , and im not toxic) And that fandom is just... pure evil.

[@huskiy6782]

Spark sees Undertale vs Touhou Holy Sh- The comment section

[@destrodevil6975]

_Is your profile picture a cursed Okuu?_

[@oowoh]

Can we give them a round of applause for having the most hentai remakes on nhentai

[@matess3655]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😂

[@hesiod_delta9209]

And 25% of Danbooru.

[@RedMaitreya]

Achievement

[@firemayro]

what

[@insertpun5049]

"keep in mind only psychos complete lunatic mode easily" I died xD

[@felixrondero1882]

Before Undertale and Yandere sim: 10,000 views After Undertale and Yandere sim: 230,000 views

[@44tharia46]

fml

[@MattAndrewTheMysteryHat]

:(

[@TurbinationE]

+Felix Rondero I just picked up Touhou for the first time today, largely influenced by Osu and then Undertale. I have known what Touhou was for a while though, and found it hilarious when I heard people whining about how hard Sans was.

[@VLAD-yu6ul]

(When will my reflection show,who I am)

[@DontmindmeImhereforthecomments]

How is Undertale and Yandere sim involved in this? I heard about it because someone mentioned that a popular song in Osu (Everything will Freeze, by Undead Corporation) was made for the Touhou Project

[@Then00bhunt3r]

I want to be a Touhou fan but I suck at Touhou...

[@celeastral-inactive8123]

+Then00bhunt3r Keep practicing. :D

[@Fumiko-tan]

You can still be a Touhou fan without being good at the games.

[@AnimaRandom]

+Then00bhunt3r you can do it, just keep practicing, i suck at touhou, but i just keep playing it until i can play on normal modo xD(now trying to beat LOLK in normal)

[@Fumiko-tan]

***** There's 13 games more or less. (You should check Wikipedia.)

[@celeastral-inactive8123]

Fumiko - tan Actual number is 20, counting the PC-98's and fighting games. For bullet hell only, 15.

[@Valetravelgames]

Toby fox: "he said he likes the undyne theme" 10:59

[@HyperVanilo]

Seriously, Undyne and her theme is the only good thing about Undertale for me.

[@homelyscarlett2114]

Hyper Vanilo What do you mean? The whole game of Undertale is awesome! If you haven’t played it before, I strongly recommend it to you! The songs in Undertale are all so good! The whole thing is so great! The music, game characters, experience, the story....and the meaning that the game gives is just so cool! If you are a theorist, you really should look at Gaster and better play Deltarune too! It will make you understand more about Gaster. But if you really don’t like it much, I can’t help, because it is your choice... And the whole thing is so meaningful!!!!!!!

[@HyperVanilo]

@@homelyscarlett2114 Sorry mate, I've played the game 2 months after the game released, and that was pirated too. I'm serious when I said the only good thing from Undertale for me are Undyne and her theme.

[@homelyscarlett2114]

Hyper Vanilo Well that’s your opinion so I don’t have any point to judge you, we have different opinions and I hope that I don’t seem to be rude and if I am I’m sorry...

[@HyperVanilo]

@@homelyscarlett2114 Rude? At what point you being rude, lol

[@ejhc9628]

What is Tohou? Lolis with superpowers

[@mocchite]

Lolimancer Nuko basically

[@TrueRiderFan]

Reimu isn't the slowest in all of the games. Yuuka is the slowest, but she is also the most powerful. So much so that ZUN gave her the Seihou series to blast spaceships out of the sky.

[@NnotKnott]

Im sold

[@pacman10182]

+Lolimancer Nuko thank you for that in depth description, --Hestia-- kana *sarcasm lv.5*

[@joe564338]

Lolimancer Nuko Loli Loli Loli get your adverbs here.... sorry.

[@wanikentang4684]

touhou great 70% comes from the musuc, admit it

[@wanikentang4684]

music*

[@DrRESHES]

musuc*

[@DrRESHES]

Wani Kentang zumic* ?

[@denzelsoo8526]

+DrRESHES cumiz

[@wanikentang4684]

listening to touhou music is masturbating my ear for me

[@wessltov]

Wow if you compare Sakuya Izayoi's art from the regular game to the one from the fighter game, you'll notice a *big* change!

[@MothWan]

wessltov XD

[@skipthewave]

wessltov Yes, although it's obvious none of us have the balls to say it here. I DARE YOU!

[@MothWan]

SkipTheWave Pads

[@skipthewave]

Magic Wolf O__________________________________O *the most epic music you have ever heard plays in the backgroud" I'll tell your family you loved them.

[@MothWan]

SkipTheWave I'll fight sakuya, i mean im not getting knifed without a fight

[@kagtkalem7115]

Why everyone comparing Undertale with Touhou? They arent even in same genre

[@HyperVanilo]

Because Sans

[@HyperVanilo]

@RosieKat You never see the arguments so make sense you are confused

[@HyperVanilo]

@@bootlegboi66 And Undertale fanboys claim it's the hardest boss ever

[@backslash_bks]

Undertale was inspired partly by touhou

[@backslash_bks]

@@bootlegboi66 I agree. Touhou is on a whole different level of difficulty. You must be really patient, focused, determined and you must have guts to even start playing touhou. I just started today for 2 reasons. 1. I think it's a challenge to beat a touhou game(in normal since I'm a newbie) 2. I actually think it's fun with it's own way(I can also say that touhou games are "Tryhard: The Game" sonetimes)

[@nightblade3709]

Hello and welcome, Undertale fans. You can thank this franchise for your game, fangames, and bullet hell memes. Please stick around to watch the whole video because, for those looking for a true challenge beyond the Genocide run, this is where you'll likely end up next. I hope this infomercial comment has been helpful to you, on this beautiful day where the birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and you're looking for an even badder time.

[@user-ff5cb9do7j]

badder? lmao.

[@nightblade3709]

1 2 it's a play on the original phrasing. I would've gone with worse, but it just doesn't hold the same ring.

[@qqqmint3865]

i love this comment

[@ilikemackerel]

Well it's funny that I found this comment, I actually came here from undertale 😹 ( I came from bad apple song actually😹)

[@qqqmint3865]

Good for you. Welcome to the Touhou fandom. If you decline our invitation we will chase you forever

[@Lucasa9Poke]

I get slightly titled everytime someone asks or thinks Touhou is an anime.

[@emiikins]

Lucasa9Poke it is, that's all there is to it.

[@MoltenSkull]

If it's not an anime then what is it

[@iranoutofnames6444]

Golden Chainy it's a game

[@JurajOravecSGOrava]

Until now I thought Touhou is brand for 18+ magazines.

[@angrydiddykong262]

But it started out as an anime lol

[@GrahamChapman]

To be quite honest, I _wouldn't_ necessarily say that Touhou isn't anime. At least not at this point when fanmade Touhou anime has actually been made... If I were to categorize Touhou at this point in time, I'd say it's a "creative phenomenon originating as a shoot 'em up series of games"... Because, honestly, you can approach Touhou from any creative angle you'd like, as long as you give ZUN the credit he's due as the original creator, you can paint fanart, remix music, write fanfiction stories, draw fanmade comics and/or manga, produce entire anime episodes, make fangames... ANYTHING. And you can even sell your fan produced stuff, too. To say at this point that Touhou is only shmup games would be vastly understating how amazingly creative people have been with the series and how amazingly encouraging ZUN is in regards to people using his characters and world for themselves. If I were to say what has made Touhou such an immensly popular series, I'd say "it's flawed"... ZUN is a poor artist himself (there's absolutely nothing wrong with the design of his characters, it's just that he cannot do them justice) but he has a completely non-ironic "let's see you do better" approach to it. If you think you can draw his characters better than him, then he basically encourages you to get creative and actually do so. The characters themselves have personalities that, while implicitly deep and varied enough to be interesting, also have something "uncertain" about them that anyone can start reading into and elaborating upon. The stories are also similarily understated (typically an incident occurs, the playable characters set out to fix it, they meet a few new faces that they kick in the teeth on, the incident is resolved and everyone has tea and sake at the shrine) and leave you with an itching "Then what?" kinda feeling that it often refuses to elaborate upon, encouraging you to fantasize your own continuations. The music, from back when it was all MIDI util now that it's synthesized, is great but also has room for improvement; it's very remix friendly and lacks lyrics, yet, at the same time, almost all scores basically underline _where_ and _how_ you're supposed to sing. And tying it all together is the fact that ZUN gives us far more question marks than he gives us exclamation marks. "Why does a hypercompetent maid serve a petulant and immature vampire and why does she refuse the vampire's offer to give her eternal life?" ZUN won't tell so we have to come up with theories and stories and song lyrics set to the characters' leidmotifs all on our own explaining our interpretations of the characters and their reasons... So yeah, that's my 50 cents and also my wall of text... ZUN might not be a super hero or a god, but he's a top-class, prodigious genius when it comes to bestowing creative inspiration upon people.

[@BlazingMagpie]

tl;dr +1

[@7781kathy]

BlazingMagpie nothing. just nothing.

[@7781kathy]

Most Inspirational Speech from a random guy.

[@VangarianK]

Only thing that comes to mind after reading that ginormous wall of text is: "Thank you." No, seriously, that was a really elaborate explanation of what Touhou is, can be, and will be in any way whatsoever. That was great.

[@doorslammer633]

ive been looking for some bullet hell games recently, been thinking about touhou, but i was just wondering about how "anime-y" the games are, like the artstyle and music and whatnot. i really dont like anime (honest opinion plz no h8) but i can tolerate anime-y games to a certain degree (got no problems with ikaruga, and even if i did i'd be stupid to pass on such a good game.) halp plz

[@cubekcahn9689]

"we will chase you forever until you succumb" me: "ha! try me" *looks out window* me: "oh SH-"

[@akisa7865]

That happened to you too? Yea same, this whole month Touhou and Danganrompa have been following me everywhere and I don't know why?

[@marbleferret]

Fun fact, my first approach to Touhou was searching if it was an anime and after 3 years I realized it was a bullet hell game not disappointed about it though

[@Niiue]

marble ferret oh hey so you made a little touhou reference in your techno song, very nice 8)

[@Kortexual]

Coming back after 6 years, I finally actually know what Touhou is now.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

Toby fox and andrew hussie when they saw touhou: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN

[@_simon.s_]

Well it's definitely a doujin, one of the most popular in fact.

[@rpgfans4537]

Touhou is known one of the 3 doujin miracle in Asia region, the other 2 being Fate and Higurashi.

[@lesoccboi]

How? Most famous KZbinrs don't know this.

[@HyperVanilo]

Saying Touhou is popular isn't correct, barely people know the actual Touhou, what they only know is music videos, remixes, fanarts, and dirty materials.

[@catchy9665]

@@HyperVanilo I first knew first the songs and music and fanmades too becuz they r so good, im always looking at the comment section and knew that touhou has one of the most hentai or doujin? And i also want to play the games, sadly im scared of the risk that my laptop will get virus xD ill just watch the anime i think

[@catchy9665]

@Ching Chong idk.. Undertale is more famous, yet toby was also inspired with touhou

[@williamelmore2469]

I just realized Touhou is the oldest inde game ever.

[@rabid2779]

+william elmore Oh, I REALLY doubt its the first. People have made their own games without being parts of company's way before Touhou.

[@ivoryvt]

+william elmore That would be "Space Wars" for the arcade made in 1977, but Touhou still is pretty old. Touhou is likely one of the oldest to still be an ongoing series, however.

[@Little_b0t]

+RabidPlatypus It's not the oldest indie game ever but it's definitely the longest running indie game franchise.

[@williamelmore2469]

Oh, still pretty cool thou.

[@hleghe810]

william elmore no

[@RDMonkey2]

So Touhou is bullethell simulator with little girls?

[@spongebobfan78]

*young-looking girls Their ages are always a mystery but it was either, they're in mid-teens for humans or more than 60-1000 years for non-humans.

[@RDMonkey2]

David Beauchemin Resident Evil 4 wasn't populated almost entirely by little girls that moan and giggle.

[@davidbeauchemin1840]

***** Never played touhou (Tough I like the music) but i'm betting that what you call "Moan and giggle" is actually: Japanese (the language), Screams and laughs.

[@spongebobfan78]

***** They don't even moan and giggle. They are more serious in the games and official manga.

[@spongebobfan78]

***** Many fanbases has those too. Not only Touhou

[@silverdrag0n_]

So, Touhou is basically a rail-shooter...? Just 100 times harder than regular rail-shooters. I'm gonna try it.

[@BabyBlueFord]

Good luck. I've spent five days on it and I can't get past stage 5 yet without continues. You can't use a continue if you want the true ending.

[@waffy_kun]

How were you introduced to touhou project? Other people: Touhou fans, music, gameplay vids and etc. Me: H doujins (ex. MMD videos)

[@hiiragii]

You’re not special. A large majority of Touhou fans came from hentai.

[@waterized_bottle]

Me who I got into Touhou by my brother: ᵒʰ ᵒᵏᵃʸ

[@aronnecroman]

You didn't come from the H doujin, you know it was Touhou H doujin AFTER you actually know Touhou. No shit, i try to reread some of the older doujin i read before and holy fucking shit it was a touhou doujin all along.

[@mangouschase]

Galaxy Collapse, Flawless Wings Of Yatagarasu, the train meme, Sakuya video sugestions on Za Warudo effects videos, Night of Nights in a phone and Antinomy Of Common Flowers invaded my yt homepage.

[@dollycheesecakes3658]

Bad Apple

[@caissie2165]

Well I clicked on this video because someone mentioned Touhou to me So I was just curious on what it was.

[@caissie2165]

***** It's pretty much similar to a lot of other games

[@xRager69]

Sooo where can I get it without ending up with 10GB of gay porn?

[@Turtle5598]

xRager69 omfg

[@saleh1908]

You mean lesbian porn?

[@oyasumisuteneko]

xRager69 me

[@jojobinx4020]

Moriya Shrine

[@omnipresentsnowflake4698]

I have a bad feeling about what I've just downloaded

[@TheLugiaSong]

ZUN has actually improved art a little recently, certainly with leg drawing... Hands (as seen on Reimu's Legacy picture) still need some work though. And, I prefer his old shading style.

[@TouhouZUN]

Ah yes, but the real question remains: *_What in dear god is the fandom?_*

[@kadlifal]

Oh Oke listen friend fandom is a wikia site those site answer us the information abput a game or anime more like Wikipedia but by different owner

[@TouhouZUN]

@@kadlifal i meant fanbase

[@TouhouZUN]

@Ching Chong yes.

[@ephraimium6755]

@@TouhouZUN Ah you see Zun-sama they just want to have *fun* with lewd stuffs

[@Gunnar_Konig]

Touhou is like Jojo except the powers are even more complete bullshit. You think Dio's time stop is powerful? Touhou has someone with the same power but on bull shark steroids. And she's considered a mid carder. You then start getting into abilities such as "Nukes", "Controlling fate", the ability to effortlessly crush anything with a simple squeeze of the hand, the creation of "gaps" which can even affect concepts... Once you get to the high tiers you can't even say who's stronger than who, it's pretty much just a matter of who hits first.

[@navatheramenguy3127]

try to compare two diferent universe and you have enough headache for a lifetime. touhou powers aren't the most bullshit i have seen but they are so wel played they look double bullshit, IE Reimu only has the power to fly.... to the extent that she can fly literally out of the fight (screen?) and no one can do shit about that XD Actually just like jojo powers are so smart played they mindfuck me only by having the power of repairing stuff

[@silvertailplays]

Reimu's is pretty OP in the Touhou-verse, she's just really lazy and doesn't like to exert herself by working (ie: youkai extermination). I hear Reimu can fly above reality. Yeah. Try wrapping your head around that...

[@Kulgia]

Yeah if you see ULiL, they got this Urban Legend powers which is basically a Stand power. So ftw Ichirin now has two Stands.

[@coolguy5024]

Gunnar Konig touhou powers and Jojo powers are basically on the same level of bullshittery. MiH literally resets the universe, GER can make anything as useful as a stick in the future, Black Sabbath is theoretically invincible, etc. while in touhou, you have someone who is basically a genderbent loli DIO on super-hell-god-timestop-steroids, a lady who just flies above existence, etc. It's pretty obvious that they're both at the top of the bullshit scale.

[@cbbblue8348]

Gunnar Konig Lol yea,Sakuya is like,DIO PUCCI DIAVOLO mixed together and remove all weaknesses and you get this op time stopping maid.

[@heikkipalola6760]

i always choose the hardest difficulty then forget that i chose the hardest difficulty and wonder why i suck so much

[@khe777]

thats honestly me with bandori

[@Ellivers]

Good thing this is the first thing that comes up when searching "touhou". Good job, KZbin!

[@aronnecroman]

I surprised this video already hit a million views. I remember 2 month ago it's only 800.000-900.000. Guys, it's seems like there's a wave of interest started to coming for some reason.

[@pastadinnertheater8657]

And you thought sans was the hardest boss in video games I pray for you

[@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594]

I've come from the future. I've dug thus far starting from *"lil boom's 'already dead' song"* I'm feeling lost but determined to find the origins of the *instrumentals*

[@HyperVanilo]

The original remix is Tiny Little Adiantum, the base music is Flower Land from Touhou 9.

[@bri1779]

I'm the cirno cosplayer in the picture you used... ​!! That's wild!

[@yodef6828]

This video has the same humour as modern "average", this man is a fucking time traveler, we've gotta protect him

[@Mercsin]

I like how I literally just searched "What is Touhou" on KZbin and found this. Purty lucky of me

[@BIackViper]

oh god i was only curious i don't want this

[@BIackViper]

No stop

[@moved7157]

did you tried touhou

[@BIackViper]

No

[@moved7157]

Negative Zero why you did not try it?

[@BIackViper]

I'm honestly afraid I barely fucking survived undertale I can't do that

[@jackyu3364]

“Gotta prank zun when Touhou got popular, this is gonna be the best prank ever!”

[@KatherineFtw]

The series is easier to access than ever, their on Steam now.

[@adeloutfoxxed2962]

What?

[@HyperVanilo]

@Clownpiece For USA Umm no? Touhou 1 to 9 are not on Steam

[@pockychews7232]

For people who saw pentagram and thought, "wtf, is this a satanic game?" The pentagram are supposed to represent Celestial, Nature, or other types of magic BESIDES Black or Blood magic. So ZUN really just made a mistake on putting pentagrams. Sorry for people who got easily offended by the amount of pentagrams. (Although there is Rumia, and the vampire sisters. They DO NOT use Black or Blood magic.)

[@celeastral-inactive8123]

+Felix Rondero Pentagrams were for a purpose, they symbolize magic, and Gensokyo is a magical place, so ZUN used them. Add in magician characters like Byakuren, Marisa, Patchouli, Alice, Mai, and Yuki, and it's pretty obvious it was intended.

[@pockychews7232]

oh so the pentagrams were intended? Huh. Still, it would look better if the pentagrams were replaced with some other type of magical symbol.

[@MalachiWadas]

+Cirno. Just. No. Heh I just explain Touhou to my dad and he's like "what is this evil game?"

[@pockychews7232]

Malachi Wadas lol that's why I keep some things private from my family XD

[@mochamoko7284]

+Malachi Wadas I wonder how you'd be able to explain the manji in the specific set of Yakumo spell cards, Ultimate Buddhist and Fantasy Manji Parasol, haha...

[@duckmaneuvers]

This just randomly popped in my recommendations. Informative though. So I guess, it's the Dark Souls of bullet hells? I think it's much worse than a "hell" of a bullet hell...

[@raccoonchild]

Tbh it's easier than other bullet hells Which is one of the reasons I like Touhou, being absolute ass at bullet hells myself

[@raccoonchild]

@KromidenX Good point

[@God-ch8lq]

It is not the hardest bullet hell, especially cuz you gets tons of lives and bombs

[@potatopotato-lf1ns]

Blank Username Iva played both and I think since you can grind on darksouls it gets easier if you waste more of your life on it than Touhou but maybe I play these games incorrectly

[@TheAtHamptonDotCom]

the video had 666 likes, then i like it and it still have 666 but i was u and then YOU BECAME SKELETON and WROTE THIS!

[@ill0gicalpine]

Jesus dude. Stop rustling muh jimmies

[@TheAtHamptonDotCom]

So Spooky! great video though, on par with JonTron or MatPat.

[@navras2318]

JelloApocalypse reference?

[@TheAtHamptonDotCom]

yes, yes it was

[@navras2318]

Gg

[@kkw8150]

People dont know about touhou : it an anime Undertale fan: NO WAY IS HARDER THAN SANS Yandere simulator fan: oh cirno is a easter egg Bullet hell fan:ok,is a game (No offence)

[@neotheshadowwarrior4082]

Blank Username o o f

[@God-ch8lq]

It's what i call an entry level shmup, it's very generous in resources, and patterns are not crazy broken If you can 1cc a touhou game on normal or higher without cheesing it, move to mushihimesama futari on original to have a fair challenge

[@maybethebreadistoasted8178]

Touhou GODS probably have beaten sans on their first couple of tries lmao

[@thedabisme61]

*UNDERTALE FANDOM would like to know your location.*

[@buonopesci]

Peplwwho listen to Bad apple!!: Vocaloud song

[@flusterfluff]

Can I just... It needs to be asked for continuity's sake. What anime is this? *Knifed*

[@fallendeus]

TL;DW for new people coming to the video.... it is just a Shoot 'em up (shmup) or "bullet hell" series.... that's it

[@EvyDevy]

Loved the video. But just 2 things you were wrong about: 1. In EoSD, you couldn't see the hitbox. Maybe with a fanmade patch. But PCB was the first Touhou game to show hitboxes. 2. Extra stages can ONLY be unlocked from easy difficulty in PCB (Touhou 7) and IN (Touhou 8). Every other Touhou game requires you to beat normal difficulty before playing the extra stage with that character/type.

[@ill0gicalpine]

I see. I must have accidentally skimmed over those bits when finalizing the video. I believe in the video at 3:30 I meant to type AFTER the EoSD onwards, in any case thanks for clearing that up!

[@EvyDevy]

Illogical Pine You're welcome! After ZUN made Touhou EoSD, he wanted the game to be easier, so in PCB, he made the extra stage easier and made the Phantasm stage the real extra stage. He also gave a barrier in the game. In Touhou IN, he made it even easier with Spell Practice and more lives in the option menu. After Touhou 9, ZUN waited a year for the fanbase to cool down...which it didn't. It just got bigger. So when he made Touhou MoF, he set everything back to it's roots and made Touhou hard again. *cough*Probably hoping to lessen the range of people beating the games.*cough* (And the reason why all the songs have screeching trumpets, is because that's ZUN instrument he used since a child I think. I respect that.)

[@ZigzagwolfSTG]

Point 2 is partially wrong, you can unlock extra stages in GFW and DDC by doing easy too. For GFW you'd have to 1cc every route in easy (any difficulty is allowed for that matter.) And DDC is actually allowing you to get the EX once you 1cc easy.

[@EvyDevy]

Zigzagwolf You're right!

[@dallan2758]

You forgot a vital part, the game has to be played on 60 FPS max and no continues along with Normal difficulty or higher (EOSD TH6) as an example to unlock the extra stage.

[@cyanadofai]

me: randomly looks at the video in the middle of other shit the video: shrine maiden literally destroying a girl with asthma

[@cockroaches5083j]

this video must be wrong, Ciryes told me something different

[@EPIPIXELeverlasting]

Same m8

[@legendofthecommentsection6513]

With you guys

[@Grozdor]

ayy lmao

[@coldore6734]

This dude is correct

[@Harrinsain]

sucks to be you. I'm watching this on a Windows XP in 2019 Translation: I really need to get a new PC

[@Mimideog]

It’s incredible how one person made 21 games

[@HyperVanilo]

ZUN only developed the main games and spin-off, the rest are collaboration with another developer.

[@joshparsons1485]

Thank you for putting this together. It expanded my view of the series and is going to be my go to for explaining why I play games with WAYY TOO MANY girls.

[@eddwithsauce525]

Lemme guess? Majority of yall watching (or rather rewatching) are bored 2hu fans huh? I feel you.

[@misfortunedone2317]

Ya got that right

[@AllVoiceHowdy]

excuse me? you satori?

[@nosoyarkano7624]

So... I downloaded the 5 first Touhou games and started with Lotus Land Story and at the first seconds I WAS GETTING MY ASS KICKED CAUSE I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT THE DIFFICULTY WAS AT LUNATIC! Before noticing, I was somewhat able to reach level 2, but God damn, it was just cause the emulator was on japanese and I don't understand japanese.

[@sandtaco2766]

Just came here to find out why I shouldn't say "what anime is this" To the music

[@LindCreations]

One of the things I like about this series in particular is that ZUN is so chilled with the copyright stuff, and doesn't care if people make fanwork. In fact I remeber that his policy on fanwork was literally: Give proper credits where due, obviously, and don't spoil the game endings for others.

[@hanac5586]

8:59 "what happened to her chest" just to save your time

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

think lunatic is bad? there's overdrive spellcards in touhou 13... as if lunatic wasn't sadistic enough... and then some maniacs make an ultra patch for each bullet hell game, literally doubling the stuff you have to dodge while making it faster. ultra lunatic is pretty damn insane

[@midnightspark_]

This video.. It's length.. It's 1337.

[@RF-Ataraxia]

The return of the 2008 era confirmed

[@GalekC]

+Royal Fenikkusu Thought that was somewhere around 2005

[@RF-Ataraxia]

+Gyarrekshi Whoops. I forgot about history of Internet D: Gotta refresh my mind.

[@demonika4214]

hell we're going back to 1998

[@Picio301]

I wonder how this video was enjoyed in 2014, when this type of commentary blew up in like 2016-2017 great video

[@pilotfish3338]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the famous Bad Apple music from Stage 3 of Touhou 4: LLS. That's easily in my list of favorites.

[@naominekomimi]

I don't really get it... I certainly don't mean to insult but could someone explain how a bullet hell game with simple art turned into such a huge thing, and why people get so into it?

[@yeetswan117]

A bit of it may be like the same way Kaizo Mario was really liked by the speedrunners and such of the community.

[@hollow_w33n]

you forgot "chirumiru" and "cirno news network"

[@saleh1908]

+Naomi Nekomimi by memes

[@cbbblue8348]

Touhou fanbase is pretty fun,it like jojo where it look annoying upfront but its fun when you joined it.

[@hairglowingkyle4572]

Fanbase

[@progressedsalis2984]

*UN Owen Was Her starts playing* No... *NO* *_NOOO!!!!_*

[@justjames4]

Good information, I was meaning to look up what this series was.

[@cyclcrclicly9840]

The only reason i clicked on this video is bad apple

[@arandominternetperson9201]

same..

[@the_polar_bears_got_me]

exactly 😐

[@sun_2044]

Same...

[@Ferroes]

Didn't we all?

[@JoyAndAgony]

+sans i've been hunting down this info since forever (and by forever i mean like six years). it's like homestuck, i want know ALL ABOUT IT so i understand why the fuck are there people making so much shit from this stuff, but i IN NOW WAY IN HELL WANT TO INVOLVE MYSELF IN IT.

[@nyo_x3]

Touhou 1-9: *Have good names* Touhou 9.5: S H O O T T H E B U L L E T

[@amia7z]

Touhou 18: UNCONNECTED MARKETEERS

[@slimyslimer2642]

Let me guess You saw Sr. Pelo's new video but you didn't understand tf just happened

[@tuumef1799]

Thanks for this information. Your presentation was fun and crazy!