You will begin to understand that throughout most Touhou games, encounters through the games usually start off with the first few characters whom are completely unrelated to the incident on hand. The heroines find someone causing a bit of mischief and kind of beat them up thinking they might be the culprit. In this case, Marisa and Reimu encounter EACH OTHER and are beating each other up accusing the other of being the ones responsible for the Incident. And it doesn't matter if you pick either Reimu or Marisa, they will encounter the other and you will fight them. It's kind of a trope with Touhou.
The girl in blue is Alice from PC98 and later Perfect Cherry Blossom, she was also one of the helpers in the Subterranean Animism video, she usually uses little dolls to attack with. She's one of the 3 Magicians in Touhou along with Marisa and Patchouli (the girl who keeps Flandre in the basement, she also was in the Subterranean Animism teams, she was the one in pajamas ) Alice has actually grown powerful enough that she's become a Yokai Magician recently, she was incredibly powerful in PC98 and thanks to the book she's carrying with a lock on it was an extra stage boss whose mom was the final boss. But According to a game text file she doesn't go all out anymore because she's scared of realizing whether or not she'll lose again. Anyway: So the reason everyone is running out at the same time is basically something is wrong with the moon, it got bigger and it got a chip in it for one thing and tye reason for that is it's entirely fake. This understandably upset everyone, the Vampire obviously wants the real moon back, the Ghost people want it back, Yukari and Reimu have a responsibility to get it back, and Alice and Marisa want it back because they are Magicians and understandably find a moon being tampered with concerning. Anyway if the sun comes up and there is still this big fake moon in the sky it will be a problem, so Yukari uses her power to extend the boundary of day and night, making this game more or less a timed mission depending upon how many lives you lose instead of an actual timer. There are several big reasons to find a night lasting longer concerning, The world of Touhou is full of Yokai who will sooner or later start eating people if the night gets too long. The first boss is Wriggle Nightbug, she's actually got an awesome new song cover a few months ago. (She's famous for literally swooping in to do her midstage attack and literally kicking new players in the face when they try to collect a specific bunch of shot power and point items. This, in addition to her being a bug with a cape has led to a meme about her being a Kamen Rider and hero of justice, despite being a 1st stage boss) She's a Yokai and a firefly , so she wants to keep the night going. The 2nd boss is Mystia, she's a night sparrow Yokai and has the power to cause night blindness, she also wants the night to keep going because it makes her more powerful (relatively, she wasn't exactly strong to begin with, her power is annoying though, in game she makes a bunch of the screen dark) The 3rd boss is Keine, this is actually pretty interesting, she's literally a school teacher and historian. She's a human most of the time but she also a were-Hakutaku when the moon is full (It's like a werewolf but also not at all, it's a type of Yokai that is known to be an advisor to humanity) At this particular moment the moon is fake, so she's still in human form She's protecting the human village from Yokai, and every single team in this game has a Yokai in it. Her fears are also immediately justified. (Every single group has a Yokai with them in this game, and not only does Remilia threaten to stop for a drink, Yuyuko famously threatens to eat every single boss in this game one by one "old lady who swallowed a fly" style. ) She's protecting the village by using her weird power (Described as the power to eat history while human and create it while a Hakutaku) to remove the village from history until the incident is resolved, at which time she'll put everything back. I should also mention this character actually shows up again as the midstage boss for the extra stage in her Were-Hakutaku form. Finally Stage 4 is the Bamboo Forest of The Lost, here Marisa and Reimu famously fight each other. They both have a Yokai with them and start blaming each other. What's especially funny is in game on the Reimu route, Yukari randomly starts trying to instigate a fight saying things like "oh my, you caught me," And in the Marisa route, Alice tells Marisa to stop being polite and jusf yell at her like she always does, resulting in the extremely famous line: "Okay, okay, I give up. You're right. The endless night, stealing the full moon, Hiding the human village, and putting hats on the stone statues, It's all Alice's fault. Now, bitch, get out of the way!" The last 2 stages have the remaining plot, it involves space aliens, the moon landing, the Japanese folktale "flight of the bamboo cutter ", a doctor who can cure death, and a bunny in a blazer with finger guns. So nothing interesting, don't worry about it.
i will point out that marisa and alice did not know the moon was stolen at first. they were trying to fix the endless night till reimu pointed them in the right direction.
About Alice strenght, she doesnt go all out, not of being afraid of losing, but rather she doesnt find any meaning to doing that, as there would be no point in overpowering her opponent and not leave anything after, so she uses the minimum required and limits herself to fight smartly to push her own limits more
In Touhou 8, the boss of stage 4 is different depending on which pair you choose to play as, either being Reimu or Marisa. Part 1 was basically each of them taking turns using their boss spells. Since Youmu and Sakuya aren't bosses in the game, that teaser at the end for part 2 seems like it's going to be something minusT either makes completely from scratch or they're going to pull all the spells from the fighting game Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, where both characters are playable fighters.
this is Touhou so every misunderstanding is always a good reason to fight. a fanmade anime exist "The Memories of Phantasm" it is in my opinion an easy way to familiarise with the touhou universe and some of the major plot in the story and it s very well done
Long-time Touhou fan, found your channel from the Sr Pelo reaction video, and I've been LOVING watching your descent into the rabbit hole courtesy of MinusT and his amazing videos. Your excitement and curiosity are so earnest and lively and combined with your respect for the content and creator, instant follow for me and gonna check out the rest of your content too :) I've seen a lot of people in the comments of the previous videos answering and explaining what's going on, so I don't feel like I have much to add on those (LMK if you want me to anyway, I will open the floodgates of lore) - but they seem to be missing a lot of "historical" (in-world and real-world) for the series and characters. I'll link a reddit post with a lot of good information in the thread, as it has a lot of information on the series, how to get into the games, lore, etc. but UA-cam does not like links appearing in the start of comments. I broke the information you asked about and the additional background to a comment thread for readability:
[1/5 History] The Touhou series is a videogame franchise created by a "group" named Team Shanghai Alice, composed of one person, Jun'ya Ota, who goes by the pen-name ZUN. It consists of: * 18 mainline games, all created entirely (programming, music, art, game design, writing, ...) by ZUN himself - and all belonging to some extent to the "bullet hell" / "bullet curtain" top-down shooter genre. * 13 spin-off games, which happen between the mainline games and are thus given fraction numbers such as 12.7, 16.5 or 14.3. * Of these games, 7 are fighting games where ZUN only designed the new characters and the art and production are by a fan-group-promoted-to-collaborator-group named Twilight Frontier (Tasogare Frontier in Japanese or TasoFro for short) * The other 6 are top-down shooters made by ZUN alone, but usually with shorter, mission-based gameplay and different gameplay gimmicks replacing some of the core mechanics. For example, three of the games are "Bullet Photography" where you are armed with a camera instead of weapons and can use it to photograph the bullet patterns for points but also clearing them away in the process. * Several series of written works (manga and books), music collections, etc. that were created by or in collaboration with ZUN The first 5 games in the series were developed by ZUN while he was a student in Tokyo for the NEC PC-98 platform. He was an amateur music composer and wanted to make games to put his music in so he'd have a better chance of selling it in doujin events like Comiket. They were pretty explorative games (the first three are all different sub-genres of bullet hell games) both in game design and in world and character creation. Himself a fan of bullet hell games, he disliked the fact that the themes in the genre were all very machoistic and violent (historical wars, space fighters etc), and wanted to create one that has more beautiful and cute elements as well as a connection to Japanese myth and history. After graduating, ZUN began work at the videogame company Taito - which he got accept into by showing them the Touhou games he created. Of note, two of the games he worked on, Magic Pengel and Graffiti Kingdom, which are both "monster trainer"-type games where you can draw and create your own -mons have a certain red-and-white shrine maiden as one of the built-in designs you can use. Putting what he learned working as a professional to good use and after a 4-year hiatus, ZUN decided to start over fresh with the setting and in 2002 he created the first Touhou game for the Windows platform: Touhou 6 Koumakyou ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. This game and its characters remain to this day the most popular work in the series (it wins the yearly community popularity contest by a factor of ~30% every time), and it launched the series' popularity into what it is today. It is also the beginning point of the current lore canon, though ZUN has stated that the PC-98 games occurred in the same world and should be regarded as canon unless they directly contradict one of the later works, in which case the latest work is the canon. ZUN himself is a pretty big otaku: the vampire antagonist of Touhou 6 quotes, verbatim, Dio Brando's "how many breads have you eaten" line, while her maid has a time-stopping, knife-throwing attack literally named ZA WARUDO in Japanese (you even called it out as such in one of the videos). He is also a big believer in the Japanese indie (doujin) culture that can give genres like bullet hell - that do not have mainstream appeal due to their complex systems and difficulty - a place to exist. He also allows all his characters and creations to be freely used by any non-syndcated creator without his express permission (he does allow some bigger-name creators as well if asked), which resulted in insane amount of fan creations based on the music, characters, and world. If you know a videogame, there's probably a Touhou fangame clone or skin for it. A small aside on the nomenclature of Touhou games, most of the games have a number (either an integer for the mainline games), a Japanese title consisting of "Touhou" = "East direction" + three kanji, and an English subtitle. You will see games referred to as (taking Touhou 6 as an example): * Their number: "Touhou 6" * Their Japanese title (usually in the JP community): ????? "Touhou Koumakyou" or just ??? "Koumakyou" * The first kanji of their Japanese subtitle (also in the JP community), sometimes read as it is in the title ? "kou" and sometimes as it is read as its own word ? "kan" (but written the same) * Their English subtitle "The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil" * An acronym of their English subtitle "EoSD" These are all completely interchangeable and vary between who's writing it and the context.
[2/5 Lore] The games all take place in a fantasy land named "Gensoukyou" (I'll spell it "Gensokyo" from now on since that's more common), where mythical creatures and gods of the past - who owe their power and existence to people believing in them - made a sanctuary so they will not disappear after the industrial revolution caused people to believe less and less in the paranormal and mystical. The main heroines are Reimu, the shrine maiden of the shrine sitting at the border between Gensokyo and the outside world, and her "ordinary magician" (to differentiate from youkai magicians, which are witch-like monsters) friend Marisa. To avoid risk of detection and of hurting the few humans in Gensokyo whose faith in the supernatural keeps everyone else alive, all conflicts in Gensokyo are resolved by danmaku battles with non-lethal energy bullets. These are as much competitions of eye-catching beauty as they are of dexterity and firepower, hence why the patterns are colorful and geometric and often have bullets going in directions away from their target. As you can tell, this is all an in-world extension of what sort of bullet hell games ZUN himself wanted to see. The most complex and unique patterns each characters can make are referred to as "Spell Cards" and their names and visuals often tell a lot about the character itself. An interesting in-world fact is that the vast majority of people that have danmaku powers (and thus, the ability to do anything meaningful under Gensokyo law) are female, to the extent that there is only one humanoid male named character in the whole franchise, and he's a non-fighter and has only appeared in written works. Most of the main antagonists in these games are either selfish and unaware how something they are doing adversely affects others. As a result, giving them a thrashing and explaining why they're in the wrong tends to make them friends with the main gang and a lot of them return in later games as playable characters or assistant characters. A few of the antagonists (mainly Extra bosses) belong to "doesn't know the extent of their own power" trope and only a vast minority are downright troublemakers.
[3/5 Gameplay] The mainline games (and by extension a lot of the spin-offs and fan games) follow a very consistent structure: * The player chooses one of a few characters. In all games the main heroine Reimu can be chosen, in every game since 3 her friend Marisa can be chosen, and a rotating cast of characters which were formerly antagonists are options in most games. * In the majority of games there are also "shot types" for each character, changing their attacks and special abilities. Each character and shot combination will have their own main shot type, secondary shot type (which can be strengthened by collecting red square "[P]" power items) and a limited stock of spell cards serving as a screen-clearing "bomb". * The player chooses a difficulty between Easy, Normal, Hard, and Lunatic. Typically the good ending of games can only be achieved by finishing the game on Normal or harder without running out of lives. * The main game consists of 6 stages, each with small enemies (typically fairies and spirits), a mid-boss and a boss. The mid-boss is sometimes the stage boss making an early appearance and sometimes a different character altogether. * Most of the games also have a gimmick that changes from game to game and it is expected of higher-difficulty players to use it to gain resources (extra lives and bombs) or high scores. * In bullet hell tradition, the characters' hit boxes are much smaller than their sprites. Enemy attacks touching the sprite but not the hitbox results in collection of "Graze" points (with a very distinct and satisfying crackling noise), which are often the main engine for high scores or the game's gimmick. * All games since the 4th have a "Focus" button, which you can hold down to move slower for better accuracy navigating dense bullet patterns. Starting with the 7th game, being in focus mode also makes your hitbox visible. * Very generally speaking, the games' plot is given through auxiliary texts (e.g. the game manual), short bits of text in the character selection, and short dialogs before boss fights. * The story often follows a pretty formulaic structure: An "incident" occurs, endangering the peace in Gensokyo or its existence. Reimu, being in charge of stopping such incidents, and her allies - either to help or out of a personal stake in the specific incident - go search for its origin. * Stages 1-2 commonly have you fighting antagonists that are either just hindrances or mostly unrelated to the incident itself * Stages 3-4 generally have you fighting antagonists that are related to the case or that know where its source is, but aren't directly the cause of the issue. Often these are guardians of the location where the mastermind resides. * Stage 5 will almost always have you fight the second-in-command or most loyal servant of the main antagonist (reflected in that many Stage 5 bosses return as Stage 6 mid-bosses), and Stage 6 will have you facing off against the main culprit, where they will explain their motive and refuse to stop until beaten. * Beating the game on the Easy difficulty or using continues results in a short Bad Ending where the big bad remains unconvinced since you didn't beat them fair and square, and your character returns home while the incident continues. * Beating the game on Normal or harder without using continues (referred to as a one-credit clear or 1cc, based on the same sort of achievements in arcade games) gives a longer Good Ending (unique for the character and shot type selected) and unlocks the Extra Stage. * The Extra Stage is a single stage mode with no difficulty selection (generally its difficulty is around the same as a late-game Hard level stage) capped off with an extra-long and difficult boss fight. For reference, most Stage 6 bosses have around 6-8 spell cards while the Extra bosses typically have 10.
[4/5 The stuff you've watched] Sr Pelo's EoSD animation: Describes, with a lot of memes and gags, the events of Touhou 6. Most of it is focused on the boss fights (the guard fairies Reimu explodes with the grenandes and the maid fairy she murders being representation of non-boss enemies). The various music tracks that play throughout the video are the exact stage and boss themes from the game for those scenes. It is also chock-full of references to the fandom and historical and future winks, such as Reimu being crushed by her yin-yang orb is something that can happen in the first game, which was a bullet hell-breakout mashup, and it even shows the animation that game had for it. The two characters that appear at the shrine after Marisa leaves are Sanae, the Touhou 10 Stage 5 boss (and Touhou 11 Extra stage midboss, as you can see in Brambly Boundaries) and ZUN himself (who sends Sanae away since it's not her time to appear yet). MinusT's animations: The 3D patterns in all of MinusT's video are very faithful of the 2D patterns the characters use in the games and the characters' attacks. He does tend to bring in abilities from later games (such as Yukari throwing street signs and trains at people, which originates in the fighting games) and allows the player characters to switch shot types during a battle, but even those are kept pretty faithful (for example, Reimu's yin-yang orbs change color in Brambly Boundaries when she switches shot types). * Reimu vs Remilia: A more serious depiction of the Stage 6 boss fight from Touhou 6 ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. * Marisa vs Flandre: Based on the Extra Stage boss of Touhou 6. * Reimu vs Yuyuko: A depiction of Touhou 7 ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom's entire 6th stage, including some of the stage enemies, the midboss (half-ghost sword girl Youmu) and the boss Yuyuko. * Humans vs Yukari: Touhou 7 is the only game to date that has an extra stage beyond the Extra stage, called the Phantasm stage. Yukari was first introduced to the series as the boss of this stage and is one of the most powerful entities in Gensokyo - to the extent that her familiar the nine-tailed fox girl Ran has enough magic power to have her own familiar, the two-tailed cat girl Chen. In-game, you have to beat her with one of the three playable characters (Reimu, Marisa, and EoSD Stage 5 boss Sakuya), in the video they all fight together. * Subterranean Stars: Stepping out of chronological order, this shows a full run of Touhou 11 ~ Subterranean Animism, focusing on the boss fights. In the game, each character can choose one of three assistant characters that talk to you over radio and serve as the shot types. Marisa's helper options are Alice the witch (Touhou 7 Stage 3 boss, also a returning character from the PC-98 games), who controls small puppets that are weak but can be sacrificed to give you some invincibility, Nitori the Kappa (Touhou 10 Stage 3 boss), a mechanical genius that arms Marisa with missiles and a force field, and Patchouli (Touhou 6 Stage 4 boss), another witch who specializes in elemental magic based on the Japanese names of the weekdays, and Gives Marisa the ability to switch between different elemental magic attacks. The antagonist characters shown in the "boss rush" are, in order: 1. Brown-and-black clad blonde: Yamame the Earth Spider Youkai 2. Green-eyed blonde throwing flower bullets: Parsee the Jealous Spirit 3. Red-horned blonde with a sake bowl: Yuugi the Oni resident of the abandoned hell 4. Pink-haired girl with a red eye on a string: Satori Komeiji, mistress of the Earth Palace. She is "cursed" with the ability to read minds through her third eye, which makes most humans resent her but animals - who normally can't be understood - love her. As a result she lives alone but has a lot of pets, including the next two bosses: 5. Black-clothed girl with red braids and black cat ears: Rin ("Orin"), hell cat who drags the souls of sinners into the burning hell. She's also a close friend of the last boss which is why she consoles her at the end. 6. Green and white clothed girl with black hair and wings: Utsuho ("Okuu") the hell raven. The antagonists of the previous game fed her the essence of the mythical Yatagarsu which gave her power over nuclear fusion and the ability to create a sun underground. * Brambly Boundaries: Shows a full run of the Touhou 11 Extra stage: the non-boss fairy enemies and their attacks, mid-boss Sanae (Touhou 10 Stage 5 boss and my personal favorite character in the series) and the fight against Koishi Komeiji, Satori's sister who had the same problem but decided to solve it otherwise. Similar to Marisa's helpers in the previous video, Reimu's helpers / shot types are shown as helping her from afar: Yukari which we've already met and gives Reimu the ability to screen-wrap (shown in the video as gaps in spacetime opening), Suika (Final boss of Touhou 7.5) - the horned, orange-haired Oni girl that drinks like a sailor and loves to party, and Aya (Stage 8 boss of Touhou 9 and Stage 4 boss of Touhou 10) in the black skirt with the short dark hair and little red hat, the intrepid Tengu newspaper reporter who will stop at nothing to get a scoop. Aya is also the star of the first two "bullet photography" spin-offs I mentioned, and her rival Hatate is my profile picture. * Eternal Night part 0: Back to the series chronology, this returns to describe stages 1-3 of Touhou 8 ~ Imperishable Night. Four teams of one human and one Youkai discover the moon is fake (and any human that looks directly at it will be driven mad) and have to rush to stop it before the night ends and the fake moon becomes permanent. The teams (in game, one serves as the normal shooting mode and the other as the focused mode) are all characters we've met: Reimu and Yukari, Marisa and Alice, Sakuya and Remilia, and Youmu and Yuyuko. The video shows: 1. Sakuya and Remilia fighting Wriggle the firebug Youkai 2. Youmu and Yuyuko fighting Mystia the night sparrow 3. Marisa and Alice fighting Keine the Hakutaku and guardian of the human village in Gensokyo 4. A teaser of two of the teams fighting each other. * Eternal Night part 1: represents stage 4 of Touhou 8, where - depending on which character you are playing - either Reimu or Marisa are implied to have looked at the moon and gone mad, and is accusing you of causing the incident. The video shows both of them with their partners and using a mix of their player and boss attacks, and the ending seems to imply Marisa + Alice will be going to stages 5 and 6 while Reimu + Yukari will go to the Extra stage. The stinger teaser implies the next video will be a similar fight between Sakuya and Youmu, which cannot happen in game (as Sakuya you fight Reimu and as Youmu you fight Marisa).
[5/5 Other stuff] * You've mentioned the gameplay and music remind you of Undertale at points. This is not a coincidence. Toby Fox is a Touhou fan and has cited it as inspiration for both his music and the bullet-hell-like gameplay in Undertale and later Deltarune. * Some important things to know if you want to get into the actual games: * Touhou 1-5 are on retro computing platform and require emulation / are abandonware. There is no current legal way of obtaining them. * Touhou 6-8 are currently only legally available by buying a CD-ROM from Japan (or secondhand). Depending on your computer, they might also require some patching to run on modern Windows computers * Touhou 9-18 and most of the spin-off games can be purchased on Steam. * All of the games, except 15.5 and 17.5, are in Japanese only * Luckily for all of us, the community has a unified patcher that both handles the older game, translation patches, graphical patches, etc. Google "Touhou Community Patcher" for where to get and how to use it. * You were threatened by the bullet hell-iness in the videos, but those show roughly the Lunatic and Extra levels of gameplay. Easy (and in some games, Normal) is a lot more accessible. * If you want a good game to start with from the bullet hell games, I would recommend steering away from 15 (insanely hard), 11 (very hard) and 12 (pretty hard and has a very difficult gimmick to master). * Good games, as far as difficulty goes, to start with are 10 (ample resources and fairly easy except for one stage), 13 (considered the easiest in the series), 17 or 18 (gimmicks are easy to learn and the difficulty choice curve is more balanced). * Touhou 6, if you can get your hands on it, is a good starting point for lore reasons, and it is not very complication (does not have a unique gimmick) - but its difficulty is a bit higher. * The Reddit link I mentioned above is www.reddit.com/comments/yt87b4 - highly recommended read and updated pretty often.
They are fighting because marisa thinks Yukari is the cause of the endless night. Which she is but only because the moon was replaced with a false moon.
answering a few questions… 10:39 thats Alice Margatroid! 2:08 thats Remilia Scarlet! 2:13 thats Sakuya Izayoi! 6:19 that spell card is “ Black Magic Event Horizon”! 11:30 ghost girl is Youmu Konpaku! she’s actually a phantom if theres more questions to ask, reply to this (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)
We have another incredible animator his channel is asatoshi. I recommend his series called Burning Meiling. I have a complete playlist if you want to use it ( they are all from his channel I just made the playlist (his channel is disorganized and other playlists had unsubbed vids). Video quality starts at 360p but it improves by the 4th episode.
Huh what happened to Brambly boundaries? Anyway basically the context is that smth weird is happening to the moon and if it sets then something bad happens so Reimu or Marisa's team is stopping the moon from setting so they have time to solve the incident but this causes the other person to become hostile because they don't get what's wrong with the moon and having the moon not set is pretty bad for the balance of Gensokyo so they start fighting.
Standard invident-solving procedure: beat up everyone you meet and see if that solves the problem. "Touhou: Phantasmagoria of Flower View" actually didn't have an incident, but it still turned into a battle royale
Well, I'm a bit late to the comment party but I'll join in anyway. And probably end up doubling a bunch of people's existing replies, but whatever. Onward! 2:09 Remilia Scarlet for the vampire, Sakuya Izayoi for her maid. 2:32 PLOT (tm) 2:40 The one with the hat is Yuyuko Saigyouji, and the one with swords in Youmu Konpaku. And yeah, this game featured most of the central figures from previous games to one degree or another as player characters. 3:00 You say that as if the fighting ever truly stops. But more seriously, it's just one of those things where they all end up assuming that anyone they run into is part of the Incident and therefore must be blasted. And the new girl right there is Wriggle Nightbug, the Firefly Youkai with the Ability to "Control Insects" Part of the fan-designated "Bakartet" (which is a mashed-together phrase roughly translating to "Idiot Quartet"), a group childlike youkai from the the first few modern games that tend to be portrayed as friends, and as rather foolish/immature in general. 3:14 And here is another member of the Bakartet, Mystia Lorelei. She is a Night Sparrow youkai with the Ability to "Cause Blindness" with her singing. She actually uses it as a business model/scam, as she runs a grilled eel food cart. She causes humans out at night to become nearly-blind, and when they stumble across her food cart she claims that eating eel can fix their eyesight. When they buy from her, what actually happens is that she just releases her power from them. Oh, and the other two members of the Bakartet are Cirno the Ice Fairy and Rumia the Darkness Youkai. And there's also Daiyousei the Greater Fairy who isn't really considered an 'Idiot' but still hangs out with them because she's Cirno's friend. 3:30 Keine Kamishirasawa (try saying that three times fast. Or at all without having practiced beforehand), schoolteacher. An interesting case as she is a "Were-Hakutaku", meaning that she's actually half-human. Hakutaku are divine beasts/gods, said to be advisors to royalty and able to ward off evil forces. She has two Abilities which she can use depending on what form she is in: when human, she can "Eat/Conceal History" which allows her to essentially 'hide' things from being interacted with, such as hiding the Human Village so that it appears from the outside to have never existed. When in her Hakutaku form (which since these games are all about cute girls, is just her normal self with a pair of horns, a tail, and a color-swap) she can "Create History"... which doesn't really get brought up as to what it means... as well as supposedly know all the history of Gensokyou. 4:06 The whole time thing is a game mechanic reference. In 'Imperishable Night' in addition to having "lives", you have "Time." Part of the plot is that the various characters are using their powers to slow down/halt time to resolve the Incident, and that if the time advances to morning (5am) you end up losing even if you still have lives left as the fake moon disappears and you never find out what was going on with it. 4:50 Just because. Like I said earlier, the main way people have of fixing Incidents is to pick a direction, fight everyone in your way, and eventually run into someone who is actually involved in the current problem. In this game, it just so happens that since you have multiple groups of people trying to fix things, when they run into each other you get situations like this. Each side thinks the other is the mastermind Plus Marisa is often a snarky troll who gets on people's nerves, so having an excuse to hit her is sometimes seen as an opportunity not to pass up. 5:17 Girl with the dolls is Alice Margatroid. And just as a matter of trivia, her main doll itself is named "Shanghai." And as for learning the names, you have it easy here with it being one of the earlier games. As of current time, there's something like180+ characters between the various games, manga, and short stories. 5:36 Nope, just beating the hell out of each other. 6:04 Yeah. Considering that Touhou has *several* dedicated pages for music on tvtropes (as there were just too many to fit comfortably one a single page), the music is one of the draws of the series. With remixes (such being used in these videos) covering all sorts of genres. 6:43 MASTER SPAAAAAARK! Pretty much Marisa's signature attack. Strongly implied to have been stolen/copied from another character (who has yet to show up in any of minusT's videos). 6:59 They're not. 😛 7:48 Comet "Blazing Star". Marisa's second "final"-level spell/attack after the Master Spark. 8:52 Ah yes, Double Spark. Did I forget to mention that Marisa has like ten or so variations on the MS? Most of which are just "slightly bigger, slightly wider, more stars on the side", but still. 11:16 Well it is only "Part 1." 12:26 Well, the game had it where each group would fight one of the other teams. Reimu-Yukari and Youmu-Yuyuko would fight the Marisa-Alice team, while Marisa-Alice and Sakuya-Remilia would fight Reimu-Yukari. And as gifted as minusT is, having an 8-fighter mass showdown would likely be a bit too much on their video skills (and would probably have so many particles that the whole screen would just be blobs of moving color and/or kill their computer trying to render it). So instead, it's going to be Youmu vs Sakuya in the next part. 13:15 And then there's waiting for Part 3. After all... we still haven't actually gotten to the culprits behind the whole Incident yet, just the investigators fighting each other. So we still have the mansion in the bamboo forest. And then after THAT we have the Extra Stage for a part 4 😈
Touhou Eiyashou - Imperishable Night Noticing that the moon is strange, one of four teams of two sets out in an attempt to figure out what's going on and resolve things. As the moon is extremely significant for youkai and magic in general, the Fake Moon Incident attracted a lot of attention from various residents of Gensokyo, which is why so many people got involved. In order to buy time to resolve the incident, the team that set out used some sort of means to freeze the night, which varies depending on who you play as. This seems to use the Border Team's scenario as a base, with Reimu and Yukari manipulating the boundaries of night and day to create an eternal night until they can resolve things. In the case of Remilia and Sakuya, Sakuya has the ability to manipulate time, so it's a simple matter for her to achieve the same result (you saw sakuya earlier as well, in Yukari's video). Marisa and Alice's scenario handwave it away as "magic", and Yuyuko presumably asked a favor of Yukari if she and Youmu are selected as the player characters. After a bit of investigation, the tagteams make their way to the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, near the human village, where they run into either Reimu or Marisa, depending on why you're playing as. Regardless of who it is, the one you encounter is oblivious to the fake moon, and is there to stop the endless night, fighting the player to resolve the incident they caused (the endless night) to resolve the actual issue (the fake moon). It's a little convoluted. Once that issue is resolved, they find a mansion/estate of sorts hidden deep within the forest. Eientei (lit. House of Eternity), deducing that the culprit behind the fake moon is inside. Since the rest is likely going to be covered in future videos, I'll cut the summary short here for now, however. As some have already mentioned, this was intended to be a finale for the Touhou series. With it's huge cast, extra gameplay features (Last Words, spellcard practice with Last Spells for all characters involved, stage 6A/6B split), Reimu and Marisa as bosses, a scrapped phantasm stage that was theorized to tie into Sakuya's backstory, it was easily the most ambitious project that ZUN had undertaken, and still stands out compared to even the games that came after it. Personally, I think it might be my favorite game in the series overall, and is definitely the one I've sunk the most time into.
Man Touhou 8 had some amazing patterns. Absolutely iconic and a joy to dodge through. I’d say Touhou 8 the THE classic Touhou game. It has the most content, features the most characters from previous games all together in one showdown. Not a bad place to start imo. Though the mechanics are a bit more complex than most other games. I could explain them if you feel like you’d need to know.
Touhou imperishable night or IN. Starring another newcomers. Sense this was supposed to be the end of the series back in 05. Let's start with why is everyone in twos? It's because Zun wanted to do something different. Teams are usually set as Human and Youkai with only one team of two youkai. Anyways, Reimu and Yukari are the standard, Marisa and Alice, Sakuya and Remilia, last but not least Youmu and Yuyuko with the last team being two youkai. It's easier to think first name is Human the 2nd is a youkai. IN main...plot is to well create an eternal night. Have fun with remembering whose who cause this is too long.
Hey, Youmu isn't a Yokai, she's half Phantom. "And half non phantom." She's very persistent about this. She'll get upset about it specifically even if she's being actively called stupid or half baked. "That's the part you correct ??" lol Also a ghost isn't technically a Yokai. She's not even really a haunting type ghost, she lives in the netherworld where she belongs
@@yogsothoth915 That's the problem of categorizing youkai as "unnatural beings" or "unexplainable" which by default makes Youmu a youkai. With that said I know what they are. But there is better places to explain the minor details.
@@yogsothoth915 Honestly her being kinda offended being lump with youkai and trying to explain a difference when there is barely any difference beyond not being a human is a funny scenario.
Touhou Eiyashou : Imperishable Night. ZUN initially thought it would be his last game, so he went all out. On the game's plot : There are two incidents within one. The initial problem is the 'Eternal Night', as in literally the sun won't come out. This is obviously a cue for all incidents solvers to search the culprit, so the humans Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya, and Youmu (though she's only half-human, but fair enough) get out of their beds. They beat up whoever is unfortunate to run into them, even each other. However, in truth this 'Eternal Night' is Yukari's doing, messing with the border between night and day. She did this for a reason, to draw attention to the real incident : the Moon that appears in the night sky is a fake, as a result of a grand spell cast by Stage 6A boss Eirin Yagokoro. We're talking of a planetary-scale spell, isolating the Earth from the Moon. Ordinary people would live under a false sky and never notice something was wrong. After looking at the Moon for long enough, the not-so-ordinary youkai Yukari, Alice, Remilia and Yuyuko understand this fake Moon issue and redirect their human partners on the correct path. I won't get into Eirin's backstory in detail now, but in a nutshell, she is a million-year-old wisdom divinity who has made quite a few enemies. She was instrumental in creating a Lunarian society on the Moon, but she has since betrayed them to care for Stage 6B boss and immortal princess Kaguya Houraisan. The two of them, along with a bunch of rabbit youkai have lived for hundreds of years in Eientei Palace, hidden deep within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. They'd been there before Gensokyo was even created. But as a result of their hideout being too good, Gensokyoans did not find out about them, nor did they notice Gensokyo appearing until presumably a short time before this game. When Erin finally did find out, she misunderstood that her cover was blown and devised a countermeasure against any Lunarian raid (priorised over Gensokyoan raids, since Lunarians are the bigger threat to her). Unfortunately, Yukari took notice. While Yukari too has plenty of reasons to dislike Lunarians, the fundamental problem was Eirin's blatant disregard for the rules governing Gensokyo. As an outsider she has no right to interfere with Yukari Yakumo's Peace. Even if one is an old and powerful divinity, even if they have perfectly valid reasons for their actions, so long as they live in Gensokyo they must abide by its rules. Truthfully, Yukari could have forced open Eientei by herself, but for the sake of her peace, she schemed to get the -law inforcement- human incident solvers on the case. Thus the game concludes with the sky returning to normal, and the Eientei characters being accepted as your average, run-off-the-mill Gensokyo residents. // Yes this is me not going in detail. Touhou has a shocking amount of lore about the Moon.
If you would continue reacting to touhou. I would suggest "burning meiling" and "the reisen" in terms of 3d animation. Story wise, i would recommend "Osana reimu", "suikakasen", or "summer days dream".
Want more amazing Touhou animations? You should react to Frisk(Chara) vs Sakuya Izayoi and then the sequel, Asriel Dreemurr vs Marisa Kirisame by Jzboy
Don’t let popular fan shippings cloud his understanding. Yes that’s a popular thing to portray them as, but don’t present that as fact. ZUN has stated that there are no explicit relationships between any characters.
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You will begin to understand that throughout most Touhou games, encounters through the games usually start off with the first few characters whom are completely unrelated to the incident on hand. The heroines find someone causing a bit of mischief and kind of beat them up thinking they might be the culprit. In this case, Marisa and Reimu encounter EACH OTHER and are beating each other up accusing the other of being the ones responsible for the Incident. And it doesn't matter if you pick either Reimu or Marisa, they will encounter the other and you will fight them. It's kind of a trope with Touhou.
The girl in blue is Alice from PC98 and later Perfect Cherry Blossom, she was also one of the helpers in the Subterranean Animism video, she usually uses little dolls to attack with. She's one of the 3 Magicians in Touhou along with Marisa and Patchouli (the girl who keeps Flandre in the basement, she also was in the Subterranean Animism teams, she was the one in pajamas )
Alice has actually grown powerful enough that she's become a Yokai Magician recently, she was incredibly powerful in PC98 and thanks to the book she's carrying with a lock on it was an extra stage boss whose mom was the final boss. But According to a game text file she doesn't go all out anymore because she's scared of realizing whether or not she'll lose again.
Anyway:
So the reason everyone is running out at the same time is basically something is wrong with the moon, it got bigger and it got a chip in it for one thing and tye reason for that is it's entirely fake. This understandably upset everyone, the Vampire obviously wants the real moon back, the Ghost people want it back, Yukari and Reimu have a responsibility to get it back, and Alice and Marisa want it back because they are Magicians and understandably find a moon being tampered with concerning.
Anyway if the sun comes up and there is still this big fake moon in the sky it will be a problem, so Yukari uses her power to extend the boundary of day and night, making this game more or less a timed mission depending upon how many lives you lose instead of an actual timer.
There are several big reasons to find a night lasting longer concerning, The world of Touhou is full of Yokai who will sooner or later start eating people if the night gets too long.
The first boss is Wriggle Nightbug, she's actually got an awesome new song cover a few months ago.
(She's famous for literally swooping in to do her midstage attack and literally kicking new players in the face when they try to collect a specific bunch of shot power and point items. This, in addition to her being a bug with a cape has led to a meme about her being a Kamen Rider and hero of justice, despite being a 1st stage boss)
She's a Yokai and a firefly , so she wants to keep the night going.
The 2nd boss is Mystia, she's a night sparrow Yokai and has the power to cause night blindness, she also wants the night to keep going because it makes her more powerful (relatively, she wasn't exactly strong to begin with, her power is annoying though, in game she makes a bunch of the screen dark)
The 3rd boss is Keine, this is actually pretty interesting, she's literally a school teacher and historian.
She's a human most of the time but she also a were-Hakutaku when the moon is full
(It's like a werewolf but also not at all, it's a type of Yokai that is known to be an advisor to humanity)
At this particular moment the moon is fake, so she's still in human form
She's protecting the human village from Yokai, and every single team in this game has a Yokai in it.
Her fears are also immediately justified.
(Every single group has a Yokai with them in this game, and not only does Remilia threaten to stop for a drink, Yuyuko famously threatens to eat every single boss in this game one by one "old lady who swallowed a fly" style. )
She's protecting the village by using her weird power
(Described as the power to eat history while human and create it while a Hakutaku)
to remove the village from history until the incident is resolved, at which time she'll put everything back.
I should also mention this character actually shows up again as the midstage boss for the extra stage in her Were-Hakutaku form.
Finally Stage 4 is the Bamboo Forest of The Lost, here Marisa and Reimu famously fight each other. They both have a Yokai with them and start blaming each other.
What's especially funny is in game on the Reimu route, Yukari randomly starts trying to instigate a fight saying things like "oh my, you caught me,"
And in the Marisa route, Alice tells Marisa to stop being polite and jusf yell at her like she always does, resulting in the extremely famous line:
"Okay, okay, I give up.
You're right. The endless night, stealing the full moon,
Hiding the human village, and putting hats on the stone statues,
It's all Alice's fault. Now, bitch, get out of the way!"
The last 2 stages have the remaining plot, it involves space aliens, the moon landing, the Japanese folktale "flight of the bamboo cutter ", a doctor who can cure death, and a bunny in a blazer with finger guns.
So nothing interesting, don't worry about it.
i will point out that marisa and alice did not know the moon was stolen at first. they were trying to fix the endless night till reimu pointed them in the right direction.
About Alice strenght, she doesnt go all out, not of being afraid of losing, but rather she doesnt find any meaning to doing that, as there would be no point in overpowering her opponent and not leave anything after, so she uses the minimum required and limits herself to fight smartly to push her own limits more
@@HaxeRain her Omake.txt mentions both.
In Touhou 8, the boss of stage 4 is different depending on which pair you choose to play as, either being Reimu or Marisa. Part 1 was basically each of them taking turns using their boss spells. Since Youmu and Sakuya aren't bosses in the game, that teaser at the end for part 2 seems like it's going to be something minusT either makes completely from scratch or they're going to pull all the spells from the fighting game Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, where both characters are playable fighters.
this is Touhou so every misunderstanding is always a good reason to fight.
a fanmade anime exist "The Memories of Phantasm" it is in my opinion an easy way to familiarise with the touhou universe and some of the major plot in the story and it s very well done
Long-time Touhou fan, found your channel from the Sr Pelo reaction video, and I've been LOVING watching your descent into the rabbit hole courtesy of MinusT and his amazing videos. Your excitement and curiosity are so earnest and lively and combined with your respect for the content and creator, instant follow for me and gonna check out the rest of your content too :)
I've seen a lot of people in the comments of the previous videos answering and explaining what's going on, so I don't feel like I have much to add on those (LMK if you want me to anyway, I will open the floodgates of lore) - but they seem to be missing a lot of "historical" (in-world and real-world) for the series and characters. I'll link a reddit post with a lot of good information in the thread, as it has a lot of information on the series, how to get into the games, lore, etc. but UA-cam does not like links appearing in the start of comments.
I broke the information you asked about and the additional background to a comment thread for readability:
[1/5 History]
The Touhou series is a videogame franchise created by a "group" named Team Shanghai Alice, composed of one person, Jun'ya Ota, who goes by the pen-name ZUN.
It consists of:
* 18 mainline games, all created entirely (programming, music, art, game design, writing, ...) by ZUN himself - and all belonging to some extent to the "bullet hell" / "bullet curtain" top-down shooter genre.
* 13 spin-off games, which happen between the mainline games and are thus given fraction numbers such as 12.7, 16.5 or 14.3.
* Of these games, 7 are fighting games where ZUN only designed the new characters and the art and production are by a fan-group-promoted-to-collaborator-group named Twilight Frontier (Tasogare Frontier in Japanese or TasoFro for short)
* The other 6 are top-down shooters made by ZUN alone, but usually with shorter, mission-based gameplay and different gameplay gimmicks replacing some of the core mechanics. For example, three of the games are "Bullet Photography" where you are armed with a camera instead of weapons and can use it to photograph the bullet patterns for points but also clearing them away in the process.
* Several series of written works (manga and books), music collections, etc. that were created by or in collaboration with ZUN
The first 5 games in the series were developed by ZUN while he was a student in Tokyo for the NEC PC-98 platform. He was an amateur music composer and wanted to make games to put his music in so he'd have a better chance of selling it in doujin events like Comiket. They were pretty explorative games (the first three are all different sub-genres of bullet hell games) both in game design and in world and character creation. Himself a fan of bullet hell games, he disliked the fact that the themes in the genre were all very machoistic and violent (historical wars, space fighters etc), and wanted to create one that has more beautiful and cute elements as well as a connection to Japanese myth and history.
After graduating, ZUN began work at the videogame company Taito - which he got accept into by showing them the Touhou games he created. Of note, two of the games he worked on, Magic Pengel and Graffiti Kingdom, which are both "monster trainer"-type games where you can draw and create your own -mons have a certain red-and-white shrine maiden as one of the built-in designs you can use.
Putting what he learned working as a professional to good use and after a 4-year hiatus, ZUN decided to start over fresh with the setting and in 2002 he created the first Touhou game for the Windows platform: Touhou 6 Koumakyou ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. This game and its characters remain to this day the most popular work in the series (it wins the yearly community popularity contest by a factor of ~30% every time), and it launched the series' popularity into what it is today. It is also the beginning point of the current lore canon, though ZUN has stated that the PC-98 games occurred in the same world and should be regarded as canon unless they directly contradict one of the later works, in which case the latest work is the canon.
ZUN himself is a pretty big otaku: the vampire antagonist of Touhou 6 quotes, verbatim, Dio Brando's "how many breads have you eaten" line, while her maid has a time-stopping, knife-throwing attack literally named ZA WARUDO in Japanese (you even called it out as such in one of the videos). He is also a big believer in the Japanese indie (doujin) culture that can give genres like bullet hell - that do not have mainstream appeal due to their complex systems and difficulty - a place to exist. He also allows all his characters and creations to be freely used by any non-syndcated creator without his express permission (he does allow some bigger-name creators as well if asked), which resulted in insane amount of fan creations based on the music, characters, and world. If you know a videogame, there's probably a Touhou fangame clone or skin for it.
A small aside on the nomenclature of Touhou games, most of the games have a number (either an integer for the mainline games), a Japanese title consisting of "Touhou" = "East direction" + three kanji, and an English subtitle. You will see games referred to as (taking Touhou 6 as an example):
* Their number: "Touhou 6"
* Their Japanese title (usually in the JP community): ????? "Touhou Koumakyou" or just ??? "Koumakyou"
* The first kanji of their Japanese subtitle (also in the JP community), sometimes read as it is in the title ? "kou" and sometimes as it is read as its own word ? "kan" (but written the same)
* Their English subtitle "The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil"
* An acronym of their English subtitle "EoSD"
These are all completely interchangeable and vary between who's writing it and the context.
[2/5 Lore]
The games all take place in a fantasy land named "Gensoukyou" (I'll spell it "Gensokyo" from now on since that's more common), where mythical creatures and gods of the past - who owe their power and existence to people believing in them - made a sanctuary so they will not disappear after the industrial revolution caused people to believe less and less in the paranormal and mystical. The main heroines are Reimu, the shrine maiden of the shrine sitting at the border between Gensokyo and the outside world, and her "ordinary magician" (to differentiate from youkai magicians, which are witch-like monsters) friend Marisa.
To avoid risk of detection and of hurting the few humans in Gensokyo whose faith in the supernatural keeps everyone else alive, all conflicts in Gensokyo are resolved by danmaku battles with non-lethal energy bullets. These are as much competitions of eye-catching beauty as they are of dexterity and firepower, hence why the patterns are colorful and geometric and often have bullets going in directions away from their target. As you can tell, this is all an in-world extension of what sort of bullet hell games ZUN himself wanted to see. The most complex and unique patterns each characters can make are referred to as "Spell Cards" and their names and visuals often tell a lot about the character itself. An interesting in-world fact is that the vast majority of people that have danmaku powers (and thus, the ability to do anything meaningful under Gensokyo law) are female, to the extent that there is only one humanoid male named character in the whole franchise, and he's a non-fighter and has only appeared in written works.
Most of the main antagonists in these games are either selfish and unaware how something they are doing adversely affects others. As a result, giving them a thrashing and explaining why they're in the wrong tends to make them friends with the main gang and a lot of them return in later games as playable characters or assistant characters. A few of the antagonists (mainly Extra bosses) belong to "doesn't know the extent of their own power" trope and only a vast minority are downright troublemakers.
[3/5 Gameplay]
The mainline games (and by extension a lot of the spin-offs and fan games) follow a very consistent structure:
* The player chooses one of a few characters. In all games the main heroine Reimu can be chosen, in every game since 3 her friend Marisa can be chosen, and a rotating cast of characters which were formerly antagonists are options in most games.
* In the majority of games there are also "shot types" for each character, changing their attacks and special abilities. Each character and shot combination will have their own main shot type, secondary shot type (which can be strengthened by collecting red square "[P]" power items) and a limited stock of spell cards serving as a screen-clearing "bomb".
* The player chooses a difficulty between Easy, Normal, Hard, and Lunatic. Typically the good ending of games can only be achieved by finishing the game on Normal or harder without running out of lives.
* The main game consists of 6 stages, each with small enemies (typically fairies and spirits), a mid-boss and a boss. The mid-boss is sometimes the stage boss making an early appearance and sometimes a different character altogether.
* Most of the games also have a gimmick that changes from game to game and it is expected of higher-difficulty players to use it to gain resources (extra lives and bombs) or high scores.
* In bullet hell tradition, the characters' hit boxes are much smaller than their sprites. Enemy attacks touching the sprite but not the hitbox results in collection of "Graze" points (with a very distinct and satisfying crackling noise), which are often the main engine for high scores or the game's gimmick.
* All games since the 4th have a "Focus" button, which you can hold down to move slower for better accuracy navigating dense bullet patterns. Starting with the 7th game, being in focus mode also makes your hitbox visible.
* Very generally speaking, the games' plot is given through auxiliary texts (e.g. the game manual), short bits of text in the character selection, and short dialogs before boss fights.
* The story often follows a pretty formulaic structure: An "incident" occurs, endangering the peace in Gensokyo or its existence. Reimu, being in charge of stopping such incidents, and her allies - either to help or out of a personal stake in the specific incident - go search for its origin.
* Stages 1-2 commonly have you fighting antagonists that are either just hindrances or mostly unrelated to the incident itself
* Stages 3-4 generally have you fighting antagonists that are related to the case or that know where its source is, but aren't directly the cause of the issue. Often these are guardians of the location where the mastermind resides.
* Stage 5 will almost always have you fight the second-in-command or most loyal servant of the main antagonist (reflected in that many Stage 5 bosses return as Stage 6 mid-bosses), and Stage 6 will have you facing off against the main culprit, where they will explain their motive and refuse to stop until beaten.
* Beating the game on the Easy difficulty or using continues results in a short Bad Ending where the big bad remains unconvinced since you didn't beat them fair and square, and your character returns home while the incident continues.
* Beating the game on Normal or harder without using continues (referred to as a one-credit clear or 1cc, based on the same sort of achievements in arcade games) gives a longer Good Ending (unique for the character and shot type selected) and unlocks the Extra Stage.
* The Extra Stage is a single stage mode with no difficulty selection (generally its difficulty is around the same as a late-game Hard level stage) capped off with an extra-long and difficult boss fight. For reference, most Stage 6 bosses have around 6-8 spell cards while the Extra bosses typically have 10.
[4/5 The stuff you've watched]
Sr Pelo's EoSD animation: Describes, with a lot of memes and gags, the events of Touhou 6. Most of it is focused on the boss fights (the guard fairies Reimu explodes with the grenandes and the maid fairy she murders being representation of non-boss enemies). The various music tracks that play throughout the video are the exact stage and boss themes from the game for those scenes.
It is also chock-full of references to the fandom and historical and future winks, such as Reimu being crushed by her yin-yang orb is something that can happen in the first game, which was a bullet hell-breakout mashup, and it even shows the animation that game had for it.
The two characters that appear at the shrine after Marisa leaves are Sanae, the Touhou 10 Stage 5 boss (and Touhou 11 Extra stage midboss, as you can see in Brambly Boundaries) and ZUN himself (who sends Sanae away since it's not her time to appear yet).
MinusT's animations: The 3D patterns in all of MinusT's video are very faithful of the 2D patterns the characters use in the games and the characters' attacks. He does tend to bring in abilities from later games (such as Yukari throwing street signs and trains at people, which originates in the fighting games) and allows the player characters to switch shot types during a battle, but even those are kept pretty faithful (for example, Reimu's yin-yang orbs change color in Brambly Boundaries when she switches shot types).
* Reimu vs Remilia: A more serious depiction of the Stage 6 boss fight from Touhou 6 ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.
* Marisa vs Flandre: Based on the Extra Stage boss of Touhou 6.
* Reimu vs Yuyuko: A depiction of Touhou 7 ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom's entire 6th stage, including some of the stage enemies, the midboss (half-ghost sword girl Youmu) and the boss Yuyuko.
* Humans vs Yukari: Touhou 7 is the only game to date that has an extra stage beyond the Extra stage, called the Phantasm stage. Yukari was first introduced to the series as the boss of this stage and is one of the most powerful entities in Gensokyo - to the extent that her familiar the nine-tailed fox girl Ran has enough magic power to have her own familiar, the two-tailed cat girl Chen. In-game, you have to beat her with one of the three playable characters (Reimu, Marisa, and EoSD Stage 5 boss Sakuya), in the video they all fight together.
* Subterranean Stars: Stepping out of chronological order, this shows a full run of Touhou 11 ~ Subterranean Animism, focusing on the boss fights. In the game, each character can choose one of three assistant characters that talk to you over radio and serve as the shot types. Marisa's helper options are Alice the witch (Touhou 7 Stage 3 boss, also a returning character from the PC-98 games), who controls small puppets that are weak but can be sacrificed to give you some invincibility, Nitori the Kappa (Touhou 10 Stage 3 boss), a mechanical genius that arms Marisa with missiles and a force field, and Patchouli (Touhou 6 Stage 4 boss), another witch who specializes in elemental magic based on the Japanese names of the weekdays, and Gives Marisa the ability to switch between different elemental magic attacks.
The antagonist characters shown in the "boss rush" are, in order:
1. Brown-and-black clad blonde: Yamame the Earth Spider Youkai
2. Green-eyed blonde throwing flower bullets: Parsee the Jealous Spirit
3. Red-horned blonde with a sake bowl: Yuugi the Oni resident of the abandoned hell
4. Pink-haired girl with a red eye on a string: Satori Komeiji, mistress of the Earth Palace. She is "cursed" with the ability to read minds through her third eye, which makes most humans resent her but animals - who normally can't be understood - love her. As a result she lives alone but has a lot of pets, including the next two bosses:
5. Black-clothed girl with red braids and black cat ears: Rin ("Orin"), hell cat who drags the souls of sinners into the burning hell. She's also a close friend of the last boss which is why she consoles her at the end.
6. Green and white clothed girl with black hair and wings: Utsuho ("Okuu") the hell raven. The antagonists of the previous game fed her the essence of the mythical Yatagarsu which gave her power over nuclear fusion and the ability to create a sun underground.
* Brambly Boundaries: Shows a full run of the Touhou 11 Extra stage: the non-boss fairy enemies and their attacks, mid-boss Sanae (Touhou 10 Stage 5 boss and my personal favorite character in the series) and the fight against Koishi Komeiji, Satori's sister who had the same problem but decided to solve it otherwise.
Similar to Marisa's helpers in the previous video, Reimu's helpers / shot types are shown as helping her from afar: Yukari which we've already met and gives Reimu the ability to screen-wrap (shown in the video as gaps in spacetime opening), Suika (Final boss of Touhou 7.5) - the horned, orange-haired Oni girl that drinks like a sailor and loves to party, and Aya (Stage 8 boss of Touhou 9 and Stage 4 boss of Touhou 10) in the black skirt with the short dark hair and little red hat, the intrepid Tengu newspaper reporter who will stop at nothing to get a scoop. Aya is also the star of the first two "bullet photography" spin-offs I mentioned, and her rival Hatate is my profile picture.
* Eternal Night part 0: Back to the series chronology, this returns to describe stages 1-3 of Touhou 8 ~ Imperishable Night. Four teams of one human and one Youkai discover the moon is fake (and any human that looks directly at it will be driven mad) and have to rush to stop it before the night ends and the fake moon becomes permanent. The teams (in game, one serves as the normal shooting mode and the other as the focused mode) are all characters we've met: Reimu and Yukari, Marisa and Alice, Sakuya and Remilia, and Youmu and Yuyuko. The video shows:
1. Sakuya and Remilia fighting Wriggle the firebug Youkai
2. Youmu and Yuyuko fighting Mystia the night sparrow
3. Marisa and Alice fighting Keine the Hakutaku and guardian of the human village in Gensokyo
4. A teaser of two of the teams fighting each other.
* Eternal Night part 1: represents stage 4 of Touhou 8, where - depending on which character you are playing - either Reimu or Marisa are implied to have looked at the moon and gone mad, and is accusing you of causing the incident. The video shows both of them with their partners and using a mix of their player and boss attacks, and the ending seems to imply Marisa + Alice will be going to stages 5 and 6 while Reimu + Yukari will go to the Extra stage. The stinger teaser implies the next video will be a similar fight between Sakuya and Youmu, which cannot happen in game (as Sakuya you fight Reimu and as Youmu you fight Marisa).
[5/5 Other stuff]
* You've mentioned the gameplay and music remind you of Undertale at points. This is not a coincidence. Toby Fox is a Touhou fan and has cited it as inspiration for both his music and the bullet-hell-like gameplay in Undertale and later Deltarune.
* Some important things to know if you want to get into the actual games:
* Touhou 1-5 are on retro computing platform and require emulation / are abandonware. There is no current legal way of obtaining them.
* Touhou 6-8 are currently only legally available by buying a CD-ROM from Japan (or secondhand). Depending on your computer, they might also require some patching to run on modern Windows computers
* Touhou 9-18 and most of the spin-off games can be purchased on Steam.
* All of the games, except 15.5 and 17.5, are in Japanese only
* Luckily for all of us, the community has a unified patcher that both handles the older game, translation patches, graphical patches, etc. Google "Touhou Community Patcher" for where to get and how to use it.
* You were threatened by the bullet hell-iness in the videos, but those show roughly the Lunatic and Extra levels of gameplay. Easy (and in some games, Normal) is a lot more accessible.
* If you want a good game to start with from the bullet hell games, I would recommend steering away from 15 (insanely hard), 11 (very hard) and 12 (pretty hard and has a very difficult gimmick to master).
* Good games, as far as difficulty goes, to start with are 10 (ample resources and fairly easy except for one stage), 13 (considered the easiest in the series), 17 or 18 (gimmicks are easy to learn and the difficulty choice curve is more balanced).
* Touhou 6, if you can get your hands on it, is a good starting point for lore reasons, and it is not very complication (does not have a unique gimmick) - but its difficulty is a bit higher.
* The Reddit link I mentioned above is www.reddit.com/comments/yt87b4 - highly recommended read and updated pretty often.
They are fighting because marisa thinks Yukari is the cause of the endless night. Which she is but only because the moon was replaced with a false moon.
answering a few questions…
10:39 thats Alice Margatroid!
2:08 thats Remilia Scarlet!
2:13 thats Sakuya Izayoi!
6:19 that spell card is “ Black Magic Event Horizon”!
11:30 ghost girl is Youmu Konpaku! she’s actually a phantom
if theres more questions to ask, reply to this (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)
Well, they're still rival since the early time when they first met.
We have another incredible animator his channel is asatoshi. I recommend his series called Burning Meiling. I have a complete playlist if you want to use it ( they are all from his channel I just made the playlist (his channel is disorganized and other playlists had unsubbed vids). Video quality starts at 360p but it improves by the 4th episode.
Huh what happened to Brambly boundaries?
Anyway basically the context is that smth weird is happening to the moon and if it sets then something bad happens so Reimu or Marisa's team is stopping the moon from setting so they have time to solve the incident but this causes the other person to become hostile because they don't get what's wrong with the moon and having the moon not set is pretty bad for the balance of Gensokyo so they start fighting.
Oops i mixed up the videos! Brambly Boundaries will be out tomorrow. Sorry
Standard invident-solving procedure: beat up everyone you meet and see if that solves the problem.
"Touhou: Phantasmagoria of Flower View" actually didn't have an incident, but it still turned into a battle royale
Well, I'm a bit late to the comment party but I'll join in anyway. And probably end up doubling a bunch of people's existing replies, but whatever. Onward!
2:09 Remilia Scarlet for the vampire, Sakuya Izayoi for her maid.
2:32 PLOT (tm)
2:40 The one with the hat is Yuyuko Saigyouji, and the one with swords in Youmu Konpaku. And yeah, this game featured most of the central figures from previous games to one degree or another as player characters.
3:00 You say that as if the fighting ever truly stops. But more seriously, it's just one of those things where they all end up assuming that anyone they run into is part of the Incident and therefore must be blasted.
And the new girl right there is Wriggle Nightbug, the Firefly Youkai with the Ability to "Control Insects" Part of the fan-designated "Bakartet" (which is a mashed-together phrase roughly translating to "Idiot Quartet"), a group childlike youkai from the the first few modern games that tend to be portrayed as friends, and as rather foolish/immature in general.
3:14 And here is another member of the Bakartet, Mystia Lorelei. She is a Night Sparrow youkai with the Ability to "Cause Blindness" with her singing. She actually uses it as a business model/scam, as she runs a grilled eel food cart. She causes humans out at night to become nearly-blind, and when they stumble across her food cart she claims that eating eel can fix their eyesight. When they buy from her, what actually happens is that she just releases her power from them.
Oh, and the other two members of the Bakartet are Cirno the Ice Fairy and Rumia the Darkness Youkai. And there's also Daiyousei the Greater Fairy who isn't really considered an 'Idiot' but still hangs out with them because she's Cirno's friend.
3:30 Keine Kamishirasawa (try saying that three times fast. Or at all without having practiced beforehand), schoolteacher. An interesting case as she is a "Were-Hakutaku", meaning that she's actually half-human. Hakutaku are divine beasts/gods, said to be advisors to royalty and able to ward off evil forces. She has two Abilities which she can use depending on what form she is in: when human, she can "Eat/Conceal History" which allows her to essentially 'hide' things from being interacted with, such as hiding the Human Village so that it appears from the outside to have never existed. When in her Hakutaku form (which since these games are all about cute girls, is just her normal self with a pair of horns, a tail, and a color-swap) she can "Create History"... which doesn't really get brought up as to what it means... as well as supposedly know all the history of Gensokyou.
4:06 The whole time thing is a game mechanic reference. In 'Imperishable Night' in addition to having "lives", you have "Time." Part of the plot is that the various characters are using their powers to slow down/halt time to resolve the Incident, and that if the time advances to morning (5am) you end up losing even if you still have lives left as the fake moon disappears and you never find out what was going on with it.
4:50 Just because. Like I said earlier, the main way people have of fixing Incidents is to pick a direction, fight everyone in your way, and eventually run into someone who is actually involved in the current problem. In this game, it just so happens that since you have multiple groups of people trying to fix things, when they run into each other you get situations like this. Each side thinks the other is the mastermind
Plus Marisa is often a snarky troll who gets on people's nerves, so having an excuse to hit her is sometimes seen as an opportunity not to pass up.
5:17 Girl with the dolls is Alice Margatroid. And just as a matter of trivia, her main doll itself is named "Shanghai."
And as for learning the names, you have it easy here with it being one of the earlier games. As of current time, there's something like180+ characters between the various games, manga, and short stories.
5:36 Nope, just beating the hell out of each other.
6:04 Yeah. Considering that Touhou has *several* dedicated pages for music on tvtropes (as there were just too many to fit comfortably one a single page), the music is one of the draws of the series. With remixes (such being used in these videos) covering all sorts of genres.
6:43 MASTER SPAAAAAARK!
Pretty much Marisa's signature attack. Strongly implied to have been stolen/copied from another character (who has yet to show up in any of minusT's videos).
6:59 They're not. 😛
7:48 Comet "Blazing Star". Marisa's second "final"-level spell/attack after the Master Spark.
8:52 Ah yes, Double Spark.
Did I forget to mention that Marisa has like ten or so variations on the MS? Most of which are just "slightly bigger, slightly wider, more stars on the side", but still.
11:16 Well it is only "Part 1."
12:26 Well, the game had it where each group would fight one of the other teams. Reimu-Yukari and Youmu-Yuyuko would fight the Marisa-Alice team, while Marisa-Alice and Sakuya-Remilia would fight Reimu-Yukari. And as gifted as minusT is, having an 8-fighter mass showdown would likely be a bit too much on their video skills (and would probably have so many particles that the whole screen would just be blobs of moving color and/or kill their computer trying to render it). So instead, it's going to be Youmu vs Sakuya in the next part.
13:15 And then there's waiting for Part 3. After all... we still haven't actually gotten to the culprits behind the whole Incident yet, just the investigators fighting each other. So we still have the mansion in the bamboo forest.
And then after THAT we have the Extra Stage for a part 4 😈
Touhou Eiyashou - Imperishable Night
Noticing that the moon is strange, one of four teams of two sets out in an attempt to figure out what's going on and resolve things.
As the moon is extremely significant for youkai and magic in general, the Fake Moon Incident attracted a lot of attention from various residents of Gensokyo, which is why so many people got involved.
In order to buy time to resolve the incident, the team that set out used some sort of means to freeze the night, which varies depending on who you play as. This seems to use the Border Team's scenario as a base, with Reimu and Yukari manipulating the boundaries of night and day to create an eternal night until they can resolve things. In the case of Remilia and Sakuya, Sakuya has the ability to manipulate time, so it's a simple matter for her to achieve the same result (you saw sakuya earlier as well, in Yukari's video). Marisa and Alice's scenario handwave it away as "magic", and Yuyuko presumably asked a favor of Yukari if she and Youmu are selected as the player characters.
After a bit of investigation, the tagteams make their way to the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, near the human village, where they run into either Reimu or Marisa, depending on why you're playing as. Regardless of who it is, the one you encounter is oblivious to the fake moon, and is there to stop the endless night, fighting the player to resolve the incident they caused (the endless night) to resolve the actual issue (the fake moon). It's a little convoluted.
Once that issue is resolved, they find a mansion/estate of sorts hidden deep within the forest. Eientei (lit. House of Eternity), deducing that the culprit behind the fake moon is inside. Since the rest is likely going to be covered in future videos, I'll cut the summary short here for now, however.
As some have already mentioned, this was intended to be a finale for the Touhou series. With it's huge cast, extra gameplay features (Last Words, spellcard practice with Last Spells for all characters involved, stage 6A/6B split), Reimu and Marisa as bosses, a scrapped phantasm stage that was theorized to tie into Sakuya's backstory, it was easily the most ambitious project that ZUN had undertaken, and still stands out compared to even the games that came after it.
Personally, I think it might be my favorite game in the series overall, and is definitely the one I've sunk the most time into.
Hope you plan on reacting to the new part that came out recently
Man Touhou 8 had some amazing patterns. Absolutely iconic and a joy to dodge through. I’d say Touhou 8 the THE classic Touhou game. It has the most content, features the most characters from previous games all together in one showdown. Not a bad place to start imo. Though the mechanics are a bit more complex than most other games. I could explain them if you feel like you’d need to know.
there's part 2 now!
Touhou imperishable night or IN. Starring another newcomers. Sense this was supposed to be the end of the series back in 05. Let's start with why is everyone in twos? It's because Zun wanted to do something different. Teams are usually set as Human and Youkai with only one team of two youkai. Anyways, Reimu and Yukari are the standard, Marisa and Alice, Sakuya and Remilia, last but not least Youmu and Yuyuko with the last team being two youkai. It's easier to think first name is Human the 2nd is a youkai. IN main...plot is to well create an eternal night. Have fun with remembering whose who cause this is too long.
Hey, Youmu isn't a Yokai, she's half Phantom. "And half non phantom." She's very persistent about this.
She'll get upset about it specifically even if she's being actively called stupid or half baked.
"That's the part you correct ??" lol
Also a ghost isn't technically a Yokai. She's not even really a haunting type ghost, she lives in the netherworld where she belongs
@@yogsothoth915 That's the problem of categorizing youkai as "unnatural beings" or "unexplainable" which by default makes Youmu a youkai. With that said I know what they are. But there is better places to explain the minor details.
@@slycershad fair, I just had this funny mental picture of Youmu complaining and getting into it. lol
@@yogsothoth915 Honestly her being kinda offended being lump with youkai and trying to explain a difference when there is barely any difference beyond not being a human is a funny scenario.
Touhou Eiyashou : Imperishable Night. ZUN initially thought it would be his last game, so he went all out.
On the game's plot :
There are two incidents within one. The initial problem is the 'Eternal Night', as in literally the sun won't come out. This is obviously a cue for all incidents solvers to search the culprit, so the humans Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya, and Youmu (though she's only half-human, but fair enough) get out of their beds. They beat up whoever is unfortunate to run into them, even each other. However, in truth this 'Eternal Night' is Yukari's doing, messing with the border between night and day. She did this for a reason, to draw attention to the real incident : the Moon that appears in the night sky is a fake, as a result of a grand spell cast by Stage 6A boss Eirin Yagokoro. We're talking of a planetary-scale spell, isolating the Earth from the Moon. Ordinary people would live under a false sky and never notice something was wrong. After looking at the Moon for long enough, the not-so-ordinary youkai Yukari, Alice, Remilia and Yuyuko understand this fake Moon issue and redirect their human partners on the correct path.
I won't get into Eirin's backstory in detail now, but in a nutshell, she is a million-year-old wisdom divinity who has made quite a few enemies. She was instrumental in creating a Lunarian society on the Moon, but she has since betrayed them to care for Stage 6B boss and immortal princess Kaguya Houraisan. The two of them, along with a bunch of rabbit youkai have lived for hundreds of years in Eientei Palace, hidden deep within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. They'd been there before Gensokyo was even created. But as a result of their hideout being too good, Gensokyoans did not find out about them, nor did they notice Gensokyo appearing until presumably a short time before this game. When Erin finally did find out, she misunderstood that her cover was blown and devised a countermeasure against any Lunarian raid (priorised over Gensokyoan raids, since Lunarians are the bigger threat to her).
Unfortunately, Yukari took notice. While Yukari too has plenty of reasons to dislike Lunarians, the fundamental problem was Eirin's blatant disregard for the rules governing Gensokyo. As an outsider she has no right to interfere with Yukari Yakumo's Peace. Even if one is an old and powerful divinity, even if they have perfectly valid reasons for their actions, so long as they live in Gensokyo they must abide by its rules. Truthfully, Yukari could have forced open Eientei by herself, but for the sake of her peace, she schemed to get the -law inforcement- human incident solvers on the case. Thus the game concludes with the sky returning to normal, and the Eientei characters being accepted as your average, run-off-the-mill Gensokyo residents.
// Yes this is me not going in detail. Touhou has a shocking amount of lore about the Moon.
Now there is more! Are you going to watch part 2?
If you would continue reacting to touhou. I would suggest "burning meiling" and "the reisen" in terms of 3d animation. Story wise, i would recommend "Osana reimu", "suikakasen", or "summer days dream".
Want more amazing Touhou animations? You should react to Frisk(Chara) vs Sakuya Izayoi and then the sequel, Asriel Dreemurr vs Marisa Kirisame by Jzboy
Little girl(alice) is marisa's wife
Don’t let popular fan shippings cloud his understanding. Yes that’s a popular thing to portray them as, but don’t present that as fact. ZUN has stated that there are no explicit relationships between any characters.
Yuyuko's 80% Reflowering imo is definitely looking better than Marisa's spell cards
you skipped over brambly boundaries
I didn't skip it, I accidentally switched the scheduled dates. It will be out tomorrow.
Yo!
If u want to watch more fan things u should watch little reimu and kkhta there not cannon little reimu is cute and sad and kkhta is gore so