1. Touhou girls mostly wear skirts because gensokyo doesn’t have many tailors. Most of the characters have to maintain their own clothing and skirts are cheap and easy to make so they just go with that. Source: zun interview 2. Cirno draws her power directly from god(esse)s. All fairies draw their power from natural lifeforces but misty lake doesn’t really have any. In the outside world however the lake is known as lake suwa. Lake suwa is known for a natural phenomenon called the omiwatari which is a unique ice formation that manifests in the lake. This ice formation is said to be gods traveling across the lake. Cirno draws her lifeforce from the omiwatari which is the reason why she is so powerful. Source: great fairy wars 3. The hakurei shrine maidens most likely inherited their name and power from mount haku. Source: Portrait of exotic girls 4. Tei inaba hates the lunarians because they imprisoned Daikoku. Daikoku was the dude who helped Tei after getting her buttocks torn asunder by a shark and she was very grateful and showed him how to have good luck. Later the lunarians imprisoned Daikoku as part of their conquest of japan on the behalf of lord Tsukoyomi’s sister Ameratsu. To this day Daikoku remains the only person Tei truly cares about and she teamed up with the lunarian traitors Kaguya and Eirin in order to find out everything about lunarian society and weaponry. She plans to one day mount a rescue operation to free Daikoku. Eventually. Someday. But first Reisen needs some more pranking. Source: Silent Sinner in Blue 5. Meiling’s sleeping almost destroyed the entire world. During Hisotensoku Meiling dreams about Taisui Xingjun who manifests in the form of a giant catfish avatar in order to destroy the world. Since this was just a dream though there wasn’t much consequence from it. That is until you Antimony of Common Flowers where several dream world inhabitants start being pulled into the real world. One of these is Taisui’s catfish avatar who teams up with dreamworld Tenshi in order to destroy the world for real. They are both defeated by Joon and Shion though so crisis averted. This only happens if you play the game on overdrive difficulty which you unlock by beating the game on lunatic difficulty. Source: Antimony of common flowers
@@magicyber909 Ah... I can tell you it's not my doing at least. I think your posts may be getting interpreted as illegitimate. I tried to see if I have any option to 'salvage' your posts, but they don't even appear under 'waiting for review' for me.
Strictly speaking, Megumu is probably higher than her in the work hierarchy, being a Daitengu. For example, the patrol tengu like Momiji report to a Daitengu like Megumu. It's more likely that this higher ranking Hatate possesses is bloodline related. We can't really say anything for sure without more information though. Now if ZUN were to show us Tenma-sama... that would REALLY be a treat. Hope that helps!
@@GensouChronicle Yhea, more or less that's what I thought, hopefully we'll see more tengus with the other colors. Btw, Great video! I know it's hard but I hope you can do more of this or some other topic with Touhou.
@@mush-broom I have the next video's audio recorded. I'm hoping to maintain a realistic timeline of a video once every 1.5-2 weeks. As much as I'd like to do them once a week, I want to maintain editing quality, but also have to balance everything else I do in a week. The next few videos will be a bit less serious, just to save the good ones for as I go.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about an actual obscure fact: Patchouli's pajama, the stripes are supposedly creases but the artists in Twilight Frontiers mistaken them as stripes.
There wouldn't have been much to say about that one. Most of these facts I could follow up with supplementary stuff. Though, I think 'design misinterpretations' might be a large enough net to warrant its own video.
You can't imagine how suprisend I was when I clicked on your channels videos to see more just to realize it's your only and first video, I actually subscribed. I am looking forward, you look very promising
This comment made me smile irl. I actually feel kind of bad though, because this next video is a lot less 'serious' and not at all lore related. (Though, the channel will be 90% that as I go on.) In any case, thanks for the encouragement.
Only fact I knew already was the LOVE misunderstanding, mostly I was told about it as trivia once before. I actually thought that the fan album named the song and used the morse code thing as a reference to the rumor and not the other way around, though. Not that I mind. I came here to learn, after all, and you certainly delivered!
"I'm pretty sure most of the people who watch these videos are already fans and are decently knowledgeable about the series." Me, a random guy who's been bingeing these videos despite knowing nothing about Touhou, never played the games, or read any of the manga: "Haha, yeah, that's sure me."
Fun fact: bugs swarm around certain people’s faces because they are attracted to the carbon dioxide you breath out. If you want to get away from them try not exhaling as you relocate.
2:20 Was the Demon Slayer Corp system based off this? Wonder if Hatates nobility will be revealed in Cheating Detective Satori. And i replay that part of patchys song because it's the best
The Demon Slayer Ranks were likely based off the idea of a cap and rank system. The one I listed was simply the first and most famous one. There are others. This was likely based on the idea of them.
touhou fanons and headcanons and some of the edgiest I've ever seen, and most of them really dont make sense to me :V like, they pulled some of this nonsense out of their asses just for the sake of it
I would like to ask for a source, for Tengu following Shotoku's ranks? since it definitely seems to me, from interactions between Aya and Hatate(though I haven't played DS) like Aya is ranked above Hatate or is same ranking(probably the latter, seeing as age doesn't same to matter but type of Tengu does...) other then that, I have learned a little bit, cool facts
I'm not sure where you got the impression Aya is ranked higher. Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia has the discussion between Aya, Momiji, and Hatate that we get a fair bit of insight in their individual expectations within tengu society. If I may ask, what interactions did you see that definitely seemed to be the opposite?
@@GensouChronicle well, I forgot that she was featured in AFiED... I'm pretty sure that's the source I thought about(unless I'm forgetting another of the written works), but if you've read it, I probably just misunderstood something there, or misremembered something... also, I thought I said that I think they're equal?(after presenting the possibility of Aya being higher ranked) I would still like a source on the Tengu following those colored ranks... unless it's a theory or something and I missed you saying that it's a theory.
@@ssjcrafter8842 Yes, you said higher or equal. I mainly wanted to know where you potentially found proof for the 'higher' portion if you had some, as I wanted to know if I had potentially missed something. I wasn't saying you specifically claimed only that. But yes, I've read AFiED a few times over the years. And that specific portion again just for this video. As for the 'source', I presented it as a theory that has been getting considerably more and more credibility over the years as new content comes out. The evidence is large enough to be closer to a strong theory/fact rather than simple speculation. Many things in the Touhou Project are never outright confirmed by ZUN, and what many consider 'facts' are largely derived from fans picking up on things from history and mythology that are too clear to be coincidence. This is one such case. Hope that helps!
Actually... I think I blundered there big time. I called the two quarter notes at the beginning whole notes, and the rest of the sequence is allotted half the time I said it was. Thanks for pointing this out.
I am the source. I have a Ph.D in Touhou Lore- More seriously though, I think I went over the 'source' for everything except maybe Patchouli's spell cards, which are all from Stage 4 Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. If you want me to explain one of the sources in more detail I'd be more than happy to.
You're actually right! I had it in my original script and it slipped out between edits and such. There's more than likely several more too, but thanks for pointing that out for people.
So, here we are. My first video. Had to learn video editing and such from scratch, but I'm happy with how it turned out for a first try. It can only go up from here. How many of these facts did you know? Most of these I did research to get, and a couple like the color compliment bit I noticed on my own. Edit: Also, for those of you with a bit of music savvy, you may have noticed that I blundered the musical note allocation! The first two notes are much smaller, and everything else is half the 'size' I called it. As far as the new numerical sequence goes, it's mostly the same, except the '4's are '2's instead. The Morse Code charts are still accurate except for the bottom one which can be thrown out completely. Thanks to johnny joemori for pointing this out. I'm actually mad I messed this up considering I played piano for YEARS lol.
Just found out your channel from my brother and Touhou has been one of things that leaves great impact in our life. I just want to let you know that your channel is really like a treasure for us and bring us back to our geeky childhood memories. Apparently, it's been so long since last we kept in touch with Touhou and your videos spark our little fantasy again. Thank you so much for bringing Gensokyo back to us!
It's interesting how Hatate has been recontextualized in Foul Detective Satori in such a way that her being ranked above Megumu doesn't seem so implausible. When she started out, she was a joke character that was the less successful version of Aya because her thoughtogtaphy was a really bad match for journalism. She also didn't get a full theme song and her spellcard had a really low score in Grimoire of Usami's contest. However, it seems Aya let being the faster reporter boost her ego to the point that she started writing entries that varied between kicking people when they are down (bad endings in Touhou 18 show her writing a report about the player character losing) to just plain libel (rewriting Miko's speech about healthy living into a "build a wall" copypasta and editing a Kakashi Spirit News article about Sumireko to emphasize her rival's supposed biased reporting). And while she didn't publish Alternate Facts in Eastern Utopia, the fact that what persuaded her was the threat of her articles actually becoming the truth really says something about how she acts nowadays. Meanwhile, the real Kakashi Spirit News article shows an almost purely informative point of view, which is definitely a positive over Bunbunmaru's fast but dishonest approach. Finally in FDS, thoughtography turns out to be very useful for archiving information that Aya didn't even know about and Hatate's habit working inside is vindicated under the threat of being possessed.
I know about... Marisa and Patchouli being counterparts thematically as well as color complementary as well as other characters being color complementary to each other. The rest was a cool look into obscure facts that are good to know.
not sure how obscure it is, but i love reminding people that in pc-98 canon marisa owns a sentient ICBM capable of destroying the world as a pet also a bit of trivia about song names, ZUN uses the words "mystic", "maple", and "dream" quite a lot in his song titles, as evidenced by the fact that there are three separate songs titled "Mystic Maple", "Maple Dream", and "Mystic Dream" (in fact Mystic Dream is used twice in two different songs, one from Mystic Square and one from PCB)
heres a further elaboration on the mimi chan thing that most people dont know:in the series mimi came from originally, there was in fact a companion or some such relation for her in the primarily black sentient icbm named bear-kun
I can't promise everything will be serious, or that it'll be in this format, but I'm definitely hoping to do some more transformative content than simply 'Touhou 6 review' or 'popular 20 year old fangame review'.
Great video! Now here's a fact you may or may not know: Flandre's name romanized properly is actually "Flandoll/Flandoor". The katakana when written is フランドール which comes out to "furandouru". If her name was "Flandre" instead of "Flandoll/door" the kana would look like フランドラ. Now for a theory: I believe that Flandre's name is "Flandoll" and not "Flandoor" because her character is thematically linked to "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, a novel about a mortar mystery on a secluded island. Flan's theme "U.N. Owen Was Her?" is a direct reference to this book, with "U.N. Owen" being the patron who invited the ten guests to the island. In the story, there are ten china dolls representing the ten people present. After each mortar a doll disappears. It would not be a stretch to assume part of her name is in reference to these dolls. (You could even posit that Flandre's backstory about being in a locked room for hundreds of years is a tangential reference to the locked rooms found in mortar mysteries and ATTWN.) "U.N. Owen Was Her" also appears as the eleventh track in ZUN's album "Dolls in Pseudo Paradise". The theme of dolls reoccurs, with the CD's original story being a poem inspired by ATTWN's epigraph "Ten Little Soldier Boys"-- a nursery rhyme written by Frank Greene in 1869. The album's title is both a reference to the setting of the ATTWN, as the isle appeared innocuous at first, and a metaphor for the darker side of Gensokyo. ZUN has also made later references to Agatha Christie with Akyuu taking on the pen name "Agatha Chris Q." in FS. On a final note, Flandre's name is not the only one erroneously translated. Maribel is "Maeriberi/Maerybery/Maerryberry" as the kana reads マエリベリ. If her name was "Maribel" it would be written as マリベル or メリベル. There is also ancient debate that states Rumia is actually "Lumia" too. Personally, I prefer "Flandre" instead of "Flandoll", even if it it incorrect; Flandoll sounds a bit silly, Flandre is at least a real name. P.S. I had to spell mortar like "mortar" because RU-vid automatically deleted my previous comment because of it.
Lol. Guess what the new video is on. Commonly mispronounced characters. I'll be going over several more names though. As for Flandre's name. I actually like the idea of Flandol, which is something I bring up in my video. I also go over the actual origin of every EoSD character as a side note. I think that part of what makes it look weird might be years and years of exposure to Flandre.
@@GensouChronicle About pronunciation. At 9:32 you pronounced Jo'on as "Joon." While I guess it's unnatural to say for a foreigner to say a syllable that start at the vowel, the Japanese way of pronouncing it would be splitted.じょおん Notice how after the hiragana of Jo it's followed by o. Meaning that the o is pronounced separately as Jyo-on. While to be fair. This is unnatural sounding in English. I suggest pronounce it as "John" which make it funnier
@@exciton9861 Yeah, I stopped doing this recently. It's a bit unnaturally in Japanese even, since an elongated 'o' sound is replaced with an 'ou' whereas Jo'on keeps the second 'o' as per how the name is formed. It's not too hard to pronounced thankfully, but I would say it's a common mistake like pronounced cirno as 'sirno'.
I'm relatively new to Touhou, so this was all pretty new to me--I didn't even know the myth about "love" in Patchouli's theme. These more serious analyses of the design choices present in the series are exactly the kind of content I love to see!
I actually didn't know some of these, so pretty good stuff. Knew about the tengu ranks and hatate being in the higher rank, as well as the statue of liberty and the western/eastern stuff going on with marisa and patchouli. Would like to see more if more if there's more worth making videos on, which surely there is
i usually avoid these kinds of videos, but you surprised me with actual "obscure touhou facts" that were both lesser known and actually backed up with evidence (unlike some other, bigger channelCOUGH) i liked it
I appreciate it. I want to thoroughly explain each fact I present, not just so people have a complete understanding of it, but because instead of a single fact it's like learning lots of smaller facts in between it all.
Funnily enough I knew some of these things because a friend would just go on and on about Touhou lol Im still new to all this stuff too but this was really well presented and overall informative and entertaining great vid
could vs impostor main story characters SURVIVE gensokyo? characters: red green yellow white black maroon grey/gray pink could they survive this world?
I'll write it down, but I can't promise it'll happen any time soon. I've been itching to start youtube for a while and I've ended up with like 50 videos planned in the backlog. An obscure facts pc-98 edition sounds rad though.
Fact no.6 : Too bad the inverted color tool doesn't completely agree or disagree with this wheel. Like with orange/yellow and blue being opposites, purple/pink and green, black and white, red and cyan. So it doesn't agree with purple and yellow.
this sounds like my knowledge about touhou being tested, just because of that goddamn Persona 3 music on the background (Out-of-topic-but-still-related-with-the-video obscure fact) great video and great debut! eager to see more of your videos!
6:38 nah man, it's just most people's favorite part of the song ;-; also the morse code part might be the drumming? probably not though, it's probably just the song remix misconception
Sort of, at least in how servants work. Legends and myths surrounding a servant = How they are when summoned. Perception in the real world = how the youkai are. Of course, there are differences and changes to them.
Interesting that all these things were new to me. Probably because I'm a newish Touhou fan. Thanks for making this amazing video! :D I didn't know the stuff about Marisa being both Eastern and Western inspired.
