Game Composer Breaks Down OWEN WAS HER from TOUHOU 

Have you watched the video I did on Hartmann's Youkai Girl? It's over here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fAHrAL5_X-I.html

It's very interesting how quickly you picked up the disturbing, yet innocent nature of Flandre from the song. For some context, she is the younger sister of the primary antagonist of the game, with both of them being vampires. Flandre has incredibly destructive powers, appearing as an extra boss after the events of the story. When the protagonist fights her, it’s nothing more than a fun game to her; she is playful, yet has the power to destroy absolutely everything. ZUN did a fantastic job at portraying her personality through her theme. Great video and I’m looking forward to more Touhou!

“You guys like Touhou… a lot apparently” Understatement of the century lmao. Regardless, thank you for analyzing another piece from Touhou! One of the most iconic tunes of the entire franchise.

Toby is definitely a big fan of ZUN/Touhou's composing. If you listen closely during Undertale's "Your Best Nightmare", there's a reference to "Hartman's Youkai Girl" and a reference to "Bad Apple" in it during two different SOUL sections of the song.

The song title is a reference to an early-20th century murder mystery novel called “And Then There Were None”. It is apparently the bestselling mystery novel of all time. 8 people are invited onto a private island, with 2 caretakers that are already there. UN Owen is the supposed murderer, where the UN are initials for the man and woman who invited them. UN Owen was later found out to have been made up, because it is derived from the word “unknown”. Each of the 10 victims are killed in a way that resembles the “Ten Little Soldiers” children’s rhyming story, where the last one hangs himself, “And then there were none”. I’m sure other people could explain the connection between this and Flandre better than me, so I’ll leave it to them. I just wanted to provide some backstory

U.N is one of the songs that made touhou gain more popularity across the globe in the early 2000's. You could say that this song was quite a phenomenon,for better or worse

I have to say, as someone who is extremely versed in Flandre's character, you've got her down pretty well. The detuning of the instrument to play non-existent notes actually intrigued me because it fits with the circumstances of meeting Flandre: She's escaped from 495 years in a basement, and throughout the entire main plot of Touhou 6, the player character is not told any clues that she even exists. Flandre is very excited at the idea of meeting someone new, 495 years in a basement kind of cripples your social skills. But she comes off as a very intelligent character, and talks about how her sister kept her in the basement. Flandre's special ability is the power to destroy ANYTHING, but her childlike nature means she's easily excited and accidentally kills those who play with her. She also drops a line about the player not being allowed to continue (which is always the case in the Extra Stage of a Touhou game), which shows through a bit of meta dialogue that these tense and destructive fights are, to her, just a game. It's just play time, which leads into that innocence aspect you got from listening. She's an intelligent and highly dangerous foe, she's not evil, but she has trouble holding herself back and is as such incredibly destructive. And her theme is reflective of that, and you analyzed it really well.

This sort of "disturbing" theme is not that common in Touhou, it's just that you've picked the two tracks known for being like this lol Btw if you plan to ever do more Touhou in the future, my personal recommendation would be Necrofantasia. Not necessarily my favourite, but it's a popular one that I think could be great to react to.

翻訳の動画から来ました 自分の好きなパートを音楽の知識がなくて言語化できていなかったのですがそこをあなたが完璧に言語化してくれてとてもスッキリしました！ありがとうごさまいます。東方良いですよね

its funny how on his first two touhou songs davi got the most disturbing and weird themes, not that im complaining though they are both amazing, but i think its time he got introduced to the sheer power of the zunpets in songs like voyage 1069, border of life, necrofantasia, invincible full moon etc etc, these songs have a really different vibe from the ones he has done this far

The songs you covered for Koishi and Flandre are for the hidden bosses of the games. These characters are hidden bosses unlocked for beating the game without continues on harder difficulties, which itself is very hard to do, making these bosses super hard to unlock in the first place. They are the hardest bosses in their respective games, and these are the songs that go with them. Every stage has a boss character, but these are the hidden hardest bosses in the games they're from.

Cool analysis! During this era of Touhou, ZUN used to detune his songs differently for a couple songs, which you can hear a lot of in EoSD and on one of his music CDs, Dolls in Pseudo Paradise

That last happy chord is so satisfying, it's a pleasure to listen to them on a simple piano.

As i said previously - if you want to dig into Touhou music, be prepared for A LOT of it or stick to most popular ones ZUN is a great musician and you'll definitely find that out, not only with character themes, but also with stages in main games and in side games (touhou 10.5 for example) And also a lot of music discs/albums like magical astronomy

Interesting. Once again, I shall leave my list of recommendations - musical masterpieces from Touhou, now even longer: -Hiroari shoots a strange bird ~ ‘till when? -Suwa foughten field -Faith is for the transient people -Last remote -Heartfelt fancy -Satori Maiden ~ third eye (this and the previous should be listened to together) -Solar sect of mystic wisdom -Corpse voyage ~ be of a good cheer! -Heian Alien -The Kappa way as said ~ one way accelerator -The lost emotion -Shoutoku legend ~ true administrator -Reverse ideology -Exaggerated castle keep -Kobito of the shining needle (again, a pair) -Pierrot of the star-spangled banner -The sea where one’s home planet reflects -Pure furies ~ whereabouts of the heart (another one) -A world of nightmares never seen before -Hidden star in all seasons -Electric heritage -Entrusting this world to idols ~ idolatrise world (these are a pair too) -The great fantastic underground railway network

Fun fact the previous theme you reacted to is kind of a reference to this theme. The characters linked to those themes are similar on a lot of points: they are both extra boss and the younger sisters of the final boss, not really mentally sane even their colors are opposed on the chromatic circle. Edit: Koishi's sister is stage 4 boss not final sry I'm an idiot

Wow you nailed Flandre's personality based on her theme alone. The naivety, innocence, and happiness inside her theme was basically everything about this boss battle imo. If you want to check more of Touhou music I recommend Desire Drive, I am very curious as to what you will think of it, considering it's very different from the two that you have listened to.

海外ゲーマーの翻訳から来ました。 英語は断片的にしか分からないけれど、それでも貴方の反応を見ることで音楽に詳しい人はここのフレーズでこんな反応や表情をするんだ！と、ひとりで聴いていた時よりも音楽を何倍も一緒に楽しめます。いつも曲解説をありがとうございます。東方楽曲はまだまだ奥が深く様々なシリーズがあるので、また解説される日を楽しみにしております。 13年前からこのキャラクターがとてもとても大好きで、この曲を弾きたくて一生懸命練習した時に感じていたことが明瞭に解説されていてスッキリしました！

If you want a touhou ost with MANY different time signatures, i'd suggest "Lunar clock ~ Luna Dial", aka Sakuya Izayoi's theme from touhou 6.

You have summoned the touhou fans. Amazing videos, keep it up! Can you do Entrusting This World to Idols ~ Idolatrize World from Touhou 17 stage 6 boss next?

The name of this song is a reference to a mystery novel by Agatha Cristie called "And Then There Were None" (also known as Ten Little Indians or a title that would probably get this comment deleted), where there is a killer that goes by the alias "U.N. Owen" which is in itself a play on the word "unknown." I don't know if there's a reason ZUN chose to reference this novel in particular. Maybe this comment combined with the other comments talking about Flandre's character and lore implications will put two proverbial pieces of a puzzle together though. Also, I believe at one point in time this song was one of, if not _the_ , most remixed video game songs, full stop. It was very iconic, though I imagine its impact has lessened a bit since there are like, 16 or 17 other Touhou games (not counting spinoffs/fangames) that all have great music.

It's funny that you react to Koishi and Flandre's theme, both have a similar tone in their songs, only Nue would be missing to complete the trio of rare extra stage themes. It would be cool if you listen to Emotional Skyscraper or Little Princess which could show quite the majestic side in Touhou.

Some stuff I'd like to say 1. All songs from Touhou 6: EoSD are tuned at 456(±5)hz 2. I don't have ear training, correct me if I'm wrong but the chord sequence at 5:05 is "VI - VII - i", ZUN uses it a lot in his songs and I heard it's used a lot of other Minor Key songs too. 5:24 is "VI - VII - i - V", the five here was borrowed from Major, which is why it was a surprise. Same goes for 6:19 where it's "VI - VII - I", where the "I" chord feels much more satisfying because we would usually expect "i" instead. 3. The motif at 8:27 is the BACH motif, used by classical composer JS Bach; it's made up of Bb, A, C, B. Here ZUN transposed it but it's still recognisable.

「あなたを破壊しようとしている」でまじでこの人凄いんだなって分かってしまった…

There's a LOT of touhou songs, every single one has something special about them, the 5 songs that I like the most and recommend checking are: - Entrusting This World to Idols ~ Idolatrize World - Native Faith - Maiden's capriccio ~ Dream Battle - Tonight Stars an Easygoing Egoist ~ Egoistic Flowers - Cinderella Cage ~ Kagome, Kagome

It's so unique how indie composers could capture so much of their character from their theme that it even communicates well to other musicians or music experts out there. Basically what i meant is that your description of Flandre from your analysis here is spot on. If you plan to react to more touhou osts, i suggest some of my favorites. Many extra boss themes are really good like Mokou's theme from Touhou 8, Suwako's theme from Touhou 10, Hecatia's theme from Touhou 15, etc. Final boss themes (Stage 6 boss btw) are all so so good. maybe you could start from Touhou 17's Final boss theme (widely known as ZUN's best recent work) and move to others from there. Touhou has so much good osts that even the title screen theme sometimes are so good too. Can't recommend it enough!

My suggestions for other touhou songs to check out would be; Necrofantasia, septette for the dead princess, Satori Maiden ~ 3rd eye, and sleeping terror Also might be worth checking out some Len'en music as well, it's heavily inspired by touhou, but it has it's own unique identity, from that series I'd recommend; Empire Power ~ Eternal force, A name cast off from the edge, Eternal dance engine ~ Shall We dance? and end of history

Thanks for manking this content! I'm so happy to see someone who knows and talk about music to show us how Touhou's music is made, what kind of chords and idea between scales, progression Zun used, looking forward for more (also, you should pick some pc 98 tracks, those would be nice cause zun was still developing his music style).

this is such a iconic song of the early 2010s internet

You actually got her character far more right by just examining her theme than most outsiders or newcomers do, who usually love to assume she's a psychopathic murderous kid, despite that not being the case at all. And that is just incredible really! Loved both this and your Hartmann's Youkai Girl analysis. There's so many incredible tracks in the series! If I had to pick one I'd love to see it's *Reverse Ideology* also known as Seija's Theme. Another very frantic chaotic theme with a very clever twist underneath! (One which Hartmann's Youkai Girl also featured. I think only those two tracks have that twist in common actually)

Oh shit, more touhou! Always nice to see, I remember hearing this for the first time years ago.

There are hundreds of songs here, and I think we'll be excited for all of them. Welcome to Touhou's music. If I may, I'd recommend the song that immediately preceded this one, the Centennial Festival for Magical Girls. To contextualize this song a bit, this song is from the sixth game of the series, and the first Windows release, the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. It is the theme of Flandre Scarlet, the younger sister of the final boss, whom you encounter as a bonus boss after beating the game. At the time, she is running wild with boredom, and is being contained within her sister's mansion by one of its residents conjuring a rainstorm which, being a vampire, she's loathe to enter. And so you encounter her in the mansion's basement, having been warned of the danger but not quite having the context for what that danger is. Being a bullet hell game, this quite quickly leads to many, many bullets being thrown around. To you, a dangerous encounter you only get the proper context for later. To her, she's found someone willing to play with her, and is very much enjoying it. In the end, a friendship is struck. To give a bit wider context, the Touhou series of games takes place in a realm called Gensokyo - the Land of Dreams or Land of Illusions depending on translation. It is an isolated mountain valley in the depths of Japan, further isolated by a great barrier sealing it off from the outside world and inverting the pressure that a lack of faith exerts on the supernatural. Thus, it is one of the world's few remaining sanctuaries for spirits, monsters, demons, gods, fairies, and many more supernatural beings. Thus, you tend to get a lot of disturbing themes, as characters are, for example, disease spirits, gods of poverty, man-eaters, vampires, spider monsters, evil spirits, monsters of jealousy, oni... you get the picture. And yet they are also, all of them, people. It's become something of a meme that after every peace-shattering incident, be it the moon being replaced by a fake or an invasion of demons due to an over-enthusiastic tourist agency, everyone involved settles down for a tea party to mend bridges. Hopefully that helps, and I hope you'll enjoy diving into the series's music.

I am very amazed how well you figured out Flandre's character and personality based on her theme. As a longtime Touhou fan who never truly dived into the details of her theme, I never noticed how cleverly ZUN portrayed her with music. Very good analysis! I would be very interested in seeing you analyse some Touhou songs that are different to Hartmann's Youkai Girl and U.N. Owen was her, such as Emotional Skyscraper (Byakuren's theme, and my personal favourite), which is alot more calm and sentimental, or Futatsuiwa from Sado (Mamizou's theme), which is also very playful but not disturbing at all.

この曲大好きです！解説してくれて嬉しいです♡

One of my favorite in the series! Also really nice breakdown into both music and character, keep up the good work!

what is the most fascinating part is that ZUN, the composer of the music and the games themselves, knew almost nothing about music theory when he started making the games, yet manages to create these incredible tracks that so many people recognize and love

So glad you are continuing the Touhou. O.N Owen was Her is one of the most popular tracks in the whole series, but I hope you continue with more Touhou 6 tracks like Septette for the Dead Princess and Shanghai Alice of Meiji (some of my favorites) and another one I'd recommend is Heian Alien.

It's so nice to see you cover more of Touhou music! Both Toby Fox and ZUN are legendary composers so it's always a treat whenever you breakdown anything that comes from them

_They are all like this arent they?_ yes

It's fun how you did the songs for characters who are very common to each other! Flandre and Koishi are both little sisters who aren't really seen in the world. [They're also both extra bosses!] 😊

Two extra details about Touhou music: 1. The names of the tracks often include references to a wide variety of things, from stuff out of Japanese folklore (like youkai), to even references to literature. This track's name is a perfect example of that. U. N. Owen is the name/alias used by a killer in the Agatha Christie novel "And Then There Were None". The name is a clever alias, basically a word play of the word "unknown" (as the 'k' in that word is silent). In the Touhou game where this track appears for the first time (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil), Flandre is a secret boss, an "unknown menace" you have to confront in the Extra stage you can only unlock if you finish the game without using a continue (no mean feat in the mother of bullet-hells). I must applaud ZUN's creativity in playing like that with the very title of the theme for the game's secret super boss. 2. We did tell you this is a DEEP rabbit hole. And Toby Fox went down it for the technical inspiration to make not only the music, but the basic bullet-hell mechanic of Undertale as well. Touhou + Earthbound were his primary inspirations. Not only is Touhou music certified coolness, it is a great piece of VG history.

This series has a number of songs that are much calmer too, despite always keeping the very frenetic beat. Others that are even more playful and joyous too. Just off the top of my head I can think of "Swim in a Cherry Blossom-Colored Sea" for a completely different, much more atmospheric vibe. Frankly, the best would be to play these games instead of looking at songs individually because you're going to miss out on A LOT if you only go by people's preferred ones. It's a bit like only looking at Megalovania for the entirety of Undertale and Deltarune.

I look forward to seeing more of these from you!

I'd like you to take a look at the Prismriver Sister's theme, Phantom Ensemble. The Prismriver Sisters themselves are the musicians behind the theme, giving them an even closer connection to the song than usual. I think It'd be fun to look at.

One Touhou song that blew me away when I first heard it was Reverse Ideology. I love watching you break down Touhou songs!

Your breakdown of their music, techniques and emotions behind it is brilliant!

YESSSS MORE TOUHOU!! :D I think it would be a really cool thing to read his notes on his songs. Every single game, he has a "music room" where you can view all of the music used in that game. He includes his thought process and his thoughts about the songs that he has written. I think his notes are also on the touhou wiki. Once again, great video and analysis as always!

The day has come, thanks davi, it's one of my favorite music of all time, now let's see your reaction to it

Damn straight I like Touhou! When you like anime/Japan stuff and music or memes, the road leads to Touhou eventually. I now realize I missed your first video in this franchise two weeks ago, but happy Touhou Hijack, lol! I’m not actually as partial to U.N. Owen or Hartmann’s, but they are popular and memetic themes within the fandom. My preference tends to be the 6th Stage Boss themes. There has never been a final stage boss theme in any of the Touhou games I didn’t find catchy or thrilling.

Loved the video, your assessments of Flandre's character were spot on! (Despite the fact that the art you referenced was fanmade, not even official artwork) I love the way you compare it to Toby Fox's works. Most other reviewers with simply say "oh this reminds me of Undertale," but the way you described it helped me understand ZUN's influence on Toby better

Really like your break down! Would love to see more TOUHOU!

Love the analysis! Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the detuning in this song is actually present in most of the other songs in Touhou 6 as well. Touhou 6's soundtrack is quite a special case amongst its peers in the series (ZUN switched from an SC-88Pro MIDI synth to an SD-90, which had a new sound for all the intruments), and beyond that, the use of detuning really distinguishes it from every other soundtrack in Touhou. I really love the way it sounds.

Very well done with the analysis, you managed to guess Flandre's personality incredibly well. ZUN did a great job in conveying her character through the music. The song is vaguely similar to Hartmann's Youkai Girl because both characters have some traits in common (mainly being disturbing) but the rest of music in the series is very different. If you're up for more Touhou break downs, I highly suggest one of my personal favourites: The Venerable Ancient Battlefield - Suwa Foughten Field.

Loved your analysis! Another songs that I would recommend are Necrofantasia, Border of Life and Marry the Magician (it's not from a game, but it's the theme from a character in the Touhou universe). Again, really in-depth analysis, can't wait for more!

It honestly amazing to see my thoughts and feelings about a song being put into such perfectly put and elaborated words. Un Owen Was Her has become one of my favorite songs and hearing you literally tell me why I love it so much is fantastic. If you want to do more touhou music I'd recommend Necrofantasia (Yukari's theme), Pandemonic planet (Hecatia's theme), or Pure Furies (junko's theme). They are all phenomenal boss themes.

man, this was a great deconstruction of Flandre's theme! I really love your videos a lot man c:

You are going to get recommended most of the popular tracks, that belong to the Stage 5, 6 and Extra bosses (the hardest and most "wow" tracks) Take a listen to Nitori Kawashiro's theme, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's "Kappa" ~ Candid Friend. It has some strange melodies, and it's one of the first uses of the synth guitars Zun's known for. Not all of his music is that fast and chaotic, this one is slower and less noisy. Also, Louchan2 has all the songs in the games at the correct length and in high quality (they are also available on spotify)

What I love about your reactions to these songs is how you nail the characters just from the music.

Pure Furies ~ Whereabouts of the Heart is my favorite track of all time, so I strongly recommend this one! Get ready for a lot, a lot of zunpets!

We do love Touhou very much! There are so many more great songs in the series, hope you will do more Touhou reviews. Especially would love to see some from Double Dealing Character, for example Mysterious Exorcism Rod.

Really impressive how you were able to get some of the main characteristics of Flandre just from the music alone! Her theme is one of the most popular ones from the Touhou series (even people that know nothing about Touhou may be able to recognize it). I'd love to see your take on certain touhou songs like "Emotional Skyscraper - Cosmic Mind", "Necrofantasia" or "Heian Alien", which are all really great in my opinion, and from the newest instances of the game there's "Tonight Stars an Easygoing Egoist", which is a great final boss theme with lots of instruments and parts with unique features. There's also Voyage 1969/1970, which is one of my all-time favourites, but it's somewhat more on the chill side musically when compared to the others I mentioned Anyways, thanks for another Touhou break down! Always love to see your reactions and how you can get a lot of info from the source just by hearing the songs!

As a fan of Touhou, I always love a music professional discuss the music, which I think one of the most well known thing about touhou. You're explanation is really interesting that you can describe some characteristic of Flandre just by her theme. Also I just want to add that tohou song is not all as weird/disturbing/hyper as Koishi or Flandre theme that you review. I would love to hear your review on Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind as I think you'll find this one different feel than the last two you review.

Im a very new touhou fan but I am a music teacher so here are my thoughts: 0:59 they are actually not, I recommend other boss themes like Remilia's (Septette of the Dead Princess) or even from other games/characters like Reimu's (Maiden's Capriccio) and Marisa's (Love-coloured Master Spark) those are examples that dont have that much of that disturbing sound you'll hear in Touhou 6, the game Flandre's theme belongs. 3:40 Its called Microtones, its the distance between 2 semitones. In my case, since Im starting my journey to do Touhou style music, I found out that in order to match the pitch, you have to go in between 2 semitones, so if A is 440 and A# is 465 I tune my DAW in between so I did 453 and its pretty close to the tuning ZUN uses on these themes. 5:31 in this case it would be IV or major 4th, Remilia's theme also use this and its my favorite sound so far. It is used in pop music too but usually it would be in a major scale like IV - iv - I (D - Dm - A). And yeah it is a suprise major chord in a minor scale song :p 6:22 I dissagree is a major chord, to me it ends on a open chord. I havent had the time to cover this song but even when listening it doesnt have that feel of happy ending, altho there are Touhou songs that do end with this chord progression. To me it ends on a open chord be cause the next section, the one with the xilophone actually stars with the same chord but instead of being (I) 7:40 it transforms into (VI) 7:42 to then modulate on the next (I) 7:44. Its a very cleaver move from ZUN to end the first part with open chords to modulate in the next one. 8:43 I think that seccion its all minor chords from the bass line, but I have not cover this song yet, even tho I did learn it by ear on my guitar. Overall you did a great job describing the relation between the music and the character, something I cant even think to do, these are just minor things I wanted to share, with no bad intentions! Great vid!

分析うますぎ！ まじで尊敬します！😂

damn Davi.. dude you read personality part of character AGAIN ! only through music trying to kill you but happy and innocent at heart it's so flandre because battle for her is just like "game"

Damn, this guy always nails it with the characters, I can't even imagine what is he going to say if he ever analize Emotional Skyscraper, like how well is he going to analize Byakurem by her theme, considering that theme is really mood-changing. Looking forward to see more videos of this guy xd

I like how all the comments have read more on them, you can tell how passionate Touhou fans are, and for good reason, the game and soundtrack slaps.

I'd be really interested in hearing your breakdown on any track from Touhou 8, but especially History of the Moon! I think it's one of the most elegant and powerful themes in the series.

I’m glad your loving touhou music! because you just listened to the best one!

drawing artist here, thank you for making this breaking down series happen because I like to listen to ost (like Touhou songs) when I do art. Your vids did tell me a lot of interesting info about sound and mood that happen, and I agreed those are true when I was listening to them! I will stay tuned for this series and use this useful info if I want to practice composing some music one day 😍 p.s. for me I cheer you to break down "Pure Furies ~ Whereabouts of the Heart" because that song really strikes hard on fandom and makes me really focus on rendering works

Zun describe this sound track as "Flandre Scarlet's theme. I liked this one the best out of the whole game. It depicts a devilish girl in an Oriental and mysterious way. Loli-tastic melodies like this are what I'm best at, so I had a lot of fun composing this"

The feel of this song boils down to "playful, but DEADLY", especially with the second part of the song that wasn't covered in this video. Fitting for the fight that it goes to.

Love your videos man! I would love it if you could react to Kwolok’s malaise from Ori and the Will of the Wisps, or honestly anything from that game. Love your stuff man! Keep up the great work!

This is so spot on Would love to see you do a video for Cosmic Mind ~ Emotional Skyscraper and see what your thoughts are on it

If there is one thing Touhou fans love most about the franchise more than the characters, it's the music. For an actual composer to breakdown the songs they love while both showing them what it is that makes the songs so good and deducing elements of the character of the song with such incredible accuracy, you've really struck gold here. Just about every Touhou song is either a boss battle theme or a stage theme. Other users have given some great recommendations for other songs but one I also think would be great to see you dissect is Kobito of the Shining Needle - Little Princess. If you look at a picture of the character the theme is for afterward, you may be in for a surprise.

I'm loving these videos. If you do more ZUN/Touhou, please consider doing Nostalgic Blood of the East. It's one of ZUN's best compositions imho, but I think it's also more representative of his work as a whole than the songs you've done so far.

Thank you, it's good that you are finally reacting to Touhou music.

really hoping that you get to Septette for the Dead Princess sometime soon. that's one of my personal favourites. Love Coloured Master Spark is also pretty great.

I love your analysis so much

this explanation is so damn amazing

EX stage themes are all insane, can't wait for more break down vids

Omg, he did THE touhou theme (although I guess there's Bad Apple as well)! It's not too hard to see why this theme is as beloved as it is, it's a perfect portrayal of Flandre's entire vibe, someone with unimaginable power that treats the entire encounter like a child-like game. I find it funny how at 0:58 u say all the themes are like this since both this and Koishi's theme are key stand-outs in terms of their composition, at least relative to the rest of the series. There are more themes like this (Nue's theme from UFO comes to mind) but the standard touhou track tends not to be quite so insane. But a universal quality they all share are those those 'suprise happy chord' progressions, they're the bread and butter to creating a touhou theme and if you're sticking to this series you're gonna end up seeing it a lot. Anyway, great vid as always and I think we're all very much enjoying seeing how much fun you seem to be having with the music of the series.

the fact that you're picking up on so many minute details in zuns music that tells you about the character its tied to just goes to show how good he is at making music that fits his characters. very good analysis! also if you'd like to hear something that's less disturbing for a change, id recommend listening to emotional skyscraper ~ cosmic mind. its a surprising and beautiful final boss theme

Love how you're breaking down Touhou music now. If I were to request another character's music, and call me basic, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on Sakuya's theme. She actually has 2(3 technically) themes used. Night of nights is her regular theme, but there was also a remix of it done called Flowering Night, as well as another theme called Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial. I think you'd definitely like listening to the last one I mentioned as it switches time signatures a lot.

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One thing that makes Touhou music so interesting, and the boss themes in particular, is how fantastically well it fits the characters and settings they're meant to represent. You can pick up on so much of a character's personality or design through listening to their theme. Probably the best example of that is the Extra Stage Boss theme of DDC, "Primordial Beat ~ Pristine Beat". There is a much greater focus on percussion, drums in particular, compared to most touhou songs, since Raiko is a living taiko drum. You can also pick up on her abilities revolving around thunder and lightning just because of how much her theme sounds like the rumble of thunder. There's so many themes in the series I want to recommend, but here's a short list of ones that would be interesting to analyse: * "Tonight Stars an Easygoing Egoist (Live ver.) ~ Egoistic Flowers." - the final boss theme of AoCF, for the Yorigami Sisters * "A Star of Hope Rises in the Blue Sky" - the stage 1 theme of HSiFS * "Faraway Voyage of 380 000 Kilometers" - the stage 5 (of 6) theme of LoLK * "Night Sakura of Dead Spirits" - the stage 1 theme of TD * "Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's "Kappa" ~ Candid Friend" - the stage 3 boss theme of MoF, for Nitori Kawashiro * The various title themes - they all share a melody called "The Theme of Eastern Story", which serves as a motif for the series itself, but they also do so much to represent the identities of each respective games

This theme is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and you see it is very loved among the community. If you want something more exciting that will fill you with emotions, Junko theme It's the one for you.

ZUN has a lot of great creations, not to mention the spin off circles. IOSYS is iconic, Akatsuki Records my favourite, and a thousand more exist. Lunatic Eyes (Reisen's theme) and Septette for the Dead Princess (Remilia's theme) are the best originals to me.

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Really enjoyed that Video ^^ I love Touhou Music and since i don't want to leave this great video without giving it a positive comment, there it is^^ And thank you alot for telling us all these great information about the song and even your opinion, really like that!

My favorite final boss theme from Touhou is Yuyuko's theme Bloom Nobly Ink Black Blossoms of Shimezume-Border of Life. Calming and sad at the same time.

Damn, really, very interesting, because I always like this melody, here and also explanations of how and what it means in this melody.

"They're all like this aren't they?" No, those two tracks are just pretty similar! They're used in basically the same context.

I literally jumped out of my chair when I saw this video! Id love for you to do Septette for the Dead Princess, as it's quite different from the themes youve heard so far. Un Owen was Her and Hartmann's Youkai Girl are Extra stage bosses that are very unique compared to the rest of the sound track, while Septette for the Dead Princess is much more focused and principled. Other songs to checkout would be Necrofantasia, Fate of Sixty Years, and ULiL Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World! Thank you so much for checking out the Touhou Soundtrack!

I've always loved to make music but I've never been very good at it since I'm a bit tone-deaf, but these videos have actually helped a bit, especially with all the talk about chords also if you do another Touhou track I would like to request Pierrot of the Star-Spangled Banner (Clownpiece's theme)

Hello I am touhou fan from korea(and also fromsoftware's fan). I found your video by chance and surprised at your analytical skills! Even without the knowledge of the game, your analysis is suprisingly accurate. I came to touhou because I was to be impressed by a song. So I am happy to see more video about touhou and other game! The music I want to recommand is "cosmic mind(感情の摩天楼）” of touhou. The translation of a Japanese name is "an emotion's skyscraper" It's an beutiful and emotional music as it's name. Also if you allow another recommandation, I will choose the slave knight gael's theme of darksouls 3. It's a music I like most except those you already makes. It is interesting that those musics I like most in darksouls have been already made as video lol. Thank for your great video! Whatever the next video is, I'll look forward to it.

"you guys like touhou... a lot..." the music is just that good

I'm so happy to see this video!!

Man, you REALLY need to hear Necrofantasia and Border of Life + Ending. Also PCB has my fav ost of all touhou games.

Yay more Touhou! This one is a classic.