Even though most comments are years old, I'd like to give my personal take onto what the video means. Judging by the atmosphere of the PV, as well as the tone and lyrics of the song itsself, I always took it to be one where Alice slowly is realizing that everything she's had, always, has been false - her best friends were always her dolls, and she never truly felt connected to anyone or anything else. She's in denial that this is a bad thing, but it's a lament nonetheless, and yet she'll stand strong either way, pretending nothing is wrong, because she is "a perfect doll". An alternate version would be how she's figuring out what exactly being a Youkai means - longer life means your friends may die around you, the world may change in ways you weren't ready for, and other things.
Alice devoted her early life to magic, in particularly doll related magic. To the point where she forsook even her humanity to further her studies without interruptions. And then one day she looked up and realized the world moved one without her.
I think I just realized what this PV is about. I think it's about Alice moving from PC-98 era to Windows era. I mean, I didn't see PC-98 OR Windows Marisa/Reimu in there, so...
Also near the beginning characters flashed onto the grandfather clock. All were from PC-98 Era games. The last character on the pendulum of the clock was Shinki. Which is Young Alice's mother figure.
@Roxas31512 This is the full version of the flash PV as it was originally released. As with many of the touhou flash PVs, the videos usually contain edited versions of the songs. The actual song itself is a little over 5 minutes long. If you look at the description of the video you mentioned, you will see that the uploader edited the PV and reused certain parts to fill the extra gaps when using the full song. There is no new content in that version aside from the full song itself.
My right earphone broke and I decided to listen to this beauty again... and I'M SO GLAD I DID. Listening to 1:08 with only the left audio was an experience.
There is also the fact she may not have ever been human to begin with (it's a bit unclear if she was made by Shinki or not but she does claim to be "A perfect doll" in the song so I think they are going for that angle)
@IbukiSuika1 I know, it's not hard to tell they re-use the same video clips, but I mostly care about the music. (Really, I thought I was subscribed to you, considering how many of your videos I watch.) I was just pointing out there's a longer version of the song. Didn't mean to take away views from your video or anything, but obviously anyone that saw that comment already 'viewed' it. =X *Subscribed*
@Roxas31512 Oh, I don't mind that you mentioned the other video. I just wanted to point out that this was the full version of the flash video since there is also a shorter flash demo that has even less in it. Anyway, thanks for subscribing! :3
@drkcrmsn I just looked it up myself, seems that Touhou is originally a game - a "bullet hell shooter" type side-scroller to be precise (though the series does change type over time). The characters you see PV's about are from the different series' and some of them have huge fanbases, even if they only appear once or twice.
@EOCB I never watched NGE. But whatever, I just meant that you could easily make a whole anime series out of the way Alice is depicted in this flash. And it'd be deep as well.
But, but.. This isn't the full version.. The (Full Version) is probably why I went 2 months without knowing there was actually a full version. o-o Which is the "IOSYS artificial children (Full song and PV) with English subtitles" in the related videos.
@SandraChyan but obviously growing in fame, its better than mario in japan, they even threw a parade for its holiday. Theres a touhou crossover with EVERYTHING no exceptions, and many many videogames including but not limited to World of warcraft have references of touhou in them. Like i said, no exceptions, if you cant find a crossover to something with touhou in it youre just not looking hard enough
@SandraChyan bullet hell shooter (Danmanku) w/seriously Eargasmic music, the official drawings suck the character ideas were Amazing(thats when fans took over)its one of the few danmanku with a storyline.Official ;games,Theres12 danmanku games,bout 4 fighting games.130+characters 300+great songs. In the fangames, 0+games and growing,1000+remixes of songs. Touhou even has its own holiday. Its the mario of japan
what actually touhou is? is it game or anime? i've seen touhou - bad apple vid. & i fall in love with it. so, i've tried search to know more about touhou. but, i confused & still didn't get the answer. can someone tell me what touhou really is.....?
@NakanoHitori Youkai? I'm terribly sorry, but I'm not up-to-date on many Japanese creatures. Honestly, I don't think Oboa from Yume Nikki even IS a creature at all! If anybody knows what the heck that thing really is, PLEASE tell me!
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