Touhou 15.5 - Tonight Stars an Easygoing Egoist ~ Egoist Flowers | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

2:15 So, this track isn't *actually* played live, but there's a reason it's called the Live ver. and has audience sounds/clapping added to it. This song plays during the final boss fight, which takes place during an in-universe concert. It's canonically played by a few of the side characters while you fight the boss, which is why it's called the Live ver. (Also, you're right that a Touhou concert would be sick, cus I actually went to one last week. It was awesome.) 21:14 Yes, this is an official mix! The original track was composed by ZUN, but as part of Touhou 15.5's music CD the Arrange ver. was included as a bonus track. So this is affiliated with the official game.

While the character art for 15.5 isn't drawn by ZUN, all character designs across the whole series are indeed done by him alone, so he really is a one-man-band for almost everything. The designs, music, programming, etc...... Also, yes, the second song is an official mix. Besides, many of the fighting games like 15.5 have a majority of its OST comprised of fan music circles' remixes which were then brought into the games to be used in an official capacity And lastly, yes, there's quite a few ZUNpet-less songs that ZUN has made

Yeah. Touhou is one of those weird fanbases where nobody talks about it, until someone brings it up. Then suddenly you're surrounded by people who want to show you cool Touhou stuff! EDIT: I'm not complaining! 😅

In universe this is played live at a concert while you fight the final boss. So, canonically Raiko, the drum girl whose theme Jesse just reacted to, is playing the drums for this track. The 3 Prismriver Sisters are doing the rest of the instruments; they play the Trumpet, Violin, and Keyboard respectively, so if you assume the violin swaps out for the guitar when need be, one would have pretty much all the instruments covered by in universe band members.

This theme is actually shared by two characters that work "together" in the story. Each one is respectively themed after poverty and affluence, the character in the illustration being the affluent one. Shes most likely the titular "egoist" since she (like you said) blings herself out, and also exploits the other poor one.

Worth noting that this song also has a remix in 17.5 and it sounds pretty neat

joon and shion is based on the Japanese asset price bubble , where there was an economic bubble in Japan from 1986 to 1991 in which real estate and stock market prices were greatly inflated. In early 1992, this price bubble burst and Japan's economy stagnated. The bubble was characterized by rapid acceleration of asset prices and overheated economic activity, as well as an uncontrolled money supply and credit expansion. with that riches, imporvement of technology , electrical companies earning big in their white buisness suits. women dancing and clubbing, buzzing nightlife. it was proserous. that what Joon represents. shes a pestilence god/spirit, adorned in luxurious adornments, proving her riches and the craze to look expensive. she gain and creates wealth. but she also throw away her money just as fast. which they did back then. used as much money as they could, living the luxury life. but as we know it came to an abrupt end, which shion represents. poverty and the crash on the market came by hand in hand. A poverty goddess, who lives in truly misfortune, cause thats what she is: misfortune. she collects the money her sister wastes, but as siblings they have their fights. yet cant stop attracting themselves to each others. like magnets. i personally love the design, due to its historical meaning. something which i love alot.

Touhou is quite literally mean Eastern so when you combine it with a name of a game it become "Eastern + some cool thing that happen"

Official Touhou Project works are produced by ZUN of "Team Shanghai Alice" alone, but some works are produced jointly by "Team Shanghai Alice" and "Twilight Frontier". These organizations are not companies, but personal gatherings of people with specific hobbies called Doujin circles. They want to freely create games and music. ZUN has all the skills related to game production, and is actually in charge of programming, composing, drawing graphics and illustrations, and writing scenarios. From Th10 onwards, his wife Ki-san is in charge of some of the illustrations.

We Touhou fans are eating good. Yeah. Live version mean that this song is being played by characters in the background during gameplay. As for the second one. It is remixed by a one of the music composers that normally make music for the .5 games. The pattern for those kinds of games is that most of the ost is composed by members of tasofro and those are normally remixes of existing songs, while ZUN composes the themes for the new characters introduced. It's basically official. U2 made other songs for Touhou 15.5 ost

Damn the touhou reactions are going crazy

Fuck yeah. I'm always gonna be here for touhou reactions. I wish we could get some fan tracks in, but the circles probably don't count as 'video game music'. What DOES is something from Touhou Mystia Izakaya, or Touhou Luna Nights. I love these games so much. Izakaya especially has some great tracks with the Hakurei Shrine work ost. I pray someone in the patreon already has my idea in mind. I found some stats off a site and some general estimations from Reddit stats right now are: -115363 songs -525 events -2245 circles/bands -14088 albums By 2021 there was estimated to be around 100,000-150,000 songs derived from touhou according to Reddit. The accuracy of these doesn't entirely matter, but it's probably my favourite part about this entire franchise. It's more a collective than it is just ZUN's mind-child, and it is entirely possible to monetise and make a following by kind of piggybacking off the popularity of the series. Yuka Kitamura, the composer of the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring, is doing music for a little real-time strategy touhou fangame called the Touhou Empires now that she's gone freelance. A single animator making the Touhou: A Summer Day's Dream (I think) has some pretty significant names doing the voice acting. It draws so many people in to start making what they want while bringing already big names in to do the same.

There are some japanese doujin circles that make concerts, they are pretty cool, from the top of my head I always remember some concerts that BeatMARIO has done, especially when its about his song "Help me EIRIN" (Based on Flight of the Bamboo Cutter ~ Lunatic Princess from TH8 Imperishable Night), there's a lot of call and responses with the audience it is really nice. Talking about the song, the chanting and clapping of the people add a lot to the enjoyment of the song, while playing the game it really gets you in the moment of the fight, more when it is the final boss. This is one of the song I do play time to time while doing nothing and I want to get some energy

Oh boy here we go, my favorite Touhou song hands down. It really just feels impressive. It’s the perfect final boss song to convey a finale, it feels like something that would play for a stage play (probably for a good reason given the setting of the fight). I think it perfectly captures the beauty of the patterns in Touhou fights, it’s like a dance. Although this game doesn’t have the typical fights, it still feels very fitting for the moment.

The first song is an original and was composed by ZUN. The second song was arranged by Akiyama Uni.

man, were really getting a feast with all these touhou reactions, hope we get some touhou 12 reactions in the future

Touhou indeed has conventions. The annual "Hakurei Jinja Reitaisai" is the best example Someone else will explain it better in no time

More Touhou yeah!

Touhou is quite literally the biggest doujin series at the moment. Touhou con's happen a bit and those are conventions put on buy fans, who also do concerts of remixes of touhou songs. Zun even shows up a bit and takes photos with cosplayers and shows up on stage on occasion to.

The sonfs have really long names for organization. The format may vary, but you usually see: -Numbered entry of game (17.5) -Name or abreviation of game (Antinomy of Common Flowers or AoCF) --Character/stage the song goes with ((Not included in this track, but Jo'on's theme)) -Title and (if needed) sub-title of the song (Egoistic Flowers: Tonight Stars an Easygoing Egoist) The name of the song is Egoistic Flowers, the other fields are for SEO and organizational purposes. People frequently search by game or character since it's hard to remember all the names. It also helps with creating and maintaining playlists. Lastly, the song titles do usually tie in directly with the charactrs. It's usually something to do with their personality or lore, though, so you can't really tell without reading some backstory. for example: Egoistic Flowers:: Jo'on and her sister Shion are references to flowers. The pair also very self-centered. U. N. Owen was Her: Flandre is unknown to most people. Pierot of the Star-Spangled Banner: Clownpiece is wearing an America-themed outfit. Pure Furies: Pure fury is what Junko feels when you meet her. Some titles are less obvious, but the song title is frequently the 3rd or 4th thing you learn about a character, right after appearance and name and possibly a couple lines of dialogue. It's usually the most insight you get into a character without actually researching them.

Easygoing egoist, one of my personal faves. Something about the tracks Zun makes for the fighting games hits different. Anyway if you want a stupid fun fact: Like others have mentioned, this song diegetically exists in universe as a song being played at a concert. It plays when fighting the Yorigami sisters, who are using the current game's events to commit theft. But the track follows them as their theme in their subsequent appearances, so it can be said their own boss music is stolen, too.

"live concert would be sick" He doesn't know

It'd be a lot of songs, but i thonk it would be super cool to listen to the entire soundtrack of one of the games, like 8, 13, 15, 17, or 18

There's quite a few songs without ZUNpets in Touhou. A popular one I think of off my head is Cirno's Theme - Beloved Tomboyish Girl from Touhou 6.

Behold, a diegetic Touhou theme. The only one of its kind (well, maybe. Phantom Ensemble, Illusory Joururi, and Pristine Beat are up for debate, considering the characters they're attached to). Makes it a pretty memorable boss fight.

Can't wait for your reaction to Memento of Greedy Beast / All Organisms & Kindgom of Nothingness, two absolute bangers!

7:32 Assuming you're referring to the image on the video, that's actually the cover art for the game! The characters read Touhou (東方) Hyouibana (憑依華), meaning "Spirit Possession Bloom". Each Touhou game has a Japanese and English title, separated by a tilde. For example, 15.5's full name is Touhou Hyouibana ~ Antinomy of Common Flowers. Both subtitles typically tend to be relevant to the plot of each game.

If you play the games it helps differentiate the songs because you associate the characters and the gameplay with the song

I am amazed that no one has asked Jessie to react to circles like DB Usagi or Crow's Claw.

7:47 I am pretty sure that its the Game's name, as its the game's ost's Album cover

There are several Touhou songs without zunpets. Arguably about 2/7 of Touhou songs don't have zunpets, considering all CD releases and older games.

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Its really hard to say whether the second song is "Official", its as close to the line as possible. Antinomy of common flowers (AoCF) an official spinoff fighting game thats made with the help of another studio in addition to ZUN. Characters in AoCF had their themes remixed in a "fanmade songs become official" style where they brought in popular fan artist to make the actual game OST. As far as I know though this song didn't get that treatment until an official game ost CD was released which included this as a bonus track. Is it fanmade? Yes. Is it official? Yes but only on a Bonus OST CD. I will say as a final note though this theme of fan-works blending with official works is VERY present because Touhou IP is not enforced by ZUNs choice. You are fully allowed to make a Touhou game with Touhou characters and sell it for profit. Just don't put numbers in the title that is for official games and official spinoff (with decimals) games only

Fake live. Theme plays at consert stage in The midle of performance.

Dude, can you react TOUHOU with DEMETORI version.

Touhou arranges know no bounds.

A touch to add to the other explanations about the first being made by ZUN, and the second being an arrange. 15.5 is one of the fighting game side-games, which have traditionally been made by a different team instead of the one-man work the Shoot-'em-ups are. At some point, I think in the U.N. Owen reaction, you asked if it's common for songs to reappear? Well, characters reappearing in the main games tend to get new themes, or at least different enough, while in the fighting games it's more traditional for arranges to show up. To go in turn, the soundtrack is also made by composers other than ZUN, basically. Now, the exception is the themes for the new characters, made by ZUN as an exception to the general rule... which in turn has built up a tradition on the ensuing soundtrack release to have an arrange for these newcomers' themes akin to, well, "everyone else", so they also get the official (if non-zun) arrangement treatment!

All the later Tauhou games sound the same to me. The earlier ones have better music