Touhou: The Extremely Famous and Popular Ones 

It's so surreal watching someone who knows more about touhou 98 then any of the PC games

He’s so real for being basically a human soundboard but having THE single worst trump impression

fun fact: until touhou 12 zun would draw the clothes first and then eyeball where the arms, legs, etc. should be which is why the anatomy is a bit wonky in earlier games.

A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE TOUHOU PROJECT

3:30 IIRC spellcards were introduced specifically to make magic battles non-lethal, but back in PC-98 there were no spellcards and thus every battle was life-or-death. When Reimu said "let's bury em" she wasn't kidding

Just wanna give props to Gexuma for showing a quarter-second clip of Everhood when Gray said 'undertale'

Touhou isn't exactly my cup of tea, but I gotta give it to them, Alice Margatroid is a baller name. It's like the feminine version of Throckmorton.

4:35 My parents used to own an arcade and since I was little we've had a few pinball machines in my family's house, and whenever the game ended I would run away and cover my ears You're so correct in describing it as a "nightmare feature" why does it have to be so LOUD

Fun fact: All of Touhou (only the Windows main games) cheat codes are related to beers because ZUN is a drunkard

Small correction, they were definitely trying to kill each other before Spell Cards. The Spell Card system gamefied the magic bullet spray nonsense so that people would stop dying as much. c: Back in the previous game, the burning houses in the background of the Stage 6 boss was that boss doing horrific collateral damage. Isn't that neat? Welcome to the era of magic paintball!

It’s genuinely amazing how much content he can get out of a game that runs at 30x the speed. Pretty cool of grayfruit to play the entire game like that, too!

Aside from like Mario, Sonic, and Pikachu, I think Flandre has one of the most iconic designs out there just purely being like "I've seen that character before"

I didn’t even notice this before, but the game Monolith (or I guess Star of Providence now), which is itself a danmaku and certainly inspired by Touhou, has a Steam Achievement that you can get called “Shoot the Bullet”. You get it by taking a screenshot when there’s a ton of bullets on screen.

Oh he's the only other person to ever point out how pinball machines have that really loud thing when you get a free game

"Shoutouts to big yellow" Peak mentioning peak, my day is improved dramatically

calling Wriggle a dweebus is just .... perfect

The best part of 9.5 is the game over tips. About half of them are actual tips on how to play the game better, as the game is very different from previous entries to the series. The other half are @#$%posts of the highest order. My personal favorite is "This is a reminder that taking voyeuristic photographs in real life will get you arrested." Also I believe the in universe explanation for folks being "defeated" in this game is that the cast considers Aya a nuisance and after attempting (and failing) to chase her off they just leave. And tbh, fair. I would probably also leave if some rando walked up to me and started taking photographs of me without permission, especially if I had already asked them to stop.

love watching touhou stuff and being like "oh THAT'S what that terraria mod was referencing" at multiple points

I would say Grayfruit has been better exposure to touhou to viewers than mostly any other outlet on the internet, just by being "guy playing the official games"

Where did this beautiful art come from? With a thumbnail like that I didn’t even realize it was a grayfruit video

Touhou 6 was the first one I played. Have fond, stressful memories of trying to clear it without continuing. I didn't know there was a code!

25:44 every synapse in my brain fired when you showed that 1 second of everhood

I love the mention of Undertale with the smash-cut to Everhood

27:49 Oh my god the loading text in the bottom right has tiny grayfruits falling off it, What an insane detail

6:03 Terraria also takes a lot of inspiration from bullet hells when you think about it, especially with modded - but even in vanilla, you have bosses like Empress of Light and the Lunatic Cultist.

6:34 I feel Bullet Hells were a major genre in the arcade scene in the 80s and 90s, like Galaga, Xevious, and the like. It's just that the concept died there rather than evolving into like modern bullet hells in the japanese market. It also doesn't help that arcades are much less popular here.

It's very cool to hear him talking about the patterns, that's something that not a lot of people tend to talk about in Touhou, even though there's two entire official books dedicated to them.

34:49 This is my favorite Touhou character so I have to give this bit of lore. Mokou isn't kidding when she says she's invincible. She is straight up immortal. Non-fatal wounds regenerate after a while and total destruction just has her pop right back. This actually plays into her gimmick in one of the fighting games if you're ever doing those, where Mokou's gimmick is that some of her attacks damage her with recoverable health. And one of the her attacks, a fire pillar, recovers all of that white health. If you pay attention to the animation, you can see that she straight up just evaporates herself and then pops back into existence to recover health, and that's metal as fuck.

love to see Gexuma working on official grayfruit vids

fun fact! toby fox has been influenced by touhou may times, the most explicit of which was probably in the homestuck soundtrack where some of the songs are pretty much just remixes of touhou ones and a lot of them use the same soundfont

New grayfruit video? while im recovering from surgery????? this almost makes up for the nearly crippling abdominal pain! EDIT: On second thought, watching grayfruit while in a condition where laughing physically hurts me is not the best idea

Fun fact: this is the point where these games start being available on Steam. Because of how recently this series has started making its way onto the platform, only two of the ones shown here are currently available, and I find it hilarious which ones have been brought over thus far. It’s literally just the two weird ones at the end. Not Imperishable Night, which is a great starting point, not PCB, which Greyfruit’s chat says is the best, no. We got the two that play nothing like the others, because apparently it was important to add the games in reverse order, which had some amusing results. On the bright side, the game I want to play (Imperishable Night) is probably the one that’s next to be added.

I can explain this one at 18:21 , If I remember this correctly that is effectively yuyuko's dead body in that tree, she forgot her body was there over the 1000+ years since she died

Im so happy that you continued playing Touhou, its just a silly series with amazing music, and not many play the games so this is new even to me, a touhou fan, to see gameplay like this Can't wait to see if you continue the games, my fav ones are the coming after these so I really would love to see that Also, poor Wriggle, she was already kinda bullied in the fandom and now even grayfruit joins XD

It’s funny to me how as a child I used to be scared SHITLESS about Ronald McDonald Insanity (I have zero knowledge about Touhou at that time). Then growing up it was just inevitable that I’d stumble upon more Touhou on the interwebs and I’d be coming back to that same old video and see that wacky whahaha woohoo edit for what it is

"Either this or the night of the nights are one of the most remixed song" Sir, Its called Flowering Nights

Something that's only partially touched on here (possibly because Grayfruit doesn't know the details), is that Touhou 6 is the start of what has been dubbed the "Windows Era" of Touhou, which has continued up until the present day. This is different from the "PC-98 Era" because Touhou 6 was essentially a _soft reboot_ of the series, and could also be considered the first time Touhou started taking itself seriously. Only four total characters from the PC-98 games have made it over to Windows, and basically everything from the PC-98 games is considered non-canon now.

10:56 IM SORRY BUT HE SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THE PETERS FROM THAT ONE PETER QUARTET CUTAWAY 😭😭😭

Bullet Hell patterns can be so neat, I especially like it when charact3rs have a theme to their patterns. I really like the Len'En Project (thrift store touhou, affectionate) and how it does things like having a character who uses a mix of direct attacks and indirect stuff, or a character whose gimmick is reflecting things.

7:05 I was scared that he would ask this question it hurts 😭

The official stance on PC98 is actually the exact opposite of what you said. It is canon, unless it doesn't fit. Luckily, there is not many things that don't fit.

EVERHOOD MENTIONED. Now you MUST play it.

I do find it funny that Momma Toriel got Baby Flandre's attack.

"I think Donald Trump would like Touhou" - grayfruit, 2 thousand and whatever

I tried to "viewer get in here on this" and grayfruit pranked me by immediately cutting away.

even before grayfruit asked, I'd already went to overlap my mouse with the other two

Phantasmagoria: noun 1) a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination. 2) a changing scene made up of many elements.

Dude has accomplished the impossible by being able to play Touhou 6 for the first time after doing all the PC-98 games.

"It's like we're holding hands. Viewer, get in on this" [Scene cuts before I can get in on this 😠]

For the PoFV version that I presume you have, you have to install a "Cirno" font (Yes, the font is actually named Cirno) in order for the translation to work right. Taking a shot in the dark; I assume that's the part that was giving you trouble with the English translation, and that the text was all misaligned and ran off the screen when you tried without it. The files for the font should be included in the game folder.

Good to see more Touhou. Glad you've been enjoying the series, it's always fun to catch the streams when they're up.

This guy's commentary is somehow addicting

I think a Touhou arcade cabinet would go so fucking hard

I didn't even realize this was a grayfruit vid at first sight. Thought it was just another one of the many 2hu related vids I may find. Very happy to see a follow up to the previous touhou vid. Very few people get to actually experience or see the games this massive fandom comes from. I enjoy the nice little fact screens that pop in that looks like a grayfruit styled touhou loading screen.

Bullet hells would be fun to see coming into a modern age and not just staying with the old arcade style.

so awesome to see someone enjoying these games with a fresh pair of eyes :')

Let's start with some fun facts! EoSD: - don't care there ain't much besides that we all call Meiling China cuz her name was written in chinese I believe. PCB: -Prismriver sisters are named after the Prismriver muscal instruments. Probably you did indeed notice, but I find it funny anyways. -They're also daughters of a girl called Prismriver something I don't remember her but she died or something and all got fucked up. -The trumpet one can bug out and just go doing the weirdest things getting out of the pattern she should have, so we all consider her crazy. This is pretty funny as her power is to "make souls happy with the sound of brass" and that "she can turn someone so euphoric that they become insane", being completly on character there. -Letty is considered fat cuz a bug on her hitbox makes her bigger. She is since then the official BBW for all the H fans out there. IN: -Voyage 1969. I just love that song and the reference. -There's a dialogue if you play marisa and alice in which reimu is scolding marisa for being a fucking prick and always making mischiev around and at the end of the dialogue marisa goes "OKAY OKAY. The night being so long, the youkai getting angry, the extrange length of this bamboo labyrinth and the silly hats on your shrine statues are all Alice's foult. NOW MOVE OUT OF THE WAY" which is my singular favourite line of dialogue. -Similarly, when fightning against mokou who is inmortal, marisa just says "Oh well no problem. She's inmortal but her clothes aren't" at which mokou just responds "Please don't". -Don't bully the tomboy cricket thing she's trying her best his best something what a fucking dweebus. PoFv: -EVERYONE and I say EVERYONE related Cirno with the number 9. In the manual of the game the number to explain what is something on the image that describes "the dumb enemy" is a 9, on top of Cirno, that's all. -Medicine Melancholy is probably the most secondary and unimportant character in the entire saga that has an official name (Koakuma didn't have a name until the fandom decided to give her one, and yet she has more stroy behind her than Medicine Melancholy). -There's a lot of nice dialogues in this one so nope I ain't quoting anything but the lore dumps here are a hellhole. StB: -This is the first time Suika shoots something instead of drinking and punching you I believe. -Really the game comments itself there isn't much there to say nor I have knowledge about it. Mima is dead just accept it everyone. Pinball machines want to kill your descendants whenever they give you an extra game. I would also recommend you to check some fangames now that you're here. They're all delightful to different degrees and, besides the risk of becoming a touhou streamer, I think you would enjoy the indie, lighthearted nature of -really- indie games trying -really- indie stuff, similar to flash games but with a little bit more punch and depth. There's been a new dungeon crawler on the works (dreams of arcadia I think?) that looks interesting. Also MariAli which is a puzzle platformer with dual characters if I remember well, then some 2D beat 'em ups like TouhouVania and uuuuuh something else It's been so many years since I played these. They're all lovely tho. Suika VS Mechasuika would probably take a laugh out of you if you even manage to understand how the fuck that plays cuz I don't know.

As someone who's been a Touhou fan since I was literally 8 years old, watching Gray play through the series starting at the first game onward is really fun

OMG I FREAKED OUT WHEN HE DIED THE MOMENT HE FINISHED RESSURECTION BUTTERFLY I LITERALLY FUCKING SCREAMED

The Everhood clip is very much appreciated (also Gexuma did an awesome job editing as usual)

Glad to see that grayfruit is a fellow Reisen enjoyer

Gee Reimu, I guess it really WAS an imperishable night 🤠 also always nice to be reminded how insanely wacky and charming these games are lmao

Perfectly timed considering how I just got into touhou and watched your previous vid yesterday lol

"Why is Japan obsessed with Jack the Ripper?" Because England is a big thing in Japan, has been for a long time. Hello Kitty is English for instance.

35:20 Perfectly timed

Touhou fan excited to play their favorite game for the first time

38:11 The shmup fighting gameplay thing is more commonly referred as "Twinkle Star Sprites clone". It's part of a very long history of fighting games and puzzle fighting games popularized by Puyo Puyo, but Twinkle Star Sprites have many dedicated fans and Touhou 3 and 9 aren't alone with this. You may want to check out Rival Megagun and Twinkle Star Sprites itself.

i remember watching the vods a while back, this is quite pog

I dont know what a toe how is but is this a game or a bunch of funny shapes that dance around

This was the video that introduced me to Touhou. Touhou has consumed my life 6 months later. Thank you for showing me a gem of a franchise.

I wonder when Grayfruit will find out about Yukari's trains [Edit] Fahrenheit 621? Don't tell froot about the furries

holy shit i just finished watching gexumas spellcaster edit! awesome :D

18:28 The worst feeling you could ever get in one of these games.

>mentions danmaku unlimited DEAR GOD. HE KNOWS.

Gray should also play Immaterial and Missing Power for the full experience. that is, the experience of losing two lives to Yukari's Infinitely Bullshit Flying Object. Also Gray DKOing on Resurrection Butterfly made me wheeze.

Props to the editor, they did a good job. Ps. The Touhou "Soundfont" is actully from a Edirol SD-90 Synth Module, basically a midi file playing devide. Also, the knocker kinda reminds me of a shishi odoshi (basically a device that scares deer away, its a bamboo fountain that as it pours the water out it makes a hollow "clonk" as it hits the ground)

That thumbnail is sick

It's a shame you didn't have English translation for Touhou 9, it has some of the best dialogue in the series.

14:46 the way grayfruit says prismriver has me dying

"did she use 3 attacks in a row on me?? She's bullying" Zanmu using 1000 attacks in touhou 19

It should be known with the characters a lot of websites actually have more touhou fan art than they do nsfw art

Gexuma POG POGEXUMA also always more impressive how good gray is at vidya while still being a funny and entertaining mister

love watching other people play touhou. each gameplay I see feels different and I love seeing their reaction to what surprises it offers.

oh, he PLAYED these games

Grayfruit and Big Yellow are some of my favourite people on YT rn so that shoutout was surreal. Crossover video when? Pokemon Stadium minigames/versus or somethin

2:56 Touhou gaming sound I'm glad Mr. Fruit is playing these games and having fun with them because it's so nice to enjoy them calmly :)

Hearing all of this music brings me back so much. All the classic TF2 and OLD SPICE BODY BLOCKER BODYWASH remixes

The bits are great on this channel

Nah mate, the satisfying feeling of the whole pinball machine reverberating when you win a game (can happen with score as well as the end) is crazy, idk anything else like it

This was a nice video, I enjoy it so much.

there is actually an entire like paragraph of text from one of the characters criticizing donald trump in one of the books

bullet hells were very popular in latin america, specially the metal slug series and anything SNK

That McDonalds ad remix gave me whiplash to my childhood so cool to know it wasn't forgotten media

Yeah Grayfruit the knockers in Pinball machines are honestly the best part when you get a Replay from score alone cause it tells everyone in the arcade "you actually got skill come look at this guy". Im a big fan of pinball and been to some tournaments and you hear these go off a lot in tourney settings. Also if you ever get the chance I highly recommend finding a Weird Al pinball machine at a local cause that shit is really cool

Touhou 8 extra was so much fun, took me a week of constant dying to finally clear it

So in the Phantasmagoria games, you can use your own Meter attacks to counter their Meter attacks, so waiting for them to use one then slamming them with your own is a good way to go. You can even bait it with a small attack, then counter their counter with a bigger counter.

I really enjoyed this way more than I should from the fact I look at some of these patterns and like "damn how is he getting stressed over this" and then just reminds me of when I first started lmao

I honestly wouldn't mind watching Grayfruit mastering Touhou on stream.

I'm so happy you got to play Touhou!!!!! One of my favorite game franchises of all time!!!!

Oh my god, really? I literally checked THIS MORNING to see if there was a new Touhou video, the timing.