WHAT IS TOUHOU? An informational video 

This game teaches you how to walk around in rain without getting wet

people always say that you should play touhou but never actually say where to actually get touhou

"How hard is touhou?" Yes

Guy: *Brings out umbrella because it's raining* Guy that plays touhou: *doges rain in 0.4 seconds* Guy: *Impossible*

In a nutshell Touhou is "trying to avoid rain simulator"

Touhou players don't need umbrellas

touhou is easy to dodge compared to T H E F A N B A S E

Who else is watching this cause they didn’t know the characters from “Bad Apple”

Touhou is like looking up to see an anvil falling towards you, only you realize that there must be some spaces between the individual atoms composing the anvil, and you might be able to survive if only you could pass between those spaces.

Imagine how much money an actual anime series would make...

Ahhh so thats touhou. At first i thought it was a fighting game, then a visual novel, then a bullet hell shooter. Apparently im correct

Most of the people who watch these are mostly people who actually know Touhou but are curious as to what other people interpret Touhou as. Edit: I said most, not all. If you’re genuinely new, then welcome. If not, then good.

I love how all the game names are fancy like "fucicious anuerism" and stuff and they just gave up with one of them and named one "Shoot the Bullet"

There are ➈ types of people: Touhou fans and non-Touhou fans.

"The more beautiful the pattern, the deadlier it is" Miss Junko: *ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT???*

Touhou ain't a game. Touhou is life. Or death if you're new.

Fanbase towards Touhou makes look like is something better than just a bullethell game.

touhou is the spawn of some of the best music ever made.

You know, when you learn about something by listening to a song based on another song based on a fan-made video based on a indie game, that makes you wonder if it could still be considered an indie game series at that point.

What is Touhou? A game that you can never beat and it's impossible to beat, even cuphead players bow down to this game's difficulty.

"tougher than if diamonds had a baby with megaman zero" I'm using this phrase to explain game difficulty for the rest of my life

"Pick one?" > Magic > Eirin's shady new drug > Yukari's fooling around again > It's a Moriya Shrine conspiracy

What are touhou players? Intense god's that dodge rain for fun.

The franchise that appears everywhere yet less people than expected actually know about

one guy did all this? I'm impressed, hats off to this guy!

"Let's get one thing straight. Touhou ain't anime. It's Machiavellian bullet hell shit that's tougher than if diamonds had a baby with Mega Man Zero."

This video was actually my introduction to the series, I searched this up a LONG time ago after I found the name to the series that indirectly gave birth to Bad Apple

*_The Irony Of This Being Recommended To Me Seems To Be Over The Count Of How Many Knifes I Store In The Kitchen_*

Friend: What game do you play to relax? Me: Touhou Project. Friend: Ah, i see you're a man of culture as well.

What is Tohou? Lolis with superpowers

“How hard is Touhou Project?” “Yes.” “...what?” _”Yes.”_

Toby fox: "he said he likes the undyne theme" 10:59

What's nice about this serie is that you can be a fan of the whole pack, or just the soundtracks, characters, gameplays separatly, or at a different level. You don't need to play the games to really appreciate the work of the author.

I've done the math, and, not counting those irrelevant background decorations called people featured in the books, there are 133 Touhou characters. (including 14.5 and 15) Also, the only fairies I'm counting are Daiyousei, the three other fairies (Sunny, Luna, and Star), and Cirno. The rest of them are basically just bullet dispensers.

Can we give them a round of applause for having the most hentai remakes on nhentai

"we will chase you forever until you succumb" me: "ha! try me" *looks out window* me: "oh SH-"

Fun fact about the song Reverse Ideology from the game Double Dealing Character: If you play it in reverse, it stays the same. Seriously, ZUN's a genius!

I warn ye, don't dig too deep into this comment section. It may start off good but deep there is just pure hatred.

Why everyone comparing Undertale with Touhou? They arent even in same genre

Well it's definitely a doujin, one of the most popular in fact.

Before Undertale and Yandere sim: 10,000 views After Undertale and Yandere sim: 230,000 views

Can you believe Touhou Project is 20 years old? 2015 was 20 years since Touhou 1 was finished. November 2016 is gonna be 20 years since Touhou 1 was first shown to the public. August 15 2017 is gonna be 20 years since Touhou 1 was released. I wonder what is gonna be in it's next 20th anniversaries.

I'm the cirno cosplayer in the picture you used... ​!! That's wild!

Toby fox and andrew hussie when they saw touhou: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN

"keep in mind only psychos complete lunatic mode easily" I died xD

I just realized Touhou is the oldest inde game ever.

Coming back after 6 years, I finally actually know what Touhou is now.

Ah yes, but the real question remains: *_What in dear god is the fandom?_*

touhou great 70% comes from the musuc, admit it

I want to be a Touhou fan but I suck at Touhou...

How were you introduced to touhou project? Other people: Touhou fans, music, gameplay vids and etc. Me: H doujins (ex. MMD videos)

i always choose the hardest difficulty then forget that i chose the hardest difficulty and wonder why i suck so much

I get slightly titled everytime someone asks or thinks Touhou is an anime.

Wow if you compare Sakuya Izayoi's art from the regular game to the one from the fighter game, you'll notice a *big* change!

And you thought sans was the hardest boss in video games I pray for you

I surprised this video already hit a million views. I remember 2 month ago it's only 800.000-900.000. Guys, it's seems like there's a wave of interest started to coming for some reason.

Hello and welcome, Undertale fans. You can thank this franchise for your game, fangames, and bullet hell memes. Please stick around to watch the whole video because, for those looking for a true challenge beyond the Genocide run, this is where you'll likely end up next. I hope this infomercial comment has been helpful to you, on this beautiful day where the birds are singing, flowers are blooming, and you're looking for an even badder time.

oh god i was only curious i don't want this

I've come from the future. I've dug thus far starting from *"lil boom's 'already dead' song"* I'm feeling lost but determined to find the origins of the *instrumentals*

This video has the same humour as modern "average", this man is a fucking time traveler, we've gotta protect him

To be quite honest, I _wouldn't_ necessarily say that Touhou isn't anime. At least not at this point when fanmade Touhou anime has actually been made... If I were to categorize Touhou at this point in time, I'd say it's a "creative phenomenon originating as a shoot 'em up series of games"... Because, honestly, you can approach Touhou from any creative angle you'd like, as long as you give ZUN the credit he's due as the original creator, you can paint fanart, remix music, write fanfiction stories, draw fanmade comics and/or manga, produce entire anime episodes, make fangames... ANYTHING. And you can even sell your fan produced stuff, too. To say at this point that Touhou is only shmup games would be vastly understating how amazingly creative people have been with the series and how amazingly encouraging ZUN is in regards to people using his characters and world for themselves. If I were to say what has made Touhou such an immensly popular series, I'd say "it's flawed"... ZUN is a poor artist himself (there's absolutely nothing wrong with the design of his characters, it's just that he cannot do them justice) but he has a completely non-ironic "let's see you do better" approach to it. If you think you can draw his characters better than him, then he basically encourages you to get creative and actually do so. The characters themselves have personalities that, while implicitly deep and varied enough to be interesting, also have something "uncertain" about them that anyone can start reading into and elaborating upon. The stories are also similarily understated (typically an incident occurs, the playable characters set out to fix it, they meet a few new faces that they kick in the teeth on, the incident is resolved and everyone has tea and sake at the shrine) and leave you with an itching "Then what?" kinda feeling that it often refuses to elaborate upon, encouraging you to fantasize your own continuations. The music, from back when it was all MIDI util now that it's synthesized, is great but also has room for improvement; it's very remix friendly and lacks lyrics, yet, at the same time, almost all scores basically underline _where_ and _how_ you're supposed to sing. And tying it all together is the fact that ZUN gives us far more question marks than he gives us exclamation marks. "Why does a hypercompetent maid serve a petulant and immature vampire and why does she refuse the vampire's offer to give her eternal life?" ZUN won't tell so we have to come up with theories and stories and song lyrics set to the characters' leidmotifs all on our own explaining our interpretations of the characters and their reasons... So yeah, that's my 50 cents and also my wall of text... ZUN might not be a super hero or a god, but he's a top-class, prodigious genius when it comes to bestowing creative inspiration upon people.

Touhou is like Jojo except the powers are even more complete bullshit. You think Dio's time stop is powerful? Touhou has someone with the same power but on bull shark steroids. And she's considered a mid carder. You then start getting into abilities such as "Nukes", "Controlling fate", the ability to effortlessly crush anything with a simple squeeze of the hand, the creation of "gaps" which can even affect concepts... Once you get to the high tiers you can't even say who's stronger than who, it's pretty much just a matter of who hits first.

Seems like im a few decades late.

me: randomly looks at the video in the middle of other shit the video: shrine maiden literally destroying a girl with asthma

Sooo where can I get it without ending up with 10GB of gay porn?

The very thing that brought me over to Touhou was the music. Not the games, not the fanservice, the freaking music. Video game music doesn't get any awesomer than Touhou music. The music is like the only reason I am a Touhou fan. I don't play any of the official games, although I do have one Touhou fan made danmaku shooter on my tablet, but that's it for playing the games, and I'm not a part of the fandom or the fanservice or any of that crap. I just come for the music, and I'll have you know, I have over 100 Touhou instrumentals on my tablet, both original songs and remixes.

“Gotta prank zun when Touhou got popular, this is gonna be the best prank ever!”

It’s incredible how one person made 21 games

So, Touhou is basically a rail-shooter...? Just 100 times harder than regular rail-shooters. I'm gonna try it.

Well I clicked on this video because someone mentioned Touhou to me So I was just curious on what it was.

Good thing this is the first thing that comes up when searching "touhou". Good job, RU-vid!

People dont know about touhou : it an anime Undertale fan: NO WAY IS HARDER THAN SANS Yandere simulator fan: oh cirno is a easter egg Bullet hell fan:ok,is a game (No offence)

So Touhou is bullethell simulator with little girls?

Can I just... It needs to be asked for continuity's sake. What anime is this? *Knifed*

This just randomly popped in my recommendations. Informative though. So I guess, it's the Dark Souls of bullet hells? I think it's much worse than a "hell" of a bullet hell...

The series is easier to access than ever, their on Steam now.

For people who saw pentagram and thought, "wtf, is this a satanic game?" The pentagram are supposed to represent Celestial, Nature, or other types of magic BESIDES Black or Blood magic. So ZUN really just made a mistake on putting pentagrams. Sorry for people who got easily offended by the amount of pentagrams. (Although there is Rumia, and the vampire sisters. They DO NOT use Black or Blood magic.)

ZUN has actually improved art a little recently, certainly with leg drawing... Hands (as seen on Reimu's Legacy picture) still need some work though. And, I prefer his old shading style.

Thanks for this information. Your presentation was fun and crazy!

Funny thing is, I listened to Night of Nights, Bad Apple!!, and Magus Night before knowing touhou existed. I found a remix of Night of Nights in my Discover Weekly, and I found Magus Night while playing osu! multi one night, and just recently found out about Bad Apple!! An update: I also found "who killed U.N. Owen while playing osu!

Fun fact, my first approach to Touhou was searching if it was an anime and after 3 years I realized it was a bullet hell game not disappointed about it though

the video had 666 likes, then i like it and it still have 666 but i was u and then YOU BECAME SKELETON and WROTE THIS!

Just came here to find out why I shouldn't say "what anime is this" To the music

Good information, I was meaning to look up what this series was.

8:59 "what happened to her chest" just to save your time

TL;DW for new people coming to the video.... it is just a Shoot 'em up (shmup) or "bullet hell" series.... that's it

sucks to be you. I'm watching this on a Windows XP in 2019 Translation: I really need to get a new PC

One of the things I like about this series in particular is that ZUN is so chilled with the copyright stuff, and doesn't care if people make fanwork. In fact I remeber that his policy on fanwork was literally: Give proper credits where due, obviously, and don't spoil the game endings for others.

Loved the video. But just 2 things you were wrong about: 1. In EoSD, you couldn't see the hitbox. Maybe with a fanmade patch. But PCB was the first Touhou game to show hitboxes. 2. Extra stages can ONLY be unlocked from easy difficulty in PCB (Touhou 7) and IN (Touhou 8). Every other Touhou game requires you to beat normal difficulty before playing the extra stage with that character/type.

this video must be wrong, Ciryes told me something different

Lemme guess? Majority of yall watching (or rather rewatching) are bored 2hu fans huh? I feel you.

I wonder how this video was enjoyed in 2014, when this type of commentary blew up in like 2016-2017 great video

Touhou is love, Touhou is life

I like how I literally just searched "What is Touhou" on RU-vid and found this. Purty lucky of me

I too can see my own tiny spec hitbox when I focus.

Damn and I only knew about the Touhou Eurobeat remixes. This video answered a lot of questions for me. Thank you!

This anime doens't look worth my time, 23 seasons is too long for the art quality

This video.. It's length.. It's 1337.

This editing was so ahead of it’s time and so funny

I find myself rewatching this video every time I see someone ask "what is touhou"