What is Touhou Music? (An introduction to Touhou doujin music) 

>What is Touhou Music? It's music from Touhou.

Genres: Eurobeat *starts car *dodges bullets while drifting *??? *profit

"Touhou music is hella lit"

Yo the Black MIDI circle is like remixes of remixes it goes deep

>But for those who haven't ... Let's be honest, pretty much most people who watch "What is Touhou" vids are bored 2hu fans.

Many years late to the party, but I think one of the aspects that make touhou so incentivizing for creators of fanworks is that most of the game is a relatively simple and clean slate. Music is one thing, but many other aspects allow for a lot of creative liberties. For example due to the official character art generally being found lacking it've sparked a lot of visual creative space for character interpretation by drawing artists. The fact that people usually prefer the fanart variations over the official art also helps funnel the community towards artists who're looking for paid work and with it increasing the amount of fanart available for the franchise. Similarly for people who like to explore, theorize and construct the background of characters in terms of story, Touhou once again offers very mild background elements that uses mythology and character relationships as a hook. This allows the fanbase in a lot of cases to derive from the real life mythology and figure out a rough sketch of what each character is like or how they've lived based on said mythology and how the touhou variation of the mythological character differentiates by observing their character relationships. (Though most characters are watered down versions of the mythological counterpart, to maintain the notion of a fun fairyland. The official manga works show off that they can be quite a bit more sinister from time to time though.) Generally speaking as a concept, I personally prefer to look at Touhou as a toybox with the bare minimum aspects needed to make it's own world, but most of the details are left for interpretation and that's what a lot of it's success has derived from.

It's one of the best nonvocal game themes out there, that's for sure.

Tohou eurobeat is the weebiest shit possible and I love it.

Fun fact: Neither the body pillow or hentai was censored.

fun fact: some guy maintains a torrent where he collects every touhou remix he finds or he's sended, wich is cool considering the fact that the torrent is *1.65 TERABYTES BIG, IT'S SO MASIVE IT CAN BREAK SEVERAL TORRENT CLIENTS*

I'm one of those circles that makes French touhou doujin music. And it's not even butchered :D

ah undead corporation howyoukilledmyfingersinosu

Sees Touhou and clicks.

Fun fact for those who've watched to the end of the video: The soundtrack of Urban Legend in Limbo (an official Touhou fighting spin-off) is the first official soundtrack that is a collaboration of ZUN (the series creator) and other popular Touhou doujin circles.

Wait. There's Eurobeat? Happiness has increased by about 5%

- What is Touhou Music? - Good Music.

That was a pretty cool and legit video about informing us about Touhou music. Both newer and veterans of the series will be happy with the information presented here.

Touhou songs EVERYONE knows: Bad Apple, U.N. Owen Was Her, Flowering Nights. Bonus points for Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea

Wow, Touhou is bigger than I thought. I came here after the Smash rumors, but if Touhou content ever happens to be in Smash, the soundtrack might be great.

So you like Touhou, Yume Nikki, Pokemon, eurobeat, AND hyper techno music? Holy shit I've found my lost sibling

Whoa a touhou reviewer that isnt a guy? 2017 is gonna be a fun year.

3:12 >Akatsuki Records Ah, I see you're a woman of culture as well.

Touhou music is so interesting to me. As an outsider looking in, my knowledge of this series ranges only from YTPMV memes (Ex: UN Owen, Marisa stole, Night of nights) I played have Touhou 6 a bit, but still have not seen the spark that makes this community so huge. Either way, its a huge community full of so many creative things, however the size of the franchise is too overwhelming for me explore in depth. All things considered, you've earned a sub.

My favorites were (1) lucid dream > 4:00 (2) spider’s blood > 5:14 (3) flyIng Leica > 6:27 (4) flower in floor > 6:52 Ok I’m gonna go drown in the sea of comments bye :)

Now I can show this video to those who keeps asking me what is Touhou music and whatsoever in my comment section. Thanks for this informational video. You also did good job enhancing your content with these great animations too. It gives unique feeling as well as make it more simple to explain complicated subjects like Touhou music which is also known as Doujin music. So I guess this will help people more than wikipedia entries and once more again this was really educational. Keep up with the good work! (´｡• ω •｡`)

i grew up with Touhou and have completely disconnected from its fanbase and sometimes creep back to it (like this time). however during the times that i listened to its music and played its games, it introduced me to so many great things. I am forever grateful of Touhou :3 it really shaped who i am positively.

5:15 *NANI?????!!!* *TOUHOU NO DRIFTU!?!!*

There are several kinds of music I love in this world. 60s music, 70s music, 80s music, 90s music, Nintendo music and last but not least, Touhou music.

I was instantly attracted by Touhou music because of my huge love for electro, house and trance music, i fitted right in

Im a simple man I see touhou i click

I am happy to have found your channel after several years! It was because of this video that I started to get into Touhou dojin music.... Especially in the Hardtechno part like dat file records or uno. I hope you keep uploading more content

I am so new to Touhou. All I can say is that the music goes pretty hard.

I especially like the touhou songs that have been adapted into memes

memorable old mentions: Demetori, Magnum Opus, Elemental records, sycn.art's, etc. rip

that moment when you realize you heared touhou songs for years and find out it's game music xD haha the more you know :D

i was atheist... until i discovered touhou music now i have something to pray to

You have great transitions and scripting throughout the video and the expressions you have are great. Keep up the good work. 10/10 IGN

For anyone wondering, the background music is from the album, "navigation il mare". The track's name in japanese is, "この素敵な時間を大切に". Just do a quick youtube search and you'll probably find it Also, Foxtail-Grass Studio is the best "circle"

What is Touhou Music? Me: ZUNpet, lots of em.

8:35 ah yes, the classic anime girl

With your permission, i'm going to share this video with everyone in the Spanish community, (Not re-upload it, just sharing) Great work!!!

"Most bullet hells use Spaceships, but touhou uses cute anime girls." *Muffled screaming from Nue* Btw, im excited to see your reviews. Do you like IOSYS, is i may ask?

Akatsuki records, digital wing, shibayan records and dBu music is my fav and ZUN used one of dBu's remix in their official game (antinomy of common flowers)

"Spider's Blood" had to be my favorite, but "SLASH YOUR MIND" was pretty good too. (Honorable mentions for "Flower in The Floor", "Hoshizara no Cappricio", and "Eliminator")

Now that's a nice video, really well explained and interesting. Thanks, "recommended videos".

東方projectはグローバルだね！東方projectが世界に広がるのは嬉しいことだ！ Touhou project is global! It's glad that it spreads to the world! : D

I just found your video while browsing some music and i got charmed till the end with your voice and background music. Like, for real, love your voice. And great video btw ^^

"What is Touhou music?" N U C L E A R F U S I O N

knock knock who's there two two who? its pronounced touhou

A decent Touhou introduction video that I can easily show my pals. Thank you very much for your hard work. Although to be honest I'm not really into the musi-*gets flooded by the angry mobs* I'm more into the doujinshi stuff, so I kinda down when you didn't mention much about that but still, this is a very high quality video so it's okay. Will eagerly wait for your reviews on the music circles as I'm trying to indulge myself in the music part of the fandom and honestly it is pretty scary with how much there is and where to begin. Your next video might give me a head start.

Enough to mention that in japan you have a LOT of shops which have dedicated section for touhou merchs and especially music. Thanks for the vid, not a lof peoples care to explain and present touhou.

Actually there are 3 reasons: -many songs -many circles -the creator has made it an open IP. Its because of that; that the touhou music, merch, doujins, pretty much the entire franchise is as big as it is. About 18 + a handful of spin off games and mangas that are officially endorsed by ZUN. The rest is all the work of dedicated fans. Everything is, in a sense, the people's franchise. ZUN makes the trains while everyone else lays the train tracks. It's why games with a strong community presence heavily outlive their original creators and OG game runtime. DOOM, GTA, Fallout, TF2, etc. If they're not as eneronous and DMCA trigger happy like Nintendo and EA (they're big because they did their community partaking earlier then 180'd om their fans), then the franchise will be forever kept alive by the fans and the people.

What is Touhou music? Is the music that will be played in your funeral

Pffff, that joke about the Undertale fandom is true, we like to come up with a remix for every possible situation lol And I do like touhou music and the remixes that comes with it, it's really diverse and interesting!

Cool video, I don't know how I didn't see this before. Thank for the effort!

you've earned a new subscriber seriously, i love the artstyle and the way you talked about touhou music in depth a little to give people an understanding of what it is

Watches this video. Discovers several genres of music I did not know existed.

that desc tho: "Bad Apple? Isn't that a Touhou song?"

You have just introduced me to a new load of amazing songs

Thanks for making this video!! I listened to a lot of Touhou jazz arrangements as study music and have been wanting to get a better understanding of Touhou as a whole ever since ^~^

awesome video 👏

Yayyyy, Dom you got it out! It's a really good video and I like the animation and jokes XDD Cannot wait for the reviews to start coming as well ^w^

Amazing video!

Since I've discovered Touhou a few years ago, I've became he big fan of Touhou music espescialy of the non-vocal remix themes.

Wow, I really like this video (even though i already knew most things). I'm totally looking forward to seeing your circle-reviews in the future! Btw, do you have a favourite Circle? Keep up the work, I love it!

A reason I want to get into touhou is because of the fricking EUROBEAT tracks in it I listen to various eurobeats and the ones from touhou are godly as well so I want to play that game but I don’t know where to start

I like your art style!

this video is great! thanks for introducing me to so many circles

I love your way of explaining! I'm sure that this video will be very useful for any new fans~ (we always need more fans ; v;)

In my opinion, the greatest video game soundtrack that's ever been created.

I really like your style! This is basically the first vid I watched and I subbed instantly uwu

Thank u yunari for all this info ,and ur avatar is so cute xD

did somebody say *tOUHOU???*

Tohou's music is ONE thing *ZUNPETS*

I love this! Great job!

You're a great youtuberin keep it up. I'm always looking forward to the next video.

Didn't mention Demetori. One unseen video by "Alice Margatroid". How can you call yourself a true fan of the franchise? /s

ayyy that's MinusT on the left at 2:00

This a real nice video, especially the different circles part, now I know more circles and new music to listen to and enjoy 😄

SWING HOLIC YES I've been listening to Touhou music for several years, and it's really nice to see an informational video on the topic like this. I remember being confused by how everything worked for quite a while. It's actually been a while since I actively listened to Touhou music, and this video reinvigorated my interest. I think I shall go and visit some old favourites.

Bad Apple was a remix of a PC-98 Touhou game called Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story. The song that was remixed was also called Bad Apple!!

My Friend judge me for being a fan of Touhou ==

This is awesome! There are so many great songs here!

Very informative video! I'm definitely going to check out that website and find a new circle or two to follow :)

EastNewSound's pretty good, and I'm somewhat familiar with them, so seeing them right off the bat was both comforting and gave me a good frame of reference for everything that followed. Yeah, not new to Touhou remixes, but not thoroughly versed in them either, so thanks for filling in the gaps in my knowledge! :) I intend to share this video with anyone who asks me "what's a Touhou remix?". :3

Can't wait to see the circle reviews. Personally for me my favourite has to be SOUND HOLIC feat. Nana Takahashi, but that's because her vocals are AMAZING. Even if not Touhou, TIEFSEE shows how great her vocals are.

FELT giving me shivers all the time

I always find myself finding touhou again every time, and those intermission songs are nice as heck too

When she said cute girls don't get excited They are not legal yet

Angery Undertale Fanboi: UnDeRtAlE hAs BeTtEr MuSiC ZUN: *Laughs in japanese*

If I had Shazam on my dell computer RN, I would've added so many of the songs you've showed us in my playlist.

Definitely different than what i expected, never knew about this until now

0:27 - Cute anime girls. Including Rei'sen with guns.

6:03 and 8:55 are definitely my favorites!! Ohhh I’m starting to really like touhou now, I’ve been needing a new source to get into

I love this video. Thank you!!! :3

Thank you so much for making everyhting clear!

Two thumbs up for the 2nd intermission eyecatch music.

You forgot the best genre : *RONALD MCDONALD*

This is a rabbit hole I don't regret going down. Great video