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I love how he describes the places to us as if we’re actually going to visit them.

Conclusion: Stay in Gensokyo or the Outside World and never leave. Also never be bad while alive.

This reminds me of those Star Wars, 40k, or Lotr videos that people make where someone goes very in depth into a certain part of said series’ vast lore while clam music plays overhead. Those videos do such a good job at talking about the fantasy world building in their series and they are pleasant to just listen to, so it’s really amazing that something similar has been made for touhou

Me when I get drunk: falls asleep on a random bench and picks a fight with whoever wakes me up first. ZUN when he gets drunk:

Finally, a touhou video based on its lore. Been wanting one that isn't either several years out of date or inaccurate. Touhou lore imo is the coolest part of touhou and i feel like it's sorely under-discussed about. No one likes talking touhou lore and I feel like this is a pretty decent step-off point for people i know who don't know anything about touhou. Is it perfect? No but this video is pretty damn close to perfect in it's accuracy.

Makai is like one of those high-risk high-reward locations in video games.

words cannot express just how happy this video made me, it's actual content about touhou itself, not just hundreds upon hundreds of shitposts, i can't thank you enough

Oh wow, now that's one kind of vid you don't see often for touhou. Great work!!

As mentioned previously, this is by far the best chronicle of the Gensokyo universe location by far. Seeing that your channel is rather new, I would suggest to keep making smaller videos like the rabbit one with useful lore facts to build up your resume and subcriber count as you prepare for any bigger projects you may have in mind. This channel has alot of promise and many fans of the Touhou lore would love to see it thrive. Instant sub.

With all these interesting places I think that gensokyo would make a great setting for a dark souls like game.

Hm. I thought that the Moon had a dual state, physical and magical, such that an earthling would normally only have access to the physics-based dimension, and Youkai would appear in the magical (which is far more habitable) dimension. I seem to recall reading that one of the Lunarian generals could forcibly switch you to the sciency state and leave you to suffocate without a spacesuit.

This is absolutely splendid and deserves many times the amount of views it has

There's something funny about how this world of magic and spirits and all sorts of crazy stuff coexists with just, the normal world we all know. Yeah, there's a super advanced society living on the dark side of the moon, which you can get to via magic paths between dimensions. But this world also has NASA, who still landed a man up there with the Apollo program in 1969, with completely conventional technology.

Lunarians: "We could totally beat the crap out of you humans everything about you weren't so lethally toxic to us!" Also, just before LOLK: "There is nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you!" "I'm not going to the Earthling Front, you can't make me!" "You're going down there because we need this..." "Without Dream we have no power."

As of TH 17.5, now we have an entire sea of oil that's right under the fusion reactor in former hell. How it hasn't all gone up in flames despite it being that close to a literal star is beyond me. Oh, and we also found out about the 4th animal spirit boss. She carries a comically large spoon.

I love these in-depth explanations. I don't know much Touhou lore so a lot of this goes over my head but it's nonetheless engaging, and I love your music choice. Great video!

Even after 4 years of being a touhou fan, I never learned anything about the moon beside the lunarians and their problem with Kaguya Thanks for the vid sir!

no tengo palabras para describir cuan interesante es el mundo de Touhou

Nether world in other franchises: Chaotic Nether world aka meikai:calm peaceful even animals and insects are dead

Yooooooo, this vid straight bussin, love the choice of art! Congratulations on another absolutely awesome piece of work. Massive respect for crediting every artist in the video, and compiling the list in the description.

A literal Lore goldmine right here. Absolutely detailed. Love it

17:05 oh my god Orphan of Kos Eika

Congratulations, this is one of the most accurate cosmology, I wonder if in the future you will do this video again with the information of news games and lore that the future Videogames, Manga, Music CD, etc will bring us, what I really love also is the art that you chose for the Video, it give the Fantasy, Amazing and Dream touch which fits very well with the Gensokyo Meaning, You have all my respects, I love Touhou Lore so as a Lore enjoyer this video is my new drug hehe

I mean this in it's entirety, this is one of my most favorite videos that I have ever seen. Thank you so much for creating this enlightening academic journal of the Cosmology! You have brought me happiness, and given my knowledge of the series a solid structured framework of Gensokyo, a land that I already thought I knew so much about. I also believe this video would be an excellent introduction to anyone new to the series, your commentary was very comprehensive, and informative leaving little room for misunderstanding, and great potential for imagination. I will definitely watch your other works, and look forward to any future projects that you publish. Keep believing in the magic 🌠

I'm a new fan, I learned a lot of the world of touhou, Thank you for this video

This is one of the most fascinating videos I've watched in a LONG time. I love lore!

Really high quality video. Nice music, nice art, nice narration, great work! I never completely figured out where each dimension was located so this was a bless

There's way more things that i didn't know about touhou there than i thought. Thanks, i love the style of this video and your art choices

I can't believe I forgot about this video... This is one of the best I've found on Touhou.

Ay this was really interesting! I always found Touhou lore cool.

watching this while doing my work definetly worth it i really love getting to know better ab Touhou lore + works done

10:05 nice reference

Never even seen a video on this topic in touhou, although I’ve only been in the series for like two months

Late to the party, but thank you for this. I’ve been playing with the idea of a tabletop campaign based on touhou, seems like I have a lot to work with here now

Great work! Love the choice of art and music.

I am absolutely enchanted by this lore and how you formated the video was lovely

Absolutely loving these vids

This makes me want Touhou VR

loved the video, I've never watched something like this about touhou lore before so for me this is pure gold (I also wouldn't mind watching an 8 hour long video about this stuff, though not so many people would agree with me)

This is awesome! Thanks for this, also thanks for keeping the music really quiet while you talk it's very nice

Late, but all the talk about Hell in regards to Gensokyo makes me wonder about a Touhou game set within a descent into a Touhou-style Dante's Inferno.

This is really cool, love it

really cool video!

Truly a amazing video!

dude this amazing

Zun:girls ( happy) Boys(drown) Earth(skeleton in water) Universe( abyss)

Heya, amazing stuff. Touhou lore is a bit all over the place and having a video to explain the universe/plains saves a lot of people the trouble of wiki diving, or at least cuts the wiki dive down quite a bit anyways. That said would you plan to do a video on the chronology of Touhou sometime? I'd really love to see that, still have barely any idea how much time has passed/what happened during and in between the games. But yeah fucking phenomenal video, hope you're doing well

Absolutely AMAZING video. This REALLY got me deep into Touhou.

Great work!

I'm not certain if anyone else addressed it, but in regards to Captain Murasa not being keen on returning to Makai, I thought Byakuren used the palanquin/temple as transportation between Makai and Gensokyo for youkai who want to join their temple. I don't remember where I read that, so maybe it wasn't true.

Ya know, ya talk about all these dangerous places and where normal people shouldn't go. But Reimu just waltzes around like it's no big deal.

i revisit this video a lot, thank you for this wonderful ass guide

Great Explanation Touhou Lore sure is something

Holy crap this is an amazing video!

This is some high quality Touhou content. It’s lovely!

Really good explanation of the worlds of Touhou! tourism agency when

This has to be the best video I've watched in the last couple of years. Insta-sub.

Happy 1k subs dude.

This is the kind of touhou video I was looking for

DAMN this is such a good video.

This is epic

That was a good watch

Question: What language is spoken on the Moon and to which language It's related the most?

I hope to see more lore vids.. Also I didn't know there was more than 1 unyu bird

Great video. At 16:31, you repeat yourself immediately though xD

Good video.

So that remind me what languge they use in gensokyo

27:48 “those who came to makai and back are eternally scarred physically and mentally” Touhou 5 says otherwise. But then again, these are the two most jacked humans to exist, a powerful Youkai, and a FALSE GOD.

30:25 I think higher dimensional geometry and geography would apply here.

Bom trabalho amigo, sou brasileiro e estou vendo seu vídeo pela legenda do KZfaq

hell yea

hhhmm former hell seems lit.

33:15 doki doki waku waku

15:05 uhhh Seiga is holding aaam cursed fetus?

Ooooo fascinating thanks. I liked your iceberg vid too. Make more icebergs of other stuff when you can ^_^ Actually iceberg format is used by everyone now. After watching all of this to the end, more in this style would be great too

There are many different ideologies of from hell to heaven is somewhere in between to everything such as the back rooms the interdimensional void the interstellar drift in the did basically all

31:50 I don't think Senkai is just one realm, or that it's created by Miko. My understanding is that there are multiple Senkai, each created by a different hermit. Kasen's Senkai would be a diferent Senkai than Miko's. Creating Senkai is just a standard hermit magic.

This is a really incredible video. Amazing scriptwriting... Regarding all the information stated, where did you get it from? Are they all from books/manga like PMiSS and SSiB?

34:18 So, wormholes?

The advance state of the Lunatic Kingdom is puzzling to me. You'd think if one were to live without want or conflict, advancement in both technology and medicine would remain stagnant; as there would be no incentive to pursue the development of either field. Even now, advance in military technology is the result of a never ending armrace between nations. But who does the Lunatic Kingdom have to contend with? They didn't even see the Earthians as a threat until America planted a flag on the moon.

The vsfreaks will use this video for years to come

Huh the animal realm is a dystopia city

19:35 Just buy a plane ticket to California

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I'd visit

This video reminds me of those videos made by the channel Hata no Kokoro, which unfortunately stopped uploading 7 years ago so it's nice that this style of video is still being made for touhou Nice video by the way, finding a touhou lore video that isn't either several years old or, an introduction to touhou itself is a nice change once in a while Though there is one error I found, though it's a minor one, that being Satori's name, which isn't komeiji. Komeiji is her surname, Satori's name is just that, Satori, which yes, would make her be named after her own species Edit: also just realized you're the same person that made the touhou iceberg video, nice (◠‿・)-👍

This was really interesting also who's all of your favorite characters? Mine Is Sakuya Izayoi

7:15 Imagine this taking place in the "For All Mankind" universe. For those who don't know, For All Mankind is a TV series focusing on an alternate universe where the Soviet Union went to the moon first, which led to the space race basically going on indefinitely. As a result, humanity technologically advanced due to the extended Space race. A permanent settlement on the moon is established in the mid-70's (Jamestown Base and Svezda) and on Mars (mid-90s onwards). Now, what do you think? What would the Lunarians react if the space race goes this route? Would the Jamestown Crisis of '83 happen differently from the show? Imagine some female US/Soviet astronauts acting as diplomats. Oh boy, imagine China's Chang'e program in this timeline. If a war broke out, how would Moon Marines and Spetznaz Cosmonauts fare against the Lunar Defense Corps? Will the US and USSR come into a peaceful resolution with the Lunatic Kingdom on favorable terms?

By the aounds of it humans really should start killing all of the youkai that drags you to hell.(in touhou 19, there was an oni, that asked a new A new character to do something for her, And if she did not agree do it she'll be Stuck in hell for eternity)note she is an oni they do not lie) So with that in mind, Every living person is bound to hell for eternity. Your soul is never save unless, You commit genocide of evil youkai,

I know that Gensokyo is a pocket dimension mirrored from the outside world Japan but I I'm just wondering; does Gensokyo have an end like some sort of sea or cliff? Is it geographically accurate as the outside world's or it's just Japan that Yukari copied?

why is this under 1k views

Damn, my local hospital is a Higan??

So people on the road to hell sell Crypto and NFTs? Makes sense...

amazing video, but all of hidaru's art on the links are gone unfortunately, i'm trying to search for them but its like they're completely scraped

i can't seem to find this "hidaru" guy you kept using art for, can i get a link of his page pls

Uhm, will the information in Yachie Kicchou's official profile: "彼女は畜生界に存在する四大組織の一つ、鬼傑組の組長である。" (Translate: "Yachie is the head of the Kiketsu Family, one of the four major organizations in the Animal Realm.") be retconned in the future or this is referring to Keiki's own recent organization when she was summoned to Primate Garden or you just missed this since you said "three primary families" instead of four and you even said "some seems to think that there is in fact a fourth beast gang that is working below the streets though this is not confirmed"?

The lunatic kindom Lol

Wait, is the far side of the Moon in a different dimension or plane of existence, or does it just have some magical barrier? 19:35 16:19 Also, what's up with the extinct animals appearing in the art in this video?