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basically a summary about the origin of this song + music video: Bad apple was first the name of a stage theme in the game Touhou 4, made by ZUN from 1998. The fan music group, Alstroemeria Records, made a "remix" of it and used the melody of the theme and created this song called Bad Apple. (they also wrote all the lyrics to it) sometimes later another fan saw that song and made a Story board for a music video containing a bunch of characters from the game. Then later yet another fan saw that story board and created the animation for this music video. And this video then went on to become viral even beyond the touhou fan bubble

"If it exists, there is a Bad Apple version of it" Bad Apple is a huge piece of doujinshi music, an absolute hymn to the creativity of the Touhou (which you prononced perfectly) community. There is a huge rabbit hole of music to go through with Touhou. You can check out IOSYS, a group of music that is still active (and collabed with Marine) and which is, kind of, the messiah of Touhou fan music Edit: typos

A classic! Touhou music is not a rabbit hole, it's a black hole. The fandom is extensive, and had so much time and freedom to develop, the amount of content is staggering.

Touhou is a series of bullet hell shooters made by a developer known as Zun. It has a massive fandom for a variety of reasons and has been going on for years, with a well developed world and a lot of banging fanwork projects. In terms of music there are a variety of songs, with every character having their own signature theme. There are tons of remixes, vocal versions and more of all the various songs.

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As other has said Touhou is bullet hell series of games but an important part is that there is almost ZERO copyright involved. Thanks to this the fanworks for this series are insane, there are more than 100.000 covers of the songs easy with hunderds of games and even fan animes. It would not be strange to say more than half of the doujinshi artist of Japan around the 2000s have dabbeled into Touhou in one way or another. edit: On an related note this song was infamously covered on CNN earning them the nickname Cirno News Network. Cirno is an idiot character of the games.

Since you're a Myth & Roid fan I would heavily recommend the Touhou Lostword Song "I'm alright". It features Kihow who is the current vocalist of Myth & Roid

Woooo Touhou! There's tens of thousands of Touhou songs, and Bad Apple is a great one to start with. For some more context on what Touhou is; Touhou is a series of games starting in the 90s under a genre called Danmaku (bullet hell), the games were entirely made by one person who did all the coding, art, music, etc. The franchise is still massive to this day and has spawned tens of thousands of covers or remixes of the original songs. I really hope you do decide to go down the Touhou music rabbit hole, it's literally never-ending.

Should checkout the bad apple cover from Richadd EB and Cristina Vee. They absolutely killed it.

この曲もこの動画も10数年聞いてるけど、あのイカれた元のラフ動画()からこんな神動画作られたかと思うと涙が止まらねぇや…

Ah, the good old 2000s internet. Project Touhou is a gold mine for amazing music, especially if you're a fan of synths and trumpets (two areas where Zun excels). And of course, there is the doujinshi scenery with amazing arranges and composition, Touhou truly is one of the pillars of the modern internet. Edit: There is a video from Megapig9001 (a Touhou youtuber) explaining the creation and history of this song, "Bad Apple Explained: History and Analysis part 1 and 2", I really recommend it.

*List of Characters Shown:* Reimu Hakurei Marisa Kirisame Patchouli Knowledge Remilia Scarlet Sakuya Izayoi Flandre Scarlet Youmu Konpaku Yuyuko Saigyouji Komachi Onozuka Eiki Shiki Mokou Fujiwara Keine Kamishirasawa Keine Kamishirasawa (Were-Hakutaku) Eirin Yagokoro Kaguya Houraisan Lunasa Prismriver (Violin) Merlin Prismriver (Trumpet) Lyrica Prismriver (Keyboard) Chen (Yakumo) Ran Yakumo Tewi Inaba Reisen Udonge Inaba Momiji Inubashiri Sanae Kochiya Hina Kagiyama Kanako Yasaka Suwako Moriya Yukari Yakumo Tenshi Hinanawi Aya Shameimaru Suika Ibuki Alice Margatroid (& Shanghai Doll) Nitori Kawashiro Yuuka Kazami Elly Reimu Hakurei (PC-98 Era) Marisa Kirisame (PC-98 Era)

Touhou is a bullet hell game franchise created by Team Shanghai Alice, a dojin game developer consisting of only one member, ZUN, he makes the story, the art, music, programming, everything. Touhou, in my opinion, is one of the pillars of the otaku and doujin culture in Japan, there are ALOT of fan works: novels, manga, music, fan animations, games, etc. This Bad Apple!! song is based on a BGM from the 4th game.

In a nutshell: Touhou fans are just built different when it comes to making Fanworks.

Ok who the hell pointed him towards _this_ particular rabbit hole? You cruel, cruel monsters. Well done.

Yooooo!! I never thought you would dive into the touhou franchise. The music. The games. The different characters. Everything about touhou is awesome. Touhou is a Japanese string of different very difficult bullet hell games which have inspired a lot of different songs, animations and even a fan made anime. The touhou fanbase is genuinely so incredible they made a fan made anime which I believe follows the story of the bullet hell games if I am correct. I highly recommend you look into touhou some more. In my opinion touhou has one of the best and most creative fan bases out there. My personal recommendation for you next if you want to look into touhou a bit more would be the animation pv called who killed U.N.Owen.

Marine, Ayame and Kanata made a live cover of this song in the holofest, it sounds amazing.

Someone introduce touhou to this man please, it would be pretty great seeing him react to the actual games osts

The best bit is the Tohou fans managed to animate this whole video this year on r/place on reddit. All while their neighbor, r/Canada failed to make a leaf.

to hopefully explain what this is- Touhou is a game created by ZUN because he wanted to demonstrate his musical talent (which he most certainly did) the game is a stage-based Bullet hell type game which is a bit of an ordeal to explain what any of that means, but all you need to know is it's a a very hard type of game to beat, and since it comes in stages each stage has a different song/theme and boss character to fight as you make your way through the story. the original version of Bad Apple did not have lyrics, it was the 3rd stage of Lotus Land Story which was the 4th game in the Touhou series. you should give it a listen, the music slaps even without lyrics. to be frank, this version of Bad Apple is a bit of a mix of things kind of collabing together. as I sort of hinted at I think, this is not the original version of Bad Apple. the song is actually more of a fan version that was created by nomico and uses the same pacing and beat of the original song and adds both lyrics and modern instrumentals. the animation itself is not made by either nomico or ZUN, although I couldn't tell you who the OG animator was. to summarize, TL;DR: the song is a recreation from someone of another song made by a different person for an anime-style game with an MV made by someone completely different. you basically have almost 3 different people collabbing on it. the characters the MV shows are the characters from the actual Touhou game series (which btw is in fact pronounced "T-oh-ho" like you prounced in the video) and you could find a list in the comments of the videos usually with fans listing the characters in order if you're interested> either way, excited to see you react to it cuz it's a banger, hope I helped!

Well ain't this a blast from the past. Touhou is technically a set of bullet hell games from Japan with a quite dedicated fanbase. In fact they are so dedicated that the version of Bad Apple you heard is a massive community effort in on itself. The base of the song is actually from stage 3 of the 4th game in the series, where it is an old 16bit style video game music. Later on the song became very liked amongst tohou fans to the point where in 2007 (9 years after the game itself came out!) a fan music group by the name Alostomeria records essentially puts together an album featuring remixes of touhou game music by the name Lovelight now featuring the version of the song you just heard with the vocals from a singer by the name Nomico. Later on a fan of this remixed version of the song by the username Mu created a rough storyboard sketch to the video asking people in the community for someone to make an animation out of his rough sketches. Many in the fandom tried with different end results with the version you saw coming out in 2009 (again the game the song is from came out in 1998) by someone with the username Anira. After that the combo of the remix and this video became a huge hit eventually making the jump from nicovideo (kinda Japanese youtube) to the west. As for the video itself, the charaters you see are actually characters from the first 10 touhou games, each doing their own moves to the beat. There is a video that does a great deep dive (and where I got most of the history of this song from) by the name Bad Apple Explained: History and Analysis from the channel Megapig9001.

Day 14 of requesting a reaction to the following openings: Chivalry of a Failed Knight op Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress op Darling in the Franxx op Kiznaiver op You could make a multiple op reaction for this. Thank you!

Day 84 of recommending the Beyblade openings. There are the Japanese ones and the English ones. The English version has one opening for a generation, and that for the 1st and 2nd generation. The 3rd gen has one op for one season. But the Japanese version has multiple ops for a season in any gen. You should definitely check both versions out. I made playlists on my channel, so you don't need to search, cause in those compilations are a few off and not in the correct order. Thanks for checking out!

touhou (pronouced like toe and ho) is a game series that has had an incredibly massive influence on pop culture even though a lot of people don't realize it. the music is kind of the biggest part of its influence and there are dozens of artists completely dedicated to covers and remixes of touhou tracks with some releasing over 100 albums of just touhou related music.

Y'all really tossed poor Luke headfirst into the Touhou rabbithole. o7

No waaay you went through your life without hearing Bad Apple even once

Yes! a legend of a song that has music videos on every medium, and if it does not have a music video on a medium it will eventually! All of these characters and the instrumental are based off of a Game series of the "Bullet Hell" genre and the song from the games "Bad Apple", they just added Lyrics and remixed it, the fanbase is insanely talented and committed to the series!

This song is apart of my childhood

I'm pretty happy with how you talk afterwards about things instead of effectively going 'damn that's crazy, anyway see you next time' like some reactors do.

i always heard this song in different places but never knew where it was from and just recently found out when reddits touhou subreddit recreated the animation in r/place anyways love this song and the transitions are so good

This video is a showcase of many of the characters inthe touhou universe. Each silhouette is a different character. The universe itself is a shmup shooter game, usually.

Glad to see you really enjoyed this song. I'm a bit sad that you chose the only video that managed to screw up the animation which broke some of the transitions, but nothing can be done about that. Considering you enjoyed this, you might want to check the OST of the TOUHOU franchise. One I really recommend would be Lunatic Princess. I discovered it playing DDR and as some already stated: that's a rabbit hole big time.

Considering the other comments covered most of the main points about Touhou, from what the series is, to the fan works and music, est, let me help tie in the importance and popularity of Touhou to something you're familiar with; Hololive. Several of the Hololive talents are fans of the Touhou series and music, even in the EN branch. One of the biggest fans I can think of being Marine, who paired up with IOSYS to do a whole album of cover songs. Also, when this very song, Bad Apple, was performed during Hololive 4th Fes, the whole crowd went WILD. That just speaks to how big the series is over in Japan, at the very least. So big, in fact, they have an entire convention over there dedicated to Touhou alone. You thought learning about Hololive was a rabbit hole journey? Touhou is an even bigger rabbit hole. Main series or Fan works, games and music of all genres. Animations, artworks, mangas, you name it. Heck, for music alone, you have the original BGM from the main games, which is fantastic, and then you have all the songs and arrangements made by the fan community, for any BGM track, for ANY genre of music out there. Needless to say, you have your work cut out for you. Welcome to the fandom of Touhou. You're in for a wild ride, if you choose to stay.

its pronounced like your first pronunciaton "toe hoe" and the video im sure is made using MMD models ( a lot of vocaloid music videos back in the day also used MMD cause MMD = mikumikudance , a program to animated 3d models most notably for dances. ( though it also has people making H word with it ) also TouHou is not a artist , its a old-school bullet-hell shooter game with many entries and incredible music but even more incredible rearrangements and has a whole community surrounding that. arguably even more music focused than the games themselves. tho both are incredibly big i am more familiar with the music side of touhou which are the rearrangements. touhou songs are often rearrangements of the instrumental background music from the games and changed into different genres , added lyrics or sometimes its just inspired by one of the songs or characters. this is easily the most popular in japan when it comes to the music circles making songs for touhou ( they are all called doujin circles meaning its purely fan work done by a group of people ) if you think the vtuber community is big with the music , touhou is a whole nother can of content that never ends. hell , these fans are so dedicated they made a whole ANIME project. also there are anime girls in it obviously but if you see any music videos involving characters singing , just know its not the official characters real voices cause its the doujin-circle vocalist(s) singing for them. you'll definitely see a blue haired and yellow haired girl very often. some circles i can recommend for touhou songs : FELT ( varied genres they sometimes have a singer doing English vocals, tho with a heavy accent ) Demetori ( known for instrumental metal. definitely up your jam ) EastNewSound ( lots of electric music with vocals ) and a western touhou fan also is popular called "T.stebbins / Eurobeat oddysey" they went by both names and in recent time came out as transgender so keep that in mind when hearing the voice in the music but her songs are fantastic. the songs are obviously eurobeat and english. Hope that helps! P.S they are not vocaloids tho some circles do make touhou songs with vocaloids in them. also this song had only 1 singer.

the world of Touhou is a world full of yokais, ghosts and other magical beings like vampires but also shrine maidens and witches all portrayed as cute girls or women. At its core, Touhou is a video game series made up primarily of Bullet Hell or Danmaku shooters. You control a small figure yourself, often a spaceship, here a flying girl, and you have to deal with waves of opponents on a stage with a comparatively simple shot pattern, and ultimately assert yourself in a multi-phase boss fight. Each game is characterized by special mechanics. In addition, there are also several official spin-offs, especially classic fighting games. ⛩️

This song is iconic and I’ve only heard it just about a year ago. You can tell something about it just hits.

Been waiting for Touhou content for a long time. This rabbit hole sure is one worth falling into🙂. Fyi, Touhou's a Bullet Hell video game series that's created by one person, known by his pseudonym ZUN, who's responsible for the development, music, story and more.

I'm just so impressed with the people who animated this on r/place 2023....it was amazing to watch!

Finally someone reacted to the full version of this song. It's so good.

Oh, I think you just opened the floodgates. If people have recommended you Touhou before then it's going to explode after this. Just wait and see.

oh we dragging you into the Touhou (pronounced sorta like "toe hoe") music rabbit hole? Touhou is a long-running series of bullet hell games made by Zun. Zun makes some banger music, and fully supports fan-works, so many MANY groups (continuing to this day) went "hey this song is awesome what if we remixed/coverd it" resulting in songs like Bad Apple. Alstroemeria Records is the fan group that made this song, but another well known Touhou fan group you might want to check out is IOSYS. Oh and edit to mention: there are a LOT, SO VERY MANY, ENDLESS amounts of "Bad Apple made in ___" since the black and white style lends itself easily to making the animation with basically anything

I'm sure others are already explaining Touhou. But, on the subject; Marine has an album of Touhou covers, featuring many Holomembers as the back-up. The album is called "Gensyoko holoism". As far as I know, there's no official MV on KZfaq, but there are many fan uploads. I'd recommend at least listening to 'Hoihoi☆Gensou Holoism' , of all the songs in the album, that's the one that really feels like it was actually a Marine original.

Touhou is a series of bullet hell games. More importantly, to me at least as I don't play bullet hells often, is the utterly ridiculous amount fan work its spawned. Huge amounts of manga and music, and plenty more. As a recommendation, I suggest looking up Eastnewsound music, Liz Triangle music, and Akatsuki Records music. Make sure to look for subbed songs if you can. Also, here are two amazing PV videos. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/raunoaiW1piXg40.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arKVY9R4mNatZ6M.html One more thing before I forget, check out minusT. He does amazing 3D animations of major fights in the games. Make sure you start from his oldest video, they start great and the animation just gets better and better with each video.

This is so nostalgic! One of my favorite songs for a long time. I have to recommend a song called "Priere" now because I've never been sure if it directly ties to Touhou or just has the majority of videos towards it but it's such a great song I've been listening to for so many years. Also Touhou is kind of a whole community thing around original characters. I believe it originated as bullet hells (which are fun and have great music) but there's also RPG's, some fighting games, etc. It's almost like a whole community fan project thing going on last I checked.

I know nothing about Touhou but even I know this song is iconic. It was really popular in the Vocaloid community back in the day, so it's really rare to find anybody in the Vocaloid/anime community who doesn't know Bad Apple!

Now *this* is a 2hu classic! Marine would be proud of you. This series has thousands upon thousands of doujin songs, manga, games, and pretty much anything else. Lots of *excellent* metal covers of Touhou songs as well. U.N. Owen Was Her (Flandre's theme) is probably the most well-known song, and one to check out a metal cover of. RichaadEB's cover especially. Yukari best girl.

aw man, what a shame you got to see the wrong version first. totally breaks the pace of this masterpiece

I heard this song so many times from different artists, and only now, after all these years, I found out what was in the original. Lol.

One cool thing I just noticed while rewatching this animation is that Yukari shows up when the singer says 隙間 (sukima), which means gap/crack. Yukari is the youkai of gaps, so that's a cool detail. Has anyone noticed other references like this?

6:50 this is mostly because Asian music tend to be written to a songwriters emotion and current mental state and not really pondering to a market like most western songs do ( Western music: breakup songs or get laid yesterday songs, Eastern music: This is how i feel and i am not afraid to let you hear it)

1 Touhou song 1 video can generate hundreds, it's a gigantic genre and long history community.

Marine is a massive Touhou fan by the way, there's a clip of her fangirling while talking with the creator of the games

My personal favorite version of Bad Apple is the metal cover by Richadebb with Cristina Vee on vocals. They did an English cover first and then 2 years later did a Japanese cover. Both are awesome!

I love this song so much and the animation is so fricking GOOD especially the transitions. There are ALOT of songs in this community and some of the lyrics are really hard hitting, i would love to see you dive a little bit deeper into this rabbit hole.

The video called 'Bad Apple Explained: History and Analysis' helps understand this video, how it came to be and what it is, if you are interested. It is really well done.

I think the “disconnect” between subject matter and beat that was mentioned, for me generally helps communicate an anxious feeling I like a lot. Often it conjures a feeling of the world continuing faster than you can deal with or process. Examples of this in English songs are Rejoice by Andrew Jackson Jihad, and most of Days N’ Daze’s stuff.

If you want another incredible version of this same song, look up Avlönskt's multilanguage version. Dude sings it in 12 different languages all mixed together with seamless transitions (I think you mentioned on a Calli song that you like language switches like that), with new wonderful instrumentals in the back too. Highly recommended. So, Touhou is a series of shoot-em-up games made by one guy who goes by the name ZUN. It has a very dedicated following of fans who are _extremely_ creative. The music of the games especially has spawned an endless amount of derivative works, with multiple bands existing just to make their own versions of Touhou songs, both vocal and instrumental - and oh man are there a lot of songs to adapt, there's currently 18 numbered main line games, and a number of side ones, and each main game has at least 17 individual songs in it. My personal favourite group is GET IN THE RING, especially their songs Festival Blaze (think that's how it translates), Harlequin, Unbind, and Rebirth. This song is a vocal version of the game song Bad Apple (originally from the fourth game of the series) by Alstroemeria Records featuring nomico on the vocals. The song was released in 2006. In 2009, a group of fans had made and released the black-and-white animation using a number of characters from the games, which now usually accompanies the song. It's one of the best known examples of the Touhou community's endless creative drive. And it's spawned a massive number of further versions. It's a major part of internet culture of an era. I'd recommend taking a look at the proper short version too on your own time, the animation flows _super well_ with the music. Your first pronunciation of Touhou is... even if not spot-on for the actual Japanese, it's on point for the standard one that English-speakers use. You'll do perfectly fine with that in the future, will have no confusion what you're talking about!

Fun little bit of trivia. Touhou is part of what got Calli into making music.

If you grew up or active on the internet during 2007/08 you'd have seen this song EVERYWHERE. Like seriously, this song super popular.

Bad Apple has been played on just about anything you can think of, including: - actual apples - tesla coils - discord messages - KZfaq captions and much, much more, it's a whole rabbit hole of its own! I'd love to see a reaction to some of those videos as well!

So, Touhou was originally a series of bullet-hell shooters- basically, games based entirely around dodging massive, complicated swarms of projectiles. They were made by one guy (ZUN), and he made them stand out by putting in some amazing music, and making the player characters and the named enemies very memorable in appearance and personality. The characters you're seeing dancing in the video are some of the more well known and popular ones (well, really it's most of the cast of the early games). There's also a huge unofficial wealth of fanon built up around the series, that would honestly take hours to dive into fully. But suffice to say, it's a popular series, and it's popular for a reason. This video is one the things to come out of that, although I'll note that this is a remix/edit of the original video- that's why there were the strange slowdowns and stutters at some points. I'd recommend you watch the original, though maybe not on stream since you've already sort of seen it once.

Touhou is like the biggest secret of the internet. Is easy to go on knowing nothing about it. But once you do finally learn what Touhou is, you realize it’s been everywhere the entire time, and you just didn’t know.

Tbh, although I am not a part of the touhou community, I have immense respect for them, the fans are some of the most dedicated people of all. if they decide to do something, it will be done.

Aaaaaa I love watching people react to Touhou music arrangements!! Bad Apple is always a good point to start

run while you can. touhou is the rabbit hole to end all rabbit holes. if you don't leave now you will be swallowed and won't ever be able to go back.

I'm so glad you listened to this. Touhou is a bullet hell game series; think like Space Invaders where you have to dodge projectiles. This has a massive cult following and the soundtrack itself is originally the stage 3 theme from Touhou 5 Lotus Land Story which is like an 8bit ost. The fans came together to make this MV for the game depicting the characters from the series while the lyrics themselves are about Elly's (The girl with the curved scythe with a hat) depression and state of mind. They are a lot of other covers or doujin music for Touhou made by fans which are just as awesome and beautiful as Bad Apple. Also there's like a meme or trend going on since ages ago that you can animate the MV for Bad Apple on nearly anything.

I just heard this song randomly and it's remained as one of my favorites since. I'm particularly fond (if you want an English translation) the one by Cristina Vee, there's a version with this instrumental and there's a metal cover by RichaadEB that's awesome!

Man, ive been literally screaming for this reaction for the past year 😅 how come every time i give up on wanting certain reaction you do it 😆 BTW there is a really interesting story around this music video. Originally the song had no lyrics and didnt even sound like this but then bunch of fans came together and created simlified version of the video and i think a studio was created just to make this song and MV but yeah.... it all started from a forum (i think 4chan but i might be very wrong on this) Also now you must check Night of Nights a.k.a. Knight of nights a.k.a. Night of Knights 😅

Touhou is a massive longrunner series of infamously hardcore vertical scrolling shooters, to the point that it's the first one to be called "bullet hell." There are other series that are even more masochistic these days, but it's hard to overcome the charm of Touhou. The Yin-Yang theme is endemic to Touhou as a whole, since Shinto and Shinto-Buddhism are major influences to the in-universe mythology, and most of the main protagonists are Mikos.

This is the first and the best Touhou's song i've ever heard from around 2000 till now It's like national anthem for Touhou for me anyways thanks for the react as always

Now I am wondering how you react to gundam songs. I grew up with gundam wing and still listen to the opening and ending songs :D

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Hello! I am Japanese. I am not good at writing sentences, so I use a translator. Sorry if there are any funny sentences. I am happy that you saw the video of "Bad Apple!!", one of the Touhou Project derivative works. This is a great song, but the video is also very amazing. This video was created based on a video posted on Nico Nico Douga in 2008 requesting "I want to see this, and I want someone to draw it." The video was just a composition (but mostly just character names, circles and letters lol) set to a song. People who saw it posted an illustrated video of "Bad Apple!" illustration videos. And I think the creator of this video also saw the original video and other illustration videos. Although a 3D model is used in this video, it does not match the 3D models of other Touhou Project characters, suggesting that the original 3D model was probably made to create the video. Creating a 3D model is really hard work. And yet there are so many characters in the video. How hard and wonderful this is! As a result, a video that had only the names of characters, circles, and letters became such a wonderful work of art. Conversely, without the original video, there would be no other videos and this work would not have been created. I know this is a long sentence, but what I'm trying to say is that this song and video are both great! If you like, you can listen to other Touhou Project and its secondary songs! ※Once again, this is using a translator, so there may be some incorrect sentences. I'm sorry, and thank you.

the fact that a fan made animation and song are the first introduction to touhou is just wild

I love that the community recreated the entire video in r/place 2023

Bad apple (and it's video clip) is considered the mother of AMVs (anime music videos) making that a LOTA and i mean A LOT of covers, remixs and stuff are made of the same song and video. Is a meme to make the bad apple vid on anything like, lets say, stop motion. About Toho itself while i haven't played it i know is a videogame series that while is not as mainstram is like the base of otaku culture (a lot of anime memes come from toho somehow)

Touhou is a bullet hell pc game series which uses Japanese Mythology as it's theme. And the dev team Shanghai Alice consists of one person. The series creator Zun who is often seen with a pint of beer, there's a joke that Zun is the Pint of Beer. Anyway, Bad Apple is a song which had no lyrics when it was originally made for the fourth game "Lotus Land Story" which released in 1998. And it was also in 1998 that the fifth game "Mystic Square" got released before the series had gotten a soft reboot for the sixth game, "Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil" which released in 2002. In fact there are also many fan projects related to songs, games and animes all being worked on. Plus if you were to look up Hololive Touhou. You would find that Marine had did a cover of the song "Help Me Erin". And this actually makes sense with how she's a fan of the series. Also some of her fellow talents in Hololove appears in the song when names of certain Touhou characters, post soft reboot, are mentioned. Plus Marine went crazy when she actually got to meet Zun.

Shhiiittt the classics never die. This song is one of the best.

Would recommend this cover BAD APPLE!! || METAL COVER by RichaadEB ft. Cristina Vee Though you may not have heard Cristi V before, you know at least 2 characters she does the english voice for. That being... - Riven the white haired gladiator girl from LoL Awaken. - Darkness from Konosuba.

This song is an arrangement of a game song called "touhou gensoukyou". A person posted the storyboard of the PV of the song on the video site, and the person who watched it created it in a shadow style.

Touhou is a doujin game series that's been around for about 25 years now, it's a bullet hell series known for its difficulty and its cute girls with silly headwear. Bad Apple is a BGM theme from the 4th game that came out in 1998 and what you just listened to was a rearrangement by Alstroemeria Records that added lyrics sung by nomico. It actually only vaguely sounds similar to the original track although you can definitely still tell that's what it's based on. The animation was done by a totally unrelated group that liked the song and wanted to make a video for it. It's a testament to the collaborative creativity of the Touhou community.

I love the Touhou Community and this is the biggest rabbit hole might be even bigger than Hatsune Miku👏👏

I'm really like ur reaction this legend PV!!!!

When you stare into the rabbit hole, the rabbit hole stares back at you.

Oh boy. He found the touhou rabbit hole….welcome to the crew!

For another hit one-off MV, I'd recommend Pokemon's Bump of Chicken - Acacia MV (【Official】Pokémon Special Music Video 「GOTCHA！」 | BUMP OF CHICKEN - Acacia)

It would have been better for you to watch the original PV that's 3:39 long which was uploaded to KZfaq by a channel called kasidid2. It has 75 million views. The one you watched extended that original PV to fit the full song which means unnaturally stretching out some parts. To explain it in simple terms, Touhou is the longest running indie/doujin game series and has always allowed fans free reign to create their own derivative works of its source material. As such, it has a VERY dedicated longtime fanbase. The sheer quantity and quality of fan-created works from this community alone may dwarf every other franchise's in comparison. If there's a series, there's most likely a Touhou parody of it somewhere. This includes a ton of outright playable fan games like parodies of Castlevania, Megaman, etc. as well as fanart, doujinshi, and videos of every type imaginable ranging from gameplay clears to comedy skits to 3D PVs to OUTRIGHT FAN CREATED ANIME. And let's not forget the music. There's been so much groups (circles) dedicated to arranging Touhou music that the current file size of the Touhou Music Lossless Collection is *1.55 tebibytes* with *67,197 files.* I'm fairly certain that if there's a genre you're into, there exists a number of Touhou songs already remixed into it. Even the Bad Apple you're listening to right now is an arrange of the stage theme of the same name by the music circle Alstroemeria Records. (Speaking of 3D PVs, you NEED to watch minusT's 3D animated Touhou fights at some point because they're incredible.) The shadow art PV set to Alstroemeria Records' arrange is a legendary video on the Internet. It's very famous and has garnered its own spinoffs like madlads carving it into actual apples, parodying it with characters from other series, programming it onto a TI-84 school calculator, animating it onto laser shows on Tesla coils, etc. Even recently there was a huge community effort to animate Bad Apple at r/place. One person could only place a pixel every 5 minutes and they managed to achieve ANIMATING the video among a sea of griefers and trolls. If you want to react to that, I think Mikarific's "Bad Apple!! but it's on r/place (HIGH QUALITY, NO FLASHING/ALIASING)" is the best one to watch.

9:21 - Yes. Which makes it a very personally touching song for me, given the name "talanton" means "a balance" or "a scale." It's a song about being stuck on the fulcrum, unable to move, unable to stand still. (At least that's my read of it.)

I'd love to see more Touhou music reaction there's a lot of great music for it!

Touhou is originally a series of games mostly known for their shoot em up games, difficulty, characters, and music. ZUN the game's creator and musical artist has a fairly open creative license. There are tons of spinoffs, fan made (games, music, and mods), official license (games, music, and anime). Bad apple is a song in one of the main games (originally bit style) this version is an independent group which did a cover and the video is from a different fan/s who was inspired by another fan who came up with the concept.

There are probably tens of thousands of Touhou-centric songs out there to check out. Even ones with like a hundred views are still great. I would recommend songs from the vocalist that goes by "Stack", and works with the group [ Akatsuki Records ]. "Adieu, to this Lively Graveyard" "Necromantic" For something more iconic to the Touhou fanbase, you should check out some MVs from [ IOSYS ] like "Overdrive" "Maria Stole the Precious Thing" "Cirno's Perfect Math Class" "Convictor Yamaxanadu" "Neko Miko Reimu" "Border of Ecstasy"

Touhou is bullet hell game series made by single person known as ZUN. He set a very open copyright rule, that anyone can do anything to his works (characters, music, etc.) Which is why the series has a lot of fan content ranging from arts, musics even games and a full fan made anime. Bad Apple is originally a stage song from one of the touhou from the PC-98 this one is a remix and someone at some point made a story board with the song and multiple people made an animation based on the story board with this one being the most famous one. Edit: I would recommend fan musics from the groups Akatsuki Records, IOSYS, Sound Holic, Shinra-Bansho, and AbsoRute Zero

IOSYS are famous for making touhou songs and they made music together with Marine and we got Shibayan Records making bossa nova themed tunes for touhou also made music together with Fauna's Let me stay here.

Fiiiine I guess I'll spend the day playing Perfect Cherry Blossom again

OMG i recomended this so long ago, i didn't think i would see the day it would appear here.

My entire high school theater class knew this song's dance by heart and we actually did a Flash Mob to it at my senior prom. It was so fun and a total blast. I have great memories about this song. 🥰

its been quite awhile since i first saw this but my god this is basically apart of my childhood (this came out when i was 18)

I think Touhou and Vocaloid might feel similar because from what I remember they got very popular in similar time on nico nico douga (a japanese video site popular at that time with some interesting quirks like comments sliding through the screen on video, and some interesting culture but I do not feel knowledgable enough to explain this, it's a whole rabbit hole on itself). I never got into touhou because of availability issues (it simply was hard to get to it not knowing any japanese and barely knowing any english) but the songs were crazy popular with Bad Apple being the most known one (I still love the song, it is a banger). But for me at least vocaloid culture and touhou culture always seemed quite close to each other (mostly connected by Nico Nico Douga) from my perspective ^^ I might be completely wrong though, these are just some of my hazy memories from 13 years ago 😆

Awesome to see someone react to this masterpiece, I recommend watching the multilanguage cover from avlonsk