Zun is actually known for spreading hidden (and obvious) references, so some of the themes might be actual intentional nod to other compositions.

3:08 Cirno: I WANNA BE THE STRONGEST....POKEMON TRAINER IN THE WORLD!

*listens to the second one* Me: Septette for the Dead Princess, for sure! *it's actually Gensokyo Millenium*

This so interesting! I actually once got pointed on by my parents that Lullaby of a Deserted Hell sounds a lot like that Simon and Garfunkel song when they heard me play it on the piano. Funny.

This video is like a game... Where we must identify each theme before the answer comes.

everything sounds better when its touhou.. dont know why

Aya confirmed as undercover british spy

Skullgirl's main theme sounds like it was inspired by Satori's theme.

ZUN is a genius, no doubt. It's amusing to see similarities between the songs he made and many popular songs.

when some of songs started i was like "Holy crap this is familiar-sounding."

Touhou music is like a upgraded version of originals

Mountain Of Faith was absolutely composed while ZUN was binging on old Japanese music. Makes so much sense.

4:35 Super Mario 3D World was released on 21st November 2013. Touhou 14 was released on 12th August 2013.

I find it crazy that I know a lot of these songs by heart but I really couldn't point out what song they are probably similar to until you point it out You have some crazy good ears. Good job!

Kind of wish they had the dates of each song listed. It would be interesting to see the gaps in the timeline. Its always amusing when you look at the history of something and see how it may have been influenced from the past. Music, cooking, technology... all keep growing because of past inspirations.

By the way, I learnt that Wild Arms was, in fact, not an anime a few weeks after uploading the video. I was in a hurry making it and my comment on it being a "cool 90's anime" was not very professional, I apologise for the inconvenience.

Hello. This video has become very popular and I am thankful for that. I do not know when I'll start making a followup episode, but I know I'm going to exclusively put things I've discovered myself or thanks to the comment section (that means that if I'm not the first to discover a certain similarity, that would technically not be my problem.) I might not only make episodes on Touhou Project, but also other games. I have a few things to say: • First of all, I apologize for not having credited the artists whose drawings appear in this video. I used them without their permission. Since I haven't started making it, I can see myself drawing my own thumbnails before editing the next video, this would be a fresh way to start making actual videos from now on. So, expect that. • I'm also going to learn how to edit videos more efficiently, I have gotten a few tools that would make my videos more eye-appealing, but I haven't started learning how to use them yet. • I've learnt a lot of things about music and realized that some of the "similarities" I've put in this video are actually common musical patterns that have nothing worth mentioning. I have a lot of things to check and that requires time. • Finally, I am not accusing ZUN of plagiarism, any statement the audience comes up with will automatically become their own, not mine. This video was not made to say "who copied who" as some similarities could be anachronistic. Sorry for the delay, lots of things happened in real life and KZfaq is not my main concern. I am still open for suggestions. Thank you.

I’m surprised Septette for the Dead Princess is not here. It’s pretty similar to Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata 3rd Movement.

"wild arms is a cool 90's anime" Same thing as calling touhou an anime lol

12:45 Fire stone Zun : How about all the *ＰｈｉｌｏｓｏｐｈｅｒＳｔｏｎｅ？*

3:18 KILLED ME 🤣 I was like "...I know EXACTLY what touhou song this is" LMAOOO

Yet every Touhou Music become iconic them self... most of them somewhat also reminds me with some songs (especially cirno's tomboyish themes) but their instruments actually pretty amazing.

wow my mind exploded when i realized tomboyish girl is a pokemon reference XDD - how could i not notice that?? ._.

Cirno be like "I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was" *meanwhile at the SDM, Patchouli the purple blur*

Did not expect Sonic's theme to have a similar Touhou music. In the topic of Sonic music, Lost World had two seemingly Touhou-based music. "Cublicated" (Hidden World Zone music) has the same but slower tone similar to EoSD's extra stage and "Battle with Zavok" has similarities with Satori's theme.

7:03 What the fuck is this? Japanese Moskau?

"she said, don't make others" from Evangelion sounds exactly same at "Satori Maiden ~ 3rd eye"

1:20 i think this one was remilia theme o.o

5:07 Aww, I thought it was Broken Moon from SWR. 8:35 Same thing but for EoSD's stage 1 theme.

Most of these only have similar chord progressions, but there are a few in there that are definitely close.

everyone: I thought it was Septette

2nd: You thought I was Septette for the Dead Princess? But it was I! *Gensokyo Millenium!*

Glad I'm not the only who noticed the Wild Arms similarity. Also Wild Arms isn't an anime, it's a game.

Suggestion: Opening guitar riff of "Through the Fire and Flames" is very similar to the beginning of "Now, Until the Moment You Die"

4:46 Yep, that's gonna be Remi's theme! 5:29 'Nice try, kiddo"

I would say that the second song sounds more like Remilia's theme.

Satori's theme is actually"She Said, 'Don't Make Others Suffer for Your Personal Hatred.'"

Every Touhou music sounds like a composition in Mozart's era

Just gonna say; Super Mario 3D world's release date was 21 Nov 2013. Double Dealing character's release date was August 12th 2013. So Nintendo would have copied ZUN there.

As a person who knew GD first, I got pretty mad when I realised that a song that I like is secretly someone's theme in Touhou. For example: Galaxy Collapse (Heian Alien) Yatagarasu (Nuclear Fusion)

*cocks gun* am I the only one who thinks the Wild arms theme sounded like Gensokyo Millennium and not Septette for the dead princess

The only one I guessed correctly was Chen's theme. I'm disappointed in myself. So many times I'm like, I know this song, I know this song, I know this song, start overthinking and guess wrong even though I knew the song.

12:02 Patchy gotta go fast but she's too anemic

I have a crippling addiction to listening to touhou music similarities fjfjf

Assuming Zun got inspired by those reference, I understand he could be inspired by those game, anime or Japanese songs cus its possibly his interest, but how does he know foreign (English) artists songs? Just amazing

A couple I've noticed on my own: The beginning of "Now, Until the Moment You Die" sounds like a section of N's final battle theme in Pokemon Black and White. It might be in his normal theme, too, but I don't remember for sure. A particularly interesting one is that the beginning of "Strawberry Crisis" sounds similar to part of Jack Atlus' battle theme from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds! This coincidence never ceases to amuse me.

First song in your video was the 2nd most blatant one I had heard (after Septette) like 10 years ago and I came hoping to find it here after searching for so long. It happened! Thank you!!!

This is great, but anyone ever notice that Flowering Night sounds exactly like The Trooper by Iron Maiden?

This is fantastic. So many great melodic similarities, and you gave some cool new songs to look up to. This gets me wondering which ones were intentional; to know that you'd have weigh the likelihood of Zun knowing about those songs (more likely on the Japanese ones) with what time the songs were released and when his games were released. I like to think a few are coincidence

"Fordidden codex" from cytus/deemo and... if not obvious, "Nuclear fusion".

I think the best takeaway one can get from this, is that ZUN created the ultimate musical culture melting pot. Where tunes from all around the globe collide to give birth to masterpieces and real bangers, which spread back it's influence to the whole world again.

Ah yes the similarities. This always happens, music that is so similar that it's uncanny. ZUN always does references and take inspiration from a lot of places and he mixes them together, some consciously and some unconciously. Maybe some people took inspiration from him to do his own things (it depends on the date of course) Btw, this is already old but I find a lot of similarities from Sekibanki's theme with Megaman 2 - Willy 2 /watch?v=CY1vkLkyROk

EVERYTIME I LISTENED TO PIGS I THOUGHT THE SAME THING FINALLY, I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE

How about The Grimoire of Alice from Touhou 05: Mystic Square and Bloody Tears from Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest? Because the former definitely seems to be inspired by the latter.

Wow! Well noticed! Especially the last one with Per Gynt was a suprise for me^^ It is very nice, how your found out about it! Like it!!

weird to see anything about touhou after all these years, but I really appreciate this bit. Thank you!

The most shocking one was definitely cirnos theme. A lot of these were fairly easy to guess, but being a long time Pokémon fan I just never made that connection. Really cool stuff.

People have to remember the years each touhou game came out, as I bet a lot of these songs ZUN 'copied' came out after the game they're being compared to

Lol for the caption with "Fate of 60 years part". That caption reminded me of Danzai! Also, surprised at the Satori one. Wasn't able guess that at all. Same for the Wind god girl one.

loved the video, and the ff song at the end xD

Whenever I blindly listen to Touhou arangements I think Heian Alien arangements are acutaly Castlevania ones. I think there are muhc more of them out there.

The Taa taa taa taa part at around the 10 minute mark is a well known progression called the Andalucian Cadence so Zun isnt necessarily referencing 007 but just using a common musical technique

I think wild arms is closer to sepette for dead princess than history of the moon.

12:35 fire stone + locked girl that has elemental magic+ fire is an element ... it's not a coincidence right?

In 9:19 I always expect Suwako's theme to continue...

Sorry if you've already got a lot of people pointing this out, but 2 of the Souls in the song, "Your Best Nightmare" Sound similar to both Hartmann's Youkai Girl & Bad Apple!! (Touhou 4 ver.), with the Green Soul being Koishi's theme and the Yellow soul being the Stage 4 theme.So do you think you could maybe include that in the next vid?

5:57 I recognized it instantly when the melody kicked in. Haha!

2:24 "Perseverance and Determination" Oh f*ck, the Undertale fans are coming

6:20 Reminds me of DBZ :^)

Touhou is like the better version of this songs lmao

Funny, I had my bet on a Renesans music race on the Subterrain Animasm 4th stage. Thank you for the video!

Sonic Casino park and dark pegasus sako's theme will forever be my fave comparison

Are we allowed to submit similarities withing the Touhou series? Because I've noticed similarities in the opening parts of Strawberry Crisis and Nuclear fusion, as well as Flowering Night and Tank Girl's Dream

Here's mine: - "Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream" and "Polyushka Polye" (Or maybe also "Kimi o Nosete") - "Fate of Sixty Years" and Japan's "Hatafutte Parade." - "Lost Emotions" and "Philinion's Resurrection" (Interestingly, the fanmade game The Last Comer was made before Hopeless Masquerade) - "Satori Maiden ~ Third Eye" and "Happy Maria" Ps: I don't know why, but "History of the Moon", "Walking the Street of a Former Hell" and "Innocent Treasures" reminds me of some old chinese televesion series.

This was a treat to watch.

Sorry for all this spam, you done great job finding a lot of references what I was unable to find before It's amazing to see how rich was ZUN music influences

8:06 this sounds more like soviet march "we are army of people"

At 10:38 , the realisation sets in. At 10:48 , the trauma sets in from Orin and her spam.

ZUN is Araki but instead of using title songs, ZUN used songs as sample for his game soundtrack

I had this feeling in the back of my mind that I HAVE heard these songs before. I knew I wasn't crazy!!

As a Gundam fan as well as a fan of Satori, this made me happy.

Angel’s legend from HRTP is a reference to Heart of Fire from the original Castlevania. Wind God Girl sounds very similar to Crabbucket by Kos.

Most of these make a lot of sense, but I got Zeta Gundam, Hikaru Genji, and Apocalyptica right off the bat! Great work compiling these!

For the song containing DDC and SM3DW, it was SM3DW that made the similarity as DDC was released on August 12 2013, and SM3DW's earliest release date was November 21 2013.

Coincidence? I don't think so! Hotel? Trivago!

13:22 actually sounds like the boss theme from Super Mario Bros 3

Nice vid. Could be used for musical guessing games

I will still cry at Touhou music.

One other Satori Maiden similarity. Mt Rubble (Scrapyard theme) from Nuclear Throne.

that castlevania one kinda reminds me of "voile the magic library"

Ok but the beginning of Gensokyo Millennium is literally Dark Meta Knight / Shadow Strike from Kirby

We are still waiting for part 2

9:01 it is also similar to The extra boss of touho 5: Mystic Square

When I saw the title, I was expecting this to be a case like Kenji Yamamoto. I'm still not entirely comfortable with it, but ZUN at least seems to have done more to differentiate his music from the inspirations than Yamamoto did.

You have really good musical 🎶 ears!

song in blue has lead me down a path of a music genre iv been trying to find the name of called AOR aka Album-oriented rock like where that song comes from the kazu matsui project those songa have changed me forever and i have them all now on vinyl im so happy i got into touhou cuz if not idk if i couls live without there album standing in the wings or Marine Fantasia

12:30 That's ironic...

Here is mine! The song "Hail To Caranthir" from the Witcher 3 is quite similar to the song "Youkai Back Shrine Road" from Touhou 13, my friend say that song is nearly like an arrange version of "Youkai Back Shrine Road" :v

I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed the similarity between Opposing Bloodline and Heian Alien.

IDK if someone pointed this out already, but I noticed Lost Dream (Kana's theme) and Polyushka Polye sound exactly the same. Also i'm so glad someone else noticed the similarities between Wind God Girl and the OHMSS theme it's been bothering me for ages