How about doing a series where you take 10 characters at random from that list, so you can slowly and steadily whittle it down?

i always imagine Yuuto and Chizuru as parallels of Marisa and Patchouli

I blame maki

I'd honestly never even heard of her until this video.

​@@SackyBalls444me too

Lmao.

I love their map of the Touhou universe and how it includes the TORIFUNE satellite.

@@Hifuutorian Thank you for drawing my attention to that map. Wow. Simply, wow.

@@goyavoyageIt's genuinely incredible, yeah!

I love them! Probably my favourites in the series (as weird as that sounds haha)

rin hourai

Strongly agreed

Great, we don't need those kinds of stories in the fandom

Yeah, I agree. I still remember when I played some Touhou fangame Shmup, and I gotta say Iesua definitely pick my interest the most. It just feels like she could be fit well within Gensokyo, pretty good design character, not to mention the so "subtle" reference to certain religious figure (........not Byakuren). Honorable mention to Corin, Phiased (The Last Corner), Fuma (Book of Star Mythology), Yukiko, Touko (Servant of Harvest Wish), as well as probably most of Sapphire of Panlogism characters, specifically Azure, Sakkagumi, Saga, Umehime, Padma & Ummu.

Name sounds an awful lot like Jesus of Nazareth

​@@AmericanCaesarian The Last Comer is a peculiar fangame in that it chooses to adapt the Book of Revelation very loosely The plot of the game is basically "A star has fallen into Gensokyo, and was found by a sheep girl (stage boss 1 and extra mid boss). This was mistaken by Satan (stage 4 boss) (who has been hiding as the evil Shinto god Ame no Kagaseo for millenia) as the sign announciating the Last Judgement, cause Mumumu (that's her name here) to go out to prepare for the Apocalypse. Once defeats, Mumumu points the heroïne towards what is a much bigger threat than her to Gensokyo Iesua, who has been searching for Satan to retrieve Juda's soul, arrives in Gensokyo by installing her fortress of Angels directly from Heaven, on the peak of Youkai Mountain. During stage 5, you beat the angel sergent, Joan of Arc (here Janet Arc'Angelo), and her boss, Archangel Michel. After beating up Sanae who was trying to solve the incident before the chosen character (Reimu, Marisa or Sakuya), you faces Iesua, have a climatic fight, and then you get an ending. In the "true" ending, Iesua pretty much forgives anyone, including Juda and even Satan. Reimu scolds her for making trouble and ask her to bring a bottle of wine next time and everyone goes home. Iesua Nazareus is an interesting take on Jesus. She of course diverges greatly from the Christian myths, mostly around her crucifixion, using how Faith work in the Touhou Lore. I'll paste her character profile from the Touhou Wiki. "Though she is the child of God, because of the excessive pain she endured at the time of her crucifixion, she ended up speaking curses to God. "God, God, Why have you abandoned me?" Faith becomes power. Whether it's the past or present, Gensokyo or the Western country, this fact is unchanging. So, if one doubts God, the powers he has promised through faith will be lost. In truth, after the crucifixion, though Iesua was supposed to be resurrected as a holy person, she had already become nothing more than a human who no longer had the ability to bring about miracles. She had suffered on the cross and died. Initially, the betrayal of the disciple that had been planned by Mumumu was going to be turned into a good thing by Yahweh. Contrary to expectations however, upon facing the worst possible conclusion, the disciple who's true nature had returned deeply regretted his actions and was tormented by guilt. So, in a way that no one would see it, he took the body of his enshrined master away. Why? If the body disappeared, rumors of Iesua's revival would begin to spread. The rumors among the people would turn into faith, and the power of faith would become the power to bring about a miracle. Thus, Iesua was barely able to be revived as the child of God after three days. And so, forgiving her disciple was the first thing she went to do upon returning. ---The disciple, however, had already hung himself. His soul was not saved by God, but instead ended up being captured by Mumumu. Moreover, to make things worse, Mumumu had once again hidden herself somewhere in the world. The religion that Iesua taught to the world was truly a simple one. To write, it would only take one word: "Forgive." No matter how you decorate it with pretty words, everyone whether in the past or the present lives with something they want everyone to turn their eyes away from. If someone is able to forgive them, they can be released from their suffering. Therefore, first, I will give everything I have to forgive "you."--- To the people who had been living carrying such suffering, her words wrapped them in an overflowing love. When the star fell into Gensokyo and the sign of the last battle was mistakenly given, Mikaboshi Mumumu's power keeping her hidden was released, and the morning star began to give off a strange light. From this, Iesua could finally determine the location of the Demon King. She decided to descend into Gensokyo, but not with the purpose of fighting Mumumu. Instead, it was to forgive everyone. Michel, who feared God's Wrath; The still suffering soul of her disciple, that had been captured; Even the pitiful demon king who had lost all chance at reconciliation with God. "You don't have to suffer anymore" is the only thing she wanted to say. Only that. The saint who had forgiven the suffering of all mankind wished only to forgive them herself." The extra stage reveals that the fallen star was in fact the palace of Hades, who fell back on earth after Pluto lost it's status as the 9th planet, making it lose all the remaining faith Hades could get from it.

wtf is a touhou heck

I remember this being created. I was surprised when he included it here. Also, R.I.P. Touhou Hell 😢

True and real

@@Shiina_Mashiro bruh, the og is here :)

​@@Yellowpikachu1 Touhou Hell is a group where you post shitty contents related to Touhou

i implore you to play the games she appears in by LAME dimension

@@devidotnova oh no I already did, love their games very super excited for the full release of hazuki dies

Best scene in the game bar none.

@@hassanico9999 She even got a sprite in one of the last patches to make it even better

I suppose you mean the Osana Reimu one, given the OG one doesn't really have a backstory lol

​@@juaneste4640Of course, wait there's another one?

i fucking adore her strengths

​@@ironmaster6496yes I saw one where she leaves reimu bc of bullying

Truly the Toby Fox moment of all time

She was a bad apple

I strongly disagree, having some douchebag come out and beay everyone's asses is not good writing, is just the typical self insert gary stu fantasy

Same

@@EEErmine Glad to know I'm not the only anarchist here.

Not the originals Layla was blood related to at any rate, but close enough since at least the Poltergeist sisters didn't abandon her.

The Prismriver sisters that we know are just fakes that are magically tied to the instruments owned by the originals. Since they were manifested by a lonely Layla who missed her sisters, it's possible they don't even have the same personalities as the originals. That's why there's a big distinction between ghosts and "poltergeists".

Don't worry, TPDP EX FC is still being worked on!

@@wookywok That's great news!! Thank you!

You could always tap into the sources that are completely untouched by ZUN, there's a lot of non-asian folklore out there and it's easier to research for us english speakers than asian folklore.

@@-FFFridge I want a series that is based around occidental folklore rather than oriental,but there some characters that are based around oriental folklore.but where ZUN takes his inspiration from,like if there are books about Eastern folklore,there definitely could be a book about western folklore

Often folklore mixed with Animesque stylistic choices and well, other video games he likes. It's really a mashup of ideas, it looks like. As for where you cam find info on folklore and such, it's pretty much everywhere. Internet, yes, there are tons of books you could buy, try to talk to people from the area you want to use the folklore of if that's at all possible. The good thing about Touhou is that the characters are pretty loose with lore and such, imo, so you can really get creative with fan characters. There are often many, many blanks that easily allow new characters.

@@MokohiChan thank you so much.this is really helpful:)

She's at the very end of the video.

Ah i see, i didn't see her in the description so..

Too bad as always the male ones tend to just be used to make every single character lame and part of his harem, pure cringe. Apart from that i really love the concept of Mitori and specially Sendai

video game series

Anime

@@llen156yearsago6 wrong (since this comment i have become a big touhou fan and own a fumo)

@@nextal_ nice