instructions unclear, fought a vampier lady that controls fate and now I'm trapped in a cell with a voice in my head telling me if I eat a dead crow I become god

Me who just finished getting into the Fate series:aww Shit here we go again

Touhou fan starter Pack. Agreed, Touhou is too big that some people think that the fan works are the official ones and the bullet hell game is the fan-made :D

I just saw your Bad Apple video and decided to look into where to start for getting into Touhou. Crazy timing.

I started with Subterraen Animism... It was... quite... hard? Well, i was dumb enough to insist to play it only on lunatic, but when i finally finished it, the other games seemed... easier.

I've been seeing Touhou stuff everywhere for a lot of years, but I never really tried to get into it. I tried once a few years ago, but there was so much stuff and so many games that I got overwhelmed and didn't really understand what was going on or where to actually begin. My main interest is to try and understand the story more than anything else, and to also get the memes and references you see from time to time, lol. This video (and like other 5 I've seen as of right now, haha) was really helpful, I'll go ahead and give it a try once more.

With the Vtubers playing or singing touhou songs, I believe more and more people might know about it more in the going days.

Touhou has one of the biggest and dedicated fanbases of all time. One should be proud of being a Touhou fan alone.

My first exposure to Touhou was probably a hentai doujin. I truly got into Touhou through a KZfaq recommendation of "U.N. Owen Was Her?". KZfaq recommendations also got me here, and I'm thankful for that!

I just saw a tiktok about Touhou and wanted to learn about what it is. Immediately found your Touhou explained in two minutes video, and then watched this video. Entirely by chance, now I’m super interested and want to explore this, your content has been super helpful in getting me started. Thank you!

yknow sometimes i brag about being an undertale og and knowing absolutely every single tiny detail about that game all the shit related to it. but this? this is another LEVEL. i wanna get into touhou really badly and these video tutorials on how to do so are extremely helpful lol

I feel like a old man learning this lol 😅. You did a awesome job explaining!

Thanks for your video! Really excited to dive into this universe!

Hi! Coming from someone who's been a big touhou fan for a few years now, this video is great! However, I just want to say, for a beginner to the main games and bullet hells, I honestly don't think touhou 6 is the best place to start. The game is dated and feels rather slow, and the lack of the visible hit box whilst focused is jarring for beginners. Instead, I recommend touhou 8 and touhou 10 as the best starting points for beginners. I'm honestly surprised you didn't mention 8, it's the easiest besides 10, great dialogue, popular characters and a fantastic OST! For people that might have played bullet hells before, I recommend 17, the newest main game. It's great. For manga, I think the best (official) place for beginners to start and not get too confused would be either Wild and Horned Hermit or Forbidden Scrollery. Though I also love Silent Sinner in Blue, it's a bit more complex to understand without prior knowledge. And, last thing I swear, to all touhou fans young and old, please check out ZUN's music collection! It gets so overshadowed by stuff like EoSD... the music is great, the stories are really interesting and Renko and Maribel are adorable!

TYSM FOR THIS VIDEO!!! i had no idea what this series even was but now i definitely gonna try some of these games!!

I found out about this franchise through Fumos, lol. When i saw it was a bullet, hell, i was genuinely surprised and that it has so many games. I guess I'll start my grind today

This video helped me a lot with getting into Touhou. I started with Luna Nights, then listened to quite a few Songs. By reading the stuff on the Touhou Wiki, I was already pretty knowledgeable on Touhou when I started playing Azure Reflections later. I recently even managed to pull off a 1cc of AR on Normal with all 3 characters! I plan on trying to get my hands on an official game next and play either 17 or 18 next, and maybe even try something new and get 15.5. Thank you!

Osana Reimu needs bigger disclaimer for the feels, I was not ready.

thank you very much, I've always wanted to explore the touhou universe and narrative and now I have the tools to do it, thanks

Thank you for this video, I was always skeptical on where to start but this video helped alot.

dude, your content is literally amazing, the way you structure your videos is 10/10. how are you not more popular than this???

I got into Touhou with the most popular remix called bad apple and then watched a very good 3d fan animator Minus T. And then I am going to wait for the steam sell on Touhou Luna Knights.

Thank you so much for this video! I wanted to get more into touhou for quite a while, I listened to a lot of touhou music as a kid and played a lot of touhou maps on osu! I’ll definitely buy the fangame on switch! 3 Weeks later edit : I just bought it, I'm so excited!!

Just watched this after your video on Bad Apple :) Your content is really nice so far and I'm excited to see you grow. I've been a mild Touhou fan for years (drowned myself in OSTs and TH 6, 7, and 11) and I think you just relit my passion for the series ^-^

Thank you for this video! I’ve always loved the Touhou designs since I was a kid but never really got into the series besides a few fanmade medias so I wanted to officially buckle down and get into it but was kinda dumbfounded :P

CONGRATS ON 1K MATE, little late but to the future that lies ahead may you continue to Grow!

for something so completely influential to internet culture i was a bit confused as to what exactly it is. i have finished this video just as confused

THANK YOU I've recently gotten into Fumos and found out about touhou through that, and I've had no clue where to start.

14:48 I literally finished watching that yesterday and I cried SO MUCH on it

I started on 12 before watching those video, haven’t been able to constantly play it because of how busy my summer has been but dang it’s hard but also rewarding when you finally master a boss that seemingly felt impossible to go up against before hand, although it only on level 5

Great video. Helped me a lot with my decission. Thank you a lot :D

thanks! im starting with touhou today and it was really helpful good work!

Thank you so much for this video! I come from osu! and I loved some of the TouHou's tracks and remixes but I didn't know where to start and this video helped me out a lot

Coming from someone who's been a touhou fan for a month, I'm not sure if becoming a touhou fan was the worst or best decision I've ever made edit: Damn, I forgot I even made this comment

I like that you emphasize games that left a bigger legacy as opposed to just ones that are easier to get into the gameplay. Touhou 6 is often left behind as being too difficult and wonky but it introduced me to so many bangers and the coolest characters.

i first found touhou from roblox funky friday, a friday night funkin' knock off game and was obsessed w the soundtrack, i love touhou sm now

God I love your content, long live touhou.

I like this video a lot,, I've always liked Touhou n the characters, but it's been a headache to understand any of it n I've been honestly confused so much. But videos like yours has helped so much!! So thanks!!

Even three years later, I'm glad to see this video get put back in my recommended on every new YT account I make

Very informative, thank you sir.

Thanks for the video pal! I've been meaning to play a touhou bullet hell type of game in a while after playing a random bullet hell game (app) with a piano rhythm game mechanics (which ngl, is addicting but did burned my eye a bit lol)

Thanks for the video. I wanted to enter the world of touhou but didn't know where to start. Thanks to you I started reading scrollery manga and gonna buy original and fan made games and vn. Thank you man of culture.

Huge thanks to Jacoder23 for allowing me to use their piano covers for this video. Check out their channel here: m.kzfaq.info/love/dLQ-aSddS0WPnWQA87JNow

i found 6 accidently and played it years ago then after a few years i played the fighting games where i really liked the first one and currently im playing Touhou Puppet Dance Performance and am loving it

Man, I used to listen to Touhou music all the time back in the mid to late 2000's when I was little. I really miss the old internet days before it really popped off and now I wanna get into the games. Thanks for the vid.

Thanks for the vid. helped me alot.

Someone recommended me to start from Lunatic Kingdom. That was ...quite an experience...

I think once I get my own PC I'ma start with Luna nights then play Azure reflections, 10, and 6. Then I'll go from there (btw thx for making such a good video you deserve way more than 3k subs)

this was honestly such a helpful video! ive been a huge fan of bad apple for nearly ten years now and i think it’s time for me to take the plunge into touhou :) also, side note: the “tomboyish girl in love” melody is very similar to a vocaloid song. i don’t remember which, but it’s the exact same melody lol

this is a well made informative video. 5 stars

I can objectively say this video is the best video on KZfaq to get into the touhou rabbit hole

I just discovered that the wallpaper on my desktop I've had for over 3 months is from the Touhou series. There are so many characters I've seen a lot everywhere, but I never knew where they were from. Thanks for sharing your opinion! I might try Luna Nights even though it's not the best to start with in terms of storytelling, because I am a fan of 8 bit-styled rpgs :D

Very nice introductory video, although I would've really liked the photography games to be mentioned for people (like myself) who enjoy shorter bursts of difficult gameplay as opposed to a longer storyline.

i find it so so cool that zun allows people to not only make fangames but make money with them and publish them on any platform with very loose rules. bro is evil nintendo

Funny to think how I got into Touhou. First I just came across Night of Nights while searching some electronic music and ost remixes, then ytpmv's lead me to touhou ones, such as the one and only PhilipOnBread, which slowly devolved into looking up touhou remixes of popular songs and downloading them. Mostly just like the most popular 20 and having like 10 remixes of each lol. Then a full game's ost (Ten Desires I believe) sometime in highschool, and only then, years after only recently did I go full goblin and get into the lore. I also played TH6 and 7 at one point but gave it up after getting like halfway in each. Long way to go with no end in sight!

I started with the Arkanoid clone on PC98 and then I got a nice surprise near the end of Luna Nights

Hmm interesting series I'll try to get into it

Appreciate you for making this video, now i have a few games to look forward to. I think I'll start with Touhou 10 since it's already on steam, also if you haven't checked it out Touhou Spell Bubble on switch is a pretty good game.

Oh my, I've always thought that the creator of Touhou only wrote/made the characters and soundtrack, but I had assumed everything else, including the official bullet hell games, were fan-made. Well then, both bullet hell and fighting games are just absolutely not my thing, and it's the same for just appreciating soundtracks.. Still, I'm glad this video existed. Cause now, I know better. ( Reaching your channel was a bit of a journey XD Found your channel from seeing someone remake the Rick Roll MV using the strategy game EU4 by editing save files. The same channel did one other video that was on Bad Apple. I watched it and thought: Oh, I've heard this a few times before. Might as well finally look up the original video/Touhou explanation on YT considering how much fanart and doujins I've encountered ever since I started watching anime back in 2016. And I saw your Bad Apple video at the top 10 results, watched it, and watched 4 of your explaining Touhou videos.)

Yo, thanks for the informative video! I remember dipping my toes into touhou when i was younger and just started getting into my weeb phase during puberty. I played the embodyment of the scarlet devil and enjoyed it, but it was too difficult and I moved on. I did however like the memes, music and characters, especially Marisa Kirisame. a year or two later when I was a bit confused about my identity, I wanted to go to the local comic con to cosplayas a girl in a cute dress, this girl being Marisa Kirisame. I had a great time with my friend, and the costume still hangs in my room today, quite a few years later. Alot has happend since, but I have recently gotten back into anime and trying out some new and old games again. I have a cute Marisa Fumo who I bought to remember that special day who I always see when on the PC, and decided to try and get into Touhou again. Your recommendations sounds very fun and you go very well about showing different options and explaining the pros and cons. I think I'm going to start with Azure Reflections as it looks very cool. Again, thanks for the great video, seeing Marisa and Touhou in general really brings back some fond memories in the weirdest way possible

well i just downloaded touhou 6 off of a website and i already love it. so good!

I got into touhou by richaadeb’s covers of many of the songs and omg i love them

the best way to start touhou is with koishi komeiji's heart throbbing adventure

ABSOLUTELY agree with your starting lineup. 17 should be the next game, imo, as the animal spirit mechanics are extra super fun.

Thanks for the advice, though the TH6 download from Zun's site didn't work, I was able to get Perfect Cherry Blossom to work! With some practice I was able to get past stage 1! Thanks

I started with touhou 7 it was great! And I played luna nihgts of corse!

I know this video is a year old, but I'll hope for a reply anyways. Great video, it's well structured and you make very good arguments both for and against each option. On the fangame front, do you think Puppet Dance Performance would do a fine job showing the world of Gensokyo to a newcomer? Now that game is a massive thing, containing locations and characters from every official work (PC-98 included :D ) at the time it was released-- and the Shard of Dreams expansion and SoD Extended mod add areas and characters from further works, keeping up to the latest ;) Plus, Pokémon-like gameplay is definitely more accessible than both danmaku and fighting games. I also think there's a print work you didn't mention that could also be nice for getting into the lore: Perfect Memento in Strict Sense. In it, Akyuu gives plenty of information on the various locations and characters appearing in EoSD through PoFV, and even the backstory for the Spell Card system. One may also have a look at Symposium of Post-Mysticism, where Akyuu adds further entries for the characters in MoF through TD. And you can read all of this in the Touhou Wiki, both in Japanese and translated to English. Of course, Akyuu's entries aren't for everyone; they might put off people who don't like reading much. They also do have the downside that Akyuu exaggerates some details to make various characters seem more dangerous than they really are-- might even give the reader the impression that Gensokyo is a bleak, deadly place rather than the fun, light-hearted setting it generally is in practice. Plus of course, HM onwards aren't covered because they came out later, so that's a lot of missed lore to catch up on later.

As far as touhou based music goes I've been listening to a lot of stack recently, love that artist My favorite song by her is reverse rebirth trigger

I find Night Of Nights as a cool song, I find out it's from Touhou, I feel like I've seen Touhou a bunch of times, I figure out it's a bullet hell game, I wonder where I should start. About 4 hours later, I think I have a headache now (btw I'm starting with Azure reflections but it took me so long to figure out where to start lmao

Touhou is the only series I've played that actually lives up to it's reputation of being incredibly difficult. To anybody else getting into Touhou: Please, start with Azure Reflections or Imperishable Night.

How I started was with the touhou songs in taiko then a few years later I played Luna nights on game pass then a few days after that I tried touhou 7 and I was hooked

I wanted to get into touhou because everytime i think of bullet hell i think of this game, might try it now

Oh my god thank you

Yeah, I guess my first exposure to Touhou are the memes. A crap ton of Cirno memes, hahaha. I kept seeing her popping up in various artworks and memes, so I decided to look up what series she was a apart of. After that it was the music the caught my interest. I haven't touched any of the games since bullet-hells aren't quite my thing, but I guess I'll check out Luna Nights, since I'm more familiar with Metroidvania games than bullet-hells. Thanks for the starting recommendations.

How i got to know of Touhou... well, I got addicted to Osu many years ago and as the years go on in that game, you basically hear every touhou song but the remixes.. oh there are so many remixes and even Japanese singers having vocals etc. It's so cool, I love almost all of those songs. But there is one Japanese band that stands out among the others when it comes to remixing Touhou, and that's UNDEAD CORPORATION. They recently uploaded all their early albums on Spotify, so you can finally find them easy now (contrary to how it was before) and they are basically ONLY touhou remixes but HEAVY METAL (melo-death metal) . it's some of the coolest sounding metal I've ever listend to. Where my favourite song is　二つの世界 "futatsu no sekai" aka "two worlds" I also love the song "Frozen" One of the more memorable Touhou remix songs I knew from Osu however has to be this one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLJnd9Ol2bSZZoU.html

came to touhou from luna nights, also mainly because i fell in love with reimu

I got into the games the same way I do with every franchise I'm interested in: starting from the first game and working my way up from there (yeah, I'm a lunatic...)!

My brain hurts a lot Also bad apple and an crossover are the main things that kinda introduced me to the game years ago as a child and just now want to get into it. Yeah, I take a while to get into games, shows and other media most of the time lol

You know, the thing is I'm into Fate series for some time. Now to this, and yes, I got into both from Taihen.

Thanks.

I'd say other good starting points are the fanimes as you can see a lot of the characters and the world quite quickly like fantasy kaleidoscope/ Memories of Phantasm just runs through several of the main the games story line's. you can even find it on youtube: kzfaq.info/sun/PL1o_fjC1Q3lHGK1_2dI868lBRa1S9lqCy touhou is really just a bottomless pit of fan works that you could probably spend years sorting through and barely scrape the surface. I'd say the community is one of the most creative and welcoming, and really fucking weird at times but beautiful. and the references are _everywhere_ once you know what to look for.

I started with Lotus Land Story. Now I get absolutely pissed when someone knows Bad Apple, but has never even heard of Elly.

One thing I'll say: my first touhou game was 08, imperishable night. The music, story, vibes, and graphics are all absolutely fantastic but you will learn _very bad habits_ with respect to the timing of bombing out of getting hit. Strongly recommend starting with 10 as mentioned in the vid! Subterranean Animism is also very fun.

Got to know the series through a legendary meme video of McDonalds remix of UN en Owen was Her. Played the first two official fighting games. Had a lot of fun. Tried beating TH 6 for about a year. It traumatized me and made me give up on ever playing a shmup for 12 years. Snorted fan content and OSTs during the period of not playing anything main series related. Watched a guide by Shmup Junkie in how to become good in shmups in 7 days. Went back to TH 6 to give it another chance, and after 2 days I beat the game in 1cc on Easy, and managed to reach the final boss on Normal for the first time. I am so happy that I went back. These games look amazing, and 6 is already pretty fun. ZUN's idea to basically make his works public domain with some caveats is a practice I still wish to see more of in the gaming space. It worked wonders for the franchise, allowing all kinds of people to enjoy and get to know the series in many different forms and interpretations. Fumo~

I was introduced to Touhou not very long ago when I started watching Bad Apple music video being played on literally everything and memes with fumo plushies. Then I found out that Touhou lore is based on Japanese mythology and this really caught my attention because I've had an interest in mythology since I was little! I randomly found a game on play store called Touhou Lost Word that came out last year (it's a mobile turn based strategy with gacha). Now I also watch playthroughs of original Touhou series to fully understand everything. But... Is it ok, that I started with Lost Word?

I keep seeing these plushies in my friend’s room, now I’m jumping down the rabbit hole

I was waiting for him to talk about doujins but he never did. That's how i got into touhou.

Some new things I could add: - TouHou 15.5 (the last fighter game) is now available on the Nintendo Switch! - TouHou Spell Bubble is also pretty good, most notably for the songs full of Internet Culture it introduces, lol. It's on Switch. - If you like Die & Retry's, I'll recommend TouHou 15 Kanjuuden. It's one of the harder TH games, but it has a chapter system that makes you replay the same shit again and again until you can beat it. It's really good to... well, get good at TouHou.

i saw bad apple on my front page so i watched it and saw touhou mentioned in the comments. and thats how it started

I started getting interested in touhou while playing Luna Nights and I really thought sakuya was cool so I wanted to get into it more

luna nights got me into touhou and i have no regrets, sakuya best girl

I got into touhou through TPP. I really like pokemon and am having a great time with tpdp

If I still remember correctly. I discovered "Touhou" back in 2012 with "crazy windows 7 error remix" (which turned out to be that song about Alice) But, the true experience was in 2016 when I discovered and played "Touhou 7" and that's how I got myself hooked up to the franchise 😍💞✨

its weird how i got into touhou from lostword and loved it

Fun fact: I learned about Touhou because a few weeks ago I rewatched Bad Apple and I saw Touhou on recommended

If i play TOUHOU, i would likely to choose "precision" type than "aiming" or "scattered but painful" shot cuz why not

this is just like when i got into kagerou project a couple years back

Started with Touhou Luna Nights. Looking at this rabbit hole in front of me....kind of daunting.

Very interesting video, but I have a question about the music collection: what are the Shibayan records? How are they related to Touhou? I discovered Touhou thanks to a Shibayan Electro playlist ("1 Hour Of the Best Shibayan Electro"), that's why I'm asking.

I just started with a Mobile Fan Game and man i think i've Made a good choise