A Brief History of Touhou and the World
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| Title: | A Brief History of Touhou and the World |
| Creator: | Thunderclub (credited as Rin) |
| Date: | September 17, 2023 |
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| Length: | 1:49:23 |
| Music: | |
| Genre: | Essay |
| Fandom: | Touhou Project |
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| URL: | Youtube link |
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A Brief History of Touhou and the World is a Youtube fanvid essay which delves into the intertwined history of the doujin franchise and its fans as a whole, past and present. It was uploaded onto the site on September 2023 to a mostly-warm fan response, with notes about the essayist's inclusion of the fandom's history, as intertwined within both the online and real world.
Topics Discussed
- Origins of the game franchise itself
- Overview of both the PC-98- and Windows-era games, as well as supplemental material
- U. N. Owen Was Her/MAD remixes (mostly on Nico Nico Douga)
- Bad Apple!!, and its now-famous Alstromeria Records vocal remix
- Early memes revolving around various Touhou characters at the time
- Touhou-focused fan conventions, most notably Touhoucon and Reitaisai
- Rensenware, a notorious, unusual ransomware program which requires achieving more than 200 million points in a Lunatic-difficulty run of Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object to unlock the victim's computer's files
- Touhou Hijacks, or references to the franchise proper, either overt or covert
- Merchandise based on Touhou, e.g. Fumos