Touhou Radio

[Tyson ultima]

Well i searched this exactly up on here and i didn't see a thread so yea. But anyway if you wish to listen to nonstop Touhou then go listen to the touhou radio if Gpop hasn't stepped enough songs for your liking. Alot of these remixes you are sure to not have heard before. So go and listen http://www.radio-desu.co.cc/

[XCV]

I love you.

[ddr_f4n]

I NEVER STEP ENOUGH TOUHOU. GRAAAAAWR

I was thinking this was gonna be MotK's listening radio station we made where it's all user-uploaded touhou content. I'll check this place out and see if there's more music for me to step :V

[DossarLX ODI]

Radio desu

I fucen died

[Hurleyisgod]

<3 I'm proud of FFR today

[Flandre Scarlet]

More Touhou music? <3

[darkshark]

Can someone please explain to me FFR's obsession with Touhou? I don't seem to get it, at ****ing all.

[DossarLX ODI]

I actually dislike Touhou and I've only played one of the games (IaMP) but the alphes art is amazing.

I take that art and then do whatever I want with it (I basically just do my own thing). I can't stand listening to Touhou music for more than 2 minutes and I certainly don't want to play those bullet hell shooters any time soon.

[ddr_f4n]

Originally Posted by darkshark

Can someone please explain to me FFR's obsession with Touhou? I don't seem to get it, at ****ing all.

It's mostly the same with My Little Pony, except a hell lot bigger that resulted in giant conventions that's only on the series itself.

[Flandre Scarlet]

Adorable anime-styled girls firing thousands and thousands of bullets and lasers at each other, created by some random Japanese guy who loves beer, with amazing music that has a lot of really good remixes, along with a very large amount of fan-made doujins/games/hacks/art...

What isn't to like about it? xD

=P

I just really love vertical shooters, and anime-styled shit, so Touhou fits in perfectly.

[igotrhythm]

A game series for manly men that features a bunch of cute little girls and catchy music.

What's not to like?

*edit* SON OF A BITCH.

[Flandre Scarlet]

Originally Posted by igotrhythm

A game series for manly men that features a bunch of cute little girls and catchy music.

What's not to like?

*edit* SON OF A BITCH.

lolhai ;3

[DossarLX ODI]

Adorable anime-styled girls firing thousands and thousands of bullets and lasers at each other

.....I never get this.

created by some random Japanese guy who loves beer

Who also makes shitty art. alphes art makes him look like he spent 30 seconds doodling. When are touhou games going to be different from bullet hell shooters and a couple fighting games

with amazing music that has a lot of really good remixes

Now this is legit, but it's too expressivemanian for me so I basically just go into CBF mode and blast my stepmans music.

very large amount of fan-made doujins/games/hacks/art

CBF about the fanbase, they go way much into expressivemanian stuff.

Only think to like about it for me? The alphes art being available. I just made a video of my collection (as of now) yesterday. I just fuc around with it whenever I want to.

To me touhou just seems like a huge bandwagon. When I was in japan, I visited Akihabara and went to the Tokyo Anime Center in the UDX building, much smaller than I expected and there was no mention of touhou. The only mention of touhou I saw was in a store called "animate" where plushies were sold, I got one as a sentimental item but it's really more of an underground culture. (Pics: animate Tokyo anime center personal shot)

tl;dr lol wall of text, touhou seems to just be largely driven by a big fan base. I stray away from that

[darkshark]

When is FFR going to have it's own plush toys

[DossarLX ODI]

FFR does need its own plushies.



There are all the characters to make for them

However, what I *DON'T* get is why touhou plushies like from Gift and Nendoroid are only sold in select few areas like animate.

[ddr_f4n]

Because all the doujin stuff on Touhou and Touhou itself can only be sold in doujin stores and not commercially, unless stated otherwise and if he is okay with it, as the creator stated.

[Flandre Scarlet]

@Dossar: Touhou isn't really mainstream at all, it's just from a few die-hard fans in certain places that make it seem like it is, and the abundance of fan-made material.

ZUN really doesn't prefer it going mainstream either, he just makes the games as if he would be the one playing them all day because he likes vertical shooters and cute girls, forming the games to his taste and not giving a damn if most don't like it. They might support his living but he doesn't develop them for profit.

[DossarLX ODI]

Yeah, like I said, underground culture. I've asked a few guys who watch anime a lot and they didn't even know what touhou was.

I'm probably one of the few people that only even looked into Touhou because of the alphes art. Maybe the only one?

[ddr_f4n]

Originally Posted by Flandre Scarlet

@Dossar: Touhou isn't really mainstream at all, it's just from a few die-hard fans in certain places that make it seem like it is, and the abundance of fan-made material.

ZUN really doesn't prefer it going mainstream either, he just makes the games as if he would be the one playing them all day because he likes vertical shooters and cute girls, forming the games to his taste and not giving a damn if most don't like it. They might support his living but he doesn't develop them for profit.

Pretty much. He makes the game he wants, not what the fandom wants. In fact, after he made Mountain of Faith he wanted to wait until the fandom died down, but instead it kept growing, so he just decided to keep making them.

It's just luck that his game got this popular though, thanks to memes like Yukkuri shittiete ne, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, Bad Apple, etc.

It's popular only over the net, but not out there where people knows the mainstream games. "Otaku's" are the ones that are aware of the series, not the usual people. Hell, ZUN made guidelines to make sure that they don't go mainstream and get commercialized without his permission. That's why you don't see any OFFICIAL anime. At most, just really minor references to the series in anime (or getting a song of his song in a japanese documentary that it actually was in once).

Touhou fans just don't hide themselves a lot over in the internet because of the general acceptance of the series everywhere.

[MrGiggles]

Originally Posted by darkshark

Can someone please explain to me FFR's obsession with Touhou? I don't seem to get it, at ****ing all.

Part of it is that it's a game series that requires a lot of skill, something that the rhythm community in general tends to enjoy. The music is gr8 too, so it gets stepped like Sharpnel when it was in style.

The other part is the preposterous amount of original content that spreads from the games. Characters that get 1-2 lines in-game are fleshed out into rounded and dynamic characters in fanshit and doujinshi. Which makes it doujinshi of doujinshi.

This isn't limited to FFR either, the internet in general has gotten increasingly obsessed with the series. I'd reckon less than 20% of the fanbase even plays the games.