Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24262164-20131229001545

Alright, anyone here a fan of Touhou. I am. Oh god, I am. Be it appreciated or not, I'm not going to give up the chance to spread the wonderful word of touhou so, sit back, girls are praying, so please wait patiently and have some tea.

Touhou is a series of bullet-hell shooters, created by a one man company, called Team Shanghai Alice. This series has trancended its humble beginnings to become one of the most popular doujin series in Japan, backed by one of the most enthusiastic fandoms I have ever seen. Touhou is insane, extending its influence into every form of media, pretty much every anime convention, and strangly enough, into everyone's heart.

It might be a little hard to fully wrap your brain around how big this thing truely is so let me start you off with this fact. According to VGMdb, the creater of the series, ZUN, has acrewed over 4786 composer credits. That means that ZUN has been credited as the composer of co-composer of 4786 albums of music. His music is so popular, that the amount of times it is remixes is insane. If you hang around the internet, you've probably heard some of his tunes.

Alright, enough of this. I'll leave you with some videos. These are all videos, made by fans of touhou and they're just fun to watch. If you want to investiage the series further, I'll post links to sources after the videos.

Bad Apple: The first contact for a surpsing number of fans

Touhou Kinema Kan: Mind blowing animation quality

Dog Fight: How about a fight scene. Unfortunately games don't actually play like this

Kill the Night: A personal favorite. I love the 3d in this one.

Fushigi no Gensokyo 3D Movie: I now very little about the context of this video. I know Fushigi no Gensokyo is an RPG that looks nothing like this. I just REALLY love the animation here.

The tops. You can't really beat this. How many other fandoms can stake claim to an actual anime? How about 2? Fantasy Kaleidoscope and Mid-Summer's Day Dream are made entirely by hand by a staff of around 1 person. The production cycle of each episode is about 2 years. Both currently have 2 episodes.

Fantasy Kaleidoscope and Midsummer's Day Dream

Further Fandom:

Maidens of the Kaleidoscope: Probably the largest English speaking Touhou community on planet.

/r/touhou: The touhou community on reddit.

Touhou Wiki: The best place for condensed and organized Touhou information. 