GENERAL DISCUSSION
Let's talk about Touhou, Anonymous. How did you discover the fandom?
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No. 1431
I was discussing difficult video games with a friend and he linked me to a YouTube video of PCB's Phantasm Stage boss battle with Yukari. I promptly downloaded PCB. |
No. 1432
Listening to Toho Mathematics on some stream, which got my interested and after some looking around I got the games. |
No. 1434
Back when Touhou was still on /a/, i wondered what Anime or Manga those girls were from. |
No. 1435
A friend linked me to a download for IN all of a sudden with no explanation or even real previous knowledge or interest in Touhou from either of us. Now I'm a touhoufag and he's become a touhoufag because of me. |
No. 1438
Played the first 3 windows games by chance, by randomly trawling the net. Thought it nifty, since I liked shmups already but it wasn't such a big deal at first. |
No. 1439
Heard about it, assumed it was generic anime crap. |
No. 1441
Fun stuff. |
No. 1444
Kinda like >>1434 but without the anime/manga part. |
No. 1445
File 125210003443.jpg - (63.05KB , 469x414 , 1202383718277.jpg ) [iqdb] ![]() I knew a few characters from /a/, had a Cirno folder but didn't really care otherwise. |
No. 1446
In my senior year of high school, me and some friends didn't have a first period class, so we hung out around school and messed with our laptops. One day one of my friends came in and was like "You have to see these videos I found on YouTube. Crazy shit is going down!" Intrigued, we gathered around and watched IN's Extra Stage. Ever since, all of us who were there that day became hooked, and I didn't even like STGs before Touhou. |
No. 1447
I had seen it on /jp/ and /a/ before, assumed it was generic frilly anime crap, and then I Woke Up in Gensokyo. |
No. 1448
I was browsing Gaku Gaku Animal Land wondering if they had any new Type-Moon doujins there and decided to click the "Touhou" link on the sidebar |
No. 1449
Friend linked me to PCB years ago. I played it, but was horrible at it. |
No. 1452
Wanted to play more crazy STGs. Someone mentioned one that didn't have ships at all. I was intrigued, the concept seemed alien to me. I ended up growing fond of it since the patterns have names, it's a bit of a downer in other games you can only describe waves with "that swirly bit with lasers". |
No. 1454
Apparently I was already a fan of some of the characters for years, until a friend told me that they're all part of the same title, and that they all happened to be from a series of computer shooting games(first reaction: what?). I still wonder how I was able to go that long without even noticing the name Touhou. I must be very dense; but I already knew this. |
No. 1457
I saw Why Why Why don't I miss you a lot forever on /a/ years ago, then played the games for a bit. I sucked then and I suck now. |
No. 1466
>>1448 |
No. 1477
I saw a run of a friend 1CCing IN's Extra mode. I was generally confused as all fuck and had no fucking clue what was going on at all. |
No. 1491
Some guy was posting Touhou doujins in thread at /a/, and among them was Genocide Kitten's Remily the Strange and I immediately fell in love with it, even though I had no idea who the characters were. When somebody asked for link to Zip, he linked Touhou Wiki(when it was still hosted on Pooshlmer, oh the times). I then proceeded to download tons of translated doujins. |
No. 1496
Saw the Mcroll. Found that the song was called U. N. Owen was her, googled it. Found it was from something called "Touhou Project", googled that, and found this site. |
No. 1497
I came across a thread during one of my infrequent visits to /jp/ of Tenshi getting tortured, and thought it was hot. Found out she's from a shoot-em-up game series, and thought, "Hey, the music's not half bad, and the games can't be too terrible. If I can clear Gradius III I can probably beat this." Developed a frame of reference for posting on /jp/, and stuck around because it was less terrible than /co/. |
No. 1501
Those poorly-drawn TOUHOU HIJACK images on /a/ did it for me. But at the time my only option for actually playing the games was through VPC on my centuries-old Mac G4. So I started with PC-98 thanks to VPC's dismal video memory support. So yeah. Lotus Land Story has been my favorite ever since, even after I bought a proper PC. |
No. 1514
File 125223020430.jpg - (341.92KB , 600x600 , 1238115565414.jpg ) [iqdb] ![]() I played an untranslated PCB demo about, 3 to 4 years ago when it was included with some free shumps on a demo/preview disc from a gaming magazine I used to read. I couldn't afford new games so I played a lot of stuff like that, Touhou (which I didn't know was the name at the time) was my favorite out of a batch of 5 games. It was the music really, a few years later just before the formation of /jp/ I heard the PCB soundtrack somewhere and did a little research which lead me here in the end. |
No. 1516
I... I have no idea, I can't remember how I found out about touhou anymore. It's just been there forever. |
No. 1518
I think my first experience with Touhou was WHY WHY WHY WHY DON'T I MISS YOU A LOT FOREVER. After that, after that, I watched a few vids of playthroughs, but didn't have much interest at that point. |
No. 1519
How I discovered Touhou... Well, when I was checking one of my nintendo news sites, gonintendo, I stumbled across a promotional video for Etrian Odyssey. It was the "FOE" video by IOSYS and it was so catchy that I had to check out their website and see what else they had done. Lo and behold I find the "Marisa Stole the Precious Thing" video and found the characters cute and interesting, so I looked more into it. I eventually found threads about it on /jp/, then the board on poosh, and finally ended up here somehow. |
No. 1521
>>1519 |
No. 1523
I saw a video of someone playing IN in a shumups thread way back around 04-05. I tried to figure out what it was and get a copy, but didn't have any luck. Years later I recognized a screenshot someone posted in /a/ and went on from there. |
No. 1526
IOSYS boom in 2007 on /a/ got me. Read an endless amount of doujins on the wiki and spent some time on poosh till the attention whore tripfags and the loss of over 100 pages of image threads pissed me off enough to give it up. |
No. 1529
I think someone posted screencaps of IN on /b/ (I think) like a year and a half before anyone knew what Touhou was, and then I played it, got my ass kicked, then I fell in love with it. |
No. 1560
For a while, I knew that there was some kind of franchise/fiction/internet phenomenon called 'Touhou' out there, but I didn't really care. |
No. 1564
>>1560 |
No. 1566
I discovered my first Touhou character when I downloaded a Mugen character called "Marisa Kirisame from Immaterial and Missing Power". I looked up the game and discovered it was part of a series called "Touhou Project". Back then I just assumed that it was a series of fighting games. |
No. 1568
First saw it on one of Dom's post blog pictures back when I used to read Megatokyo(the one with Yukari's 2nd-to-last card). Unknowingly, I only downloaded the PCB demo and thought Alice was the final boss for a while(sure seemed like it). Then I downloaded Imperishable Night. |
No. 1576
Became interested in Touhou after a friend of mine let me play IAMP on his laptop (it was two years ago, if my memory doesn't fail me). Then he recommended that I played PCB for the actual Touhou experience and since then I became hooked. |
No. 1577
A few net friends were always discussing about Touhou back in early '08, which got me interested but not to the level of searching it out. Then one of them posted a full-cast image at the time and a link to the wiki, which I clicked. Read some stuff up, google around a bit more, and the rest is history. |
No. 1579
>>1577 |
No. 1691
I discovered touhou through the fact that someone had given me a PC engine emulator and Rondo of Blood. Found the PC-98 games while searching for roms, back in like, 2001. Found EoSD by searching for information on the first 5 games. The rest came after that. |
No. 1723
Several years ago, I was playing a lot of Ragnarok online (you may taunt me for this now). Like Touhou, that game also had a pretty large amount of fan art and comics, so I had become accustomed to finding an artist's site (nearly always in moon), downloading every image, and then finding a link to another artist. |
No. 1728
>>1723 |
No. 1731
>>1728 |
No. 1770
File 125321968622.jpg - (86.11KB , 607x600 , 607px-Th07cover.jpg ) [iqdb] ![]() At the time, I was browsing mostly /b/ only to find out pictures of Cirno fucking everywhere. I wondered from where it was and my answer was Gensokyo. |
No. 1773
I really got into it recently, starting with the Yukkuri, though previously I had played shoot the bullet and seen some Flandre fanart. |
No. 1802
>>1773 |
No. 1803
>>1802 |
No. 1812
>>1773 |
No. 1813
>>1812 |
No. 1814
>>1813 |
No. 1816
File 12538265561.jpg - (170.80KB , 768x1024 , INcab2.jpg ) [iqdb] ![]() >>1813 |
No. 1817
>>1816 |
No. 1818
>>1816 |
No. 1826
>>1818 |
No. 1827
>>1826 |
No. 1830
>>1827 |