How did you discover Touhou and what was your experience?

[draganuv15]

I think I've said it before but I was watching a Pink Bean run on Maplestory and the maker of the video happened to use Iron Attack music (I think the tracks were from DEAD HEAT REFRAIN) in it so that's how I discovered the series. Through a Maplestory video that had a Heavy Metal remix of Sakuya's theme in it.

[Neovereign]

Saw a few Touhou related stuff with the cast of EOSD and weird things like Geddan I didn't know of back then, but only actually started searching and getting interested with it after watching The Night of Nights video with Reimu and her donation box.
After re-watching It and knowing more Touhou, I finally know who she was fighting and that the box was filled with donations, not confetti  :derp:
This also made me get stuck on thinking "Yukkuris" weren't horrible since it looked nice and harmless in the video  :V

[SirSlarty]

I forget exactly how I got into Touhou but it was pretty much gradual, Internet osmosis.

[Azure_Equinox]

I listened to Eurobeat's Flowering Night Remix when I was playing osu! and found it pretty cool, so I researched on this touhou stuff and [REDACTED], and enjoyed it. I pretty much loved the canon, especially Sakuya's story based on Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, and fell in love with touhou in general.

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[Choco Beam]

I don't remember it clearly, but I played a lot of fighting games back then and played a lot of arcade and pc games such as tekken, mvc, mugen, melty blood etc. EFZ is one of those games and played it for a long time. When learning more about the developer, I discovered their other game, IaMP, which is actually my first touhou game.  I also played it a for a long time. I eventually found out about the main games. EoSD is the first main game i played. I got a 1cc normal and extra clear before I stopped playing it because I didn't like it as much. I also played PCB and IN during that time but I don't remember achieving anything on those games. I stumbled upon this website and Moozooh was hosting a tournament at that time. I decided to participate in it, did some EoSD scoring, enjoyed it and the rest was history.

Nowadays, I don't play fighting games anymore and the only touhou/shmup game I play is IN (which I just started playing again late 2014 after a year of hiatus).

[Mesarthim]

Every other MMO I played always seemed to have a Touhou guild (which inevitably dies off later, they always do in them), and various youtube videos, I ended up taking the plunge and trying out Touhou myself despite not being a large fan of the bullet hell genre.

Now I seem to have been absorbed into the collective. I'm a sucker for the theme and style of Touhou + the music.

[Savory]

It was way back when Super Marisa World had become popular. I was able to play a copy for myself and began to grow curious about the characters that were in it. That led me to the Touhou Wiki, and eventually I become familiar with a good handful of them and even garnered a liking to them. Also, browsing through Youtube at the time led me to videos of Imperishable Night and MUGEN vids of Suika Ibuki.

[ErrortheCucco]

I had initially heard about the series some time in 2010 after I discovered the various MAD/YTPMVs attributed to Flandre's theme, "U.N. Owen was Her?" It wasn't too long after researching about EoSD (and Touhou in general) that I decided to try it out for myself. I must have lost interest with it rather quickly, as I don't recall playing much of it back then. However, fast-forward to a few weeks ago, a friend of mine showed me a video demonstrating the processing capabilities of the Sega Genesis with the "Bad Apple!!" MV. I had immediately recognized some of the Touhou characters portrayed in the video, though my friend didn't have any clue about the source material. Shortly thereafter, I began another playthrough of EoSD with the tenacity to clear all of the stages this time. It took several days of practice on Normal, but I managed to defeat Remilia and receive the bad ending with Reimu! I am now attempting to do a 1CC on Normal with Reimu-A before moving on to PCB. It's sufficient to say that I am hooked. XD

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[anthonyshu01]

I was stalking my friend on Facebook and looking at all of his liked pages and one of them was touhou project...

[Sesquipedal]

I seen this video somewhere around the summer of 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16KpquGsIc and I thought it sounded cool. I had played shmups prior to Touhou though (games like Air Duel, Arbalester, etc.) so when I first installed PCB it was incredibly easy, so it put me off Touhou for a while.
In 2010 I revisited the series and played EoSD and although it wasn't much more difficult, I found it a lot more fun than I had previously found PCB. From there I got interested in the fandom, and it just grew from there. I kind of wish I didn't play all those shmups before Touhou because the games on <Lunatic are way too easy.

[KazuyaTheSummoner]

I initially found out about Touhou through "A Summer Day's Dream" (In 2008/2009). I watched the first episode and since I didn't know anything about Touhou Project, I got confused and stopped watching it about halfway through.

My next encounter with the series happened quite a few years later, when I was in college. One of my friends told me about the lore, characters, etc, and showed me various fan remixes and crossover fanart to pique my curiosity. Eventually, he showed me the first episode of Fantasy Kaleidoscope which ended up solidifying my intrigue in Touhou. Now, having played a sizable portion of the games, here I am.

[Ozzter]

I discovered Touhou through two Youtubers I watch, Raocow and Nakateleeli to be exact. Raocow had done a Super Marisa World let's play, and it looked interesting. Then, I found out how often Touhou themes and settings are used in the various romhacks. However, only the EoSD cast get real representation in those, which is a shame. Nakateleeli on the other hand let's plays alot of various Touhou doujin games. I'd say my favorite one that he did was his Touhou Mother let's play, and how he actually put the time to give character bios for every character when they appeared, though I believe this was only up through SA. I hadn't actually tried a Touhou game until last year, but when I did, I fully regret not trying them when I first heard about Touhou in the first place, as it's now one of my favorite things to play in my free time!

[Yukarin]

I found out about Touhou when I stumbled upon this one doujin of Reimu getting it on. At first I didn't know who the character was on what I was reading so after some research I discovered the Touhou wiki.

Then afterwards I watched Kefit's IN stage 4 Powerful practice video then I was so mesmerized with what was going on in the screen.

The rest is history, I guess.

[Mr. Hlaaluington]

I'd hate to admit it, but I found Touhou through a video called McRoll'd back in 2009. After some searching, I found "U.N. Owen was Her?" and was hooked. I decided to make touhou remixes in 2010 which got me into making music. Then in July 2012, I went on a large shopping spree and obtained Touhou 1-13. I had a bit of beginner's luck back then and 1cc'd Touhou 7, 3, and 9 on easy. The only games I've 1cc'd on Normal were Touhou 2, 3, 6 (did this one yesterday), and 9.

[King L]

I discover touhou with the help of Night of Nights and the Black MIDIs. I love to play piano and I wanted to know what is the hardest piano song, so I search on YouTube and I discover Black MIDIs. I see some songs from Touhou and I liked a lot Night of Nights, so I search the original song on YouTube and discover the theme was a remix of Sakuya Izayoi from touhou and that's how I became a touhou player.

[Reiko]

I think I was browsing TVTropes, landed on the shmups page, watched a few gameplay videos (silly things like Cave TLBs), found the genre pretty cool and went for Touhou because I didn't know arcade emulation even existed.
Fun times. I've kept some of my very first replays ; it's both painful and hilarious to watch now.

[zemoo]

In another forum I frequent some members were spamming the random picture thread with Touhou pics, so they decided to make a Touhou thread where they explained that it was a game series known for it's difficulty. They were all secondaries, so they couldn't help me with gameplay, but it piqued my interest. I was at the same time a member at Score Hero, a Guitar Hero community, where I thought I might be able to find help from other competitive-minded gamers. Indeed there was a thread dedicated to Touhou, made by MajorGeek42 and BJW who wrote some pretty helpful introductory primers. I've stuck with it ever since and now I play most of the games on Lunatic, and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon, so I'd say it's been a good ride.