Author Topic: Touhou is NOT an anime!  (Read 95376 times)

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #60 on: July 11, 2009, 07:30:13 AM »
I dunno, getting mad at someone for that is like getting mad at someone who has never taken a geometry class and pronounces sine (usually shortened as "sin" on a calculator) as sin. It's an honest mistake, and I don't think getting mad at them is justified. Well, unless they actually are trolling, in which case they're just waiting for someone to get mad, so yeah.

tl;dr version. Sorta...

Anyways, instead of making a video about what Touhou is not, wouldn't it be more effective to make a video what it is? I dunno, just saying.

Also yeah, the "El" in the Spanish translation isn't suppose to be there. It's essentially saying "The Touhou is not an anime."
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #61 on: July 11, 2009, 07:39:35 AM »
There exists a video explaining what Touhou is, but just in Japanese.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27BY4DKz-zw

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #62 on: July 11, 2009, 09:53:34 AM »
BTW...
After calming down, I now realized how stupid (most of the) people on Youtube are and stopped bitching around. So, if anybody's gonna do it, it's not me anymore.

Nah, this thread has nothing to do with your idea anymore. Rather it's a random bored translation thread
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #63 on: July 11, 2009, 11:19:18 AM »
If they ask what Anime Touhou is, just say "Bleach" or something
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #64 on: July 11, 2009, 01:42:06 PM »
If they ask what Anime Touhou is, just say "Bleach" or something

If everybody in the fandom started using a preset answer like this, maybe we could get on to something.

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #65 on: July 11, 2009, 01:48:09 PM »
If they ask what Anime Touhou is, just say "Bleach" or something

No Naruto for the vast amounts of Narutards out there.

Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #66 on: July 11, 2009, 02:19:26 PM »
Touhou is cartoons

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #67 on: July 11, 2009, 02:22:20 PM »
Touhou is dying, dying, surviving a little, and dying some more.
 
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #68 on: July 11, 2009, 03:02:06 PM »
When are the new eps of Touhou getting subed? I want to see if Ichirin's sisteris really the big bad.
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #69 on: July 11, 2009, 03:03:44 PM »
TOUHOU IS...

...ACTION

...SEXY GIRLS

...STRAIGHT FROM JAPAN

...NOT KIDS' STUFF

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #70 on: July 11, 2009, 06:56:21 PM »
If they ask what Anime Touhou is, just say "Bleach" or something

No Naruto for the vast amounts of Narutards out there.

This is thread win. Should have thought of that.

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #71 on: July 11, 2009, 10:30:28 PM »
Touhou is an obscure late-1970s anime featuring giant flying space robots battling for supremacy of the galaxy. It was the first anime to feature a soundtrack by Western bands, among them Billy Squire, Foreigner and Cheap Trick.

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #72 on: July 11, 2009, 11:17:23 PM »
If they ask what Anime Touhou is, just say "Bleach" or something

Close enough.



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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #73 on: July 11, 2009, 11:38:43 PM »
Side Story did the Shirou thing on purpose, though.

Or it was just the subbers.

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #74 on: July 11, 2009, 11:44:39 PM »
French: Touhou n'est pas un anime! Alors ALLEZ VOUS FAIRE FOUTRE

(Touhou is not an anime! So GO FUCK YOURSELVES)

Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #75 on: July 12, 2009, 12:29:16 AM »
German: Touhou ist kein Gott verdammter Anime! Animes sind dumm!

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #76 on: July 12, 2009, 01:03:15 AM »
Al Bhed: Touhou ec HUD yh yhesa!

...Hey, it might come in handy.  Who knows?
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #77 on: July 12, 2009, 02:16:02 AM »
I dunno, getting mad at someone for that is like getting mad at someone who has never taken a geometry class and pronounces sine (usually shortened as "sin" on a calculator) as sin. It's an honest mistake, and I don't think getting mad at them is justified. Well, unless they actually are trolling, in which case they're just waiting for someone to get mad, so yeah.

tl;dr version. Sorta...

Anyways, instead of making a video about what Touhou is not, wouldn't it be more effective to make a video what it is? I dunno, just saying.

Also yeah, the "El" in the Spanish translation isn't suppose to be there. It's essentially saying "The Touhou is not an anime."

Agreed 100% (the third comment in that screencap is mine). Sure, some of the people asking might just be trolls, but there are bound to be far more people who simply do not know (since it can be very hard to tell that Touhou if your only exposure to it is through youtube videos).  Giving them a calm, straight answer is the best course of action, since it will both bore the trolls and inform people who may actually be interested in the games.

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #78 on: July 12, 2009, 03:08:14 AM »
Al Bhed: Touhou ec HUD yh yhesa!

...Hey, it might come in handy.  Who knows?

You win an internet.
 
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #79 on: July 12, 2009, 03:14:32 AM »
French: Touhou n'est pas un anime! Alors ALLEZ VOUS FAIRE FOUTRE

(Touhou is not an anime! So GO FUCK YOURSELVES)

DH, next time do an audio recording of that with you sexy french voice <3

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #80 on: July 12, 2009, 03:20:52 AM »
I love how I switched ppl to the translation deal. I used a crappy translator anyway, so I knew it would probably be wrong.

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #81 on: July 12, 2009, 05:29:59 AM »
One, don't assume that, bad. Two, Touhou IS an anime now, technically. Three, go on, Touhoes must be multilingual.
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #82 on: July 12, 2009, 09:07:19 AM »
German: Touhou ist kein Gott verdammter Anime! Animes sind dumm!
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #83 on: July 12, 2009, 03:25:29 PM »
U.N.Official was Anime?

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #84 on: July 12, 2009, 03:36:29 PM »
You guys will probably kill me for this....but I thought it was a anime when I first saw IOSYS's Oyome ni shinasai video
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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #85 on: July 12, 2009, 03:53:12 PM »
You guys will probably kill me for this....but I thought it was a anime when I first saw IOSYS's Oyome ni shinasai video

Same thing for me except it was when when I saw IOSYS's Overdrive video.

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #86 on: July 12, 2009, 04:52:33 PM »
Thing is that I didn't bother to find out what the flash was a parody of, so I just let it go.

It's when I saw Moogy's single image that he posted over at FFR that interested me

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #87 on: July 12, 2009, 06:39:45 PM »
I thought Touhou was a project of IOSYS cuz of OverDrive and MSTPT, then an anime after watching Artificial Children PV.

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #88 on: July 12, 2009, 06:56:36 PM »
I would have punched the whole lot of you in the face.

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Re: Touhou is NOT an anime!
« Reply #89 on: July 12, 2009, 07:17:26 PM »
Aww geeze, not to be rude but don't you think such a video would be a bit obnoxiously inconsiderate? I mean the first Touhou exposure is usually as a result of randomly bumping into the related fan works, as either a direct or indirect result of the fandom of something else. It's not like Touhou is famous to the point where you'd have to live on Mars to avoid it. In fact, I'd say it's really just a cult classic at best.

The conclusion that it might be from an anime isn't even that far fetched either, considering that the overwhelming majority of its fanworks are anime styled, suggesting such an origin source.  To be completely fair, most people find out about something like this from a more informative sources, such as advertisements, informative articles or through friends for a few examples. Pictures and fan animations don't really inform one of much and the doujin manga could be misleading. Even I.a.M.P. and S.W.R.'s sprites follow the stylistic enough to imagine there might be an underlying source that isn't a game. Consider Melty Blood's own origins with the visual novel Tsukihime and the considerable number of custom made MUGEN characters for a moment.

By asking the question they're already admitting they don't know where its from and would like to enlighten themselves as to the origin. The annoyed shouting out of what Touhou isn't doesn't help them find out what it is in the least. Politely answering the question asked by saying something like "X is from the Touhou series of games." on the other hand does both. I agree with some of the others; the mistake is completely one-hundred percent understandable. This is why I think what basically amounts to a blatant "You are wrong!" video would be rude. In fact I think it would make the whole Touhou fan community, worldwide, look like a bunch of jerks to be quite frank.

Oh, by the way, before you even think it; no, I never asked the question as phrased. I mostly lurked around places and learned about it through osmosis, though I do recall a friend of mine telling details me about the games themselves ages ago. It was so far into the past that the details are kinda sketchy for me.
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