Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Hakurei Shrine~ => Touhou Addict Recovery Center => Topic started by: beaver1231 on November 15, 2009, 07:28:22 AM
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Not just Japan, I mean the entire world.
Found it in a Safebooru website:
(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/1388/a9bb8b616155c7ab8d22c31.png)
Translation:
http://safebooru.donmai.us/post/show/298972/chart-diagram-gundam-hatsune_miku-higurashi_no_nak (http://safebooru.donmai.us/post/show/298972/chart-diagram-gundam-hatsune_miku-higurashi_no_nak)
Mentioned source from Safebooru site:
http://infinite.xrea.jp/etc/teiten_graph0805.png (http://infinite.xrea.jp/etc/teiten_graph0805.png)
Incidentally, has anyone tried introducing Touhou to someone else? Or know exactly how popular Touhou is in your country?
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The chart shows the number of fanart posted on the boorus. it might mean a lot but i dunno. INteresting to note though. Touhou doesn't have much outside of the official material ZUN dishes out. so of course all else is all fan works eh? hehe.
Not that I'm complaining at all. but i wonder if that is the cause of the skewness of the chart. bah who knows. the arts all good and as long as it stays good. we're all good 8)
Introducing people to touhou huh. well i live on my college's campus and my roommates are all nerds like me. Of course they would take an interest eventually in my games. In fact they was making D@D characters while we watched Season 1 of "The Slayers" and i was working on Touhoumon data haha. For the past 3 years i've gotten my roommates into touhou, my current roommates play UNL with me from time to time ^_^ I have PS2 controller USB adapters to plug into the comps and we play the games on my laptop every weekend. since i've been playing it much longer i win most of the time but they are getting better. Only one of my friends actually tries to play the shooters and we play PoFV together sometimes. but we mostly play UNL. So dam fun ^_^
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Well I sorta "left" the Hungarian anime subculture, due to them being too "behind-the-times", so I dunno. At least I know, that Hungarian gaming culture is all about realism and better graphics (just like our great-culture), this is why the Wii and the DS are basically dying here. So I don't think many people play Touhou, or at least know about them.
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I'm not even sure if there is much of a commercial market for Touhou outside Japan or the Asiatic region. Out of curiosity, and after reading this post, I went onto Google trends to see what would pop up if I typed in "touhou". While it looks like Touhou is steadily growing more popular every year, searches for Touhou are popular predominantly in the the Asiatic region (especially Singapore, Thailand, and not surprisingly Japan).
I used the English version of Google Trends though and I'm not sure if there exists something similar that can search for Touhou trends across multiple search engines, languages or regions. Any thoughts or ideas?
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Woooow....
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As for introducing Touhou to friends, most of my friends have at least taken a peek at my Touhou videos. They don't seem to interested in trying it though. since they aren't really into 2D shooters much. (that i know of)
Maybe one of them plays it but just hasn't told me, i dunno
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My friends said they've played games just like it and it looked too easy (what? Space invaders?).
They're still not going to even try it on normal mode :V
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The gaming culture is pretty much dead here. Even the biggest Final Fantasy forum around here is dead.
Touhou around here? Hell, I might be the best touhou player in my country, if not the only one.
Arcades are pretty much nonexistant here and with almost everyone playing only stuff like CoD.....shmups are pretty much nonexistant just as arcades are thanks to the "better graphics=better game" thinking.
Searched Touhou on the biggest search sites around here.....results....NOTHING.
Mainly because "touhou" also means something else around here.
I don't have the balls to introduce anyone to touhou around here. I already am like an alien compared to others, the last thing I need to do is showing everyone that I play games with only little girls in them.
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The gaming culture is pretty much dead here. Even the biggest Final Fantasy forum around here is dead.
Touhou around here? Hell, I might be the best touhou player in my country, if not the only one.
Arcades are pretty much nonexistant here and with almost everyone playing only stuff like CoD.....shmups are pretty much nonexistant just as arcades are thanks to the "better graphics=better game" thinking.
Searched Touhou on the biggest search sites around here.....results....NOTHING.
Mainly because "touhou" also means something else around here.
I don't have the balls to introduce anyone to touhou around here. I already am like an alien compared to others, the last thing I need to do is showing everyone that I play games with only little girls in them.
Hello my lost twin brother/sister, where have you been?
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Hello my lost twin brother/sister, where have you been?
Two countries northwest from you :V
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I actually met a dude who plays touhou.
But then again, he's the only one and he lurks 4-chan so he knows EVERYTHING on the internets (am yet to mention something he doesn't recognise)
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My friends said `It looks like Space Invaders` And then they go play Space invaders. :l
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No one here has ever heard of it before. Occasionally, I play the games during class when we're not doing anything, and that's when people start huddling up right behind me to see what's going on. I get comments like "That looks really hard," "That makes my eyes hurt," and "What is that/how do you play?" but I have yet to find someone who already knows about it, sadly.
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Arcades are pretty much nonexistant here and with almost everyone playing only stuff like CoD.....shmups are pretty much nonexistant just as arcades are thanks to the "better graphics=better game" thinking.
This, to a lesser extent. I know no-one near me who likes shmups whatsoever. Any friends I've tried to introduce are pretty much uninterested.
Hell, I might be the best touhou player in my country.
...That's an interesting thought. Come to think of it, does anyone know of any other high level Touhou players from the UK? I've never heard of any, but it seems really unrealistic that there'd be no-one at a higher level of play than me in the country. :V
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All my sister likes about Touhou are the fighting games and Cirno's Perfect Math Class. Everybody else I know know nothing about it.
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@Sapz: FallenAngelVeronica. I'm pretty sure that she's from the UK.
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This account is closed.
:( What sort of stuff did she manage?
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Two weeks ago at my uni's anime club nigh I showed off Touhou during intermission and everyone shat bricks.
Then at last Friday's anime night I gave the game to a couple of people to play :V
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:( What sort of stuff did she manage?
Busy with RL.
Here's a really small list (http://replays.gensokyou.org/index.php?u=FallenAngelV&g=--&p=&t=--&d=--&ch=0).
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This, to a lesser extent. I know no-one near me who likes shmups whatsoever. Any friends I've tried to introduce are pretty much uninterested.
Same here, but replace "shmups" with "games".
One dude from my class is really good at CS(wins leagues and stuff), the remaining 4 play only CoD and stuff casually and the rest are girls which don't play anything.
...That's an interesting thought. Come to think of it, does anyone know of any other high level Touhou players from the UK? I've never heard of any, but it seems really unrealistic that there'd be no-one at a higher level of play than me in the country. :V
Yeah, but you are from UK...people there can atleast speak english, meaning that gaming is at a much higher level over there.
People over here get turned off by RPGs(and console gaming in general) because they don't have language patches.
It sucks, really.
People even fake their country to mine just so they can get awards for gaming videos on youtube. Yeah, gaming is THAT bad over here.
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The only people I know who know about or play Touhou, I introduced to the series. (Several months after I started, and it took a couple of them maybe one to get better than me by a long shot.)
SPREAD THE WORD
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER
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- VoWG Timeout
- SA Lunatic 1cc with 8 spare lives
- Perfect Yukari battle and scoring run at the same time
...FFFFFFF-
Looks like I'll be staying #2 for quite some time, then. :V
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I' m pretty sure I'm the only one around Limburg in the Netherlands who knows about Touhou.
Everybody I know is either playing FIFA or WoW.
I did show a few people my replays and reactions were pretty hilarious. :V
They all support me though and one even picked up the games himself. I've gotta ask how he's holding up tomorrow.
Touhou around here? Hell, I might be the best touhou player in my country, if not the only one.
Phar's Dutch, so I'm nowhere near the best in my country. :V
Maybe I' m the second best.
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African continent. Any challengers?
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I've shown Touhou to two friends up to now. One started playing itself, the other one only saw it one time but admitted that 'it looks addicting'.
As for Touhou culture in Germany, I'd say it's pretty much non-existant. Anime, Manga and (Japanese) Games are still considered childish here (though that's changing), so only people who browse the English community will stumble across Touhou sooner or later. There is a Touhou group on the German version of Facebook though, with a small number of members.
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American here. I shamelessly promote the game to my friends via messenger, in person or at work. I have a friend who doesn't play the game but digs the GSTs. I have another who'll watch me play but has little interest other than a like of who he calls "Rainbow Chi Girl" from the fighting games (Hong Meiling). An old room mate of mine knows of it, hasn't played it but links me to various flashes he finds that are Touhou related. He's known of the series longer via memes but I was the first and only one to actively play it.
I also take videos on my PSP to work to show coworkers when I am bored and talk about it. I don't know why people mention they're worried about talking to it with other people. The older I get the less I seem to worry what other's think about what I do, and just do it. They find it really REALLY weird when I put my music player in the kitchen area and they start hearing songs in French, Japanese, Russian, German, Spanish of metal, rock, chip-tune and VGM varieties. I'm the "weirdo" without shame where I live and I still make great friends and have a lot of respect at work. :)
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I don't really know anyone in real life that I talk to to find out if they know about Touhou ._.; I've told my friends about it when talking to them over AIM... Wait, that's three people, and I don't think any of them have ever played it <.<; I sometimes mention it a little on another site I go to, but no one ever commented to say they actually know what Touhou is...
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I found a person I know on my msn with Mokou from the bad apple pvas his dp,
but he doesn't know what it is yet.
I just talked to him, gave him the FuFuFu, and left.
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I' m pretty sure I'm the only one around Limburg in the Netherlands who knows about Touhou.
SO NANO KA?
Well I don't live in Limburg :V. Touhou fans are rare in Holland ( well I have seen alot of threads on dutch forums and such. ) They just don't visit the larger community forums I think.
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I' m pretty sure I'm the only one around Limburg in the Netherlands who knows about Touhou.
Everybody I know is either playing FIFA or WoW.
I did show a few people my replays and reactions were pretty hilarious. :V
They all support me though and one even picked up the games himself. I've gotta ask how he's holding up tomorrow.
Phar's Dutch, so I'm nowhere near the best in my country. :V
Maybe I' m the second best.
Hey jong, wie geit t mit dich?
My limburgs dialect is a bit bad, but I've lived here for 18 years, and the dude I mentioned aswell. So that's 3 persons in Limburg :-*
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Did you just called him a goat with a mixed german language ?! XD I lol'ed irl.
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Did you just called him a goat with a mixed german language ?! XD I lol'ed irl.
Haha, exactly. Geit = gaat, maar als je dialect uit schrijft ziet het er niet uit. And even if they don't admit it, limburgs is AT LEAST 50% german!
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There are many people here in my country who knows Touhou. Most of them just admiring the character and such, a few of them play UNL, and to much lesser, plays the STG version.
Btw, the largest gaming forum in my country puts Touhou in the Anime and Manga section. It really drives me nuts.
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Wait a minute, are that many germans in here?
Ich bin ?berrascht, to say the least...
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Haha, exactly. Geit = gaat, maar als je dialect uit schrijft ziet het er niet uit. And even if they don't admit it, limburgs is AT LEAST 50% german!
Hehe, I know. People living close to german border and luxemburg often have mixed language dialects so they trying to understand them is quite hard. Lucky for me I live in the middle of Holland so I cannot be blamed for having a Northern or Western dutch dialect :V
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I'm Canadian. BC, specifically - which means we're all on enough drugs and booze to consider Touhou a damn fun time 8D
We seem to have a small Touhou culture. It got a panel at a convention out in Vancouver recently, along with a few cosplayers.
Also I show a lot of people Touhou, but only a few still play the games... fewer still the non-fighters... but a lot of people got into the art/music fandom around it.
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Hey jong, wie geit t mit dich?
My limburgs dialect is a bit bad, but I've lived here for 18 years, and the dude I mentioned aswell. So that's 3 persons in Limburg :-*
Joh es geht wel goeie wa, alles chille pik? :V
Oh hey awesome, more people from the Netherlands.
And yeah, Limburgs basically IS German.
So that makes 5 out of 16 million people in Holland to know about Touhou. :V
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I'm Canadian. BC, specifically - which means we're all on enough drugs and booze to consider Touhou a damn fun time 8D
We seem to have a small Touhou culture. It got a panel at a convention out in Vancouver recently, along with a few cosplayers.
Also I show a lot of people Touhou, but only a few still play the games... fewer still the non-fighters... but a lot of people got into the art/music fandom around it.
I think you may be the only other people in Western Canada to have ever heard of Touhou. I'm here in Edmonton and nobody seems to have heard of it (then again, I've only mentioned it exactly once).
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winnipeg represent
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I'm Canadian. BC, specifically - which means we're all on enough drugs and booze to consider Touhou a damn fun time 8D
We seem to have a small Touhou culture. It got a panel at a convention out in Vancouver recently, along with a few cosplayers.
Also I show a lot of people Touhou, but only a few still play the games... fewer still the non-fighters... but a lot of people got into the art/music fandom around it.
You sound like someone i know...
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So that makes 5 out of 16 million people in Holland to know about Touhou. :V
You know there are far more dutchies on Motk than I imagined. You don't know but some of them also hang out in CPMC and Rika's section.
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That's cool Tinari, about being the "weirdo" (spontaneous would be more realistic).
Well, I don't really talk about anything unless someone asks before, but at least 2 of my friends are aware of Touhou, but simply don't play it because, well, more than 9000 bullets in the screen doesn't sound very nice for them.
In the end, it all goes down to playability... Most people aren't willing to play a game with thousands of bullets in the screen and only one hit per life.
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I have to admit I was kinda afraid to play the shooters at first so I started with the fighters,
moved on the STB, and then PoFV. Now I'm an easy modo failure with the normal games.
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Montreal represent.
I know a couple actual touhou fans, although one of them doesn't really count as he's a Japanese expat. Aside from that I've gotten a few people into the games and a few more interested in the fandom works.
EDIT: Oh, and apparently there were half a dozen touhou cosplayers at the local con, I'll have to look into organising a panel.
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oh haha
I've found some touhou players in my country
unfortunately the forum is locked to public and you need to send an SMS to confirm your registration
I don't even have a phone
gg internet
EDIT: Found some local MAME highscores, 2 people 1cc'd Dodonpachi with 39m.
Also found one touhou topic. Like 20 people shitting bricks at Normal(or even at the screenshots and claiming that they would rather eat their own balls :V)
That's all I've found. I'm moving to Netherlands. Or somewhere. Where touhou exists.
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I' m pretty sure I'm the only one around Limburg in the Netherlands who knows about Touhou.
The cool people live in Drenthe :V
But wow, there sure are many dutchies here~
I thought me, Helepolis and Casercan where the only ones!
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Wait a minute, are that many germans in here?
Ist das so~?
Who are all the others? I didn't see more in this thread.
on topic: Seems my friend is trying to spread Touhou around even more. I'm sure his girlfriend is going to try it soon and yesterday he played it at university right in the middle of a lecture.
One of the people watching said 'it looks like Space Invaders'... it doesn't! >:(
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I don't know of anyone from my graduating class that knows of Touhou at all. I've mentioned it to my sister once or twice when explaining certain memes (read: Sakuya Brando), though.
EDIT: Should probably mention my Texas locale.
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I'm Canadian. BC, specifically - which means we're all on enough drugs and booze to consider Touhou a damn fun time 8D
We seem to have a small Touhou culture. It got a panel at a convention out in Vancouver recently, along with a few cosplayers.
Also I show a lot of people Touhou, but only a few still play the games... fewer still the non-fighters... but a lot of people got into the art/music fandom around it.
Yeah, there seems to be a fairly large anime following here in Vancouver, so it wouldn't surprise me if there were quite a number of people into Touhou, or at the very least know about it. I've never seen anyone play or mention it in public, though.
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EDIT: Should probably mention my Texas locale.
Oh hey, someone else that lives in Texas.
Anyways, I told one of my friends to check Touhou out yesterday. I let him read the wikipedia entry on it (only because the Touhou wiki is blocked at our school) and he said he'd take a look at it. I'll have to find out whether or not he's interested in it later today.
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Hoo boy, chalk me up for the Dutch camp as well, though I'm not originally Dutch.
You Limburgey weirdoes. ;)
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'it looks like Space Invaders'... it doesn't! >:(
It's the probably the closest thing they know that looks like it. Not everyone can be huge video gaming nerds. Chill out.
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Hoo boy, chalk me up for the Dutch camp as well, though I'm not originally Dutch.
You Limburgey weirdoes. ;)
Wait what is this sudden invasion of Dutch people or dutch speaking people.
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Wait what is this sudden invasion of Dutch people or dutch speaking people.
I guess Holland is the new Japan, Touhou-wise?
I...I think I need to lie down after saying that.
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oh wow, what did I unleash? :V
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oh wow, what did I unleash? :V
Something good. Holland is not very far from here.
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I have tried to intorude it to my friends but they don't like this type of games^^
In my country Greece things like that aren't popular at all >.<
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One from America here, Minnesota to be presice. There are a couple fans, though most arent that interested. I did get a couple people insteristed with the fighter, but thats about it. And I think there was PC-98 with touhou at our con last year, I swear it looked like it at least.
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You sound like someone i know...
I may be! But, ah, you'd probably know me by my username alone if that was the case XD
I'm actually down in the southeastern corner-ish area (Around Grand Forks). If that's where you are, well... maybe we do know each other XD
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You're all lucky. I'm sat in the middle of a 2000-square-mile farmland. Barely anyone knows what anime is, nevertheless Touhou. It's a <1hour drive from the middle of Amish Territory.
About the graph: Holy. shit. I know it's just the uploads, but still.
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Soon we will have touhou-con in Limburg
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ohh i feel so weak right now, because of that i am the only Danish Touhou player on this forum... or am i?
ohh well if anyone form denmark sees this Quote this text.
edited : because i forgot to put Dnemark in text. dohh.
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I've tried to get my friends into touhou, but the usual response is "That's enough out of you today" ;_;
I do have one friend who really likes touhou, she plays IN and PCB all the time :3
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Most of my friends are aware of the series. I got 3 of them who are now addicted to the series, and two of them are actually members here (they just don't post much though =/).
And now my sister is starting to get into the series itself. I lent her 4 or 5 of the Touhou songs I had in my Ipod that she liked, and last I checked, they were the top 5 most played songs on her Ipod :V
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=touhou
I find it hilarious that Canada is on the top 10 countries.
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Soon we will have touhou-con in Limburg
Do you mind to tell where exactly?
None of my friends are interested in touhou at all, they call it "the little girls shoot at each other game".
Sometimes I can bring some of them to play a round IaMP or SWR with me but that's all.
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Anyone from Brooklyn here? Anyone? No? Didn't think so.
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=touhou&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=all&sort=0
I need to move to Orlando. I am like the only touhou fan in Ocala other than my brother.
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I'm Canadian. BC, specifically - which means we're all on enough drugs and booze to consider Touhou a damn fun time 8D
We seem to have a small Touhou culture. It got a panel at a convention out in Vancouver recently, along with a few cosplayers.
Also I show a lot of people Touhou, but only a few still play the games... fewer still the non-fighters... but a lot of people got into the art/music fandom around it.
Hey, cool. I was wondering if anyone on the forum lived near either of the Canadian coasts.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=touhou&ctab=0&geo=us&geor=all&date=all&sort=0
There are fans in Irvine? Where? I find it very hard to find anime fans in the LA basin, let alone Touhou fans.
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=touhou
I find it hilarious that Canada is on the top 10 countries.
Honestly, I am not surprised that Vancouver is one of the most weeaboo cities in North America.
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=touhou
I find it hilarious that Canada is on the top 10 countries.
Still nothing in Africa. Even when I localised the search to my province.
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Well I'm at Calgary m'self, and as far as I can tell, there are like.. 5 other people in the city that at least know of it.
I can only assume 2 are addicted because I saw Reimu and SHAMEIMARU at a convention.
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I remember MotK once had a Google Map thing going where forum members could just put a marker down indicating where they were from. Someone start that up again. :V
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http://www.google.com/trends?q=touhou
#7?
How ironic
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I remember MotK once had a Google Map thing going where forum members could just put a marker down indicating where they were from. Someone start that up again. :V
http://www.frappr.com/
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In France most anime-manga-videogames internet blogger people know Touhou but they have yet to show their PASSION IRL beside private circle and they are more interested by all the fans materials than the original games (mostly music, nico? and IaMP).
At the recent Chibi Japan Expo '09 there was one panel of people drawing Touhou fanart and a few cosplays.
There are some Touhou fan in the mmorpg community, since I seen a Patchouli wizard player in Rohan, a priest Reimu in EQ2 and a Sakuya rogue in Aion.
Someone asked me if the Eirin name was the Eiga Rinri Kanri Iinkai ;D
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We should set up a Touhou panel at AN10. I think we have enough people here who are into it.
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In France most anime-manga-videogames internet blogger people know Touhou but they have yet to show their PASSION IRL beside private circle and they are more interested by all the fans materials than the original games (mostly music, nico? and IaMP).
No, I prefer official games more than fanmade material, TSHH!
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man could be nice if i knew if any cons would come to denmark. (i pray for it)
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I'm the president of my university's Anime Club (I'm a loser), and I showed a video of Touhou on youtube before starting the meeting. Nearly half of the people there were asking where they could get it. I want to share the love to anyone and everyone who would be interested. :)
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I only know anime fans in my area. No Touhou fans though. Don't think anyone even knows about it :V
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About the graph: Holy. shit. I know it's just the uploads, but still.
That's just one source, and it's just to open up the topic. It'd be great if I had Sankaku and pixiv data as well. Or perhaps other sites will be fine too...
Back on topic, I guess Touhou is international now...
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Back on topic, I guess Touhou is international now...
Not, because we still don't put any effort to make doujins and stuff like the Japanese. Until they won't recognize us fully, we barely exist.
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How true. Even most the fanworks here are still based off them in the form of memes and such.
The only fanfic I know that manages to be completely different is Usually Dead's fanfics...
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That's just one source, and it's just to open up the topic. It'd be great if I had Sankaku and pixiv data as well. Or perhaps other sites will be fine too...
Back on topic, I guess Touhou is international now...
You can consider the following data:
Top five copyright tags on Danbooru
- touhou (93197)
- original (29965)
- vocaloid (16941)
- haruhi (12959)
- nanoha (11827)
Top five copyright tags on Pixiv (note touhou is also the single biggest tag)
- touhou (477415)
- original (428296)
- hetalia (151662)
- vocaloid (92727)
- idolmaster (45409)
Touhou has pretty much generated the most fanart of any series ever (can anyone name a counterexample? To be fair it should be no older than Touhou).
Another measure: the Touhou music wiki (http://www16.atwiki.jp/toho) has 2320 works recorded (http://www16.atwiki.jp/toho/list). There's a reason ZUN is artist #1 (http://vgmdb.net/artist/1) in the VGMDB.
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For a few months K-On! had an unbelievable number for its age. After only a month of being on the air I think the number of Danbooru posts reached around 1000, and pretty soon 2000. I almost thought it might catch up to Vocaloid, but then the rate of fanart leveled off.
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You can consider the following data:
Top five copyright tags on Danbooru
- touhou (93197)
- original (29965)
- vocaloid (16941)
- haruhi (12959)
- nanoha (11827)
Top five copyright tags on Pixiv (note touhou is also the single biggest tag)
- touhou (477415)
- original (428296)
- hetalia (151662)
- vocaloid (92727)
- idolmaster (45409)
Touhou has pretty much generated the most fanart of any series ever (can anyone name a counterexample? To be fair it should be no older than Touhou).
Another measure: the Touhou music wiki (http://www16.atwiki.jp/toho) has 2320 works recorded (http://www16.atwiki.jp/toho/list). There's a reason ZUN is artist #1 (http://vgmdb.net/artist/1) in the VGMDB.
Wow, that's...amazing. Deviantart perhaps? For a japanese site though I'd probably can't come up with a good one.
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I introduced a friend of mine into IaMP and PoFV, and he actually picked the games up with interest, but the whole fandom and character thing didn't quite kick in. I'm the only Touhou player that actually bothers with the normal games I know of in Austria. If I google it up in my country I only get a few links about IOSYS and SWR/Soku. Sigh.
That's not related to my country but what I encountered quite a few times was strict denial towards Touhou. Even some of the biggest japanophiles I've ever seen expressed their, what I'd almost call disgust, for it. I've been asked "What's the name of that girl I wanna look up more'" or '"Who's that girl in your avatar" strangely often only to get a 'Ugh nevermind.' response once I told them it's from Touhou. There seems to be something about that term that scares people off who don't even know what the hell it is.
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There seems to be something about that term that scares people off who don't even know what the hell it is.
This.
Because I was like that too, before looking it up. I dunno, but it seems Touhou has a really bad image on the intarwebz.
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This.
Because I was like that too, before looking it up. I dunno, but it seems Touhou has a really bad image on the intarwebz.
Touhou futa. That is all.
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This.
Because I was like that too, before looking it up. I dunno, but it seems Touhou has a really bad image on the intarwebz.
Touhou has a fairly poor image on the Internet among people who DO know what it is.
The reason, as simply as possible: TOUHOU HIJACK LOL
(although that at least gave rise to this (http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m303/ValetVisuals/Touhou/gtoua.jpg), which was worth a laugh)
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Touhou has a fairly poor image on the Internet among people who DO know what it is.
The reason, as simply as possible: TOUHOU HIJACK LOL
(although that at least gave rise to this (http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m303/ValetVisuals/Touhou/gtoua.jpg), which was worth a laugh)
I thought it was about the "Otaku & Weeaboo" issue.
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I live in Vancouver B.C. Canada and I've never heard or seen Touhou outside my own internet searches anywhere. Of course not being into anime and manga probably hurts my awareness of it.
Still though I have a few friends that are into that sorta thing and they were completely unaware of what Touhou was when I introduced em to it.
As for Vancouver being very "weeaboo" (I forget the spelling), I notice it has almost as many Japanese restaurants as starbucks locations. And a couple malls have one manga/anime shop. But that's about as far as I've seen on that subject.
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I live in Quebec City in Canada and I've only seen one person play touhou (IN) at work. I was really surprised, he told me one of his friends introduced him to the games. I told him tips and linked him to here and the wiki. Aside from that a few of my friends know about it but they didn't play it more than at my place. Other people might know about it since there is a lot of anime watchers/manga readers here but most are fan girls who love Sasuke or read only Clamp manga.
There is only one Japanese hobby shop in the entire city so I got a project of opening one when I have money. I would definitely have demos of touhou games running with some games to sell. It's probably never happening, but a guy can dream, haha.
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There isn't a single Anime/Manga/Japanese Import shop or anything along those lines here, so finding anything Touhou related here is a lost cause, unless I get really lucky and find something in a car boot sale (you can always hope i guess)
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We seem to have a small Touhou culture. It got a panel at a convention out in Vancouver recently, along with a few cosplayers.
I hope you liked the panel! :3 We'll be doing one at next Sakuracon in Seattle too, which is more in my own territory.
There's quite a few Touhou fans in the area, actually.
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Like I said, it would be great if we could get a Touhou panel at Anime North.
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I thought it was about the "Otaku & Weeaboo" issue.
Yeah, Touhou has a bad reputation on the Internet because of weeaboo's who think it's cool to like loli shit.
As for Vancouver being very "weeaboo" (I forget the spelling), I notice it has almost as many Japanese restaurants as starbucks locations. And a couple malls have one manga/anime shop. But that's about as far as I've seen on that subject.
One time while riding my bike out to Langley, I saw a Sushi Restaurant called "Ninja Sushi". I fucking kid you not.
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One time while riding my bike out to Langley, I saw a Sushi Restaurant called "Ninja Sushi". I fucking kid you not.
I'll have to check that out next time I'm in the area. :V
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There's a Ninja Sushi in Markham(Greater Toronto Area) too. =V
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There's a Ninja Sushi in Markham(Greater Toronto Area) too. =V
Zomg you live in Markham!? That's where I grew up. Kindergarten until the end of grade 3. still feels like that's where I'm from. *sniff* I forget my exact address but it was something "Fincham" avenue (spelling might be off slightly). Was just a block away from a school.
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Hmm... I should check it out sometime then.
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Well, i'm Danish which means i've only got 5 million people to compete with. I've gotten quite a few guys to play Touhou. First there is my little brother who is actually getting close to clearing IN Extra. Of course, with a lot of advice and support from my side.
Aside from that i've gotten three of my classmates to try them out. One of them couldn't manage a 1cc of IN Easy despite trying it out quite a bunch of times. Really weird he wouldn't succeed after the 2nd try or so... most people i know would.
The other one too found the games very difficult on Easy. Finally there is the third one who actually managed to clear EoSD Easy very quickly. Nice. He's the same dude who considers my own abilities absolutely inhuman. :V
Aside from those, i have gotten a few people at a danish gaming forum to try out the games. They actually liked them and i still think a few plays to this date.
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In any case i think its pretty safe to state myself as the best Touhou player in the nation.
Oh and here's some danish words for the lulz!
Det der med de flyvende tallerkener kan virkelig v?re irriterende.
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Aside from that i've gotten three of my classmates to try them out. One of them couldn't manage a 1cc of IN Easy despite trying it out quite a bunch of times. Really weird he wouldn't succeed after the 2nd try or so... most people i know would.
Truth: It took me three tries to beat IN Easy. It was my first real shmup (Kirby minibattles don't count). I didn't know anything about the Shift key and Keine overwhelmed me with the power of having more than fifteen bullets onscreen at once.
For what it was worth I still thought it was fun. Then I got better.
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I wouldn't really know if anyone around here plays touhou... I haven't even left my house in over a week...
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I live in Canada, so its hard to even mention it without everybody giving you a weird look and talking about CoD again, I mean, everybody hates STGs, I know a guy whos getting interested in the concept, he still hasn't seen any gameplay, just me explaining the basic concept. My bro likes it, he just doesn't get a chance to play it.
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I've never met anyone around here who knows about Touhou (to be honest it's not exactly like I've asked, so who knows?)
My friend knows I'm a Touhou addict, and though he doesn't show a lot of interest in actually playing the games, he digs some of the remixes. My other friend has seen me playing it during class and wants to try it sometime :V
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Oh look, a dead thread to bump
Well shit, we've got Canadians coming out the ass here. St. John's, Newfoundland, bitches.
Myself and two of my buddies are the only three people who I've ever seen mention Touhou, and neither of them play it, though one did try IN for a while. I bought Mushihimesama Futari for the other guy, and he loves it. We unleash two player Ultra mode all the time, and he's pretty good. I'll have him playing Touhou soon enough!
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:( What sort of stuff did she manage?
The stuff that you saw in the list Baity gave you, plus a lot of other stuff. She was the first Western player to time out VoWG and was pretty much tied with Kefit for position of "best Touhou player in the Western world." :V
Ignoring the gravedig, I'm in a bit of a unique situation. I'm American, but the private school I go to has a lot of international students. About a third of my school is from Asia, actually. I play Touhou all the time at my school, and when they see me playing, all the Asians instantly recognize it (or if they don't know it's Touhou exactly, they know that it's a STG). I know some of them play STGs, but I never get to see it because they never stop playing DotA. :(
For everyone else, no. I've shown some of my friends Touhou, and the general response is "...oh my god HOW DO YOU DO THAT" and the ever-popular "how come you're not dying?" But, only one of my friends has shown interest in actually playing the games, and she and another one of my friends love the arranges of the songs.
I bought Mushihimesama Futari
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF WHY DON'T I HAVE A 360 ;______________________;
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I found out that the guy who's sitting besides me during biology actually knows quite a bit about it. He didn't knew that Touhou was a video game series, but he's visiting Danbooru rather often and knows some of the characters and memes.
And I thought I was the only one in my town who has ever heard of Touhou :V
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Here on Brazil we got quite a weeaboo comunity, but I only know two guys who heard of Touhou. It's quite sad 'cause they don't even try to play it. So I'm the only on around who does it =/
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Lieve Shinki, zijn hier echt zoveel Nederlanders?! En ik maar denken dat ik een van de weinige ben die het in dit kikkerlandje echt kent.
Well, you can sign up another Dutchman :V I've shown Touhou to some friends, but they didn't show much interest.... A few of my friends thought the characters were interesting though, but one of them (who I've shown a bit more about it) thinks it is the scourge of the Earth. And he constantly keeps yelling that it's a sucky series 'because the characters are unrealistic' and 'it's unoriginal'. Alright, I can understand the first one (planet destroying little girls are pretty farfetched).....but the second? Unoriginal?! He calls it unoriginal because it 'only uses bullets all the time'. He completely ignores the patterns and the effort to make the mind boggingly paths and numbers of danmaku. No, instead he has the balls to call the creator 'lazy'.
I think a part of my brain died from the sheer rage that went through it. He's so obnoxious you can't get through to him at all.
He also immediatly connects Touhou with pedophilliac hentai, although the work itself contains none. That's what the fanbase does.
On the other side of the spectrum, a female friend of mine genuinely expresses interest in the games, and she even liked the doujin anime (though she's an anime nut to begin with though). She thinks the characters are cute too, instead of 'pedo bait' as my other friend so lovely puts it.
Other people outside of my friend group just saw it as your typical anime (they only glimpsed at the drawings I was making, they haven't seen any of the bullet hell). Oh yeah, and my brother, who has seen the gameplay, thinks it's a game for masochists. He may not be so far off.
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Okashii. I feel your pain. Same story in my town lately.
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On Topic:
3. The Touhou Fanbase has achieved levels of craziness that make other Fanbases look downright lazy
Stop and think about the Fanbase you hate the most. Star Trek? Kingdom Hearts? Twilight?
Now think about the crazy things you've ever seen them do. Room filling memorabilia collections. Conventions. Erotic Fanfiction. That kind of stuff...
Well, Touhou Fans have ALL of those, and more.
Some groups even release full albums of these, with production values that your cousins garage band could only dream of. Most are sold at conventions like Reitaisei, but some make it all the way to AMAZON...
Let's stop and think about all of this for a second. Can you name one game franchise that has inspired it's fans to produce entire albums of worth of remixes, set up entire conventions, and create countless comics and other merchandise?
You can't. You can't, because Touhou Fans are FUCKING INSANE. It is like a Cult. There is no other logical answer. While game publishers dole out millions in marketing budgets in the hope that it will help make their game the hit of the season, ONE JAPANESE GEEK has an army of dedicated fans who will spread the word for free...
Source: Touhou : Cracked.com (http://www.cracked.com/funny-1750-touhou/)
Was a link floating around in one of the topics on this board. :-\
If one is akin to disliking something popular because its popular, they should probably rethink their stance on Touhou. It's just that good. :V
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Well, you can sign up another Dutchman :V I've shown Touhou to some friends, but they didn't show much interest.... A few of my friends thought the characters were interesting though, but one of them (who I've shown a bit more about it) thinks it is the scourge of the Earth. And he constantly keeps yelling that it's a sucky series 'because the characters are unrealistic' and 'it's unoriginal'. Alright, I can understand the first one (planet destroying little girls are pretty farfetched).....but the second? Unoriginal?! He calls it unoriginal because it 'only uses bullets all the time'. He completely ignores the patterns and the effort to make the mind boggingly paths and numbers of danmaku. No, instead he has the balls to call the creator 'lazy'.
I think a part of my brain died from the sheer rage that went through it. He's so obnoxious you can't get through to him at all.
He also immediatly connects Touhou with pedophilliac hentai, although the work itself contains none. That's what the fanbase does.
touhou a masochist game?
I can see the connection but I really doubt it.
As for this friend of yours..
I don't know what to say...
planet destroying little girls are not so far-fetched...okay..you're right they are.
ZUN proves tht you can have a one-man team..sure he reuses bullet graphics constantly, but that's expected of any series.
As for it only uses bullets... I remember hearing that nintendo power magazine gave a bad review of Pokemon battle Revolution.
They said the game contained too much battling.
This example reminds me of this friend of yours.
pedophilic hentai!?!?!? Well japan is a land of people who make and like this kind of crap, so finding tht stuff isn't surprising...However every series has a undercity that likes that shit.
Then again my friend calls touhou the zerg because it assimilates everything into itself.
Including phoenix wright and Pokemon.
I still get him to play every once in a while and annoyingly he still beats me in UNL.
I need to practice more with suwako...that or switch characters
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Shawinigan, Quebec here.
No one yet. Guess I'm too far from the urban centres. It doesn't really make a difference anyway.
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I actually know quite a few people in my school who had been fans of Touhou before I was.
One of my friends says he knows a group of people at his church that're fans of Touhou.
I suppose my region has an unusually high concentration of Touhou fans, then? :-\
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Heh... Is it bad that I introduced almost every gamer on campus to Touhou? Is it worse that they've all beaten it before I have, and one has even attempted PCB's extra while I have yet to complete stage 6? :V
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To above: It is inevitable.
But how did you get all those people into touhou. It seems pretty difficult to convince people.
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One of my RL friends knows about Walfas, but I'm not sure if he has made the connection yet or is pursing it.
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Topic is still not dead? Amazing.
Heh... Is it bad that I introduced almost every gamer on campus to Touhou? Is it worse that they've all beaten it before I have, and one has even attempted PCB's extra while I have yet to complete stage 6? :V
Sir, I do not know how you did it, whether you are telling the truth, but man you got balls.
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Over here in Osaka it seems to be fairly prevalent. You can get almost anything Touhou at Denden Town which is sorta like Osaka's Akibara. Heck they have Tohou BB guns and drinks. Out of Denden Town I know a few clothing stores have things and I've seen a few plushy in random stores. Not so much Touhou in Victoria though, nor Vancouver but you could at least find products there.
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Over here in Osaka it seems to be fairly prevalent. You can get almost anything Touhou at Denden Town which is sorta like Osaka's Akibara. Heck they have Tohou BB guns and drinks. Out of Denden Town I know a few clothing stores have things and I've seen a few plushy in random stores. Not so much Touhou in Victoria though, nor Vancouver but you could at least find products there.
I want one of those in my are..how come taiwan doesn't have that kind of stuff?
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Topic is still not dead? Amazing.
Sir, I do not know how you did it, whether you are telling the truth, but man you got balls.
I suppose part of it was showing some "gamers" that my game featuring little girls as the main characters was so much harder than LOL HALO that got a lot of their attention, but the people that stuck around and played it were mostly Anime buffs and people who weren't afraid to try something different.
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My brother is into the fan stuff and my friend is all, "LOL IOSYS CIRNO DUUUUURRRPPP" but won't touch the games because they're "too hard".
Don't get me wrong, I love Cirno but sometimes it's annoying to listen to the guy.
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I haven't met anyone at my school who plays it. On of my friends who happens to visit 4chan a lot recognized the word Touhou when I told him I started playing it and he said he had heard U. N. Owen before, but other than that, nothing. This friend of mine isn't terribly interested in the games but he is very interested in the characters and story of the series. I also have another friend who tried to play the games after watching me but wasn't too great at them and hasn't had much time to practice. He is kind of interested in the characters and story though. On the other hand my best friend gets annoyed whenever I mention Touhou and seems to think it's weird. I do play the games in my computer classes though, and my classmates will sometimes watch me play. I even had the teacher of my Info Tech class walk up once and ask "Will all of those things kill you?"(referring to the bullets of course).
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My best friend knows exactly what Touhou is and he seems to be completely indifferent to it. Judging by his time in Japan, I think he has seen quite a lot of Touhou merchandise too. I guess knowing a lot about a certain subject doesn't really mean you need to like it.
I can ask anyone at my school about Touhou and the most they can bring up are the memes and videos on Youtube. Being obscure isn't a bad thing though.
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Well, guys, looks like Touhou Project isn't so unknown afterall in the Netherlands. Why? Because it actaully got referenced in the popular Dutch game magazine Power Unlimited.
Indeed, in the review of the new game Sin & Punishment 2 (which got a extremely high score by the way. Must have for Wii owners) the reviewer, a hard core Nintendo fan and retro gamer, referenced to many succesful SHMUP's to describe the various wonderful mechanics of the game. He referenced games like Radiant Silvergun, Gradius, Gunstar Heroes, Space Harrier, Star Fox, Ikaruga and many more. Then, at the very end of the review, he described the 'need to learn the ability to automatically be able to dodge the bullet storms in the right direction' as akin to Touhou Project.
And apparently, he has known the serie from day one, since the date he listed at Touhou Project was 1996, the year the very first Touhou came out. And ofcourse, in the first game, there weren't much actual heavy danmaku patterns. Those only arrived in full force in the later games. He must have followed the many other games and played them! My heart jumped with joy (and gave me a slight seizure) upon discovery that one of my favorite game reviewers is a Touhou fan.
I can imagine that many readers of the magazine would search up the referenced games on internet out of sparked interest. Perhaps this opens up to more people getting to know Touhou in the Netherlands! (And Ikaruga. And Radiant Silvergun. And many more)
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Well, guys, looks like Touhou Project isn't so unknown afterall in the Netherlands. Why? Because it actaully got referenced in the popular Dutch game magazine Power Unlimited.
Indeed, in the review of the new game Sin & Punishment 2 (which got a extremely high score by the way. Must have for Wii owners) the reviewer, a hard core Nintendo fan and retro gamer, referenced to many succesful SHMUP's to describe the various wonderful mechanics of the game. He referenced games like Radiant Silvergun, Gradius, Gunstar Heroes, Space Harrier, Star Fox, Ikaruga and many more. Then, at the very end of the review, he described the 'need to learn the ability to automatically be able to dodge the bullet storms in the right direction' as akin to Touhou Project.
And apparently, he has known the serie from day one, since the date he listed at Touhou Project was 1996, the year the very first Touhou came out. And ofcourse, in the first game, there weren't much actual heavy danmaku patterns. Those only arrived in full force in the later games. He must have followed the many other games and played them! My heart jumped with joy (and gave me a slight seizure) upon discovery that one of my favorite game reviewers is a Touhou fan.
I can imagine that many readers of the magazine would search up the referenced games on internet out of sparked interest. Perhaps this opens up to more people getting to know Touhou in the Netherlands! (And Ikaruga. And Radiant Silvergun. And many more)
Oh hey, that's pretty awesome. Makes me wish I was still subscribed to the magazine. :V
Let me guess, the reviewer was Jurjen?
Anyway, a friend of mine and myself had an interesting argument whether Touhou or World of Warcraft was more popular. What do you guys think?
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Oh hey, that's pretty awesome. Makes me wish I was still subscribed to the magazine. :V
Let me guess, the reviewer was Jurjen?
Anyway, a friend of mine and myself had an interesting argument whether Touhou or World of Warcraft was more popular. What do you guys think?
Indeed, Jurjen was the reviewer and made the reference. The review is in issue 194, with Dante's Inferno on the coverview. The reference to Touhou is in the last paragraph of the Sin & Punishment 2 review. Jurjen already was my favorite reviewer, but this made him just that more awesome. Maybe if the fighter games appeared on Wii Ware he'll review it? (Just speculation. There's a chance of 0.00000000003 % of that happening)
In Japan, Touhou is defiantly more popular, but I think in most other parts of the world (even most countries in Asia) are more known with WoW.
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Touhou's an endangered species in my area.
I did try to introduce my friends to it, but they weren't interested because the series didn't feature Master Chief...
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Touhou's an endangered species in my area.
I did try to introduce my friends to it, but they weren't interested because the series didn't feature Master Chief...
Same here :I
But my friends are total ditzs and don't care.
sobsob
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Now that you mention it, I don't think WoW has any kind of a presence in Japan at all. I really haven't seen any advertisements for it anyway.
So yeah, in the case of Japan, Touhou is more popular than WoW. Otherwise, no.
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I live in Finland and at first the only thing my friends knew about Touhou was the mcrolled video.I tried to convince everyone that it's a good game serie but everyone was like "omg stupid japanese anime shit".I started playing this in our school's computer room (or whatever it is called) and little by little people started to get interested. Nowadays I know about 10 people who regularly play Touhou.It's not much but hey,atleast it's a start.
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My brother is into the fan stuff and my friend is all, "LOL IOSYS CIRNO DUUUUURRRPPP" but won't touch the games because they're "too hard".
Don't get me wrong, I love Cirno but sometimes it's annoying to listen to the guy.
I watched as the western Touhou fandom grew as it happened. I was introduced to Touhou some time before it through a PCB demo and a friend with IaMP, so when Marisa Stole the Precious Thing came out, I knew what it was the day it was posted on /f/ on 4chan. Then, it got posted more and more, and eventually, discussion about Touhou showed up on /a/ and /v/ (this was before there was even a /jp/), asking "What anime is this from?". As discussion increased there, I noticed that it was getting bigger and bigger everywhere else. I even contributed to this by introducing other communities to it and by making that video of myself playing MSTPT on an ITG2 machine (which ended up on IOSYS's website, which was awesome). Eventually, a snowball effect happened, and now Touhou is what it is now.
Now, we have people IMing me, trying to explain their theories on the amulet in Rumia's hair and stories of Marisa's family. I hate Touhou.
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Obscure no longer? The popularity of Touhou from a couple years ago is drastically different than it's popularity now. My first exposure to Touhou was through a video of some guy playing Lotus Land Story.
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I watched as the western Touhou fandom grew as it happened. I was introduced to Touhou some time before it through a PCB demo and a friend with IaMP, so when Marisa Stole the Precious Thing came out, I knew what it was the day it was posted on /f/ on 4chan. Then, it got posted more and more, and eventually, discussion about Touhou showed up on /a/ and /v/ (this was before there was even a /jp/), asking "What anime is this from?". As discussion increased there, I noticed that it was getting bigger and bigger everywhere else. I even contributed to this by introducing other communities to it and by making that video of myself playing MSTPT on an ITG2 machine (which ended up on IOSYS's website, which was awesome). Eventually, a snowball effect happened, and now Touhou is what it is now.
Now, we have people IMing me, trying to explain their theories on the amulet in Rumia's hair and stories of Marisa's family. I hate Touhou.
Wow, I've never seen It's Popular, Now it Sucks (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitle6cd1cskka05i) in action before.
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Wow, I've never seen It's Popular, Now it Sucks (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitle6cd1cskka05i) in action before.
Erm... Halo? Naruto? Twilight? Bleach? Seriously?
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Erm... Halo? Naruto? Twilight? Bleach? Seriously?
Halo was always a generic FPS with decent storytelling.
Naruto was always a good ninja show with too much filler.
Twilight was always a bad book.
Those things were definitely not affected by their popularity.
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Halo was always a generic FPS with decent storytelling.
Naruto was always a good ninja show with too much filler.
Twilight was always a bad book.
Those things were definitely not affected by their popularity.
Ahhh, good point. But you're forgetting the part where it is "cool" to hate on all stuff popular these days, if not all.
Edit: Sorry, wrong topic.
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7th expansion, Type-moon...all had their It's Popular, Now it Sucks moment (I bet because of their animu versions and latest fate movie, it's so hype to say it suck when nobody outside japan has seen it...)
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When did Type-Moon have a too popular moment?
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isn't it sad, sacchin? ;_;
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I'll tell something that will blow your minds.
My 44 year old father who has worked night shift at Cryovac for 20 years
(after I was born he got the job so he could afford to take care of me)
loves Touhou.
Not that he's ever played it or ever will.
He likes Komachi. Especially when she's drawn with cleavage.
He likes the music. The song from the Kero Kyuu Destiny video for starters.
He watches the Touhou videos that I find.
We've even sat together and thought up ideas for AMVs.
It's been this way for about four years now.
My mother has no interest in any of it whatsoever.
Forget about people in this state knowing of or giving a shit about it.
I'll give you a hint. Atlanta is 200 miles west of here.
Guess where I live.
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Necromancy...
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You don't have to post in the damn thread as well. Just report it and move the fuck on.