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How did you get into Touhou?
Kurzov:
Touhou Mother. Simple as that.
Tengukami:
Ten years ago, I was really into Rozen Maiden, and regularly hung out on Desuchan. There, somebody posted a Rozen Maiden-themed version of Marisa Stole the Precious Thing and I was like "whoah what band is this". So I googled around and found IOSYS, and that all of their songs were credited to some ZUN person. Finding out who ZUN was led me to Touhou Project, and so I got my hands on the latest full version in the series, which happened to be Mountain of Faith. It was all downhill from there.
redCircuit:
I officially got into Touhou after playing the games since I'm a fan of bullet hell games. But my first introduction to Touhou was listening to Doujin music by KINZOK ON back in 2013. Around 2015-2016, I hanged around /jp/ sporadically.
However, I did watch some popular Touhou videos around 2008 and 2009 but I didn't paid attention to it.
the old guy:
Saw some meme videos of it back in 2008/9 (Mostly Mcroll'd and unfunny stuff like that.) Knew what it was but never actually bothered trying to learn more about it until, like, 2012-ish? I read about the Lore through its Tvtropes page if your wondering, because i was bored and i wanted to learn what that one Shoot Them Up game that is really popular was all about. It was a very weird experience.
For some odd reason i thought Reimu was named Alice at first, probably because of unfunny Tsundere Alice memes.
Also Chen was my Fav (Blame "HONK HONK" memes) at first, with Ran as no. 2 (I didn't even know who Yukari was at first). Nowadays i hate 90% of fan works involving Chen because of the unfunny memes, and i think Touhou is one of the greatest examples of Sturgeon's Law in a fandom!
Honestly, i hate how most of the fandom continues to ignore how despite being cute girls, most of the characters are actually horrible monsters who eat people in their spare time. But thats for a different thread.
pat9231:
I learned about Touhou back in middle school (this was around 2008-9 ish - yes, I know, same time period) via a classmate who was, pretty much, the class otaku. I never completely got into it at the time though - I felt the huge cast of characters to be kinda off-putting at the time. So for the next four to five years, I did know about Touhou but I never really got into it. So when I went to art college (where one of my classmates was also a Touhou fan), I wasn't still particularly interested in it. All that changed thanks to MMD videos made by the likes of Carbon-shi (like this one). That got me checking the games, and also made me try making videos of my own.
Speaking of which, the first Touhou game I ever played was the trial version of PoFV, which gave me the wrong impression about the games. (I really suck at computer games; seriously, Mountain of Faith is the only one I ever barely completed. Seriously, I remember hating Kagerou for a while because I couldn't get past through her. We're cool now though.)