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Love this album and its sequel.

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I think it was around 2011 or so when I found Touhou arranges after going down a Vocaloid rabbit hole on Youtube or some other similar place. Vocaloid instrumentals were solid and that's what I stuck around for but I couldn't help but think it would be vastly improved by just having regular vocalists and Touhou arranges were just that, at least to me. I was especially interested in metal with clean female vocals and the arrange scene had that in spades. The album pictured and its sequel blew me away and they are still two of my favorite albums, Touhou arrange or not, to this day. I also greatly enjoyed the Alstroemeria and Shibayan stuff that was around at that time too. Special mention for Sally too. This one I found a year or so later but I loved the hell out of that circle while it was still around. I know it technically still exists as Touhou Jihen which is great too, but I digress.

After a bit of that I got curious about the source material that the music came from so I downloaded the games and played them a bit too. It was fun hearing all those familiar melodies in their original contexts. I got into characters themselves and the associated media last. I don't actually remember how on this one. It was interesting seeing how much fan interpretations of a character could vary through the art but that was the beauty of having a fairly vague setting that had very few of its characters fleshed out, at least at the time.

As for my opinion on the overall time I spent with this throughout the years, I'd say I had a great time with it.