/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Masturbating to a picture of Eirin before I knew who she was.

>>16034465
Same, but Reimu's 'pits instead.

Listening to a demetori necrofantasia remix around 2007, 2008.

Getting introduced to Sanae by a friend, and then researching more about her and the series. After that, playing UFO for the first time on a rainy spring day with SanaeB.

>>16034447
Browsing memes and I happened to encounter then reverse search for it.

>>16034447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXnA326Ag7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6OApJlHJnA

Downloading and playing PCB when it just came out.

>>16034524
That's sounds wonderfully comfy.
My first intro to Touhou was that Pixel Phantom doujin where Youmu puts the suppository into Reisen's pussy instead of her ass.

>>16034447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dxiTuPy9dQ

Probably Cirno memes on /b/ 6 or 7 years ago. https://youtu.be/EQVNQtVw2-I was the first thing I consciously connected with Touhou.

Getting a reimu avi done for me in some obscure forumb back in 2007. Man I still remember playing the first game out of curiosity and got so confused with the franchise cause of it.

>>16034447
lol touhou hijack

First exposure was probably the uniquely dressed girls who kept showing up while I was searching nik.bot.nu for wallpapers around seven years ago.

Feels like seven is a magic number around here.

I can't even remember. It was likely IOSYS on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKL4yS0OPO8
this one is what made me actually search and learn about it, but i am positive i had seen/heard traces of it in videos and chats

>>16034447
>What is your earliest Touhou memory?
People shitting up ye old /a/ with obnoxious Cirno "baka/9" memes back in 2005 (or 2006). When moot created /jp/ I was happy that /a/ would be free of Touhou. At the time, I kept arguing that Touhou did not belong on /a/ since it didn't have an official anime. Not only that, but certain namefags like AoRF used to do Touhou hijacks. 4chan didn't have captcha back then so anybody with a spam script could make an entire thread their bitch. The behavior of Touhou fans really left me with a bad first impression of the series.

Cirno finally grew on me, and I started to like Touhou. Also, I doubt I would have become a fan of Touhou if not for IOSYS' music videos. I miss old /a/. I even miss the namefags AoRF, Cirno, Anonymous of Gensokyo, Hong Meiling, Anon of Columbia, krade, and Zunbar. I wonder if those guys are still alive and I wonder if they still go to 4chan.

>>16034808
Never forget.

>>16034875
>2005 (or 2006)
Wait, I might be wrong about this. I'm not sure if Touhou was popular on /a/ back in 2005 or 2006. I know that when IOSYS came out with "marisa stole the precious thing" Touhou had a large bump in popularity in the west.

2007
I saw some nerd on /a/ asking about why ZUN didn't want a Touhou anime

My first memory was when I was reading about memes (back in 2006 or so) and coming across a video titled "Night of Nights". I listened to the song, liked it, and a few years later I found a Youtuber who does black MiDis of Touhou songs. I really took some affection to Bad Apple!!, and eventually Cirno's Perfect Math Class. Eventually, this summer, I decided to download Touhou games. I started off from HRtP (didn't browse /jp/, that came a few months later), got my arse kicked, and remembered that Touhou was a bullet hell game (which I had minimal experience playing before), so I wondered why I was playing something similar to Atari Breakout. I decided to play the other games (in order) from the PC-98 era, wondering when some characters would show up, and how. I was fucking stupid, as I got a Game Over on Stage 2 of SoEW, mainly because I didn't know what to do against the youkai that was advancing towards me, since I hugged the bottom of the screen. Heck, I couldn't even pass the second stage of SoEW Normal with continues, I didn't even reach the boss.
Then I play PoDD and am confused why there's a massive cast I can choose. I also didn't know how to play the vs. danmaku games, so I died at Stage 1.
LLS and MS are a blur to me. I remember choosing Marisa in TH04 (can't remember the names either), and reaching Stage 3. I was pumped from what I heard from the remixes, but was slightly disappointed.
In TH05 I remember picking Mima, and not reaching Alice. (I didn't have the fonts for the PC-98 games, so I had no grasp of the plot.)
I think I played EoSD for a while, and when I reached Cirno's battle, I remembered Perfect Math Class, and was surprised at the similarities.

Some time goes on, I don't know. I reach PoFV one way or another, and I thought they didn't have the PoDD controls. I was wrong. I'm pretty sure I picked Marisa, and I might've learned what focusing was, I'm not sure.
I beat the first five stages easily, not too hard, and then I reach Sakuya's stage. (Whether I reached her or not in EoSD, I can't remember.) I heard Flowering Night, and that might've been the thing that did it for me, or it might've been sooner.

All I know is, I started as a pleb, then slowly descended into the fray of the community.

>>16034447

Pretty sure it was finding this flash game on /f/ or newgrounds and playing it in school.

http://dagobah.net/flash/redmagic.swf

Those were good times.

IOSYS Alice

You aren't a TRUE fan of 2hu if you discovered 2hu from a derivative work such as IOSYS.

Guaranteed replies. Take the baito and prove me right you, secondary fan, you.

>>16035032
What's an "Eye-oh-ess-why-ess"?

/f/

It's funny that I have a box of doujinshi from 2003-2004 which outdates it by at least 3-4 years

Listening to a billion remixes while getting into trashy J-Core music.

>>16034968
that sure was a lot of words

>>16034447
This image.

Then Tsurupettan, then videos of the games, then playing PCB until I beat it on easy.

>>16035032
What if my first Touhou experience was fapping to fanart on paheal?

McRoll

>>16034645
Same for me, though I wouldn't know until a year or so later where the track was actually from.

>>16034447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSHmo04RlM4

this cool remix was what introduced me, and after wanting to hear more songs like it, I slowly began sinking into the dark, endless abyss of Touhou

LuizPrower playing IN, which I think is also what got me into the series. Pretty bad start, but at least it was the actual games.

ran into 2hu from a few clicks through suggestions on THE HARDEST VIDEO GAME BOSS EVER! video in all its potato glory. watched some strims and eventually started

Aside from McRoll, I would see people mention Touhou and post fanart on a forum I browsed in 2008. Misconstrued from what I saw, I dismissed it thinking it was fanservice driven magical girl nonsense until I bothered to try one of the games last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKkOmXNyWUc
I was browsing /a/ and /f/ in 2008-2009 and came across this, then some other touhou flash games. /a/ sent me to /jp/. Started playing the games some time afterwards.

Seeing a touhou picture like 4 years ago and for the first time recognizing it as touhou.
It was a picture of Flan if i remember correctly, not sure.
After that i started EoSD and got reked so hard i stopped.
Then i started again this year and i am beating the games and having a lot of fun.

t.newfag and proud

watching cirno's math class 4 months ago

I downloaded an Mokou mod for dota 2 (replacing phoenix). Long time passed since Valve banned dll mods and I found Touhou, and even then I passed some good time not remembering I had Mokou in my game.

My first crush in high school. I wasn't a weeb at this time, but she was. She introduced me to EOSD on the school library PCs, but I quickly forgot about it. Three years later, long after we parted away, I discovered Touhou again listening to a celtic arrange made by a French guy. I downloaded the first game of the list, and remembered about her. We met again thanks to Touhou, and now we're good friends.

8 years ago some IN song, picture of Reisen, and then playing IN.

>>16034447
Searching for MUGEN characters and always seeing 2hus from IaMP come up.

I remember hearing dBu remix of Eirin's theme in /a/ radio or something, which alone got me try the games and spend the next year or so getting good at shmups for the first time ever.

My biggest achievements were being able to 1cc all games on normal (hard in EoSD) and beating extra stages up until UFO.

Touhou is so generic there is no way you would remember your "first time" without already knowing what it was

McRoll

feels kind of bad since i cant stand flanders and I was disappointed she won the genso rondo vote, but meme power is basically why she got popular in the first place

A friend sending me Yuyuko's theme. Can't remember how long ago but I want to say about a year after PCB was released.
I looked up the series because I enjoyed the song so much.

Trying to find out where the song "Invisible Full Moon" came from in early 2006. It wasn't easy, as Touhou hadn't hit its western stride quite yet and youtube was still shitty.
I had first heard it in a korean StarCraft map.

Mistaking Touhou for lucky star.

>>16036287

if you don't remember it it's not your first memory

>>16036398

>>16034900
>maxresdefault.jpg

wth

Marisa stole the precious thing on osu is probably the first thing touhou i remember seeing, altho I didn't find out it was touhou until years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO7KUOX-Um8

>>16036078
Normalfag please. My first crush was Aya Shameimaru back when I was in middle school, after I saw a drawing of her on some anime site. Barring an ill-fated attempt at HRtP the first game I really got into and beat was PoFV, which I loved because it was easy and had Aya in it. Of corse when I tried the regular games they ripped me a new asshole.

Realistically my first memory was probably McRoll back in 2007, a few years before I started using image boards, but I didn't realize it had anything to do with Touhou until I played EoSD much later.

>>16034447
Ran Ran Ru

>>16036808
>Aya Shameimaru back when I was in middle school

4chan is 18+, friend

>>16034447
Like Megaman. Search for doujin games with the same gameplay. Found MegaMari.

At a later date.

Getting into Castlevania. Search for games similar to it. Found Koumajou Densetsu.

Start noticing that most doujin games have Touhou in it (though I didn't know of it then), so start doing research.

I never look back ever since.

>>16035032
>baito
Shouldn't it be BE-I-TO?

Watching the Bad Apple video last month, too bad my favorite TouHou Cirno (9) wasn't in it. Good times.

About four years ago, my cousin showed me and my siblings Kero (9) Destiny. None of us understood what any of it meant or who any of the characters were. Skip forward to last year when Youtube puts Lunatic Eyes ~ Invisible Full Moon. I play it and love it. I love the song to this day. I start listening to all of the music, until I finally decide to Google what Touhou is. After finding the wiki, I decide to try EoSD because it seems to be the most popular one with the most interesting characters (And because Sakuya's abilities reminded me of DIO). To this day, I have played and beaten all until MoF, with which I am still having trouble beating on normal mode.

A Livejournal from someone I knew on a forum. It was a Megaman forum called "Megaman Matrix" or something.

>>16034447
My friend was playing PCB and I wanted to try it out. I got to stage 3 my first try but it was on easy.

REISEN GOES TO SCHOOL BY BUS

>>16036970
PoFV came out almost twelve years ago now you know. There are adults who've spent over half their lives on this site.

>>16036808
>Plays PoFV because Aya
>Said nothing about the photo games
I don't think you're loyal enough to have Aya as a girlfriend...

>>16037029
>trouble with MoF
>beats all the other games
Mhmm. MoF is one of the easier games in the series.
Doubt aside, just use the MariB glitch.

I think my very first exposure to something touhou-related was Mystia's 'Deaf to all but the Song' on one of /f/'s list of music flashes about ten years ago. I had no idea what it was from, but later on McRoll exposed me to Touhou itself.
Those two songs are inseparable to me from their "origins" in my mind. Sorry, Flan, but my subconscious can't separate you from Ronald.

Started playing Touhou around 2015 after becoming jaded with modern gaming industry and especially normie culture, through the avoidance of which I discovered Touhou in the first place. I'm fully satisfied.

>>16037872
flan is basically Donarudo with reversed colors anyways

>>16035897
same

I have a friend who, after becoming obsessed with something, won't hesitate to tell others everything he knows about it. Basically I got into Touhou after months of "Every day until you like it"

>>16037872
W-why is Wendy bottomless?

>>16037850
Actually Shoot the Bullet was the only game with real danmaku I could beat for a while, but this is a thread about first experiences.

from /a/

by making TOUHOU FIVE-O

I Was in a computer class back in High School and one of the weird kids introduced me to EoSD.

>>16038141
A Better question.... Where the fuck is the Burger King?

I vaguely remember pictures of girls in frilly dresses floating around the internet before I started browsing 4chan (2006). That could just be generic frilly girls or faulty memory though. My first solid memory of Touhou is also the tsurupettan video. I remember that no one on /b/ seemed to recognize the characters as Touhou characters nor could they even agree on what the word tsurupettan meant

A friend was playing Mystical Chain on his laptop.
It looked sick so I asked about it, then researched that Touhou thing on my own later.
I basically got a pretty fresh start with no memes clouding my first impressions so I consider myself lucky.

>>16034465
Replace that with Alice Margatroid and that's how I learned.

This picture in particular. A younger me found it while searching Danbooru for pictures of butts.

I guess that makes me a secondary, but I got into the games and story later.

Seeing a IN extra stage run and wanting to find out more.

>>16034447
entry for one humorous wiki about touhou in spic around 2008-9

>>16034875
>Anonymous of Gensokyo
this tripfag are mostly in /vip/ now

>>16034447
Saw someone playing th10.5 at cram school. We immediately got to know each other and remain friends until now.

>>16034447
hearing in passing from a friend recently back from Japan, raving about the curtain fire shooting games, MSq being one of them, in around 2002, however it did not connect with me until I saw the fan art* relating to EOSD a couple of years later

*mainly that damm level two boss okay

playing with my penor to flan

>>16039767
A Basement dweller lusting after another basement dweller?

Neat.

>>16035897
Shit me to this was back in 08 and I watch a play through of IN extra,saying to myself that this looks insane.

>>16034447
The Alice roleplayer on /b/ in 2008. Anybody else remembers her? I ended up participating in her threads on a daily basis, too.

I actually first got into Touhou only a few months ago.

Although I remember reading about Touhou a few years back in the Guinness Book of World Records but soon forgot about it. I had a huge stick up my ass at that point. I am not sure what my problem was, but I denounced everything as unrealistic and could only enjoy the most dry of things. I read the entirety of the 1982 World Book Encyclopedia for "fun." The only video games I would play were stuff along the lines of Gary Grisby's War in the East, along with KSP and Minecraft (because autism). I was not taking it easy.

I actually only started coming to 4chan shortly after my 18th birthday. I went to /pol/ because of stuff like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_LwfcjtFUU.. There I encountered the Momiji spam and researched it. I followed a natural progression from there.

It may be surprising that I didn't encounter Touhou before then, but I really only used the internet for research and reddit (which is a testament to reddit's insular effect) before this summer. When I was first exposed to the internet in 7th grade, I used it mainly for stuff like looking up blueprints for World War One era battleships and airgun mechanisms. Now I mainly get into retarded arguments.

Anyways, ya'll should watch out; I heard that there might be some newfags on your board.

>>16040300
Good lord. So this is what a generation gap looks like on /jp/.

In 2007 one of my friends gave me a burned disc that included the shmups "Hellsinker" and "Perfect Cherry Blossom"
He was savvy with internet culture and thought it was incredibly cool that this "Touhou Project" thing had over 100 doujin comics uploaded to the internet already.
And then I discovered IaMP through him and it went from there.

>>16040321
Honestly, I feel like a bit lost. I am just now being exposed to two decades of internet culture which had been going on while I was unaware. I feel as if I am walking down abandoned halls, surrounded by the detritus of the night before.

>>16040300
>first board is /pol/ 2.0
this is getting increasingly more common

>>16040300
>I actually only started coming to 4chan shortly after my 18th birthday. I went to /pol/
>I went to /pol/
This legitimaly scares me.

>>16042086
He's still better than my little brother, he's 15 and he already starts acting like a retard from that board. Easy access to internet was a mistake.

Came for Ronald. Stayed for the music and waifus.

>>16034447
Finnish YTP style remixes of touhou back in mid to late 00's.

>>16042086
/pol/ is the biggest board on this site
what did you expect?

>>16037832

>>16034447
Watching some lewd pics on wallheaven or something like that

>>16040263
Yes, but I never paid much attention to it. I check /b/ a few times a year out of misguided nostalgia and boredom and I do believe I saw Alice avatarfagging in some form in November of 2012 (unix timestamp of this pic).

>>16042660
I think it's more that the place is the antithesis of /jp/ and leakage from there is extremely corrosive. That guy seems like a very rare exception, somehow, but /jp/ can only exist in this semi-alive state because of heavy moderation that keeps that new chanology out.

>>16043346
I remember last time I checked /b/ a few years ago there was a pretty nice loli drawfag (as in a guy that draws loli not a little girl artist). Too bad he didn't seem to post on the other boards

Reading Inaba of the Moon, Inaba of the earth in a spanish blogs in 2010
Since the manga is already pretty secondary i didn't searched forma touhou after that.
Months later I played a touhoumon hack and learned about the girls and the music.

>>16040300
So an anti Semitic white nationalist /pol/ meme video that was published in April of 2016 is what brought you here?

I don't even remember when /pol/ was created. And I guess I stopped being active on 4chan while /pol/ became popular. It looks like an extreme version of /b/.

>>16042660
>/pol/ is the biggest board on this site
Its post rate is bigger than /b/? I didn't think that was possible.

>>16043346
>I check /b/ a few times a year
Back in the old days on /jp/, a comment like that would get you a lot of "get the fuck out" responses. Then again, /jp/ seems to have changed a lot. With the exception of the idolfans, people used to hate 3D women on this board. But now I see that /jp/ has daily JAV threads. The old /jp/ would hate modern /jp/.

>>16042660
>/pol/ is the biggest board on this site
Fourth biggest, actually.

Sasuga Janny.

>>16043637
The JAV threads are a fucking tumor on this board and wholly unnecessary since they also have threads on /gif/, /hc/ and half the /t/ catalog. However janny wants them here and we can't do much else about it. But that doesn't mean the rest of the board enjoys seeing them here.

What the hell just happened here:
http://archived.moe/jp/thread/16034447/

What's with the mass deletion of post janitor? There's borderline /s/ [>>16038295], /h/ [>>16039986], and /e/ [>>16035075] being posted and you're deleting mildly off-topic responses to a thread that welcomes off-topic responses. Janitor, are you feeling okay?

>>16034447
From some ragnarok online forum, thread about shumps and one person brought EoSD and PCB, both games caught my eye.

>>16034447
Either McRolled, or seeing a Koishi boss in a Vs. Saxton Hale TF2 server

>>16043729
Posts were probably made by the same person. I guess if a person is banned it's also possible to automatically purge all their posts.

>>16034447
Got McRolled like 7-8 years ago, took me hours to find the original music, after that I found flandre, the rest of the touhou universe and started playing the games.

>>16037787
TEI TEI TEI

>>16034447
I saw a picture of Alice somewhere on /b/, in like maybe 2008. I thought she was pretty cute so after finding out where she came from I looked up some Touhou gameplay videos and the first result was the extra stage from IN.

Mokou's theme immediately drew me in and I got hooked on Touhou music after that.

>>16043869
No, that's not how it works. Jan-jan is just neurotically deleting posts he doesn't like, as usual. It can't be helped.

>>16043869
>Posts were probably made by the same person. I guess if a person is banned it's also possible to automatically purge all their posts.
And now because I pointed out the janitor's awkward behavior, I will probably be banned soon. When I tried to post I got this message:
>Error: You are temporarily blocked from posting for violating /jp/ 1 - Off-Topic, Otaku Culture Only. This block will expire in 14 minutes. [more info]

And when I click on [more info] it sends me to this message:
>Users are temporarily blocked from posting when there is a pending ban request placed on their IP. This block lasts 15 minutes from the time a janitor submits a ban request, and is removed immediately if the request is denied by a moderator.
This janitor just submitted a ban request for me for pointing out his awkward behavior. This is so odd. I'm not officially banned yet, but I've been muted for 14 minutes. I will report this janitor's awkward behavior to Hiro. It's not like I did anything wrong. I was just asking what was going on with the mass deletion. If you check the archive, he deleted some post that were on topic. Dear rookie janitor, if you keep acting like this you're only motivating me more to report your behavior.

This is what I posted:
http://archived.moe/jp/thread/16034447/#q16043729

What's with the mass deletion of post janitor? There's borderline /s/ [>>16038295 →], /h/ [>>16039986 →], and /e/ [>>16035075 →] being posted and you're deleting mildly off-topic responses to a thread that welcomes off-topic responses. Janitor, are you feeling okay?

Update: I've been banned. This janitor is out of control. Help me report this guy.

Janitor, I'm not him but you can't do that.

>>16043970
>Janitor, I'm not him but you can't do that.
Agreed.

http://archived.moe/jp/thread/16034447/#q16043939

Petitioning the janitor on the board itself (shouldn't be, but) is against the rules.

If you have a comment to make, use the feedback form, or /qa/, or contact one of the mods on #4chan and ask politely about the problem you are having.

>>16043996
That said, it launched a big derail, so I would hardly be surprised if you're just told to fuck off by the mods, in which case you have no recourse.

You could still try though.

>>16043996
Fuck off, /jp/ has been this way for years and nobody cares, especially the mods, who probably encourage the janitors to act like this. The 3D generals that have nothing to do with /jp/ have thread numbers in the hundreds and are consistently the majority of page 1. They want /jp/ to be this way and nothing you can do will help.

>>16044001,1
>What's new? Janny has always been like this.
>You fags getting all worked up are just showing your newness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YVrxFmheSc

I didn't know people still posted on the ghost board.

>>16044025
I was talking to the people complaining about the deletions in this particular thread (which I commented on before actually visiting the archive for this thread).

If it's the usual /jp/ thread complaints, I doubt you can achieve anything about them by complaining here or anywhere else.

I read about Touhou in the Guinness Book of World Records a few years ago but didn't actually pursue it. I only started playing Touhou after immense amounts of Momiji spam in an <<unnamed board>> a few months ago

dont delete pls.

>>16044028
most people left after big W turned off /ghost/ but people do occasionally post on other archives. Not very much though

>>16044028,1
>Meido has been dead for years. You shouldn't have come back
This makes me sad. The meido used to protect us from the ban hammer. I remember how he would go out of his way to remove banworthy post before the mods got a chance to see it. The new turbo-snitch janitors are like IRL cops. They just want to kiss up to their bosses and have high arrest numbers (or in their case, high ban referral numbers). I wonder if the culture has changed and they now have an incentive to report us to mods. I will never know what motivated our beloved meido to protect us the way he did, but I will never forget his bravery and kindness for standing up to the mods. This new janitor will never have fan art or love.

>>16044035
please leave, the jay is only for people who can take it easy

i'll beat you up if i see you here ever again

>>16034447
there was this big-ass doujin shmup database and I downloaded the PCB demo from there, along with a bunch of other stuff
that's what got me into Touhou

this might be late 2006 at the earliest, I know I had DSL at the time

>>16044058
>take it easy
The current janitor is so new he probably never heard that motto before.

I just reported the crazy janitor and I suggest others do the same. The only way we'll make a difference is if enough people complain. Report him here:
http://www.4chan.org/feedback

>>16044076
Complaining about moderation is a bannable offense you know

>>16044076

Every deletion complies with the rules. Withdraw your complaint.

>>16044082
fucing this

this stuff is ILLEGAL in many, many countries

reported this thread for illegal content, enjoy getting baned

i wont have u losers shite up my favourite site and get it shut down coz of your sick perversions

>>16044076

The janitor is following the rules. No need to report it.

>>16044082
>Every deletion complies with the rules. Withdraw your complaint.
Okay, so explain why he deleted this response:
http://archived.moe/jp/thread/16034447/#q16040300

OP is asking us how we discovered Touhou, and one anon happened to discover it via /pol/. Did he delete his post because he mentioned /pol/?


>>16044071
>The current janitor is so new he probably never heard that motto before.
This new janitor is out of control. We need to stop him. We will all probably get ban referrals just for writing this. Not only is the new janitor bad at his job but he's censoring the public outrage. He can't silence the ghost board. If he bans you continue talking there.

>>16044076

This janitor isn't as bad as the previous ones, so more harm then good could come from reporting him.

>>16044058
Sorry for making a shitstorm. I'll go now.

The janitor might live to see another day. But if complaints like this keep piling up, eventually the staff will be forced to revoke his janitor privileges. Hopefully he learns from this incident and gets better at his job.

>>16044076

Best not to report the janitor, he's doing an alright job so far. So withdraw the complaint.