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So I recently found out what Touhou was and all I can think is "How come no one told me about this before?" Cirno is my favorite. <3

So how did you get introduced to Touhou?

>> No.3913619

Before /jp/ was created the touhous used to get posted a lot on /a/. That's my first exposure to touhou.

>> No.3913623

>>3913619
This. I was like "What the fuck is that ice fairy and why is she posted so much." One google search later I was hooked.

>> No.3913627
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>>3913610

This is my first touhou (When Touhou still in /a/ territory). At first I thought "OMG new
animu character!!" Silly me.

>> No.3913636

inb4 secondary fans.

>> No.3913641
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A sage bush told me all about it.

>> No.3913659
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Our DB class used Touhou 11g.

>> No.3913661

It's funny, I knew about touhou way before /a/ had touhou hijacks, as I was involved with a fansub group that managed to get other staffers to play the games. The games were fun, but I'm not that huge of a fan of the genre to keep playing them for too long. I do like that touhou has managed to create such a rich fandom/community for it in Japan, and I still enjoy what they manage to produce.

>> No.3913668

Marisa x Reimu on /u/, four years ago.

>> No.3913684

>>3913668

Marisa X Alice is superior.

>> No.3913685

Saw a TOUHOU HIJACK LOL during the days I visited /b/.

>> No.3913694

I'd seen Touhou pictures on Paheal and just figured it was another anime. A few weeks ago I had been watching Nico Nico Douga medleys and saw that a lot of the music was from Touhou. After I discovered it was a game series, I checked them out and the rest is history.

>> No.3913695

>>3913684
No, Marisa X Patchouli is superior

>> No.3913700

/a/ touhou hijacks, I was one of those who raged at the pure sight of those, but now I'm here, well fuck

>> No.3913714

>>3913695
why people like MarisaxPatchouli?I don't get it.I understand MarisaxAlice but i dont understand MarisaxPatchouli ship

>> No.3913758
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3913758

When someone posted tsurupettan.swf on /f/

>> No.3913782

The games are OK but I am still terrified by the Touhou fanbase, for the most part.

>> No.3913783

Lots of people played Touhou at my college, so I joined the crowd. This was before I even joined 4chan. /jp/ only helped me learn more about the characters.

I guess that makes me a primary fan.

>> No.3913788

dawn to dawn to dawn to dawn to dawn to dawn to

>> No.3913798

>>3913695
No, MarisaxSakuya

>> No.3913799

Nice trolling thread.

>> No.3913804

I don't remember when I was first introduced. I seem to have known about Touhou in the back of my mind for quite some time, but only really got interested in it (read playing the games) around this past September.
Favorites include: Cirno, Alice, Marisa, Suika

>> No.3914210

Saw someone playing EoSD a few years ago, started playing the games after that. Recently started listening to more of the music and reading a few of the doujins.

>> No.3914213

Danbooru @ 2006 before they went down.

>> No.3914215

It's like I'm really on pooshlmer.

>> No.3914214

sakyua san sakuya san
cleaning stop
room
cleaning stop

>> No.3914221
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This flash came out. I followed it to pooshlmer.

I can't belive this became a serious reply thread.

>> No.3914228

Someone posted a screenshot of IN on /b/, way before the lot of us knew what a Touhou is. I got interested since then.

>> No.3914233

i found it thanks to the anime a year ago

>> No.3914254

Everyone on /jp/ is a secondary fan of Touhou.

>> No.3914270

The game that actually got me into the franchise was Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. I saw people on 4chon talking about it, and was interested after reading about how different the fighting mechanics were as compared to most games in the genre. A bit of googlean later, and now I am a full on secondary fan

Before I downloaded SWR, my only exposure was touhou images and videos strewn across the web

>> No.3914280
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In the worst possible way ever.

>> No.3914287

Used to play Twinkle Star Sprites with someone. He made me play Kaeiduka a few years back. Like anyone cares about shitty ME TOO posts.

>> No.3914319

I was done hunting for Horaki doujins at C52 and while wandering through East 3 I saw this skinny little newb trying to sell this funny game with shitty characters. And for PC98 at that. Looked like a cheap rip off of Kiki Kaikai but my PC98 was getting dusty and I still that 500 yen coin in my back pocket so I gave it a go.

>> No.3915738

I just followed /jp/s advices. It worked for Cave Story (though I think that might have been /v/ advices before /jp/ was around)

>> No.3915753

I played a few games of dungeons and dragons with /tg/'s resident Touhoufag, and had to learn the characters just to keep up with the endless references.

>> No.3915756

Touhou Hijacks in /a/ made me curious, so I started looking around for it. In Wikipedia and YouTube, mainly.

>> No.3915761

>>3915753
> D&D + Touhou

Not sure if want...

>> No.3915777

>>3915761
Touhoufag actually makes some pretty interesting characters when he's not deciding to be the little girl.

Unfortunately, most of the time I played with him, he ended up being the little girl.

>> No.3915781

>>3914221

same here, but i think it was danbooru for me

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I was looking for some bgm of certain fighting game and I found tsurupettan by accident.

>> No.3915809
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My journey started in /tg/, with a "What music would the factions in WH40K listen to?" thread. Someone posted this for Chaos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=JP&hl=ja&v=4MKrYxtCLyY

My reaction was "good music, good pic, looks like there's more in the related videos," thus starting my inevitable death spiral into Touhou. Pic related, it was my first 1cc, thanks more to my computer than to anything I did.

>> No.3916038

By Touwhore roleplayers....

>> No.3916072

2chan

>> No.3918119

I personally ran into Touhou about a year ago...

I was sitting at my computer bored one day, when I got the idea that I would try to find some sort of extremely hard and challenging game. After randomly lurking around the internet, I came across the danmaku shooter 'sub-genre'. The first shooter that I downloaded and played was a demo for a very obscure game called Visionary Wings, and I thought it was alright.

But Then, I discovered Touhou.

I downloaded a demo version of Perfect Cherry Blossom (because that was all I could find at the time) and played it. Loved that shit. The music was great, the characters were nice, and the gameplay contained a lot of creative and fun game mechanics.

[[Of course, at the time, I always had a habit of going to the Settings menu before actually starting games. I found the Player option, and found it set to 3. I immediately started to think, "Well, I'm not player 3, I'm player 1. I'd better change this." This made it very difficult to get to Alice (last boss in demo) without continuing on Normal (I hate playing games on Easy in general)...]]

As I became more familiar with Touhou and the thriving fan culture surrounding it, I began showing it to my friends. Some caught on to Touhou, others didn't. But now, I've got a bunch of friends at school who know Touhou (although, most of them are in it for the fandom more than the games) and talk about it quite a lot. I've even taught myself to play TH music on the piano and trumpet. I don't know what it is about Touhou, but there's no doubt in my mind that ZUN has truly done something wonderful.

>> No.3918131

Laptop died. Acer took months to repair. Needed game that would work on EEE PC. Had heard about Touhou before from it you know being spammed everywhere ever.

>> No.3918176

My friend wouldn't stop talking about Touhou so i asked her "what is touhou" and she sent me a link to EosD

hooked ever since

I never knew what Touhou was before that

>> No.3918554

>>3913610

I found out about Touhou back in the early part of the decade through a friend of mine that is into shooters.

>> No.3918802

IOSYS MOTHERFUCKERS

>> No.3918843

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing -> what

-> holy shit guys IaMP is awesome

>> No.3918864

>>3918176
It's a virus. It must spread.

>> No.3918867

I was browsing through Shoot the Core for more Doujin STGs to play. I noticed that the games were given high marks and downloaded them.

>> No.3918868

>>3913619
this

>> No.3918883 [DELETED] 

>>3913606
stop spamming ur shitty clone boards on anonta
lk.com

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3918884

Am I the only one who first learned about Touhou via Overdrive?

>> No.3918925

Mikuchan a fuck long time ago, actually (which is back up by the way you faggots should go post there)

And why this thread is actually getting serious replies is beyond me.

>> No.3918931

>>3918925
Get the fuck out, Mikuchan devs.

>> No.3918949

... Youtube videos of Touhou RPGs and the fighting game ones.

It was pretty awkward finding out what they really were.

>> No.3918965

>>3914280
Y-you too?

>> No.3918986

When I used to frequent iichan's adult boards back in 2006, I once went to the Touhou board. Since they allowed Rozen Maiden and no one really bother with introductions and what not so I pretty much blew it off as weird jargon for some fetish (Strangely, that's how I would describe it today probably.). Then, I came to /jp/ around when the theme song was made, since I was older and more of a pathetic loser, I finally was able to unlock the secrets of the Touhou.

But seriously, I still don't get parts of the fandom...

>> No.3918995

/v/ thread. Somebody posted a screenshot and the pretty colors caught my attention.

Since I've always liked shooters I gave it a try. I remember hating the art and music (those damn midi trumpets!!) though.

>> No.3919002

I found Reisen's, Eirin's, and Kaguya's themes on Youtube one night (they were my favorites at the time).

I googled their names, found Imperishable Night, then the Touhou Wiki, and it all went up/downhill from there.

>> No.3919020

went to pooshit way before it became what it is now, then the games.

>> No.3919032
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I found a picture of Hong Meiling covered in food. Years ago. Probably around 2003/2004.
I had no idea what it was, and I thought it was just a standalone image, but it was relevant to my interests.

Soon, more and more junk kept surfacing. Art here. Cheesy flash animations here. Music there. I even played a demo for Perfect Cherry Blossom, thinking it was not part of a series.

But then, slowly, everything started to fit together about two years ago.
... nothing has ever been the same.

It's really hard to pinpoint my first exposure, because it's very difficult to remember when I first put it all together. It had equal things to do with Flandre's theme, the Apollo 13 flash game, and most definitely Yuyuko.

>> No.3919037

After I masturbated for 2 days to Kaguya, which I didn't realize who she was or where she was from. After finding out what Touhou was, I took a look at Touhou fandom and found that all them are pathetic, man-or-womanchildren who refuse to grow up and would rather cum inside their own mother/father. So idiotic, Touhoe fandom is...

>> No.3919099

I was searching for good yet lightweigh games to play on college's computers and i fond about the PC-98 games. I played them and since they aren't translated, I didn't grasp any of the story/characters and I just enjoyed the danmaku. Later, I found desuchan's touhou board and I saw a picture of Reimu showing her armpit. I though she looked different then from the PC-98 game and discovered the windows games. I'v played them and found out about the secondary stuff and got into it too. A couple of days later, I had all I could find about Touhou: music, doujins, futanari, games, fan games, flash, ect. Then at a local anime convention, I had the chance to buy an actual copy of Shoot the Bullet and some doujins. I still play the games at least once a week but I'm not that good. I can manage the spellcards but the stages themselves get me.

>> No.3919134

Hmm.... Well, most Touhou newfags come from McRolled...

I however was playing a stepmania pack I dl'd and played "Marisa stole the precious thing" >.<
The rest was history.

>> No.3919142

So a while back I downloaded all of the Touhou shooter games, atleast 7-12. And I like them, they're fun, but how does one go about "getting into" Touhou? I try to follow the story on the arcade-style games, and it just seems generic.

Now please, please spare me the hate of harshing on the game, I really don't mean it. Am I just missing something? Could someone point me in the right direction here?

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>>3919037

>> No.3919154
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I knew about touhou, but I always thought it was fucking stupid.

I mean, the girls have the most absurd outfits. Of course there was always high quality fanart associated with them, but it really wasn't something I could like from the art alone.

Then someone commented about touhou on a column I wrote with a gameplay vid of UFO. It was really amazing, so I thought I'd download the games and give them a shot, and I found them really great.

Now, it's not like the games are very comprehensible or have anything close to a good story, but they but the characters in context and let me finally enjoy the fanwank, which is pretty entertaining too.

I have no fucking clue why this pic was in my touhou folder.

>> No.3919167

Heck, for many people, it was the music, wasnt it?

>> No.3919195

This video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gaMX_NTLRw

>> No.3919213

>>3919167

>> No.3919221

France Holland Tibet Kyoto London Russia Orleans

>> No.3919219

>>3919195
God, I don't know why this song is so pop-
>immediately starts dancing to the music.
goddamn it.

>> No.3919239

A friend showed it to me playing, and i told him why play another generic plane shooter?

Then i saw girls, dozens of them, it made me love. Still not so into the bullets.

>> No.3919258

>>3919195

I think that songs loli-tastic myself...

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3919279

>cirno is my favorite
Pfft. Cirno fans are the shittiest, most shallow fan in the fandom, prove me wrong. Just another bunch of "SASUKEE ^_^" fans

Thread hidden

>> No.3919284

>>3919221
It's amazing how I used to think that song was good.
Man, once you find out there's hundreds of other groups besides IOSYS, 90% of which are much better, you just have to wonder how it is that they actually managed to get a following at all.

>> No.3919293

>>3919284
Dem flash videos man.

>> No.3919302

>>3919279

I only like cirno because of her theme.

Infact, it's the only reason I like any of the chracaters. I love the games and I love the music but the characters could be planes and spaceships for all I cared.

>> No.3919311

>>3919279
derp derp derp

>> No.3919323

>>3919302
What really? I always thought Cirno's theme was the weakest out of everyone's in EoSD...
Oh well. I guess that's the beauty of opinions.

>> No.3919344

Reimu armpit jokes and "marisa stole the prescious thing"

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