For 2hu'rs. How did you get into Touhou?

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>>35305309
https://youtu.be/Q16KpquGsIc
Simple as.

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>>35305309
It was everywhere
also IOSYS, because that's unavoidable

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>>35305309
Yuuka, she was the character that got we interested in Touhou.

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chirumiru

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>>35305309
I hated it for a while but then I learned it was a video game and an actually very difficult video game and my pride could not stand for it so I played it and accidentally fell in love and haven't stopped since

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>>35305405 and Night of Nights

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Flandre

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Oh boy...hate to say this, but Diamond in the Rough was the reason I got into Touhou. Technically, it was because of a comment on this video that basically said "Diamond in the Rough is an very well-done parody of Touhou self-insert fics where the self-insert becomes overpowered".

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

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>>35305309
Mistaking it for Rozen Maiden due to fake game footage.

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>>35305309
I randomly came to /jp/, thought Touhou looked cool, and wound up playing EoSD.

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I think i always knew about the franchise, I don't remember what pushed me to play em though... I think it was the times before /vt/ existed and a lot of threads about em were made here, but there were also 2hu threads and it got me interested, so one day I just downloaded TH8 since it was reccomended for begginers, played on easy modo, and ended up liking it a lot

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>>35305309
I created it.

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>>35307512
Hello, ZUN.

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IOSYS and other music videos, plus the fanart was everywhere.

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>>35305309
I was and still am a metal head, and an otaku. A couple years back I stumbled on a metal youtubers cover of lunatic princess and fell in love. Did a bunch of research and got sucked in, played all the games over the summer 5 years ago. Love the lore, whimsical world, and Asian folklore but can't stand the fanon that dominates discussion and have been sucked into gacha hell

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overdrive and marisa stole the precious thing when they were popular back in ye olden days
thankfully like a smart person i read about it on wikipedia, wikia and whatnot and then learned about doujinstyle to download the games and play them
i played eosd and died on stage 4 everytime but it was fun.
eventually i just tried all the games at that time, at least once and read omakes and perfect memento in strict sense
surprisingly i only got to reading some of the manga years later instead of early on, dunno why
thanks for coming to my blog

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Touhou tuesdays on /f/

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>>35305309
I don't even remember, but probably something similar to >>35310525
I'm mostly terrible at shmup games though, it's the lore and fan creations that I'm really into

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Fanart and IOSYS
What hooked me in was patche's big butt

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I found this arrange randomly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml083qw6oBk
then I was curious and listened to the original Touhou themes, liked it and fell in love with everything else in the series
(the channel I originally found the song on was deleted, the original video was older, but this is the same song)

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My first exposure was >>35305405, iosys and night of nights.
at first i didnt care, but when i was searching for songs to play i found touhou and loved it. Have been a fan ever since, and touhou stuck with me through every other fad.

In my opinion the in-game music is best appreciated by playing the games, ZUN basically sets them up as interactive music videos, that man is a musical genius.

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First it was the music, then one day a month or two ago, I decided to look more into the characters and lore and that was when I fell down the rabbit hole. Now here I am playing the games on and off when I wanna play something I can jump into real quick and listening to a growing playlist of music and pouring over the mangas.

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Heard about touhou because of many references in undertale. Then decided to look into it more after listening to some touhou-style remixes.

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Luna Nights showed up in my recommendations on Steam and I thought it seemed interesting so I played it. After that I got more curious about the series and got into playing the danmaku/listening to the music, which sealed the deal.

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>>35305309
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DyXF8dfl0Ao

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Somebody posted this video in a facebook group about electronic music back in 2014.
I thought it was an anime.
First game i played was SWR and after that EOSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igWfM6rO76g

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>>35305309
I don't know anymore.
I've come across a ton of stuff, but first exposure was probably one of Hina's remixes or >>35305405's Ronald insanity.

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>>35305309
Knew about it for years but had no interest in it until one day I saw Koishi in a dream. I guess I just remembered her after seeing Touhou everywhere. After that I started reading the wiki and downloaded the games.

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Somehow downloaded the UFO demo when it came out and bounced off because UFO is shit. Tried the first generation windows games a year or two after that, after getting exposed to more Touhou music, and contracted terminal autism.

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An online friend asked me to play Hisoutensoku with him once.

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>>35305309
no idea, I feel like I've always known it

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>>35305309
the manga, unironically, I was bored and depressed in 2018 so I just looked up mild manga for the first time since modern western enterntainment is too pozzed for me to handle and stumbled upon touhou fairy manga, after that it was a downward spiral with the doujin music and trying the games ( I fucking bad at it). Which is pretty ironic turns of even considering I used to be extremely againts anime back in 2011 since I consider it to be some edgy and faggy chinese cartoon but still fap to hentai because 3D porn is disgusting and my first exposure to touhou was a hentai comic, but at that time I wasn't interested in it at all. thanks for reading my blog.

Tl;dr pozzed media makes me read a touhou manga and turn me into a weeb.

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>>35326671
Almost sounds like a miracle.

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tl;dr I was first exposed to it thanks to my best friends brother when I was 10 and now I'm 20 and it's one of my favorite franchises.

When I was 10 my best friend at the time invited me over to his house to play Sonic or something and when I got there he quickly made fun of his older brother for liking Touhou because it only had girls in it. After he had gone to sleep I went and sat on the couch next to the computer his older brother was playing on. Ten Desires had just came out and I watched him play it and while I was awe-struck by all the bullets he was complaining about how easy it was, can't remember the rest of it too clearly as I was dozing off but it left a pretty big impact on my young mind. My parents divorced later that year and I ended up moving, I only saw them a couple times after that and never again.
I wouldn't get the chance to play Touhou until 5 years later when I got a laptop for Christmas and one of the first things I did on it was install EoSD, got my ass kicked but I loved it and I've been into the franchise ever since. In just a couple months I'd have known about Touhou for a decade.
I still suck at playing them but at least I can clear the Extra stages now.

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Found it through black midis and random images. Only started playing the games a few months ago.

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>>35305309
My friend installed it on the tech lab’s computers when I was in high school nearly a decade ago.

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>>35305309
There was a thread on /v/ on 2004 or 2005, I can't really remember, about this really hard game you just had to play.
It was 2hu, I played it and beat it, thought it wasn't that hard so at the time it was just a passing interest, but then after the games were translated and I realized you were supposed to 1cc them, It really revitalized my interest in them and then the storm of fan content came about and I was hooked.

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>>35305309
I had been a fan of difficult shooting games that required some of level of reaction-time skill prior. Serious Sam TFE for example was a game I was really trying to get good at prior to Touhou.
I had known aboout Touhou as an otaku subculture prior and decided to take a look at what it even was. Japanese Galaga on steroids was the first thing that came to mind when I saw gameplay, it looked pretty challenging, and I knew it was something I wanted to pick up.
Then I made a post on weeb forum board I was apart of at the time asking "what was the best way to get into the gaming series?". I was told EoSD was the best starting game for a newbie.
It's been years since then, and I'm embarrassed to say I've only beaten 5 titles on normal so far.
Still a newfag and casual in comparison to allot of older players, I know my place and I mostly just lurk here or post fanart of my favorites characters so far. But at least I'm not a secondary and I hope to get better sometime in the future.