ANIME TENCHOU X TOUHOU PROJECT OH MY GOOOOOOOOD

Taiyz

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-09-24/touhou-project-anime-tenchou-get-anime-by-ufotable
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Iluvpudding4eva · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject:

honestly I saw it coming.

As long as my dear Marisa gets an up-skirt i'll give it a watch <3
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DevlJoe · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:06 pm Post subject:

Now I know I'm missing something, but why is Touhou so popular? There's gotta be more to it than bullet hell, but I just don't get it.
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Taiyz · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:24 pm Post subject:

I don't get it either. I guess there's a bunch of lore behind all of it like any MMORPG or fantasy series might have, but I've got no clue where it might come from as shoot-'em-up dialogue is some of the most trite stuff in existence.

I'm just excited for Anime Tenchou. I'm still annoyed that I could never find the original OVA for it, or the live action movie. But hey. New OVA and a crossover OVA with Touhou.
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Cloud · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 17480

Theme song sung by Seki?

I'm in.
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Iluvpudding4eva · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:41 pm Post subject:

CX · Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Posts: 2751

ufotable do not disappoint me!!!

Drake · Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 12703

don't even start

also this news is like nearly a day old gosh you slowpokes
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Taiyz · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:23 am Post subject:

Since Cloud mentioned Seki singing, here's the original Anime Tenchou opening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm83UPreMbE

And in case anybody forgot, Anime Tenchou was in multiple episodes of Lucky Star for some reason. Here's a promo Seki did for the OVA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CL2VAib-xE (just found it for the first time myself.)

The live action thing I mentioned before was apparently done by the seiyuu themselves, so Seki cosplaying as Anime Tenchou wasn't really a new concept for the trailer. =P

Drake · Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 12703

I stick to a general reason. Touhou is popular because of the character diversity and its elements are extraordinarily easy to manipuate.

Vagueness of the canonical elements make room for people to come up with their own interpretation of a character, setting or event, while still complimenting the base personality (Although, many people take this too far and utterly destroy all canonical elements, but that's just fandom in general being retarded). There's no huge plot or wholly-explained story or too much depth to any of the characters (Note that character aspects and each game's story are explained mostly in the afterwords and other written works, and there are many more stories and characterizations behind the scenes. Read up, folks); it's just very easy to work with since it offers a gigantic palette.

ZUN is a fairly good musician, and most of his music is very, very easy to play around with and arrange. This along with everything else (being a doujin game itself, there is no actual licensing besides an honor/respect system that works marvelously) pretty much beckons doujin artists, music and artwork alike to create Touhou doujin works. The massive amount of doujin works gets recognizes alongside the games themselves, and it really just spirals in a giant cycle of recognition.
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Drake · Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 12703

i think you're underestimating how popular touhou is
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Orenj · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:38 am Post subject:

Seraph · Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 19322 Location: Mai laifu

I've actually seen a lot of people that like Touhou who don't even play the games at all. Touhou in its entity is so much more than games. It's no joke saying that half the stuff in Comiket is Touhou stuff.
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