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I've never gotten (into) Touhou culture. What's the appeal? Do you like other music besides VGM? Were you into the tracker scene and it's mostly a way to keep t
by washadjeffmad 4y ago
I've never gotten (into) Touhou culture. What's the appeal? Do you like other music besides VGM? Were you into the tracker scene and it's mostly a way to keep that alive? Was there a common board or chan everyone hung out on?
It's just always been right outside the periphery of any social group or outlet I've been part of.
- mjr00 4y ago> I've never gotten (into) Touhou culture. What's the appeal? Great music and tons of remixes, lots of characters with fun personalities (established in both canon and fanon), untold amounts of fanart and fanfiction, and there's a Touhou game or fangame in any genre you can think of. It's an "open source" success story, just with intellectual property instead of software. Lots of what's kept Touhou popular over the years has been community-produced works, whether that's Bad Apple, Flash videos with IOSYS songs, yukkuris, or these days, fumos.
- schroeding 4y agoThe tracks are often fantastic as background music (e.g. for work), at least the ones without lyrics. Very nice examples are the Cafe de Touhou albums: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7FpB9BZH4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7FpB9BZH4 It's also very enjoyable for me to see how different the interpretations of all those small music circles are. You can get the same melody / leitmotif as e.g. heavy metal, Jazz or Irish folk. I like non-VGM music, too, of course. But e.g. Electric Callboy is not really the best music to concentrate to. YMMV, though. :D
- gaudat 4y agoIt's Undertale but made in Japan. Attractive world building and back story combined with a healthy supply of derivative work from talented content makers and you got it.