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"It's like that feeling when you see a jetbike crash and there are broken bodies and blood flying everywhere and you just can't look away even though you want to" ~ "Little Kitten", Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes, If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device (January 2017/41st millennium) (this discussion I am about to open may contain spoilers; advance a own risk) The time has come. After almost 2 years, I feel as if a thunder struck me tonight. While watching through the latest videos of Suwawako, I ended up finding his quick video about KKHTA released for Halloween. Despite the fact I knew myself as not liking, if not outright despising that series, I still decided to give the video a shot. After it ended, I went through the comments to see what people think of that infamous animated series. and from there, I ended up watching an entire 1 hour long breakdown for each episode. And here is the shocking part: it actually hooked me. I know this is a very divisive series, with a wide variety of opinions thrown to it. And to be honest, for a long time I have been in the camp of blindly hating it without actually giving the animation a try. But now, maybe things have changed... Now, for a little bit of history... Back in my early weeks of being a Touhou fan, on the 31st December 2020 I heard for the first time the infamous words: "Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure". As I was still new into the series and not very familiar with the fan-works, I decided to go read a bit what the series was about as at the time I was on TVtropes. What was my first sight? The people for characters and how they are portrayed was nothing short of reading an obituary. My first reaction was that of an unreasonable scare, as if I touched cursed lands I did not want to get into. That evening, trying to brush off what I just read, I asked a colleague on Discord if this is what Gensokyo is actually like (again, I was still new into trying to understand what Touhou is). To my at the time disappointment, this friend told me KKHTA is, unironically, an accurate depiction of Gensokyo and how its inhabitants would normally react. That left with with a bitter taste at the time, as my main image about Touhou and inhabitants of Gensokyo came from watching some cute animated and meme videos on YouTube, as well as enjoying cute fanart of the series. The impression I developed about Touhou back then was that it is a land where "cute girls do cute stuff", that they are magical (completely disregarding the fact most of them are actually youkai inspired from scary mythological beings), and just indulging on the moe aspect of fanon. Back then, I found it very weird, if not uncanny, to even think about the characters being able to be that aggressive as they were described as in this series. It was pretty much that kind of "pissed off my waifu was killed brutally", especially if you go through and realize how some of the girls died. I thought the series was brutal, bloody and edgy for the sake of being edgy, with the whole Lunarian plot thing being only just the cherry on top. Fast forward almost 2 years... Now, after that one video from Suwawako and the whole breakdown, I feel something has changed. I am gonna repeat myself a little bit. I think I may be slowly descending to madness. The recent video about KKHTA gave me a morbid curiosity of actually finding out what is going on in that series. So I spent an entire hour listening to a video breakdown of all episodes. What I'm shocked about is that the thing is not half bad. Yes, it is edgy, gory, and at times cruel just for the sale of being cruel. It also got me with more questions than I started with, especially once the Lunarians join the game. Yes, it definitely got me some hate for that universe's version of Koakuma (guess it's the "love to hate" kind of character). But it definitely got me hooked, even if ever so slightly. Even if I'm just trying to understand what's going on. It has...some sort of unique charm? As I was going through the summary, I felt confused in a lot of moments. Here are at least the things I managed to understand or remember out of the whole thing: ( I may not actually watch the thing, or at least not feel fully prepared for it yet): why everyone went into a murderous rampage against each other confused why do we have all of a sudden Byakuren preaching about the killing of humans and UFOs coming out of nowhere (the way it was described in the summary reminded me of, if anyone is familiar with the series, of Hellsing Ultimate Abridged and the whole monologue of the Major before the Nazi ghouls invaded London - hell, I think adding the song War by Edwin Starr over the invasion of the UFOs would have had the same energy as the scene from that series) about all those backstory bits - particularly those for the Komeiji sisters, the Moon and so on - timeline at parts seems to be going all over the place from one episode to another confused about the entire Lunarian plan (I still do not have it clear in mind what was their plan besides the annihilation of Gensokyo and opening 2 eyes - the one of the Moon and the one of the Earth) I do remember it was explained at some point that apparently the outside world was too peaceful, and had been as such for decades - I think that was due to Lunarian manipulation? and all the madness in Gensokyo triggered apparently after one full moon thing induced by the Lunarians? their whole intermingling with the outside world is quite weird just like the backstory given to the Komeiji sisters in KKHTA Satori was also a bit weird through the whole thing I am still having a lot more questions about the Komeiji sisters sisters when it comes to the thing with the eyes, the possessed animals, the couple and their baby, the whole thing in front of the public and how the Lunarians broadcasted it apparently to everyone in the world through their TVs I did not know Merry and Renko got featured though, in one of the present day (I guess) Outside World segments, before everything went to shit; they are attending a course where it is explained there has been no war or any form of violence between humans for the past 30 years if I am not wrong, and the two see it as being weird/not making any sense and how on God's green earth did all the world's governments simply accept the Lunarians to establish their embassy things on Earth? was their 3 decade indoctrination so good they brainwashed everyone to accept the Lunarians with open arms? (and as some shots imply, they even had time for such things as mixed human/Moon rabbit families to exist by the time of the kaiju outbreak) now that the story is (not so) over, what are we to do? the final part will probably never come, but I heard there is a good continuation fan-faction on r/touhou that I kept stumbling upon, and I even heard it is actually very good - perhaps I should give it a try Now I am more curious than ever to actually get some answers in regards to this series. I may need to get some time in the future to actually watch it, but I doubt I may either get through the first episodes when the madness ensues, or find an answer to my questions. Overall, I just think this series has gone from something I absolutely despise to something I despise less, but which made me curious about what it hides. A macabre curiosity perhaps, but curiosity nonetheless. But what do you think about this series? I hope we could start a talk here, just to have another big thread keep me busy instead of just updating not-Fusu-posting or LostWord every time. Strong points, weak points, theories, debates and discussions, here is the place for everything to be put together (I hope this thread will work...) PS: for anyone interested, this is the video in question I was talking about 1 hour recap of every episode published

I have. I really like it and it became my favorite mobile game. It's sad that it's been shut down and I doubt that there will be another Touhou mobile game that has a huge amount of content, gameplay and charm as Cannonball...