This is another non-Touhou piece of music, (though this channel does have a lot of Touhou music arranges, even with their own channel name having the kanji for Touhou) but this is just so good!
Maybe even among my favorite trance musics I've found so far.
Alright, so this is the one I was just talking about. As I already said, this is a Bilibili reupload of the original video, as the original was taken down by Sully Orchestra for copyright. This video really was (as far as know of at least) one of the main reasons for me getting into Touhou. Back then, I knew NOTHING about the characters nor anything, I didn't even know Marisa nor probably Reimu either, but for some reason, this video and music entranced me. It's already distinctly possible that I discovered this video before even the Alstroemeria Records version, though unlikely considering I feel like I remember me discovering Alstroemeria's version back in at least 2023.
This song (and video) is among the main ones which introduced and got me into Touhou. As I've stated before, it is the Touhou musical arrangements which got me interested in Touhou in the first place. Well, music is also how I've found most series.
But, the main Touhou doujin circles which introduced Touhou to me were Alstroemeria Records (through Bad Apple), Akatsuki Records (mainly through this song) and Halozy. Another one who basically got me into Touhou was Sully Orchestra, though I'd have to send the Bilibili link to the reupload of the specific video.
This music is something of many memories and feelings for me. I remember originally coming across it around 2 years or so after it came out and I became absolutely entranced by it. I must be one of the few people who even still remembers this video and music. It has such a beautiful feeling of melancholy and sadness to it. Though that also makes it remind me of sadder events in my life.
This theme is in fact fan-made. Very good-sounding one too! The creator certainly gave it the feeling and sound of it being one of ZUN's unused themes.
Anyway, to go on a quick side tangent here, one of the comments in the video mentioned "Song that plays when you play as the scrapped character", and it got me thinking of a sort of "meta-narrative" Touhou work in which the game has some strange supernatural influence over it which allows you to play a stage with an "unused" theme and as a character which shouldn't exist in the game, and eventually it begins to influence reality itself... Would make for a great creepypasta-esque horror story at the very least. Well, there are a lot of supernatural "meta-narrative" concepts I could probably come up with in regards to Touhou.
My gosh, this is so beautiful... Reminds me of space, which is very fitting (considering the themes it is based on), and it also reminds me of the ocean as well. I believe I will forever derive the concepts of absolute wonder and beauty upon space and the ocean. Stuff like that just makes me keep going forward in life. Every time I feel despair or sadness, I can look up to the stars or down to the ocean depths to always feel hope.
This album is overall probably my favorite Alstroemeria Records album and maybe even among my favorite Touhou music arrangement albums of all time. It's just unfortunate that this album doesn't seem to be on Spotify, as I was hoping to possibly play this album in the car for my family at some point.
This song makes me love GET IN THE RING even more! Heard it near the end of a video completely unrelated to Touhou, so because of me loving the sound of the song, I decided to look in the video's description for the song's name, but imagine my absolute shock and surprise at seeing the words "GET IN THE RING" right before my eyes!
Anyway, this song really reminds me of some type of supernatural action anime set in modern Japan (that Seija artwork only reinforces that image). Definitely an amazing find for sure! I should really listen to some more of GET IN THE RING's music. They make some pretty great stuff. Though the same could be said for most Touhou doujin musical groups. They are how I found out about Touhou in the first place for a reason.
Found this from a YouTube recommendation. Clicked on it because I like that artstyle for Momiji. Though this music is pretty good. Reminds me of Alan Parsons Project.
So, among the various concepts for future Touhou fangames I could make (and so far, one of the most developed) is for this one which I've named "Blooming Rain in Eden" (Eden obviously being a reference to the Garden of Eden). The main story of the game is that out of nowhere, mysterious immensely powerful fairies and plants (along with a strange otherworldly rainstorm) pour out from a strange garden which appeared on the edge of Gensokyo. With the coming of the strange fairies and plants, all humans (full and half) have become sick or paralyzed (which includes Reimu, Marisa, Sanae, Youmu...
Just wanting to link this tread both for myself (so I can remember the contents of it) and for others to see as well.
One of the best songs which displays why German is one of my favorite languages and why I love German Touhou! :3
Reminds me of the German Empire and Austria-Hungary for some reason. Could be because of this song sounding somewhat "militaristic" to me. Would make a pretty great marching theme at the very least.
(Another song.) This is probably one of my favorite Touhou arrangements. Reminds me of rain for some reason (one of the reasons I like it so much), which is ironic considering the song's title translates to "Portrait in Sand".
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