How did you get into Touhou?

[mirukubun]

I got into Touhou thanks to U.N. Owen Was Her and all the music videos like Cirno's Perfect Math Class, Bad Apple, Priere, etc. ૮₍ ´ ꒳ `₎ა I tried the games a long time ago but dropped all interest because I thought the games were too hard for me. Now my interest recently rekindled and I've been listening to a lot of songs and playing them for fun even if I suck at it lol. ꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱

 

[Queen Honeybumble]

I was absorbed into Touhou originally through nuclear fusion power, of course. Friend of mine made me watch Nuclear fusion dojo, and then all the assorted things we all love like Marisa stole the precious thing, Scarlet Police, etc. You know the drill, I was forever destined for and bound to Touhou. My first introduction to any Touhou games was kind of strange cuz I didn't know where to start, and one day I saw a game on the playstation store, so my first ever Touhou game was Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet...

I stayed in cuz the music and memes are totally rad

 

[SasaMisa]

My initial exposure was through a single dojinshi called Bousou-Get! centered around Reisen & Eirin, which was part of a batch download back in 2007. Had no idea at the time precisely what Touhou Project was other than it being some kind of shoot 'em up. Saw a few characters here and there on various image sites following that, but even years later, I still didn't know more than a handful of them (Suika; Marisa; Suwako; Cirno, to name a few), plus I constantly continued to mix the girls up. (^_^

That all changed in late 2013 though, when I accidentally came across Estheone's fantastic Wandering Souls on YouTube and decided to give a try for myself. Fell in love with the characters, story, music, etc. instantly and the rest is history since it wasn't long before I was delving into exactly where they all came from originally. Having a mate who was into arcade vertical scrollers certainly helped in that regard as well. (^_^)

 

[Gou the frog]

I truly have unlocked my most purest memories of childhood. That being my four years old self was lucky enough to own a i-pad and this was the third video that I watched ever since I got into youtube. The first one being Team Fabulous 2 (Fortress) 2 video by kitty0706, The Second being PvZ soundtracks and the third one being a remix of a remix: A Touhou PV: Tsurupettan/Delicious Flat Chest with window error remix. (The orginal was made by IOSYS. This truly might be my first contact of Touhou even though I have no idea what I was watching that time.) 

I'm singing baka mitai, 'cause kitty pass away in Covid, PvZ series died off on the hands of EA, and to put a nail in the coffin if it there ain't 2 more nails already, IOSYS stopped making these kinds of PV and even if they make one, they aren't very recent and doesn't have the same feel as those opposed from 2010-2014. We all have to move on, damm, it's raining heavily today with thunder and storms. At least, Touhou won't be falling down nether PvZ nor TF2 from their golden position. I believe in the communities no you guys! Hehe.... Let's all have fun and have a thing or two to reminisce when we got older, lads!

 

[Reicirna_731]

Surprisingly, I got into Touhou because of Bad Apple, UN Was Her, and some black midi videos when I was obsessed with them at the time, most of those videos are based around Touhou songs, and because I enjoyed listening to osts from the games.

I also want to add that I played some Touhou fan games from the Android store.

 

[Jisenko]

I first played Touhou Luna Nights back in 2020, but lost interest quickly, despite liking the music. I came back to it on November of last year and played through it fully. Honestly one of my favorite games to this day. After i finished Luna Nights i started playing the official Touhou games with my first one being IN then followed by the rest! 

 

[Cal-of-Gearva]

A year and a half back I was listening to some metal on a run and a RichaadEB Touhou Remix came on (I think it was Nuclear Fusion?). I thought it was a good song, but what really caught my attention was the album art (I'm a sucker for good album art and I cannot lie). It made me do a little bit or research, got me to play PCB as my first Touhou game, and here we are now.