(東方Project)東方冥異伝 OP

[BlackLionRampant]

I like how there's a series of bizarre monsters in the middle. Practically all of which are references to anime or games---there's an Aura Battler Dunbine monster, as well as a D&D beholder with arms (holding the swastika flag).

[BeyondBirthday18]

What's the name of the song?

[gokk777]

@BeyondBirthday18 Don't know the artist but the song is called kagura dance I think

[Withmyrice]

I don't remember some of those touhous

[WatcherCCG]

Am I the only one who got a mild Shin Megami Tensei vibe from this?

[Natchama]

This is asked before, but does anyone know what circle this is?

[daikonnorati]

パチュリーのやる気の無さに拍手

[EternalSaber]

this there a full song for this mix?

[smartanimegirl]

I really want to play this...

Too bad I don't understand Japanese. D:

[Fangirl15]

@smartanimegirl well if you look in the right places there are english paches fro them i have a few games and they are in english now

[daggeryellow]

何これ

[RyuNoGaeshi]

Liking cause of Yukari and Reimu as Second last and last character to appear

[Tenraio]

Meling never got anyone call her by name ; w ;

[kurosujiomake]

"china"

meling is not amused

[GloriousOtaku]

1:09 Agent Blascowitz sends his regards

[shuushirakawa]

Dunbine at 1:06

[DuskChimera]

Lulz to the eyeball monster holding the nazi sign at 1:09.

Other than that, great song xD

[twentyfourpurple]

Yay, Mokou and Flandre made an appearance~

[oko379]

1:10 is the monster holding what i think it is.....

what year did the setting of this game took place?

[Christeron]

@oko379 yes it is what you think it is. Its a Nazi Swastika flag. The thing is there isnt any taboo in japan to depreciate it as an enemy or something negative as what is been shown here.

So there isnt any problem.

[ShaShaChanHazALeek]

must..... know..... what the song is!!!

plus i really wanna play the game ^_^

[chichirinuriko20]

@ShaShaChanHazALeek: The song is called 神楽舞 ^^.

[watafug]

for some reason this reminds me of higurashi

[JimmyCougar]

This looks like it might be from one of those "adult" RPGs.

[KittyCatRat]

@JimmyCougar Actually it's a curtain fire shooter game. There isn't anything suggestive, really.

[JimmyCougar]

@KittyCatRat I know, I just played Mountain of Faith. I'm saying this trailer looks like one.

[KittyCatRat]

@JimmyCougar Lol, it does. I can't argue with that. I've seen anime that were based off adult games... but had the adult parts taken out (Air and Kanon)

[FateJHedgehog]

Since no one brought the question up and machine translations are always difficult to slog through: who did the music? It sounds like See-Saw but I can't be sure it's just not the style of the song throwing me off.

[endofworldin7days]

1:22

LOL

The name says China instead of Hong Meirin

[Christeron]

Actually it may meant to be a Nazi symbol.

Note that The common manji used was nv turn sideway and is in no association with red flag and white circle.

Still no matter. It belongs to a MONSTER carrying it. Which is a enemy that you had to kill. Think of it, you get to destroy it.

Still this game was made in japan for japanese. Japan doesnt have that wide spread total censorship on it unlike many in europe.

To them its not a problem depreciating it as enemy or something bad.

[watafug]

@Christeron

Not sure what you're trying to imply but lets just state this real quick.

Japan was not and is not anti-semetic

Censorship diminishes peoples rights to express themselves, even if it's something nobody wants to see or hear, it's their right, their choice.

[Christeron]

@watafug Im the one thats not sure why r u directing this to me. I nv even hinted that japan is in any way anti-semetic. Im just pointing out that Japan have no problem using the NAZI symbol as a negative demonstration of ideas, eg. an evil enemy.

I dont agree with u, censorship is impt to some extent. U dont wnt to allow people promoting n aiming to form back the glorious NAZI Germany in Germany n places like Poland. Someday maybe, but not today not now. Where n when the line is thats Impt.

[watafug]

@Christeron

Yes but you have to recognize that censorship, when taken to far is clearly oppression. Especially when there are some biases involved.

Take the both dictatorships in WWII

Both Hitler and Stalin banned anything that was against or not specifically promoting their views.

What I'm saying is that if someone doesn't like looking at something it's their choice to look or not.

The same idea with banned books, it restricts people from saying what they want.

[Christeron]

@watafug alright then, so the topic changed. ma... so be it.

ok now. I have no idea what are you trying to implied of my statement. let me just say that I think censorship is impt, the question is where to draw the line. Extremist ideas are banned for reasons in short: Propaganda is very powerful. Some things for the good of public and community are needed to be censored. Again the problem is where is the line.

In this game, in Japan, Nazi is not it as long as they are not promoting it

[watafug]

@Christeron

However when the only amount of information that released to the public is one sided then that creates a bias onto the entire community.

I'm not saying that I support any extremist but I think that if someone does not allow another person to see something, like a movie or something that infringes on 2 peoples rights.

1. The person who made it, because they cannot express themselves without being repressed.

2. The person who would have seen it, because it should be THEIR choice.

[Christeron]

@watafug In the end who and what decide what is one sided? Thats the line. If a movie was made to glorified the "good" deeds of Nazis and to bring the world to their ideas, will it not be censored? Rights are not born with. They are created and given, written by blood of other faceless people

sometimes what 1 million people see as bullshit but then only 1 person dont and accept it is dreadful enuf to warrant censorship. What and where the line is is the point.

[watafug]

@Christeron

But that's what i'm saying.

The nazi's already made such a movie pre-WW2 and they destroyed any that had any conflicting views.

That's what I mean by one sided censorship.

In the end what is a "Right"?

I believe if you have the physical capability to do something then that's your right.

If you don't then you better find a way to earn it.

Even if it is not just in anyone's opinion, saying someone has no "Right" to do something makes me just want to defy them to prove a point.

[HokageAlchemist]

@watafug

How bout you stop moaning and just play the damn game you two.

[watafug]

@HokageAlchemist

Yeah sorry good point.

didn't see how far we were getting out of hand

[laughingfurry]

@HokageAlchemist

Thank you.

[maravalhassilva]

Can I play as cirno?

[Drauph]

This vid is really good! Beautiful song and good images! I can't wait to play that game, Thank you for sharing!

[ginhiryuu]

yeah

i seen many touhou video

this one character design is very good and match with the song XD.......

[GabrielOfTheeInferno]

out of all the touhou projects ive seen this one comes the closest to my expectations by far! the only things wrong with it are small things.

ex. flandres wings and reimus staff/wand thing lol

thats just me being nit picky. otherwise its perfect

[riku0228]

...so what exactly is the game about...??

And is there an English Patch?

[naya8021]

我想知道這首歌的名稱是.....

[VampireCrazyness]

Because there only exist a few males in Gensokyo. Well, that the games show anyway. The only ones I know of are Reimu's turtle and Rinnosuke.

[laughingfurry]

There's also a male cloud that's controled by a nun. Scary are the man cloud fists.

[laughingfurry]

Just to say, VampireCrazyness is right. The games (this is a fanwork of it) have mostly girls with power. Well, the most notable characters are various females. There are males, but not worth noting for the most part.

[maravalhassilva]

@laughingfurry

Sorry to ask but... THERE ARE ANY MALES IN GENSOKYO?!!!

I mean... I only know that there is the humans village...

Ok them... I think that there are mens BUT they have no power... soo... they're useless to the history :P

[laughingfurry]

In relevance to the story, most of the living males are not human, such as Genji and Unzan. Only a very small percentage that are relevant to the story are human in anyway, but have no relevance to in game events.

[maravalhassilva]

@laughingfurry

... Reimu is human...

Marisa is human

sakuya (maybe) is human...

And others I can't remeber right now...

they have no revelance to the history? O.o

I think I will stay with my theory that males can't control magic in gensokyo...

[laughingfurry]

Of course there's female humans that are vital to the story. I was talking about the male humans that have little to do with in game events. Events not in game are a different story.

Touhou does have a wiki, so you can search for males and get answers.

[SkyeAng3l]

Zun has said there are other males in Gensokyo, but they don't use danmaku like the girls, so that probably means they're all physical fighters or whatever.

[maravalhassilva]

@SkyeAng3l

It's a possibility.

I actualy never thinked on that. thanks for the hint

[watafug]

@SkyeAng3l

so far in the entire series there are 6 males

2 are animals; ones a turtle and one's a cat, neither are anthropomorphic.

2 are barely mentioned in passing

the one most common isn't even in a official game

and the one that is, is a cloud.

[SkyeAng3l]

@watafug I didn't say they were shown in the series, I said there are others in Gensokyo, they just haven't been a part of the story.

[silverhairedelf09]

i love Eirin's drawing... and Yukari's drawing, and Chen's, and Ran's.....

You know what.... I LOVE ALL OF THEIR DRAWINGS!!!!

[Loa4EVER]

Seemes cool, I have to try this one day XD. Nice music too.

[OtherZelda]

I like the way everyone is drawn, maybe someday I'll try this game.

[localHazzard]

I agree the swastica is probably meant to be a religious symbol in this video, but the white dot and red background probably doesn't help it's case (unless that's part of the religion too, I'm not sure my self). Btw isn't the religious version suppose to be not diagonal (like in Japan), or is common for it to be so in other cultures?

[lordsofla]

Even though I am replying to you, everyone who keeps on talking about swastikas is also the audience.

The swastika was a religious symbol LONG before the nazis ever used it. It is prominent in quite a few east asian religions if I recall correctly, and one of those is Shinto: the native religion of Japan.

It was even used by the Greeks a long time ago as well.

Look it up on wikipedia, or if you don't trust it, google the origins of the swastika or something like that.

[aznperson8]

Goddamn it. Damn near ANY time a swastica is outside the Western World, it's a Buddhist/Hindu symbol (very archaic in origin, traced back to Sanskrit). It's a religious thing, like a cross. Unless there's outright mention of nazis, there's NOT any Nazis.

[DarkPactz0r]

did you notice that only the nazi-type swastika has a red background and a white circle?

(not to mention that it's angled)

[aznperson8]

That's great. IT'S A MONSTER WITH A TINY NAZI FLAG.

Shouldn't everybody stop to think why in the world there would be a monster with a tiny Nazi flag in a Touhou game and simply assume the more logical "IT BE SUM SORT OF BUDDHIST MONSTER SYMBOLISM THING" and run with it?

[xOnimaru]

Yes leave it to Hitler to take a sybol that looked cool to him and make it his own for only that reason... and now everyone hates it! u_u

But what the hell, that was a mindflayer back there? COOL!

[maravalhassilva]

But the problem is:

No one said that to us before :P

In Europe we associate that flag to the nazi.

After all it was the nazi flag so when we see that flag we say that it is the nazi flag.

Personaly, I never knew the origins of that flag.

Now I understand.

We should start to learn stuff like this at school just to stop this kind of problems...

But it isn't our fault!!! No one never tould us that!!!

[laughingfurry]

As for the Nazi thing, I agree with what you say. History classes should cover this because not knowing this will only lead to prejudice and war, which I personally fear would happen one day. Makes me very thankful that I had one of those "radical" type of history teachers growing up.

I'm actually been thinking of doing a vlog and part of it covering this very subject. Only thing I can't decide on is how to approach it.

[Ziiiv]

@aznperson8

This IS a Nazi symbol. The swastika is facing right, rotated 45 degrees, and is overlayed on a white circle with a red background. That's exactly what the Nazi party's flag was.

[pyrosinugami]

@aznperson8 in ancient japan it was used to denote the place of temple's or other religious sites on Japanese maps

[UTAU53Yui]

@aznperson8 It's still a tricky thing to use BECAUSE of what the Nazis did. It's not really a Hindu sign anymore, there's no way to change that.

Plus the fact that many Japanese mock WWII makes it even worse (figures they'd be the ones to use it).

[LordMyoo]

Don't suppose there's any chance of it being a Hindu Swastika?

[Xepher013]

the "Hindu Swastika" is called a Manji

[InugamiPup]

The swastika was originally a hindu symbol. The Nazi's thought of it as a good luck symbol and used it as such.

[GretchenDawntreader]

this is nice, the visuals, the music...has kind of a Production IG feel to it.

[kouhii020]

Hong Meiling is labeled as Chuugoku XD

[YokoshimaShonen]

I'd pay for this to be real. ;-;

Also, I'm amazed that I can read the Spanish posts here with only two years of Spanish class. >_>

[AmityProductions]

yeah, even mexicans and spanishs play touhou and love their characters and music like me :P!

[rincewindTA]

Er... its real. Its the opening of the fanmade RPG Defiant of Shrine Maiden released in the C73 if my memory not fail me.

[sundowniseeu]

this is actually the open to a touhou RPG game, so yes its real ;P

the download file is freaking huge tho D=

[YokoshimaShonen]

Yeah, I figured that out like, two days after I originally commented. I thought this was some fanmade fanime opening. >_>

My bad~

[usada3310]

ちょ、中国と小悪魔Ａってｗｗ

[zk43a]

ああ！！　持っています！やっています！

おもしろいですよ

[strawflowe]

うわ・・・凄すぎ・・・！

はちみつくまさんって天才なんですか！？

[fwojeifo]

ふ（鼻笑

[taboovampire]

The monsters kinda creep me out .__.

[YouAreManiac]

Seen one carrying a Nazi flag D:

[tabi16]

Cool

[orcaroja]

como se llama la cancion y ese juego de touhou

[MuffinPoxolatoso]

Ese no es un juego!! creo que es uno de los futuros anime que se quieren hacer si no enseñaria el titulo y nuevos personajes (por que todos los que se muestran ya existen)

[orcaroja]

mejor que hagan nuevos

[MuffinPoxolatoso]

Lei un comentario del dueño, quizas sea un RPG (Juego de rol) de Touhou, pero los personajes ya hechos ya son MUY famosos, es que a parte desde hace un mes o 2 no me acuerdo ya debio haber salido el anime de MAIKAZE, pero pues que se le hace? Touhou aumento de fans comparado hace 2 años, entre doujinshis, muchos estudios haciendo animes de touhou, y quizas juegos nuevos es muy confuso

[orcaroja]

eso significa que muy complicado

[MuffinPoxolatoso]

de hecho es muy complicado para ZUN el solo (en serio un solo hombre) hizo los graficos musica, etc

[sennritumeisui]

いいですよね。これ！

[eepsahippo]

Eeps! I am so very sorry! I misread!! The latter ending of the CD this is on is asymmetric. But the MAKER of this song is East Dark ReSoundWave. T^T; I am so very sorry.

[aurion123]

can you please send me the link to download it

[eepsahippo]

The name of this song is 神楽舞 which means something like 'Kagura Dance...'

It's by 「asymmetric」and is the opening to this Touhou project, which, Malderas doesn't understand, really is 'Defiant of Shrine Maiden.' In English it's more like 'Shrine Maiden Defiance/ The Defiant Shrine Maiden' (like Malderas did say) =)

極度の仕事、hippopheonix。 私は絶対に東方シリーズを愛する!!

[emrie2121]

DANGIT PLEASE SOMEONE ANYONE PLEASE*breaks down crying*TELL ME THE NAME OF THIS SONG!!!!

[Valkyriebrunnhilde]

can someone tell me the name of this song?

[KageNoKoe]

Can someone confirm when it will be released? C73? (or is it already?)

[hippophoenix]

Released on C73,the third day(2007/12/31)

[Malderas]

All that work (it looks pretty good, by the way) and they couldn't get one native English speaker to tell them that 'defiant of shrine maiden' doesn't make any sense?

Someone tell these people that they need to change it depending on what they meant...:

-In Defiance of the Shrine Maiden

-The Defiant Shrine Maiden

Two very different meanings, but I can't tell which one they're trying to say.

[gaysharif]

Who cares if it doesn't make sense? Whats important is that its fun.

[DieFinsternisUndHass]

What were those monsters in the middle part supposed to do? Oo

[hippophoenix]

This is an opening from a touhou "RPG" game.

Those monsters should be the enemy in this

game

[DieFinsternisUndHass]

ah, ok, I could have thought of that *stupid me*

thx