Optical 東方 Touhou Unplugged/Classic 43

Title: 神々が恋した幻想郷
Artist: ただお
Circle: =NeutraL= (Now Neutral2)
Album: Acoustic Shooter
Original: 神々が恋した幻想郷 (The Gensokyo the Gods Loved)

"Brightly colored vegetables are insufficient" lolwut?
Ok, that is the most absurd title for a touhou arrange I've heard o.O, and wtf does it have to do with Patchy -_-;?

That aside so I got a request for an unplugged Nitori's stage theme, and since I love that track I decided to up this.

Nitori's stage theme is pretty awesome, it's one of the first touhou tracks I heard. Personally it has a very heavy japanesque feeling to it. And an acoustic arrange of it really brings out the "essence" of the song. I know, I know the track is missing some parts, but well it's pretty nice nonetheless.
ZUNG's comment:
"It's the first tune you hear after infiltrating Youkai Mountain. It's bursting with the heavy verses of Gensokyo.
I prepared the best melodious tune I could for the beautiful valley the youkai reside in.
I hope I have managed to convey a rather liberal feeling, in contrast to the darker stage two theme."
That's a very nice description you gave to your own song, ZUN.

Yeah, as you guys can tell I've gotten IRON ATTACK!'s newest album, but well I won't comment on it, as I got it from 4chan in shitty quality and half of the album was missing and well, metal tracks is Chaos' job, right? Only thing I'm saying is that I'm pissed off at them, WHY WON'T THEY BLOODY CHANGE THEIR KEYBOARD!!? Well, IRON's guitar work is awesome as always. Crap, ok enough commenting, I'll leave the rest to Chaos.

Anyways, comment, tell me what you think and whatnot.

Thanks for watching. Now... when's my TAM and Touhou Orchestra album gonna show up...
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[HiroCascade]

I just had this sad kind of conclusion. I keep reading how gods get their strength from people believing in them. SO what if people started to forget/not believe in Suwako and Kanako? WOuldn't that mean that their power fades, thus they fade? Looks like Nitori is doing a bit of asearch. Man, I'm sad now. :<

[KakashiMr]

Well I'm not very religious myself, but I have made various thesis on religions, etc...

It'd be too long to post them here so I'll make it short and simple.

I believe that all gods in general originate from humans, be it to explain facts that seem somewhat unreal to our eyes, or for other reasons.

But then all this logic falls apart when we look at the fact that ZUN is a Buddhist (I'm pretty sure about that), meaning he has different beliefs then your normal Christian or Hebrew.

[KakashiMr]

Meaning maybe ZUN wanted to represent a different religion, like maybe Christianity by creating the Moriya Shrine, since in Buddhism isn't about Buddha gathering faith from humans or whatnot.

D:

Anyways, thanks a bunch for watching.

[theshippfan22]

the frog hat......

[KakashiMr]

Is Suwako's, the Onbashira (piece of wood that the hat is on) is Kanako's. Yet where are the two goddesses?

[Extraintrovert]

This a theme that one should play sitting next to a river or a lake, watching the fish and kappas swim and play... now I feel relaxed.

[AzureMetreu]

@KakashiMr

I have always thought that ZUN was more of a Shinto person, where all that is you know?

Mainly because of Reimu having a Shinto Shrine, Moriya Shrine is as well. But bringing it more modern, there is now the Buddhist temple of Myouren and the Taoist religion that followed in TH13.

(i know this is an old old post but I felt like replying anyway.)

[daemocoles]

The apostle Paul saw the unifying power of a single universal God. Now that we have reunited as a single species the concept is no longer relevant. We are now in the process of harmonising the human race - or in Neon Genesis Evangelion terms, about to undergo complementation... hehe

[Dscvncnvmvbnm]

This is great, which of the other classics are just acoustic guitar like this one?

[AvalanchCXVII]

I guess the impression one recieves from this music is dependent on Glass half full or empty kind of person.

But this music to me is really nostalgic and wistful.

The picture doesn't help.

All I can see, with Suwako's hat perched upon one Kanako's pillars, is one day in the future, with the Moriya shrine lost past memory even within Gensokyo, the last reminders of two gods who, garnering no faith, hold none for more worshippers.

Consenting to slowly fade away in the Eastern Fantasy.

[shingshongshamalama]

This really does feel like a folk theme for Gensokyo itself, if anything. This is the tune they all think of when they remember what it was like, visiting this strange, rural otherland of mysticism and magic.

[animemasterrick]

@KakashiMr Conclusion, Believe in zun and his power will never fade. Zun forever. Lock and load!

[animemasterrick]

@HiroCascade Then believe not in yourself, nor the you who believes in others nor the others who believe in you, believe in the you that believes in those who believe in the you who believes in them!!

[Ceth]

@HiroCascade

This reminds me of one quest in Baldur's Gate II - I was tasked to deal with a haunted tomb, where there were undying, ageless people guarding a god's crypt. Their problem was, they had long since forgotten the name, status or purpose of the god, so their praise had turned to resentment. Having now received such a sizable "anti-praise", their god was rendered helpless and could no longer appear to them, so that they could regain their faith. Who knows how long the chain kept going.

[HiroCascade]

@arahman56 Do know the Moriya's moved from our time/reality to Gensokyo. So... I'm trying to understand your point then. And to me it's not really working lol

[arahman56]

@HiroCascade Well, at least according to Manosuke, things exist in Gensokyo because people don't believe in them, which means that if people started believing in them, they will no longer exist in Gensokyo.