Extracted from ZUN's comment on the MIDI arrangement of this song that he hosted on one of his obscure websites: "As for the arrangement, I'm pretty satisfied with it. I stressed the romanticism across the whole thing. While listening to the original, I must have made the song with the idea of a precocious child in mind. With the latter half of the original song's intense, violent percussion, that seems to be the right answer. That does indeed bring out the childishness of the song. (Really now? (^^;)" ->precocious child- -Make your own conclusions (?-
Looked for the full description of the song. It's about the romantic era. 'Children from the romantic era' would've been a better title, but we know ZUN's English is wacky.
Eh. I can hear the embryo of "Doll Judgment" in this theme. Like, I keep expecting to hear "Why why why why whyyyyy..." at 0:47 . Well, I guess that's just what's known as a leitmotif, Zun did the same in the following game (and probably the others), with "The Maid and the Pocket Watch of Blood" sharing similarities with "U.N. Owen was Her". (Mmmmh... 'I can hear the embryo'... one more entry to be added to my list of "Sentences not to be taken out of context")
@@mynameismmandimheretosay7979 but white is the combination of all 7 colors of the rainbow. So she technecally has either 100% or 114.2857142857% power compared to Alice.
I don't play the game. I was looking for a black MIDI of Caramelldansen and found this instead. Not exactly sure how or why. Not being able to resist the title, I decided to check it out. And I'm glad I did. This is good music.
That seems to be how half the fans are introduced to the series these days. I had a friend who showed me "Death Waltz," the one that spawned the Black MIDI genre, and I thought "You know, that's a really catchy tune. Where'd it come from?" I found out all right.
If you don't play a Touhou PC-98 game before... Well you need to download Emulator to run it... Because it's on a Japanese Computer from the 80s to Early 2000s. Well you need to download the roms to play it on emulator. These kind of game ROMs are easy to find it on Google... Well you'll just search "touhou 1-5 english translated pc 98 rom" on Google and that's it. And you need to configure the Emulator before loading the rom first... And that's all the things I'll tell you.
zun is a time traveller confirmed before windows, pc 98 existed mystic square is the last pc 98 touhou game mystic square acronym = ms microsoft = ms next touhou game = ms windows os zun = time traveller?!?!??!
Perhaps, if Windows 95 didn't already exist long before Mystic Square was created - heck, it was around over a year before Touhou itself!! ZUN was just used to outdated tech i guess
One of my most favorite songs in this game!!! I love it! this and Doll of Misery are my top favorites from this. Also I love the picture it almost bought a tear to my eye aww Marisa and Alice and the song goes well with the picture.
Taylor Kim Ah you like that song also!? wow awesome!! heh I think it is a very good song and really fits Yumeko even if we don`t know much about her I think through the song it does man I love Zun`s music.
@@silvernightray7701 no. Unless you are blind, Marisa extra ending in this game involving her hanging Alice to the ceiling and stealing her grimoire. Not exactly romantic FYI Majority of MariAli shippers either never play PC-98 games or just read doujinshi materials.
0:35 Kirai...kirai...loving.... Dareka...dareka just cant be alive without you... Doushite....naze kaaaa shii raaa~ WhyWhyWhy why dont I miss you alot now forever! Chikai...mirai...turning.... Tooi... omoi just cant be alive without you.... Doushite....naze kaaaa shii raaa~ WhyWhyWhy why cant I just be with you now forever!
No you're right. Are you talking about the part that begins at 0:35 ??? SImilar to a part of doll judgement. Same feeling. Alice really stayed true to herself from pc 98 era to window. :)
Yes. Marisa stole the Precious thing is said to be a "remix" of both these two songs. Though it isn't of the same style as ZUN's music as it is a fan remix.
That pic, tho: Two girls Flying in a night sky No feet apart Cuz they're lesbians. Edit: "I just realised it was basically the plot of Imperishable Night."
This is mah fave PC-98 song, just...mmdmndgjjjkjjsn. I mean it feels so happy and adventurous, it really holds you in. It also feels very fast paced, making up for the "Oh shit, bullets" feel, but its so calm and cheery it just makes you have *fun* during the stage. Also godam who doesn't ship MariAli, I mean even IN made them the most powerful *shot*...
You'd think this isn't a popular song, but there are an incredible amount of arranges made from this song. Besides that, Touhou on RUclips is usually for and by Western fans, who didn't really experience the PC98 era.
the lot of you joking "oh woopsies, i'm in a list somewhere now teehee" when all i associate this theme with is little elementary school kids having their little precious moments together, baby's first crush you know? get well soon i guess ✌
I like ur impression of the song. I feel the same, it feels like those hazy memories of your first crush when you were a kid except you dont remember what happened but only those feelings you had like heart racing
Yeah, people apparently conflate romantic with sexual, which is stupid Your interpretation of the song is most likely what this song is about, it's Alice's stage theme back when she used to be a child Or maybe the 'romantic' aspect of the song is referring to a childlike idea of romance/beauty, not necessarily a feeling or a desire like how one would normally understand the word
ZUN's talent well runs DEEP. I can imagine this song going with LOTS of different things. It's melodious yet intense at the same time, like Touhou games themselves. .....He might've wanted a second opinion for the title however...
(( That is Marisa during 0:10 and so on with younger PC-98 Alice. At the beginning, beginning picture is pretty much reversed like said before, Older Alice with a younger Marisa. ))
Alright, I'm just going to ignore that name..... Anyway, GREAT theme! I like everything! It reminds me of Lotus Love from Touhou 4! 0:13 just tickles my brain with that happy chord progression and I can’t help it, AAAAAAAAAA! (Great)
ZUN's comment about the track: "It has a pretty good Makai feel about it, doesn't it? The stage 1, 2 and 3 songs all turned out with a real sense of speed. Since it's Makai, I think it feels more western... hmm."
ZUN, I don’t get how you can say none of the Touhou characters are gay when you took the theme song from when Marisa and Alice first met as kids and named it Romantic Children. EDIT: So that interview was fake! Good.
It looked like you used the image from that one Anime, "Kannazuki no Miko", and edited some of the image to make one of the girls look like Alice Margatroid!
Видеоклипы
I searched for this song by title.
Now i'm on a list somewhere.
NotGivingMy Nam better watch out 😂
Welcome to the club, club fed specifically.
ZUN, why must you make one of your best songs ungooglable?
Dreigonix
ungooglable is really fun to pronounce
I too just searched the song by name.
I too thought the same thing when I hit Enter.
Well, good to know the list has more than just my name in it.
Imagine this being your favorite song (rightfully, btw) and having to explain to someone that your favorite song is called "Romantic Children" 💀
🪦🪦🪦
Been in that situation.
Just say "My favorite song is Mystic Square's stage 3 theme. I forgot the name sorry"
If it was my favorite song, I'd say "It's Romantic Children from Touhou Kaikidan."
Extracted from ZUN's comment on the MIDI arrangement of this song that he hosted on one of his obscure websites:
"As for the arrangement, I'm pretty satisfied with it.
I stressed the romanticism across the whole thing. While listening to the original, I must have made the song with the idea of a precocious child in mind. With the latter half of the original song's intense, violent percussion, that seems to be the right answer. That does indeed bring out the childishness of the song. (Really now? (^^;)"
->precocious child-
-Make your own conclusions (?-
Thanks to lots of us searching for this song, FBI agents will know the genius of ZUN.
ye and his good taste in lolis 😉
This is my most favorite Touhou song ever, I have so many replays on this 😂
Lol
@@negligence8248stop
@@negligence8248 yeahhhhhh loli mentioned raaaahhhh
Shipping Marisa and Alice might been a bad idea. It would be Malice.
MariAli
@@MisterSleep1123 Maralice
Oh shit your right
M A L I C E
C A N N O N
Rice
Mace
Marice
Rili
I love Romantic Children
😭 😭 😭
📸
The capital letters are very important in that sentence.
such a calm and flowing nice theme, one of my favourites from the PC98 series
All these years and you're in the comments of a stage theme from PC-98. Mama I've done it =)). Your content is amazing. I love it
and the stage its brutal lol
@@xiao4097 this was just a beginning and at the moment you meet yuki, you know you fucked up
@@cipeentity463 oop thats true
@@xiao4097 not really,stage 1~4 are normal but everything become hard since the end of stage 5 (bullet spam+aimed bullet,then Yumeko fucking come)
What's so romantic about children?... Unless... maybe the children are from Rome.
I think it means in the Byronic sense.
it seems you are too innocent to know.
@@sakitoshi
no they're definitely from rome
ZUN just stated the truth
Looked for the full description of the song. It's about the romantic era. 'Children from the romantic era' would've been a better title, but we know ZUN's English is wacky.
This is one of the themes that go unnoticed because of the corresponding boss theme. Ironically enough, said boss theme is also pretty underrated.
Correspondent boss theme? is that boss theme Plastic mind or Grimoire of Alice
wing zero
Plastic Mind.
Huh. I actually like Romantic Children better than Plastic Mind.
I'd say extremely underrated. Plastic Mind is amazing. ..
Romantic Children and Reincarnation are two of my favorite pc-98 themes.
Eh.
I can hear the embryo of "Doll Judgment" in this theme.
Like, I keep expecting to hear "Why why why why whyyyyy..." at 0:47 .
Well, I guess that's just what's known as a leitmotif, Zun did the same in the following game (and probably the others), with "The Maid and the Pocket Watch of Blood" sharing similarities with "U.N. Owen was Her".
(Mmmmh... 'I can hear the embryo'... one more entry to be added to my list of "Sentences not to be taken out of context")
Alice has such amazing songs. Reimu's songs only have 28.5714% the power of Alice's songs.
Technically even less since white isn’t in the rainbow, ha.
@@mynameismmandimheretosay7979 but white is the combination of all 7 colors of the rainbow. So she technecally has either 100% or 114.2857142857% power compared to Alice.
@@R64GreatDays black is the combination of all colors, white is the lack of colors
@@tehgamernoob9329
The full visible spectrum adds up to be white.
Take all the colours away and you are left with darkness (black).
@@R64GreatDays guys's there two color mdoes
additive and substrative please y'all are both right
Mystic Square has some terrific songs that are barely remembered. Definitely my favourite PC-98 ost.
PC98's Desire Drive.
EDIT: Romantic Children sounds like Desire Drive IMO.
The sense of nostalgia is truly beyond words.
I would definitely start by avoiding the words in the name. LMAO
Romantic what now
MariReimu is bette-
*Gets shanked by dolls*
X2
You cant accept ReiMari in 98 times because Reimu's heart already belongs to meira
@@TheKoakuma but in windows era.. uwu
I mean, Marisa didn't hang HER to the ceiling, unlike Alice..oh, and, she's the only other child besides Alice and Marisa.. Sooooo...
DON'T YOU DARE
Every time I play this stage, the music makes me feel like I'm traveling through outer space. I love it.
I don't play the game. I was looking for a black MIDI of Caramelldansen and found this instead. Not exactly sure how or why.
Not being able to resist the title, I decided to check it out.
And I'm glad I did. This is good music.
That seems to be how half the fans are introduced to the series these days. I had a friend who showed me "Death Waltz," the one that spawned the Black MIDI genre, and I thought "You know, that's a really catchy tune. Where'd it come from?" I found out all right.
If you don't play a Touhou PC-98 game before... Well you need to download Emulator to run it... Because it's on a Japanese Computer from the 80s to Early 2000s. Well you need to download the roms to play it on emulator. These kind of game ROMs are easy to find it on Google... Well you'll just search "touhou 1-5 english translated pc 98 rom" on Google and that's it. And you need to configure the Emulator before loading the rom first... And that's all the things I'll tell you.
And also... You need a font file for the Emulator to display the text...
I'd advise you to listen to the Windows-era songs, if you didn't yet.
play Touhou
UOOOHHHHHH ! ! ! Child romantic... 😭😭😭
this dude
blessed post
Based
cursed post
Average Lowres 2hu fan
I love this music, it's full of joy, positivity and romance
Not just any kind of romance, baby...
Does it matter? Romance is romance
@@aliardatalas9137 That's like saying "Age is just a number." ._.
The pictures in this video look like they were drawn in an oldschool anime style.
+TheGoomba98 Because they're parodying an actual oldschool anime
Vadosity Which one?
Kannazuki no Miko
+TheGoomba98 it's not an anime... it's a PC-98 game: Touhou 05 Mystic Square.
Turtle S3x I have a Walfas avatar. Why did you think I was a newcomer to Touhou?
Aw, that pic gives me the fluffiest yuri feels
But you're basically a robot... That's impressive if it can move even you. :0 ^_^
Dreigonix Genocidal dolls got feelings too.
Astrid AN #DollLivesMatter
fluffy? yuri? YAY~
@MedicineMelancholy so... how's the life at the hill?
First time seeing MS, it was Mystic Square. I thought it was MicroSoft!
Well, Touhou MS was the last game in the pc98 games.
Next game was on Windows OS.
And windows is Microsoft.
zun is a time traveller confirmed
before windows, pc 98 existed
mystic square is the last pc 98 touhou game
mystic square acronym = ms
microsoft = ms
next touhou game = ms windows os
zun = time traveller?!?!??!
Perhaps, if Windows 95 didn't already exist long before Mystic Square was created - heck, it was around over a year before Touhou itself!!
ZUN was just used to outdated tech i guess
@@wandering4104 outdated?? the PC-9801-86 sound card still rocking with windows 10
0:10 other way round...seija! Edit:Marisa and Alice Switched Sides
I SHIP IT LIKE FEDEX
why are they half naked tho...
oh oohh
[̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] here, have a lenny buck
You... I think, I might like you.
+Белый Герцог whaaaa?could you be.......?
my one true love?
when u see it u can never unsee it. Yea, it's that thing right there
This is very catchy and I definitely hear bits of Doll Judgement here
One of my most favorite songs in this game!!! I love it! this and Doll of Misery are my top favorites from this. Also I love the picture it almost bought a tear to my eye aww Marisa and Alice and the song goes well with the picture.
Glad were alike.I love doll of misery too!
Taylor Kim Ah you like that song also!? wow awesome!! heh I think it is a very good song and really fits Yumeko even if we don`t know much about her I think through the song it does man I love Zun`s music.
What's with this comment section
People who think they're funny.
lol
The comments are devilish
Touhou community
What's wrong with them?
My favorite Touhou PC-98 theme but the name "romantic children"☠️
I would make a joke about me being put on a list to search this song up. But at this point I would be surprised if I wasn't already on the list.
bruh, the most recent comment after you is from 2 momths ago
All I see in the comments is AliMari.
Run!
Hurry!Take my hand!
Save me!
Too late
That's right reimari is better
@@darksorcerer1176 **shotgun reloads**
>Alice's original stage theme
>Song is called Romantic Children
>Alice and Marisa were both children in Mystic Square
Alice x Marisa confirmed canon.
dude no
dude yes
@@silvernightray7701 no. Unless you are blind, Marisa extra ending in this game involving her hanging Alice to the ceiling and stealing her grimoire. Not exactly romantic
FYI Majority of MariAli shippers either never play PC-98 games or just read doujinshi materials.
@@PissG Well, PC-98 sure doesn't have much shipping material. It's only after the windows era that it started being a thing.
@@PissG people can ship what they want
0:35
Kirai...kirai...loving....
Dareka...dareka just cant be alive without you...
Doushite....naze kaaaa shii raaa~
WhyWhyWhy why dont I miss you alot now forever!
Chikai...mirai...turning....
Tooi... omoi just cant be alive without you....
Doushite....naze kaaaa shii raaa~
WhyWhyWhy why cant I just be with you now forever!
is it just me? or Doll Judgement goes well with this?
No you're right. Are you talking about the part that begins at 0:35 ??? SImilar to a part of doll judgement. Same feeling. Alice really stayed true to herself from pc 98 era to window. :)
Mister bear
Yep!
and no kidding, i was singing Doll Judgement while hearing Romantic Children and it fits very well
An interesting thing would be to mix these two parts of these themes.
Yes. Marisa stole the Precious thing is said to be a "remix" of both these two songs. Though it isn't of the same style as ZUN's music as it is a fan remix.
@@gingeas here is a mix of Romantic Children + Plastic Mind + Doll Maker of Bucuresti + Doll Judgement ruclips.net/video/3S5UCt8_F8w/видео.html
Definitely one of the best stage 3 themes, ever, imo. Alice's themes are too good >:v
The absolute best stage 3 theme.
i dunno EoSD's is pretty good as well X3
Yeah, it's *good*.
you guys forget gensokyo the gods loved. i fucking love that theme.
No I didn't. It's just not a favorite.
I just randomly got this in my recomended, and I'm glad
YESSSSSSSS
Im happy for you. I found about touhou by chance years ago and after playing some games i can say that the music is really good.
Lovers, sisters, hell, Alice and Marisa are always adorable together. (: Also, one of the best Touhou themes. Ever.
hol up
sisters? 🤨🤨📸📸📸
just coincidence no more
theyre not sisters
by far the best stage theme from the pc-98 era
I agree
Lets be real, everybody searches this "ms stage 3 theme"
That title is way too sus
not koka choson ryu
that pic is awful tho
The picture is giving me the thought that they are gonna Shanghai each other until they go Master Spark.
COME. BACK.
Yup, that is what also made “marisa stole precious thing” beside doll judgement.
That's not a combination of words I ever want to see again.
This is my cocaine...
suspicioussuwakoissuspicious
didyouseemycommentonpettanpettantsurupettan?
staaaaaaaaaaaare
***** Dis is good cocaine
Yay, musical drugs!
@@charles8740 daily doses of homemade LSD
Was not expecting a Kannazuki no Miko crossover in the thumbnail but here we are
god i felt weird typing this up
That pic, tho:
Two girls
Flying in a night sky
No feet apart
Cuz they're lesbians.
Edit: "I just realised it was basically the plot of Imperishable Night."
This is mah fave PC-98 song, just...mmdmndgjjjkjjsn.
I mean it feels so happy and adventurous, it really holds you in. It also feels very fast paced, making up for the "Oh shit, bullets" feel, but its so calm and cheery it just makes you have *fun* during the stage.
Also godam who doesn't ship MariAli, I mean even IN made them the most powerful *shot*...
Sorry but I really hate Mariali
They are good team cuz both are magician from forest of magic, like Reimu and yukari, i think it's more cannon reimari
This title really speaks to Touhou Fans.
They're all children. Or they're all child predators. One or the other.
@@professionalfangster1510 can confirm
@@chickennuggets1990 wow a comment from 2 weeks ago
@@houraisanproductions5879 wow a comment from 3 months ago
@@truehath eyy a comment 9hrs ago.
Long Live Touhou!
This song sounds intense and beautiful at the same time
少女漫画風なこの絵すき
あれは、神無月の巫女風魔理沙と子供アリス。
@@user-jz4hz8rk6m i dunno what ya saying but
i love this stage theme but hell nah the title 😨
You can notice how this inspired doll judgement.
Enourmusly beautiful
1:10 idk why but I expected the rest of PCB Alice's theme to play here lol
why isn't
this a popular song?
+My dearest ______ I Meant In The Touhou Fandom...
may be. because is a 98 generation theme. and this gen is not so popular in the fandom.
i would like zun remaster that games.
You'd think this isn't a popular song, but there are an incredible amount of arranges made from this song. Besides that, Touhou on RUclips is usually for and by Western fans, who didn't really experience the PC98 era.
月子 tsukiko 筒隠 tsutsukakushi JynX do that :) (and I know that when I know Len'en)
why, why, why, why
isn't this
song more
popular?
@Sab2Intros Who are you referring to?
Ahhh,PC-98.Your Theme names and songs never failed me to be impressed :D
the lot of you joking "oh woopsies, i'm in a list somewhere now teehee" when all i associate this theme with is little elementary school kids having their little precious moments together, baby's first crush you know? get well soon i guess ✌
I like ur impression of the song. I feel the same, it feels like those hazy memories of your first crush when you were a kid except you dont remember what happened but only those feelings you had like heart racing
Yeah, people apparently conflate romantic with sexual, which is stupid
Your interpretation of the song is most likely what this song is about, it's Alice's stage theme back when she used to be a child
Or maybe the 'romantic' aspect of the song is referring to a childlike idea of romance/beauty, not necessarily a feeling or a desire like how one would normally understand the word
Unsurprisingly, the internet can't think innocently about things anymore
I really like the intro
Marisa has a boyish face it makes looks like a prince
Edward Elric
UOHHHHH 😭😭😭
Kek
@Sab2Intros That's Marisa Kirisame in the first image on the right, and then her again in the second image, but on the left.
This takes the cake for my favorite PC-98 theme. I even like it better than some of my favorite windows themes.
love this song because of the iosys remix
Alice stole my heart, stole my being from reality, and i cant return now, this is a one way road after all...
I like how they swap places at the beginning of the song
Interesting song name.
Bro why does this song have to be so good I hate the title
MARISA X ALICE IS CANON RAAAAAAHHHHHHH
aint no way that both of them had that death note ( which is de "grimoire" lah )
after 2 years of having heard this song I finally noticed that the children in the art are young alice and a male marisa damn
💀
Male…? Marisa is still a female aha and thats why…
Nah they Lebanese
@@MaribelYarn😂
Such an unfortunate name. I know what he meant, but I just search for Mystic Square OST to find this.
This music is what flying feels like I imagine
yea, i saw rare footage of Michael Jordan listening to this song in his head when in midair while dunking
Do you guys realize the picture changes at 0:11
I couldn't agree more.
the FBI agent in my computer right now: *interesting*
Best romantic song in my opinion
Love that picture. MariAli is my justice.
ZUN's talent well runs DEEP. I can imagine this song going with LOTS of different things.
It's melodious yet intense at the same time, like Touhou games themselves.
.....He might've wanted a second opinion for the title however...
(( That is Marisa during 0:10 and so on with younger PC-98 Alice. At the beginning, beginning picture is pretty much reversed like said before, Older Alice with a younger Marisa. ))
Charming
*SHANGHAI INTENSIFIES*
Where can I find the pictures in this video? They're really beautiful.
I would recommend searching "Kannazuki no Miko Touhou Parody." That might work.
www.mediafire.com/view/po2k1pm1phx95vw/romanticchildren.jpg
www.mediafire.com/view/glbctoul11b5zsx/romanticchildren2.jpg
Artist is Torinone
Please tell me where this picture
Perfec
ive heard a version where its emotional skyscraper ~ cosmic mind and true administrator
Alright, I'm just going to ignore that name.....
Anyway, GREAT theme! I like everything! It reminds me of Lotus Love from Touhou 4!
0:13 just tickles my brain with that happy chord progression and I can’t help it, AAAAAAAAAA!
(Great)
i only search for ms stage 3, not the song title itself 💀
Malice FOREVER!!!!!
But what do you mean Romantic Children???? 😳😳😳
Good point
Kannadzuki no Magician...
It's still playing after I paused it!!! O_O
MariAli much?
Btw
Marisa stole the precious theme.
Why Why Why Why Why don't I miss you a lot, forever?
@@charles8740 oh god oh fuck
🤣
@@charles8740 oh shit tough alice is like in my mind all the times when she isnt my waifu too
why why why why why don't i miss you a lot forever~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please, pretty pretty please, tell me where did you get those pictures! They're adorable!
I came here from 'Marisa Stole the Precious Thing' and listening to this while installing Windows.
サムネ尊い
@Sab2Intros I think they're both Alice. You know, MS Alice and PoFV and up Alice.
Defo one of the best PC-98 themes.
ZUN's comment about the track:
"It has a pretty good Makai feel about it, doesn't it?
The stage 1, 2 and 3 songs all turned out with a real sense of speed.
Since it's Makai, I think it feels more western... hmm."
ZUN, I don’t get how you can say none of the Touhou characters are gay when you took the theme song from when Marisa and Alice first met as kids and named it Romantic Children.
EDIT: So that interview was fake! Good.
ZUN never talked about the sexual orientation of his characters.
And that interview is fake, btw.
Zun actually confirmed that some characters may have romantic interest for each other, but he pretty much want to leave it to fan interpretation
+Sumire〜
Oh! That’s good!
@@Dreigonix wow, you were quick to respond
+Trash Kun
I usually am. XD
実は原曲の中で1番好きだったり。
Oh cool, it's almost as if the artist made these as a pair,
1st: Older Alice + Little Marisa
2nd: Older Marisa + Younger Alice.
La cancion mas infravalorada de touhou change my mind
It looked like you used the image from that one Anime, "Kannazuki no Miko", and edited some of the image to make one of the girls look like Alice Margatroid!
Yup, danbooru.donmai.us/posts/224466 danbooru.donmai.us/posts/229670