I really love the character designs, the contrast between the horror of some of them and your cute artstyle feels really unique. Though I do wonder how they would look in a more realistic, grotesque artstyle Also, love Nene and her theme~ I feel like she'd join Kyoko and Mystia's band
Re-watching (re-listening?) this album again and I just noticed that Marisa has freckles, thats such a cute detail! While I'm at it, I also love how you gave Aya pointy nose to make her look bit more tengu-ish
Good stuff, this I liked the usage of chess symbols in the stage opener card. It almost felt like they were describing the person’s role in the incident, what with how the pieces got more and more important the further into the video it was
I've only learned of your existence an hour and some change ago, but I've totally fallen in love! Everything about this is just great! The story is SO good(!!!!!!!!!), the character designs and portraits (and their story backgrounds!) are so cute and inspired! You're the first person I've ever seen give Aya the long Tengu nose, which I've had in the back of my mind for a decade! And of course, the music is insane!!! I honestly think you're the closest anyone's gotten to truly sounding like ZUN, it seriously felt so natural to me! Outside of a few phrases or sections that felt more personalized, of course, but even still they didn't break style! I sincerely, wholeheartedly await for your next project!!
so many high quality tracks.. in my opinion i think i like this one a bit more than your first album(which the first is already an absolute goldmine on its own). the stage 1 boss's theme and the stage 4 theme are my favorites here :00 i also love how you made seija's portrait, she looks so smug lol
Yeah, I kinda feel like I've outdone Submarine Dragon in a lot of ways with this album (haha). Also, thanks. Seija's facial expression was the most fun to draw.
I wasn't expecting an old song of yours to come out in this album in Re:Fabulous fashion, yet here it was--striking me like a white arrow from the darkness! Good job on this massive album, Melody!
@@MadamePhoton The EX Stage theme specifically. Also, several old songs? Only thing I can see as "old" is Zhu's theme. Although, with the comments, I suppose some of the old themes are just unuploaded.
i don't believe you understand how badly i want to play a game with this ost. someone adapt this into a real fangame!!! i would make it if i had the permission and the willpower... i have bulletforge experience...
R.I.P. I wasn't caught up with the premiere ;w; Very good album. I like the stage 4 theme, has alot of motifs and the Minoriko part is really nice. And man, the stage 1 and 4 boss themes are rocking hard for me. (We have found out that who scolding Minorko)
Finished the whole album and it's absolutely amazing! I've already loved your Submarine Dragon album and I'm so happy youre making more. You've earned yourself a sub! 💕
Stage 5 Boss`s theme sounds so freaking cool.... I really like how you made it the same style as Unane and Padma. And I really like stage 2, 3 and 4 bosses too! You music is awesome!
I made up some Last Word spell names because Nene: "Bird Bird-Beast Beast Dischord" 「鳥・鳥獣・獣不和音」 Margarita: Camera "Instant Card Captor" 写真機「インスタント・カードキャプター」 Shu: "Saint of the Instrument of the Five Phases" 「楽器五行の聖者」 Kushinada: Sake Harvest "Serpent's Eight-toothed Comb in the Open Sea of Suffering and Death" 酒穫「大蛇の八歯櫛に苦死灘」 Amanosaku: "Malice of Human Sacrifice" 「人柱マリス」 Amanozako: Oni Tale "Themeless Eastern Wonderland" おに話「テーマでなしイースタンワンダーランド」 Sagiso: "Old-fashioned STG Gimmick" 「時代遅れたＳＴＧぎみっく」
Good work! Some songs are a little less inspired in my opinion but you really killed it on some others -- that stage 1 boss theme might be my all-time favourite composition of yours, it's *perfect*
This album is so good! I like how it experiments with the ZUN-style in terms of music. I also love some of the creative choices like Aya having a more pronounced nose to better show that she's a tengu. It's little things like this that I really wish were in canon. Kinda like how I wish Nitori had a plate on her like an actual kappa. Cuz sometimes you could mistake Aya for a regular girl thats half-dressed up like a tengu (especially when she doesn't have wings lol). Anyway, keep up the great work!
I do recall Aya having wings in some earlier works. They just happen to have disappeared in the later works (that, or she can just make them appear when she wants). But anyway, I think that's one of my favorite creative decisions as well. I also have this headcannon that kappa like Nitori have bald spots under their hats that serve sorta the same purpose as the head plates.
To be honest, I really like your character designs as well as the theme songs even though the 4 characters does belong to ZUN somehow but it was really nice. I also love the story concept which helps us to remember about the other characters.
Your art has enamored me for years now and only today do I finally check out your music. My goodness you're a progidy, every single song here is great at *least* and half of them are utterly masterful. Im sorry for overlooking your musical endeavors for so long. Also your character designs are amazing.
Alright, three months later, I think it's time I give my full and honest review of ZoAM. I had a lot of thoughts build up and I think they can help you see what people like and what you could improve on. Because this album shows that you can do amazing, but also outlines your shortcomings. Stage 1: Nene is an amazing first stage and Touhou fan-made character. She is a youkai with a twist, a yama-orabi with a punk lolita aesthetic. Her theme is absolutely endearing and catchy, nothing bad to say about it and her design feels very touhou while still bringing in something new to the table. Stage 2: I love the stage theme, it feels very relaxed and whimsical and the Loose Rain leitmotif nicely foreshadows a fairy-related creature. I think it's funny you showed Marisa for that one too. On the topic of the boss, Margarita feels both very touhou and not touhou at all. Her outfit and general aesthetic is amazing and would have her blending in well with Gensokyo's crowd, however her connection to fairies is not implied in her design at all which I think is a big shame. Though maybe that make sense as she's a slavic monster? Her theme took some time getting used to Stage 3: The stage theme sounds a lot like a sea shanty. Is it because of the "Sea of Mist" thing? It feels a bit strange considering it opened with japanese instruments and uses a lot of movements from HSiFS Stage 3. The setting of the stage also feels too visually and atmospherically similar to UM Stage 3? Zheng Shu is another endearing character! I absolutely loved her and her theme ever since they were first released, though I feel like the Tiger-Patterned Bishamouten leitmotif is a bit too jarring and doesn't really fit the character? Her theme is strangely menacing though lol. She has an adorable design, I love the giraffe print and although the color palette seems a bit boring, it makes sense. I feel like her role in game's progression and story makes her too similar to Kutaka though, especially as a worker of Ministry of Right and Wrong Stage 4: This is where I feel like the originality takes a massive dip. The inspirations feel more avert and "in your face" and while they were excuse-able in earlier stages, here they feel too overt to ignore. The stage theme has a lot of similarities to Dragon God Flying to Mount Hourai as well as Faint Dream and visually... let's face it, it's just MoF stage 4, but I think that can be excused. And I like the appearance of Minoriko. The design you gave her is really cute and somewhat serves to foreshadow the boss. Kushinada however is... lorewise redundant and boring. I guess it's a nice reference to Minoriko's theme, but her appearance here doesn't make sense and her lore and appearance are just a 1-to-1 copy of her japanese lore while also stealing Minoriko's thunder as the harvest goddess. Imo, that's an issue that'll persist to the end of the album - not enough iterating on ideas. Bringing in Gods from the Japanese pantheon can be done well, for example Fairyland of Mishmash brought in Ame no Uzume, Amaterasu and Suzanoo, but all of them feel unique in design or in how the story frames them Stage 5: More overt inspiration to other Touhou tracks and also Phantom of the Opera? That's unexpected lol but I like it, it adds to the creepy atmosphere. The boss feels... boring. I've grown to dislike japanese clothing on Touhou characters, unless it explicitly makes sense for them as a character, like an onmyouji. Stage 6: A really nice breath of fresh air and excitement musically, however I have a lot of gripes with Amanozako conceptually. She mostly suffers a lot of the same problems Kushinada suffers from: being a copy of not only japanese mythology but also being outclassed in execution by existing touhou characters - Sagume and Seija. Stage EX: The same problems other post-demo stages: not enough originality. Also, hi Fairyland of Mishmash, I mentioned you 3 stages ago. Not much to say what hasn't been said about previous stages, this time Sagiso largely resembling Nemuno instead To sum up my thoughts, all of the themes and characters are charming, and I found myself humming a lot of them, or my ears craving them a lot. However, there are some obvious pitfalls I think should be addressed, the biggest one being lack of originality. I understand creating original concepts, music, character designs, story is not easy so please do not take my criticism as me bashing on the project PS: I like the choice on instruments for the project, a lot of Trilian's and Retrologue's more electronic synth-y instruments makes the incident feel rather alien and unusual, while the usual SD series instruments tie it nicely back to feel like your usual Touhou fare. I just wish the alien feel was reflected in the characters too
Thank you for your feedback. I'm glad there are parts of this album you liked, at the very least. So basically, the early-game stuff (Stage 1-3) is fine, but all the late-game stuff isn't all that fine, I suppose? Haha, I didn't think anyone would find a problem with Zenith of Antinomic Monarch aside from nitpicks, especially given that I saw it as an improvement over Submarine Dragon and how unpolished its whole story was. Really, if I can't come up with any ideas for this next Touhou-styled album I have in mind, then Zenith of Antinomic Monarch may just end up being my last forray into this sort of thing. Also, a few tidbits (sorry if I sould whiny in some areas, this is simply a really personal topic for me): - I'm honestly not too proud of the Stage 3 and EX Stage themes myself. In fact, I find them to be some of the weaker tracks I've made in a series of weak tracks. They're both reused from older projects, just remade for this one. - Minoriko wasn't always the stage 4 midboss, but the actual stage 4 boss. There was always going to be a reference to Kushinadahime due to the logic of "Minoriko ➡ Inadahime ➡ Susanoo ➡ Amanozako", but Kushinada was added later on after I recieved some advice along the lines of (and I paraphrase) "it tends to be more interesting to see new characters as bosses rather than returning ones". I was stuck on Minoriko's role in the overall story anyway, and there's said to be multiple harvest gods in Touhou canon, so I went along with it and made Kushinada. - Music and storywriting were never my strong points, I know that very well. It's a problem I had even back in 2013-2015, when Reawakening of Youkai Mountain wasn't some cringy reminder of my past. Music is significantly harder to work on than art because there's more elements I'd have to consider, while with art I can just draw a few lines and call it a day. There's also my problem with procrastination, which comes from a lack of inspiration and motivation. - I think all the criticisms are more of a problem of having to carry entire albums by myself, allowing all my pitfalls to seep through. If I had people helping me where I fall, then maybe these problems won't be as obvious. But help is hard to come by, and my team management skills aren't the best, so I therefore just have to work with what I have and face the inevitable "my art is bad" or "my music is unoriginal".
@@MadamePhoton I completely understand, carrying the weight of an entire album on your shoulders is a lot to carry and the sole fact that you have made two albums in the first place is impressive in and of itself. Please, don't feel discouraged by my feedback, I genuinely feel like there's potential in your artistic abilities, maybe they just need more time in the oven? I agree, having original characters is usually better/more interesting than having returning characters, but trying to find something else to them that has not been explored by an existing touhou character could leviate the difficulty of character design. Once again bringing in Seija and Sagume: both of them are from a similar cultural source and in essence, have similar elements: arrows and ability to reverse things. But their abilties and roles in the franchise are massively different
@@AzuRemilia Ah, perhaps that second point's a bit correct. I've always had an interest in Amanozako as a youkai (and disliked her portrayal in Shin Megami), and since nobody else had done a Touhou take on her, I figured I'd give it a shot. My goal was sorta to bring in characters that hadn't been introduced in the series in official or fanworks, but maybe that didn't turn out well, in the end. Maybe I'll need some help on that front...
the first time i listened to this album in full i wasnt interested in stage themes for some bizarre reason... but i can confidently say the stage themes in this album are absolutely phenomenal, especially A Fairy Dance in the Virgin Forest also, i love The Flower of Discord Has Bloomed so much!!!!
The melody is drawn from that, yeah (Fun fact: That song was just a standalone thing at first, -the CEO of xenophobia- Gore just happened to borrow it for FFF)
The reason I canned that project in the first place was because it's directly tied to characters and concepts made during a cringy time in my life. It bring me shame even today, so that project ain't coming back anytime soon.
I'd like to see this become a real fangame
28:02 So that's who was scolding me!
I think we can all agree: this album slaps.
I really love the character designs, the contrast between the horror of some of them and your cute artstyle feels really unique. Though I do wonder how they would look in a more realistic, grotesque artstyle
Also, love Nene and her theme~ I feel like she'd join Kyoko and Mystia's band
The Stg1 boss theme is SO GOOD I love how catchy it is!! You really nailed the touhou-first-boss vibe with it!!
I'm so happy there's touhou style albums and music. Zun must be proud
Re-watching (re-listening?) this album again and I just noticed that Marisa has freckles, thats such a cute detail! While I'm at it, I also love how you gave Aya pointy nose to make her look bit more tengu-ish
Thanks!
I was originally hesitant on giving Aya the nose cause I've gotten flack for it in the past, but I'm glad my decision to include it paid off.
Good stuff, this
I liked the usage of chess symbols in the stage opener card. It almost felt like they were describing the person’s role in the incident, what with how the pieces got more and more important the further into the video it was
Yeah, it's kinda like that. The other half of that aspect is vague symbolism that happens to tie with one the characters.
I've only learned of your existence an hour and some change ago, but I've totally fallen in love!
Everything about this is just great! The story is SO good(!!!!!!!!!), the character designs and portraits (and their story backgrounds!) are so cute and inspired! You're the first person I've ever seen give Aya the long Tengu nose, which I've had in the back of my mind for a decade!
And of course, the music is insane!!!
I honestly think you're the closest anyone's gotten to truly sounding like ZUN, it seriously felt so natural to me! Outside of a few phrases or sections that felt more personalized, of course, but even still they didn't break style!
I sincerely, wholeheartedly await for your next project!!
so many high quality tracks.. in my opinion i think i like this one a bit more than your first album(which the first is already an absolute goldmine on its own). the stage 1 boss's theme and the stage 4 theme are my favorites here :00
i also love how you made seija's portrait, she looks so smug lol
Yeah, I kinda feel like I've outdone Submarine Dragon in a lot of ways with this album (haha).
Also, thanks. Seija's facial expression was the most fun to draw.
I wasn't expecting an old song of yours to come out in this album in Re:Fabulous fashion, yet here it was--striking me like a white arrow from the darkness!
Good job on this massive album, Melody!
What old song we talkin' about? 'Cause there's several here.
@@MadamePhoton
The EX Stage theme specifically.
Also, several old songs? Only thing I can see as "old" is Zhu's theme. Although, with the comments, I suppose some of the old themes are just unuploaded.
@@prismus6520 Those old themes are on my Soundcloud, but not on my RUclips.
i thought i commented at some point?? guess not
great stuff!!! really liked Susa no Amanosaku + his and stage theme
Yeah, his theme is one of my favorites from the OST~
The art is getting really good.
THIS IS SO FUCKING AWESOME I LOVE CRIMSON TYRANT ES[PECIALLY
OH A NEW ONE
I'm so happy, I thought Submarine Dragon was a one-off! delighted to see your adorable artstyle once more!
I'm surprised you didn't even know about this album for as long as you did.
@@MadamePhoton I wasn't subscribed! But I'll definitely rectify that mistake now :P
@@SCDifference Alright then!
i don't believe you understand how badly i want to play a game with this ost.
someone adapt this into a real fangame!!!
i would make it if i had the permission and the willpower...
i have bulletforge experience...
Aww, thanks so much!
You have my permission!
@@MadamePhoton whoa thanks!
i'll probably never finish it though lol.
@@remixtheidiot5771 No problem! Good luck nonetheless!
R.I.P. I wasn't caught up with the premiere ;w;
Very good album. I like the stage 4 theme, has alot of motifs and the Minoriko part is really nice. And man, the stage 1 and 4 boss themes are rocking hard for me.
(We have found out that who scolding Minorko)
HYPE!!!!
So excited!
I've only just heard the title theme, but damn its so good, excited to hear the whole soundtrack (and to see your cute illustrations) ❤❤
Finished the whole album and it's absolutely amazing! I've already loved your Submarine Dragon album and I'm so happy youre making more. You've earned yourself a sub! 💕
Stage 5 Boss`s theme sounds so freaking cool.... I really like how you made it the same style as Unane and Padma. And I really like stage 2, 3 and 4 bosses too! You music is awesome!
I'm glad! It's one of my favorites in the soundtrack!
I made up some Last Word spell names because
Nene: "Bird Bird-Beast Beast Dischord"
「鳥・鳥獣・獣不和音」
Margarita: Camera "Instant Card Captor"
写真機「インスタント・カードキャプター」
Shu: "Saint of the Instrument of the Five Phases"
「楽器五行の聖者」
Kushinada: Sake Harvest "Serpent's Eight-toothed Comb in the Open Sea of Suffering and Death"
酒穫「大蛇の八歯櫛に苦死灘」
Amanosaku: "Malice of Human Sacrifice"
「人柱マリス」
Amanozako: Oni Tale "Themeless Eastern Wonderland"
おに話「テーマでなしイースタンワンダーランド」
Sagiso: "Old-fashioned STG Gimmick"
「時代遅れたＳＴＧぎみっく」
Got to properly read the character descriptions today.
Is Margarita liking card games a reference to Inscription?
No, it is not. It's a reference to the general folklore of her species, who are apparently fond of gambling.
Good work! Some songs are a little less inspired in my opinion but you really killed it on some others -- that stage 1 boss theme might be my all-time favourite composition of yours, it's *perfect*
Yay Finally! That's Was Perfect Day!
Poster Girl will always be Rin in my heart 😔
This album is so good! I like how it experiments with the ZUN-style in terms of music. I also love some of the creative choices like Aya having a more pronounced nose to better show that she's a tengu. It's little things like this that I really wish were in canon. Kinda like how I wish Nitori had a plate on her like an actual kappa. Cuz sometimes you could mistake Aya for a regular girl thats half-dressed up like a tengu (especially when she doesn't have wings lol). Anyway, keep up the great work!
I do recall Aya having wings in some earlier works. They just happen to have disappeared in the later works (that, or she can just make them appear when she wants). But anyway, I think that's one of my favorite creative decisions as well.
I also have this headcannon that kappa like Nitori have bald spots under their hats that serve sorta the same purpose as the head plates.
To be honest, I really like your character designs as well as the theme songs even though the 4 characters does belong to ZUN somehow but it was really nice. I also love the story concept which helps us to remember about the other characters.
Your art has enamored me for years now and only today do I finally check out your music. My goodness you're a progidy, every single song here is great at *least* and half of them are utterly masterful. Im sorry for overlooking your musical endeavors for so long. Also your character designs are amazing.
Hey, thanks. Glad you like my stuff!
I'm not the best of composers, but this makes me smile.
Lets gooooo
Alright, three months later, I think it's time I give my full and honest review of ZoAM. I had a lot of thoughts build up and I think they can help you see what people like and what you could improve on. Because this album shows that you can do amazing, but also outlines your shortcomings.
Stage 1: Nene is an amazing first stage and Touhou fan-made character. She is a youkai with a twist, a yama-orabi with a punk lolita aesthetic. Her theme is absolutely endearing and catchy, nothing bad to say about it and her design feels very touhou while still bringing in something new to the table.
Stage 2: I love the stage theme, it feels very relaxed and whimsical and the Loose Rain leitmotif nicely foreshadows a fairy-related creature. I think it's funny you showed Marisa for that one too. On the topic of the boss, Margarita feels both very touhou and not touhou at all. Her outfit and general aesthetic is amazing and would have her blending in well with Gensokyo's crowd, however her connection to fairies is not implied in her design at all which I think is a big shame. Though maybe that make sense as she's a slavic monster? Her theme took some time getting used to
Stage 3: The stage theme sounds a lot like a sea shanty. Is it because of the "Sea of Mist" thing? It feels a bit strange considering it opened with japanese instruments and uses a lot of movements from HSiFS Stage 3. The setting of the stage also feels too visually and atmospherically similar to UM Stage 3? Zheng Shu is another endearing character! I absolutely loved her and her theme ever since they were first released, though I feel like the Tiger-Patterned Bishamouten leitmotif is a bit too jarring and doesn't really fit the character? Her theme is strangely menacing though lol. She has an adorable design, I love the giraffe print and although the color palette seems a bit boring, it makes sense. I feel like her role in game's progression and story makes her too similar to Kutaka though, especially as a worker of Ministry of Right and Wrong
Stage 4: This is where I feel like the originality takes a massive dip. The inspirations feel more avert and "in your face" and while they were excuse-able in earlier stages, here they feel too overt to ignore. The stage theme has a lot of similarities to Dragon God Flying to Mount Hourai as well as Faint Dream and visually... let's face it, it's just MoF stage 4, but I think that can be excused. And I like the appearance of Minoriko. The design you gave her is really cute and somewhat serves to foreshadow the boss. Kushinada however is... lorewise redundant and boring. I guess it's a nice reference to Minoriko's theme, but her appearance here doesn't make sense and her lore and appearance are just a 1-to-1 copy of her japanese lore while also stealing Minoriko's thunder as the harvest goddess. Imo, that's an issue that'll persist to the end of the album - not enough iterating on ideas. Bringing in Gods from the Japanese pantheon can be done well, for example Fairyland of Mishmash brought in Ame no Uzume, Amaterasu and Suzanoo, but all of them feel unique in design or in how the story frames them
Stage 5: More overt inspiration to other Touhou tracks and also Phantom of the Opera? That's unexpected lol but I like it, it adds to the creepy atmosphere. The boss feels... boring. I've grown to dislike japanese clothing on Touhou characters, unless it explicitly makes sense for them as a character, like an onmyouji.
Stage 6: A really nice breath of fresh air and excitement musically, however I have a lot of gripes with Amanozako conceptually. She mostly suffers a lot of the same problems Kushinada suffers from: being a copy of not only japanese mythology but also being outclassed in execution by existing touhou characters - Sagume and Seija.
Stage EX: The same problems other post-demo stages: not enough originality. Also, hi Fairyland of Mishmash, I mentioned you 3 stages ago. Not much to say what hasn't been said about previous stages, this time Sagiso largely resembling Nemuno instead
To sum up my thoughts, all of the themes and characters are charming, and I found myself humming a lot of them, or my ears craving them a lot. However, there are some obvious pitfalls I think should be addressed, the biggest one being lack of originality. I understand creating original concepts, music, character designs, story is not easy so please do not take my criticism as me bashing on the project
PS: I like the choice on instruments for the project, a lot of Trilian's and Retrologue's more electronic synth-y instruments makes the incident feel rather alien and unusual, while the usual SD series instruments tie it nicely back to feel like your usual Touhou fare. I just wish the alien feel was reflected in the characters too
Thank you for your feedback. I'm glad there are parts of this album you liked, at the very least. So basically, the early-game stuff (Stage 1-3) is fine, but all the late-game stuff isn't all that fine, I suppose?
Haha, I didn't think anyone would find a problem with Zenith of Antinomic Monarch aside from nitpicks, especially given that I saw it as an improvement over Submarine Dragon and how unpolished its whole story was.
Really, if I can't come up with any ideas for this next Touhou-styled album I have in mind, then Zenith of Antinomic Monarch may just end up being my last forray into this sort of thing.
Also, a few tidbits (sorry if I sould whiny in some areas, this is simply a really personal topic for me):
- I'm honestly not too proud of the Stage 3 and EX Stage themes myself. In fact, I find them to be some of the weaker tracks I've made in a series of weak tracks. They're both reused from older projects, just remade for this one.
- Minoriko wasn't always the stage 4 midboss, but the actual stage 4 boss. There was always going to be a reference to Kushinadahime due to the logic of "Minoriko ➡ Inadahime ➡ Susanoo ➡ Amanozako", but Kushinada was added later on after I recieved some advice along the lines of (and I paraphrase) "it tends to be more interesting to see new characters as bosses rather than returning ones". I was stuck on Minoriko's role in the overall story anyway, and there's said to be multiple harvest gods in Touhou canon, so I went along with it and made Kushinada.
- Music and storywriting were never my strong points, I know that very well. It's a problem I had even back in 2013-2015, when Reawakening of Youkai Mountain wasn't some cringy reminder of my past. Music is significantly harder to work on than art because there's more elements I'd have to consider, while with art I can just draw a few lines and call it a day. There's also my problem with procrastination, which comes from a lack of inspiration and motivation.
- I think all the criticisms are more of a problem of having to carry entire albums by myself, allowing all my pitfalls to seep through. If I had people helping me where I fall, then maybe these problems won't be as obvious. But help is hard to come by, and my team management skills aren't the best, so I therefore just have to work with what I have and face the inevitable "my art is bad" or "my music is unoriginal".
@@MadamePhoton I completely understand, carrying the weight of an entire album on your shoulders is a lot to carry and the sole fact that you have made two albums in the first place is impressive in and of itself. Please, don't feel discouraged by my feedback, I genuinely feel like there's potential in your artistic abilities, maybe they just need more time in the oven?
I agree, having original characters is usually better/more interesting than having returning characters, but trying to find something else to them that has not been explored by an existing touhou character could leviate the difficulty of character design. Once again bringing in Seija and Sagume: both of them are from a similar cultural source and in essence, have similar elements: arrows and ability to reverse things. But their abilties and roles in the franchise are massively different
@@AzuRemilia Ah, perhaps that second point's a bit correct. I've always had an interest in Amanozako as a youkai (and disliked her portrayal in Shin Megami), and since nobody else had done a Touhou take on her, I figured I'd give it a shot.
My goal was sorta to bring in characters that hadn't been introduced in the series in official or fanworks, but maybe that didn't turn out well, in the end. Maybe I'll need some help on that front...
This Touhou Album I can guarantee is an absolute bop. Thanks for the wonderful album!!!!!!
the first time i listened to this album in full i wasnt interested in stage themes for some bizarre reason... but i can confidently say the stage themes in this album are absolutely phenomenal, especially A Fairy Dance in the Virgin Forest
also, i love The Flower of Discord Has Bloomed so much!!!!
This is awesome and inspiring. I hope to do something like this in the future sometime, maybe x.x
26:01 is that a bit of FFF stage 4 I hear?
29:10 Yuuma’s theme!!??!
The melody is drawn from that, yeah
(Fun fact: That song was just a standalone thing at first, -the CEO of xenophobia- Gore just happened to borrow it for FFF)
Just noticed Sagiso's theme is awfully similar to Augmented reality. Both of the themes slap hard👌
Indeed, that is part of the inspiration! It would've originally taken more from Secret God Matara, fun fact!
Yeees!!!
awesome
pog
Yeah, just go on and take this sub
IF you ever decide to reboot that ISC game I have a few characters you could borrow
The reason I canned that project in the first place was because it's directly tied to characters and concepts made during a cringy time in my life.
It bring me shame even today, so that project ain't coming back anytime soon.
@@MadamePhoton Well if you ever make a new ISC style album, or photoshop, again I'm pretty sure other touhou fans would be happy to collaborate
@@thinglet2478 Not too sure about that, considering I've had to make two albums on my own with no idea where to get help, but thanks for the tip.
ok