Author Topic: Introductions thread (Read 75179 times)

Hyouiibara · « **Reply #90 on:** June 25, 2020, 11:42:05 AM »

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It's kinda convenient for cosplaying Kasen tho...
(Sorry if it's offending you)

Mischief Maker · « **Reply #91 on:** August 11, 2020, 04:43:25 AM »

Hey hoo, new member on the site. Consistently saw brief mentions of Touhou from around 2012-2015ish, especially around Smackjeeves as I frequented the sprite community there at that time, and just taking cursory glances at the wiki every now and then as I was interested in the lore. From there it was a slow dive into the lore and the typical fan creations.

Since my main interests are lore-based, I tended to find myself on the old forum a lot as that’s where a lot of translators and knowledgeable folk seemed to have congregated, so it seemed like a good idea to hop on and see how much that held up today.

Taizen Chisou · « **Reply #92 on:** August 24, 2020, 06:34:18 PM »

Seeing that MoTK was rebooted fills me with ... some sort of emotion.

Anyway, hello, potentially again, everyone! I'm Taizen, 24.
I'm not new to MoTK at all but with the level of inactivity I'd maintained the past few years I might as well be starting fresh here.
In the intervening years, I've moved across the country, started and dropped a few jobs, and found a new love just north of the border.
Somehow, after what I believe to be 12 years in the fandom, I'm still associated with Touhou, largely by participating in Touhou-centric game jams every year.

It's nice to be here again.

Himiko · « **Reply #93 on:** September 04, 2020, 01:54:30 PM »

Hi, I'm Himiko. I used to run text adventures on the old forums between 2010~2014. I've moved on to other interests since then, but I'd like to get back into this fandom, so I'm back! There are a lot of characters I love, but my favorites are currently Konngara, Reimu, and Sanae.

I'm pretty big on Hollow Knight right now and, as a result, I've been drawing fanart for it almost exclusively. However, I will try to start drawing Touhou fanart again. It's nice to meet all the new members, and to recognize some familiar faces :)

Rowanaki · « **Reply #94 on:** September 05, 2020, 06:52:49 PM »

Name: Rowanaki
Location: Somerset, UK
Progress: Completed EoSD Normal, IN Normal, MoF Easy (Currently working on normal)
Age: 16, Just starting sixth form
Hobbies: avid writer, lives in a library, revises more than is probably healthy for me, likes cosplaying

I've been into the Touhou games for just over a year, playing them on and off, but I've never really looked at the wider community until the start of lockdown, where I stumbled across things like ISOYS and the forums. I probably would've found out about it sooner, but I'm a social butterfly and have never had any close friends, or anyone intrested enough to talk to me properly, well anyone non-fiction at least. I've been considering writing fanfic for Touhou after I'm finished with a couple of my other projects (rip sowing machine). But yea, if anyone wants to DM or say hi, just drop a message i'm normally around to talk.

WitheringFlowerCrown · « **Reply #95 on:** September 18, 2020, 10:24:23 PM »

Name: WitheringFlowerCrown (You can just call me by any of the individual words in that name)
Age: 18
Currently in University.
Location: London, England
I found out about Touhou back when DDC came out and checked out many gameplay videos both of official and fan-made games. It was in the description of a fan-made gameplay video that I found a link to this site. Notice that DDC came out 7 years ago, I've been lurking the site for that long.
In Touhou I haven't done much. I've made it to Stage 6 in EoSD, PCB, and IN without dying once but then my skill-level drops dramatically so I guess I'm a mediocre player. I've also played all of the fighting game spin-offs to completion.
I have an overall interest in programming and technology, I've learned Python and JavaScript, I'll hopefully learn Danmakufu in the future. Other than that I just regularly play video games and collect miscellaneous information on the internet. Oh, and, my favourite Touhou Character is Tenshi Hinanai (but that was probably obvious).
I honestly have slight problems socialising due to being very blunt so I have worries about saying the wrong thing and I'll therefore be curt sometimes. But I'm still ready and willing to meet new people.

Molten · « **Reply #96 on:** September 19, 2020, 08:54:11 PM »

Heyo, I'm Molten and I used to hang (or well, sorta semi-lurk/semi-chat) around here way back in like... 2010-2012 or so..? This place has been on my mind every now and then since I heard of the tragedy and I'm not quite sure why I'm here now of all times, but I figured I'd drop by and see how things are looking. I probably won't be very active but I'll try to take a peek here from time to time.

Since back then, I haven't accomplished much. Depression's been getting worse but I've actually got *some* proper friends now and also I guess I'm a girl now as well. At least mentally since I haven't really been able to start transitioning and stuff, but I did come out on my birthday last year. It's been really difficult figuring myself out but I think I'm starting to put some pieces together at least. Also I'm on the spectrum so that's yet another part of me being somewhat more understood.

And oooh boy all the memories that come rushing back as I looked through old and new stuff. This is a place where I hung around back when my depression got started and it'll always have a special place in my heart for the times it's helped me through. Have a good time y'all <3

Unedited Bear · « **Reply #97 on:** September 20, 2020, 04:48:32 AM »

Good evening. I am called Bear, and I'm a psychology student in the US. I am here to write, and that's about all. It just helps me take a moment to step aside and relax with the insanity of the world currently.

I got into touhou with writing and fics that I read. Don't remember anything specific that brought me in, but if I had to pick one that really pulled me in fully, it would be the 'Being Meiling' trilogy.

What have I done? Well, Nothing I want to connect to myself anymore. I'm taking this as a fresh chance to start anew. I finished a quest over in Rumia's party games. Fairy Quest.

I'm into a lot of other things, though it would be hard to really come up with anything off the top of my head. I'm better at writing then I am talking about myself.

DarkWitchClaire · « **Reply #98 on:** October 18, 2020, 07:45:09 PM »

Hi! I'm Claire (she/her), 23 years old and not doing much with my life right now.

I've been aware of Touhou for along time thanks to memes like Marisa Stole the Precious Thing but I didn't get into the series until 2017. I've had a lot of fun playing the game even though I'm terrible at them. I've also been enjoying the various related works including official manga, fan games, song covers, and fanfiction. I hope to get my first normal 1CC in IN at some point and then move on to other games and difficulties.

I found this community from the irc server in 2018 and this forum seems like a nice place as well.

Other than that I enjoy video games (mostly retro and mainly platformers, RPGs, shmups, and fighting games) as well as retro technology and cute animals. I'm also sometimes a fan of other things with vary from time to time. Hope to see you all around!

asmirnov · « **Reply #99 on:** October 25, 2020, 03:25:21 PM »

Hello, I'm Aleksey.

I'm an aspiring bankrobber from Vélez.

How did I learn about Touhou? I don't remember, probably learned about it after being after years of being extremely online.

How did I learn about MOTK? No idea. I think some folks from here joined some other community I used to be a part of a few years ago.

My touhou achievements amount to nothing, I hurt my back after grinding LoLK. I think I didn't finish that run. Oh, now that I think of it, I did fairly well on a pacifist TD run and playing SA years ago. Nowadays I don't play much due to health reasons.

I used to be a fairly active mahjong riichi player, but then I burned out ^^u, strangely, I neved played Touhou Unreal Mahjong.

That's all about me I guess, I hope I don't cause much trouble.

easy_breezy · « **Reply #100 on:** October 26, 2020, 02:53:37 PM »

- Easy_breezy
- 2000s era Mads that I used to listen to in the mid 2010s
- I got the original CD Rom of ESOD and have the PC-98 games
- Old media collection

Kitrinos · « **Reply #101 on:** November 02, 2020, 10:40:55 PM »

I'm Kitrinos, but I don't mind being called Kit.

I've been into Touhou for a quite a few years, ever since I saw these Windows Error Remixes of "Marisa Stole The Precious Thing", I got Imperishable Night on my old Windows 2000 PC and have loved the series ever since.

I've seen MotK various times while browsing around online, but I finally decided that today's the day that I'll sign up and take a look.

I have never really been too talkative on forums, due to me being shy and not wanting people to not like me or something, but everyone has to come out of their shell sometime, right? Maybe this forum will change that part of me for the better.

ramaseta · « **Reply #102 on:** December 01, 2020, 05:36:23 AM »

Hiya, I'm ramaseta and I am a male living in America.
I've always known about Touhou's existence as I've been into Japan and otaku stuff for almost a decade, but I finally decided to take the plunge a few months ago by downloading EoSD–and the rest is history. I found this site by looking up the most popular English Touhou forums, haha.
I've remade some EoSD songs using MIDI in FL Studio 12, mostly just for myself to learn the DAW, which can be found on my YouTube channel on my profile. I will likely remix some Touhou songs if I get a good idea for one. I also write, too, so I might write some type of fan-fiction someday if I get the inspiration for it.
The only other fandom that I'm really in is the NisiOisiN fandom, which in the west is honestly pretty small. Other hobbies include learning Japanese, which I've been doing for about a year, playing piano, reading, also creative writing (can be found on my profile) and music composing/producing like I mentioned before. Nice to meet you!

Aisha · « **Reply #103 on:** December 01, 2020, 09:08:14 AM »

Hello, I'm Aisha. I've been around MotK since the days of Katchura running the place, but I haven't been active in the Touhou community for many years now. I still like to check in on the series every now and then, so I'm just a passing ghost needing to post something to unlock the PM functionality on this iteration of the forum.

Kenzie · « **Reply #104 on:** December 04, 2020, 07:14:32 PM »

i'll be honest i'm not entirely sure how i found myself here again but here we are!

hi! my name's kenzie, i'm 23 (coming up on 24) and i'm just a hobbyist artist/writer who strongly hyperfixates on her own ocs. i actually originally joined the forums in... 2010 - 2011 i think and due to a lot of IRL circumstances and shifting of interests over the years i fell out of the loop with the forum until just recently. to think it's been almost 10 years since then and oh boy a lot has changed so i won't even blame anyone for not recognizing me.

i also used to play the games a fair bit (mostly on normal or hard) but nowadays i don't really. play the games all that much. most of my accomplishments are in Len'en and i do have a couple old videos of me messing around in the demos/with the absurdly extra mods

as for my favourite touhou characters? back in the day it was kaguya and eirin and to this day they still are my favourites. sagume and sumireko have joined them recently though.

GreenGrubBubble · « **Reply #105 on:** December 09, 2020, 02:42:07 AM »

Hello,

Very new, idk if ill post a lot but just wanted to make an account and see what it was like.

Been getting into Touhou and wanted to try and enter the fandom. Interests for me are music composition, music instruments, and clay sculpting.

Uh while im here this may be the wrong place to put this question but does anyone know how to change your avatar? I see the PC-98 icons but im unaware as how to upload an image for mine from my computer. Any help?

Anyway, hope this works out well.

magicalfeyfenny · « **Reply #106 on:** December 12, 2020, 05:10:01 PM »

hihi i'm fenny~

i'm a dorky magical girl from the usa and i'm really into playing the shmups and the also whole general 'public domain community' type thing that touhou kinda has. i'm a huge madoka fangirl (and fan of magical girls in general but puella magi and touhou both specifically are special to me) and i'm also a chuuni and also 25, a trans girl, ADHD and schizophrenic.

i've 1CCed normal in 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 (legacy), and beat extra in 5, 8, and 7 (+phantasm). recently i've been practicing lunatic mode in 7 and 13

nyaaaa~

dragunNeru · « **Reply #107 on:** January 16, 2021, 09:24:35 AM »

Good afternoon-
I'm Neru, found about Touhou from its music.
It is hard to tell the exact date since I was not even aware of listening to Touhou arrangements and that it was actually a game in the first place.
There were some times when it was hard to find new music to listen to and I stumbled upon a playlist that had some familiar sounds in it. Since then I tried searching for bands that were in there and accidentally found myself in listening to various Touhou arrangements for whole shifts at the time.

The whole listening and searching for Touhou music period was not that long in time but certainly, a lot of things happened in that timeframe- finishing school, picking up an instrument, dropping some hobbies, getting new ones, moving places. It is weird how much influence music from a game has made in my life since some of the most important decisions were made while listening to it.
I have yet to figure out why I'm joining but I think I hope to meet some people.

Hieda no Mukyu · « **Reply #108 on:** January 19, 2021, 03:40:18 PM »

Please, just call me Mukyū. Or Tsubaki. Or Camellia. If we are to trust the judgment of Seppo Hovi, the fabulous Tōhō player, I am a secondaryfag extraordinaire.

I started running into Tōhō stuff at some point between 2006 and 2008, when I was still pretty new to Japanese pop culture. (Well, I had been aware of "Sailor Moon", "Pokemon" and some other franchises prior to that, but they had never been a big thing for me.)

In March 2009, research into Miku fandom led me to "Marisa wa Taihen na Mono wo Nusunde Ikimastrawberriesa". Fascinated by the characters, I found out that Tōhō was neither a visual novel nor a manga but a bullet hell game. Later that year, "Alice → Dere" became the first Tōhō fan work that made me cry. Perhaps that was the most important turning point. Still later the same year, I published my earliest fanfic story, starring Patchouli Knowledge.

In 2011, I discovered our domestic fan community, which was pretty visible at conventions. I started socializing both online and offline. Those affiliated with the Touhou.fi community became one of my most important friend circles (if not the most important one) for years. I still like to hang out with those folks when I have the chance – perhaps most notably with Bitofhope, whom a few of you might know. The number of my fanfic chapters always remained quite limited, but I took great pleasure in producing Tōhō filks – songs rewritten to describe life in Gensōkyō.

I joined the previous incarnation of Kaleidoscope 6th June 2017. Over there, my enthusiasm for history led me to socialize primarily with Nav’, whom I hereby wish to salute. Also, cheers to everybody else who exchanged ideas with me, in public or by private messaging.

This much should suffice for now. However, I have skimmed through the whole thread today and found some rather interesting introductions. I might be back later to comment – but at least one person should contribute before that, you know!

The curse word filter ruining this message is unacceptable.

Frans · « **Reply #109 on:** February 07, 2021, 02:08:09 PM »

Greetings!

I have come from the many island of rices in South East Asia, call me Frans (surprised nobody has taken this name yet).
I discovered Touhou from a long time ago, however I wasn't quite aware of so as I was never big into anime stuff until some day in February 2020 when I saw a gif of Nitori doing GEDDAN at that moment I started to delve deeper into the rabbit hole that is Touhou from the music.

After constant exposure of old Touhou videos appearing on my recommendation feed, I started to play the game too.
By the span of 1 year, I've managed to 1cc normal on 6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14 and currently practicing on 15.(if only LoLK wasn't that hard

)

Anyway, here I am. Thanks for having me.

Hieda no Mukyu · « **Reply #110 on:** March 18, 2021, 01:32:40 AM »

Quote from: Frans on February 07, 2021, 02:08:09 PM

some day in February 2020 when I saw a gif of Nitori doing GEDDAN

Ah, Geddan! Good times. Lemme check... Yes, I managed to save two related videos back in the days:

– Marisa WTF!!! - Get Down_ゲッダン

– 【Touhou】 Koakuma ☆Get Down☆ by Patchouli ☆ゲッダン☆

At least one of them was gone for a while, which surprised me. Out of all things possible, I never imagined them to attack Geddan based on copyright claims.

alma · « **Reply #111 on:** March 28, 2021, 02:26:57 PM »

Hi, I'm Alma. I got into Touhou around mid 2016. First technically witnessed a hint of its existence back in 2012 through a stickman animation featuring an arrange of Greenwich in the Sky while the stickman pelvic thrusts furiously. It wasn't until early 2016 that I would learn it was a game series through a pretty obscure rhythm game you never heard of (probably not even worth mentioning) called osu!

I wasn't much for weeb music, but the songs by some guys you totally never heard of called Yuuhei Satellite captivated me with their strangely nostalgic melodies. Eventually, I wanted to find out more about this music, and so I found the Touhou Project. On a whim, I downloaded Touhou 8, hearing it was the best one for beginners and had a grand old time. Over time I started playing more of the series and even dabbled into Seihou and Samidare at some point, but then stopped playing all of them when I realized shmups weren't my thing. I was more interested in the other aspects of Touhou people like it for, like the characters, the music, the art, the community, and the lore. At some point I drifted away from the series and its fandom and messed with other things like fighting games and... vocaloid... somehow. I'll talk about that in another post.

Fast forward to now, I'm getting into shmups, and by extension, back into Touhou! Gonna try to clear the whole series on hard from 1-12 minus fighting games cause I already play mad IaMP and hate the other fighters.

Other than that, I like tea, kefir, linux, retro gaming, fighting games, arcade sticks and World of Warcraft. Sorry if the intro is a bit long.

Frans · « **Reply #112 on:** March 29, 2021, 07:05:24 PM »

Quote from: Hieda no Mukyu on March 18, 2021, 01:32:40 AM

At least one of them was gone for a while, which surprised me. Out of all things possible, I never imagined them to attack Geddan based on copyright claims.

Dammit youtube and their broken copyright mechanic!
I was watching a video of that Miku leek song and guess what i found? A copyright claim and if that wasn't enough, I searched the one who claimed it and saw that it was just the Miku Ievan polka but with a rap added over it.

bitofhope · « **Reply #113 on:** May 28, 2021, 11:48:55 AM »

Guess I oughta leave my mark on this thread too.

I'm bitofhope, the lurking fairy. I'm somewhat active on the IRC, but I've mostly had a forum account as a placeholder.

Yuuka is best girl. And Yoshika.

Cheers to Mukyū for the shout out

AngryEclectus · « **Reply #114 on:** May 30, 2021, 08:42:04 PM »

Heyo! I'm AngryEclectus, but feel free to call me Angry!

There isn't much information I want to reveal... I know!
I got into Touhou late 2019, and I'm currently trying to read and play everything Touhou related in chronological order.
My favourite character is Patchouli.

That's all the information I wish to share. I hope you understand!

buchsen · « **Reply #115 on:** June 02, 2021, 01:37:47 AM »

I'm buchsen.

First found out about touhou by playing and seeing TF2 videos, NightMen was one of them.

I think Youmu and Utsuho are cool.

I mainly lurk, as i'm not much of a poster

Cybeast710 · « **Reply #116 on:** August 09, 2021, 04:47:03 AM »

Cybeast710 here.

It's been...a long time.

Like...a REEEEALLY long time. I remember when I was constantly on this board in high school.
That was EIGHT YEARS AGO. Holy crap.

How am I doing?
Decent, I guess. Branched off of Touhou and spun up a net of original characters. Got into FGO. I decided to look back at the old chaos of "Roll To Dodge: Crossover Edition", a game I ran back in 2014. Like...today I decided to look.

And that's when I found the boards had moved, so here I am!

OkuuFallout · « **Reply #117 on:** September 03, 2021, 04:40:27 AM »

Alright so I'm Fallout.

~~I'm 16 (yes I'm young, I'm aware).~~ I'm 17 now, but still young -_-

Living in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States

I learned about Touhou through the most generic way possible, "Bad Apple!!". I don't know exactly how I found out that it was a Touhou thing, but let's say that it was about a month later and about one or two months before UM came out. That's when I found out "Bad Apple!!" was a Touhou thing through a video talking about its history and analyzing it, which is when I got curious.

I found this place while browsing about Touhou stuff when I came across an article on the Touhou Fandom Wiki talking about something called Touhou School (it's an... interesting take on character ages and heights). I tried to research it when I came across a post from here from 2012 titled "Touhou School Projects".

Other things are that I love Nintendo, chess, reading, Japan, history, and random trivia.

Last but not least, my top 3 Touhou characters are ~~Utsuho, Aya, and either Marisa or Alice~~ Utsuho, Marisa, and Momiji.

Edit January 19, 2023: Changed some embarrassing things I said, unnecessary information, over-enthusiasm, clarification, and my top 3 characters.

Kogitsunemaru · « **Reply #118 on:** October 22, 2021, 07:19:21 AM »

Hello hello!

The friendly white haired kitsune has arrived!

I mostly enjoy Touhou music and art, though that is slowly changing to include games too. We'll see if I can best Sakuya! Life would be much better if I had a maid like her though...

As for my likes, cute things and cool things I guess, heh. I especially like cats, though I'm not sure they all like me back. Oh also: Patchouli best girl. No questions about it.

fishou · « **Reply #119 on:** October 27, 2021, 04:34:50 PM »

Hello everyone, I am Fishou (that's the name I usually go by, I don't think that's a reserved name, if it is, well… that would be bad), 28, unemployed, and also french.

I learned about touhou a long time ago, as I had friends that were quite interested in it, I wasn't, and one of them turned out to be a pretty toxic person, so I only looked into it later on (I blame Dylan Asprey for getting me interested), I came across this website once or twice, I wanted to make an account today just because "why not, there shouldn't be any issue", plus it may be interesting.

As far as it goes, I played first Touhou Mother (the VGPerson translation, using EasyRPG as I avoid windows as much as possible), then later on Yoiyami Dreamer (by tripper_room I believe? A Rumia game similar to Bubble Bobble/Don Doko Don), that one being the first game I purchased, I then started with Touhou 13 : Ten Desires (which is nice, albeit not as hard as I expected).

Other touhou games I played were:

Tempest of the Heavens and Earth (Tenjou no Tempest; by Lionheart I believe),
MarisaLand Legacy (mario-like platformer),
Komeiji Satori no Jousou Kyouiku (isometric puzzle game),
Shoot Shoot Nitori the Golden (Shmup, you grab enemies weapons to add them in front of you); those three being Twilight Frontier games

And as far as official games go besides 13, I played:

11 (Subterranean Animism, but I suck),
14 (Double Dealing character, I finished with Sakuya A),
16.5 (Hifuu Nightmare Diary - Violet detector, a photographic one, very frustrating, I'm bad),
18 (Unconnected marketeers, very fun, finished with all characters but no 1cc, I actually didn't 1cc any of them, only because stage 6 of ten desires is not letting me),
I also played the demo of 10.5 (Scarlet Weather Rhapsody)
Using THCRAP for the official games to play in english.

I have those weird tendencies : If I can't buy a game that I know is a paid one, I won't pirate it in order to play it, that's not something I do, I respect that everyone is entitled to their actions, and I don't blame people, but I just don't do this. The other one is I use linux mint as my main OS, this reduces a lot the games I am able to play, as wine is a complicated beast : when it works, it works, when it doesn't, it doesn't tell you how to make it work (Yuuyuu jiteki no Yuukarin being one exemple of game that launches but has severe display issues, I suspect it has something to do with pixel game maker MV, but I don't know), and while in theory I'd be okay with helping more people to play touhou games on linux, it's outside of the things I am able to do for now.