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Why is "Touhou" a separate category from "games"? Are you including secondaries too?

>>35093

Touhou is more than just games, most of the world comes from the literature Zun makes.

>>35091

When I was like 8 years old, I used to watch cartoon show on tv. I never realized it was an anime known as Lupin the 3rd. Then at age of 11, mahou shojou came along together with its manga. From there, I started to get a grasp into otaku fandom culture. I knew about 2hu games in later years on internet forum, that's about it.

early 2008, playing demonophobia. sealed the deal

when i found out about FourChan circa 2011 i got into most of the shit im into today. i've known about touhou since 2009 though

Watch Robotech when I was a kid in the 80s. Sci-fi uses to show movies like Akira, Gits, and 8man After. Cartoon Network showed weebshit in the 90s. 00s came around and affordable reasonable speed internet made fansubbimg explode. 05 4chan started getting talked about on anime forums and I started visiting.

Really it was the heavy cultural influence of Japan in the 80s that sort of molded me into a NEETSoc.

I was always interested in games. "YOU'RE controlling what goes on on the screen? Sweet!"

Games that family had. Mostly SMRPG and Mario Party, and SimCity 2000.

Got Game Maker and fucked with that for a while, made a dumb little multiplayer platformer with practically no graphics, but tons of guns, bombs, configurable particle tails. Goal was simply to kill each other, maybe eventually build the field ingame with the blocks. Lost that.

Found out about emulators, played some console RPGs on my crappy PC in awe.

Somewhere in 2008 I got into RuneScape. That's the real tumbling point. Having an easy to access chat filled with people from all over, based around a reason to stay logged into it, the game itself.

Early 2009 Someone linked my to 4chan. Or more specifically, an archived r9k thread about the worst shits they'd ever experienced. Fun thread.

From there I navigated to 4chan itself, looked through the topics, found some anime and porn I liked. Then enjoyed consuming all that media.

I shared most of all this with my brother. But he's the one who found and got me into Touhou.

Think it was some pictures of Sakuya he had on his screen, and I was like "Whoa, she look cool. Tell me about this stuff".

Not sure if I ever reached an enlightment[sic] though. Like there's a lot along the way that changed my personality, made me think, and shifted just about everything. But not one individually important enlightenment.