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Please add that one Suika theme

Quite interesting to see how Satori's Theme was inspired by two songs of two animes about, mostly, robots.

Zun's words: Touhou being a doujin project is by default, a derivative work. It's no surprise there are direct references and similarities to all those musical cues in there ;D

wild arms wasnt an anime lol

Two Steps From Hell - Flight of the silverbird. tell me that's not yuyuko's theme

10:32 Song of the Sun is actually from another Gallician Celtic band called Luar Na Lubre, the original is called "O son do Ar" meaning sound of the air.

Touhou is the Star Wars of video games. A primordial soup that can be remixed and altered freely and infinitely. But unlike Star Wars, it never fell to corporate overreach; it instead is the freest, most proportionally widespread property on the internet.

I will still cry at Touhou music.

ZUN actually copied sonic the fighters bc sonic the fighters js from 1996

04:46 can someone send a link of this song please?

un owen was a palgraist????

3rd Eye is actually similar to She Said "Don't Let Others Suffer For Your Personal Hatred" from Evangelion when Sahaquiel, the angel with the exact same powers as Satori, attacks.

i like how 80% of these are superficial

Shiki Eiki, haha charade you are! Whoo! You Yama aren't you, haha charade you are! But when you think you're at the top You're nearly a good laugh Almost a shorty that you're Petite with a small sword shouting I am the law Lecturing to people And that ferrywoman Down in Higan You're nearly a laugh You're nearly a laugh but you're really a cry!

How to ruin your touhou experience 101

i can also hear bonetrousle in wind god girl. just me?

Wow

Septette for the Dead Princess sounds like Republika Srpska

Eiki’s theme W

this feels like a guessing game lol

"Reverse Ideology" is similar to "Fuzzy Time Mines" which is similar to the Miniboss theme from Link's Awakening. There's something going on there.

Cirno and Hall of Fame... as both a Touhou and a Pokémon fan, added to the fact that they were both my ADHD hyperfocuses, *how did I never notice that they were related?!*

so I'm not insane for hearing Pigs in Fate of Sixty Years, i thought ZUN didn't listen to rock much

I’m surprised Septette for the Dead Princess is not here. It’s pretty similar to Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata 3rd Movement.

song in blue has lead me down a path of a music genre iv been trying to find the name of called AOR aka Album-oriented rock like where that song comes from the kazu matsui project those songa have changed me forever and i have them all now on vinyl im so happy i got into touhou cuz if not idk if i couls live without there album standing in the wings or Marine Fantasia

(Vaguely similar) Seems the same.

We are still waiting for part 2

1:58 i think gensokyo millenium is inspired from czcams.com/video/Y-5PtXR9ttQ/video.html its called skänklåt från rättvik a 150 year old swedish folk song 2:34 don't really sound that similar to me 3:51 yea quite simliar 4:35 touhou 14 came out just around 6 month before super mario 3d so hmmm.... 6:34 idk sound very different to me(ps i listen to satori's theme everyday) 7:22 the catchy parts of both sound similar 8:11 replayed 4-5 times to find similarities but.... 8:52 only a small part of both sound similar(that funky guitar though in the castlevania one) 10:12 i tink zun did this on purpose coz he also references agatha christie's novel which came exactly 30 years before(found this information in the comment section: "The Taa taa taa taa part at around the 10 minute mark is a well known progression called the Andalucian Cadence so Zun isnt necessarily referencing 007 but just using a common musical technique") 10:35 song of the sun sounds similar but the other one not so much, also combining songs isn't fair :( 11:48 not quite similar(may be because nitori' theme has more instruments?) 12:43 yea this one matches up(also is that ai art?) 13:21 again only certain melody matches up

Sonic Casino park and dark pegasus sako's theme will forever be my fave comparison

what is this music 13:46

cool girl👍❤10:49

Wild Arms OP also reminds me of Septette for the Dead Princess, and therefore Pathetique. Beethoven inspired a lot of Japanese composers lol

First song in your video was the 2nd most blatant one I had heard (after Septette) like 10 years ago and I came hoping to find it here after searching for so long. It happened! Thank you!!!

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13:21 Redmi 10C: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN!

Never Expected Final fantasy to be mentioned.

As a person who knew GD first, I got pretty mad when I realised that a song that I like is secretly someone's theme in Touhou. For example: Galaxy Collapse (Heian Alien) Yatagarasu (Nuclear Fusion)

Do part 2

Request: zelda music similarities

*OH MY GOD!! This seems to be a brainwashing video, To make people hate Touhou the greatest in history!! (probably)* Well, I'm pretty sure the 2 themes here are 100% coincidence, that's Reverse ideology theme / Seija's theme And Nuclear fusion theme / Okuu's theme. Because... - Reverse ideology theme, it came before mario theme - Nuclear fusion theme, It has the same beginning as Strawberry crisis!! theme / Yumemi's theme - Touhou 3 and it comes before The hall of mountain King song. And I would like to add 3 more possible themes. That it might be a 50/50 coincidence that is 1) Locked girl theme / Patchouli's theme 2) Fate of sixty years theme / Shikieiki's theme 3) Wind god girl theme / Aya's theme Because of what? I would like to give a reason... 1.Locked girl theme - Both the drum beat and melody rhythm are similar. But Drum beat used in this theme, It's also used in Doll judgment theme/Alice's theme as well. And more importantly...... And there are a lot of rhythmic themes like Patchouli theme! Let me give you some examples of songs that use similar rhythms: : The highly responsive to prayers theme - touhou 1 : Visionary game/Rikako's theme - touhou 3 : Decoration battle/Orange's theme(Unused theme) - touhou 4 : Infinite being theme/Shinki's theme - touhou 5 : Antique terror theme - Seihou theme : Pandora's box theme - Seihou theme : Into back-door theme - touhou 16 2.Fate of sixty year theme - It's true that the piano riff of both themes is the same, They both use notes E - F# - G. But themes in touhou that use a piano riff like Shiki's theme still exist. : Now, until the moment you die theme - touhou1 ( Use piano riff note of C# - Eb - E , And if adding 3 key will get E - F# - G) : Dream of a spring breeze theme - touhou 7 ( Use piano riff note of C# - Eb - E , And if adding 3 key will get E - F# - G) 3.Wind god girl theme - I heard that The rhythm used in the vers of the Wind god girl theme is Andalusian Cadence, probably a technique in music. . . . . . I only have 3 themes that I suspect. Probably the most coincidental, and with the most evidence to support it. Which of course I don't know the exact answer. Only he knows the truth, and I made comments like, "This is a brainwashing video, to make people hate Touhou" at the beginning of the story. I'm just being sarcastic. (because someone took this video come as evidence to use Anti touhou)

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The most shocking one was definitely cirnos theme. A lot of these were fairly easy to guess, but being a long time Pokémon fan I just never made that connection. Really cool stuff.

zeta gundam one sounds like luigis mansion

7:44 I’m pretty sure the start sounds like dark road or green eyed jealousy

u wrote my dialogues with comic sans dat iligal

Satori got another similar song and its ☠️ girls. 6:40

Для Satori Maiden ~3rd eye больше подходит She said don't make others suffer for your personal hatred

Most of these only have similar chord progressions, but there are a few in there that are definitely close.

Also there is another song from Pokémon that sounds like Cirno’s theme and the red and blue hall of fame theme and that’s Sword and Shield’s champion theme.

And Beethoven Virus is Remilia Theme