Touhou/Memes



For a simple danmaku game, Touhou has spawned more memes than any others of its kind. Sometimes, the memes even become canon. Plus, these memes are breeding.

(　゜∀゜)彡　えーりん!えーりん! ⊂彡
 * Marisa Stole The Precious Thing.
 * Alice Forgot the Precious Lyrics!
 * Overdrive!
 * Eehh, really!? EASY MODO??? How lame! It's unforgivable to play EASY MODO unless you're an elementary school kid, right? Kyahahahaha!
 * You cannot comprehend the true nature of Reisen's Lunatic Eyes!
 * The McRoll.
 * Versions exist for several other Touhou themes as well. Here is one of "Deaf To All But The Song"
 * "Yukkuri shiteitte ne!"
 * The meme is so popular it has its own Wiki and a series of comics. It's also one of the most divisive memes - many fans absolutely hate yukkuris.
 * Yukarin is 17~
 * "Babaa"
 * Old Maids Alliance
 * This is preposterous, of course. Yukari's age is actually
 * Cirno is known as ⑨ (pronounced Nineball) after this image in the manual for Phantasmagoria of Flower View, indicating Cirno as ⑨: Baka.
 * The infamous Icicle Fall -Easy-.
 * There are a few videos demonstrating similar (if less reliable or blaringly obvious) blindspots in other spellcards. No matter who is being mocked, these videos are always titled "Ice Sign: "Icicle Fall" -Easy-" and use Cirno's theme. Some targets include Kaguya, Mokou, and Mystia.
 * It's even spread beyond Touhou.
 * Cirno's Perfect Math Class.
 * There are no buses in Gensoukyou.
 * Probably not officially a meme, but there is a series of videos with two guys getting an increasingly large group of people to dance with them to Cirno's Perfect Math Class.
 * "I'm the strongest!"
 * "I'm a genius!"
 * September the 9th, 2009 (the 9th of the 9th of 2009) was celebrated as Cirno Day by her fans, also known as the strongest day ever.
 * Atai Cirno.
 * "I'll cryo-freeze you together with some English beef!"
 * Team 9
 * "CIRNO SMASH PUNY [X] WITH GLACIER-MALLET."
 * Utsuho has been dubbed ⑥ (pronounced Sixball) after the revelation in Hisoutensoku that she is even dumber than Cirno. (Apparently all of her brainpower is devoted to nuclear physics, with no room for irrelevant crap like COMMON SENSE.)
 * ☢ CAUTION ☢ CAUTION ☢.
 * Okuu's Nuclear Fusion Dojo
 * Okuu's Nuclear Fusion Dojo
 * Okuu's Nuclear Schoolbag Dojo
 * ? MISSION!! ? MISSION!! ?
 * Okuu's third leg is something of a meme, constantly being depicted as an Arm Cannon that would make Samus jealous. Became official with Hisoutensoku.
 * Undead Zombie Miko Reimu.
 * I am NOT an undead zombie, so SHUT THE HELL UP already!
 * But Reimu is an undead zombie, so YEAH!
 * ZUN ART IS BEST ART.
 * Cho-Marisa and MANnosuke.
 * WHO NEEDS FANSERVICE WHEN YOU CAN HAVE MANSERVICE!
 * Suck my... duck?
 * ZA WARUDO!
 * Exemplified by this video.
 * Naturally, Sakuya Brando has been made in MUGEN.
 * Night Of Nights, an absurdly fast arrange of Flowering Night.
 * Due to the Art Shift between The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and Immaterial and Missing Power, some fans have theorized that Sakuya pads her bra.
 * iPad.
 * You can't say that Sakuya has pads! Otherwi-knifed-
 * Meiling: Mine are real! Mine are---knifed-
 * I GOT CAVED BY EX-KEINE!
 * The sukusuku hakutaku, a disgustingly cute version of Keine's hakutaku form.
 * Sanae the sadist.
 * At the end of Sanae B's extra, Sanae invites Nue to the Moriya Shrine. This has somehow evolved into this instead...
 * "You can't let yourself be held back by common sense!"
 * Gensoukyou: The land where common sense is a weakness.
 * Kanako is a Guncannon.
 * A Vicious Guncannon.
 * Fanart of Nitori drawn as a missile are common, due to her Boss Subtitle being "Super Youkai Warhead". Cemented by Subterranean Animism, her connection to Marisa giving the latter (unguided) missiles, the only weapon in the game that is even vaguely technological.
 * A cucumber-shaped missile?
 * Kaguya is a NEET.
 * She discovered the internet, and thus consequently probably discovered us. Not even moon princesses are immune!
 * Patchouli is a NEET.
 * Thanks to the Space Probe Kaguya, she's also been forced to go back to the Moon.
 * From the way ZUN talked about the Apollo Project concealing a war between the Humans and the Lunarians, Neil Armstrong has become a totally awesome dude who could take on Yorihime the Moonbitch - and WIN.
 * Fan-artists are now expecting to have fun now that Kaguya has crashed into the moon. As seen here.
 * With the latest announcement that NASA has sent a missile into the side of the moon, it seems like the Lunar War is starting up again. Yorihime must be annoyed.
 * BRING IT ON MOONBITCH!!!
 * "TASUKETE EIRIN!"
 * _,﻿ ,_　∩
 * "TASUKETE EIRIN!"
 * _,﻿ ,_　∩
 * Reisen is just a useless little bunny, only good for her sex appeal.
 * "Suppository", due to the shape of her bullets.
 * On Nico Nico Douga, she's also known as "newbie bait", i.e. ZUN's clever plan to attract new fans with useless little bunnies.
 * Are You Happy? ToHo KInema kan! Make You Happy?
 * Yuugi's sake NOT EVEN DROP!
 * BRO FIST. Respond or you're not a bro.
 * Ichirin Kujo
 * Ichirin is just Unzan's hitbox.
 * Ran is the amazing Suppa Tenko!
 * Do you like SUPPATENKO? OKI, let's enjoy together SUPPATENKO. (NSFW)
 * CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!
 * *massive Nosebleed*
 * HANYAAAAAAAAAAA~N!!!
 * JAAAAOOOOOOOOOO!
 * "Kick, punch, it's all in the mind!"
 * Everyone Is Gay in Gensoukyou.
 * Spot an inconsistency? Need an explanation? Pick one:
 * Magic.
 * Eirin's shady new drug.
 * Yukari is fooling around again.
 * It's a Moriya Shrine conspiracy.
 * "Templates like that are forbidden."
 * Reimu is a bitch.
 * ξ・∀・)
 * Reimu's delicious armpits.
 * Donations please!
 * Fantasy Heaven. When it starts, you are already dead.
 * \SYAMEIMARU/\SYAMEIMARU/\SYAMEIMARU/
 * Ayayayayayaya...
 * Aya is ZUN's girlfriend.
 * Videos of the girls exercising. Or not.
 * Byakuren died for your sins.
 * But stealing is still bad, Byakuren.
 * O, the world of dharma is filled with light.
 * CAPTAIN MINAMITSU MOTHERFUCKING MURASA!
 * SO MOE I'M GONNA DIE!
 * The girls have seriously begun Idol Dancing/Singing. Granted, they've been doing it for a while now.
 * Yuyuko eating Mystia, in the Ghost Team route in Imperishable Night, solidified Yuyuko's portrayal as a Big Eater surpassed only by a singularity.
 * "Hang on, Youmu, I got a bone stuck in my throat."
 * Which was soon mutated into Yuyuko "eating" Mystia.
 * Laser is not difficult:
 * 1) Concentrate your mind.
 * 2) Mutter the spell into the Mini-Hakkero tenderly.
 * 3) Aim at someone you don't like.
 * 4) Unleash your annihilation of love!
 * Yuuka is youkai moe~
 * Kogasa is the new youkai moe~
 * Surprise~! :P
 * Sakuya-san! Sakuya-san! Cleaning Stop! Room Cleaning Stop!
 * Suwako's Nice Hat is often associated with the Hypnotoad meme, depicted as an independant entity using Suwako as her puppet.
 * TOUHOU HIJACK LOL
 * "Girls do their best now and are preparing. Please wait warmly until it is ready."
 * Wriggle Kick!
 * Seme Wriggle.
 * Memes spawned by the Flash comics on walfas.org:
 * "Hooray!"
 * Mokou and Kaguya fighting over a toy "twuck".
 * "Sakuya, what's sex?"
 * Hax Sign: "Burn Everything"
 * Hax Sign: "You Just Plain F*** ing LOSE -YinYang'd-"
 * Holy crap, it's actually possible to beat it.
 * No way! That's impossible!
 * The most exciting time of day has come!
 * Shut up Ran! - Sorry. - SHUT UP!
 * DEATH BY YUYUKO!
 * Yuyu Co.
 * Have no fear Nitori is here!
 * Oh, that Chen.
 * K O
 * Keyboard Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!!!
 * Kaguya Table RPG
 * You're too soft, Youmu!
 * In the cross-breeding of memes, somehow the famous Family Mart has opened a branch store in Gensoukyou.
 * Minoriko's delicious grape wine.
 * Alright, Patchy! Let's do that bedtop sport for indoor types!
 * "Mukyu~"
 * Pretty much Japanese only, but: Shinki's ponytail has been depicted as an ahoge. And it sprouts legs
 * Magical☆Sakuya-chan Versus Miracle★Sanae!
 * Reisen+Youmu=Reimu slowly made its way to meme status.
 * How much of a memetic juggernaut is Touhou? When it encountered the smooooch・∀・ Ear Worm, it made a Chen's theme remix out of it.
 * Remilia Scarlet swells with charisma.
 * CHARISMA BREAK!!
 * More crossbreeding with other memes:
 * SCARLET ZONE (Remix featuring Septette for the Dead Princess and U.N. Owen Was Her?)
 * YOUKAI ZONE (Remix featuring Hartmann's Youkai Girl)
 * And then you get AWESOME DRIVING.
 * NEVER let Marisa drive. Ever.
 * Sakuya takes Remilia for a different kind of "ride".
 * Komachi has a NICE BOAT.
 * Futo has a NICE BOAT.
 * The Soccer Ball is the Most Powerful Thing In Gensoukyou.
 * Foul! She kicked the ball!
 * Twilight Spark
 * Even in the Touhou fandom F.O.E.!
 * Between Marisa's moves, and other things like Orin's parody of Thriller,.
 * Meiling is TOTALLY A DRAGON.
 * SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER!! Disco ain't dead when it lives on in Nagae Iku!
 * そーなのかー (So- nanoka-)
 * Momiji has rabies.
 * She can't have rabies she Ate the Chocolate
 * Bad Apple!!
 * Good evening, and you are watching the CIRNO NEWS NETWORK.
 * Nue and her Barrage X from a Playstation Star
 * Talisman "Exorcism of the Newspaper Subscription Solicitors"
 * No News Solicitations! (Thank You)
 * That means you, Aya. Bad girl.
 * Rule #9 of the internet: If it exists, there is a Touhou version of it.
 * Brohou.
 * Nazrin can do just about anything... since she's Nazrin.
 * Because she's a TINY TINY CLEVER COMMANDER
 * Reisen goes to school by bus.
 * OOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!
 * Touhou Sweets ~ The Cruel Sisters and the Suffering Maid. It has PAD written all over it.
 * The Perverted Tengu and the Maidens of Tragedy.
 * Everyone is M for Yuuka.
 * Conversely, everyone is S for Tenshi.
 * The class change videos of Aoshima cross Touhou with Seiken Densetsu 3. They are quite famous with fans of the actual game. Then there are the random Touhou videos...
 * "Paruparuparuparu..."
 * Pichuu~n
 * SPOOOOON!
 * ZUUUU~N
 * Kyuu~!
 * Within hours of being announced, Great Fairy Wars was nicknamed Touhou 12.⑨ Freeze The Bullet.
 * Faily Wars.
 * Flashlight spark.
 * Fat Cirno.
 * Fat Letty.
 * "Pettan, pettan, tsurupettan / pettan, pettan, tsurupettan / pettan, pettan, mochipettan / pettan, pettan, munepettan~"
 * Hataters gonna Hatate.
 * Hatate is EMO.
 * Mima will appear in the next game.
 * Sakuya is the new Mima.
 * "Kahen kilon siika!"
 * "Sirkku".
 * Yoshika Miyako: Cabbie of the Dead
 * Zombie Meiling.
 * (CHARACTER) ISN'T A GOOD GIRL AT ALL
 * Mamizou Tomoe.
 * Miko Sakuraba
 * The Touhous.
 * MY TOUHOUS!
 * "My hat is my friend, it helps me relax" ♥
 * Hinaface.
 * Reimu eats grass/leaves.
 * If she does not have a hat, she will die.
 * ZUN and alcohol.
 * Failice.
 * Inaba of the Inaba.
 * Now do it with Marisa.
 * *Scarlet Devil Mansion explodes* This is now a Touhou manga.