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    【C78】【PV】東方活動写真館 『橙的幻想郷音頭』

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    Come on, this is sweet Chen's Gensokyo March!
    Attention everyone, old and new friends
    forget all your problems
    and dance with me!

    Come on, everybody! Let's dance!
    Come on, cheer up, rise your feet!
    Everyone, make a circle!
    Cheers from Gensokyo!

    If you're optimistc we say hello,
    because even when things went wrong
    we are all friends now!

    Fairies and spirits,
    youkai and tengu,
    even gods are invited!

    Come on, everybody! Let's dance!
    Come on, cheer up, rise your feet!
    Everyone, make a circle!
    Cheers from Gensokyo!

    Everyone, make a circle!
    We'll see tomorrow, here, in Gensokyo!

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    matteste
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    Man, such a classic. Still remember the times when animations such as these were fresh and we were all blown away by their quality.

    (Still though, this reminds me, there was this one old anime styled animation done for Perfect Cherry Blossom that seemed to be the oldest Touhou animation in that quality, at least from that I know. Sadly, I have never been able to find it again nor what it was even called or who made it. The video where I first saw it has long since disappeared.)

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    Alixiron
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    matteste said:

    Man, such a classic. Still remember the times when animations such as these were fresh and we were all blown away by their quality.

    (Still though, this reminds me, there was this one old anime styled animation done for Perfect Cherry Blossom that seemed to be the oldest Touhou animation in that quality, at least from that I know. Sadly, I have never been able to find it again nor what it was even called or who made it. The video where I first saw it has long since disappeared.)

    Almost sure it's going to be wrong but taking a guess, is it one of these three?

    Also have you already watched Gensou Mangekyou? That one probably fits even better. Here's the first op in case you haven't seen it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgaGhAW9So

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    matteste
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    Alixiron said:

    Almost sure it's going to be wrong but taking a guess, is it one of these three?

    Also have you already watched Gensou Mangekyou? That one probably fits even better. Here's the first op in case you haven't seen it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgaGhAW9So

    I am well familiar with all of those. I am talking about even older. Like I said, it was an old clip that from what little I can tell, is among the oldest, if not THE oldest, Touhou animations done in that kind of studio quality.

    From what I remember, it was set to a piano arrangement of Ultimate Truth and featured in the first scene a skrimish between Reimu and Marisa with Marisa firing of her Master Spark with Reimu retaliating with her amulets resulting in an explosion. The scene then cuts to Reimu encountering Youmu with Reimu getting a close call with her hair before the two duke it out with it ending with the two clashing, then there is a brief cut to Yuyuko dancing before the clip ends.

    Again, I would seriously love to find it again and find out who was responsible for it given it was quite impressive for the time.

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    NNescio
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    matteste said:

    I am well familiar with all of those. I am talking about even older. Like I said, it was an old clip that from what little I can tell, is among the oldest, if not THE oldest, Touhou animations done in that kind of studio quality.

    From what I remember, it was set to a piano arrangement of Ultimate Truth and featured in the first scene a skrimish between Reimu and Marisa with Marisa firing of her Master Spark with Reimu retaliating with her amulets resulting in an explosion. The scene then cuts to Reimu encountering Youmu with Reimu getting a close call with her hair before the two duke it out with it ending with the two clashing, then there is a brief cut to Yuyuko dancing before the clip ends.

    Again, I would seriously love to find it again and find out who was responsible for it given it was quite impressive for the time.

    This?

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    matteste
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    NNescio said:

    This?

    Yes, that's the one. So there was an upload despite everything. Have no idea of how you managed to find it.
    Now, according to the linked nico video upload, it was uploaded in 2008. Now I can't tell if that is the original upload or a later one, but if some then it must have been made fairly shortly after I was introduced to Touhou.

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    NNescio
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    matteste said:

    Yes, that's the one. So there was an upload despite everything. Have no idea of how you managed to find it.
    Now, according to the linked nico video upload, it was uploaded in 2008. Now I can't tell if that is the original upload or a later one, but if some then it must have been made fairly shortly after I was introduced to Touhou.

    Yeah, the Nicovideo link is the original, made by artist Shokkin. They also made a few other Touhou faux PV-style (trailer/music promo) videos. It was a popular thing to do back in the day with various copyrights, and can be searched for on Nico (and sometimes Youtube) by searching for 手書き PV [copyright name]. Sadly not so common now, though Umamusume gets one every now and then.

    Also... just realized that the very same Nicovideo upload is also linked under Shokkin's artist profile here. Huh.

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    matteste
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    NNescio said:

    Yeah, the Nicovideo link is the original, made by artist Shokkin. They also made a few other Touhou faux PV-style (trailer/music promo) videos. It was a popular thing to do back in the day with various copyrights, and can be searched for on Nico (and sometimes Youtube) by searching for 手書き PV [copyright name]. Sadly not so common now, though Umamusume gets one every now and then.

    Also... just realized that the very same Nicovideo upload is also linked under Shokkin's artist profile here. Huh.

    Looked at the art and man, I remember some of those from when I first came to the site in the early days. Have I really lost my soul to this site for that long. Maybe time to take out the walking stick, hunch over and yell at clouds. (though to be fair, I am already doing that last thing.)

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