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Memes: Touhou
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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.


  • Marisa Stole The Precious Thing. Explanation
  • Overdrive! Explanation
  • The McRoll. Explanation
  • "Yukkuri shiteitte ne!" Explanation
  • Yukarin is 17~ Explanation
    • "Babaa" Explanation
      • Old Maids Alliance Explanation
    • This is preposterous, of course. Yukari's age is actually <gap> Explanation
  • 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-. Explanation
      • 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. Explanation
    • "I'm the strongest!" Explanation
      • "I'm a genius!" Explanation
    • 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. Explanation
    • "I'll cryo-freeze you together with some English beef!" Explanation
    • Team 9 Explanation
    • "CIRNO SMASH PUNY [X] WITH GLACIER-MALLET." Explanation
  • 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.)
  • Undead Zombie Miko Reimu. Explanation
    • 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. Explanation
  • Cho-Marisa and MANnosuke. Explanation
    • WHO NEEDS FANSERVICE WHEN YOU CAN HAVE MANSERVICE!
      • Suck my... duck? Explanation
  • ZA WARUDO! Explanation
  • 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. Explanation
    • You can't say that Sakuya has pads! Otherwi-knifed- Explanation
    • Meiling: Mine are real! Mine are—-knifed- Explanation
  • I GOT CAVED BY EX-KEINE! Explanation
  • Sanae is a good girl. Explanation
    • Sanae the sadist. Explanation
      • 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!" Explanation
      • Gensoukyou: The land where common sense is a weakness. Explanation
    • Sanae is a different kind of "good girl". Explanation
  • Kanako is a Guncannon. Explanation
  • 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.
  • Kaguya is a NEET. Explanation
  • 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.
  • "TASUKETE EIRIN!" Explanation
    • _, ,_ ∩
      ( ゜∀゜)彡 えーりん!えーりん!
         ⊂彡
  • Reisen is just a useless little bunny, only good for her sex appeal. Explanation
    • "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! Explanation
  • BRO FIST. Respond or you're not a bro. Explanation
    • Ichirin Kujo Explanation
    • Ichirin is just Unzan's hitbox. Explanation
  • Ran is the amazing Suppa Tenko! Explanation
  • JAAAAOOOOOOOOOO! Explanation
  • Everyone Is Gay in Gensoukyou. Explanation
  • Spot an inconsistency? Need an explanation? Pick one:
    • Magic. Explanation
    • Eirin's shady new drug. Explanation
    • Yukari is fooling around again. Explanation
    • It's a Moriya Shrine conspiracy. Explanation
    • "Templates like that are forbidden." Explanation
  • Reimu is a bitch. Explanation
  • ξ・∀・) Explanation
  • Reimu's delicious armpits. Explanation
  • Donations please! Explanation
  • Fantasy Heaven. When it starts, you are already dead. Explanation
  • \SYAMEIMARU/\SYAMEIMARU/\SYAMEIMARU/ Explanation
    • Ayayayayayaya...
    • Aya is ZUN's girlfriend. Explanation
  • Videos of the girls exercising. Or not. Explanation
  • Byakuren died for your sins. Explanation
  • CAPTAIN MINAMITSU MOTHERFUCKING MURASA! Explanation
  • SO MOE I'M GONNA DIE! Explanation
  • 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.
  • Laser is not difficult: Explanation
    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~ Explanation
    • Kogasa is the new youkai moe~ Explanation
      • Surprise~! :P Explanation
  • Sakuya-san! Sakuya-san! Cleaning Stop! Room Cleaning Stop! Explanation
  • Suwako's Nice Hat is often associated with the Hypnotoad meme, depicted as an independant entity using Suwako as her puppet.
  • TOUHOU HIJACK LOL Explanation
  • "Girls do their best now and are preparing. Please wait warmly until it is ready." Explanation
  • Wriggle Kick! Explanation
  • Memes spawned by the Flash comics on walfas.org:
    • "Hooray!" Explanation
    • Mokou and Kaguya fighting over a toy "twuck".
    • "Sakuya, what's sex?" Explanation
    • Hax Sign: "Burn Everything" Explanation
    • No way! That's impossible!
    • The most exciting time of day has come! Explanation
    • Shut up Ran! - Sorry. - SHUT UP!
    • DEATH BY YUYUKO! Explanation
    • Yuyu Co.
    • Have no fear Nitori is here!
    • Oh, that Chen. Explanation
    • K O
    • Keyboard Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!!! Explanation
    • Kaguya Table RPG
  • You're too soft, Youmu! Explanation
  • In the cross-breeding of memes, somehow the famous Family Mart has opened a branch store in Gensoukyou.
  • Minoriko's delicious grape wine. Explanation
  • Alright, Patchy! Let's do that bedtop sport for indoor types! Explanation
    • "Mukyu~" Explanation
  • Pretty much Japanese only, but: Shinki's ponytail has been depicted as an ahoge. And it sprouts legs
  • MagicalSakuya-chan Versus Miracle★Sanae! Explanation
  • Reisen+Youmu=Reimu slowly made its way to meme status.
  • How much of a memetic juggernaut is Touhou? When it encountered the smooooch・∀・ earworm, it made a Chen's theme remix out of it.
  • Remilia Scarlet swells with charisma. Explanation
    • CHARISMA BREAK!! Explanation
  • More crossbreeding with other memes:
  • Komachi has a NICE BOAT. Explanation
    • Futo has a NICE BOAT. Explanation
  • The Soccer Ball is the Most Powerful Thing In Gensoukyou. Explanation
    • Foul! She kicked the ball! Explanation
    • Twilight Spark Explanation
  • Even in the Touhou fandom F.O.E.! Explanation
  • Between Marisa's dance moves, and other things like Orin's parody of Thriller, it is clear that Michael Jackson is ALIVE in Gensoukyou.
  • Meiling is TOTALLY A DRAGON. Explanation
  • SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER!! Disco ain't dead when it lives on in Nagae Iku! Explanation
  • そーなのかー (So- nanoka-) Explanation
  • Momiji has rabies. Explanation
  • Bad Apple!! Explanation
    • Good evening, and you are watching the CIRNO NEWS NETWORK. Explanation
  • Nue and her Barrage X from a Playstation Star Explanation
  • Talisman "Exorcism of the Newspaper Subscription Solicitors" Explanation
  • Rule #9 of the internet: If it exists, there is a Touhou version of it. Explanation
  • Brohou. Explanation
  • Nazrin can do just about anything... since she's Nazrin. Explanation
    • Because she's a TINY TINY CLEVER COMMANDER Explanation
  • Reisen goes to school by bus.
  • OOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNN! Explanation
  • Touhou Sweets ~ The Cruel Sisters and the Suffering Maid. It has PAD written all over it. Explanation
  • Everyone is M for Yuuka. Explanation
    • Conversely, everyone is S for Tenshi. Explanation
  • 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..." Explanation
  • Pichuu~n Explanation
    • SPOOOOON! Explanation
    • ZUUUU~N Explanation
    • Kyuu~! Explanation
  • Within hours of being announced, Great Fairy Wars was nicknamed Touhou 12.⑨ Freeze The Bullet.
    • Faily Wars. Explanation
    • Flashlight spark.
    • Fat Cirno. Explanation
  • Fat Letty. Explanation
  • "Pettan, pettan, tsurupettan / pettan, pettan, tsurupettan / pettan, pettan, mochipettan / pettan, pettan, munepettan~" Explanation
  • Hataters gonna Hatate.
    • Hatate is EMO. Explanation
  • Mima will appear in the next game. Explanation
    • Sakuya is the new Mima. Explanation
  • "Kahen kilon siika!" Explanation
    • "Sirkku". Explanation
  • Yoshika Miyako: Cabbie of the Dead Explanation
    • Zombie Meiling. Explanation
  • (CHARACTER) ISN'T A GOOD GIRL AT ALL Explanation
  • Mamizou Tomoe. Explanation
    • Miko Sakuraba Explanation
  • The Touhous Explanation.
    • MY TOUHOUS! Explanation
  • "My hat is my friend, it helps me relax"Explanation
  • Hinaface. Explanation
  • Reimu eats grass/leaves. Explanation
  • If she does not have a hat, she will die. Explanation
  • ZUN and alcohol. Explanation
  • Failice. Explanation
  • Inaba of the Inaba. Explanation
  • Now do it with Marisa. Explanation
  • *Scarlet Devil Mansion explodes* This is now a Touhou manga. Explanation
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