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Hello. I am sorry I wasn't active for around two weeks, I had to do a lot of work to do IRL and related to the database of Touhou events (it took much more time than I expected). But now I can make an announcement: the database is fully finished. It combines a lot of info collected by TESC, THBWiki and information from other places. I want to thank TESC, THBWiki and other people who tracked Touhou events because it helped a lot. This project helped me to know much more about different events. Now I can say that a lot of things Touhou researchers say about this is mostly true, but some data is outdated or has mistakes. For example looking at the data now I can say that processes during 2014-2019 were more complex than it was described in previous researches (because some data was missed) So now I will cover info which we can get by statistics and info from previous researches. So we can know what happened in Touhou Doujin (major part of Japanese Touhou community) for two decades and its current state. For now I can say say that Touhou-only events in Japan are mostly about offline activities (COVID and Post-COVID times prove this). I will cover mostly sales events, but there are a lot of kinds of Touhou-only events and combinations of them (for example there is an event which combines sales, concert, cosplay and dancing). And now I will publish some teasers:

Okay, as promised. About 東方奇闘劇 3, I don't need to post anything as it has been archived on the Internet Archive already and there's a full DVD ISO there. You can also find 東方奇闘劇２- Supreme Duels as a DVD ISO, so the best imaginable quality (compared to typical late-2000s/early-2010s potato uploads). For those who don't know about them (or people stumbling across the post via a search engine), they were animated works made by AQUA STYLE mimicking game cutscenes. They also featured very nice voice acting. 東方見聞録 by circle FRAGILE ONLINE, released in 2004 (DVD authoring date: 22nd of June 2004). This thing is 20 years old! I'm offering a full DVD ISO. I wasn't aware but this circle seems to be Taiwanese. There are multiple segments consisting in a series of illustrations with dialogue at the bottom. The first segment is narrated by a male Taiwanese voice-over (with a funny distortion in the audio). There's one segment called Luna Dial which reminds of those Touhou Soccer animated shots (I haven't checked if they were made by the same artist or not) that has very poor video quality. And no, this is not due to the limitations of DVD (bitrate is a steady 7Mbps throughout the whole thing), but they probably had a very low quality asset to begin with (or their MPEG2 encoder was very poor). Not sure if we have the first Touhou animated doujin release here (it's only 2 years after the official release of Touhou 06), but it is a nice piece of history nonetheless. Some very keen observers will notice the weird scaling artifacts on the video, when watched on a regular modern display. This is because the whole thing was produced at a resolution of 640x480 then loosely scaled using nearest neighbour to the standard 720x480 of NTSC DVDs (you never want to do that). Scaling it back to 640x480 using nearest neighbour will give you the correct picture back.

@vanyk, @Pinky Cat You're welcome. Please note that my translation abilities are in fact very limited, I mainly assist in extracting subtitles (from hard-coded ones) and timing them. But I really like making more obscure or overlooked works more accessible because I'm certain they deserve it. Okay, here are 2 obscure animation efforts that I acquired recently. First is a PV DVD released in 2008 called "東方紅魔郷 ARRANGE PV" by circle "WITCH☆CRAFT" and featuring a very nice and early Reimu 3D model by ISAO. This was obviously made before the MMD era (MMD just came out or hasn't come out yet by the time this animation was produced). This isn't lost media yet, but only very bad quality reposts exist of this. So I'm posting a full DVD rip here. Now unfortunately, I couldn't make an ISO because the disc had very bad corruption or burning defects despite looking prestine, but I was able to copy all the files at least. That's why all the datestamps are wrong (they should normally read 14th of May 2008 at 7:52AM). There is also a very annoying interlacing glitch throughout the whole PV which makes the picture look very jittery (when deinterlaced properly). Probably an authoring bug or sign of amateurism. Some video expert might be able to fix this. Second is a very well known dogfight animation from Mudspike (oh, what a coincidence again). Catalog number is MUDS-0001. This is the Reimu vs Utsuho fight. This already exists in 720p on YouTube on the creator's channel, so far from lost media (unless the creator melts down). But this DVD edition offers much better quality and even a subtitleless version. I'm offering a full ISO this time. More will come later. A DVD ISO rip of 東方奇闘劇 3 from AQUA STYLE (only exists in very low quality uploads) and some very obscure thing called "東方見聞録" by circle FRAGILE ONLINE released in 2004, if I'm not lazy.