Touhou: Worldbuilding with J. R. R. Tolkien | Video Essay

READ THE PINNED COMMENT. The Touhou Project is known for its extensive world that has been built over the course of many years. In this video, I use the works of J. R. R. Tolkien (such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion) as a baseline to compare and contrast how Touhou's setting of Gensokyo is built.

Songs Used
Outer Wilds Main Theme - Andrew Prahlow
Clair de Lune - DeBUSSY
The Shire - Howard Shore
RAiNY STARS - Hatsunetsumiko's
Surface Star - Hatsunetsumiko's

0:00 - What is Worldbuilding?
3:00 - How Touhou Simulates Depth
6:19 - On Fairy Stories
8:38 - Secondary Belief
10:18 - The Bottom Line
11:39 - Extra


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