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 ►Twitter:   / gensouchronicle