It was a time that most people are sound asleep in their beds on the 27th of October that an amazing work of art called Bad Apple Touhou Project was uploaded to the Internet.  The person was a niconicodouga user which is a Japanese Youtube site, (a lot of people say it’s better) and goes by the nickname of Anira. The video is a homemade black and white work of art to the tune of the song “Bad Apple”

A little history of how this song came about that spurred the video is from the Bad Apple Touhou project which is a one-man project by a Japanese game maker, ZUN, who does all the graphics, music, and programming alone, with the exception of the dual effort with Twilight Frontier in Immaterial and Missing Power,Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Touhou His?tensoku.

The idea of Touhou first came to ZUN during his high school years, when shrine maiden-themed games were in the minority. “It would be nice to make shrine maiden games,” he thought, and often imagined the music that would go with such games. He went to college, hoping to compose music for fighting games, since they were popular at the time due to Street Fighter. However, he decided that in order to put his music into games, it would be easier to make his own game to go with it, thus the first Touhou game, Highly Responsive to Prayers, was released in 1996. The first game was intended as practice in programming, and Touhou only became a shooting game series since the second game, since the popularity of shooting games had revived due to Ray Force and ZUN had long been a fan of such games. ZUN remarked how the general theme and direction of Touhou only started coming together in the sixth game, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

The Bad Apple Touhou Project video can be viewed right here and has realized 300,000 views in 2 days and has been favorited 55,000 times. Tell me what you think. I think the person that created this video needs to be in business.