Today I bring you a piece of history! GENSO MOSH PIT was a Touhou music magazine published in 2013. It featured exclusive interviews, reviews, live reports, and more. The first issue had some BUTAOTOME contents, namely a long interview with the members (made during their Magical Gambler tour) and a report of their live at Gifu on April 6th, 2013…. Read more »
And welcome back to the usual review corner! Everything revolves around greed and economy, even if it is not human. A Touhou vocal arrangement album covered in the obsession of the powerful ones who rule the place. Concept Juushin is about greed. We have characters who are greed incarnate, those who are related to things like money and economy, or… Read more »
Let’s start with personal and website news: I will move out to a new home in September! I will probably take a couple of weeks of half-break during that month.In the meantime, the quest of translating every single BUTAOTOME album and song* is slowly reaching its end… and we are at the beginning! Touhou Kaiten Mokuba has been fully translated~Also,… Read more »
Okay, I forgot this was supposed to be recap day, but there is no news besides this one, so here is its solo post. Touhou Meikasai 16 is this Sunday (June 5) in Nagoya! BUTAOTOME will be there, with a new type of merch! It’s an acrylic stand of Yuuma from Juushin’s cover! In case you can’t go to the… Read more »
So, this post was sitting in my drafts since at least August 2019, and I finally decided to resume it now. Just to have something done while I’m still writing the Juushin review! Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame are two of the most recurring characters in BUTAOTOME’s works, almost on par with the Hifuu Club people. It’s not hard to… Read more »
Happy birthday to our favorite polar bear! Following the trend of this year’s Ane and Ranko birthday posts, and as part of my “10th anniversary as Piggy” celebration, today we’ll talk about some of our polar bear’s works outside of the BUTAOTOME circle. The “songs with non-Ranko vocalists,” essentially. Comp doesn’t have a lot of stuff of that kind… at… Read more »
It’s yet another silent period in the World of BUTAOTOME… Ranko celebrated her wedding anniversary and recorded something today. Ane has posted some sketches (including “old stuff she doesn’t remember drawing“). The FANBOX has been updated with pictures from the OHISA April live. As for this website… I’ve been working on some upcoming posts (including Juushin’s review and Comp’s birthday… Read more »
Translation updates So, I’m bringing you a bigger update! First of all, we have the new album already! All the lyrics and translations of Juushin have been added to each song’s page! An older album that got all its translations is Shoujo Rengoku 4. And at last, compilation songs: Yaburekabure [Did you know that the official website of Touhou SF… Read more »
New album announcement Juushin will be released on May 8! More info (including XFD and all the relevant buy links) on this page! I’ve also wrote a pre-release post where I dive into the album’s theme of greed. Super Touhou Live Stage 2022 Did you watch it live? Well, you can still (re)watch it down below! Gensou no Satellite Soldi… Read more »
New BUTAOTOME album, new pre-release commentary! Album page Juushin. Beast god. To start off, I wanna tell you that this title can be accurately translated into Italian as “dio bestia”. :a_wild_cannarsi_appeared: If it wasn’t for the fact that I dislike profanities, I would eternally refer to the album with this name. This album is centered on greed, and “the obsession… Read more »
