Touhou Hijacks in the Outside World

Happy late Cirno Day! Latest Hijack update: I’ll be investigating Cirno’s Perfect Math Class at Stanford and interviewing Chrysoberyl (@aniva.bsky.social) from Nor Cal Hakkero Factory No.1! While I take an inordinate amount of time to edit, preview the hijack here: web.stanford.edu/class/cs99/

YouTube video by Delta Pie Tohuou Hijack Field Club: Electric Dance Squid

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happy four years, one month, and three days hijackiversary
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Just waiting for the captions to sync up. Thanks to silversnow for the thumbnail!

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Join the Touhou r/place Discord, where we are working on various projects together on the wplace.live canvas!
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Attention all wplace players: there's an effort led by @bappitythebruh.bsky.social to document all the Touhou artwork on there - and YOU can contribute! Have you made or seen Touhou artwork on wplace? Help us out, fill the sheet, and join the Discord (link below)!
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This is in fact related to one of the Hijack Field Club videos, you can probably guess which one I'm going to be covering there

Calling all hijack agents: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SONG (Sing, R. Sing! - Girl Illusion) IN A TIKTOK, YT VID, OR EVEN IN REAL LIFE ETC ETC?
Please send me all the cases you've got- preferably with links but if not that's alright! I have a few compiled but I know there's more! Thanks!

Hello! Quick update for the programming in the upcoming months.
- Touhou r/place 2023 documentary (Bad Apple animation) - all 4.5-ish hours!
- TWO Touhou Hijack Field Club videos
I'll be finishing these videos first. Once they're posted, we'll be back with normal threads.

Panel recording is up for anyone who couldn't make it!
youtu.be/jeBIan9hv2Y

Hi all! I'm still alive and will be hosting a Touhou hijack panel at @touhoufest.org! I'll be going into why Touhou hijacks keep happening and some of the cool things I've discovered over my years of researching hijacks. Hope to see you there!

YouTube video by Megapig9001 Touhou TV: TouhouFest 2025 Edition

Touhou TV is a Nintendo Direct style presentation! This edition showcases some of the creators you’ll find at TouhouFest 2025! Some of the featured creators include @touhouhijack.bsky.social , @fire-land-dev.bsky.social , and @panchamon.bsky.social !
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Australians be aware - this exhibition is only open for a little while longer! Come find Marisa while you still can!
Thanks to @That_Paperbag for the photos.

Hello all! Sadly I must announce that I am temporarily putting the Touhou Hijack Archive on hiatus for the rest of the academic term. HOWEVER, I will still be monitoring submissions so please keep them coming! There will just be no new threads. Thank you for your understanding!

Journals with the hijack.

My copy of the hijack

You just don't stumble upon a stray hijack in a local supermarket everyday...in Europe! Got a copy of that immediately.
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Happy New Year! Thanks to BADCATBAD for answering my questions. It’s been fun hijacking with everyone and building this city of ours. Also, Australians, it’s your time to shine! The exhibition closes April 13, 2025, so go visit before it's too late! Please share clips/photos!

For Touhou fans, cosplay and hijacks are a way to patch discontent with the world of Gensokyo. And as seen here and with other examples I’ve covered, this has been quite successful. Like Cao Fei, Touhou fans have built their own ecosystems wherever they are around the world.

Cosplayers (2004) is also exhibited. In a 2008 interview, Cao Fei says that cosplayers “let the characters replace themselves in their everyday lives and routines...[reflecting] the younger generation’s discontent with their actual roles in real life.”
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The final production cuts between all the scenes filmed across Sydney with many different people. Marisa and the rest of the cosplayers pop up at various times.
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The project had a casting call for cosplayers. BADCATBAD applied with a photo of her Marisa cosplay and was accepted. This costume was hand-made out of cotton, making it very easy to wear and dance in.
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The Marisa cosplayer is Australian cosplayer BADCATBAD (www.instagram.com/badcatbad_/). She, along with cosplayers Spreekit as Seraphine (League of Legends) and taoruwu.cos as Ahri (League of Legends), were featured in the video, filmed at Million Life Sydney.
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The Sydney edition (“Chinatown Shuffle”) was directly commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The video features 60+ people of all ages dancing in more than 20 different Sydney locations opened up by local store owners and organizations.
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Hip Hop: Sydney is part of the Cao Fei's Hip Hop series featuring music videos of Chinese communities dancing in different cities. Previous parts were in Guangzhou (2003), Fukoka (2005), and New York (2006).
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The exhibition had an opening weekend event hosted by the Sydney Manga and Anime Show (SMASH), which ran a cosplay catwalk and a workshop. Cosplayers had free entry on November 30th and December 1st.
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Cao Fei is no stranger to working with cosplayers. One of her most notable pieces is her 2004 work “COSplayers,” showing young cosplayers in Guangzhou going about their days in various parts of the city.
www.caofei.com/works.aspx?y...
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Submitted by yukko
Cao Fei is an artist focusing on the rapid transformation of China, both culturally and economically, during the 30 years of her career. Her exhibition is an open cityscape of different screens, digital installations, and settings.
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The “Cao Fei: My city is Yours 欢迎登陆 ” exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, available from November 30, 2024 until April 13, 2025, features a video of a Marisa Kirisame cosplayer as part of the “Hip Hop: Sydney” installation.

Although this is not Touhou, I am compelled to mention that a Cookie☆ video went up on September 3 at 4:30 PM. This one was sponsored by GospelBillie and is a cut version of a longer Cookie☆ animation (www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4219...).
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The earliest record of the site on the Internet Archive was in December 2022, but both it and Google Trends show a spike in July 2023. The site itself becoming viral let all four sponsors encounter it separate from each other.
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Finally, u/yuyukosaigyouji2003, also unaware of previous Touhou videos (they learned about it from a Pikmin video), asked /r/2hujerk for Yuyuko videos to put on the billboard. A Yuyuko fumo spinning video was suggested and went up on July 19th at 12:31pm.
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This was all under the impression of it being the first Touhou video on the sign. The only hitch was Kakkoi’s cigar. As cigars were banned from Times Square ads, it had to be replaced with a candy cane. The clip aired on the afternoon of July 15th.
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