>>18149I personally find everything appealing
The raw character desings are pretty cool, ZUN draws like shit(he's getting better) but the art made of them add so much detail that you get simply possessed by them.
Setting and story is what I like the most but for us gaijins is kind of hard to understand if you aren't very /jp/ or /a/ at least, it talks about how tradittions became forgotten because of modern society and gensokyo is a middle realm created to hold all of that wich has no place to en up to, there you can find gates to worlds that humanity doesn't believe they exist anymore(Makai, Ghost world, even Heaven because of the increment atheists), find youkais/monsters, ghosts, magical creatures, and even gods that we have forgotten, sometimes even that little thing that you lost under the wardrobe and never found again end up in there. In a sense is kind of made so you think that it could be real at some point.
Music is another strong point ZUN's arrangments have a lot of heart and personal touch in them, obviously this en up leading to a shitload of songs and videos who made alternative versions of them, and most are fucking good.
Also the characters have very remarked personalities, you get to know them very well if you follow all the source materials, and ZUN is a cool guy, if the fanbase is too eager to give a feature to some girl, he ends up making it cannon.
>how did you guys legit get into Touhou?I started with 7.5, a fighting game, I really liked that peculiar fight, win, NOW DODGE system, then I wanted some info on it, discovered Bad apple and Cirno's perfect math class and by that point it was too late.
That's how I see 2hu, I don't know maybe it simply doesn't suit yourt taste but definitely everyone should give it a chance.
>PD: Touhou 8 is the easier. 
