August 07, 2023

Touhou Project Fun Fact!

 Here’s A Touhou Project Fun Fact, I Also Don’t Know About Touhou Project, But I Found This Fact!

TouhouCon, a convention dedicated to Touhou Project in Anaheim, California, ran for only two years. The first year, in 2014, wasn't too bad. The second year, in 2015, the convention organizers decided to invite a number of big-name, big-budget guests from the Touhou doujinshi industry, including the band Yuuhei Satellite and musicians/DJs REDALiCE and Masayoshi Minoshima (best known for his iconic cover of "Bad Apple!!"). Outwardly, everything seemed like it was going well, but staff soon realized that the number of badges they were selling were well below expectations, and started making last-minute efforts to draw in large amounts of revenue to recoup the costs, such as handing out a $999 "Strongest Badge" that grants admission not only to TouhouCon 2015 but all future iterations of it as well, and selling last-minute badges for a mere $9. The con came and went and as far as attendees were concerned, everything went well. But the convention could not make back the cost needed to have the guests over, so the hotel that was hosting the convention charge of about $1,500 per room on those guests because they needed the room payments from somewhere, ending the convention's short run and souring the American Touhou community


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