Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure: Explained

Koishi Komeiji's Heart-Throbbing Adventure [KKHTA] is... a thing?

Touhou fans either love or hate this silly series. Featuring the titular Koishi Komeiji, she goes on an adventure that throbbs with your heart! Lots of thrills, spills, chills and lots of blood, death and very unfriendly scenes. How is it possible that a silly niconico series featuring Subterranean Animism's finest girl lead to a legacy that stands the test of time?! Good question, because I sort of have the answer for it. I will explain KKHTA and why you should maybe kinda sorta watch it, maybe. idk.

Koishi Komeiji deserves better. We need part 19 9/9 soon...

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[Youhadabadday]

I feel like it should be mentioned the whole dumb moon sideplot is actually very important to the story, so much so that it's actually the main over arching plot. Spoilers ahead, btw:





So, apparentally Yorihime and her sister are actually Lunarian Satoris, and Yorihime herself sealed away her own third-eye, just like Koishi. In fact, everything that happened to Satori and her sister was part of a grand-master plan to reunite the Lunarian Satoris with the Earth Satoris, and this was done by properly achieving world peace, at the cost of the entirety of Gensokyo's existence. You see, the reason everyone went bat-shit crazy was because the Moon's light was amplified to inflict Lunacy, causing every resident of Gensokyo to become monsters that would threaten the outside world, resulting in some purposefully engineered Pacific Rim styled bullshit to occur that would unite earth's people against a common foe. The only ones who would live to see this new era of the world would be Yukari, and of course, Koishi, who were fused together temporarily and given an immortality potion to keep them alive long enough to see Gensokyo's end.

[Pudding]

KKHTAs artstyle is so charming, reminds me exactly the kind of things that young children draw from their wild not fully mature minds, exactly like Koishi in a way since she closed off her conscious mind and doesn't really think in the same way other humans and youkai think, or think at all for that matter.

[YuukiMargarite]

I took KKHTA very seriously, to the point where I had a panic attack and anguish for two hours, accompanied by desperate crying.

[rainspectre]

The thing about KKHTA that's so fascinating is how its legacy extends beyond even 2hu itself and into JP subculture as a whole. Black Souls Toro for example got his start off doing a work like it, and he still uses the series as his twitter header.

[sweetasToffee]

To be fair I dont think the artstyle is questionable, to me its rather expressive. When I first got to watch it made me feel very uneasy or/and scared, it was very immersive, it felt really horror-esque

[swampcooler]

My favorite part of koishi komeijis heart throbbing adventure was where koishi said "it's throbbing time" and then throbbed all over the place

Ok I hate myself, go ahead and pull the trigger

[pixelisnow]

This is what I call a real fanfiction: not the thing you did expect, but still fit into the storyline, one way or the others.

[gjmmcbfgmjc]

I personally think that most people that don't like kkhta are those who only watch 2 episode and then stopped watching it.
Its true the beginning of kkhta isn't the best but halfway in the series it really become great.the art becomes better and the story improves a lot but i understand that most people aren't willing to wach 5 episode till it actually becomes good

[Idealnt]

Still upset there’s no real ending but still KKHTA is without a doubt a timeless classic

[Niiue]

KKHTA is something that is enjoyed with your brain turned off. For me atleast. Because of the mindless edginess and the brain melting moon subplot, I really can't consume the series in any other way. The emotional moments are also pretty outlandish sometimes, take Sanae's backstory; but by not taking the series completely seriously, I was able to find it emotional in some way.

However, there is one other moment that stuck out to me. The fight between Yorihime, Reimu, and Marisa.
I really got into the fight, and it was one of the few moments in KKHTA where I started to really take it seriously and care about it.
After the battle, Reimu, dying alongside Marisa, starts to reminisce about their days back in Gensokyo.
Tearing up, Reimu says this line: "Those bygone days... Every single one...They were my irreplaceable treasure."
Truth be told, I started bawling my god damn eyes out. I may not be the biggest fan of KKHTA, but damn was this sad. And I haven't even talked about the cliffhanger ending...

The cliffhanger of KKHTA is so god damn depressing and desolate. The moment that I just talked about is the final moment where Gensokyo had a slimmer of a chance to get it all back. Now, it's just Koishi and a powerless Yukari, all alone. Two broken people stuck in such a hopeless ending.
Yukari is heartbroken over the loss of her beloved Gensokyo, but despite this, Koishi is seemingly fine with it. Seeing this, Yukari lashes out at Koishi, ending in Koishi crying and then forcefully tearing her 3rd eye open... Have I mentioned that Koishi was my favorite character at this point in time? Have I also mentioned this was one of the first fanworks I was exposed to? This was a god damn sucker punch to my feelings back then.

[donanilao]

I blame Pear for making KKHTA one of my first deep dives into the Touhou franchise.


Bonkumiru/Chirumiru was my introduction to the series.

[RubyRubyRabbit]

I don't understand why fans say that all of this happened because she wanted a fishing rod. Even if she got the fishing rod, it wouldn't stop the Lunarians from taking over the world.

[Lightpaladin]

4:49 in out of context moment

Daiyousei:You killed my love!

[clownpal]

You think you can escape KKHTA
A reimagining is here now

[KFC]

Yeah.. KKHTA is just everyone’s Vietnam flashbacks

[ployburnie]

Suwawako be like "I'm gonna take a break" then disappear like KKHTA author

[polygollie]

wall of text warning!

I don't know if it's just because touhou project is one of my most beloved series ever, but I have a very strong attachment to this series I didn't really expect to have going in. I watched KKHTA a few months back I believe..? but it definitely had me hooked for a lot of reasons I feel like aren't the main reasons for the series' popularity.

I think the thing that really got me interested was one of the earlier scenes of Remilia and Reimu having a conversation about Flandre, and as an extension gives a perfect example of my favorite parts of KKHTA. Between all of the hyper-complex storylines and general lore going on there's moments of simple character interaction that always have this looming energy of a deeper more emotional form of storytelling that leaves me thinking about the series.
There's just so many interesting character interactions to be had with the series aside from the lot of fights, like the scene I just mentioned very strongly creates a parallel between Remilia and Satori and their commonality of just wanting to do the best for their sisters, but both of them still have their lapses in judgement whether big or small that interfere with those bonds in the first place. Many of the seemingly random bouts of backstory, though not really necessary, also entertained me (like Sanae's backstory for example, feels very over the top in true KKHTA spirits but establishes a really strong found family bond between her, Suwako and Kanako).
The current "ending" of the series resonates with me most though, and I think it wouldn't leave the impact it does on me if the series was lacking any of the components it's made up of. The emotional moments pique my interest initially, but even the general storyline is also required to drive the stakes up to the very tipping point in the very last episode's part 8/9. Yukari's loss and Koishi's incapacity to understand it is even more painful given all that has happened outside of them in the story. It hurts more to know Koishi was used for the purpose of the destruction of Gensokyo, to know that in that same vein Yukari was forcefully bound to her at an integral point where otherwise she could've done something to stop her home and creation's destruction, it all comes out full force in those final scenes and yet it happens in arguably the most normal circumstance any of these characters could be in, sitting at their new "home" having dinner. I think the current "end" to the series is perfect as is, and if it continues that'll be great but I think the ending we are given matches the general tone of the series as is.
I ended up writing a big block of text but I do think this series has its merits, and I think its imperfections are what make it lovable to me. The art is imperfect, the music choices are tonally random, the storyline randomly hops and jumps and I absolutely adore it that way. It reads like someone on the internet having the most fun with a series they enjoy, and that to me is something special :)

[justsomesimplenuclearbirbs]

KKHTA... aka, DA FUQ WAS GOING ON WITH THE CREATOR WHEN THEY THOUGHT MAKING KOISHI AND THEN NEARLY ALL OF GENSOKYO PSYCHOPATHIC MURDERERS!?

[alwayssupporttouhouproject]

I have been a Touhou fan over a decade now and only started KKHTA a few weeks ago and completed watching it (up to part 19 8/9 and the fan made continuation) today. I...feel like for the immense amount of time and effort put into it by just one guy and it offering a take that's so unique It could deserve a special place in the fandom, BUT with such extreme themes (grimdark and gore) many can't enjoy it and plenty dislike it. I for one forced myself to watch it just so I could get it over with. I am grateful that someone saw fit to 'complete' the series with their own take which was well done and makes sense according to the lore so I can feel the story is ended, even more that it has an 'acceptably' happy ending. Not to try to act like I think you 'need' to watch it Suwawako, but did you see the fan-made continuation? The episodes were translated only recently.

[rokuduziel]

I’m kinda happy that people still talk about KKHTA. It started as something that traumatized me one fateful day, but ended up loving the hell out of it just by how messed up it is! The funny thing is I watched the whole thing un-translated so I went through the whole thing in pure terror.