Gensou Mangekyou: The Memories of Phantasm

This review is short but I want to let anyone who's reading this to know that I know close to nothing about the Touhou series and the things I know come from the adult doujin, and that's still only about the characters' names.

On its own, this anime is great. It has great animation, great music, and you can totally tell the ones who worked on it poured everything they've got into this series. Each episode is as short as 16 minutes, not including a minute for a recap, a minute for the opening and another one minute for the ending. So roughly about 12-13 minutes ... of actual content. I see a lot of people say "for a fan project this is good" to which I have to strongly disagree. To call this "good for a fan project" is outright discrediting and disrespecting the creators of the show. I mean, the quality is on par with any "official" anime you get at every season, like, come on.

Although short, I learned a lot about the world of Touhou, the characters' personalities and abilities, origins, motives, and each of their roles in Gensoukyou. Keep in mind that each episode is only 13 minute long and they manage to convey what Touhou is for new comers and fan service or some sort for regulars. At the very least the show got me curious enough to finally open the Touho wiki and I think it's amazing how they can pack in all that lore into 18 short episodes!

Is the story accurate? Touhou fans can decide that and while I'm not one of them, it's great and interesting enough for me to give this a 7/10. If only they add in voice actors it would've made this show even better, but there's a way to circumvent that though I won't say how.

If u like touhou u will like this (hopefully) its funny and it recaps some of the games, it also develops on the personalities of the characters if u are into fanon

If u don't kno Touhou, I feel as though the episode layouts may b confusing, nd overall u might just not get some of the jokes, but I would recommend givin it a try anyways as the episodes are quite short so u wont be wasting much time if u don't end up enjoying it

My overall rating is based off my personal enjoyment as i love Touhou lol

the anime is ok for the most part, but my personal gripes are that it follows the story in a non-canonical order and there is way too much fanservicing
all the characters do have the same abilities as in the games but their personalities are flipped to fanon (i.e. flandre gets flanderized) but other than that story progresses basically the same (though there are some extra additions)
this anime can be a bit hard to understand if you havent played the games/read the story yet (this was me when i first started watching)

other than that the animation and art quality is pretty good considering this is a ... fanmade though if this isnt your type you might want to watch a summer day’s dream instead (however that costs money)