With this completed, the only standard games I have yet to complete on Normal are Perfect Cherry Blossom and Imperishable Night FinalB. I'm still a ways off of 1cc, but once I learn how to bomb appropriately, then I'm sure I'll be much closer to achieving that. (the rest will be memorizing the attacks and keeping a level head)
Bloom Nobly, Cherry Blossoms of Sumizome ~ Border of Life was my introduction to the series. More specifically, while I'd heard about the series before, it was WAVE's Border of Life remix that caused me to actually pay attention to the series. I'd been listening to remixes (vocal and orchestral) on youtube for quite some time before even touching a Touhou game.
Prime introduced me to Touhou first by giving me the PC-98 games so that I could see if I liked them. Lotus Land Story was my first game, played on Easy, and decided this was unlike any shmup I've seen before. Mystic Square was my first finished game, I beat Shinki with Reimu on Easy and even on Easy it was unforgiving difficult. While replaying Mystic Square, I took quite a liking to the Stage 3 boss (Alice!) and Marisa. Since then, Marisa's been the character I focus on.
He bought me Perfect Cherry Blossom, and I managed to complete it on Easy before buying myself Imperishable Night and Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. At this point, I stopped playing on Easy and could not go back to Lotus Land Story Easy without missing some of the danmaku.
I'm a huge fan of the player-character Marisa Kirisame, and an even more fanatical fan of Alice Margatroid. Marisa's power and wit attracted me to her while Alice's unique, almost melancholy personality (even in her cute and younger counterpart in MS) compounded with the interesting premise of her as a puppeteer with a locked Grimoire made me a fan. Although its sometimes cute (such as the case in Marisa Stole the Precious Thing), I generally don't like Alice-Marisa pairings because it doesn't fit my interpretations of the characters, among other reasons. One of my all time favorite remixes/videos is Artificial Children, a tragic take on Alice's backstory.
I've also developed a healthy respect for Reisen, after being driving mad by her red eyes while playing through Imperishable Night. I lost that game not due to lack of skill but due to pure panic. Yuyuko and Shinki both also hold a special place due to being the first final bosses I encountered.
I was spouting Cirno jokes before the first time I even played Icicle Fall Easy, and since then I've been known to reference her in both subtle, and not so subtle ways... most notably turning a forum I administrate totally upside down.
Don't Believe Me?
Better stop now before I begin rambling. Nah, too late for that.