History Music / BadApple

** The antepenultimate shot of the video depicts Elly, whose boss battle is where the original "Bad Apple!!" plays in ''Lotus Land Story''. She's a relatively unimportant ''Touhou'' character, only appearing in ''Lotus Land Story'', and has no thematic relevance to the remix or video otherwise, so her appearance here is only to pay tribute to the song's origin.

* {{Bookends}}: The music video begins with Reimu Hakurei tossing an apple into the air before Marisa Kirisame catches mid-flight. The video ends with the dots in a Yin-Yang symbol morphing into Marisa flying away and an apple falling into Reimu's hands.

** The antepenultimate shot of the video depicts Elly, whose boss battle is where the original "Bad Apple!!" plays in ''Lotus Land Story''. She's a relatively unimportant ''Touhou'' character and has no thematic relevance to the remix or video otherwise, so her appearance here is only to pay tribute to the song's origin.

* AdaptationExpansion: The "Bad Apple!!" title was thematically irrelevant to either the story of ''Lotus Land Story'' or the story told through Alstroemeria's remixed lyrics; the music video attempted to give the title some thematic importance by showing Reimu and Marisa interacting with an apple in the MV's opening scenes.

* MythologyGag: The penultimate shot of the video, in which Reimu and Marisa reach out to each other from opposite sides of the screen, depicts them with their original designs from the PC-98 titles rather than their incumbent Windows designs, which are used in the opening and ending of the video.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Aside from shaded shadows cast by some of the characters, the music video is entirely in full black or full white, with ''Touhou'' characters being displayed as black or white silhouettes over opposite colored backgrounds.

* TruckDriversGearChange: The majority of the song is written in D♯ Minor, but jumps up during the last chorus.

* {{Bookends}}: The music video begins and ends with Reimu Hakurei holding an apple, which either cuts to (opening) or is shown in the same shot as (ending) a clip/shot showing Marisa Kirisame flying on her broom.
* ColorContrast: Being a DeliberatelyMonochrome music video, black and white contrast is used throughout the MV for stylistic effect. Notably, Eiki Shiki is shown as being half black and half white, mirroring her character of being a judge of the dead.

* FanAnimation: Anira's MV is technically just a fan animation that uses Alstroemeria Records' "Bad Apple!!" remix as its background music. However, due to its popularity, it has been adopted by Alstroemeria Records as the song's ''de facto'' official MV.

* SlasherSmile: Flandre strikes a grin in the MV, accompanied by a dramatic, JumpScare-like color flip. This is one of the few times a character's facial features are distinguished in the middle of their silhouette.

!! "Bad Apple!!" and its music video provides examples of:

* SlasherSmile: Flandre strikes a grin in the MV, accompanied by a dramatic, JumpScare-like color flip. This is one of the few times a character's facial features are distinguished in the middle of their silhouette.

In August 2008, on the Japanese video website Website/NicoNicoDouga, the user Μμ[[note]]Mu-mu; mu as in the Greek letter[[/note]] released a [[https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm3601701 video]] of a crude storyboard for a music video to (a slightly shortened version of) Alstroemeria's remixed song. The storyboard consisted of a series of clips, each displaying a ''Touhou'' character[[note]]Specifically, from the modern Windows era ''Touhou'' games, from ''The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' to ''Mountain of Faith''[[/note]], and requested other users of NND to animate the MV. Several users attempted to produce an MV based on this storyboard, but one stood out among the rest.

* MatchCut: In Anira's music video, almost all transitions between the clips of ''Touhou'' characters are performed using match cuts. Examples include Sakuya's dagger turning into Flandre's wing tip, a cherry petal from the Saigyou Ayakashi turning into Komachi's boat, and Aya's pen turning into Suika's horn.

The original "[[https://youtu.be/5Su8UOs0SFA Bad Apple!!]]" was the theme of the third stage of the 1998 BulletHell game ''VideoGame/TouhouGensokyoLotusLandStory'', composed by the game's creator ZUN. At the 4th Reitaisai convention on 20 May 2007, the Touhou doujin music group Alstroemeria Records released a remixed version of "Bad Apple!!" in the album ''Lovelight'', featuring vocals from Japanese singer nomico. The remixed version was ''far'' more popular than the original (a minor stage theme from one of ''Touhou's'' lesser-known PC-98 entries), and inspired a series of events that led to the creation of its viral music video.

* SlasherSmile: Flandre strikes a grin in the MV, accompanied by a dramatic, JumpScare-like color flip. This is the only time a character's facial features are distinguished in the middle of their silhouette.

* MatchCut: In Anira's music video, almost all transitions between the clips of ''Touhou'' characters are performed using match cuts. Examples include Sakuya's dagger turning into Flandre's wing tip, a cherry petal from the Saigyou Ayakashi turning into Komachi's boat, and Aya's pen turning into Suika's horn.

* AdaptationExpansion: While the original "Bad Apple!!" title is functionally a WordSaladTitle (ZUN never explained the name's meaning, and Alstroemeria's remixed lyrics made no attempt to thematically expand on the name), the music video attempted to give the title some thematic importance by showing Reimu and Marisa interacting with an apple in the MV's opening scenes.

The original "Bad Apple!!" was the theme of the third stage of the 1998 BulletHell game ''VideoGame/TouhouGensokyoLotusLandStory'', composed by the game's creator ZUN. At the 4th Reitaisai convention on 20 May 2007, the Touhou doujin music group Alstroemeria Records released a remixed version of "Bad Apple!!" in the album ''Lovelight'', featuring vocals from Japanese singer nomico. The remixed version was ''far'' more popular than the original (a minor stage theme from one of ''Touhou's'' lesser-known PC-98 entries), and inspired a series of events that led to the creation of its viral music video.