History WebAnimation / DiamondInTheRoughTouhou

* AnAesop:
** You are not your weapons, your powers, or your accomplishments. You are only what's beneath all of them.
** [[RealitySubtext Do the research before setting out on your adventure in Gensokyo, or everyone else is going to kill you for playing God in a peaceful fantasy world]].

* ObviousBeta: The full streams of the incomplete [=DitR=], which have some interesting results.
** The most glaring examples are when Spaztique has to voice over the stream to explain what should be going on in the scene.
** In the early versions of the full screenings, Brolli [[spoiler:did not redeem himself]] ''until'' the incident, making him unlikable until the very last minute, so audiences spend the first hours rooting against him and the last thirty minutes rooting for him. The full version [[spoiler:gives him his moment of redemption just prior to the midpoint]]. Since the "center of good" focused more on the Touhou cast than Brolli, most of the audience felt sorrier for them than Brolli only seeing the beginning and the climax alone. When Reel 1 was finished, people were divided between Brolli, the Touhou cast, or just saying both either deserved it or didn't. With Reel 1 finished and enough of Reel 2 done to balance the center of good on both Brolli ''and'' Gensokyo, the events reach full tragic limitations: the audience is sorry for ''both'' the Touhou cast ''and'' Brolli.
** The early versions of Brolli's tragedy puts all of the fault on Brolli for taking rash decisions, but later versions tell us [[spoiler:Yukari gapped in Brolli because he'd make bad decisions under pressure]].
** During the climatic battle, [[spoiler:Brolli's decision to take the Kappa Valley's metal comes from the incident itself]], but in the final version, [[spoiler:they've simply lost it over the course of the three months Brolli has been in Gensokyo]].
** In the early version, based on the script for the original ''Diamond In The Rough'' series, Brolli doesn't find out it's Tenshi ''until'' the incident. In the final version, Brolli meets him much sooner.

* HijackedByJesus: Despite taking place in the Franchise/TouhouProject universe, its theme is partly inspired by [[Literature/TheBible Ecclesiastes]].

In addition to being known for playing with bad Touhou SelfInsertFic tropes and its [[DownerEnding dark ending]], its TroubledProduction makes it the Walfas equivilent to ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', with some complaining that the film would never get done.

->'''[[MetaGuy Chen]]''': You know what's more disappointing? The fact I could have watched an intense battle, but instead, I had to watch *[[ParodyStu you]]*. Even if you had gone, you would have just won instantly! [[InvincibleHero Where's the excitement if I know you'll win]]?!
->'''[[NominalHero Brolli]]''': You know, nobody likes stories where [[DownerEnding the hero fails]].
->'''Chen''': [[{{Foreshadowing}} Yes they do]]: they're called [[{{Tragedy}} tragedies]]!

->''"[[ArcWords I will be different.]]"''

* KillEmAll: In the final battle, out of 15+ combatants, [[spoiler:only Aya, Momiji, and Nitori make it without getting hit]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Features virtually every playable character, plus bosses from every game. The cast includes...
** '''PC-98 Characters''': Reimu, Marisa, Yuuka, [[spoiler:Yumeko, Shinki, Genji, Evil Eye Sigma (as a prop), Konngara]]
** '''Embodiment Of Scarlet Devil''': Rumia, Daiyousei, Cirno, Sakuya, Patchouli, Koakuma, Remilia, Flandre, Meiling
** '''Perfect Cherry Blossom''': Chen, Ran, Yukari, Youmu, Yuyuko, Alice, Lunasa, Merlin, Lyrica
** '''Imperishable Night''': Wriggle, Mystia, Keine, Reisen, Tewi, Mokou, Kaguya, Eirin
** '''Phantasmagoria Of Flower View''': Aya, Komachi, Shiki
** '''Mountain Of Faith''': Nitori, Momiji, Sanae, Kanako, Suwako
** '''Subterranean Animism''': Yuugi, Utsuho, Rin, Koishi
** '''Undefined Fantastic Object''': Byakuren, Nue, Nazrin
** '''Ten Desires''': Kyouko, Miko, Mamizou
** '''Double Dealing Character''': Sekibanki, Sukuna
** '''Others''': Suika, Kasen, Tenshi, [[spoiler:Maribel and Renko]], Lord Tenma (who is mentioned [[AllThereInTheManual in the supplementary material]]), Hatate, Kokoro, Sunny, Luna, Star, Rinnosuke (with a shotgun!), Hiraku Okami and Mini from the FanFic/{{Miniverse}}, three celestials, entire [[RedShirtArmy armies]] of youkai and fairies, and the MartyStu that started it all, Brolli Diamondback. There is also Brolli's classmates, including a more prototypical MartyStu, Jack Diehard. According to the credits, there are 61 characters.

* ShoutOut: [[ReferenceOverdosed Loads and Loads of Shout Outs]]. The whole thing is one giant ArcWelding and {{Deconstruction}} of [=ColonelDiamondback=]'s work, with some references to the ''Fanfic/{{Miniverse}}'', plus countless references to minor details about the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' characters. Has [[ShoutOut/DiamondInTheRoughTouhou its own page]].

* BlastOut: In Episode 19, Brolli deduces [[spoiler:Yukari doesn't want Gensokyo to kill him, but ''eachother'' over him, and all of his allies will lose in the final battle]]. [[spoiler:If he does win, he will control Gensokyo.]]

* MindScrew: All of the accounts about what happened with Vic, Arturo, Keine, and Yuuka never match up. According to Yukari, [[spoiler:Arturo murdered a village full of a kids and then got into a relationship with Yuuka]]. According to [[spoiler:Tenshi]], [[spoiler:Arturo only killed the kids hoping he'd get sex out of the deal, but Yuuka refuses to let Arturo get away with it. Vic comes in to kill Arturo, but he accidentally kills several children Yuuka was hiding]]. According to Vic, [[spoiler:Arturo only killed a few kids and Vic killed more.]] According to [[spoiler:Komachi]], [[spoiler:Arturo thought what she did with Yuuka was consensual]], and then [[LampshadeHanging remarks to Brolli]] that some people could just be wrong or lying. Finally, Keine [[spoiler:appears to be completely unaware of Arturo at all]].

* GenkiGirl: Remilia.

* ChekhovsArmoury: The entire climax is a giant string of CallBacks.

** "[[NotSoDifferent I will be different]]."

* NotSoDifferent: ''Every'' Gappy has made the claim they will be different from the previous ones, and then go on to repeat the exact same mistakes. Brolli, despite his insistence that he will be different, obviously runs the same route...

** In Episode 17, [[spoiler:Komachi]] tells Brolli Yukari's criteria for gapping children: [[spoiler:their behaviors must be in a perfect combination that [[YouCantFightFate leads them to their own destruction]], and they must be on their [[FinalDeath final reincarnation before Hell]], meaning no gappy will ever reincarnate to stop Yukari.]]

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Averted. Arturo and Vic killed several of human children in Gensokyo prior to Brolli's arrival.]]

* DarkFic: Starts out pretty edgy, using mostly Touhou canon against a man's MartyStu self-insert, but once the [[CerberusRetcon incident]] starts, things start to go worse for said MartyStu and the girls.