Bad Apple!!

Bad Apple!! is the title of the background music for the third stage of the 1998 PC bullet hell game Touhou Fantasy Land: Lotus Land Story, which is the fourth entry in the Touhou Project series. It is also the title of a Touhou fan animation using a remix of the song.

The original chiptune was remixed and given lyrics by Masayoshi Minoshima and Nomico. A fan of the game created an extremely rough animatic which depicted various characters from the game series set to the remixed version of the song circulated on Niconico, with the animatic's creator requesting that someone else animate the sequence in full. Various animators took up the challenge, but most of their renditions received little attention. One particular animated version which featured seamless transitions between black and white silhouettes of the characters was created in 2010, to large amounts of acclaim both within and outside of the Touhou fandom. The animation's monochrome color scheme not only made it highly distinctive, but also reflects both the lyrics of the song (which repeatedly reference the world fading to black or white) and the game series' yin-yang motif. Numerous other videos set to the song were created with the same shadow puppet style and creative transitions between scenes, but depicting the casts of other works.

The music video and its titular song have their own [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Apple!! Wikipedia page].