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AM (b. 1986 in Korea) is a competitive Touhou player, active since November 2003, who specializes in Imperishable Night and Subterranean Animism. As of December 2008, AM held world records in both the Lunatic and Extra modes of Subterranean Animism. However, as of May 2009, his Lunatic record was topped by yukarin.

As of January 2009, he has taken a break from Touhou to play the Korean RPG Dungeon & Fighter (던전엔파이터).

Perfect Cherry Blossom

AM currently holds the third highest overall score in Perfect Cherry Blossom with 2.968 billion points. [1] He initially wanted to break 3 billion points, but admitted to have failed that goal, blaming lack of patience. However, he has also confirmed he may return to it in the future, despite stiff competition from HS参謀, who held world records under every difficulty and character type at the time.

Imperishable Night

For a long time, AM was the most dominant player in Imperishable Night's Extra mode, holding the highest known score with every character, including the popular 3.01 billion Youmu replay. This score attack maintains an extremely high quality of play, as AM grazes through nearly every spellcard with no visible mistakes and accumulates over 100,000 time orbs in the process. In summer of 2009, most of his records were methodically beaten by ASL, who now holds the overall Extra record with 3.07 billion, also set with Youmu. AM speculates that 3.1 billion points may be attainable under perfect play.

AM is also aiming to dominate the Easy mode in a similar way, currently holding 9 world records out of 12 possible on the B-route. The highest among them, set with Marisa, attains a score of 3.104 billion.

His current best Lunatic score is 5.213 billion, ranking within top-20 overall.

Subterranean Animism

Since the debut of Subterranean Animism, the Lunatic and Extra categories had consistently been dominated by UnKnown and たろー, respectively. On October 30, AM broke UnKnown's Lunatic record with a score of 3.645 billion points, and since then, he has improved it multiple times. Originally having set a target of 3.9 billion, AM exceeded his own expectations by breaking 4 billion, using new scoring strategies such as bombing Orin's "Needle Mountain" spellcard for 2000+ graze. On October 26, AM bested たろー's Extra record with a score of 1.091 billion, and since then has improved it to 1.101 billion. He believes that the theoretical maximum is 1.11 billion.

Personal

AM speaks some Japanese, and maintains a journal about his Touhou achievements in both his native Korean and Japanese, the latter with the help of an automated translator.

Notable player records

Game Mode Score Date Character Notes
Perfect Cherry Blossom Lunatic 2,968,759,830 (#3) 2008/09/27 Sakuya-B
Imperishable Night Easy 3,104,212,600 (WR) 2008/08/04 Marisa Accumulated point item value is 762,730
Extra 3,010,565,950 (#2) 2007/10/31 Youmu No-miss clear; 104,755 time orbs obtained
Subterranean Animism Lunatic 4,005,225,500 (#2) 2008/11/08 Reimu-A 82,810 graze. Cleared with 5 lives. Failed Satori's Butterfly Reawakening.
Extra 1,101,675,500 (WR) 2008/11/23 Reimu-A 27,021 graze. No-miss + all spellcards captured.

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