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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.

In 2009, his Touhou scorerunning activity decreased due to school work and time spent playing other games such as the Korean RPG Dungeon & Fighter (던전엔파이터). Throughout the year, he mainly released challenge replays, such as no-vertical run of Mountain of Faith's Extra.

Perfect Cherry Blossom

AM currently holds the third highest overall score in Perfect Cherry Blossom with 2.968 billion points. 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 spell card 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 3.1 billion, also set with Youmu.

AM has also aimed 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 of 5.213 billion, set with Sakuya & Remilia in 2008, ranks within top-10 in the category.

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, had 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.

In September, 2009, he reviewed the current state of knowledge on Lunatic mode scoring and concluded that no significant new strategies emerged during the time of his inactivity. However, he then outlined a plan for a 4.3 billion Reimu-A run that he might or might not end up producing.

Personal

AM speaks some Japanese, and maintains a journal about his Touhou achievements and other things, mainly in his native Korean (and sometimes Japanese, with the help of an automated translator).

Notable player records

Game Mode Character Score Date Notes
Perfect Cherry Blossom Lunatic Sakuya-B 2,968,759,830 (#3) 2008/09/27
Imperishable Night Easy Marisa 3,104,212,600 (WR) 2008/08/04 Accumulated point item value is 762,730.
Extra Youmu 3,010,565,950 (#2) 2007/10/31 No-miss clear; Accumulated point item value is 823780.
Mountain of Faith Extra Reimu-B 242,941,620 2009/09/16 No vertical movement. Spellcards #98, #101, #106, #107, #109 captured, #110 nearly timed out. Cleared with 2 remaining lives.
Subterranean Animism Lunatic Reimu-A 4,005,225,500 (#2) 2008/11/08 82,810 graze. Cleared with 5 lives. Failed Satori's Butterfly Reawakening.
Extra Reimu-A 1,101,675,500 (WR) 2008/11/23 27,021 graze. No-miss, full-spellcard.
Undefined Fantastic Object Extra Sanae-B 304,597,110 2009/09/09 No-miss, no-bomb, no-UFO, full-spellcard run.
Lunatic Sanae-B 2,757,418,250 (WR) 2009/11/07

See also: Imperishable Night world records.

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