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What anime is Touhou related to?

Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, cited Touhou as one of his musical influences. Several fanmade anime have been made for Touhou. Albeit created by amateur studios, the projects have sometimes included appearance by professional voice actors, such as Rie Tanaka.

What is there to do in Lake Tahoe?

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Why do people like the Touhou series?

With its focus on bishōjo characters, the Touhou series possesses a large cast compared to other shooting games. While they are not developed nearly to the standards of a story-based game, many players love them.

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What is the final stage in Touhou?

The final stage in each Touhou game, unlocked after a 1CC of the regular game. The Extra Stage is shorter than a stage in the regular game, but also much harder.

What is the Touhou Project?

The plots of the Touhou Project revolve around the strange phenomena that occur in the fictional realm of Gensokyo (幻想郷, Gensōkyō, literally Fantasy Village or Fantasy Land), which ZUN designed with a human village in some remote mountain recesses in Japan. Originally, it was simply called "a remote separated land of a human village in an eastern country." Long before Touhou Project' s story begins, many non-humans like yōkai lived with some humans in the area. After a few humans disappeared into Gensokyo, many humans became afraid of approaching this area, while others settled there to exterminate yōkai. However, as time went on, humans developed civilization and multiplied in number, and thus yōkai worried about how the balance between humans and yōkai would be affected. 500 years before Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (EoSD), the yōkai sage Yukari Yakumo developed the "boundary of phantasm and substance," which was favored by the yōkai and protected the balance. This was called the "Yōkai Expansion Project" and made Gensokyo a phantasmal world that automatically called out to the weakened yōkai of the outside world. Other things that disappear from the outside world, like extinct animals, lost tools, and architecture, appear in Gensokyo. Since Gensokyo was a plot of land in Japan that is separated by a barrier, it is Japan that is immediately outside of this barrier.

What is the only character that can activate it without full shot power?

Only present in the Windows games, it can only be activated at full shot power in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and Perfect Cherry Blossom, and in Imperishable Night , Marisa is the only character that can activate it without full shot power.

What is the Hakurei shrine?

The Hakurei Shrine Reitaisai (博麗神社例大祭, Hakurei Jinja Reitaisai, Hakurei Shrine's Regular Grand Festival) is the largest of the many dōjin conventions hosting only Touhou content. Although the coordinator of this convention has nothing to do with Team Shanghai Alice officially, the name "Hakurei Shrine Reitaisai" was given by ZUN himself. It first started in 2004 as a way for Team Shanghai Alice to publicly distribute the trial version for their upcoming games to the fans well in advance of releasing them on the internet; in addition, the 2004 Reitaisai featured a total of 114 participating circles. Since then, many Touhou derivative works are gathered and sold there. Commencing every year in April or May, the convention has been hosted in Ōta, Tokyo, in 2004; Naka-ku, Yokohama, in 2005; Sunshine City, Tokyo, in 2006 and 2007; and the Tokyo Big Sight from 2008 onwards. In 2010 Reitaisai SP, an additional Reitaisai to be held every autumn due to increasing popularity, was started, but it was cancelled after 2011, and later brought back and rebranded as Autumn Reitaisai from 2014 onwards. The 2011 Reitaisai was originally cancelled due to safety concerns after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and the release of Ten Desires was also postponed. It was later rescheduled and held on May 8, 2011, with approximately 4,940 participating circles. In addition to events in Japan, there is another Reitaisai held in Taiwan that started in 2015. The 17th Reitaisai in 2020, which was originally going to run on March 22 before being postponed to May 17, was ultimately cancelled due to safety concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the first Reitaisai to be cancelled.

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Games

  • PC-98 games
    Jun'ya Ōta, who was then a mathematics student at Tokyo Denki University working under the name "ZUN Soft", developed the first five Touhou games for NEC PC-9800 personal computers, utilizing the platform's 16-bit color graphics and 6-channel FM synthesisaudio. The games were …
  • Windows games
    After the release of Mystic Square, ZUN graduated from university and the series became inactive for four years. During this time, he worked at Taito Corporation as a game developer and also composed music for various games created by members of Amusement Makers. He left the gro…
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Other Media

  • Music CDs
    Between 2002 and 2016, ten music CDs were released as part of "ZUN's Music Collection". They are numbered from Volume 1 to 9 by release date, with Unknown Flower, Mesmerizing Journeybeing numbered as 5.5 due to its small size. Each album contains arrangements of musi…
  • Print media
    Curiosities of Lotus Asia(東方香霖堂, Tōhō Kōrindō, lit."Fragrant Rain Temple") 1. Curiosities of Lotus Asia is a series of short stories written by ZUN and serialized in 27 chapters from January 2004 to December 2007. It was published in a series of magazines including Colorful Puregirl, M…
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Gameplay

  • In the shooting games, the player's bullet power increases on a linear scale as the player collects power-ups dropped by enemies, and eventually maxes out. The player can also collect "point" icons to earn extra lives; the amount needed grows exponentially as the player's score rises. The player can enter "focus mode" by holding the shift key by default, which slows down the player's …
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Plot

  • Background
    The plots of the Touhou Project revolve around the strange phenomena that occur in the fictional realm of Gensokyo(幻想郷, Gensōkyō, literally Fantasy Village or Fantasy Land), which ZUN designed with a human village in some remote mountain recesses in Japan. Originally, it was si…
  • In-game events
    In Gensokyo, events called "incidents" occur once in a while. An incident is an event that affects all of Gensokyo and is of unknown cause at the time it occurs. Touhou Project mainly focuses on incidents that affects the entirety of Gensokyo in its stories, but there are also works like Mount…
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Development

  • The Touhou Project is a one-man project by Jun'ya Ōta (usually under the pseudonym ZUN), who does all the graphics, music, and programming alone for the bullet hell games, with the exceptions of the portrait art in Fairy Wars, which was done by Makoto Hirasaka. The fighting games, Immaterial and Missing Power, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Touhou Hisōtensoku, Hopeless Mas…
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Reception and Fanworks

  • Many derivative works based on Touhou have been created since the release of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, including dōjinshi, dōjin music (many of the songs had been made remixing the original games' music), dōjin anime, and dōjin games (even though the Touhou games themselves are dōjin games). The vast scope of Touhou Project derivatives prompted commentary, noting t…
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