Touhou | 東方Project

Welcome to my touhou journey! This is where i will be logging my rediscovery and deep dive into the touhou series.

I was introduced to touhou by my brother as a wee child in the late 2000s. I've tried a few of the games, know of the characters, and listened to the music a bunch, but i never really FULLY got into it (again, i was like 7, i barely knew how to read). I wanted to explore the whole project on a whim and found out how big and vast the franchise is! I've made a list of all the things I want to learn more about here

What is Touhou?

Touhou is a series of 2D bullet hell shoot-em up games made by Team Shanghai Alice (aka. ZUN, it's a one-man project). It features a cast of colourful (almost) all female characters in a fantasy world known as Gensokyo, where everyone just beats each other up with bullets. Touhou games are of the "Danmaku" shooter subgenre, which involves the player dodging inticrate patterns of bullets.
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What's special about touhou is that the fandom is MASSIVE. There are thousands of fan-made games, music, manga and even anime. The music itself has it's own fanbase with hundreds of groups dedicated to rearranging ZUN's music. Fun fact - touhou is a big inspiration for the music in undertale! Toby Fox and ZUN even have a collab together.

official media *taken from touhou wiki

games

PC-98 Games
  • Th01 Highly Responsive to Prayers
  • Th02 Story of Eastern Wonderland
  • Th03 Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream
  • Th04 Lotus Land Story
  • Th05 Mystic Square


Windows Games
  • Th06 Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
  • Th07 Perfect Cherry Blossom
    • Th07.5 Immaterial and Missing Power
  • Th08 Imperishable Night
  • Th09 Phantasmagoria of Flower View
    • Th09.5 Shoot the Bullet
  • Th10 Mountain of Faith
    • Th10.5 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
  • Th11 Subterranean Animism
  • Th12 Undefined Fantastic Object
    • Th12.3 Touhou Hisoutensoku
    • Th12.5 Double Spoiler
    • Th12.8 Fairy Wars
  • Th13 Ten Desires
    • Th13.5 Hopeless Masquerade
  • Th14 Double Dealing Character
    • Th14.3 Impossible Spell Card
    • Th14.5 Urban Legend in Limbo
  • Th15 Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
    • Th15.5 Antinomy of Common Flowers
  • Th16 Hidden Star in Four Seasons
    • Th16.5 Violet Detector
  • Th17 Wily Beast and Weakest Creature
    • Th17.5 Sunken Fossil World
  • Th18 Unconnected Marketeers
    • Th18.5 100th Black Market
  • Th19 Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost

music

Hifuu club albums
  • 1. Dolls in Pseudo Paradise
  • 2. Ghostly Field club
  • 3. Changeability of Strange Dream
  • 4. Retrospective 53 minutes
  • 5. Magical Astronomy
  • 5.5 Unknown Flower, Mesmerizing Journey
  • 6. Trojan Green Asteroid
  • 7. Neo-traditionalism of Japan
  • 8. Dr. Latency's Freak Report
  • 9. Dateless Bar "Old Adam"
  • 9.5 Rainbow-Colored Septentrion

manga/novels

Manga
  • Touhou Ibarakasen - Wild and Horned Hermit
  • Touhou suzunaan - Forbidden scollery
  • Touhou suichouka - Lotus eaters
  • Foul detective satori
  • Seasonal dream vision (fanbook)

Novels
  • Curiosities of lotus asia

Touhou Bougetsushou series
  • Silent Sinner in blue
  • Cage in lunati Runagate