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Hi everyone! While I was searching for Touhou content I have found a lot of lost media. The goal of this topic is collecting information about lost media and links in one place. There are some categories for systematization. In each category the media goes from more well-known or having more chances to be found to more obscure. If you have some info about this lost media or some other lost media, post it. Special thanks to Pinky Cat, Denist, DestartreK1st, turtlegodking and Dioxaz for finding a lot of information and making corrections. Lost Sites Lost Games Found Lost Games Lost Music Found Lost Music Lost Fan Anime Found Lost Fan Anime Lost Mobile Touhou Apps Lost Other Media Found Lost Other Media Lost Fan Books Found Lost Fan Books Lost Animations Found Lost Animations Strange Disappearances Lost Youtube Videos and Channels Found Lost Youtube Videos and Channels
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I think we should have a good talk about this topic. I have had a lot of thinking about this topic for a long time. Recent twits by nmlgc and aggressive2hu inspired me to do more research to finally build a full picture. I understood that we should act now until it is too late. The more info I found for this post, the worse the situation became. And it is not just about Touhou, problems are much more serious, but mostly I will talk about Touhou because I really love Touhou and I hope to change situation for better at least for Touhou. The goal of this post is not to bring hate towards anybody in the fandom or ZUN, but to help people understand the roots of the problems to resolve them. CAUTION!! CAUTION!! CAUTION!! If you still want to believe that there are no serious problems in Touhou fandom, and still want to believe in Touhou and doujin magic, well this post may bring you down. You have been warned. CAUTION!! CAUTION!! CAUTION!! Before we start, I hope to see criticism which will explain where I am right and where I am wrong, because this topic is rarely discussed. Thank you. Have you noticed that something is not right? Have you noticed that there are much less new Touhou fangames, doujinshi and doujin music than for example 8 years ago? Have you noticed that a lot of new fan content is nearly unnoticed? Have you noticed that fandom is not united and split? Have you noticed that last Touhou games are rushed and story is less well-written? Doujin events examples: I suppose that everyone noticed at least some of those problems but I am surprised that nearly nobody tried to analyse why these have happened. Well, there are two main causes of the problems: the fandom and the franchise itself. Fandom: But there are other problems that may make people haters of not just fandom, but of Touhou itself. Franchise: But what I can say for sure if this topic is unnoticed and left undiscussed we won't be able to change the situation for better. I thought that Touhou was an islet of safety in current sea of crisis of mass culture, but alas it is already under the water. But wait, let's be clever and take a step further (unlike those haters): what about non-Touhou doujin scene, what is happening there? (Spoiler: the situation is similar there): But everything is not lost! We can change the situation for better if we will stop being scattered and will work together. The worst thing now is just giving up. Thank you for reading this. I would be really glad to receive criticism, corrections and proposals. I know this topic is controversial, but I think that it must be discussed. I just want Touhou fandom to become better. If you have any good ideas how to change the whole situation for better feel free to share them. Also feel free to share this post. There are also some other related thoughts about this topic: Afterwords: If after reading this post you want to hate ZUN or anybody else then I think you didn't understand this post. This post shows that hate didn't change the situation for better and only made it worse. We don't need to hate, We need to act. For the fans who are Still with us.
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Just some Artwork done for some animation and pixel art I did for fun. -W-
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A lot of time has passed since most of our hosted content went down; over a year in fact. Sorry about that, everyone. Throughout that time though we managed to get things back on track, hopefully. Torm made a dedicated seedbox, and I recovered every missing piece of official content; print works, OSTs, and music CDs. That doesn't seem like a big deal though, right? Anyone could've done that in less than a week if they were dedicated enough. Yeah, I realize I slacked a bit. I'm not too proud of it. But I wanna make it up to you; to not just fix the site, but improve it as a whole. As a result, I also added FLAC versions for almost all available music albums and OSTs, where applicable. When torrenting a file, you can select which folders you want to download from said file, so you can choose whether or not you want lossless versions of an OST (these files will be bulky, beware). In light of that feature, certain OSTs that had multiple pages (like Oriental Sacred Place) now have all volumes in one page, with all track lists in the description. Also also, on top of that, I uploaded two print works that were never on the site before; The Grimoire of Usami and Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia. I never knew these actually existed until my friend brought it to my attention and sent me the files herself; many thanks, Seija. I guess all I have left to say now is, keep working towards your goals. I know it sounds cliché, but it doesn't matter how slow you are going, so long as you do not stop. Know that you are valuable and that you matter. As always, let us know if you find any issues. Tomorrow will be sunny; yesterday was not.13 points
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Brief Introduction: Hm... So, i haven't been in the forum for months, and the reason is because i've been doing a lot on my personal life such as developing new personal relations and also working on myself, but before all that progress i had in my life, i went through the hardest times i could ever think of: the loneliness I'm an introvert, so i usually like to be alone, but it changes when it comes to feel alone I always loved to have my own time, thanks to that i discovered touhou and other things that made me happier, such as doing physical exercises and playing games, also thanks to that i found this forum where i did share a lot of my personal experiences and also opinions Since i disappeared, some people such as @CountVonNumenor asked what happened and if i was going to come back, and well, i'm not sure tbh, i found this forum cuz i wanted to share the few experiences i lived and also to know more about touhou, but in the transition between 2022 and 2023 my life changed completely, since i started dealing with several problems and also, with the loneliness feeling My experience with loneliness: So, since past year i've been talking to a girl which had several problems about health and her personal life, once she was a cocaine user and also a depression victim, but since i met her she changed, at least most of the time, she didn't use drugs or cut herself (due to her problems), it was life her life changed, even the subjects we used to talk about changed and instead of talking about negative stuff, we started talking about life and good things such as travels and etc Well, that was what i thought, this year she met another guy, but instead of trying to help her like i was trying to do, he did support her on all the shit she used to do, she even went to his house to smoke weed and have sex, and i didn't care at all, since it's her life and she can do what she wanted to I started to get away from her because she started saying weird stuff and asking me out, but i never wanted a relationship with her, and plus, some months ago she was having sex with another guy with the same problems as her, so why should i accept someone like that? Anyway, for some reason, i used to feel calm when she was near to me, but not because i loved her or smth, it's just because she was my only friend on work, once everyone went away from me since i started to meet up with her After some time she completely stopped to talk to me and blocked me on some places, and it made me get into a prison inside of my mind, i started to have a strong anxiety because i felt completely switched, i didn't have nobody to talk to, several times i did take my phone during the day to see if someone sent me a message or something, and nothing But then my friends tried to talk back to me, which didn't work, i got accustomed with being lonely, but i was still sad, so what i wanted at all? I wanted her company, i became a emotional dependant on her while she was hanging out with several friends who did the same drugs as her and had the same weird ideas as her And it made me notice what loneliness feels like, isn't just being alone, isn't just about not having nobody to count with, but yes about being in a prison inside of your head, a prison where you're feed with negative thoughts and self-devaluation, when you can't think about nothing aside from the problems in your life and when all you think of is about yourself and about how pathetic is your situation, thinking about how some kind of miracle would solve everything and make you get back to feel the way you used to when you were happier Nowadays, i'm with new friends and i don't have this feeling anymore, at least not at a very destructive point, i started dating again and now i have a way better life, but the first point to get better, was recognizing what i was feeling, and well, i know several people go through the same, and that's why i'll talk more about it now Loneliness: Well, being lonely isn't something that happens suddenly, but yes something that you only notice when it's already in it's extreme point, nothing is never enough at all, you feel alone even if there's people who would talk to you if you needed, you can't just ignore it because it will always get inside of your mind, when you lay down on your bed and look at the ceiling while thinking a lot about your life for example, when you're frequently feeling yourself empty and without value to others It is certainly worse when you really don't have nobody who cares about you, and well, due to that, several people end up developing depression and other problems, but a problem which always happen even if you have or not somebody who care about you, is the anxiety Being lonely causes a lot of anxiety, once you're frequently waiting for someone to send you a message or show some kind of interest on you, when you don't know what's wrong about you that apparently is making people get away and give up on having a talk with you, when you're thinking so much about the wrong points in yourself that you can't even work/study well, when you're always trying to find or receive something which can be a way to solve your problems And well, being lonely can end up making of you a true vegetable, which don't have any perspective of future and don't try to get better, and it can destroy completely someone, since those people can end up trying to be someone else instead of trying to be someone better I'm writing this because, nowadays, i opened my eyes about all this situation, and i can see a lot of people dealing with this same problem, and having no idea about how to solve it, i can't give a solution though, since the way i found to get better was forcing myself into new people till i found my friends i have now, and as much as i can recommend that, i'd say, everybody will always find their ways to solve their own problems Loneliness is literally killing people, and i say that not just because i had suicidal thoughts during that time, but also because i see a lot of people doing the same, and i did see people who actually did commit suicide due to this Please, take care of yourselves and try doing therapy or going to a psychologist, i'm not a doctor or a therapist, but yes one of the several people who already went through all that, and i don't desire this feeling not even for my worst enemy Maybe your problem can even be more serious, like depression or something, so, yeah, you should look for medical help if you identify with what i wrote, since i just got worse when i didn't look for this kind of professional help, i could get better alone, but this situation isn't the same for everyone See y'all someday! =D
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Time to get this off my chest. Alright, this thread has been spurred out of both seeing @CountVonNumenor's thread about burnout and also the general state of the Touhou fanbase on other sites, most notably Reddit (which has been going through a ditch), in which most Touhou fans/internet denizens seem to be downright oblivious/blind to changes or downright hostile to those who are protesting changes which keep the site aware of the users and keep it useful to everyone. To give a synopsis for clarity, I'm going to cover how Touhou fans existed throughout the years and how the internet changed the Fandom from a mostly creative fandom to a sanitized corporate outcome over the years, which inspires no creativity. Some of it will talk about Touhou, some will not, given that this sort of thing can apply to any fandom that exists on corporate-owned websites and not fandom owned. This kind of progression is why I'm giving the outlook a Terribad stamp due to the short attention spans of Touhou fans and the rabid tribalism of people justifying how Reddit is right in their horrible changes which will shoot them right back in the butt. This is sort of the expansion of the forum thread about attention spans here: This discussion is for people who have an attention span. (You know who you are ) Information will be kept into spoiler sections in order to save on scrolling. This is all based on my own opinions on what has occurred over the years. 1. The Start of the Internet (Touhou Fans Eating Good) This kind of discussion will talk about the early internet | around the <2000> s 2. The Rotting Starts (Sanitization and blandness starts) Hmmm, this probably started around the 2008-2020 this is when sites started to go corpo mode and start profiteering off the users. 3. What it is now◝(^⌣^)◜--> ^o^ --> n-n (People capitulate to Greed for instant satsifaction) The complete change of culture in Touhou | 2020-Present Time to act as a boomer, even though I was born at the time in which old forums were going out. 4. Burnout Zone (Opinion on why the fandom is at an all time low for creativity) So how is this going to end up? (Conclusion - Touhou fans and everyone hate everyone else) What are you looking at?11 points
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When you peruse any of the download categories, you might now be able to see files from their subcategories without having to visit each one directly (main Downloads page excluded) Created the Articled drop-down menu in the top menu and moved some articles in there Related to the point above, we now have an article for a Touhou Link List (github link) so that you can find more Touhou through your source for all things Touhou Whatever else might have happened in over half a year of no one posting a site changelog10 points
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A huge piece of history for everyone is their username online. Where did yours come from? Mine is from when I was very young, playing typing games in the computer lab. I hadn’t had a solid username yet, and I was obsessed with Pokémon sun and moon, which just released at the time. I also loved Kirby, and thus, loved meta knight. So, my first username became Metalunalion, with parts from meta knight, lunala, and solgaleo. This would be it for a long time, but along the way it became metalunalium for ease of pronunciation and the suffix on Z-crystals. Eventually, I got hit by character limits a lot. I had to shorten or change my name. So my alt tag for awhile( and still is ) was Maelstrom, just cuz I liked the word. Then, my current username came to me like an OC idea: out of completely random inspiration. I then got to Juunim as my username, which has stuck but was lengthened to Juunimeta to not erase my old one completely.9 points
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The ending CGs were good in the past, back in 1998 (25 years ago)... In Mystic Square, the ending has different fully colored drawings with a good art style despite the limitations of the PC98 hardware. Look at this: Now that the veins of hype are dry on my end, here's my opinion/review of Touhou 19. TLDR: The "Unfinished" in the title describes the game perfectly. Good Things: 1) The game has good mechanics. Charging attacks is intuitive and easy to pull off, getting the meter bar full is a simple collect the orbs, the spared hit is a good mechanic to make the game less punishing, although it's exploitable if you are good enough. Once a competitive metagame develops, we will know for sure how well done the combat system is. 2) Artistic department is beautiful. I really like the new designs and ZUN is improving his music, he used a lot of new instruments to him, the mixing is great, and the melodies still feel fresh even if he still composes with the same kind of tricks. 3) The story and writing is great. We still don't know the full details, but from what I've read, it depicts Gensokyo in the brink of a war, and it has a lot of interesting dialogue. For example, Son Biten being gaslighted into believing she's Son Goku's reincarnation, Hisami's possibly masochist tendencies and Chiyari being a hikikomori. She also managed to get me uncomfortable due to how creepy I find her. And that's all. Yeah i didn't like this game. I don't like a ZUN game since Touhou 11, it's incredible how massive his screw-up was in this one. I may dislike Touhou 11, but the game is finished and decently polished, not the case here. Bad Things: 1) The CPU is unbeatable. Especially when you take into account the "Human vs CPU" mode. As the CPU in this game is practically invincible, it's not like in PoFV where the CPU gets hits in normal. In about 2 hours of gameplay, the best I did was getting the CPU to drop 2 death bombs, meanwhile I was playing Orin VS Zanmu. 2) Lack of features. There's no replay and score system and ZUN can't justify it because he loves to reutilize assets, how hard is it to adapt the 18 game catalog's code to this game or hire someone? 3) Online is unplayable. I couldn't even join a match. The character selection screen dropped frames like crazy, and it had like 30 seconds of input lag. I won't be so critical here because I suppose that writing online multiplayer is very challenging. But why did ZUN not hire someone to make a reliable system? 4) Inconsistent art styles. It was a good idea to introduce new character sprites and boss sprites, but the job was badly done as returning characters like Sanae have their sprites from Touhou 12 meanwhile others are showing off new sprites. But not everyone got a fair deal, Ran's player/back sprite is vomit inducing. If ZUN at least allowed to remake all the player sprites, it would have consistent aesthetics. And he didn't fix the character selection screen to always be a hexagon, instead you get the ugly circle until you select someone. 5) Poor game balance. Half the cast encourages masochism, for example, I only managed to do decent damage with Orin thanks to the cards you get in story mode. Meanwhile, Reimu literally has infinite bombs with a good bullet slowdown aura. What the hell? 6) Atrocious pricing. I can't believe the game costs $15 with all the fundamental problems tainting the experience. For example, Terraria gives you tenfold the content for just $10 and Mystia Izakaya, a complete game without mayor problems (I didn't try it), is only $6. I can't even feel bad for pirating Touhou 19, it's simply not worth the $15. Before at least you got a finished experience with good polish and hours of entertainment. 7) ZUN's pride I believe we are entering a dark period of Touhou if ZUN doesn't drop the pride. Touhou is a FRICKING SOCIAL PHENOMENON in Japan, I'm sure he can hire more people to improve mainline Touhou even more. And not a gigantic amount of people that could bankrupt ZUN, he only needs a few beta testers, someone capable of providing a good online experience and a team of translators. 8) Development problems. If you pay close attention to how the story mode works, you will notice that once you reach a certain amount of time in a fight you automatically win, why is that? ZUN realized the CPU was unfair, but instead of fixing it, he made a quick lazy patch to allow players completing the story mode. Why did ZUN make that choice instead of fixing the problem? I don't know what happened, but Touhou 19 seemed to be stuck in development hell, as it's unusual that he didn't try to fix it by just reutilizing PoFV's CPU (I know he has the code, he kept the sprites after all). 9) Poor roster I know the roster makes sense for the story, but it's very strange that ZUN didn't include more characters. Combined with past games and the card mechanics of 18, he can easily introduce at least like 15 characters. And if it ruins the story, make them extra unlockable characters that aren't involved in the story. It would fit the style of progressively unlocking characters, like how it's done in Smash Bros. It also has some nonsensical character choices like Seiran or Orin, they don't add anything to the story. Something else that's weird is not having Kasen, Clownpiece, Keiki, Chen or Hecatia involved in the story as they are directly affected by the plot of the game. (yes, Chen technically appears in Ran's attacks, but why don't make her more independent?) Conclusion: I'm honestly impressed that, at the time of writing, ZUN is getting away unscathed after such a bad game. Steam's reviews are very positive and I can't comprehend how. Most of the critics I gave are due to a surprising lack of testing, polish and passion in developing this game, not me disliking core parts of the game entirely based on taste (like how I can dislike puzzle games because they don't entertain me). I want to like this game, as the things it does right are amazing, but it has fundamental issues that are only justified if the game was in early alpha. I really hope ZUN patches most of the game's issues (something unlikely to happen) and if that's not the case, at least that Touhou 20 or 19.X is a polished experience with good gameplay and new people on board. Maybe it's time for ZUN to either expand Team Shanghai Alice or hand over Touhou to new developers, it's unacceptable to have this experience in 2023 and a complete lack of improvements in a lot of areas. I just can't get over the fact that games made 25+ years ago on the very limited PC98 platform have comparable quality. Not even counting early Windows era games, my god. ZUN please do something.
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Have AMA's recently become some kind of silly trend on this forum? Yes, yes they have. But whatever, it gives me something to discuss about, and having been here a long time I'd like to think I'm an interesting enough person for people to have questions about me. So, if there's anything you want to know about me, this is your opportunity to say it! It doesn't have to relate to Touhou in any way, you can ask me literally any question you want - although I am not obliged to answer, so I recommend keeping things tasteful if you actually want to be taken seriously. Other than that there's nothing else to say about restrictions, so ask away!9 points
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Here's Marisa and a freehand watercolor Meiling!9 points
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Lying Lying is seldom considered a good thing on Earth, even if it is a constant fact of daily life. That said, lying in Gensokyo--while more lucrative--can potentially be a source of great danger for you, dear reader. The consequences of lying on Earth may be hurt feelings and broken friendships. However Gensokyo is not inhabited just by humans, but by ancient beings of great knowledge and magic. The better to preserve your life and happiness, it is advised you not make false statements rashly, and keep a list of lies and who you said them to written at all times. These can be written in a number of Earth languages, or in ciphers if you are a Japanese or Chinese speaker. The consequences of the wrong lie to the wrong person could put your life and those you love in immediate peril, and the wrong words may come back to haunt you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The air was heavy with apprehension. No one moved. No one said anything. The only sounds to be heard were the faint whimpers of Team 9 and the sound of the device in Marisa’s hand. All as she glared with unrestrained fury, at a face which looked like it couldn’t care less. Things were about to get out of hand. At best, that would mean a Danmaku in the middle of a bunch of children… He had to do something… “Now Miss Kirisame, there is no need for that,” The Outsider said, trying to hide his nervousness under a calming smile as he stepped between the two. The smile that forced itself onto his face was his best showman’s expression. Between the three faces, he was sure his was the only one which hid his inner feelings. Marisa’s expression didn’t change. Her eyes didn’t move from her target. Only going to his face as he swept his cape to either side in a bod. Obscuring her target. “I am sure a woman of your experience in the occult is familiar with the ramblings of maddened mystics. Agappa is one blessed with such gifts,” ...’Maddened mystics’? Was he narrating a D&D session or negotiating a hostage situation? Whatever, there was no time to work out his approach. He had to keep going. “She...does not know what she is saying. I am certain I can decipher her meaning however, if you’ll only give me a month or so. There’s no need to scare the children here. There may be a nominal fee—but we are friends and I can tell how much these means to you. It will only be enough to cover my costs. All I need is time.” Marisa’s face burned with a fire she had never felt before. Her teeth clenched and her eyes glared at the silent maiden. One who gazed at the talisman which had meant the end of so many as though it were made of straw. Blood pulsed in her temple and ears. Each making the world tremor with a dull thud. “A month…” Her voice sounded dull and distant. Almost as if she were hearing her echo from a distance. Then she let out a breath she didn’t know she had been holding in. “Whew. That’s a relief. Sorry I scaredja Osu-tan. Guess you caught me in a bad mood, da ze. Yer right tho, this is no time for a Danmaku. If you you figure out yer friend’s ramblings, ya can find my house in the Forest of Magic. I’m sure someone can show ya the way.” The witch’s head turned. It may have been Oscar’s imagination, but he thought she was glancing at Team 9. Of the four, only Cirno had the strength to meet her gaze. Even if Daiyousei’s eyes followed after her curiously. Was there some history between the two? She definitely seemed to recognize them… Marisa stood with her back turned to him, before suddenly she turned. The lunge was surprisingly quick, too quick for Oscar to evade her. The hug she gave him only made the move more unnerving. Her supple arms squeezed around his dress coat under his jacket, her eyes glimmering with an innocent look. “Yer a nice guy, Osu-tan. Don’t let anyone change that about you.” The witch hoisted her broomstick as she turned from him. Hopping on it, slinging one leg lazily over the side. The other folding over it. The crowd watching in awe. She seemed to reconsider then, and glanced back at Oscar. “So, one more thing. If they don’t use Danmaku in the Outside World, how do Outsider wizards settle their beef?" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = We enslave magical creatures and make them fight to the death for our amusement. = We break the world into blocks to build competing monuments to our greatness. = We have friendly conversations on our couches while shooting spells at one another. = We play a truly complex card game as an intricate clash of our minds.8 points
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Touhou Link List Also known as: Awesome Touhou Logo Made by Soph This is a community driven list of everything valuable and interesting in the Touhou Community. Touhou is among the biggest and oldest communities in the internet, spanning multiple languages and subcultures, you can find just about everything and this is very intimidating to newcomers and veterans alike. Touhou History is vast and that makes it hard to navigate, but not anymore! Our goal is curating the best of the best The Community has made, with the idea to facilitate discoverability, archival/historical efforts and make community contact between different parts of the fandom easier. We really value your help, without it, this project would wither away very quickly. If you are interested in helping this project or knowing more about it, please check out the list's original form in this Github Repository. New to Touhou? Please read Getting Started (shoot 'em up focused), Fandom and Touhou Reddit's Geting Started Thanks And Contributors Maribel Hearn's Touhou Portal I want to specially thank Maribel for creating this amazing resource, it served as inspiration and as a source for several things in this list. English Touhou Wiki THB Wiki Without the amazing work of the Touhou Wikis, this endeavor wouldn't have been possible. Multiple things from this list come from here. Thanks to all the Contributors for their hard work! Table of Contents Official Works Official Games Official Miscellaneous Official Music Official Websites Fan Works Arts And Crafts Audiovisual Creators Ascii Crafts Image Boards Fumo Fumo Buying Fumo Lore History Archival Gaming Communities Competitive Danmaku Replays And Scoring Competitive Fighting Games General Gaming Communities Merchandising Shops Miscellaneous Things Miscellaneous Music Music Streaming Social Blogs Chatrooms Doujin Circles Events Forums Real Life Events Software Decompilation Fun Software Game Assets Games Modding & Gamedev Sound Information Critical Analysis Information Websites Podcasts Fanfiction Scanlation Writing Videos Gameplay Videos Official Games Go back to Official Works Collection of all the games made or licensed by ©上海アリス幻樂団 (Team Shanghai Alice) that counts as an integral part of Touhou's canon (not including Fangames with official licensing). For the games that lack a direct link to Steam, or if you wish to get a physical copy, please check the Purchasing Guide If you are interesting in getting a Fan translation, check Thcrap Name Description Language Author (東方靈異伝 ～ The Highly Responsive to Prayers 1st entry and the first one in the original NEC PC-9801 games, featuring a mix of arkanoid with some basic danmaku elements. After someone mysterious destroys the Hakurei Shrine, Reimu Hakurei embarks on a journey between different worlds to find the culprit. , Fan translations available ZUN Soft 東方封魔録 ～ the Story of Eastern Wonderland. 2nd entry and the first one in the shoot 'em up series. Evil monsters once again appear around the Hakurei Shrine, and once again Reimu goes to investigate. You encounter Marisa Kirisame in this search for the first time, but this time as a rival. , Fan translations available ZUN Soft 東方夢時空 ～ The Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream. 3rd entry in the shoot 'em up series. The game features 9 playable characters and it's the first one to have the split screen versus mode, with singleplayer and multiplayer support. Reimu finds some strange ruins that only allow one person to enter, in exchange for great treasure, fighting begins between the game's characters. , Fan translations available ZUN Soft 東方幻想郷 ～ Lotus Land Story. 4th entry in the shoot 'em up series. Reimu & Marisa detect a tremendous power surge coming from a lake in the mountains, they go to investigate. This is the game that introduces most of the gameplay concepts that make up Touhou, bombs, graze, slow movement with the shift key, among other things. , Fan translations available ZUN Soft 東方怪綺談 ～ Mystic Square. 5th entry in the shoot 'em up series and the last one for the NEC PC-9801, being the final game before the franchise got rebooted in Touhou 06. This time you can select 2 more characters, Mima the evil spirit and Yuuka Kazami, the mysterious final boss from the previous game. Demons from Makai start invading Gensokyo, it's up to the protagonists to stop this from happening. , Fan translations available ZUN Soft 東方紅魔郷 ～ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. 6th entry and the first one for Windows in the shoot 'em up series, Touhou Project. You can control two characters, The Shrine Maiden of The Hakurei Shrine, Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame, The Ordinary Magician. An strange red mist is emitting from a western mansion leaving Gensokyo in peril, it's your duty to enter the mansion and stop the inccident. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方妖々夢 ～ Perfect Cherry Blossom. 7th entry in the shoot 'em up series. Alongside Reimu & Marisa, The Maid of The Scarlet Devil Mansion, Sakuya Izayoi, joins you in this adventure. Spring didn't came and Winter is still dominating, but the protagonists see flowering cherry leaves in the sky, time to follow the trail and solve the inccident! , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方萃夢想 ～ Immaterial and Missing Power. 7.5th entry and the 1st fighting game in the Touhou Project series. Another mysterious mist extended all over Gensokyo, but this time causing great feasts every few days. You can pick between 11 characters. , Fan translations available Twilight Frontier & Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方永夜抄 ～ Imperishable Night. 8th entry in the shoot 'em up series. The Youkai in Gensokyo notice that the Moon was replaced with a fake one, they slow down the night and ally themselves with the human protagonists, embarking on a rush to solve the inccident before the sun rises. You can pick between four duos of characters to control, including previous rivals, The Barrier Team, The Magical Team, The Scarlet team & The Netherworld team. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方花映塚 ～ Phantasmagoria of Flower View. 9th entry in the shoot 'em up series. It features 16 playable characters that you slowly unlock by playing the story mode. The game has a split screen versus mode, with singleplayer and multiplayer support. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方文花帖 ～ Shoot the Bullet. 9.5th entry and 1st one of the photography shoot 'em up series in Touhou Project. This time featuring Aya Shameimaru, the Tengu photographer as the protagonist. In this singleplayer game, you have to use Aya's photography skills to disappear the bullets on screen, in your quest to take nice pictures of the foes of previous games. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方風神録 〜 Mountain of Faith. 10th entry in the shoot 'em up series. There are rumors of a new God inhabiting the Youkai Mountain, with the likely plans of becoming the most powerful deity in Gensokyo, threatening Reimu Hakurei's way of life as a shrine maiden. It's up to you to go place this meddling God in her place. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方緋想天 ～ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. 10.5th entry and the 2nd fighting game in the Touhou Project series. A massive surge in extreme climate in Gensokyo leads most inhabitants to start fighting each other. It's based on Immaterial and Missing Power, with a lot of improvements, including 5 new characters. , Fan translations available Twilight Frontier & Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方地霊殿 〜 Subterranean Animism. 11th entry in the shoot 'em up series. Geysers flooding with water and strange earth spirits started apearing. Smelling something fishy, the Youkai friends of Reimu & Marisa decide to send them to the Underworld to find the culprit, providing them with their Youkai powers as extra help in this difficult challenge. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方星蓮船 〜 Undefined Fantastic Object. 12th entry in the shoot 'em up series. A strange flying ship appeared in Gensokyo's skies. It's up to Reimu & Marisa, this time joined by Sanae Kochiya, the shrine maiden who debuted on Touhou 10, to stop this threat. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方非想天則 ～ 超弩級ギニョルの謎を追え (Hisoutensoku) 12.3th entry and the 3rd and final fighting game based on Immaterial and Missing Power. A mysterious giant is seen wandering Gensokyo, you will investigate using different characters what's the truth of this creature. The game mainly features refinements over Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and it has a roster of 20 characters, with 4 new ones included to the existing cast. , Fan translations available Twilight Frontier & Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) ダブルスポイラー ～ 東方文花帖 (Double Spoiler) 12.5th entry and the 2nd one in the photography shoot 'em up series in Touhou Project. Once again you control Aya Shameimaru, doing her usual work, but something is off. A hidden Tengu is watching Aya carefully. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 妖精大戦争 ～ 東方三月精 (Great Fairy Wars) 12.8th entry and the only one in the freezing shoot 'em up series in Touhou Project. This time, your only character is The Ice Fairy Cirno. After a misunderstanding with other fairies, Cirno goes on a silly quest for revenge. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方神霊廟 〜 Ten Desires. 13th entry in the shoot 'em up series. Once again, spirits began flooding the world of Gensokyo, but this time, they are divine spirits! Along Reimu and Marisa, Sanae Kochiya and Youmu Konpaku, The Half-Human Half-Phantom Gardener, join the cast to find the source of these spirits. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方心綺楼 ～ Hopeless Masquerade. 13.5th entry and the 1st in the 2nd generation of the fighting games, this time with an one-on-one aereal gameplay. The bad emotional state of the human village lead the usual suspects into fighting for religious/social power in the village, who will win? Is someone behind this? The game features 10 playable characters. , Fan translations available Twilight Frontier & Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方輝針城 〜 Double Dealing Character. 14th entry in the shoot 'em up series. Weak Youkai are becoming rebelious, tools are turning into Youkais, Gensokyo is in disarray. Reimu, Marisa and Sakuya must find the troublemaker behind this before their magical tools gain more power. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 弾幕アマノジャク 〜 Impossible Spell Card. 14.3th entry in the shoot 'em up series. This time, you are playing as the chaotic Youkai Seija Kijin, who is getting hunted by a multitude of Gensokyo inhabitants using brutal danmaku due to her proficiency in troublemaking. You will play using a series of cheats to hopefully survive this. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方深秘録 ～ Urban Legend in Limbo. 14.5th entry and the 2nd in the 2nd generation of the fighting games. Urban legends have started manifesting themselves like crazy, even possesing the protagonists and giving them new, fitting powers. In their power testing, the real, occult truth is revealed. 4 new characters are added. , Fan translations available Twilight Frontier & Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方紺珠伝 ～ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom. 15th entry in the shoot 'em up series. Troubles in the Moon made the Lunarians start an invasion of Gensokyo, making Reimu, Marisa, Sanae and the exiled Moon Rabbit Reisen go to the Moon and defeat the most powerful enemies yet. This game features another game mode, where you get checkpoints every little time, balancing the arguably hardest mainline game so far. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方憑依華 ～ Antinomy of Common Flowers. 15.5th entry and the last in the 2nd generation of the fighting games. On top of the ongoing urban legend problems, the perfect possesion phenomenon appeared in Gensokyo, allowing one person to take over the body of the other. It's the task of the protagonists to defeat a nefarious duo exploiting perfect possesion. This game adds 5 more characters and uses the story as an excuse to include character switching mid battle. , Fan translations available Twilight Frontier & Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方天空璋 ～ Hidden Star in Four Seasons. 16th entry in the shoot 'em up series. Seasons have gone berserk again, but this time, different areas in the small Gensokyo can vary from spring to summer. Reimu and Marisa are joined in solving this incident by Aya Shameimaru and Cirno. And to make things worse, weaklings are again experimenting surges of strength, who's behind this? You have the added gimmick of selecting a season as a shot type, that mimmicks one of the protagonist's regular attacks. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 秘封ナイトメアダイアリー ～ Violet Detector. 16.5th entry and the 3rd one in the photography shoot 'em up series in Touhou Project. Instead of a Tengu, you are in the shoes of Sumireko Usami, who is trapped in an endless danmaku nightmare due to her abusing entering Gensokyo via her dreams. Only her phone camera, psychic powers and the player's skill can save her. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方鬼形獣 〜 Wily Beast and Weakest Creature. 17th entry in the shoot 'em up series. Beast spirits began to invade from Hell en masse. "They're trying to take over the surface world with brute force and sheer numbers. I beg of you! Venture into Hell with me, and put a stop to their plans!" So she was told, by a beast spirit that was cooperative with humans... Reimu, Marisa and Youmu are the protagonists, who can pick between 3 animal spirits that grant powerups to certain danmaku skills. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方剛欲異聞 ～ 水没した沈愁地獄 (Sunken Fossil World) 17.5th entry and a standalone horizontal side-scrolling danmaku water action game. Black water (oil) began pouring out of most of Gensokyo's water sources, it's up to most of Gensokyo to figure out a way of defeating the underground monster creating all this oil. , Fan translations available Twilight Frontier & Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方虹龍洞 ～ Unconnected Marketeers. 18th entry in the shoot 'em up series. The story revolves around the circulation of mysterious cards, which seem to contain the secrets of various humans and youkai. You can play between Reimu, Marisa, Sanae and Sakuya. You can customize your character's skills by selecting cards before and during the game's progression. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) バレットフィリア達の闇市場 〜 100th Black Market. 18.5th entry in the shoot 'em up series, combined with some rougelite elements. This time you only control Marisa, who is investigating the black markets of the mysterious cards and to enlarge her collection. Will Marisa's personal interest get in the way of solving the incident? , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) 東方獣王園 〜 Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost 19th entry in the shoot 'em up series. Once again, you have a split screen versus mode with singleplayer and multiplayer support. Following the opening of the markets, Gensokyo's land has abruptly lost its ownership and an invasion from Hell's Animal Realm has begun. The game's cast all seek to either bring the invasion to a halt or take advantage of the ongoing situation. There are 19 total characters that you slowly unlock by playing the game's story mode. , Fan translations available Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) Official Miscellaneous Go back to Official Works Your place to find strange things that might have some relation with Touhou, they have Team Shanghai Alice present on them, that's for sure Name Description Language Author Nikenme Show where drunk people talk with no profit, featuring ZUN and 豚（家畜） Nikenme People Associated with Touhou List of people that are involved in some way to Touhou Project About Page, Creative Commons ZUN Chronology Chronologicaly ordered list of events related to ZUN or that bear significance to the Community About Page, Creative Commons ZUN Illustrations This is a list of as many illustrations as possible by ZUN himself. Multilingual About Page, Creative Commons Official Music Go back to Official Works Collection of music that appears in works made or licensed by ©上海アリス幻樂団 (Team Shanghai Alice) If you wish a physical copy or to purchase the music digitally, please check the Purchasing Guide Name Description Author Team Shanghai Alice Discography Full discography available for streaming on Spotify. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) Twilight Frontier Discography Full discography available for streaming on Spotify. Twilight Frontier, Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) & others Romantique TP I recorded ZUN's MIDIs on a real Roland SC-88Pro Sound Canvas, the module they were made for. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN), Romantique TP Official Websites Go back to Official Works Collection of websites & social media made or licensed by ©上海アリス幻樂団 (Team Shanghai Alice) If you can't find something, look at THB Wiki's Recompilation Name Description Language Author 東方Project News Touhou Yomoya News, your official website for getting Touhou news. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN), ©東方よもやま委員会 東方Project News' Bluesky The official Bluesky account for Touhou Yomoya News Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) Amusement Makers Old, inactive website of Amusement Makers. aotaka@kt.rim.or.jp Kourindou Blog ZUN's inactive blog. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) Team Shanghai Alice We are a circle that develops shoot 'em up games and creates music. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) The Guidelines for Touhou Project Fan Creations Legal guidelines in English, to provide fan creators with a brief understanding of dos and don'ts in a lenient manner. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) Touhou Doujin Music Distribution Making music for Touhou Project easier. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) Touhou X 25th Anniversary Touhou Website Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) & ©アンノウンX ZUN's Bluesky The official Bluesky account. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) ZUN's X The official X account. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) ZUN's YouTube The official YouTube account. Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN) Archival Go back to History Relics from the vast history of Touhou and its community, from 1996 to now. Name Description Language Author A Timeline of Hisouten(soku), and its Community and Meta-game A timeline history of the Hisoutensoku community, starting from 2007 and ending at 2017. Tessiro AKYU'S Illusion Lab. east branch office A 2008 Japanese Touhou site index that actively recorded new fan activities in Touhou doujin circles. Essentially a information gathering site for the Japanese Touhou fandom. About AWA Touhou Scroll Project For ZUN's appreance at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2013, a scroll featuring all of the Touhou characters was given as gift. In order to create to scroll, 70 artists participated in the scroll's creation. Totaku Bad Apple Iceberg Every cover of Bad Apple!! Bad Apple Iceberg Dagobah Flash Gallery Very old videos, games, and art. Beware of the weird thumbnails! Dagobah Doujin Works, Legality, Supporting Creators, and the Doujin Mentality Following the ordeal with FSS's Touhou Super Smash Battles Indiegogo, and previous consideration of a community TLMC. I've been thinking pretty heavily about the doujin scene as a whole. james7132 Hata no Kokoro Old high quality introductory videos Hata no Kokoro Illusionary Score An archive of piano arrangement scores. @kkcwkoh IonicFox Video travel archive of conventions featuring Touhou. IonicFox Maidens of the Kaleidoscope Timeline It's a long and storied history for a website - a history that ought to be told. Credits NitorInc Fan-made, community-driven collaboration to create a collection of microgames based on the Touhou universe and lore. Contributors Redditaisai An online Touhou doujin convention on /r/Touhou that brought together western Touhou fandom creators. It ran on 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. /r/Touhou TouHorology Website Based out of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, TouHorology creates physical good Touhou Project fan works. Link to archived website. TouHorology Touhou Project ft. GS System (Canceled) A Touhou card game in English. The reason for cancellation was that crowdfunding was not considered an appropriate monetization method under the Touhou derivative work guidelines at the time. GS System Touhou Station Game Jam 2020 Game Collection itch.io collection of the 2020 Touhou Station Game Jam. Touhou Garakutasoushi Touhou Station Game Jam 2021 Game Collection itch.io collection of the 2021 Touhou Station Game Jam. Touhou Garakutasoushi Touhou Station Game Jam 2022 Game Collection itch.io collection of the 2022 Touhou Station Game Jam. Touhou Garakutasoushi Touhou Station Game Jam 2024 Game Collection itch.io collection of the 2024 Touhou Station Game Jam. Touhou Garakutasoushi Touhou lost media The goal of this topic is collecting information about lost media and links in one place. There are some categories for systematization. In each category the media goes from more well-known or having more chances to be found to more obscure. If you have some info about this lost media or some other lost media, post it. vanyk Walfas A Touhou blog whose flash content created the origin for Walfas. KirbyM/@Walfie Ascii Go back to Arts And Crafts Did you know you could make drawings with text? Name Description Language Author Touhou Ascii Touhou tag in Ascii Art Archives for Recycle Ascii Art Archives for Recycle Touhou Aamatome Just enjoy Touhou Aamatome Audiovisual Creators Go back to Arts And Crafts Find Touhou content creators! Name Description Language Author AspreyFM I make videos on Touhou Project. Fan games or whatever idea I come up with. @AspreyFM Banca de Jornal Bunbunmaru tengu desgrasado Banca de Jornal Bunbunmaru Delta Pie I talk about Touhou's impact on the Internet and popular culture, as well as cool parts of the Touhou community that make it unique. Delta Pie fumos and other landfill I make silly plushie videos ᗜˬᗜ @fumoLandfill GensouChronicle This is a channel focused around Media Discussion, Gaming Lore, and Video Essays. @GensouChronicle Gesh86 Currently, Touhou-related games as well as games for classic systems dominate my channel Gesh86 Ideología Inversa Canal 100% dedicado a Touhou Project Ideología Inversa Iyanez hello my name is iyanez i make 3d anims on blender and yea thats about it, mainly touhou stuff @Iyanez11 Jo2n I primarily do animations of touhou stuff sometime other games too, depend on how I'm vibing that day @JNafuda Kanonical64 Hi, Kanonical here! I'm a transgender girl who loves playing and talking about video games. I want to make scripted videos which take a lot of time to make so my upload schedule is really inconsistent. @Kanonical64 Kero-san Welcome everyone ! “Welcome to Gensokyo” is a YouTube show aimed at raising awareness of the Touhou universe through its characters and story @Kerosan11 Lavishin Legit Walfas animation videos. LavishinLegit lunaPrism Small hitbox with a big dream. @xlunaprism Marco Hayabuza Hago Streams y Vídeos jugando todo tipo de Juegos!! :D @MarcoHayabusa MegamanOmega I'm an average Touhou player who decided "Hey, let's post all this stuff online and maybe help others get into the series". MegamanOmega Megapig9001 Welcome to my channel. I mainly focus on making Touhou Analysis Videos, but I also have a secondary focus on making fangames. @megapig9001 minusT I make animations using blender. @tauminust Mush-Broom Hello there, I'm currently making some weird kind of animations, enjoy! @MushBroom1 Sr Pelo Hi! I am Pelo, hope you enjoy the ride , Sr Pelo Surnist I'm posting videos regarding Touhou, often asking questions around the series and the world around it every so often Surnist Suzunaan Bienvenidos a Suzunaan. Aquí encontrarán información de Touhou Project. Suzunaan's Blogspot Spirit-Eye Hello, I mainly do videos about Touhou, more specifically, I like talking about the locations, Characters and story/lore of Touhou, and that is what most of my videos are about. @SpiritEye4 tenco Heyo I'm tenco, a dude who likes Touhou and makes videos about different topics related to the series. Lore, gameplay, fanworks, a little bit of everything. @thtenco Vegemite-Flavored Indomie I make MMD videos with varying degrees of quality , @ALLHAILDURIANS WalfasStationWagon Hello! This is the official page of Nitori's Mysterious Station Wagon of Touhou, Fsteaks & Tables (AKA The Walfas Station Wagon)! WalfasStationWagon Yumemey Touhou plushies are pretty cool :) @Yumemimeme Yuunarii Oh yeh, I'm also a huge sucker for Touhou doujin, eurobeat and hyper techno music ♪ she has a sticker shop with Touhou things Yuunarii Blogs Go back to Social Look at what people write about Touhou in their personal websites Name Description Language Author A Coasean Solution to the Scarlet Devil Incident An conomic perspective on Remilia's Scarlet Mist Incident. Michelangelo Landgrave Dead Fish Chronicle's Arah Timur: 10 Year Anniversary Retrospective on the Arah Timur anthology by Malaysian doujin circle Dead Fish Chronicles. @erifaults Do haniwa dream of ceramic sheep? Articles on mythological references in Touhou. Antonia Running PC98 Touhou on PC98 Getting Touhou games to run on a PC-9821 Na12. Lainblog Patchouli Knowledge laptop sticker Writeup on the process and reasoning to add a Patchouli sticker to their laptop. Nayuki Simugung's blog News/information on Touhou nearly every day. Simugung Suwa Grand Shrine – A Touhou Pilgrimage A pilgrimage report on locations featured in Mountain of Faith and Subterranean Animism. punynari THE MOST CULTURED MEME: NEW TRANSLATION REVEALS HIDDEN DEPTH IN “JAPANESE GOBLIN” Analysis on the japanese lyrics to WE ARE JAPANESE GOBLIN. , @lostinloc Touhou Project and the Single-Gender World The thematic impacts of the series' single-gender world. Lyrica Live Where does ZUN draws his fashion sense for some of the designs of the girls? Influences on ZUN's fashion designs. Huppa Inc. © “Yūgen” in the nature art of Touhou The beauty on the focus of nature over the girls in Touhou art. gnosisonic Chatrooms Go back to Social Chat with people fond of Touhou! Name Description Language Author Adelaide Touhou Project Appreciation Society Our goal is to host meet ups while bringing the Touhou community in South Australia together. The aim of this server is to announce Touhou meet ups and build connections meeting likeminded fans! Adelaide Touhou Project Appreciation Society ArabSokyo Arab Discord Server for Touhou. ArabSokyo Bayhou Project The San Francisco Bay Area's Touhou fan group. We host regular gatherings. Bayhou Project Paradise of Boundaries Comunidad y Círculo Creativo Hispano dedicado a Touhou Project. Nuestro propósito es incentivar y crear contenido con el fin de fortalecer y expandir a la comunidad hispana. Paradise of Boundaries Phantasmagoria Netplay Discord Welcome to the PoFV netplay server! , Multilingual Phantasmagoria Netplay Discord The Gap Your place to find more curated Discord servers. , Multilingual servers The Gap Touhou Discord The largest Touhou Project server on Discord! Touhou Discord Touhou European Assembly Discord European Touhou communities decided together to rejoin and create a common Discord server. The EU of Touhou. Multilingual Touhou European Assembly Touhou Replay Community Discord Welcome to the Touhou Replay Showcase Discord server! Touhou Replay Showcase Competitive Danmaku Replays And Scoring Go back to Gaming Communities Find everything around replays, world records, bullet helling with friends and getting high scores here! Name Description Language Author Dodging Rain Competition Two teams go up against each other in several different categories. Multilingual maribelhearn@disroot.org High Score Storage Enter your high scores. You can leave any high score empty. maribelhearn@disroot.org Gensokyo Replay Archive A complete archive of the Touhou replays from replays.gensokyo.org, with the same search functionality as said website. maribelhearn@disroot.org Competitive PoFV This is a portal for competitive PoFV play, featuring the current tier list, a guide to help you get started with netplay, and links to relevant resources. , maribelhearn@disroot.org Royalflare Replay Archive On 3 January 2022, Royalflare stopped allowing replay uploads, and it will shut down at the end of the month. As such, this archive has been created to preserve all of its replays and history. Unlike the original website, these replays cannot be deleted. maribelhearn@disroot.org Silent Selene Welcome to Silent Selene, the home of Touhou replays on the Internet. We support uploading replays for almost all Touhou games, so create an account and show us what you've got! webmaster@silentselene.net The Danmaku Gameplay Wiki This Wiki is designed to be User-Friendly, and a simple way to organize Resources for Danmaku Games. maribelhearn@disroot.org Touhou Fangame Acomplishments This page lists known Lunatic No Miss No Bomb (LNN) clears and notable high scores for Touhou fangames, as well as Touhou-related games. maribelhearn@disroot.org Touhou Strategy Wiki Touhou Project Strategy Wiki with detailed notes on game mechanics and strategy. Touhou Strategy Wiki Touhou World Cup Touhou World Cup (TWC) is an annual international Touhou shooting game competition, first held in 2020 and held every year since. It is organised by the Touhou gameplay community worldwide. Multilingual Credits Touhou World Records An accurate list of Touhou world records, updated every so often. Multilingual maribelhearn@disroot.org Competitive Fighting Games Go back to Gaming Communities Live or let die! Find matches and training resources for Touhou fighting games here. Name Description Language Author Hisouten Discord This is the main server for Touhou 12.3 Hisoutensoku and the international Hisoutensoku community. Soku Delthas Hisouten Discord Lists List of other Discord servers with Soku communities. Multilingual Hisouten Discord Lists Touhou Hisoutensoku Wiki Wiki for Hisoutensoku. Contains frame data, strategy, and much more. Touhou Hisoutensoku Wiki Touhou 15.5 AoCF Main community server for the fighting game Antinomy of Common Flowers. , Available links for Multilingual servers Touhou 15.5 AoCF Touhou AoCF Wiki Wiki for AoCF. Contains frame data, strategy, and much more. Touhou 15.5 AoCF Crafts Go back to Arts And Crafts For all things arts and crafts related to Touhou! Name Description Language Author Paperzone Touhou Touhou papercrafts resource. PaperzoneVN Critical Analysis Go back to Information Disecting Touhou Project in depth. Name Description Language Author Analysing DDC: Reversing the Ideology of Touhou Deep dive into Double Dealing Character (Touhou 14) CatointheMiddle Analysing WBaWC and Idolatrize World Analysis of the themes in Wily Beast and Weakest Creature (Touhou 17) CatointheMiddle Archive of the Sealed Gods A website that explores and documents the esoteric in Touhou Project in connection to spirituality. Emissary of the Kami Dialogue data mining Word usage data analysis based on Touhou Wiki's English translations found under the repo TouhouWikiPages DestructionCatalyst Flowchart/Timeline of Touhou 17.5 A flowchart of character movements in Touhou 17.5. Created before the addition of Yuuma as a playable character. The final flowchart can be found here. HinikuHou Rec98 Blog In depth blog about the decompilation efforts of PC98 Touhou games. Nmlgc Reflections on the death of Touhou PC-98: Ultimate Collection and general rambling about Touhou Project Blog post that rambles about copyright in Touhou Project and multiple parties affected by it spaztron64 The History of Touhou Doujin Sales Events Article about the history of Touhou Doujin, analyzed from a socioeconomical point of view. vanyk Touhou - A Scientific Interpretation Explore the world of Gensokyo, through the proposed physical conditions and calculations. Dylan Walsh Touhou Character Discussions A THP thread on the characteristics of the Touhou character and the generation of story ideas based off the Touhou character. Touhou-Project.com Which is the larger of the two otherworlds in Touhou cosmology, Sanzu River or the Dream World? Comparison is done by using sourced details on the Sanzu River and the Dream World Negative_Highway7506 World,Touhou Covers overseas Touhou communities by looking at various aspects of the community's culture. Some articles have english translations. Pak长 『幽霊楽団』はなぜピアノから始まるのか？ ～ 幽霊楽団とプリズムリバー三姉妹の音楽的解釈 Analysis of the song Ghostly Band ~ Phantom Ensemble based on upon instrument organization and the individual personalities of the Prismrivers. This analysis was formed as part of the development behind the album プリズムリバー三姉妹のソロ!. 白鷺ゆっきー Decompilation Go back to Software For researching how Touhou's source code works Name Description Language Author ReC98 Source code reconstruction, mods, and technical research of and surrounding PC-98 Touhou and Seihou Nmlgc th06 This project aims to perfectly reconstruct the source code of Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil 1.02h by Team Shanghai Alice. Happy Havoc Doujin Circles Go back to Social Your place to search things about your favorite Doujin Circles Name Description Language Author Alianza Hispana de Touhou Project Agrupación de comunidades, artistas y personalidades del fandom hispano de Touhou. Alianza Hispana de Touhou Project Fantasy Mechanics Fantasy Mechanics is a Western Touhou Fanwork Circle! We primarily focus on creating fangames, but also make other projects. , Fantasy Mechanics Jesselejohn Welcome to my channel, specializing (mostly) in fanmade remixes of Touhou's PC-98 (And Seihou) music done in ZUN's style. Jesselejohn Kyoto Fantasy Troupe We are currently producing the fan anime series "Hifuu Activity Records". , , @fantasytroupe Paradise of Boundaries Comunidad y Círculo Doujin Hispano de Touhou Project. Paradise of Boundaries Raven’s Jig We specialize in musical arranges which, we hope, would do justice to the original composers we admire and look up to. , , redtails THB Doujin List List of Doujin circles/groups, categorized by region, year and type of work. About Page, Creative Commons Touhou Wiki's Doujin Circles This is a list of all of the doujin circles on our wiki. Multilingual About Page, Creative Commons Events Go back to Social Find events to participate in! Name Description Language Author Touhou Game Jam A regularly-occuring contest to make a Touhou fangame, from scratch! Touhou Game Dev Hub Forums Go back to Social Forums to discuss things about Touhou. Name Description Language Author Maidens of the Kaleidoscope Third incarnation of the MotK Forums. Credits Moriya Shrine Forums Let's discuss Touhou Project together! Moriya Shrine Staff GensoukyouDE Jenseits der Hakurei-Barriere. GensoukyouDE Touhou.fi Finnish. Touhou.fi Touhou Polish Human Meets Danmaku. Touhou Polish Touhou Music Reddit Touhou music is awesome. Share your favorite original or arranged Touhou songs. Touhou Music Reddit Touhou Reddit This subreddit is devoted to sharing the wonderful Touhou series with the Reddit community. Touhou Reddit Fumo Buying Go back to Fumo Baka Fumo Fumo ka-ching! ᗜˬᗜ Name Description Language Author Fumo Buying Guides With the helpful information on this site, you too can welcome a soft friend into your home. , in the linked materials Fumosite Fumo Lore Go back to Fumo Fumo learn! Fumo very not so smart! ᗜˬᗜ Name Description Language Author ANGELTYPE Website of the original creator of the Fumos (not Gift). ANGELTYPE Bluesky Fumo Bluesky sister feed of GensouSky, dedicated exclusively to Fumo. Multilingual ˚☽‧⁺˖⋆ phosphophyllite 𓍊‧𓋼₊ FumoFumo Touhou Wiki's page on Fumos. Multilingual About Page, Creative Commons Gift Gift Website of the makers of the Fumo, Gift. Gift Gift Fun Software Go back to Software Fun programs that are not games. Name Description Language Author uw-u.xyz Collection of cute software related to Momiji. AWOO LLC Doremy Doremy Doremy Doremy Massive Touhou personality quiz! (70+ characters) This quiz is in two parts, the first one puts you in a category then links you to the second part to get a specific character! nintendiogs My Touhou Fanpage Web page stylized from the 2000s. @Hiskov touhou98 The font used in PC98 Touhou games. touhou98 Touhou Calendar This page forms a (hopefully) comprehensive list of days in use, presented in English for the Touhou Project's sizable western audience. @TouhouCalendar Touhou Omikuji What Omikuji will you draw? , , Touhou Omikuji Touhou Character Sorter Sorter for Touhou characters. Pick your sources, and hit the Start button. Touhou Character Sorter Touhou Character Tier List This template includes every single Touhou character that is relevant and appears in mainstream Touhou media. Touhou Character Tier List Touhou Song Sorter This is a sorter for ZUN's Touhou (and other) songs. Pick your sources, and hit the Start button. Touhou Song Sorter Wriggle Nightbug Wriggle Nightbug Wriggle Nightbug Wriggle Nightbug Yukkuri Talk ゆっくりしていってね！！！ @kdingo Zun Art Guess the face of the Touhou character! Zun Art Game Assets Go back to Software All kinds of game assets that are based (in some way or another) on the Touhou Project series. Name Description Language Author The Spriter's Resource Sprites found both in official Touhou games and in fangames. For archival/learning proposes. The VG Resource Games Go back to Software Awesome fangames that are based (in some way or another) on the Touhou Project series. If you can't find the fangame you are looking for, check Touhou Wiki for fangames in general or Touhou Curator for fangames on Steam Name Description Language Author 东方雪莲华 ～ Abyss Soul Lotus Gensokyo turns into a popsicle! The barrier is in danger from the tearing frost. Pick from three teams to set off and prevent this incident from worsening! 雨夜枫雪制作组 BulletForge Your source of Danmakufu scripts and Danmakufu based fangames , games might be multilingual Aaron and Abner 东方栖霞园 ~ Blue devil in the Belvedere Touhou cast goes to Europe after "devils" invade Gensokyo! Beware of cats! , , 东方祈华梦制作组 東方霊守祀 ~ Consciousness' Unity of Opposites In development game! Chinese themed Touhou game that is still in development! Has a free demo for those interested in wishlisting this game for when it releases! , 只鹳狸药堂 3rd eye A 2D exploration/horror game starring the Touhou Project's Koishi Komeiji. Use her Third Eye to explore a mental world entirely unlike reality. , , 3rd eye homepage Cirno's Bomb-Tastic Adventure Find a way for Cirno to throw the least amount of bombs to defeat the fairies in this isomatic puzzle game! Available on mobile devices for Apple and Android. , yomogi soft Danmaku!! A curtain-fire tabletop card game inspired by Touhou im not making a new section for this , @MysteryParfait Gensokyo Night Festival Heavily in development. Pixel art game in which you control Suika who fights the denizens of Gensokyo using combinations of moves! , , WSS Playground tea_basira Genso Flood Front Fast-paced action puzzle platformer featuring Nitori! FriendSea Hakurei Touhou Fangames Showcase Compilation of Touhou fangames. , hakudenkai@gmail.com Help Me Remember, Satori-sama! A cute little game in which you deduct Okuu's questions while dealing with distractions! Detective Satori time! , , , ISY Hifuu OS For those who are interested in Unix and Touhou's Hifuu club! , Hefan Nalyne Kubinashi Recollection In order to retrieve the lost memories, Sekibanki has a big adventure in the world of dreams! , , 給食頭蛮 LABYRINTH OF TOUHOU - GENSOKYO AND THE HEAVEN-PIERCING TREE Challenge the Great Tree with the maidens of Gensokyo! , , Nise-Eikoku Studio, CUBETYPE Luna Nights Play as Sakuya in this Metroidvania like in order to uncover the secret behind this world! , , , , Team Ladybug, WSS playground Mystia's Izakaya Play as Mystia as she tries to serve Gensokyo's residents! Beware of the mob! , , , 二色幽紫蝶, Re零同人社 SANAE's Sylphid Breeze With her new ability “SPELL SPOILLER, she inhales enemies and imitates their ability. Behold! SANAE's miracle adventure!! , Lanki Shanghai Genso Network A Touhou fangame with the style and gameplay of the MegaMan Battle Network series. , , koki_thlal, SHNecro Shining Shooting Star CN mostly! can also be downloaded for the EN patched game through TH wiki A wide range of Touhou characters set out to find why meteors have been falling from the sky each night! , * 雨夜枫雪制作组 Taisei Project An open source Touhou fangame with an open development team on Github! You can even play it on your browser! English Akari + Contributors Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia Explore Gensokyo from an outsider's perspective in this old-school Touhou DRPG! , , Bar Holographic Otaku/Potemki11 Touhou Danmaku Kagura Phantasia Lost A rhythm game in which players can play popular arrangements of Touhou Project songs. , , Alliance Arts Touhou Fractured Transience This game is planned for release in 2025 A 2D platform fighting game with pixel graphics! The basic premise deals with boundaries affecting residents with immortality which threatens the balance! The only way to dispel them is to fight unrestrained battles within them! , Tight Stuffs Touhou Fumo Racing Embody a Fumo and compete on a wacky karting race against other fumo-fied Touhou Characters! Play alone against AI-controlled racers or with up to 4 friends on splitscreen multiplayer. Touhou Fumo Racing Touhou Kikamu ~ Elegant Impermanence of Sakura Deal with the mysterious seasonal occurrences across Gensokyo with the cast of Imperishable Night in this fangame! , , , , 东方祈华梦制作组 Touhou Lensed Night Sky "I want you to go to the moon." Fire Land TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival A strange incident involving the cast of EOSD becoming something much more powerful than ever before. Play with 4 characters REI/MAR/SAN + Patchy while they investigate the SDM for clues! , , , 東方幕華祭制作组 TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival II Coming straight from FDF one, FDF two deals with the cast of PCB with character choices being the same except for the addition of Youmu instead of Patchy. Has an extra phantasm stage! , , , 東方幕華祭制作组 Touhou Music Room Multiplayer music quiz inspired by popular music quiz games, featuring original soundtracks and music from your favorite circles. , contact@touhoumusicroom.com Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity The world of Touhou comes alive in this beautiful action RPG (featuring “bullet hell” elements, of course!). Infamous vampire Remilia Scarlet and her dutiful maid, Sakuya, set off to chase rumors of a massive monster, all while sending baddies flying with fluid action and signature skills! , , Ankake Spa Touhou: New World Delve back into the world of Touhou in this bullet hell action-RPG adventure! The boundary between Gensokyo and the outside world has been breached, and it falls to Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame to discover why. Level up skills, forge new equipment, and explore Gensokyo to uncover the truth! , , Ankake Spa Touhou ~Red Empress Devil Roguelike BH Touhou game! If you have played "Enter The Gungeon" and wanted more BH action, then support this game! Multilingual, check Steam page Studio Poco 東方宝天京 ～ Treasure Castle Labyrinth. A glittering galaxy awaits inside! If you want treasure, get ready to dig! A retro-colorful dark-pop exploration STG fantasy! Naudiz and company Yoiyami Dancers: Twilight Danmaku Dancers Dodge to the beat of the rhythm while you deal with bosses and enemies in this cute side-scrolling rhythm hell! , tripper 六合ダイスケ Gameplay Videos Go back to Videos Watch gameplays of everything Touhou. Name Description Language Author El Rincón de Touhou Este canal recopila los mejores clips de Twitch sobre Touhou o " Algo de " Len'en El Rincón de Touhou JynX's Touhou Remakes Playlist JynX's (Len'en's creator) gameplay for his private remasters of PC98 Touhou JynX MegamanOmega's Touhou Playlists Hybrid text/video commentary gameplays of all the official Touhou games (1cc normal) MegamanOmega PigeonVoyageur This only serve the purpose as to archive mostly unknown games in the channel's current state. PigeonVoyageur Touhou Replay Showcase Twitch Watching replays of Touhou while offering commentary Touhou Replay Showcase Touhou Replay Showcase VODs Watching replays of Touhou while offering commentary Touhou Replay Showcase yeashie Shmups, Fangames, Danmakufu, and random garbage I find on the Internet. yeashie General Gaming Communities Go back to Gaming Communities Find people to play with! Name Description Language Author Yukkuricraft The largest english Touhou Minecraft server. Yukkuricraft Image Boards Go back to Arts And Crafts An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images, often alongside text and discussion. Name Description Language Author Safebooru Touhou Website dedicated to gather all kinds of safe images, the link has the Touhou tag already selected Safebooru TouhouArt Bluesky Bluesky sister feed of GensouSky, dedicated exclusively to Art. Multilingual ˚☽‧⁺˖⋆ phosphophyllite 𓍊‧𓋼₊ Information Websites Go back to Information Informative websites, things like Wikis and News Websites are included here Name Description Language Author Maribel Hearn's Touhou Portal A privacy-friendly collection of convenient webpages for the Touhou community. Hover your cursor over a link for a description of that page. Flags show available translations. , Certain parts are multilingual maribelhearn@disroot.org New Touhou? #newtouhou? Thpatch THB Wiki Chinese Touhou Project Wikipedia , , , About Page, Creative Commons Touhou Community Jargon This list contains explanations for terms and acronyms used in the community of Touhou players. It also contains general gaming and shoot 'em up terms that are relevant to Touhou. , maribelhearn@disroot.org Touhou Garakutasoushi Touhou Garatakutasoushi is a media outlet dedicated to everything Touhou Project, a series that is brimming with doujin culture. , , , ©東方我楽多叢誌 Touhou Group List of Touhou groups in the East. About Page, Creative Commons Touhou Memories This website is focused mainly on the games. The pages are not finished yet, bear with me, there's only one person running the website. Touhou Memories Touhou Popularity Vote An English translation of the full results of the annual THWiki Popularity Poll. maribelhearn@disroot.org Touhou Vote Annual vote for your favorite everything in Touhou Project. @Prof_Hayaten @yuzuru_cb, @mktoho12 Touhou Website Index As an index extension to Raxelgrande’s Awesome Touhou and to the wishes expressed in The Independent Web of 2hu - A Dream of Eastern Turnpikes, this index will catalog any parts of the web that contain any noteworthy Touhou content. Unlike Awesome Touhou, this index focuses on curating Touhou content for historical value. Pinky's Cat Observatory Touhou Wiki This wiki is dedicated to the Touhou Project, a Japanese gaming series that mostly contains curtain fire shoot'em up games made by ZUN. Multilingual, select yours in the sidebar About Page, Creative Commons Touhou Wiki Japan The Japanese Touhou Wiki made with PukiWuki. Emuqy Podcasts Go back to Information For long audio recordings that loop their dissussions back to Touhou Name Description Language Author Hifuu Community Club Podcast that ran from 2022. Interviews community members on their work. MegaPig Gensokyo Radio Shows Gensokyo Radio Live is the premiere monthly live broadcast on Gensokyo Radio, covering new music, listener-rated music, and a multitude of topics ranging from Touhou and Japanese culture, to Virtual Reality and Gaming. @GensokyoRadio Outside World Occultism Outside World Occultism is a lighthearted podcast about the lore, characters, and assorted media of the Touhou Project. New episodes as our editor has time, please wait warmly! Outside World Occultism Touhou Tuesday Ran from 2012-2016. Broadcasted Touhou music with occasional interviews with community members. @RadioOverCoat Touhou Radio Next Gen. We are Touhou Radio Next Gen., your weekly Touhou YouTube Podcast! Our topics are: remixes, games, fan works and updates on the community. Every week, we try to invite a new guest, who is doing something Touhou related. Touhou Radio Next Gen. Miscellaneous Go back to Miscellaneous Things Your place for strange things that don't fit anywhere else... It's likely some of these things are here due to language barriers or other difficulties, if you discover something, let us know. Name Description Language Author 106 Touhou Posters After almost full 3 years of work, this personal project of mine is finally complete. It consists of minimally illustrated poster renditions of 106 characters from the video game series Touhou Project. Bea cetina Circle-Goka A doujin circle that publishes doujinshi on Touhou networking and doujin economics. They also run the Touhou Event Statistics Committee, compiling statistics on Touhou events. , Certain parts are English @ci_goka GensouSky Bluesky Most prominent Touhou space in Bluesky social media. Any and all touhou-related content by chronological order. Multilingual ˚☽‧⁺˖⋆ phosphophyllite 𓍊‧𓋼₊ Modding & Gamedev Go back to Software Software dedicated to modifying or creating Touhou Project inspired games. Name Description Language Author Bullet Hell Engines A Discord server of the community, that focuses on creating bullet hell genre games like Touhou, but not excluding other ones. Bullet Hell Engines LunarCast Network LunarCast Network hosts various projects and services such as Danmakufu Remake and the Replay Database! LunarCast Network Survival Progress Table Generator Fill in the best survivals you have pulled off in the table below. Click 'Save' in the top left to save your progress. maribelhearn@disroot.org Tanuki Cross-platform lightweight launcher for Touhou Project games with a TUI (Terminal User Interface) SpaceBanana420 Touhou Community Reliant Automatic Patcher A program to add patches, translation and mods to the Touhou games Multilingual Touhou Patch Center thprac A tool for practicing Touhou shmups Touhou World Cup Touhou Danmakufu A relatively easy-to-use STG maker program which leans toward making Touhou Project-style games with a C-like programming language. Touhou Danmakufu Touhou Patches and Tools This page contains download links to all kinds of different patches or tools applicable to the official Touhou shooting games. Multilingual maribelhearn@disroot.org Mod:SOKU2 Mod for Hisoutensoku which adds many new characters. Mod:SOKU2 Music Streaming Go back to Music Your place to enjoy Doujin music via Streaming. If something's missing, try searching at The Doujin Circles Section Name Description Language Musical Genre Author Gensokyo Radio The #1 radio station for fan-made Touhou Project arrangements since 2011. Radio, Multigenre staff@gensokyoradio.net Touhou Arrangement Chronicle Eastern collaborative database for Touhou music, alike TouhouDB. Multigenre Touhou Arrangement Chronicle Touhou Circles' Official Music Streaming Some circles' official streaming websites. Multi Genere @mgisnotactive TouhouDB The collaborative database for Touhou music, with artists, discography, PVs and more. Multigenre TouhouDB Touhou Karaoke Lookup Search your favorite Doujin songs to sing! Multigenre © 迷い家の白猫 TouhouMusic Bluesky Bluesky sister feed of GensouSky, dedicated exclusively to Music Multilingual Multigenre ˚☽‧⁺˖⋆ phosphophyllite 𓍊‧𓋼₊ Real Life Events Go back to Social Get information on all kinds of gatherings here! Name Description Language Location Author Bunbunmaru Newspaper Fan Club Doujin convention Kyoto, Bunbunmaru Newspaper Fan Club Meikasai Convention of Touhou Project held in Nagoya Nagoya, Meikasai Ninth Generation Tea Party Doujin convention Kyoto, Ninth Generation Tea Party Reitaisai Yearly, Touhou Project-only convention that takes place every Spring in Tokyo Big Sight. Tokyo, Reitaisai Re: Gensokyo Forum A doujin convention structured similarly to a symposium as a forum for information and critique on Touhou. Re: Gensokyo Forum Science Century Cafe Terrace Doujin convention exclusively for Hifuu Club enjoyers Kyoto, Science Century Cafe Terrace THB Offline Events Get information on offline events related to Touhou Project, oriented for eastern audiences. Multiple About Page, Creative Commons TouhouFest Touhou fans from across the country will gather to celebrate the coming season and enjoy all the Touhou community has to offer such as art, music, and more! TouhouFest Touhou Hijacks in the Outside World An account that chronicles the incidents in which Touhou gets into unrelated places. Touhou Hijack LOL Touhou Kouroumu Doujin convention that happens bi-anually. Touhou Kouroumu Scanlation Get your translated manga in here! Name Description Language Author Sanae's Bread Scans We're a small scanlation team that likes to translate Touhou and Clannad doujinshi! contact@sanaesbread.moe Shops Go back to Merchandising Buy things related to Touhou project. Name Description Language Author Booth Ditgial store with many types of physical/digital goods. Use the search filter to your adventage. , , , pixiv Dizzy Lab Online store for independent music. DizzyLab Gensokyo.store Gensokyo.store is an online storefront helping to make self-published, physical fanworks more accessible to more fans in more places. Gensokyo Radio TouHorology Based out of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, TouHorology creates physical good Touhou Project fan works. TouHorology Touhou Store of Countless Things Online shop for Touhou Project goods © 上海アリス幻樂団, ©TABLIER MARKETING inc. Teahou They're tea blends featuring Touhou characters. stipstick Sound Go back to Software Get software related to Sound and Touhou Name Description Language Author Hifuu Music Archives A free-to-use audio library of Hifuu songs for creators. Fantasy Mechanics Writing Go back to Fanfiction Your place to enjoy written creations Name Description Language Author Alice is great! Welcome to this little corner of the internet celebrating Alice Margatroid from Touhou Project! I hope you enjoy Alice as much as I do! Usually Dead Dot Com Remastered versions of the writer's fanfictions. Tyler Lovell Touhou-Project.com We are a community of fans of the Touhou Project series of games and related material. Here you'll find not only discussion about this wonderful setting and its characters but also fanfiction written by talented individuals. 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Do you know what is one thing I miss from the old days of the internet? OCs, Original Characters. For all the cringey self-inserts, Donut Steel jokes and recolors of Sonic the Hedgehog, there was a charming innocence to them. Most were a child or teen’s attempt at creating something new for a world they loved. Some did not fit the source material, but felt genuinely good enough to have their own story. Others fit flawlessly. For some reason though, I seldom see people talk about their Original Characters today. I’m not sure if it’s gone out of vogue with the rise of multiplayer games or I just don’t know where to find them. Touhou itself I have seen few OCs for, though I am sure there were a number of them in the 00s. The material is ripe for creativity, and there are OCs I have seen referenced as characters in fan games. In fact, I am willing to bet that all of you had an OC at some point. In honor of the innocence of youth and the joys of creation, let’s play a game. Post a character meant for the world of Gensokyo that you or someone else made. Write a little bit about them, their backstory and motivation. Any stories about them which make you proud or make you cringe. I’ll start, even if mine is a little unusual. A few months ago, I was having burnout from tabletop games, which have been largely the same in the West for more than a decade. D&D makes up the lion’s share of the game space, and most other big games imitate it. To shake me out of my rut, I had a group of friends on Discord pick out an indie or fan game they enjoyed the look of and we would run it. On the list was Danmaku Yuugi Flowers. A Touhou fan game I had put on the list for how different it was. My game was set in a homebrew world, but I wanted the characters to be authentic to Touhou's style. Starting my slide into the fandom. Naturally, a tabletop game needs NPCs. My first creation for the world was a vampire named Hope Black. I wanted to give her a wholesome, Midwest country girl vibe. Though I also designed her to be an inversion of Remilia. Instead of opulent glamor, she has a homely charm. She lives alone in a log cabin, and keeps a farm on her own. She’s also one of the guardians of the land, who I really should come up with a name for. Though she is still new to the role and uncertain in herself. I wish I could tell you more about her and what the others thought. Sadly my workload at my day job has spiked again, keeping us from playing. So now I am just left with this character concept and a doodle I made over a lunch break.
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Alright this is something you all probably have dealt with and talked about. Every Touhou fan has seen that person talk about the Western side being not that dedicated to making Touhou content and or is less dedicated to appreciating good content. I feel like this is part of a deeper problem, maybe something dealing with the way the internet has changed the way most people grew up with consuming content. Tons of content on the internet is mostly just brain food with bright colors and or provoking material (Some edgy crap, and or sex appeal bait) Now here is the point. I feel like Western content in general is burning me out. I've seen everything from the darkest pits of the internet to the general tip of it. Now I feel like I've wasted my time as all of it was designed to prevent people from actually having a conversation and act like mindless machines who are driven by instinct for high-quality short form content and or constantly trying to be a dipshit to others for a reaction and or generally stupid takes because their parents never loved them. ( °□°) ︵ ┻━┻ "Take It Easy!" I CAN'T, GODDAMN IT! Everywhere I go, I see some crappy meme with a Fumo getting more attention than doujins. You know about Rick Rolls? "NO, NOT THE JAPANESE GOBLIN! IM BEGGING YOU!" "We are Japanese Goblin!" "AUGGHHH!" "AMONGUS, AMONGUS WHERE? AMONGUS IN YOUR GODDAMN EYES" *Sound effect cues* "Hey Mister!" "Want a Sprite Cranberry?" STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM. "AHHHHHHHHHHHH" Okay that's all.8 points
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Yeah dude, like I just did that 10-30 minutes ago and you don't know how happy I was. I really wanted to scream but it was kinda late at night so I just celebrated with a fist in the air or something like that. I know this achievement isn't crazy like the others, but I'm just so happy I beat the game that I have to post about it. When I saw the ending with Reimu,Remillia,Yuyuko,... talking to each other, I just smiled at the conversation. I'm just so glad about beating the game man. I calculated and practiced to beat the game! I was on my last bomb at the end! And when the time counted to 0 at the last stage? It was euphoria. I also want to say that I like the cherry border system because it really brings out the courage in you, what I mean by that is that when it's activated you kinda like force yourself to make risky moves and find a way to dogde to bullets. It makes the game pretty fun to play! I guess it's gonna be harder from here on out with the other games haha. But maybe that's what makes it fun or what the other games have to offer that is going to be fun, idk but anyways! Sorry if I wrote a bit too long, I'm just enjoying myself right now. Have a nice day everyone!8 points
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Hello one and all, its a pleasure to meet you all this fine evening. I am Yumetou, a man with too little time on his hands. My name is a portmanteau of Yume Nikki and Touhou, a game I know very well and a series I don't know that well, and both staples of the 2000s weeb scene. Unlike most of you, I have never actually played a Touhou game, and for a long time didn't know what it was. References to it were everywhere when I first started using the net, but no one I knew played or even knew what it was. It was a weird circumstance, with fan art and fan music remixes being everywhere. Yet I had no idea if it was a game, anime, manga or something else. I loved the music of course, but it felt awkward to sidle into the Youtube comments section or an image board conversation and ask 'Yeah I like this, but what is a Touhou and where can I get one?' Eventually, my family axed our internet to save on bills. I grew up, got a job, and almost forgot about that part of my life. Almost. Touhou recently reentered my life through the magic of the cute and cursed Fumo memes. Sharing some led me to discover a couple friends of mine were diehard fans of the series. While watching a video one of them recommended, Moriya Shrine was mentioned as a place to download older games not available in the West, and a place to meet other fans. Being a longtime lurker on old image boards, nostalgic for memories of the old Internet, and having never beaten a Touhou game, I thought I would join the Shrine. I have frightfully little free time, but I am hoping to browse, try various games and ask for tips, especially for the early bullet-hells. I used to love play-by-post forum roleplaying, so perhaps I will see you there. I am hoping to make more friends like those who introduced me to the series, and stir a little bit of my old nostalgia, before the last of my gamer skills fade away. Thank you for taking the time to read my autobiography. I am looking forward to seeing more of all of you!8 points
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On the 25th of February 2023, ZUN was invited to a high school talk show where he was asked several questions about Touhou. While there doesn't seem to be a video archive, a Twitter user called AQNAWNA made a recap of the questions and answers. And from there, the questions have been translated to English by user IceFairy. In the following presentation, I will use the translations of IceFairy, which can be found here: https://twitter.com/richard_effendi/status/1629816649493942273?s=20 [ZUN appears on stage and reveals a presentation slide] ZUN: I made the slide while I was on the bullet train heading here. (Note, I won't be translating every tweet as some of them have already known information. I'll be translating the interesting ones) Host: Are the music CDs connected to the games in any way? ZUN: If I say they're definitely connected, it might cause some sort contradiction somewhere. So I just have them as vaguely connected in some way. Host: Recently there's been a lot of current events related content in Touhou, hasn't there? ZUN: It's because the series is like my diary. Whatever I'm feeling at the moment, I put it in the games. I think the first time I put something that was undeniably current events was in DDC. At the time overseas indie games were becoming mainstream and I wanted to make a game that had my feelings of "Hey, we have doujin games here, too!" Host: The games have been popping up on Steam recently, haven't they? ZUN: Well... It's cause nobody buys CDs anymore, hahaha. PCs don't event have disk trays anymore. And most shops don't carry them either. I thought it'd be best to go with the flow. Host: As a doujin game creator, what are your thoughts on the world becoming less interpersonally connected? ZUN: I don't really need interpersonal connections when making games, since I make them alone, hahaha. But I do miss the fun I used to have going to offline events. Chatting with people online makes me feel a bit lonely. Host: There's been more officially recognized gacha games lately. Did you have a change of heart about them? ZUN: Nope, still not fond of them, hahaha. Don't think I'd ever make one myself... They say it's "free to play", but they're definitely not free to play. Host: What are your future plans for Touhou? ZUN: Well, I'm getting on in years. I plan to keep making it until I don't want to anymore, but I'm also afraid of when that time comes. So I've been ruminating on how to keep myself motivated in making Touhou. Host: Any plans on making things other than Touhou? ZUN: Everything I make ends up becoming Touhou anyways, so, nope, hahaha. Host: The moon appears often in Touhou, any special reasons? ZUN: I just think the moon is neat, hahaha. I like the words "lunar capital" and "lunar exploration". I also like Mars. Host: Any plans on having Mars appear in Touhou? ZUN: Hmn... Well, humans might be going to Mars in the future. We still don't know what's on it. It might be interesting to have Mars in Gensoukyou... hmn, not too sure about it yet. Host : Tell us about the Yukkuri trademark incident. ZUN : Well, Dwango took care of it pretty quickly. And the culprit also rescinded the trademark. But, we also needed to avoid a repeat of this incident, so... So a few days ago the patent office put out their opinion on Yukkuri as a genre. It should be alright now. To be honest, I feel like that incident became an advert for yukkuri (hahaha). I got excited when yukkuri started appearing on broadcasts. It was kinda fun. as a result of that, everyone became familiar with yukkuri (continued). In that way, I kinda way to say "thank you" to the instigator (hahahaha). Q: What's up with the clown in Dolls in Pseudo Paradise? ZUN: Clown? What Clown? Are you talking about the jacket illustration? It doesn't have any special meaning... To be honest it's been so long ago, there's a lot I don't remember. Q: How many Ultimate Foul Lifeforms have come up to you (note : the title you get if you clear Impossible Spell Card without Items). ZUN: A lot, hahaha. There were middle schoolers among them, too. Pretty amazing. Q: Are you an Ultimate Foul Lifeform? ZUN: Nope, I can't become one either, though I set the difficulty it so it's not impossible to become one. Q: How good are you at Shoot 'Em Ups? ZUN: I used to be pretty good at it. Though, lately I struggle to clear Lunatic... I make the games clearing the stages separately instead of all in one sitting. It's fine to set the difficulty to a level where I can clear it, but if I don't increase the difficulty some people will be able to clear it pretty fast just like that. Q: Any plans on reviving the PC-98 characters? ZUN: I'm not gonna say "yes" or "no". For questions like that, I'll just accept your desires. Q: How do you decide on the character names? ZUN: I ruminate about them until the deadline. If I use common names, then I'll and up with characters with the same surnames and given names. I also have to make sure the names fit with the character. If it doesn't feel right, I try again after thinking some more. If it feels right then I decide on it. Sometimes I change it pretty close to the deadline. And when that happens, I can forget to change the old name somewhere. (Narumi/Naruko) Q: What sort of Youkai is Meiling? ZUN: I believe... I had it written in PMiSS, "Youkai" simply means "other". If it's just "youkai", then there's no species, just think of it as "something that's not human". Q: Which games should I play? ZUN: I think you should ask the fans that not me (hahaha). But ok, the latest game.... right now is UM, so why don't you play that? Since the series is my diary, if it's too long ago, I don' remember it that well. Q: What do you think about the popularity poll? ZUN: It's fun to watch. Though, I don't entirely get Youmu getting first place or Flan getting first place. There should be a lot more bigger weirdoes than them in Touhou. Q: I'm a 20 year old male. How do I become Marisa Kirisame? ZUN: Well... Why don't you buy a pointy hat and put it on? (hahaha) But you know, Marisa is still a human, so it's pretty easy to become her. Otherwise you'd need to reject your humanity. Q: Do you have designs for characters who are only mentioned in the setting? ZUN: No, at least for the ones I don't plan on giving an appearance in the future. A part of these questions have also been covered by Megapig9001 in his most recent video: And an interesting conclusion someone has reached based on the Q&A: "Alright, this confirms something I've been suspecting for ages now: ZUN has literally no idea what goes on in the Touhou fandom. His insistence on not looking like he's playing favorites (or whatever's going on) has led to a profound ignorance regarding which characters are popular and why. He wasn't trolling by keeping Flan in reserve for two decades; he truly believed this whole time that no one was interested in seeing her again. That said, I'm glad to know he doesn't base his creative decisions off of whatever fans seem to want most. He neither caters nor trolls. For better or worse, he does what he feels is best from an artistic standpoint".8 points
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Nothing special, just a Cirno.
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This us quite a natural thing. After all.you may feel bored of one series after a point, so you want to do something different and refreshing. In term of artists drawing fanart of various franchises, I noticed two things after a brief walk through Danbooru: 1) a lot of artists that nowadays draw stuff like Genshin, Fate Grand Order, Azur Lane, KanColle or Idolmaster used to draw Touhou in the early days of their career; 2) connected to #1, there seems to have been a big migration towards those mainstream series and flavor of the week/month gacha game; given some of the authors doing that very high quality (at least in terms of drawing techniques, not the topics depicted - maybe I should call it more professional-looking art if that's the term I'm looking for) art, I wonder what contribution would they have been to the Touhou fanart community Anyway, is the migration a positive thing, or maybe you would have liked people to keep a tie, no matter how loose, with where they started from/come back to origin every now and then?7 points
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AND TODAY'S THE DAY!! MY BDAY IS TODAY!!7 points
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Hello, my name is Kallen. I sometimes write and draw but I suck at both. I don't remember what exactly got me into Touhou but it might have been a combination of playing OSU maps related to the game and just having a interest in Danmaku for awhile now. Yeah, that's about it, nice to meet you guys.7 points
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is this real? yeah probably idk anyway yay yuyuko in this american comic style idk how you call it but ayayaya bro the bg sucks ass- previous: flandre scarlet (eosd) up next: mokou (in) i think you can see a pattern here
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it’s koakuma! i love this pose frfr i guess i can open *traditional* art requests, so throw in your requests and first come first serve!
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Sadly im not gonna show to much because most of my pixelart was lost on my old PC, but maybe i can save some and showcasing them as well. So yeah time to showcase my stuff, don't expect to be all touhou, i have other likes as well and i'm now 100% focused on Original Characters stuff, anyways some screenshots! Oh and a gif is also shown. The mario sprite is ripped from a very old fangame, so that's why is green, i tried to replicate the style on the left of the green sheet And the touhou stuff, well i got a bit on Suwako and Patchouli puzzle game, where you control somewhat tetris blocks and you need to guide a Suwako doll to the key and then the exit. The Suwako is cute, she has the lemming shape and it makes her look hilarious i love it. So much than i did those sprites for fun and they are animated too, you can see them in action now! As i said before, i'm gonna post more stuff i do here(as well some old ones), maybe i can reappear in Twitter again if i have a good mood on doing sprites! You can also help me to improve on pixelart, i'd like to see how you like it, because i really want to improve even more... 3 years doing this... Yippie!
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I’ve noticed that what makes Touhou more noticeable than any other game is the way ZUN draw his character, I don’t think that Touhou would have the same atmosphere if the character were drawn in a classic manga style, I think it would be just a regular bullet-hell game (I guess it’s the way Touhou game genre is called). Anyway, I would like to know what is your favorite Touhou character illustration (made by ZUN of course ^^) if you hesitate between one or another just post them both ️ It can be from a game, an album, concept art… ️ It would be interesting if you can say what you like in the illustration you choose. No problem if you’re lazy to write it So, let’s start with me, I love Reimu illustration in Touhou Imperishable Night. She looks like a doll, I love her design and the color design is fantastic too. It makes me feel a sort of nostalgia… that’s why it’s my favorite illustration ^^ it’s your turn now !
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As some of you may have noticed, I have barely been active at the Moriya Shrine forum for the past months. For anyone wondering, I am still doing fine, I have just been a little busy with college life and trying to get through all my courses. However, there is another question that rose - am I slowly losing interest in this series? Background I have discovered Touhou somewhere in October 2020. Ever since, I have become increasingly hooked up into this fictional world, along with all the creations fans have put up. I feel like the peak of my activity in the Touhou community started in early 2022, as I finally joined this forum and became very active in discussing a series that I really enjoyed. Things started to change, however, as 2023 started to march on... There are a few symptoms I have noticed: 1. I have become less active in discussions about Touhou As mentioned earlier, I have been less active than I would have liked for the past months. In the past, I used to roll a thread every few days, and maintain discussion about it in tens of essay-sized comments. Today though, I think this is probably my first thread in weeks, if not outright months. A lot of the energy I used to have is simply gone, and I really need something that would help me get back at it. 2. I have started to find other series that caught my interest A warning sign for that started when I opened up the threads about other series people like, along with the discussions about other series and anime in general. First cracks started to appear in January-Febraury this year. That was when I first got my attention diverted to another series, that being Amagami. As time went on, things went a little wild, as what started as a curiosity about the world and characters of Kancolle and Azur Lane ended up with me playing the latter. (what can I say, I just believe Ise is pretty, and Hood has a very sweet and elegant demeanor). As time went on, I started to pay less attention to what was going on with Touhou, and focused more on what I thought I was enjoying at the time. I thought I was just picking a new series in order to keep myself fresh and avoid a Touhou burnout, but it seems like new the new things I discover keep me away from Touhou. 3. I am not feeling as excited anymore about new Touhou things Back in my first months of being a Touhou fan, I remember that I used to be extremely excited for the announcement of Touhou 18. For comparison, nowadays I am barely aware of the fact Touhou 19 is gong to be released (actually, I have plenty of moments in which I am even forgetting there is going to be a 19th mainline game). Same is going for the official literature. I am not feeling any thrill anymore for the release of a new chapter from the ongoing manga series (not that I even kept so much in touch with them outside the CDS capter which gave us Mizuchi). Probably my greatest moment of excitement was when I bought the entire Forbidden Scrollery collection, but it's been already a year since I bought the first volume, and I still have two more to read. One more example would be that of listening to Akatsuki Records, In the past, I was keeping up with all of their new music videos, but for the past months, I have skipped three songs in a row. I have told myself I need to get back and listent to them, but I have yet to do so... I really need to see what their ost recent songs are like (last one I kept up with was the Sekibanki song). Actually, I think I have barely listened to any Touhou music recently, the only saving saving grace being that I kept on listening to Ghostly Field Club and Changeability of Strange Dream. 4. I still have not got to finish (or even just play) any related game, be it official or fan-made This is something that I have also said at the end of last year, when I was writing the question if I am a bad fan of the series. The only game I have tried is Touhou 7, and I could even finish that one. SKILL ISSUES GALORE. I have not managed to find yet any fan game that I really wanted to play, and I do not know if Touhou LostWord really counts as an actual game (and not just a gambling machine masked as a Touhou game)... 5. I have lost a big art of my diligence in collecting things that I like In the past, I was always very curious and excited for whatever new Touhou fanart was being posted online. I used to collect them on a daily basis (which I am doing since December 2020), then I used to stored them on my Pinterest gallery (shameless plugin moment). However, despite the fact I am still doing it, I am just feeling less excited. I have better tools for finding more images, but it takes me more days until I actually send them to my favorites gallery. Until then, they are just clogging the tabs of the browser. Basically, what used to be a fun activity has become a chore. And I cannot just stop doing it, mostly due to FOMO (a general problem for me with anything Touhou related, and probably compatible with all of the points above). So, what is going on with me? Are those signs I am on the verge of dropping my position as someone who likes the series? Have I lost my passion for Touhou? Am I less and less interested for what is going on in the community? And even worse - what still keeps me as a Touhou fan? So many questions...7 points
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Last year, I was feeling very distrustful when we saw the popularizing the stereotypical, generic pre-fabricated content. However, as 2022 went on, a number of new creators started to leave their mark in the community, especially in the west. I did mention some of them in the "Retrospective 2022" thread, but I will bring that up again (this time with links for some of the newer channels): I am happy to announce that since my complains, lore channels are starting to make their appearance in the western community, even if it might seem to be a shy, small scale beginning (quoting again from that very same retrospective thread): And one more thing (probably more of a subjective thing on my side): I see that the Touhou community has started getting their own art trends, or at least they have become more visible recently; what I am talking about is the wave of fanart depicting Sekibanki in the new/adapted outfit created by Akatsuki Records for the recent music video Rock 'n' Rock 'n' Beat: Illustration by teasmacker (source: https://twitter.com/teasmacker/status/1642901954383978497/photo/1) GIF by bmkro (source: https://twitter.com/BmkRo/status/1639995871944409088) Illustration by hajimakura (source: https://twitter.com/ma_kurane/status/1636368578579685387/photo/1) There are so many more great images based on that music video. For more than a week after release, there have been tens of images uploaded on a daily basis, and somehow really made me like Sekibanki more than I thought I would. I could have talked about so many more new things that appeared, but these are some of the ones I came in contact with or had a lot of fun with. But what do you think? Are we slowly going through a renaissance of Touhou content, especially in the western world? Is this just a recent event, or is has slowly been building up for a longer time? Whatever the answer might be, I am enjoying this time of being a fan of the series and its associated fan creations...7 points
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It's been over 24 hours since the results were published, but only now I got the chance to write something on the topic. Honestly, this year I am very content with the results. Last year, I remember that at first I was a little disappointed by the EoSD stomp over everything, but it was rather understandable given the symbolism of last year (20 years since the beginning of the Windows game series). But this year, it seems like things did not repeat for PCB (Youmu scored 4th place, and Yuyuko scored 10th). Now, I am quite curious to see what next year will bring... (credit for the tables goes to Maribel Hearn, who translated the results at super-speed just after the official publish) Probably one of the most interesting things is the fact our two main characters, Reimu and Marisa, have taken the first two places. I do not when this happened last time, but it must have been quite some time ago. Flan and Koishi are still keeping strong, same with a few more of the SDM cast. I will not say too much about music, because these are results that never change, and probably never will. I think we expect UN Owen, Septette or Hartman to be in the first 5 songs until the heat death of the universe... And on a more personal note, things are going not so bad. The characters I have cheered for seemed to either keep their spot or slightly go up, with some exceptions. At least compared to last year, they are performing a little better. ALSO AKYUU WENT UP BY 1 POSITON, AND KOSUZU BY 4? DAMN, THEY BE DOIN' NUMBERS! I am so proud of them. Big OOF though for Hecatia, and especially Raiko. They deserved more... Anyway, what do you thing about this year's results? Are you satisfied with them? Has any of the characters you have voted for gone upper or lower in the charts? Is there anything you wish could have changed? Tell your thoughts about this edition, and see you until next thread (whenever that may be...)7 points
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Before going into Retrospective 2022 (either on the 31st December 2022 or first days of January 2023), there is one more thing I would like to talk about before the end of the year. This thread is going hand in hand with the one I have posed yesterday. Just before the end of the year, I would like to make both an evaluation of my place within the community and the situation of the regular Touhou fan that engages with the series in one way or another. I was thinking about tackling this question for about a couple months, after a series of weird events. Before going into the thread itself, what makes someone a Touhou fan? Is there such a thing as "fakers", or everyone has their own place? Think of it, then come back to the question once the journey through this thread is complete. So, how did we end up here? Somewhere in July, out of all places possible, I ended up finding another person who knew about Touhou in a Warhammer 40K channel of a Sci-fi Discord server (probably like 10-15K people). The guy was randomly posting a Touhou hijack every now and then, and once I did have the chance to catch it. During one of those hijacks, I was also around, and like the innocent fool I was, I pointed out "oh hey, that's Touhou, nice". Then, I did my big mistake: I said I am familiar with the series. Which spiraled him into asking me how many or which of the official games I have played. When my answer was none, and that I was struggling to finish PCB on Easy, all hell broke loose. "How can you call yourself a Touhou fan? How can you not even finish that game? It is so easy". I responded that I may have not finished any game yet, but at least I read from the official literature (at the time, Perfect Memento in Strict Sense and the first 4 volumes of Forbidden Scrollery), yet that was not enough to qualify me. Then he proceeded to talk about how much he played the games, saying that playing them is one of the qualifying factors. The discussion died off, at least for a few more months. At the middle of November, I caught another one of his hijacks in the Warhammer channel. At the time, I responded with this image, which I thought combined in a funny way the two fandoms (for context, Orin and Space Marin of the Iron Warriors legion acting as if he were her big brother): Art by BIGCAT_4424 (source: https://twitter.com/BIGCAT_4424/status/1267026103106965507) The image itself did not spark any negative reactions, but the guy went into a big rant again about the games, starting to judge categories, who is a real fan and who is not. Then this happened (I have censored names for the name of privacy): The video attachment he posted was an MP4 file of the video "ULTRA Instinct Junko is Born" by lunaPrism. And from there, the discussion died again. It was never brought again, and probably never will (hopefully) if I stay low. Besides, I can not do anything about it, or even just comment, since it would be basically me, a low-ranking member, again a Discord mod. Looking for some more information, I started talking to the other Touhou communities on the question of what makes you a fan of Touhou. The big Touhou server had a very civilized discussion with me, even if it was very late in night. Them , I tried asking the same question on the Moriya Shrine's Discord server. Oh boy... Besides people saying that the take of the mod was "based", they also guided me towards the following image. This, is surely an interesting take: Basically, they have told me I am bad fan, and people like me are one of the causes leading to the decrease in quality of the Touhou community. (slight slander towards the Moriya Shrine Discord server; that place has serious quality control problems when it comes to behavior) When I went back to the other Touhou server, and presented them this image as "the answer I got to the same question from another Touhou community", everyone was in shock. The reaction was quite poor towards the image. They just could not believe someone would even come up with this when answering to the question "am I a bad fan?". Everyone dismissed this image, and I was told not to worry about it. And from that point, I have thought a little bit about how to address this question. Now, coming to the person case - am I a bad fan? Originally, I have addressed this question ever since my early days in the fandom. I have eventually addressed the following text and question on r/touhou on the 8th December, 2021, just 1 year after getting into the series. This was my original text: And now, one year later, this is what the situation looks like, and what has changed: Canon: I am still struggling to finish PCB, but things are not going much better. The best I could achieve was the Prismriver sisters battle, but only after I used all the Continues (damn you, Stage 3 and first half of Stage 4). And that was on "Easy Modo" I have not advanced much more in reading Bohemian Archive, but I can say that I have briefly read through the characters section for Perfect Memento, as we well as briefly reading though multiple parts of Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia. Probably my greatest achievement however was finishing the first 5 volumes of Forbidden Scrollery, with two more to go in the following weeks hopefully. and not just read FS, but actually own physical copies of all the volumes. There is a funny anecdote that given the low supply here in Romania, I may have accidentally ended up buying the entire stock for the first 3 volumes from that manga (now even more so as I bough the final volumes). Before I ordered them, they were in Limited Edition. Now, they are in No Stock remaining: Along with Changeability of Strange Dream and Neo-traditionalism of Japan, I have finally added Ghostly Field Club to the list of CDs I have listened to (actually, right now I am listening to GFC again, since I like it very much). For the next year, I am planning to listen to the other music CSs as well (I may have already listened to CD 9.5, but I am not so sure how much it counts as an actual product and not just a glorified commercial) Fanon: The only fanon game I have constantly played still is Touhou LostWord I have a few more ideas for fan games, but I never ended up sticking with them. My Steam library has a section for free Touhou fan games, yet they still wait to be played. In it, there is stuff like Hina-Chan 2nd Break, Servants of Harvest Wish, Perfect Memento of Touhou Question and Touhou Mystery Reel. Out of all these titles, Touhou Mystery Reel is the only one I have actually played until now. And it convinced me of two things: 1) I suck at platform games and 2) I suck at fighting games. But more on that in my eventual discussion about looking for a Touhou themed game to enjoy... The music scene is just as rich as last year in my collection, even though through the year I have added a few more names like Komeiji Records, Konagusuri, Lyrica Live, Stringstorm (given he has started creating Touhou music), YaboiMatoi, Yuuhei Satellite, Demetori (even if I am still just scratching the surface) and UNDEAD CORPORATION, as well as the regular one-off song I might be listening to from one group or another (some of them discovered through the remix tournaments). My collection of fanart that I like from the community has increased, reaching nowadays an astonishing number of 23.8k pieces. On that note, I have recently created a new Pinterest page, CVN database, that will act as a way to more properly categorize Touhou images of different characters and the games they have come from... if I manage to sort out all that stuf, given the rapid pace in which the collection is growing My skills at creating Touhou fanart have not improved; I am still doing just as poor of a job and as little of a contribution to the fandom as before, if not worse than before I have finally finished watching Memories of Phantasm, and I actually even wrote an extensive review for it here at the Shrine. Next on my list, perhaps after a detour towards Amagami, shall be Hifuu Activity Club Record, simply because I want to see the interaction between Maribel and Renko, and the way it is depicted (I have already seen a couple short clips, and it seems to be quite sweet) My stance towards the way I interpret the characters has changed quite a bit; I have had a period in which I was more of a purist, then I started switching towards a more relaxed attitude. Now, I still prefer some of the canon depictions, while for some characters I tend to accept adding a bit of fanon as well, especially when I consider it to make sense/fir the character in question, still making the difference however (like having it clear in my mind that "this is ZUN canon" or "this is fan canon") I may have actually made a few bad decisions and stir up the lack of satisfaction of the Touhou community, especially in moments like that when I brought up the whole issue of the mountains of NSFW materials we have and the turning of the Touhou characters into mere "waifus to fap to" also in the meantime, I have become a member of this community; in the large scale, it may further bring me some hate due to the sheer association with the group and what Moriya Shrine is, and will always be known for - be the "pirate bay of Touhou" I may have also expanded a little bit into watching some of the...less than safe for work art of Touhou, but that one came mostly by extension since I am using Danbooru so much as my main search engine for Touhou art. It was a shock at the beginning (like for anyone who sees their favorite series being turned into something lewd, the first reaction is.. hard to describe), but in time, I have grown rather desensitized about it. For a better understanding of the situation: And this, kids, is a little bit more of a darker side of mine And for the final question... What really makes one a Touhou fan? Is there really such a thing as a wrong way to enjoy Touhou? Is there something that really makes you say "yeah, that guy is a real fan" or "no, he is not"? The discussion has always been going one way or another. At the beginning, I have had the bad experience of meeting people like BlankGuy... The ever-known "if you are only in for the girls, you are not a real Touhou fan; go play some waifu gacha instead" (unfortunately, the more relevant image was lost to time and files no longer embedding/working). On a surprising twist of fate, he seems to be having a change of heart after everything he did. Could this be genuine? I really hope so. However, I have seen that before with XG3E as well, and immediately afterwards, he ended going back to the customs of milking the "Touhou mommy" format he created/made popular. But, like the very naive person I am, I would really like to believe this is actually a change for the better, and that I could give him a second chance. (also oh no, he knows about some of my threads from the past. If things really have changed, I would like to apologize. It is just that some of the early claims really left a poor taste for some of the people) Good luck to him, and hope next time I will mention the name of BlankGuy, it will be in a positive context ... then there is this image talking about how the players of a specific Touhou fan game are not real Touhou fans (for context, LostWord player = fake Touhou fan)... ... and we are ending it with TheOVJM and his take on the same category of Touhou fans (and for a bonus already mentioned in the Google Doc thread) Anyway, some however say that anyone is welcome in the community, and as long as they enjoy any aspect regarding Touhou, you are part of the group. Some like the art, others enjoy playing the games or even like going for a challenge. Others have been attracted by the fan-games, or just love reading the official or fan-written manga. And some are just here for the porn. Given how vast Touhou is, there is something to satisfy everyone. Therefore, why are we so bothered calling people "primaries" and "secondaries" (terms which are still unironically used now, at the end of 2022)? Probably the best take I have heard until now in regards to the question has been that of the rising star in terms of Touhou lore content, GensouChronicle. Seriously, all my respect for the guy, he is doing such a great job covering a variety of topics, and I even made some references to him through the Memories of Phantasm review (spoiler: everyone is an S tier; in his eyes, everyone can be a Touhou fan) As a bonus, on a needlessly sensitive issue for the fandom, and a reason brought by some for branding people as real or fake fans (that of the Fumo and their recent rise in popularity), GensouChronicle had the following to say:7 points
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Alright, let's see how this works. There have been quite a lot of updates and additions when it comes to fan games and whatnot on this site since the beginning of this year. I'll try to list them all here. Downloads fixed/updated: New downloads: Fixed downloads for albums: New albums: Also, on another note, the tutorial on how to set up Neko Project 2 has been fixed. The Images have been added back in. In addition, the emulator didn't have a FONT.ROM file, which might be required for some to display text properly ingame. The file as been added into the archive that has the emulator.7 points
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Next time I have to explain to someone what Touhou is I'm just gonna show them this thread7 points
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Disagree? I completely agree with you and @Reitisen. I'm going to use other Online Spaces to get my point across and cover some of the general causes of the decline in quality in the Touhou Community. Keep in mind I will mostly complete the picture in what @Reitisen and @TheM3ds said, aside the "What can we do" section, so feel free to skip to that part directly. I have been a Touhou fan for over a year, so I can't comment much about how things have developed for the Touhou Community (hence my focus on adjacent topics). The least I can say it was a godsend to find this forum, it looks pretty healthy to me and I can't imagine talking seriously (as serious as possible for fantasy) about Touhou, without losing my mind with the practices that today's Web Monopoly enforces on users. I have been using the internet since I was 6 years old (around 2010) and I was blown away with the quality stuff I found of the series I liked (I mainly searched My Little Pony stuff as I was obsessed with it). Day after day, people created extremely high quality, near professional quality stuff. The animations that existed back then were the most amazing thing in existence, and I have fond memories of entering the main Spanish Forum for My Little Pony (20% mas cool). Slowly, but surely, the magic died off. Is The Internet dying? Monopolies and Brain Rot. What can we do? Is The Touhou Community affected by this? Or are we just declining? We are in an especially rough moment, not only we live in an age with lots of monopolies that due to their nature are already hard to get rid of, but they are manipulating us to become their slaves. Although this makes a big impact on the health of the community (with repetitive things like Fumos, Yukkuris or other types of Shitposting), we can't blame it all on Big Tech. We have to remember that Touhou's golden age is long gone and that the world is a very different place compared to the late 2000s. People grow and eventually change their interests or lack the time they used to have. It's normal to feel that Touhou's Community is declining, because it is. We have fewer people, that lack time on a system that favorites Quick Low Effort content, and on top of that lots of people like @CountVonNumenor are experiencing Burn Out. Honestly, we should look at the bright side of things. Even on this era of "decline" we have all of this: ZUN is still making content of all sorts (games, manga, music albums, etc.) we have the Moriya Shrine Forum and a lower but steady flow of high quality creations from the minds of people (and organizations) like: Touhou Patch Center, Touhou Wiki, Content Creators (like Suwawako, LunaPrism, Megapig9001, etc.), Music Makers (like Alstroemeria Records or RichaadEB), Game Developers (like Fumo Racing), Animators (like Mush-Broom), Writers (like the people on this Forum), Artwork of all kinds (just look up Touhou at Pixiv) and more!!! Only thing I'm missing here are some fanfics, but I'm probably looking at the wrong places. Let's survive this, and see a new Sunrise for Touhou! Did i get too poetic?
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That's very normal. Touhou only has so much official content (fan content mostly re-use official content, often in predictable ways so it's not as interesting) , and after almost 3 years you probably seen it all. Probably because every game/manga are just "incident of the week". Barely anything matter in the plot, so it's hard getting excited about "yet another incident". This is meant to be enjoyed casually, so you probably won't feel very "hyped". Take time to enjoy other series, and come back when you want a more relaxing and simple story. You know how many never even gave the games a chance? Don't force yourself if you don't like the gameplay, or stick to playing on Easy with Continues if you think you got skill issues, then move on from there to Easy 1CC, then Normal (since some game lock you out of the ending if you play on easy). Forget about Hard and Lunatic unless you really enjoy the game. Almost every game can be beaten very, well, easily on easy (10-11-12 are using the "bad" continue system, so use a patch if you don't want to repeat stages a lot). My personal recommendation is 7, since the "Cherry Border" give you a temporary shield you can use to practice dodging without worrying about getting hit. Well, being a "Touhou fan" isn't some kind of holy duty that you "have" to do. Touhou is just a multi-media series that you can enjoy or not. You don't have to like everything about it, and you don't have to always be talking about Touhou 24/7 (doing so makes for a pretty one-note and boring life). Just go with how you fell. You like it and are curious to discover more? Continue on ahead. Feeling like you've seen enough and want to move to the next thing? Go ahead, there's no Touhou police that's going to prevent you from doing so. There's no prestige to gain in enjoying something, only personal fun.7 points
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For these kinds of situations, I don't recommend overthinking because it could give the opposite effect of what you want. I found out about Touhou in 2019, which is when I created an account in Moriya Shrine (despite only started talking here recently). I became very obsessed with the games and played them a lot, but then years later, in 2022, I started not caring as much about Touhou, so I just took a break until I truly felt like I wanted to play again, and so I returned to the games. You can take a break and focus on something else, and come back later and realise that now you are much more interested in the series after the break, or you could give the official games another chance, since you said you only played th7.7 points
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I am not sure if fangames count, but... Genso Wanderer -Reloaded- https://store.steampowered.com/app/931500/Touhou_Genso_Wanderer_Reloaded/7 points
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GRAGAGAGAGA I LOVE UFO I LOVE UFO- As you can tell, I really like this game, and while it's not my absolute favorite in the series, it does come close, so I'm probably just going to spend this entire post gushing about how great it is. Starting with the gameplay, Undefined Fantastic Object finally gets rid of the godawful power bomb system introduced in MoF and returns to having a dedicated bomb gauge, as well as introducing a new UFO system, where certain enemies will drop colored UFOs that fly around on the screen for a while, and can be picked up by touching them. When you pick up a UFO, it's added to your collection at the bottom left corner of the screen, with a maximum of three slots to keep them in, and if you can get three UFOs all in the same color, a giant one will appear at the top of the screen, remaining there for exactly ten seconds. This big UFO will consume any power and point items dropped by enemies, and once it's consumed enough, it'll drop a resource of some kind (a fifth of an extra life if it's red, a bomb if it's green, and points if it's blue), and will also drop the same kind of resource if the player can shoot it down in time. Alright, here's why this mechanic absolutely slaps and I love it. It mainly comes down to the extra depth it adds to the game, as well as the extremely fast pace it creates; most UFOs change color every few seconds, going from red to blue to green and then back to red, so if a UFO is of the color you want, you need to get to it quickly, incentivizing the player to zoom across the entire screen at all times. Additionally, there's also a nice sense of player freedom in which UFOs you want to go for; I usually just go for the red ones, since I like having the game be extra challenging with a lot of chances to mess up as opposed to being easier but with more punishment for when you do get hit, but if you'd rather stockpile bombs, or go for a high score, you can do that as well. Admittedly, I do think the blue UFOs just giving you points was a missed opportunity, as high score only means anything to a select few players as opposed to lives and bombs which are going to be useful no matter who you are, but I'm not really sure what else they could have been, so it's not a huge issue. Mainline Touhou, for me, is at its most enjoyable when it's encouraging you to move fast, and giving you a lot of opportunities to grab extra lives (but still expecting you to go out of your way for them, as opposed to in some games where they're just a thing that happens) in exchange for extra-challenging bullet hell, and thanks to the UFO system, this game is the absolute peak of that. I think on a pure gameplay level, this is my absolute favorite game in the entire series, even if there is one game in particular that I haven't gotten to yet which just barely ranks higher than it for me overall. Anyway, moving on from gameplay, the story of the game revolves around the expedition by Murasa, Shou, Nazrin and Ichirin into Makai to free Byakuren Hijiri, a Buddhist nun who was sealed away by humans a thousand years ago for her kindness towards youkai, the previously mentioned four all being youkai she helped at some point; aside from Nazrin, she was just sent by the god Bishamonten to help Shou specifically. Noticing the youkai's strange flying ship in the sky, the player's chosen character, either Reimu, Marisa, or in her first playable appearance, Sanae, decides to go and give it a look, for one reason or another. Some stuff happens, and eventually, the main character ends up freeing Byakuren by themselves, and after this, Byakuren is allowed to return to Gensokyo alongside the youkai who went to save her after all this time, and creates the Myouren Buddhist temple. After the events of the main game, though, Reimu/Marisa/Sanae are still curious about just what those UFO things that seemed to be everywhere were, so they investigate and find that they were actually fragments of a flying vault that were disguised as UFOs by Nue Houjuu, a youkai who was sealed underground but later released thanks to Okuu's actions in Subterranean Animism (loving the continuity between games here), and then decided to get a little silly just for the fun of it and make everyone think the fragments of the flying vault were UFOs. I personally quite like this story. Having covered each mainline game one by one through this series, I've noticed that this seems to be the point where Touhou stories start to have a little more to them than before, with a few more characters actually getting to do things that are directly relevant to the story in some way; EoSD had 1, Remilia, PCB and IN had 2 each, Yuyuko/Yukari and Eirin/Kaguya, PoFV had 2, Komachi and Eiki, and MoF/SA had 1 each, Kanako and Utsuho. UFO, by comparison, has 4, those being Nazrin (found the jewelled pagoda necessary to free Byakuren), Murasa (captain of the flying ship that sailed into Makai), Shou (brought the jewelled pagoda into Makai) and Nue (disguised pieces of the flying vault as UFOs); you can argue it actually has 5 if you count Byakuren, given that she's the whole reason anything here is even happening and creates the Myouren Temple at the end of the game, but during the main story she doesn't directly do anything by herself, so I didn't include her in the list. Regardless of if you count her or not, my point is that this is the first time more than 2 characters have had a direct role in the events of the game beyond simply helping someone else do stuff, like Sakuya or Reisen in previous games. Despite the game's relatively simple story, this still helps it feel like it has a bit more going on than previous games, a trend that continues to varying extents throughout future games, which I enjoy a lot. It's not particularly exceptional, but it's still on the upper end of Touhou stories for me, something which is definitely helped by its excellent cast of characters. I'm actually not sure which Touhou game has my favorite cast of characters, but this is definitely one I'd consider if I had to make that choice. Everyone here (except Ichirin) appeals to me on some level; Nazrin is admittedly a little carried by NYN memes for me, but I like her design, Kogasa is funny, Murasa and Shou just generally have really cool designs and I enjoy their vibes a lot, Byakuren is just eh here but I like her a lot in AoCF (I do love how she has a direct reference to one of Shinki's spellcards here though, that was a pleasant surprise when I first fought her), and Nue's design combined with her really just being a silly little gremlin creature who enjoys getting up to mischief makes her my favorite of this game's cast. Admittedly, I do kind of despise Ichirin, but that's more because she doesn't do anything for me personally and I'm annoyed she got the character slot in the more recent trilogy of fighting games instead of literally anyone else from this game, as opposed to it being down to any actually unlikeable traits she has herself, so I won't pretend she's poorly written or at all unlikeable by herself. While there's not a single character here that I'd personally consider a series favorite, or even a top 10, I like nearly everyone here enough that it's one of the most consistent casts in the series for me, and I don't think the fact there's only one single character introduced here that I don't actively enjoy to some extent is something that can be applied to any other game in the series, so credit where credit is due. This game also managed to give Sanae a personality, something which from what I've seen no other game in the series has managed to do, so I can appreciate its character writing for that as well. Lastly, I want to briefly talk about the game's soundtrack, or more accurately, one song in particular. The whole soundtrack is great, don't get me wrong (Captain Murasa is especially a banger), but there's not much I have to say about most of it... except for Fires of Hokkai. After the extremely chaotic but enjoyable stage 5, and the similarly hectic battle with Shou, stage 6 is comparatively easy, representing a slightly bizarre sense of calm as you finally reach the place where Byakuren has been sealed away for all this time, and Fires of Hokkai does an excellent job at enhancing the vibe stage 6 goes for, so I feel like that one in particular is worth mentioning by itself. Come to think of it, the dynamic between stage 5 and 6 here kind of reminds me of Mystic Square's fifth and sixth stages, which makes me wonder if it was partially an intentional reference to that game or if it's just a coincidence, but given the previously mentioned Shinki spellcard reference, I lean towards thinking it's the former. Overall, Undefined Fantastic Object is a great and extremely fun game, being by far my favorite of the second Windows era, and it's one of the ones I come back to the most of any game in this series. I honestly can't think of a single thing I don't like about it, which isn't something I can say of most of this series, and I think it's definitely worth playing if you somehow haven't already.7 points
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(Yes, we stopped hosting our own server) Info on how to join us in matrix Already have an account? You can join us at #moriyashrine:eientei.org 1. Get a client You can use any public web instance of a matrix client like the official Element web instance for example, no download required. If you want to download one instead, Element is generally the recommended client, but there are other clients as well if you'd prefer to use a different one. 2. Sign in Look for a matrix homeserver of your choice to make an account on and register. Ideally not using the default matrix.org one. 3. Joining rooms https://matrix.to/#/#moriyashrine:eientei.org After joining our space you can explore and join our rooms by viewing the Moriya Shrine space. Other matrix rooms can be found through invite links and the search function. The list of available rooms will be different depending on the server you registered on. Rules: Don't be the reason why I'd have to make more rules Don't be underage Don't harass other members Use your common sense and don't post, do, or talk about stuff that could get everyone into trouble If rooms have any additional rules you should follow those as well
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In my personal opinion: The bad fans are the ones that try to categorize other fans because of what they like or what they have did about something Look, i have friends that i presented Touhou to, and i'm not a veteran or nothing, i only played some of the games and the first Touhous i've beaten were fangames like Thousand Night Anamnesis and Touhou Fantasia For me, Touhou stopped being just a game a long ago, nowadays it is a whole universe, the people i presented Touhou to haven't beaten any of the games but look, some know even more than i know about it, and look, is a universe just like Pokemon and that stuff, i barely saw a Pokemon fan that played the games or even watched the animes, but they really like the whole Pokemon universe, like, what categorize if you are or not a true fan? Exactly, only you, you know it the way you know, and the same goes to other people, like i said in the fanon vs canon thread, people can like any shit, it goes in their taste, and if they wanna know more about it, they can just search for it Like, i'm into Touhou for 2 months already and my friends that joined the community some weeks ago talk a lot about it and we can talk perfectly about the Touhou universe, people that categorize other people because of what they know about something aren't nothing more than brainless people living in their own shells where what they know is a standard that everyone else should follow Touhou is more than a game as i said, just look at that, hundreds and hundreds of characters, various kinds of games and fangames, figures and a lot of arts and even TV shows, like, what would be a true fan when there's thousands of stuff to like about Touhou? In the mid of everything into Touhou, if you like the fighting games, the bullet hell games, the animes or even the fanmade mangas and books, what matters? The important is that you like it, i started getting into Touhou thanks to fumos and what makes me someone with a "lower fan level"? The only thing that separates if you're a true fan or not, is what those shitheads put in their own minds, there's not a testament or anything you have to do to join the Touhou community Sorry if i said anything wrong btw!
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Because cute girls cute7 points
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I got introduced to Touhou earlier this year and have fallen in love with it. The music, memes, and official / fan made content is really AMAZING all around. I'm not very actively social so if I don't post much, its just a bad personal habit of mine I haven't really been able to break. I am glad to be here though and hope you all won't mind my stay. - Cheers
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