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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. Touhou-Project.com 胡蝶の見果てぬ夢 Keine's dialogues on Japanese literature with other Touhou characters. 胡蝶の見果てぬ夢
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You make some great points here. I will expand more on the "Sazae time space" a bit more. The PC98 games where even less linear than the Windows games. On the current series of games we get linear developments of the story in the form of story arcs: 06-09, 10-13, the lunarian storyline, the hifuu storyline, 17-19 and there are probably more story arcs i missed. ZUN just doesn't seem to want to give Touhou a sense of time and it's even likely this is beneficial to fan works as you can give Touhou the sense of time you want, with an ever expanding cast of characters. I do think that he needs to give more character development, like what happened with LoLK making Reisen's character very interesting. He could also make more "important events" that affect all of Gensokyo, like the Animal Wars of recent games or LoLK, driving things forward, for example Ran recently got some nice character development with her relationship to the Animal Realm. The amount of high quality slice of life media proves that you can develop interesting stories with character development and significant events while keeping the passage of time mostly frozen, but you have to take some risks. An example i can give are the first seasons of My Little Pony (4th gen), they follow a mostly slice of life story-line until the season ends and they do a big event that drives the story forward, refreshing the narrative, like how it happened with Discord's introduction or the Marriage arc with Chrysalis.
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This is surely a nice topic to revive my forum activity. So far i agree with the points made here and kudos Vanyk, for having the data that shows the decrease of interest in Touhou and bringing this topic up. Something to have in mind is that circumstances are constantly changing, the world is not the same in 2008 than in 2024. The pandemic really hit Touhou hard, you can see that the decrease in popularity, at least with in-person events, got accelerated due to the restrictions and the economic stagnation we have been going through since 2020. Now, Touhou is far from being in a bad spot, it just needs to adapt to the new times we are living in and that has to do with passing the torch to the new generation (basically what Banana Man said). It's very unlikely that Touhou will ever die completely, it's too big to die. Games are in a general state of crisis in the 2020s. The new generation of consoles (outside the Switch) got few sales, PC games are more exigent and buggier than ever and mobile games spiraled down into becoming cash cows. Control over creativity has been removed from the hands of creators and placed on the hands of executives and business man who don't understand what the people want, or the executives try too hard to appeal with fan service (what happened to Star Wars). This is also why AI is getting so much funding, the capitalistic world is playing too hard into the "save costs at all costs" game. You can see the problem in action with the very recent Helldivers 2 controversy (TLDR, Sony is forcing people to create Playstation accounts to continue playing, against the devs' wishes and the players). Another problem that hits Touhou very hard is that the principal computing device got shifted away from the PC, now the dominant force is the Phone. And this combines with phone games turning into cash cows (Lost Word and the Gachapocalypse with things like Genshin Impact, for example). The dominance of the phone also brought in a change of how people approach computers and how Big Tech design the user experience. Back in Touhou's Golden Age, the focus of the internet was on forums, personal websites and it was overall a more intimate and slower feeling experience, the internet itself was Indie. Nowadays, thanks to the centralization that Big Tech accomplished and the discovering of the scrolling format, the focus was shifted to fast paced content and dopamine hits. It was a recipe for disaster, to say the least. The Touhou community got fragmented into tons of niches, but the platforms got united in a single place and the shift was changed into an addiction of consumerism from a more relaxed, "everyone is involved" enjoyment of the franchise. Everything is a lot more capitalistic nowadays. For example, a new person who is getting into Touhou is a lot more likely to stumble across Lost Word, the Reddit or the music in YouTube. These platforms encourage a passive involvement of the franchise, promoting the idea of consuming content instead of enjoying creations. Discovering things is hard and becoming an active part of the community is even harder. All of this relates deeply to the Dead Internet Theory. What this theory states is that Internet activity is more and more driven by Bot/AI activity and a focus on the TikTok-like algorithmic addiction based content made to be consumed. In reality, people activity is higher than ever, the problem is that it's passive or hidden from search engines in places like Discord. This is encouraged specially by Reddit and Twitter. Since Twitter got rebranded, bot activity soared very high. Reddit got the API changes controversy and other small changes to the platform made it much harder to navigate, content quality decreased drastically and a trend i have been noticing is that Reddit is more focused on this new brand of entertainment. And all of this leads us to... Mature content. Touhou has always been about mature content, writing this i even found some mature Winamp skins from January 2008... There have been animated videos about Yukari doing nefarious things (look up Border of Ecstasy if you are brave). I was chatting with CountVonNumenor before writing this and he provided me with these statistics that highlight what percentage of artwork in art websites is mature and safe for work: The problem is, mature content is now trying to be the main focus of the franchise. It's only thing that kept consistent activity since the Golden Age. Memories of Phantasm is drowning any interesting things it brings to the table in gigantic boobs. Same thing with Lost Word (im not even counting how disgusting Gacha games are due to producing gambling addictions and sexualizing woman), social media is also promoting Mature Touhou like crazy! The past months i browsed the Touhou Reddit (r/touhou), and it followed this recipe: 1) Enter Reddit, get recommended only the NSFW Touhou posts 2) A little more scrolling and i get the same posts again, but this time in the r/2hujerk reddit, with the title "Outjerked once again by the main sub" 3) Repeat Twitter is worse, you can follow someone because they draw cool fanart, but then they also like to retweet mature content or you get shoved the political agenda of choice. Reddit depends more on what is the subreddit's style, but Twitter has no salvation and that phenomenon is universal. And it doesn't end here, if you enter a website dedicated to fanart, like Pixiv, chances are you are going to get drowned in mature content. It's worse if you go into a more niche website like the boorus. Even if you use the "hide 18+ content" you still get mature content, it's infuriating to me. It's very hard to be a Touhou fan when the first thing someone getting into the franchise sees is Lost Word's ooga woogas or the 100th time post of Sakuya's feet this week, let's not even get started on people drawing absolutely disgusting artwork worthy of prison time of my favorite character, Sumireko Usami. And due to the nature of social media, you can't escape it without detaching yourself from more public community endeavors. What's worse is that Count already tried to discuss this problem in r/touhou and he already described the horny tactics in Memories of Phantasm. Only to get some attention, but just to get the "nice wall of text you got there" response and a repost over to r/copypasta (a place where memorable texts are placed and then shared into infinity because someone finds them funny.) His OG post: https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/w25e90/why_is_touhou_so_popular_in_terms_of_mature/ The Copypasta repost: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/w26pfx/why_is_touhou_so_popular_in_terms_of_mature/ Another thing i want to briefly mention is that ZUN has a part of the blame of the state of the community. Since Violet Detector, the game's quality decreased or has stayed stagnant, on par with the quality of games from the early 2000s. ZUN's extremely indie approach of doing 90% of the work is hitting a wall. You can feel he is getting more busy, with less and less results. It took 8 years for another Hifuu Club Album (and a disappointing one in my opinion), the gameplay of the bullet hells didn't reinvent itself enough (cards are cool but the mechanic has been abused to death in 18.5 and 19) and he is burning himself out. The programming of 16.5 and 19 is especially bad and his game engine is Windows only (even if the bullet hell games can work well on consoles). Another funny thing is that he just doesn't place Touhou 06-08 on Steam, encouraging the piracy of the franchise as those 3 are the biggest games by far and it ends up encouraging the piracy of games that ARE available at Steam (not judging those who pirate, i'm siding with the enterprise here). He also allowed things like Lost Word to happen. In my opinion, the best way to revive Touhou is that ZUN lets his ego rest for a bit and that he changes his role into more of a "General Touhou Supervisor" and that he fully embraces the fact that it's a franchise now. Make a new multi-platform bullet hell engine, Touhou 06-08 remakes, expand Shanghai Alice into a real game studio, add more finality to the Hifuu Club story-line, official anime, etc. I think it's the best way for ZUN to control the enterprise growth of Touhou, while keeping control of the essence. Now that i highlighted some of the problems i see in Touhou, what are the solutions i can think of? Well, i don't have one for the mature content, as the people seem to be brainwashed into liking that sort of stuff dominating the community... It's even stranger because even if Pokémon has more mature works than Touhou percentage wise, it's a lot less ingrained in the culture of the community and you can totally avoid it, something very hard on Touhou's case. I will just briefly mention the state of other older franchises, Godzilla and Sailor Moon to get an understanding by comparison. Godzilla has seen a renaissance of activity in the community since the 2014 American movie, with tons of high quality fan creations (fan 3D animations, creepypastas/analog horror, amazing drawings, healthy discussion in the community's places and the reddit is a pretty chill and welcoming place). Godzilla is in a righteous cycle of original creations giving the community inspiration for fan-works that drive the sales of original creations further. Thankfully monsters avoid most of the mature content, so it ends up being a healthy dose. Sailor Moon is not that popular nowadays, the anime remake and movies helped (Crystal) but the community is very welcoming and you get a fair share of fan creations (an old competitive game gaining attention, healthy discussion of the anime & manga in the Reddit, etc.). Mature content is also a lot less prevalent here. Well, the main problem i see with Touhou is that there is no "central" place for the community to enjoy things. The closest things, Reddit & Twitter, are infested with mature content and are hard to navigate for stuff that's worthy of your time without wasting a huge amount of your day in there or getting flooded by Tech Bro selling Chimatacoins or whatever. The forums approach works really well with Touhou, allowing the prolonged survival of important posts, giving everyone a fair chance of contributing. Now, because everyone wants power and the compartmentalization of the community has some benefits, i think it's impossible to create "The Place". But you know what we can do? A landing page that lists everything important in the community. Official links, fangames, music circles, etc. For example, finding the steam page of the Touhou games is pretty hard for people not versed in Japanese, but if there was a list easier to navigate than Touhou Wiki, it would be very easy. I am currently in the process of creating this list, once i have enough things gathered i will make a post in the forum promoting this idea. It will only be successful if the community cares, but i have high hopes for it, stay tuned.
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#HifuuDay A look at Touhou's most intricate characters
a topic posted Flame Sniper in Official Works
Warning! This text contains heavy spoilers for all of the Hifuu Club’s stories, Sumireko’s and Yukari’s stories. The following text began as an attempt to explain the themes that ZUN approaches in the Hifuu Club’s stories, but it ended up becoming an analysis of a bunch of different lore pieces glued together, with some theories sprinkled on top. The text participates in the #HifuuDay , a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first Hifuu story, Ghostly Field Club. “Dreams and reality are different. That's why it's possible to make dreams reality with great effort.” Changeability of Strange Dream. Gensokyo's reason to exist: It’s important that we refresh this now. In Touhou’s world, people slowly, but surely stopped believing in the supernatural (myths, legends, gods, etc.). This made the Youkai enter an existential threat, as they require faith (that one believes something unexplainable exists) to continue living. Yukari Yakumo and the Hakurei Clan decided to create a separate world to harbor all of the Earth’s Youkai, preventing their extinction. First by making this place, Gensokyo, be able to draw the supernatural to itself. Gensokyo was later isolated from the world in 1885 A.D, due to humans loosing their faith in Youkai. A very small amount of supernatural beings remained in the outside world, mainly Mamizou, Yukari, Kanako and Suwako. With the latter two moving into Gensokyo quite recently. The world truly stopped believing, not even gods could survive with so little faith. But a few people in the outside world noticed that those myths and legends were real. Either via a divine bloodline, like in Sanae Kochiya's case or in Sumireko Usami's, as she unexplicably manifested psychic powers. She plays a crucial role here. Sumireko is the founder of the Hifuu Club, an organization dedicated to study the supernatural. Once she figured out that all of the Youkai gathered in the magical land of Gensokyo (probably thanks to Yukari), she knew what to do. Revealing that Youkai are not a mere legend. Unfortunately, things went south for her, as she got trapped in Gensokyo as revenge for messing around. Seeing no other chance, she decided to attempt a suicide attack at the barrier. With the goal to unleash all the Youkai to the outside world. Of course, Reimu stopped her. But this lead to unforeseen consequences for Sumireko. Due to her abusing the ability to enter Gensokyo in her dreams, she switched places with her Dream World self, among other side effects in the disease known as Fantasy Syndrome. The first time, she got the help of Yukari and Doremy to get out of truble, but the second time she switched places with her Doppelgänger for about three weeks. During that event, before Sumireko could stop Dream Sumireko, as a way of surviving the onslaught of bullets found in her dreams, she managed to collected pictures of the danmaku of all the residents of the Dream World. Essentially creating evidence of Gensokyo. She posted all of that to social media, gathering a pretty decent following. As you probably guessed, nobody believed in Sumireko and just saw her posts as something entertaining. It probably didn’t help that the memories of the events of Violet Detector vanished from Sumireko’s mind. In the end, the world didn’t believe in a quite powerful psychic with photographic evidence of Gensokyo. What a helpful evidence... ”The true nature of Chuunibyou is the heat of life. It's an explosion of one's imaginative power. It's a form of resistance against a chilled society, wielding both purity and creativity.” Dateless Bar “Old Adam”. A Broken Future: Zun presents us with a world set in an undetermined future. In a subtle way, he tells us this future has philosophical problems that go straight to its core. As we saw with Sumireko’s experience, people stopped believing in the supernatural, they stopped dreaming of achieving the impossible, children stopped having fun. The neglected nature was emulated with fancy paintings in buildings and fake, over-enhanced landscapes locked away inside a screen. Moon travel was possible, but inaccessible to everyone. Everything just had to have an explanation, and unexplainable but provable information was discarded as nonsense made by a bunch of lunatics. This futuristic world is the one that Maribel Hearn and Renko Usami inhabit. It’s very likely that Sumireko is an ancestor of Renko, due to all the similarities between them. It’s also likely that Renko had the material at hand, just believing that her ancestor was pretty good at fabricating stuff (keep in mind, she studies physics, there’s only rational explanations in her mind). Only to get her assumptions broken into pieces by Maribel’s abilities, that shared some resemblance to her ancestor from long ago, Sumireko. We can actually prove that Renko had access to Sumireko’s archive, what other explanation is there for the following?: During Ghostly Field Club, Renko urged Maribel to help her search the boundary to enter The Netherworld. In this story, she had a notebook with some undisclosed photos. Including one of The Hakurei Shrine. "How come you have a photo of the Netherworld?" "I have a back and forth route you don't know about, Merry." My partner took out a picture and started talking as usual. "But never mind that, Merry, why don't we go see the entrance at the Hakurei Shrine?" It’s almost always Renko the one that proposes new plans and activities for the club. During all of the Hifuu Club’s stories, we clearly see that our mystic duo is troubled with the state of the world. Only recently in “Dateless Bar Old Adam” did they feel more included in the world, as they found more people that think alike, after the publication of their book under the pen name of Dr. Latency became somewhat popular in Japan. They had no other choice but to form the Hifuu Club, in order to be themselves, investigate the supernatural, and maybe with some luck bring the faith of the supernatural back to the world. “The real reason she was put in the sanatorium was probably because it was determined she had some kind of psychological anomaly. Of course that wasn't the case, but society just isn't receptive to strange people. That's why Merry had to keep her ability secret, as some element of the occult.” Neo-traditionalism of Japan. Maribel and Yukari's connections: Again, we come back to Sumireko to find the keys for the next step in the story. During the events of “Anitomy of Common Flowers”, Yukari helps out Sumireko in her first experience dealing with Dream Sumireko escaping to the real world, by forcefully dragging Sumireko into Gensokyo, forcing her escape from The Dream World and then to teleport her to the real world for a duel with Dream Sumireko. This was quite an outreach on Yukari’s part, this intervention broke the rules of The Dream World as stated by Doremy. No actual consequence was explicitly shared, but Doremy is not the kind of character that gets easily pissed off and she did this time. In “Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia”, Aya develops a theory that the only one who could have assisted Sumireko in traveling and descovering Gensokyo, had to be Yukari, with her theorized goal being doing a reset of Gensokyo with a select group of Youkai. Even with the explanation of Sumireko using the urban legend of the Seven Wonders and the Occult Balls with the power of the Wonders, as a way of getting inside Gensokyo, how did she manage to enter Gensokyo without knowing anything about it or the Urban Legend incident in the first place? We know that she didn’t use the conventional entry, as that is what Mamizou used to trick and trap Sumireko inside Gensokyo. Aya is right, it’s pretty unlikely for a human to enter in such a particular way, and even stranger to see one that developed impressive powers without magic gadgets or a connection to the gods. Why would Yukari bother in helping out a dangerous human with psychic powers from the outside world? We know that Ms. Yakumo is pretty lazy, as she delegates most tasks to Ran and Chen. It’s pretty out of character for her to risk Gensokyo’s existence. Even more knowing that all of this ended up allowing the Lunarian invasion in “Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom” and her backstory with Lunarians. All the times she or her shikigami have been playable, it was to prevent a bigger disaster from striking Gensokyo. But thinking that Maribel is somehow related to Yukari, if not Lady Yakumo herself, explains why Yukari bothered with helping Sumireko in different occasions. Zun gives us some small gems to work with. 1) Time of creation We know that Yukari and Maribel were created around the same time. Perfect Cherry Blossom came out the 17th of August 2003, Ghostly Field Club came out the 30th of December 2003. 2) The relationship to Lafcadio Hearn: He was a foreigner who traveled to Japan, who quickly renamed himself as Koizumi Yakumo. Lafcadio was extremely important, as he gathered and translated many of Japan’s folk stories into books for the world to enjoy (most Youkai come from his compilations). 3) Powers: Both characters share a similar kind of power. Yukari’s power is like a more absolute version of Maribel’s. 4) Designs: Their designs are nearly identical, their clothing is close in style. The biggest difference is that Maribel’s eyes are yellow, but Yukari’s are usually purple (opposite colors) Now, the connecting point is not there, we just don’t know. The fact is that there is no grand, explicit evidence that connects these two characters. There are a few theories that come to mind to explain possible paths to make the relationship between these two a real thing. Before focusing in the one that i have been building up to, let me explore the other scenarios. 1) No relation. Knowing Zun, it's just likely that there is no direct relationship and it's just one more wasted plot point to add into Touhou's already large list. 2) Yukari is Maribel's ancestor Another likely scenario and the one that makes most sense, is that Yukari is family of Maribel. It was already stated that Maribel's family had supernatural powers, it's very likely that Yukari was a prodigy that ended up transforming into a Youkai and that Maribel is unknowingly following her footsteps at becoming a great magician and possibly a Youkai. 3) Maribel and Yukari are the same person Get your tinfoil hats, it's theory time. Is Maribel going to become Yukari? As we go along reading the stories of the Hifuu Club, we start to notice something particular. Maribel’s powers start to get out of control. At first, it’s just the ability to observe where the boundaries of reality are, but it would evolve to dreams were Maribel would appear inside Gensokyo. She started to question the nature of reality at this point, because some of the objects that appeared in her dreams started showing up in her real life. Renko clearly noticed that something strange and potentially dangerous was happening, as Maribel just making objects appear out of nowhere breaks the laws of physics. She theorized that maybe her power evolved to manipulate boundaries. Could she get spirited away or eaten by a Youkai in her dreams? In “Trojan Green Asteroid” we saw that Renko’s fears were right. Maribel managed to bring Renko along to see the Torifune spacial station in outer space, probably thanks to a small Shinto shrine gate located in the station. During their exploration, a strange winged cat managed to scratch Maribel. It was bad enough that she had to go to the hospital. They truly were inside Torifune. After that, in Neo-traditionalism of Japan, we found out that Maribel was quarantined for months in a remote location in the mountains. The sickness was labeled as a form of delirium caused by an unknown virus. She would come out alright, but Renko kept seeing that things were going strangely. The latest development in Maribel’s powers is the ability to show images at will of strange places via a hand mirror. “Come to think of it, recently it felt as if Merry's abilities were getting stronger. At first they had fun enough with just being able to catch a glimpse of strange new worlds, but now they were bringing things back from those worlds as if it were nothing.” Neo-traditionalism of Japan Unfortunately, it’s been 7 years since the last development in the Hifuu Club’s stories (outside the reference of Misumaru’s magatmas being made from Izangi Objects). This leaves us at a really awkward spot, because we are expectant to see how the pen name of Dr. Latency evolved and if Maribel’s powers kept going in crazy directions. Just at the turning point, because the next story should introduce new elements to keep the narrative fresh. I have no option but theorize. My theory is that Maribel’s powers will keep getting out of control, eventually leading to her turning into a Youkai, Yukari Yakumo. The main reason I think this will be the case is that it explains Yukari’s strange behavior regarding Sumireko. I bet that Yukari is a time traveler. Getting time into the matter is crucial, maybe Yukari is stuck in a “Back to the Future” situation, where story events need to progress in exactly a certain manner to allow for her creation. Like how in the movie, Marty has to make sure that his parents will end up together after he uknowingly screws up the meeting that would make them fall in love. If she didn’t help Sumireko in that way, it would risk breaking the timeline or deleting her existence (and therefore, Gensokyo). If Sumireko truly is Renko’s ancestry, if something bad happened to her, Renko wouldn’t exist and that changes everything. Due to this, Yukari is forced to intervene. Another scenario is that Maribel and Yukari are in a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation. That Maribel turns into “Mr. Hyde” at probably random times and that’s when she does all the Yukari business. This explains why Yukari is labeled as “lazy”, it’s not that she is lazy, but rather she has a limited time of action. It could even work in the same way as Sumireko traveling to gensokyo in her dreams. Once Maribel “wakes up”, Yukari has to banish from whatever thing she is doing and return to her real body. This would also make Yukari’s time traveling less powerful and more of a side effect. Another possibility would be that Yukari “glitches out” and sometimes Maribel’s mind ends up in Yukari’s body (just like Sumireko with her Dream Doppelgänger) and those are the situations we see depicted in the Hifuu Club’s stories. “If you try tossing your faith in information aside, you just might be able to get more enjoyment out of the fanzine(?) that Renko and Merry wrote.” Dr. Latency’s Freak Report Is Zun just drunk? Maybe it’s all part of Zun’s plan in criticizing today’s day and age’s obsession with seeking an explanation in cryptic subjects. Playing with rhymes and poetry that alludes a meaning that doesn’t exist, or one that the individual must create on interpretation. I think that Zun has something planned, but who knows at this point. Maybe it is done to inspire his followers in creating an explanation? Just like I just did, or was he just drunk? The important thing, more than theorizing and scheming, are the messages found hidden away and reflecting upon them. Is our world becoming more and more alike Maribel and Renko’s future world? Is that a good or a bad thing? Do people exist out there with mystical powers? How real are urban legends? What role does faith place in our lives? Is our scientific progress damaging us? Why do we hate and fear what’s different and unknown? “I'm not so worried about where the "Sealing Club" is headed, but... Yes, Merry and Renko, who was featured in the text and is part of the mysterious "Sealing Club" that participates in all sorts of occult activities. While I didn't go into great detail, has scientific progress prevented them from eating wild bamboo shoots? What a pity.” Changeability of Strange Dream.-
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You like retro things? Yeah... Are you one of those people that go out of their way to install 20+ year old games? You know you are masochist right? This is why i decided to make a guide in how to run PC98 games, to save you time. and because i promised it Let's begin! 1) Required programs: We are going to use RetroArch for this guide. You can get it at https://www.retroarch.com/ If you are on Linux, please use the version found here https://flathub.org/es/apps/org.libretro.RetroArch because it has some things we will need that other versions lack. And disable flatpak sandboxing, see my Touhou on Linux guide for steps. Of course, we are going to need PC98 games for this. You can get them in a familiar place, and if you are good searching inside archive.org. I recommend that you place your games in a fixed location, like for example create a Games folder and place them there. If you want to know why and what RetroArch is: In simple terms, it's a fronted (like the packaging of your ice cream) that is made to provide an easy to use User Interface for almost every emulator in the planet, without sacrificing advanced settings for the looks. It's like the king of emulators. 2) Installing the emulator: As we know, RetroArch just facilitates installing the actual emulator. Go to Main Menu, Online Updater, Core Downloader. Then, scroll down until you find NEC - PC-98 (Neko Project II Kai) and click it. If you don't see the Kai version, try out the version without the Kai. 3) First Run: Now, to finish setting things up we need to run the games. Click on Main Menu, Load Core and select NEC - PC-98 (Neko Project II Kai). Then, click on Load Content and browse to the file location where your games are and launch a game. You will see a black screen with some cryptic techy text, ignore it and press F1. Scroll until you see Add to Favorites. This will provide you easier access to the game, it's going to save you time. Then, scroll until you see Core Options, and make sure the settings displayed match the ones in this image, then exit with backspace: 4) Enjoy! It was that easy. It may seem too simple, but figuring out the right options for a smooth experience took me a while, it's better to have them centralized in one place. Some small advice, do the Add to Favorites for every game and save the image above for easier setup (i don't remember if RetroArch saved the setup for all the games in the emulator). And to make the game load faster use the built in shortcut for Fast Foward in the L key. But you should enable a shortcut for the better version of Fast Foward. You can find it in Input, Hotkeys, Fast Foward (Toggle) Did your computer explode??? If you have any issues, please tell me and i will do my best to help you. Same if you know something to improve this guide.
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The 2023 Touhou Popularity Poll results are up...
Flame Sniper replied to CountVonNumenor's topic in General Touhou
It is! But the biggest power move in the poll belongs to Yuuma. She was 53th on her first appearance, but she jumped all the way up to 29! She went up 24 positions. What makes me sad is that Sumireko dropped 16 spots, life is rough. There where some interesting things in the songs. Alice In Wonderland went up 7 spots (from 89 to 87) and Memento of the Avaricious Beast went up a mind blowing 59 spots, from 136 to 77! Other song that made a big difference was Necro-Fantasy, it went up 24 spots from 91 to 67. -
Border of Life, played in a music box. I want to cry, it's so beautiful.
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Not a specific song, but Someone 45356 has lots of arrangements using stranger music genres. https://www.youtube.com/@Someone45356 For example, he has Cumbia Amazónica of Son Biten's theme
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I forgot compostiors were a thing, I never noticed any extra input delay from it. On KDE it allows you to disable it, but GNOME like always just doesn't. I'm adding the SFX part and compositor guide, thanks!
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The reason i didn't make this guide with Lutris was because i couldn't find any way to open a wine terminal inside it. Aside thcrap, it should work as well. Other reason is that Bottles allows things like exporting a Bottle (if you have other machine with Bottles, you load the Bottle file produced, and it stores all the configurations), it's more ambitious than Lutris.
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Welcome to a new topic! I've heard you want to become a supa hacka... That you want to reject your privileges of touching grass and embrace headaches while trying to get everything working, just to play danmaku games... Are you ready to embrace the Linux inside you? BECOME THE PENGUIN!!! ACT LIKE A PENGUIN!!! SPREAD THE PENGUIN!!! Our deepest apologies for the interruption. A supa hacka hacked shitposting into the mind of Pepi, but unfortunately he is now cured. On this guide, we will see all the tricks to get Touhou and other helpful programs running on Linux (Touhou Patch Center and Touhou Practice). This will also include Program and Linux Distribution recommendations for the optimal experience. We will later include guides on how to run the PC98 games and Lost Word on Linux, tell me if you prefer those guides as separate topics or as replays in the comments. Let's get to the point. Technical Terms Warning I'm going to be using some technical terms, they will be explained at the bottom of the Topic. Also keep in mind that if you deviate too much from the steps presented here, things may not work, so do them at your own risk. 1) Pre-Touhou Linux Distro and Program Recommendations: Touhou works pretty well on most Linux Distributions. I'm just being nitpicky to guarantee you a good experience without troubles. And it's important that we remember a golden rule of computers, it may work on my machine, but it can break on yours. All Steam games have a Linux compatibility page that clues you in on tips and tricks to get everything running correctly, we aren't going to use it, but it can be helpful for other games. https://www.protondb.com/ If you are utilizing the GNOME Desktop, please avoid playing the game in fullscren or in the Wayland session. GNOME currently lacks some technical things related to tearing that makes playing Touhou very unpleasant. I heavily recommend that you utilize a Linux Distribution that ships the KDE Desktop, as it's what the Steam Deck uses, and it's the fastest to introduce Gaming benefits (along other benefits). You can find KDE distributions on https://kde.org/distributions/ My personal recommendation is that you use Nobara or Kubuntu, these two are the most reliable Linux KDE Distributions out there. Before we install the software needed for this to work, you should know what a Compositor is. A Compositor is an extra layer inside the Window Manager (what manages windows, lol) that is tasked with showing pretty animations and some things like 3D effects, like the old Compiz effects (search that on youtube, it looks fun). If your Linux Desktop supports it, disable Composition for full screen programs as it will increase responsiveness. Im certain that KDE and most Desktops support disabling it. Be aware that GNOME doesn't provide an easy way to disable it. The only downside is that it will increase the chance of tearing happening, if that's your case, please check the Troubleshooting Step at the end of the Topic. Now, for required software, we are going to need the Flatpak Package Manager, the Bottles program and Flatseal. You can install Flatpaks by following the guide at: https://flathub.org/es/setup Once that's done, install Bottles by following the instructions at: https://flathub.org/es/apps/com.usebottles.bottles by clicking on the big blue "Install" button. After that, install Flatseal by following the instructions at: https://flathub.org/es/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal And of course, you need a Touhou game. If you are already on this website, you know where to find them, maybe in the big "DOWNLOADS" button? Then always download (if available) the versions that already come with thcrap installed. DON'T DOWNLOAD IF IT SAYS UNPATCHED. 2) Managing Flatpaks: Linux's distributions always ship with something called a "Package Manager". They are tools that allow you to install, update, remove and more things with Software. They are usually limited to different distributions, for example Kubuntu uses APT and Nobara DNF. We are going to use Flatpak, a universal package manager that you can install on ANY distribution (avoiding fragmentation troubles that are common in Linux). If you want to utilize Bottles to its fullest potential (including increased ease of use and the ability to run thcrap Patches and thprac) we need to disable Sandboxing. If you want a more limited, but more secure experience (especially when running Windows programs), ignore this section. Flatpaks have the characteristic of being Sandboxed (it means they are isolated from the rest of the system), these are the steps to disable Sandboxing: Open Flatseal and you will see something like this: On the left you have your flatpak programs and in the center/right the list of permissions that flatpaks have. You will scroll down the list until you find the Filesystem section, then find the All user files section and click enable. This disables sandboxing. 3) Installing and Running Touhou: And then, Marisa said "it's touhouing time" and she touhoued all over the place, resolving the incident. I'm not sorry. Create a folder wherever you want where you will place all of your Touhou games. What i do in my PC is to make a "Games" folder and drop all the games downloaded with thcrap in there. This is important if you want to download custom thcrap patches, and if you don't, keep them organized anyway, love yourself a bit and don't keep everything dropped on the desktop. Open Bottles. It will first give you a welcome screen, and it's probably going to download some files (I don't remember, and I'm too lazy to check). Once you can move around in the program, click the + button at the top left and it will ask you to make a new Bottle. Click the "Gaming" button and name the Bottle Touhou. Then it will download some stuff (it takes a while). Once it's created, enter the bottle and test if the touhou game works correctly by clicking on the big "Run Executable" button and navigating until you find the game's executable. If it worked, congratulations! You can now prolong your suffering with the danmaku! If it didn't, or you have any kind of small issue, check the Troubleshooting step. Don't settle for an experience with even the smallest issue, in this house we want it flawless! I recommend that you add the game to the Programs Shortcut in Bottles, by clicking the + Add Shortcuts button and then selecting the game. You can also launch the game by right-clicking in the executable and selecting Bottles as the program to run the games. If you want to create a shortcut, use the Linux version, called Symbolic Link by following the instructions here: https://linuxhint.com/create_symbolic_link_ubuntu/ 4) Using Touhou Patch Center (thcrap): Thcrap works as a tool to make loadable modifications to your Touhou games. Unfortunately, I was unable to run Thcrap's modifications directly (the patched english executable bundled with the downloads works) and we have to use some terminal commands to make them run. But first, launch the thcrap executable found inside your game's folder (if it gives an error, try the other executable) and create your patch. It's important that you give the file a name that's easy to remember and write, like "th06patch1" Remember that we placed all the Touhou games on the same folder? To make running these patches easy, create a text file where you are going to store all the terminal text needed to run the patches. We need to copy the file path of the folder where thcrap stores all the patch files, it's a folder named "thcrap". The file path has to look something close to this: /home/YOUR-LINUX-USERMANE/Games/Touhou 6 - The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/thcrap In the text file you made, paste that and place a "cd" before the file path, like this: cd /home/YOUR-LINUX-USERMANE/Games/Touhou 6 - The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil/thcrap After that, place the following thing in the top of your text file: thcrap_loader.exe PATCH-NAME.js thXX That command is what we are going to use to execute the game, the "patch-name" is the name of the patch of choice you want to run and the "thXX" is the identification to what game the patch belongs, for example Touhou 6 is "th06" You can also get more specific and write the finished command close to the game location/cd command and not the template at the top, for example: "thcrap_loader.exe th06patch1.js th06" The idea of the template is to make it easier if you create lots of patches constantly to avoid the hassle of writing them down in the text file. This is a screenshot of my text file: Save the text file and leave it somewhere handy. After that, it's time to test if this worked. Open Bottles and the Touhou Bottle, then scroll down until you find the Tools section and open the Command Line option. Note that you need to have Bottles' Sandboxing disabled to make the following work. Other thing, Bottles' command line doesn't support Ctrl + V, use right click and select paste. Once in the command line, paste the game location/cd line and press enter. What this does is enter the folder where thcrap is located, it's the text command to double-clicking in a folder to enter it. After that, paste or finish writing the thcrap_loader line and press enter. If everything worked, the game should run with the selected patches. There's a chance that any crash is due to the patches and not the process itself, if you have any issues check the instructions again, as this is very logical and the errors were likely your fault. 5) Running Touhou Practice (thprac): Thprac is a tool that makes practicing Touhou games easier. It's a lifesaver, and it replaces Touhou's mostly lackluster practice mode. You find it in-game after entering the respective game's practice mode. To download thprac, go to https://github.com/touhouworldcup/thprac and search for the releases button and download the first result (at the bottom of the first result, select the .exe file). My advice is that you place thcrap's executable in the folder where all of your games are stored and manually add the games using thprac's interface. In the download link there is a tutorial video of how to use it. Aaand... Done! Thprac works almost flawlessly under Linux, the only troubles is that sometimes when you update it, it looses the file locations or the interface gets all laggy after you close a game (just close and open thcrap again). It's also impossible to run Touhou6 directly from thprac, altough it's likely that if you run the game first and then launch thprac it will work (i didn't try it). Touhou6 is a pretty old game and it also has issues on Windows, be patient with it. 6) Troubleshooting Help: I'm going to place a common question, and its answer, like a common Q&A part of a website. My game makes my screen break! You are likely suffering from Screen Tearing, it's something that happens when the game wants to draw frames quicker than what your monitor supports. The effect is a graphical bug where horizontal lines cut the image and it makes it look ugly. This only happens if you are running the game under the Legacy X11 Graphics (worry unless you use KDE or a Wayland Window Manager). Currently it affects the mayority of desktop users. The solution is to enable the "tear-free" mode. Note that if you use an NVIDIA GPU you have to enable the feature inside their graphics menu, i never used NVIDIA so i can't help you here, search for "linux nvidia screen tearing" or something like that and follow the instructions. If you are using AMD/Intel, follow the instructions in this website https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_fix_screen_tearing . Please be careful, any error can make your system boot without graphics, read attentively. This is the setting i use to disable tearing, exclusively for recent AMD GPUs: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf (inside the text file, paste this using right click paste) Section "Device" Identifier "AMD Graphics" Driver "amdgpu" Option "TearFree" "true" EndSection My Touhou sounds wrong!!! This happens when you are using an incorrect version of WINE, please read the step below. Thcrap doesn't download anything! Our second WINE (what Linux uses to run Windows things) problem in the night! The problem can manifest itself as either errors during downloads of patches running Thcrap to modify your game, or when running the bundled executable, as it auto updates itself. It sometimes happens that WINE has some broken things, the solution is to change the WINE version. Luckily, Bottles provides an easy way to switch WINE versions. First, go to Bottle's general settings, look up the 3 dots in the top right and click Preferences, then click on Runners and search for the option that says Proton-GE, click it and select the first option in the drop-down menu and hit the Floppy/Save Button Once it downloads the version, go inside the Touhou Bottle, go to the Settings option and click the Runner setting. Then, a drop-down menu with all the available WINE versions will appear, select the Proton-GE and once it finishes try to launch Thcrap again. If it fails, repeat the steps but with other wine versions that aren't Proton-GE. My game's position looks shifted! This happens if you are on The X11 Legacy Graphics, it's impossible to fix. Well, you can switch to Wayland Graphics, but it's still not widely adopted, only GNOME, KDE and Window Managers like Sway fully support it at this time. Let's say that Seija infected your game and played with it's possition. You can always run the game in Windowed Mode. Eitherway, this shouldn't be problematic, because Touhou already has unused space in it's UI and it doesn't affect gameplay. Touhou 14 Crashes! Seija likes to troll you... There's currently a bug with thcrap that makes it crash the game if you run thcrap under X11. The solution is to annoy thcrap devs on their discord to make them fix it (don't be rude!), or run the game unpatched. Running the game with Wayland Graphics also fixes the issue. Touhou 14 doesn't save my controller scheme! Read the question above, Seija really hates Linux... The solution is to run the game unpatched. Thprac doesn't run Touhou 6! It's unfixable. Read step 5) for more information. Maybe politely annoy the devs of thprac??? My game doesn't connect to the internet! Follow the steps on the "Thcrap doesn't download anything!" section. 7) Technical Terms: Yes this is all over the place and not in alphabetic order, im too tired right now. I will format it better later if possible, if not im sorry :) Im not getting paid so it's fair. Wayland and X11: Wayland is a graphical api that makes sure that the programs and desktop inside your Linux can communicate effectively to your graphics card. It's the modern version of the older X11. KDE: A community of people that decided that making software following certain guidelines was Kool. Yes they like to write everything with a K, like Konsole or Kate. They also make a desktop enviorment jam packed of features. Desktop Enviorment: It's the interface you see when you boot up your computer. Windows has one, Mac has one, Android has one, you get it. WINE: It's a translation software that translates the differences in functioning between WIndows and Linux. Think of it as someone translating English to Spanish. GNOME: Another desktop enviorment that was created because they didn't like how Kool KDE is. Joking, it was because at the time there was some drama and im too tired to explain it. They like to not listen to their users and they give fancy excuses. Linux Distribution: When someone decides to make a version of Linux. The general term is Linux Distro, these are things like Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, AmogOS, Hanna Montannah Linux, Ubuntu Satanic Edition (yes, those existed). Package Manager & Flatpak: Already explained in the post. Read please! Steam Deck: Amazing handheld console that can also work as a personal computer thanks to Linux! Linux: A project from Linus Torvalds to create a kernel (what communicates between your hardware, like your mouse, and the software inside the PC). It took off and it's used in lots of things. You will often see a shitpost that says "it's not Linux, but GNU/Linux", yeah the GNU guys where involved in making Linux big but that's all, ignore it. Touhou: Why are you here? Game with epileptic lasers with badly drawn, but eitherway cute girls made by a Japanese Human who has addiction problems with beer. We like that in here. Window Manager: Something people who dislike to touch grass use. It's a more minimal approach to desktop enviorments, it usually also auto resizes windows to use all available screen real state. It's useful for people who really enjoy Linux's freedom aspect. Altough you will get better results with KDE or GNOME, avoid them if you want to keep your mental sanity. Did your Computer Explode??? Jokes aside, i hope this was helpful. We will see each other again shortly, but with guides in how to run PC98 games or Lost Word. Remember to comment how you want it to be done, either via answers in here or as sepparate Topics. If there's any improvement to this Topic, please comment it down below or via private messages (either from Moriya directly, or via my discord that's available on my profile page). I will post any new discoveries as comments (idk if you can edit posts here, never tried it, oh well). One more question, would you be interested in a "How to Linux 101" Topic? I can write a guide in how to switch if someone's interested, let me know!
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I always have pretty bad luck with my choices on Linux, turns out GNOME has some pretty big issues I could write a novel about. Anyway, I'm now on Nobara KDE and I found this absolutely stunning Sumireko wallpaper in a loading screen of Lost Word
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Wake up Babe, more music players!!! Quod Libet: Okay, it's available for pretty much every operating system but Android/iOS. This one surprised me with how well it works and how fast it is. It manages to give 0% usage of CPU and no kind of audio skipping or malfunctioning. Although it's a little memory intensive at about 120MB of RAM. I have to give them credit, it's written in python, and it's blazing fast. Tauon is also written in python, but it's like 5 times more resource intensive when you see the CPU usage. It has good plugin support, and it's being very actively developed, with a new version every 3 months or so. The developers say the focus of Quod Libet is to find a middle ground between music players entierly based on indexing the music tags and more simplistic ones that just read the folder name and treat it as the album name. They also say it scales well to libraries with 10.000 or more songs, something impressive once you notice that Tauon developers advice against doing this. Quod Libet has become my main music player, it's too well-made. If you want to read more, check their website. https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/# And of course, the screenshot!