Touhou Project (ConceptTopic, 4)

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'''Touhou Project''', also known as '''Project Shrine Maiden''', is a game for crazy [[Japanese]] people and [[User:KasaneTeto|other lunatics]] that can somehow find the resolve to battle ginormous amounts of [[beam spamming]] and [[bullet hell]]. Some would say that the people who play it need [[psychological help]], but it's still awesome (and the above would apply even moreso to people playing other danmaku goodness). Besides, it has dozens of [[loli]]s and kickass [[music]] (with even better [[remix]]es). These qualities have lent the series fans ([[User:Keiji|actually just one, as far as we know]], amongst the millions) who have never even got anywhere in the actual games themselves.

The series is about a fantasy land called [[Gensokyo]], which magically attracts all the otherwise implausible characters that show up throughout. There's the shrine maiden [[Reimu Hakurei]], the magician-thief [[Marisa Kirisame]] (and she's got [[Master Spark|lovely sparks]]) and all sorts of mystical creatures like [[ghosts]], [[youkai]], living [[dolls]]... yup.

The series is brought to you by [[Team Shanghai Alice]], whose only member is some drunk alcoholic many fans call [[ZUN]], also a former [[Amusement Makers]] member (where Touhou really started). Wonder how old he was when he started drinking.

Despite the relatively typical genre of the games, the Touhou series has inspired a huge universe around it, not to mention all sorts of crazy [[meme]]s.

== Characters that actually matter ==
{{selfref|Listed in order of debut. For the missing ones, see [[Touhou PC98 and minor characters]].}}
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*[[Reimu Hakurei]]
*[[Mima]]
*[[Marisa Kirisame]]
*[[Yuuka Kazami]]
*[[Alice Margatroid]]
*[[Rumia]]
*[[Cirno]]
*[[Hong Meiling]]
*[[Koakuma]]
*[[Patchouli Knowledge]]
*[[Sakuya Izayoi]]
*[[Remilia Scarlet]]
*[[Flandre Scarlet]]
*[[Letty Whiterock]]
*[[Chen]]
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*[[Lunasa Prismriver]]
*[[Merlin Prismriver]]
*[[Lyrica Prismriver]]
*[[Youmu Konpaku]]
*[[Yuyuko Saigyouji]]
*[[Ran Yakumo]]
*[[Yukari Yakumo]]
*[[Suika Ibuki]]
*[[Wriggle Nightbug]]
*[[Mystia Lorelei]]
*[[Keine Kamishirasawa]]
*[[Tewi Inaba]]
*[[Reisen Udongein Inaba]]
*[[Eirin Yagokoro]]
*[[Kaguya Houraisan]]
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*[[Fujiwara no Mokou]]
*[[Aya Shameimaru]]
*[[Medicine Melancholy]]
*[[Komachi Onozuka]]
*[[Sikieki Yamaxanadu]]
*[[Shizuha Aki]]
*[[Minoriko Aki]]
*[[Hina Kagiyama]]
*[[Nitori Kawashiro]]
*[[Momiji Inubashiri]]
*[[Sanae Kochiya]]
*[[Kanako Yasaka]]
*[[Suwako Moriya]]
*[[Iku Nagae]]
*[[Tenshi Hinanai]]
*[[Yamame Kurodani]]
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*[[Parsee Mizuhashi]]
*[[Yuugi Hoshiguma]]
*[[Satori Komeiji]]
*[[Rin Kaenbyou]]
*[[Utsuho Reiuji]]
*[[Koishi Komeiji]]
*[[Nazrin]]
*[[Kogasa Tatara]]
*[[Ichirin Kumoi]]
*[[Minamitsu Murasa]]
*[[Shou Toramaru]]
*[[Byakuren Hiziri]]
*[[Nue Houjuu]]
*[[Hatate Himekaidou]]
*[[Kyouko Kasodani]]
*[[Yoshika Miyako]]
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== Games ==
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 1 [[Highly Responsive to Prayers]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 2 [[Story of Eastern Wonderland]]
*<[#embed [hash 7A7KRH6Z1P9S89S6TG2QRSX1ZX]]> 3 [[Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 4 [[Lotus Land Story]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 5 [[Mystic Square]]
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*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 6 [[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 7 [[Perfect Cherry Blossom]]
*<[#embed [hash 30C8G2T9KJYY2PJT8DDRTQBA0X]]> 7.5 [[Immaterial and Missing Power]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 8 [[Imperishable Night]]
*<[#embed [hash 7A7KRH6Z1P9S89S6TG2QRSX1ZX]]> 9 [[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]
*<[#embed [hash M89K0M7PYN2ZR9FHQ5C0C1J0MT]]> 9.5 [[Shoot the Bullet]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 10 [[Mountain of Faith]]
*<[#embed [hash 30C8G2T9KJYY2PJT8DDRTQBA0X]]> 10.5 [[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 11 [[Subterranean Animism]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 12 [[Undefined Fantastic Object]]
*<[#embed [hash 30C8G2T9KJYY2PJT8DDRTQBA0X]]> 12.3 [[Hisoutensoku]]
*<[#embed [hash M89K0M7PYN2ZR9FHQ5C0C1J0MT]]> 12.5 [[Double Spoiler]]
*<[#embed [hash 8VYG0KEFZBB5MQ82PJWATVDFY5]]> 12.8 [[Fairy Wars]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 13 [[Ten Desires]]
*<[#embed [hash 30C8G2T9KJYY2PJT8DDRTQBA0X]]> 13.5 [[Hopeless Masquerade]]
*<[#embed [hash W8FRPN9DNRZSG8413SZRJRJDMQ]]> 14 [[Double Dealing Character]]

If all fangames are going to be included, [[over 9000|this page will only be stretched unnecessarily]], seeing how this series has much more fangames than even [[Sonic the Hedgehog]].

== Anime ==
So far, Touhou's not had a proper [[anime]] adaptation, mainly because until fairly recently ZUN was opposed to the creation of a Touhou anime.

There have been three attempts at very short anime adaptations...
*one that was apparently too rubbish to find anymore... could do with sources on this
*[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Musou_Kakyou:_A_Summer_Day%27s_Dream Musou Kakyou: A Summer Day's Dream] (YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOXtdZEw-Xo part 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjdnJTExL-Q part 2] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbML4LTESM part 3])
*That ufotable one, [http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=9875 Anime Tenchou x Touhou Project]. Yes, that one from [http://cw.nanako.cc/wiki/:File/PEYA4PDYC072YFT26KQECPMXWH the infamous Sankaku article]. It's 10 minutes long and came and went with nobody noticing. Baw.