Gensokyo (InstanceTopic, 7)

From Compile Worlds

Gensokyo is the setting of all Touhou games. It's home to humans and youkai of all sorts.

Because everyone in Gensokyo is female, this has led to the phrase "everyone in Gensokyo is gay". So yuri pairings in Gensokyo are just as normal as straight pairings in real life. Unfortunately, someone had to go and ruin it by introducing Rinnosuke and a few other male characters that we never actually see much. So we tend to ignore them. Even Wriggle was first thought to be a male, until she was revealed to be a tomboy. Alternatively, some of those cute little fairies we've been seeing... maybe some of them are actually boys. Who knows?

Also, pretty much everyone in Gensokyo is insane. And even though there are so many people capable of probably destroying it completely, "idiot colliding with idiot has always allowed Gensokyo to be at peace", as quite rightly stipulated by Yuka in Touhou Mother. Well... everyone's pretty good-natured, anyway, and those not considered "good-natured" are too idiotic to be evil.

Somehow, Gensokyo contains at least three hell areas: Hakugyokurou, Higan and Jigoku (Jigoku literally meaning "hell"), with several areas like the Hell of Blazing Fires. It also seems to have heaven, though that isn't really talked about much, and I don't know Tenshi Hinanai got there because it sure seems like the only thing she does is cause trouble. Which one you go to when you die, only some of the many Yama knows. And whether Makai should be included in that list is another puzzle. Is your mind blown yet?

It does exist in real Japan, but you can't get to it because of the Hakurei Shrine and its gate, and other unspeakable border secrets. But, it's thought that if it were to exist in real Japan without any border nonsense, it'd be somewhere in or around Nagano prefecture. With a European house that somehow got teleported there.