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The Touhou Project (Japanese: 東方Project, Hepburn: Tōhō Purojekuto), also known simply as Touhou (東方, meaning "Eastern" or "Oriental"), is a bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series created by independent Japanese doujin soft developer Team Shanghai Alice.
Most Touhou characters reside in a fictional realm called Gensokyo (幻想郷, 'Land of Illusions'), where humans and yōkai coexist. Gensokyo's culture is like that of feudal Japan, but the Touhou games take place in the present day. Many yōkai prey on and eat humans, and humans subsequently try to exorcise them, but no racial resentment ...
The Touhou Project is set in Gensokyo, [d] a land sealed from the outside human world and primarily inhabited by yōkai, legendary creatures from Japanese folklore that are anthropomorphised in the Touhou Project. A small number of humans live in Gensokyo, however. [5]
In addition to the Touhou Project games, ZUN has provided writing for several official Touhou Project print works, produced in collaboration with various illustrators and publishers: Curiosities of Lotus Asia (東方香霖堂, Tōhō Kōrindō, lit. "Fragrant Rain Temple", 2004–2007, 2015–present) Touhou Sangetsusei (東方三月精, lit.
(Japanese: 東方深秘録 ～ Urban Legend in Limbo., lit. "Eastern Record of Deep Mysteries") is a fighting game developed by Twilight Frontier and Team Shanghai Alice and published by Twilight Frontier. [3] It is the 14.5th installment in the Touhou Project series and the first game to be illustrated by Moe Harukawa (who worked on Forbidden ...
Danmaku Amanojaku ~ Impossible Spell Card. (Japanese: 弾幕アマノジャク ～ Impossible Spell Card.) is a vertically scrolling shooter and the 14.3rd official game of the Touhou Project series. [2] It was first released in the 11th Hakurei Shrine Reitaisai on May 11, 2014. It released on Steam on April 1, 2019. [3]
Touhou Project has become more particularly notable as a prominent source of Japanese dōjin content, with the series spawning a vast amount of fan-made works such as artwork, music, print works, video games, and Internet memes. Because of this, it has gained a large cult following outside of Japan.
Touhou Hisoutensoku ~ Chōdokyū Ginyoru no Nazo wo Oe (Japanese: 東方非想天則 〜 超弩級ギニョルの謎を追え, lit. "Unperceiving of Natural Law ~ Chase the Enigma of the Gargantuan Guignol") is a versus fighting game in the Touhou Project game series.