Touhou Project
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Touhou Project (東方プロジェクト, とうほうぷろじぇくと), also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a series of Japanese danmaku and fighting video games. It is developed by the single-person Team Shanghai Alice, whose sole member is ZUN. ZUN produces most of the games' graphics, music and programming.
Its own worldview, various characters with distinct personalities, carefully arranged geometric danmaku patterns, and varied styles of music designed for each character and every occasion are very popular among fans.
And because the producer ZUN has fewer restrictions on fanworks and looser management[1], many fans have produced a large number of doujin works for it, such as music, comics, novels, animations, illustrations, games, MAD, etc., Touhou has formed a wide variety of secondary creation trends. On Niconico, together with THE iDOLM@STER and VOCALOID, they are called "The Big Three". Up to now, the total playback volume of Touhou Projects related creation videos on Niconico has reached more than 4.5 billion, second only to the VOCALOID series.[2].
In October 2010, Touhou Project was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Most Prolific Fan-made Shooter Series"[3].
This page is the general introduction page of Touhou Project. For a detailed introduction to each Touhou work, character, and music albums, please click the corresponding links below.
Contents
Touhou Games
Games developed by ZUN Soft/Team Shanghai Alice.
PC-98 games
Touhou games for the PC-98 platform (the 1st to 5th works of the Touhou series) developed before the founding of Team Shanghai Alice, and are released under the name "ZUN Soft".
Due to the huge differences and inconsistencies between the characters and the background of the story with the later Windows version, and ZUN also expressed the hope that people will forget these five old works, the player group generally refers to these five works as "PC-98" series etc. Template:Touhou Project/PC-98 Games
Windows games
Touhou games for the Windows platform, developed after establishment of Team Shanghai Alice.
In addition to danmaku shooting, game types include danmaku fighting and danmaku action. Some are co-produced with Twilight Frontier. Template:Touhou Project/Windows Games
Touhou Music Works
Music CDs released by Team Shanghai Alice.
ZUN's Music Collection series
So far, ZUN has released a total of 9 albums under the name "ZUN's Music Collection" (10 albums plus 5.5 works). Each album contains re-arranged old tracks, especially from the PC-98 era, as well as new original tracks. Each album includes a bonus "story" written by ZUN himself. Among them Michi no Hana, Michi no Tabi and Nijiiro no Septentrion because only 3 tracks are included and no bonus stories are included, so it is released as "Touhou 5.5" and "Touhou 9.5".
Starting from "蓮台野夜行 ~ Ghostly Field Club", ZUN used Hifuu Club in the album cover artwork, and the story written also focuses on the activities of the Hifuu Club. ZUN's Music Collection has also become the exclusive debut work of the Hifuu Club.
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Akyu's Untouched Score
Akyu's Untouched Score is produced by ZUN and released under the name of Team Shanghai Alice, which consists of 5 albums on PC-98 platform Touhou Works (Old Works) Original Soundtrack Collection, including five old works: Highly Responsive to Prayers, Story of Eastern Wonderland, Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, Lotus Land Story, and Mystic Square. The game music in the album also includes unused tracks in the game, which are almost equivalent to the songs heard in the Music Room in Mystic Square[4] . Template:Touhou Project/Akyu's Untouched Score
Danmaku Fighting Game Music
Fighting game OST refers to the Original Track Album of the Touhou Project danmaku fighting game series. The album of the danmaku fighting game OST contains the fighting game tracks re-composed by Twilight Frontier, and sometimes also includes some re-arranged tracks for each fighting game by ZUN. After Shinpiteki Gakkyokushu, ZUN invited some Touhou music circles to participate in the creation. So far, the fighting game OST contains 8 CD albums: Gensoukyoku Bassui, Zenjinrui no Tengakuroku, Kakunetsu Zoushin Hisoutensolku, Ankokunou Gakushu Shinkirou, Shinpiteki Gakkyokushu, Shinpiteki Gakkyokushu·Ho, Kanzenhyou Discography, Gouyoku na Kemono no Mujika. Template:Touhou Project/Fighting Game OST
Other types of works
Non-game companion works (basically commercial works) officially released by Touhou Project, mainly books, comics, and novels, magazines etc.
Books
- Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red (東方文花帖 ~ Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red.) August 2005, published by Ichijinsha
- Seasonal Dream Vision (東方紫香花 ~ Seasonal Dream Vision.) September 2005, published by Toranoana
- Perfect Memento in Strict Sense (東方求聞史紀 ～Perfect Memento in Strict Sense.) December 2006, published by Ichijinsha
- Silent Sinner in Blue (东方儚月抄 ~ Silent Sinner in Blue.) April 2008, published by Ichijinsha
- The Grimoire of Marisa July 2009, published by Ichijinsha
- Symposium of Post-mysticism (東方求聞口授 ~ Symposium of Post-mysticism.) April 2012, published by Ichijinsha
- Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia (東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia. March 2017, published by Kadokawa
- New Touhou Project Danmaku Book Preview (新作弾幕本プレビューブック) comes with the 2018 Autumn issue of Strange Creators of Outer World, a preview of The Grimoire of Usami
- The Grimoire of Usami(The Grimoire of Usami 秘封倶楽部異界撮影記録) April 2019, published by Kadokawa
Novels・Manga
- [Novel] Curiosities of Lotus Asia (東方香霖堂 ~ Curiosities of Lotus Asia.)
- [Manga] Touhou Sangetsusei series
- 东方三月精 ~ Eastern and Little Nature Deity.
- Original manga・novel "月の妖精" Writing・Music CD: ZUN, art: Nemu Matsukura (松倉ねむ)
- 东方三月精 ~ Strange and Bright Nature Deity.
- Original manga・Music CD: ZUN, Art: Hirasaka Makoto
- Oriental Sacred Place.
- Original manga・Music CD: ZUN, Art: Hirasaka Makoto
- 东方三月精 ~ Visionary Fairies in Shrine.
- Original manga: ZUN, art: Hirazaka Makoto
- 东方三月精 ~ Eastern and Little Nature Deity.
- [Novel・Manga・Yonkoma manga] Touhou Bougetsushou series
- [Manga] Silent Sinner in Blue
- [Novel] Cage in Lunatic Runagate
- [Yonkoma manga] Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth
- [Manga] Wild and Horned Hermit (東方茨歌仙 ~ Wild and Horned Hermit.)
- [Manga] Forbidden Scrollery (東方鈴奈庵 ~ Forbidden Scrollery.)
- [Manga] Touhou Suichouka (東方酔蝶華 ~ ロータスイーター達の酔醒)
- [Manga] Touhou Chireikiden (東方智霊奇伝 反則探偵さとり)
Magazines
- Strange Creators of Outer World
- Published by ASCII MEDIA WORKS, the first official magazine of Touhou Project fully assisted and supervised by ZUN
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Well-known Touhou secondary creation works
- Note that due to the large number of secondary creations of varying quality, only the more famous works are listed here.
Anime, Manga
- Oriental Event Photo Gallery
- Touhou M-1 Manzai
- Oriental Young Spiritual Dream
- Fantasy Wanhua Mirror
- Dream Summer Village
- Secret Seal Activity Record
- Q version of Reimu Biography
- Memory of the Star
Fanmade danmaku shooting games
- Concealed the Conclusion
- Touhou Phantasm Dream
- Dongfang Longyin Talk
- Dongfang Haihuitang
- Evil Star Chapter
- Temple of Eastern Pseudo-Gods
- Oriental Guide Tree
- Oriental Taoyuan Palace
- Eastern White Dust
- Oriental Magic City
- TriFocuser
- Oriental Pearl Island
- Oriental Ghost Burial Sword
- Oriental Summer Night Festival
- Oriental Snow Lotus
- Oriental Curtain Festival
- Oriental Curtain Festival: Spring Snow Arc
- Dream of Oriental Prayer
- Oriental Qixia Garden
- Oriental Tide Book
- Oriental Dream Old City
- Raindrops of Oriental Life
- Oriental Fox Rescue Tan
- Gensokyo that disappears forever[5]
- Len'en Project (a tribute work, not strictly a Touhou fan work)
- Seihou Project (with the participation of ZUN and the cameo of Touhou characters, this series of works are related to Touhou but non-Touhou colleagues)
RPG
- The origin of the Eastern Cang God
- Chronicles of the East
- Eastern Night God Snow
- Gensokyo Gone Forever[5]
- Mysterious Gensokyo -Lotus Labyrinth-
- Touhou Chaos of Black Loong
Action Games
- Legend of the Red Devil City
- Dream of Demon Sword and Halberd
- Eastern Red Heart
- Eastern Luna Night
- Fantasy Gourd Night Festival
RTS Game
Mobile Platform Games
Only the profitable mobile platform games that have obtained the formal commercialization authorization of Team Shanghai Alice are listed here.
Extended reading
Characters appearing in various Touhou works
For the characters that appear in each work, please click Characters in Touhou Project/Series Works or refer to the big family template below.
Comments
- ↑ https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv6364137
- ↑ -{R|Most prolific fan-made shooter series}-. (original content, archived on 2013-04-24) (-{English}-).
- ↑ -{R|Most prolific fan-made shooter series}-. (original content, archived on 2013-04-24) (-{English}-).
- ↑ The BGM of the old work TH01-04 are all included in the Music Room of Mystic Square, but some changes have been made, which are different from the BGM in the original work
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 It belongs to the bullet screen shooting ARPG, and it is temporarily classified into two categories at the same time.
External Links
- (Japanese)Team Shanghai Alice official website
- (Japanese)Team Shanghai Alice's Regulations on Secondary Creation and Use
THBWiki (Note that this site is under CC BY-NC-SA license, so don't mix the content there with that in the English Moegirlpedia.)
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