"東方" (Japanese for "east")

A series of doujin vertical shooter games created by Oota Jun'ya (as ZUN), featuring a large cast of girls and almost no male characters.

Touhou first appeared on the NEC PC-9801 computers in its first five games between 1996 and 1998 before going into hiatus, during which ZUN left his former team, Amusement Makers. In 2002 he returned as the one-man doujin group Team Shanghai Alice and released Touhou for the Windows OS, thus exposing it to a larger audience.

The games themselves, mostly in the category danmaku ("bullet hell"), are addictive and have acquired a large following. In particular, his original music is incredibly popular and is the subject of numerous doujin remix albums.

Currently Touhou has thirteen mainstream danmaku shooter games, three danmaku spinoffs and four fighting spinoffs made in collaboration with Tasogare Frontier (spinoffs are in italics). A number of supplementary materials are also included in the series, including manga, short stories, fanbooks, and music CDs.

The backgrounds and personalities of its characters (majority of which come from the Windows generation) are often expanded upon in doujins, and occasionally ZUN would canonize some concepts.

NOTE: Due to most characters appearing in more than one game, only the "Touhou" tag should be used unless a specific game is directly referenced by the content of the post. All of the characters in picture having debuted in the same game is not sufficient to constitute a direct reference. Depicting the full cast of a game (with or without the protagonists) will usually count as a direct reference, so long as no other characters are present.

Games

PC-98 Generation

• 東方靈異伝 (Touhou Rei'iden) ～ Highly Responsive to Prayers
• 東方封魔録 (Touhou Fuumaroku) ～ Story of Eastern Wonderland
• 東方夢時空 (Touhou Yumejikuu) ～ Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream
• 東方幻想郷 (Touhou Gensoukyou) ～ Lotus Land Story
• 東方怪綺談 (Touhou Kaikidan) ～ Mystic Square

Windows Generation

• 東方紅魔郷 (Touhou Komakyou) ～ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
• 東方妖々夢 (Touhou Youyoumu) ～ Perfect Cherry Blossom
• 東方萃夢想 (Touhou Suimusou) ～ Immaterial and Missing Power
• 東方永夜抄 (Touhou Eiyashou) ～ Imperishable Night
• 東方花映塚 (Touhou Kaeizuka) ～ Phantasmagoria of Flower View
• 東方文花帖 (Touhou Bunkachou) ～ Shoot the Bullet
• 東方風神録 (Touhou Fuujinroku) ～ Mountain of Faith
• 東方緋想天 (Touhou Hisouten) ～ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
• 東方地霊殿 (Touhou Chireiden) ～ Subterranean Animism
• 東方星蓮船 (Touhou Seirensen) ～ Undefined Fantastic Object
• 東方非想天則 (Touhou Hisoutensoku)
• ダブルスポイラー　～ 東方文花帖 (Double Spoiler ～ Touhou Bunkachou)
• 妖精大戦争　～ 東方三月精 (Yousei Daisensou ～ Touhou Sangetsusei)
• 東方神霊廟 (Touhou Shinreibyou) ～ Ten Desires
• 東方心綺楼 (Touhou Shinkirou) ～ Hopeless Masquerade
• 東方輝針城 (Touhou Kishinjou) ～ Double Dealing Character

Other

Print Works

• 東方香霖堂 (Touhou Kourindou) ～ Curiosities of Lotus Asia
• 東方三月精 (Touhou Sangetsusei) ～ Eastern and Little Nature Deity
• 東方三月精 (Touhou Sangetsusei) ～ Strange and Bright Nature Deity
• 東方三月精 (Touhou Sangetsusei) ～ Oriental Sacred Place
• 東方文花帖 (Touhou Bunkachou) ～ Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red
• 東方紫香花 (Touhou Shikouhana) ～ Seasonal Dream Vision
• 東方求聞史紀 (Touhou Gumon Shiki) ～ Perfect Memento in Strict Sense
• 東方儚月抄 (Touhou Bougetsushou) ～ Silent Sinner in Blue
• 東方儚月抄 (Touhou Bougetsushou) ～ Cage in Lunatic Runagate
• 東方儚月抄 (Touhou Bougetsushou) ～ 月のイナバと地上の因幡 (Tsuki no Inaba to Chijou no Inaba, lit. Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth)
• The Grimoire of Marisa
• 東方茨歌仙 (Touhou Ibarakasen) ～ Wild and Horned Hermit
• 東方求聞口授　(Touhou Gumon Kuju) ～ Symposium of Post-mysticism

Music

• 蓬莱人形 (Hourai Ningyou) ～ Dolls in Pseudo Paradise
• 蓮台野夜行 (Rendaino Yakou) ～ Ghostly Field Club
• 夢違科学世紀 (Yumetagae Kagaku Seiki) ～ Changeability of Strange Dream
• 卯酉東海道 (Bouyu Toukaidou) ～ Retrospective 53 minutes
• 大空魔術 (Oozora Majutsu) ～ Magical Astronomy
• 幺樂団の歴史 (Yougakudan no Rekishi) ～ Akyuu's Untouched Score Vol.1-5
• 未知の花　魅知の旅 (Michi no Hana, Michi no Tabi), lit. Unknown Flower, Mesmerizing Journey
• 鳥船遺跡　(Torifune Iseki) ～ Trojan Green Asteroid

See also

• List of Touhou Characters
• External Link: Touhou Wiki
• External Link: Wikipedia
• External Link: Pixpedia(EN)

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