Touhou Project [東方 Project]

Do you know what Touhou is?
As someone who proclaim to studying(be) Japanese Modern Culture Society (Otaku in short), it is not perfect without knowing what Touhou is...

What is Touhou Project?

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is a series of 2D (with 3D background) vertically-scrolling danmaku shooting games made by Team Shanghai Alice (which consist of only one member; ZUN).
They are similar to regular shooting games, BUT is freaking hard to play and dodge hundreds (heck hundreds...those were millions!!) of danmaku.
(Btw,danmaku = that bullets you see on the picture. Dodge that!)

What makes Touhou popular? I can't figure that my self...it's a mystery. Perhaps the overloads of the characters and the BGMs (Background Music).

Latest one from ZUN is Touhou 13: 10 Desires (as of 16th April 2011). The demo has been released on the 15th of April. I have given a try...and so far found 2 new characters. Gotta wait for full release.

Other than that,there are tonnes of touhou-based doujin and doujin games made by fans.
One of them (and the latest one) is Touhou Sky Arena.



How popular Touhou is? Well...you never seen a fan made music out of any game's BGM right? That's not for touhou! You can say...Every and each of the BGM ZUN made,has their derivatives and overload on Niconico and Youtube!
Famous circle like SoundHolic,Golden Factory,IOSYS,TAMUSIC and many more made Touhou rearrange music in every Comiket there is..

This one is perhaps the most famous Touhou PV:

[Bad Apple]Try and guess the characters...

and Touhou anime:

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(sorry...although The Memories of Phantasm looks promising,those were just a fanmade)

And fan-made manga/4koma about Touhou are all over the internet. Try search : Colonel Aki's Life of Maid, or Touhou: Silent Sinner in Blue. Those are one of many touhou fav doujin.

Colonel Aki's Life of Maid #111 #112

Touhou: Silent Sinner in Blue Page Cover




Truth to be told; Touhou is so vast I can't explain it in details here. You'll need to discover 'em!
There's Touhou-wiki for ya: [http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki]

Lastly:


Means "YUKKURI SHITE ITTE NE!" or "TAKE IT EASY!!" indicates that take it easy while playing touhou...if you ever play on Lunatic level...

oh yeah...notes for ya:


Will post more about Touhou in the future~

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