Touhou Project

A series of popular shooter and fighting games featuring little girls!

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  • Developer: ZUN
  • Release Date: 11/1996
 

Summary

Touhou Project is a series of doujin (fan) games with almost all of the characters being little girls. No, the creator, ZUN (Junya Ōta) doesn't like little girls a bit too much. He just can't draw very well, and they all end up looking very young. Seriously.

Gameplay

Fighting and shooting games.

Characters and Story

There are loads of characters. Loads of them. So only the most popular ones will be listed here.

Music

MIDI and IOSYS stuff here.

Memes

Armpits, Cirno ⑨, Pads, etc.

Origins

Starting with Highly Responsive to Prayers, and rebooting the series with Embodiment of Scarlet Devil,

Current status

Touhou 13: Ten Desires is the next game of the series, and is currently in progress.


Facts

  • Spawned many memes, some more famous than others (i.e. more know about "Tsurupettan" than "Pads" for example.)
  • Reimu is the most popular character.
  • Flandre's theme, "U.N. Owen Was Her?" was used the Ronald McDonald "Ran ran ru" clip.


Videos

The gameplay of the shooter games.
Gameplay of the fighter games.
Touhou Anime Project (unofficial animation) video clip.
IOSYS' "Captain Murasa's Ketsu Anchor" video.

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