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Touhou Project is a series of bullet hell games featuring lots of cute girls.

Touhou Project (東方Project; often just Touhou) is a Japanese shoot-'em-up-game series. The player controls Hakurei Reimu, a shrine maiden, or Kirisame Marisa, a magician, and investigates strange occurrences in Gensokyo, a fictional land filled with humans, youkai (supernatural creatures), fairies, vampires, ghosts, aliens, and even gods.

Touhou has many adaptations, both official and fan works. In recent years it has been by far the most popular topic for stalls at Comiket. The original games are almost exclusively produced by one man known as ZUN.

Questions about gameplay of the games should be asked at Arqade.

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What's a good entry point for Touhou?

I've been wanting to try and get into Touhou. However, just looking at Wikipedia, there is a crap ton of games and most seem to be for very old systems; they aren't listed in chronological order by store (rather, by release date). So, I'm wondering:…
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What is the meaning of the title "Bad Apple", and which characters appear?

The original video for Bad Apple!! is one of the most well-known Touhou videos. Here's the original, together with English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEUeWnV73U Why is the song called Bad Apple? There is an apple in the video but I…
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Was the ufotable Touhou anime ever released?

In order to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Anime Tenchou (who most notably appears in Lucky Star), ufotable animated a 10 minute crossover anime between Touhou and Anime Tenchou in 2010. ANN has a news release about it here. I know that this was…
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What is Marisa doing underground with a device on her back?

There is an unusual scene in the opening of "The Memories of Phantasm", in which we see Kirisame Marisa with some kind of measurement or detection device on her back. Does it have a reference in any Touhou anime, manga or novel?
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In what order should I read the Touhou Project manga?

After a little online search, I've found the following list, compiled from wikia and wiki (excluding the two short stories and including the two comics in the Artbooks section), of official Touhou Project manga related to ZUN's scenarios: Eastern…
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What male characters are in Touhou?

Touhou Project has a lot of characters, but the vast majority of them are female. Even though Gensokyo has plenty of men, for whatever reason they are very rarely relevant to the story. To the best of my knowledge, none of the men have appeared in…
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Does Touhou 9: Phantasmagoria of Flower View reference a specific real world event in 2005?

Some background: ZUN released the full version of Touhou 9 at Comiket 68 on August 14, 2005. The premise of the story is that the protagonists are investigating an abnormally high number of blooming flowers. At the end of the story, they find out…
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Why are titles in Touhou often formatted like "Japanese title ~ English subtitle"?

I've noticed that a lot of Touhou games, music, and print works seem to have titles that consist of a Japanese part and an English part, where the two are separated with a tilde. For example, most of the main game titles follow this pattern,…
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What's this picture of a smiling character with blue eyes and light hair from?

I wonder where is this image from. Does anyone know its origin?
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What exactly is Touhou Kinema-kan?

I see a lot of unofficial anime-style Touhou opening and ending videos with something like "Touhou Anime Kinema-kan" mentioned in the title or description. For example: Touhou Anime Motion Picture ~Second Curtain~ 2nd PV 【東方】 Touhou Hana…
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Touhou Song Identification Request?

someone knows the exactly name of the song that is hearing in this video? The creator says that is a remix from Touhou called Eletric Cat but I can't find any song related, hope its okay. Here's the video…
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What color does Reimu's eye have?

I have seen Zun's artwork in both games and manga. Sometimes he shows that reimu have red eyes and sometimes she have dark brown eyes. [Ignoring PC-98 games where she have purple eyes] So what eye color does Hakurei Reimu have by default?
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Song identification request, likely from Touhou

I was recently watching a stream of one of my favourite League of Legends streamers, and he had a really good song in the background which sounded like it was from Touhou game. Here's a link to the stream at the time the song is playing…
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Song Identification Request, Touhou?

Does anyone know the name of this song? I think the base song is from Touhou? But I can't remember from which game it is. I really just need the original song name and I could probably find this particular arrangement, but it'd be great if the…
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