touhou

📅 Updated:2025-10-02

🕒 Created:2010-12-02

🆔 ID:1267

Description

The Touhou Project (東方Project, Tōhō Purojekuto), also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a Japanese dōjin game series focused on bullet hell shooters made by the one-man developer Team Shanghai Alice, whose sole member, known as ZUN, is responsible for all the graphics, music, and programming. Fighting game spinoffs are developed by a different developer, Twilight Frontier, who have also helped with some more recent Touhou games. It is most well known for the memorable characters and addictive music.

While many characters in Touhou are humanoid yokai, they are largely indistinguishable from humans and do not meet e621's standards for uploading on their own. However, animal humanoid characters such as Mamizou Futatsuiwa, Ran Yakumo, and Reisen Udongein Inaba (among others) are generally acceptable, as well as furrified versions of non-animal-humanoid characters,

Games in the series

Main

NEC PC-98

1. 東方靈異伝 (Touhou Reiiden) ~ The Highly Responsive to Prayers (1997)
2. 東方封魔録 (Touhou Fuumaroku) ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland (1997)
3. 東方夢時空 (Touhou Yumejikuu) ~ The Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream (1998)
4. 東方幻想郷 (Touhou Gensoukyou) ~ Lotus Land Story (1998)
5. 東方怪綺談 (Touhou Kaikidan) ~ Mystic Square (1998)

Windows

6. 東方紅魔郷 (Touhou Koumakyou) ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002)
7. 東方妖々夢 (Touhou Youyoumu) ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom (2003)
8. 東方永夜抄 (Touhou Eiyashou) ~ Imperishable Night (2004)
9. 東方花映塚 (Touhou Kaeizuka) ~ Phantasmagoria of Flower View (2005)
10. 東方風神録 (Touhou Fuujinroku) ~ Mountain of Faith (2007)
11. 東方地霊殿 (Touhou Chireiden) ~ Subterranean Animism (2008)
12. 東方星蓮船 (Touhou Seirensen) ~ Undefined Fantastic Object (2009)
13. 東方神霊廟 (Touhou Shinreibyou) ~ Ten Desires (2011)
14. 東方輝針城 (Touhou Kishinjou) ~ Double Dealing Character (2013)
15. 東方紺珠伝 (Touhou Kanjuden) ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom (2015)
16. 東方天空璋 (Touhou Tenkuushou) ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons (2017)
17, 東方鬼形獣 (Touhou Kikeijuu) ~ Wily Beast and Weakest Creature (2019)
18. 東方虹龍洞 (Touhou Kouryuudou) ~ Unconnected Marketeers (2021)
19. 東方獣王園 (Touhou Juuouen) ~ Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost (2023)
20. 東方錦上京 (Touhou Kinjoukyou) ~ Fossilized Wonders (2025)

Spinoffs

Note: Spinoff games are numbered with decimal fractions. They chronologically occur before the events of the next whole-numbered game they can be rounded up to (i.e. Immaterial and Missing Power takes place before Imperishable Night, despite the former being released after the latter).

7.5. 東方萃夢想 (Touhou Suimusou) ~ Immaterial and Missing Power (2004)
9.5. 東方文花帖 (Touhou Bunkachou) ~ Shoot the Bullet (2005)
10.5. 東方緋想天 (Touhou Hisouten) ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (2008)
12.3. 東方非想天則　～超弩級ギニョルの謎を追え (Touhou Hisoutensoku ~ Chase the Enigma of the Gargantuan Guignol) (2009)
12.5. ダブルスポイラー　～東方文花帖 (Double Spoiler ~ Touhou Bunkachou) (2010)
12.8. 妖精大戦争　～東方三月精 (Great Fairy Wars ~ Touhou Sangetsusei) (2010)
13.5. 東方心綺楼 (Touhou Shinkirou) ~ Hopeless Masquerade) (2013)
14.3. 弾幕アマノジャク (Danmaku Amanojaku) ~ Impossible Spell Card (2014)
14.5. 東方深秘録 (Touhou Shinpiroku) ~ Urban Legend in Limbo (2015)
15.5. 東方憑依華 (Touhou Hyouibana) ~ Antinomy of Common Flowers (2017)
16.5. 秘封ナイトメアダイアリー (Hifuu Nightmare Diary) ~ Violet Detector (2018)
17.5. 東方剛欲異聞 (Touhou Gouyoku Ibun) ~ Sunken Fossil World (2021)
18.5. バレットフィリア達の闇市場 (Bulletphiles' Black Market) ~ 100th Black Market (2022)