18 August 2016

INFO: Touhou Project ×24 pix (hentai) [reworked]

Touhou Project
(東方Project)
×24 pix
(hentai: Luscious — images: Danbooru
— tag: this blog — info)
Sole Developer: ZUN

    
Remilia SCARLET
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~ Utakata
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      Flandre SCARLET
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~ Tianlluo
(images: Danbooru)

The Touhou Project (東方Project Tōhō Purojekuto, lit. Eastern Project), also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a series of Japanese bullet hell shooter video games developed by the single-person Team Shanghai Alice. Team Shanghai Alice's sole member, ZUN, independently produces the games' graphics, music, and programming.

KURODANI Yamame
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~ HITOTSUKI Nebura
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Plots in the Touhou Project games revolve around the strange phenomena occurring in Gensokyo, a fictional realm inhabited by humans and yōkai, supernatural beings. Prior to the events of the games, Gensokyo was sealed off from the outside world by a magical barrier. The main protagonist of the series, Reimu Hakurei, is a shrine maiden who manages the border, fighting antagonistic yōkai. The first five games were produced for the Japanese NEC PC-9801 computer series; bullet hell mechanics were introduced in the second game, Story of Eastern Wonderland. The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, released in August 2002, marked a shift to the Microsoft Windows platform, bringing the games to a larger audience. Several sequels followed, including spin-off fighting games that diverged from the series' traditional mechanics.

    
INUBASHIRI Momiji
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~ Dragoner
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KOCHIYA Sanae
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~ AKANAGI Youto
(images: Danbooru)

The series was inducted into the Guinness World Records in October 2010 for being the "most prolific fan-made shooter series". The Touhou Project has spawned a media franchise including commercial fan books, music, light novels, and manga, in addition to the main series.

    
Patchouli KNOWLEDGE
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~ Ebi 193
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      KOCHIYA Sanae
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~ MIDORIIRO no Shinzou
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Background:
The plots of the Touhou Project revolve around the strange phenomena that occur in the fictional realm of Gensokyo (幻想郷 Gensōkyō, literally Illusion Village or Fantasy Village), which ZUN designed with a human village in the grounds of some remote mountain recesses in Japan. Originally, it was simply called "a remote separated land of a human village in an eastern country." Long before the Touhou Project '​s story begins, there lived many non-humans like yōkai as well as some humans in the area. After a few humans lost their way into Gensokyo, humans became afraid of approaching this area, although others settled here for the sake of yōkai extermination. However, as time went on, humans developed civilization and multiplied in number, and thus the yōkai became distressed about how this would affect the balance between humans and yōkai. Thus, 500 years before The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (EoSD), the yōkai sage Yukari Yakumo developed the "boundary of phantasm and substance," which was favored by the yōkai and protected the balance. This was called the "Yōkai Expansion Project" and made Gensokyo a phantasmal world that automatically called out to the weakened yōkai of the outside world. Other things that disappear from the outside world, like extinct animals, lost tools, and architecture, also became abundant in Gensokyo. Since Gensokyo was a plot of land in Japan that was separated by a barrier, it is Japan that is immediately outside of this barrier.

SHIKI Eiki
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~ Tenyunkel
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As a result of the seal, Gensokyo became inaccessible from the outside world, and similarly, those in Gensokyo were unable to leave. Gensokyo's existence could not be confirmed from the outside world, nor could the outside world be confirmed within Gensokyo. As a result, the isolated community developed its own civilization, different from that of the outside world. Although separated by a barrier, it is a bordering world to its outside, as opposed to being in a parallel universe. There are no seas in Gensokyo, since it is an inland mountain. In Gensokyo, there are few humans, and various kinds of yōkai. Some species include magicians, beasts, therianthropies, vampires, bōrei, tengu, mermaids, kappa, and yōkai (a kind of miscellaneous group). There are others species that could be yōkai depending on definition, like fairies, spirits, yūrei, onryō, poltergeists, hermits, oni, and gods.

    
AKI Minoriko
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~ Tenyunkel
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KAZAMI Yuuka
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~ Yoiro
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In present Gensokyo, which is presented in all Touhou Project games since EoSD, as opposed to the outside world where unscientific phenomena were dismissed as "superstition" by the time of the Meiji era, magical and spiritual qualities prevail. The only known gateway from the outside world into Gensokyo is the Hakurei Shrine on the border of Gensokyo. The spell card rules were also established to keep up the relationship between humans and yōkai in a mock style, which was necessary for the preservation of the balance of Gensokyo. The "Great Hakurei Barrier," managed by Hakurei Miko, was constructed several decades before EoSD, which is described as a "barrier of common sense," and is thus a strong logical barrier that not even yōkai can pass through. The yōkai were at first against its construction, but then gradually understood its usefulness.

    
KOMEIJI Satori
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~ Ebi 193
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      KOMEIJI Koishi
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~ Ebi 193
(images: Danbooru)

Development:
The Touhou Project is a one-man project by a Japanese game maker, ZUN, who does all the graphics, music, and programming alone for the bullet hell games, with the exceptions of the portrait art in Fairy Wars, which is by Makoto Hirasaka. The fighting games, namely Immaterial and Missing Power, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Touhou Hisōtensoku, Hopeless Masquerade, and Urban Legend in Limbo were dual efforts with Twilight Frontier.

    
KAENBYOU Rin
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~ Hira
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KONPAKU Youmu
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Patchouli KNOWLEDGE
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~ Metior
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The idea of Touhou first came to ZUN during his high school years, when shrine maiden-themed games were in the minority. "It would be nice to make shrine maiden games," he thought, and often imagined the music that would go with such games. He went to college, hoping to compose music for fighting games, since they were popular at the time due to Street Fighter II. However, he decided that in order to put his music into games, it would be easier to make his own game to go with it, thus the first Touhou game, Highly Responsive to Prayers, was released in 1996. The first game was originally intended as a practice in programming. Touhou only became a shooting game series starting from the second game, because the popularity of shooting games had revived due to RayForce and ZUN had long been a fan of such games. ZUN remarked how the general theme and direction of Touhou only started coming together in the sixth game, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

ZUN develops his games with Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop, and Cubase, according to his interview in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red.

[source: Wikipedia]

    
HOUJUU Nue
(images: Danbooru)
~ Ebi 193
(images: Danbooru)
      Luna Child
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~ Ebi 193
(images: Danbooru)

— Anime —
  • Hakkenden: Touhou Hakken Ibun doujinshi (dj) OVA @ KissAnime.com: [subbed] & [dubbed]
  • Hakkenden: Touhou Hakken Ibun 2nd Season dj anime: [subbed] & [dubbed]
  • Touhou Mangekyou ~ Memories of Phantasm dj OVA: [subbed]
  • Touhou Niji Sousaku Doujin Anime: Musou Kakyou dj OVA: [subbed]
  • Touhou Niji Sousaku Doujin Anime: Musou Kakyou Special dj special: [subbed]

    
HOURAISAN Kaguya
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~ Qlache
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Nazrin
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~ Noveske n4
(images: Danbooru)

— Manga —

    
KASODANI Kyouko
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~ Hakika
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Translation:
Lick me ♥
     
NAGAE Iku
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~ Aoshima
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— Hentai —


    
INUBASHIRI Momiji
(images: Danbooru)
~ Ebi 193
(images: Danbooru)
      MORIYA Suwako
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~ Nakajou
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— IMAGES —

    
HAKUREI Reimu
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~ ga015
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SAIGYOUJI Yuyuko
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~ Rico
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