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PC-98/Arcade welcome screen of Touhou Project

Touhou Project (in Japanese: 東方, East or Eastern) is a series of Doujin scrolling shooter games in the "Bullet Hell" subgenre, developed by Team Shanghai Alice. It is notable for its high difficulty level, intricate bullet patterns, and the fact that every character in the series is a Little Miss Badass, Cute Monster Girl, or Cute Witch, and wears some degree of Elegant Gothic Lolita clothing. Much of the popularity of the series, however, comes from its large Doujinshi and Shipping community. This is unusual in that the community is creating doujinshi based on doujinshi. In the case of amateur music videos made with doujinshi arrangements of the in-game music tracks, this is taken to yet another level. Indeed, most of the characters are given only a framework personality in the games, traditionally leaving most of the details up to Fanon. However, the series creator has written quite a bit of manga, stories, and general information for it as well.

Nearly all the games in the series have a plot along these lines: In the Magical Land of Gensoukyou - a Fantasy Kitchen Sink in Japan, which exists halfway inside Another Dimension thanks to a powerful magical barrier - some Big Bad with a lot of Applied Phlebotinum on their hands has gotten bored and decided to mess with the laws of nature. Miko Reimu Hakurei or magician Marisa Kirisame, due to annoyance and greed, respectively, must go out and fix the problem, occasionally with playable versions of bosses from previous games thrown in for kicks. They spend the first 2 levels wandering aimlessly and defeating random monsters/people that have no relation to the Big Bad. The third boss, however, happens to know something about the incident and points them in the right direction. The fifth boss is the Big Bad's Battle Butler, and the sixth boss is the Big Bad herself. After defeating the Big Bad, the main character will have a tea party with the Big Bad and their Battle Butler, and then be asked to perform some task which involves defeating the Big Bad's Rival, which takes the form of the game's ultra-difficult extra stage.

Like Cave Story, it's also outstanding in that the entirety of the games, including the sprite graphics, 3D graphics, character portraits, dialogue, story, music composition, programming, bullet-patterns, and concept are all done by one person known as "ZUN".

Touhou 6 - Embodiement of Scarlet Devil

The official games in chronological order:

TH 01 Highly Responsive to Prayers *
TH 02 The Story of Eastern Wonderland *
TH 03 Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream *
TH 04 Lotus Land Story *
TH 05 Mystic Square *
TH 06 The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil *
TH 07 Perfect Cherry Blossom *
TH 07.5 Immaterial and Missing Power *
TH 08 Imperishable Night *
TH 09 Phantasmagoria of Flower View *
TH 09.5 Shoot the Bullet *
TH 10 Mountain of Faith *
TH 10.5 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody *
TH 11 Subterranean Animism *
TH 12 Undefined Fantastic Object *
TH 12.3 Hisoutensoku *
TH 12.5 Double Spoiler *
TH 12.8 Fairy Wars *

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Personally it became one of my favourites games series...
Is someone know some animes, games of Touhou (or its variants) or something in relation with it?

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And you?