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[[File:touhou_img.jpg|frame<small>{{quote box|Clockwise from top left: [[Person of Mass Destruction|Flandre]], [[Ninja Maid|Sakuya]], [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|Remilia]], [[Cute Ghost Girl|Yuyuko]], [[Half- Human Hybrid|Youmu]], [[Marionette Master|Alice]], [[Cute Witch|Marisa]], [[Catgirl|Chen]], [[Kitsune|Ran]], [[Reality Warper|Yukari]], [[Miko|Reimu]]. [[Loads and Loads of Characters|A very, VERY small fraction]] of the [["Touhou (Video Game)/Characters|characters in the series]]."}}]]</small>
 
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** [[Seihou]] (or "西方"; literally means ''Western'')
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{{quote| ''Girls do their best now and are preparing. [[Loads and Loads of Loading|Please watch warmly until it is ready]].''}}
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''Touhou Project'' ("Touhou", 東方, meaning ''Eastern'' or ''Oriental'', [[No Pronunciation Guide|pronounced]] "Toh Hoh") is a series of [[Doujin]] scrolling shooter games in the "[[Bullet Hell]]" subgenre, developed by Team Shanghai Alice. It is most famous for its high difficulty level involving intricate bullet patterns, and the fact that instead of having spaceships and warfare vehicles, it has girls in frilly dresses: nearly every character is a [[Little Miss Badass]], [[Cute Monster Girl]], or [[Cute Witch]], and wears some degree of [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] clothing. Much of its popularity, however, comes from its enormous [[Doujinshi]] and [[Shipping]] community, unusual in that the community is creating doujinshi based on doujinshi, and is taken to another level with the equally enormous amounts of amateur musical arranges of the games' music. Indeed, most of the characters are [[OC Stand In|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 [[Expanded Universe|manga, stories]], and [[All There in the Manual|general information]] for it as well.
 
Nearly all the games in the series have a plot along these lines: In the [[Magical Land]] of [[Fantastic Nature Reserve|Gensokyo]] - a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] in Japan, which exists halfway inside [[Another Dimension]] thanks to a powerful magical barrier - some [[Anti- Villain]] with a lot of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] on their hands thinks messing with the laws of nature to fulfill a not really evil plan would be a good idea. [[Miko]] Reimu Hakurei or [[Cute Witch|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 [[Defeat Means Friendship|tea party]] with the Big Bad and their Battle Butler after which some other task arises, taking the form of the game's ultra-difficult [[Bonus Dungeon|extra stage]].
 
Like ''[[Cave Story (Video Game)|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 [[Reclusive Artist|known only as]] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/ZUN "ZUN".]
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** In ''Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream'' Chiyuri is Yumemi's research assistant in "comparative physics".
** ''Mystic Square'' and ''The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' both have [[Ninja Maid|Ninja Maids]] in the form of Yumeko and Sakuya, the latter being by far one of the most popular characters of the franchise.
** ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' introduces [[What Do You Mean It'sIts Not Awesome?|samurai gardener]] Youmu. You wouldn't recognize her as such from the fanbase, though.
** Eirin and Reisen from ''Imperishable Night'' both fit the part, being Kaguya's pharmacist and pet respectively.
** Komachi from ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'' also counts, since her official job is to be [[The Ferry Man]] of the Sanzu River.
** In ''Mountain of Faith'' Sanae is the priestess of both the final and extra boss.
** ''Subterranean Animism'' reverses this trend by having the [[Big Bad]] and the stage 5 boss be the pets of the stage 4 boss.
* [[Badass]]: ''[[World of Badass|Every]] [[Adaptational Badass|single]] [[Badass Adorable|girl]]'', but [[Beyond the Impossible|that]] [[What Do You Mean It'sIts Not Awesome?|soccer]] [[Mundangerous|ball]] [[Memetic Mutation|is the most powerful thing in Gensokyo]]!<ref>The soccer ball is able to withstand every girl's spell card.</ref>
* [[Berserk Button]]: The fandom has one in the question "What anime is this?" as well as when someone on YouTube claims that ''Touhou'' [[A Worldwide Punomenon|stole from]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssh71hePR8Q the McRoll.] For the uninitiated, the McRoll is based on Flandre's theme, ''not'' the other way around. Western fandom is also beginning to detest old memes ([[Hilarious in Hindsight|pads]], etc.).
** May the Lord have mercy on you if you tell Reimu she has awful night vision.
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* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]:
** The premise of ''Mountain of Faith'', along with [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]].
** If [[The One Guy|Rinnosuke]]'s theories are correct, the entire realm of Gensokyo ''inverts'' this. According to him, things such as magic, youkai, gods, etc. are able to exist in Gensokyo because people in the outside world ''actively disbelieve'' in them. For instance, in the tie-in manga ''Silent Sinner in Blue'', he manages to find information on the Moon landings because, as he claims, enough people have become convinced that they never happened. There is also evidence to the contrary (what with him being a [[Know- Nothing Know- It- All]]), so this is hardly conclusive proof.
** In general, this is how youkai and gods come into being. The belief of them makes them stronger, while forgetting them causes them to ether disappear (Youkais) or return to being a nameless Divine Spirit (God). Gods, however are shaped by their Myths, which allows them to change their titles and powers due to their followers believing in them. Yasaka was orginally a Storm god before she became a Mountain god, for example. The real reason for Gensokyo is to seperate the Youkai from human imagiation, allowing them to shape themselves. This trope is played straight, subverted, and inverted all at the same time.
* [[Conservation of Competence]]
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* [[David Versus Goliath]]: Averted. The playable characters are all depicted as being at least as powerful and competent as any of the boss characters, and are the same size as the boss characters. Especially unusual in 2D scrolling shooter games, since most tend to have huge tanks and planes as bosses which are much bigger than the player character. The rules of danmaku, which every character follows, make sure that everyone has a chance of winning despite their difference in sheer power. The player characters even have their own [[Calling Your Attacks|special attacks]] comparable to boss characters' attacks... just not when you're controlling them.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: At least one ending to every game involves the main character having a tea party with the [[Big Bad]], and [[The Dragon|dragons]] Sakuya Izayoi, Youmu Konpaku, Sanae Kochiya, and even Marisa Kirisame have become playable characters after getting defeated.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea With Cthulhu?]]: Pretty much every game has an ending like this.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: In the PC-98 games, you defeat the Angel of Death, [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|two goddesses who created their own dream world (just because your player character was bored)]], and The Goddess of Hell. In the Windows series, the protagonist stops the mistress of the Netherworld with the power to invoke death in mortals, the local Charon equivalent, one of the Judges of the dead (who is implied to be more powerful than anything in Gensokyo), five gods, a hell raven who gains the power of nuclear fusion after devouring a dead sun god, and a vampire that can destroy anything she sees, not to mention the [[Reality Warper|reality-warping]] youkai who may have created Gensokyo itself. This is one of the purposes behind the spell card system - it allows even weak humans and youkai a chance at fighting stronger opponents to settle accounts, without needless, one-sided bloodshed.
* [[Do Not Spoil This Ending]]: ZUN has requested that the fanbase keep the endings of the games secret and, for the most part, the fanbase complies (although you can find all of them if you know where to look). Given that request, and the fact that, to get a good ending, one has to 1 credit clear the game, seeing the good ending of a game is [[Earn Your Fun|a great accomplishment, indeed.]]
* [[Dragons Up the Yin Yang]]: Dragons are almost never mentioned or seen, but they are said to be in the ''highest'' class of beings in Gensokyo. The only dragon spoken of in canon is worshiped as a god by human and youkai alike for his power to create or destroy anything. It's said that he appeared in the sky on the day the Great Hakurei Border was erected.
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** Other fairy tales are sometimes referenced in spell cards.
* [[Fanime]]:
** ''[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Project_Side_Story Touhou Project Side Story]'' by SOUND HOLIC, released at Comiket 73. Features a now non-canon depiction of the Lunarians. It introduced a [[Spotlight-Spot Light Stealing Squad]] of [[Original Character|Original Characters]], leaving the canon characters standing on the sidelines without doing much to instigate or resolve the plot. It also follows the [[Leave the Camera Running]] school of cinematography.
** ''[[Touhou Musou Kakyou (Fanfic)|Touhou Musou Kakyou]]'' by Maikaze, the first episode of which was released at Comiket 75. Managed to bring in such big names as [[Rie Tanaka]] to do voice work. Unfortunately, it had poor sales and it wasn't until 2011 that another episode was announced. [[Development Hell|We're still waiting for that episode even a year later]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eboZUTIL2XY although this came up].
** Yuuhei Satellite's ''Gensou Magenkyou'' (or ''Fantasy Kaleidoscope''), which retells the story of Perfect Cherry Blossom {{spoiler|albeit with an [[Anachronism Stew]] around the end parts}}. Although the original version had no voice-acting, it can be found with a Japanese fandub [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w337ij3wtXA here].
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*** Toyosatomimi no Miko and company were seeking this, as was Byakuren.
* [[Immortal Immaturity]]: Practically everyone. Notable exceptions are Kaguya and Yuyuko, when she's not busy harassing her guardian.
* [[Improbably Female Cast]]: The entire cast ''just happens'' to be female with the apparent exception of Unzan, although he's less of a person than an angry cloud, and Rinnosuke, who is an [[Expanded Universe]] character and [[Non- Action Guy]]. The PC-98 games had Genji, who doesn't count due to being a turtle, and [[Gender Bender|half]] of Shingyoku as well.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Due to how danmaku battles work,<ref>they're essentially a formalized dueling system designed to level the playing field and reduce lethality</ref> most characters' stated abilities have very little relevance to their gameplay performance.
* [[It Amused Me]]: Bored characters do a lot of crazy things in this series and are occasionally responsible for the entire plot with no further motive than to shake things up. Many extra stage fights are along these lines on the part of both protagonist and boss. This is the entire reason why Tenshi comes down in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody''.
* [[Justified Trope]]: ''So'' many. The Spell Card Rules, drafted by Reimu, justify [[Non- Lethal KO]], [[Let's You and Him Fight]], [[Super Move Portrait Attack]], the ability to have crazy semiregular incidents while maintaining [[White and Grey Morality]], and even the use of the [[Bullet Hell]] genre ''itself''... because the tropes are the law. And for very good reasons: it lets youkai do what they do best, lets Reimu easily resolve the incidents, and lets youkai fight back without fear of killing Reimu, which would be a very Bad Thing.
* [[Kicking Ass in All Her Finery]]: Almost everyone wears pretty frilly dresses.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Each boss in the main series gets a unique song for her [[Boss Battle]], which naturally becomes her [[Leitmotif]] in fanworks.
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* [[Multiple Endings]]
* [[Mundane Utility]]:
** ''[[What Do You Mean It'sIts Not Awesome?|Touhou Soccer]]'', where the girls use their massively destructive spell cards to play [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofnEdB8Blc ''Soccer''.]
** Turns out that ghosts make excellent air conditioners.
** Similarly, there's an entire pool on Danbooru of Cirno being used for mundane ends, such as chilling drinks.
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** ZUN also has a [[Nice Hat]].
* [[The Night That Never Ends]]: The plot of ''Imperishable Night'' plays with this. It's ''your characters'' causing it, so they can find the source of the real incident.
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: Despite what the majority of [[Shipping|fan]] [[Rule 34|work]] will tell you, all the official content has virtually no romance (and always kept to backstories or non-sequitur jokes) and absolutely no sexual themes.
* [[Non- Lethal KO]]:
** The spell card rules mean the games follow this trope. There is very strong lampshading of this, and very good reasoning for characters ''not'' wanting to kill the human characters. Also, since most of the characters are youkai, odds are many of them can't be killed by physical damage anyway, while the fairies which provide most mook enemies are said to have very short lifespans but constantly revive, giving them little concept of mortality.
** A good number of characters are implied to have killed people, but no one that's introduced ever dies. The only exception to this is Mokou apparently dying during her battle... and it doesn't count, since she's immortal.
* [[Non- Indicative Name]]: Team Shanghai Alice, the name ZUN operates under, is (1) a single person, not a team; (2) based in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebina Ebina], Japan, not Shanghai; and (3) he isn't named Alice.
** From Touhou 13's staff roll: "[[Lampshade Hanging|Lately I've been wondering if there's a real point to the staff roll]]."
* [[Not Drawn to Scale]]: In particular, boss characters tend to look taller in cut-ins than they would logically seem to be based on their sprites or other aspects of their character. Most fans depict Remilia as fairly short, but her cut-in makes her as tall as Reimu.
{{quote|If their sizes appear to be different on the game screen than given above, it's because of some mystic force like perspective, so [[Bellisario'sBellisarios Maxim|pay it no mind]]. :-)|ZUN, after discussing some characters' heights in [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/ZUN%27s_E-mails an e-mail]}}
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Applies to pretty much every character that isn't stated to be completely human, which is Reimu, Marisa, Sakuya, and Sanae. And even then, questions have been raised about Sakuya, even in-universe.
* [[108One Hundred and Eight]]: There's 108 scenes in Double Spoiler.
* [[Only Six Faces]]: Not only is ZUN susceptible to this with his famously crappy character art, but so are some of the official manga artists, such as Aki Eda (''Silent Sinner in Blue'') and Makoto Hirasaka (''Touhou Sangetsusei'').
** One step up in the fighting games. As far as Alphes' character portraits go, literally everyone has the same face.
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** The [[Fighting Game]] installments of the series have really muddied the waters here, as the art was done by an artist who is perfectly capable of and willing to draw girls with busts.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: In ''Imperishable Night'', the [[Let's You and Him Fight|boss fight with either Reimu or Marisa]] is the result of one or both sides either not understanding what's actually going on, or outright ''refusing'' to listen. When the Ghost Team tries to mention the Moon to Marisa, Marisa says "this has nothing to do with the Moon!" and if Magic Team brings it up to Reimu, she turns around and blames them for the Moon as well!
* [[Power- Up Magnet]]
* [[Powerup Full Color Change]]: In ''Hisoutensoku'', characters with superarmor become red-tinted, while the auto-counterhit state Meiling can acquire is indicated by her becoming yellow.
* [[Punny Name]]: Hisoutensoku ("lacking perception of natural laws"), the [[Humongous Mecha]] that ''Touhou'' 12.3 is named after, is a pun [[On/shout Out|shout Out]] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakutensoku Gakutensoku] ("learning from natural laws"), Japan's first robot [[Steampunk|built in 1929]].
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* [[Schizo Tech]]: There are actually four different technology levels in Gensokyo: humans and youkai, who are pretty much at medieval level; items that come from the modern world outside (and, in the PC-98 games, came with the Outsiders themselves); the kappas, who are tinkering and working on [[Magitek]], including Optical Camouflage and Hellfire-powered geothermal power plants; and the Lunarians, who top the tech tree in canon and have futuristic technology, which in ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' is revealed to be a Japanese version of [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]. Even the ''outdated'' technology that the renegade Lunarians displayed in an exposition in Gensokyo is far more advanced than anything on Earth.
* [[School Swimsuit]]: Fairly common in fanart in general. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUqeBa36UDM Touhou] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=527Anv-Ne00 EWI] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0tOLOodEF0 series] by WINN, has the girls play their themes and fire danmaku at the same time [[Captain Obvious|while wearing school swimsuits]].
* [[Schrodinger'sSchrodingers Player Character]]: In most games the characters the player didn't select still exist, just don't expect to hear from them until the ending.
** Subverted in both ''Lotus Land Story'' and ''Imperishable Night'', when the character you didn't select shows up as one of the bosses.
** Naturally averted in the versus shooters and fighting games where you get to fight most of the characters you didn't pick. ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'' and ''Hisoutensoku'' even have everyone's story canonically happening in some order.
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* [[Shout Out]]: Many characters are [[Shout Out|Shout Outs]] to one thing or another. Full details on all of them on [[Touhou (Video Game)/Characters|the character page]].
** Many, ''many'' references to ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', including a character named Alice.
** ZUN is an admitted fanboy of ''[[Jo Jo'sJos Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' and as such there are ''lots'' of shout outs to that series. Sakuya performing [[Memetic Mutation|ZA WARUDO]] is one such example.
** Three different characters have references to the works of [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]].
** Stage 6 of ''UFO'' has rows of fairies that move in a zig-zag pattern and fire bullets straight downwards, as a reference to ''Space Invaders''.
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** In ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View'', most times when you defeat and enemy, the game will call them a DEAD PARROT. [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Hmmm, I wonder what that could be a shout out to...]]
** A few of the bullet patterns seem directly inspired by patterns from other [[Bullet Hell]] games. [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_influences Look at this list and decide for yourself.]
** There are also references to [[Fist of the North Star]] in the fighting games, most notably Hisoutensoku. If Reimu's ultimate spellcard "Fantasy Heaven" ("''Musou Tensei''" in Japanese, which happens to be a [[Name'sNames the Same|homonym]] for Kenshiro's ultimate technique, "Unconscious Transmigration of Souls", also pronounced "''Musou Tensei''") is successfully activated in the third round of a match, the background music will change to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8-SrmzsrkE a mashup remix of Mystic Oriental Love Consultation and the Fatal KO theme from the Fist Of The North Star fighting games]. Fitting because said spellcard is a guaranteed knock out unless [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCkhBwipem0 the opponent gets very lucky] (no, it is NOT a [[One- Hit Kill]])
*** Additionally, [[The Power of the Sun|Utsuho Reiuji]]'s sprite animations greatly resemble those of Souther. [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/File:Utsuho_Similarities.png See for yourself].
** In the fangame ''Concealed the Conclusion'', one of the characters gives the following line:
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** Fanworks can be anywhere on the scale. ZUN seems to encourage this intentionally, for instance by never explicitly nailing down how dangerous it ''really'' is for humans to live in Gensokyo.
* [[Space Station]]: Torifune, introduced in ''Trojan Green Asteroid''. It is<ref>or will be, with the Mary and Renko stories taking place in the future</ref> a Japanese space station designed to test terraforming practices. Then it somehow became an illusion and is now a fantasy jungle floating in outer space.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Official spellings for character and place names can vary within the series. For example, ZUN writes "Gensokyo" in English in ''Perfect Cherry Blossom''--this is [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Gensokyo predominantly the spelling the fandom uses]. The back cover of ''Grimoire of Marisa'' spells it as "Gensoukyo." "Gensoukyou" and "Gensokyou" are alternate spellings directly derived from the romanization from the kanji involved, and there has been a push by some fans to make either spelling the common variant.
* [[Spring Is Late]]: In ''Perfect Cherry Blossom''.
* [[Story Arc]]: So far, the series can be split into two arcs, with characters from the first unlikely to show up in the second.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: ''Perfect Memento in Strict Sense'' marks fairies as such. Subverted by the fact that fairies are immortal.
* [[To Serve Man]]: There's multiple mentions that the youkai of Gensokyo eat humans. [[Unreliable Expositor|Akyuu]] says in ''[[All There in the Manual|Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'', though, [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento:_Monologue that it doesn't happen so much today] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento:_Road_of_Reconsideration unless you're] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento:_Encyclopedia:_Outsider an outsider] [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento:_Hermits or a hermit.] The [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento:_Draft_of_Spell_Card_Rules Hakurei Spell Card Rules] may have been responsible for this change.
* [[TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|Touhou Will Ruin Your Life]]: After a few weeks of being in the fandom, there's a chance you'll be letting memes slip out of your mouth or using ''Touhou''-themed forum avatars.
* [[Trading Card Lame]]: ''Rumbling Spell Orchestra''.
* [[Trope Overdosed]]
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** Might be the case for some unexpected creatures. In one chapter of one of the manga, it's suggested a couple of times that a mysterious egg may be from a ''cat youkai''.
** The same chapter also confirms crow tengu having eggs, and while they're related to birds, the two examples we've seen of that species look basically human.
* [[What Do You Mean It'sIts Not Awesome?]]: '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Qa9AIxJhs Touhou Soccer.]'''
* [[White and Grey Morality]]:
** Those who are [[Designated Hero|good]] are [[Somebody Else'sElses Problem|apathetic to everything]] unless it affects either their interests or Gensokyo itself.
** Most of the final bosses in the series are more selfish than they are outright evil as well, having a lack of consideration for the rest of Gensokyo rather than outright finding ''pleasure'' in screwing over everyone else.
** A few notable exceptions: the Saigyou Ayakashi of ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' - a mindless, man-eating tree; Utsuho Reiuji during ''Subterranean Animism'', who was [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|mad with power]] and wanted to ''melt the surface world'' (although to be fair, she's also rather stupid); and Taisui Xingjun, provided he actually exists.
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** [[Human Aliens|Human Youkai]]: Some ''do'' look completely human.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]:
** For actual blue-haired characters, Remilia, Nitori, Tenshi, Kogasa and Cirno count. Though Remilia's initial appearance featured her with [[White- Haired Pretty Girl|white hair.]]
** Even excluding the youkai, there are the silver-haired Sakuya, Youmu, Keine, Mokou, and Eirin, though the latter is from the Moon.
** And the green-haired Sanae.
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** Miko, Tojiko and Futo for one of the former's spellcards in the same game -- although Miko does not do a single thing during it.
* [[Dynamic Difficulty]]: 4-6 have a system where the bullets become faster and denser over time. In the case of 4 and 5, it's somewhat tied to how well you're doing, but in 6 it just keeps going up until you die, which resets it.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]/[[Oddball in The Series]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieDudS_yi24 Highly Responsive to Prayers]'' isn't even a danmaku game. It's more of a weird ''[[Breakout]]'' clone, with some [[Shoot' Em Up]] elements in boss fights.
* [[Every Ten Thousand Points]]: In many games you get an [[One Up|extend]] every [[Pinball Scoring|ten or twenty million]] points.
* [[Expansion Pack]]:
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*** The only exception to the rule is Utsuho Reiuji, the final boss in ''Subterranean Animism'', which gains an armor instead, in other words, you can continue doing reduced damage to her with a bomb, but this comes with the cost that the bombs doesn't clean the bullets in the screen.
** All [[Bonus Boss|extra and phantasm stage bosses]] have this effect for all spellcards, except in ''Fairy Wars''. In the versus shooters they are completely invincible for certain period of time.
* [[One- Hit- Point Wonder]]: standard for [[Bullet Hell]] game protagonists. Curiously enough, when you meet playable characters as bosses they gain [[Super Toughness]] instead.
* [[Pacifist Run]]:
** The bosses' attacks are all on timers, and it's possible to beat them just by outlasting them. They'll even blow up at the end regardless of whether you fired any shots at them. Since this requires inhuman dodging skills on some of the harder attacks, it has become a favorite [[Self- Imposed Challenge]] for ''Touhou'' gamers. Given the [[Nintendo Hard|difficulty]] of the games to begin with, this kind of challenge is usually considered another sign that ''Touhou'' players are insane.
** Most of the extra bosses actually have a secret difficulty on their last (or second-to-last, in Yukari's case) spell card, triggered by attempting to go pacifist. Normally, those spell cards start off easy, but get harder as the boss loses HP. [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|To prevent cheesing the game]] and trivializing what should be a climactic end by just waiting, the spell card will have an extremely hard pattern, even harder than the normal final pattern, starting at 30 seconds left if the boss has not lost enough HP.
* [[Parabolic Power Curve]]: It's generally accepted that the stage 5 boss will be harder than the final boss, or at least as hard. The reason for this is that stage 5 bosses tend to have more experimental or random patterns, with fewer bullets but much trickier dodging. Final bosses are all about large quantities of bullets at all times, but because they're fired in easily predicted patterns, they're not nearly as challenging for experienced players, even if it's their first time fighting that particular boss.
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