Touhou Project (1983: Doomsday)

The 東方Project is a manga series written by ZUN. The manga series began with the first issue of Curiosities of Lotus Asia (東方香霖堂) and since then, it became a popular manga series within Hokkaido and nearby regions on Honshu.

The manga series takes place mainly in Gensokyo. The main Touhou theme is Shintō, though other themes like Buddhism and Taoism referenced/seen.

Reimu Hakurei
One of the main characters in most of the Touhou series. She is a Shrine Maiden and the head of the Hakurei Shrine. She deals with solving incidents that cause any trouble to Gensokyo and goes to hunt out the source. She is a kind and friendly person to be around with, and she's also optimistic.

Marisa Kirisame
Also another one of the main characters in most of the Touhou series. She is a Magician that lives nearby the Youkai Mountain and is Reimu's friend. She also owns her own Magic Shop, which gets decent amount of business and sales.

Remilia Scarlet
She is the head and owner of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She is weak to both sunlight and rain and as such, she carries a parasol for whenever she goes outside and she usually stays in her mansion. She also holds reasonable magical powers and has a reputation to match.

Sakuya Izayoi
She is the Head Maid of the Scarlet Devil Mansion and is the servant of Remilia. She is known to be a great cook and makes the best meals around. Also known to have the ability to manipulate time and space, she is one of the more powerful humans in Gensokyo.

Eirin Yagokoro
Eirin is the Secondary Character in Silent Sinner in Blue and Cage in Lunatic Runagate while being the Main Character in Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth. She is also a premier pharmacist, selling medicines at Eientei ranging from sleep aids to various cures, including cures to even the most obscure illnesses; and all her medicines have no side effects, very effective, and fairly priced.

Kaguya Houraisan
Same as above. Kaguya is an assistant of Eirin Yagokoro and helps her out with her studies. A former princess of the Lunarians, she exiled to earth thousands of years ago after drinking the Hourai Elixir that made her immortal. After many years of exile, she was forgiven and decided that she should return. However Kaguya refused, and with the help of Eirin they moved on to Gensokyo in which they hid in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost and set up a new home for themselves.

Reisen Udongein Inaba
Same as above. She was formally a moon rabbit until she moved to Gensokyo with Kaguya and Eirin. Since then, Reisen has been working for and protects both Eirin and Kaguya. She also helps out with Eirin with selling medicine.

Tewi Inaba
Same as above. Tewi is an Youkai rabbit, and is the leader of many Youkai rabbits who guard Eientei. She is also a trickster at times, mainly seen in Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth.



Kasen Ibaraki
Kasen is the main character of Wild and Horned Hermit. She is a hermit and usually lives in the Youkai Mountian. Kasen is very kind and polite to everyone and is always willing to lend a word of advice or teach a lesson. Sometimes she is preachy and overly critical of others, just to make sure they get the message.

Seiga Kaku
Seiga appears as a secondary character in Wild and Horned Hermit from chapter 12 on. She is friends with Kasen Ibaraki and helps her out allot. Like Kasen, she is friendly and polite to nearly everyone.

Toyosatomimi no Miko
Miko is one of the main characters in Symposium of Post-mysticism. She is a Taoist who used to use Buddhism for political reasons. She also achieved immortality a while back after Seiga had convinced her to come to the side of Taoism.

Byakuren Hijiri
Another one of the main characters in Symposium of Post-mysticism. She is a Buddhist monk that is head of the Myouren Temple. She helps for the peace between Youkai and Humans and hopes that one day that peace can be finally achieved.

Kanako Yasaka
Also a main character in Symposium of Post-mysticism, she is the head of the Moriya Shrine and is a goddess on the side of Shintoism. She also happens to have some interest in technology and at one point she was also interested in nuclear technology, but ever since a huge nuclear war happened in the Outside World, she changed her mind completely and sees it as a bad idea.

Yuyuko Saigyouji
Yuyuko is the owner of Hakugyokurou. She is a human who lived for over one thousand years. Youmu is her guardian and Yukari is her friend. She was also known to spoke out against Yukari's invasion of the Moon thousand years ago and again in Silent Sinner in Blue. She seems to enjoy drinking once in a while, despite Youmu's wishes for her not to.

Youmu Konpaku
Youmu is a half-human half-phantom who lives at Hakugyokurou in the Netherworld as a gardener and is a guardian of Yuyuko. She is a secondary character in Curiosities of Lotus Asia and Touhou Bōgetsushō.

Watatsuki Sisters
The Watatsuki Sisters compose of Toyohime and Yorihime. They are the leaders of the Moon and both are head of the Lunarian Defence Corps. They are the main characters in Touhou Bōgetsushō series.

Yukari Yakumo
She is a friend of Reimu and they both usually work together. She's also long time friends with Yuyuko and both knew each other for a very long time.

Also over a thousand years ago, Yukari attempted to invade the Moon, in which they were defeated by the Lunarians. She attempted another invasion of the Moon in Silent Sinner in blue only to be arrested by Watatsuki no Toyohime in the end.

She is also knowledgeable about technology. In the Eleventh and Twelfth Chapters in Curiosities of Lotus Asia, when Rinnosuke Morichika had an old 1970s telephone in his shop, Yukari already knew how to use one. She similarly knew about the old style TVs. It's been confirmed that she does visit the outside world sometimes and at one point during her visits, she seen a nuclear war taking place, in which she immediately escaped to Gensokyo.

Komachi Onozuka
Komachi is a Shinigami and she transports dead spirits to Eiki Shiki in which Eiki judges on where the dead spirit's fate will be. Komachi was ordered to keep watch on Kasen, but doesn't really trust her and as such Komachi sometimes threatens her, but she isn't really serious with her threats however.

Three Fairies of Light
The Three Fairies of Light composes of Sunny Milk, Luna Child, and Star Sapphire. They are the protagonists in the Touhou Sangetsusei series. They are known to play tricks on humans with their powers.

Rinnosuke Morichika
Rinnosuke is a human/youkai hybrid and is a main character in Curiosities of Lotus Asia. He owns an antique shop, Kourindou, specialising in items from the Outside World.

Hieda no Akyuu
Hieda no Akyuu is the main character of Perfect Memento in Strict Sense. She tells about the history of Gensokyo and also talks about most of the characters in detail and such. She is known to have good relations with everyone as well.

Kosuzu Motoori
Kosuzu is a Human Village resident and a worker at the Suzunaan book renter. She has the ability to decipher books by putting her hands over them and is the number one collector of demon books in Gensokyo. She's the main character of Forbidden Scrollery.

Other characters
The following characters are mentioned or seen for a few panels only and do not have any much role in the series. A few of these characters can also be seen occasionally.


 * Nitori Kawashiro - A kappa who is also a tech-savvy
 * Mononobe no Futo - appeared as a minor character in Symposium of Post-mysticism. She is one of Miko's friends and ally. Can manipulate feng shui.
 * Soga no Tojiko - Same as above.
 * Satori Komeiji - Owner of the Underground Palace.
 * Kyouko Kasidani - guardian and resident of the Myouren Temple
 * Ichirin Kumoi and Unzan - Same as above.
 * Fujiwara no Mokou - Kaguya's Bitter Enemy
 * Mystia Lorelei - Is a Grilled lamprey vendor and owns a food stand
 * Nazrin - A resident of the Myouren Temple
 * Shou Toramaru - Same as above
 * Kogasa Tatara - Same as above. She also appeared in Chapter 9 of Wild and Horned Hermit.
 * Minamitsu Murasa - Same as above. Murasa also happens to be Byakuren's guardian.
 * Nue Houjuu - Same as above.
 * Mamizou Futatsuiwa - Same as above.
 * Sanae Kochiya - resident of Moriya Shrinee
 * Suwako Moriya - resident and former head of Moriya Shrine
 * Ran Yakumo - Yukari's main shikigami
 * Chen - Ran's shikigami
 * Aya Shameimaru - head of the Bunbunmari Newspaper
 * Tenshi Hinanawi
 * Eiki Shiki - Komachi's boss.
 * Alice Margatroid - works in Kirisame Magic Shop whenever Marisa is away.
 * Keine Kamishirasawa
 * Suika Ibuki
 * Renko Usami
 * Maribel Hearn

Gensokyo
Gensokyo (幻想郷 Gensōkyō, "Land of Illusions" or "Land of Fantasy") is the fictional land in which the entire Touhou series takes place. Its culture vaguely resembles that of feudal Japan, with a lot of folktale elements added on.

Gensokyo was originally a desolate, haunted region of Japan ages ago. The youkai that lived there began to terrorise the surrounding lands, and endless fighting between humans and youkai began and continued all the way on until 1885, when Gensokyo was sealed off from this increasingly scientific and skeptical world with the creation of the Hakurei Border. There has been little contact between those societies ever since. Today, the only known gateway between Gensokyo and this world is the Hakurei Shrine, which stands in isolation along the border on distant mountains of the far east.

Gensokyo is populated mainly by youkai, but a decent human and rabbit population lives there as well.

Some notable locations are as follows:

Hakurei Shrine
Home of Reimu Hakurei. The Shrine is located along the Great Hakurei Border and is home to the many Hakurei shrine maidens who have lived here for centuries. It is a popular place for collectors and youkai as items from the outside world are known to sometimes appear near the shrine. The Shrine receives decent donations as well.

The Shrine's location has moved a good distance away from the Hakurei Border as of Symposium of Post-mysticism.

Youkai Mountain
The Youkai Mountain (妖怪の山 Youkai no Yama) is Gensokyo's sole great mountain and volcano. As its name implies, it is inhabited almost exclusively by youkai, mainly kappa and tengu.

It is also the home of Kasen Ibaraki, as well as Kanako Yasaka, with the latter maintaining the Moriya Shrine there and the former living close to the shrine in her mansion.

Tenkai (天界, lit. Celestial World) can easily be reached from the mountain top, and is the home of Tenshi Hinanawi.

Myouren Temple
The Myouren Temple (命蓮寺 Myōrenji), formerly the Palanquin Ship (聖輦船 Seirensen), was originally a ship capable of sailing through the sky. Some time later before chapter 12 in Oriental Sacred Place, it was landed not too far from both the Human Village and the Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum and was renovated into a temple.

The temple is home to Byakuren Hijiri, Shou Toramaru, Nazrin, Ichirin Kumoi and Unzan, Minamitsu Murasa, Nue Houjuu, Kyouko Kasodani, and Mamizou Futatsuiwa. It is also the main Buddhist Temple in Gensokyo and the major place of where Buddhists gather.

Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum
The Hall of Dreams' Great Mausoleum (夢殿大祀廟 Yumedono Daishibyou) is located not too far from the Myouren Temple. It is the home to Toyosatomimi no Miko, Mononobe no Futo, and Soga no Tokiko. It is a Taoist Temple and serves as the main Taoist Temple of Gensokyo.

Scarlet Devil Mansion
The Scarlet Devil Mansion (紅魔館, Koumakan) is a European-style mansion owned by Remilia Scarlet, and is located near the Misty Lake. Remilia and Sakuya Izayoi are known to be the only residents of the mansion.

Higan
Higan (彼岸) is located on the other side of the Sanzu River, and is the location of where Komachi takes dead spirits to be judged by Eiki Shiki to detriment the dead spirit's fate.

Eientei
Eientei is located hidden deep in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost and is the home of Eirin, Kaguya, Reisen, and Tewi. It is a large, old-fashioned Japanese mansion, and has hallways that lead to the outer reaches of the sky. The place was created by Eirin and Kaguya after their move to Gensokyo, and to live in a peaceful location. However, it soon became a popular place to visit as Eirin begun to sell medicines to anyone who needs it.

It's also known that Fujiwara no Mokou lives far away from the place within the forest itself.

Human Village
The Human Village is the safest place in Gensokyo to live in and is the main location for people from the outside world to live in, if they decide to stay. It is protected by Keine Kamishirasawa, who can hide the history of the village existence in order to protect it from any threats if need to be.

It is also the place of where Kosuzu Motoori and Hieda no Akyuu live.

Hakugyokurou
The Hakugyokurou is located a bit far from the Youkai Mountain. It is the place of where Yukari Yakumo, Yuyuko Saigyouji, and Youmu Konpaku live. From here, it serves as an entrance to the Netherworld, the land where ghosts and spirits reside after death.

Ancient City
Not much is known about the Ancient City other than the fact that its where the Oni live. The Palace of the Earth Spirits is also located there, and Satori Komeiji is known to be the only resident in the palace.

Moon
The Moon is a satellite of Earth and is the main location of the Lunarians, including the Watatsuki Sisters, and the Moon rabbits live. It is home to the Lunar Capital, the largest population of where most of the Lunarians live.

It is known that there was once a 'war' between the humans and Lunarians, after the astronauts from the Apollo program planted a flag. No direct fighting took place, and the Lunarians prevented the Apollo program from gaining a foothold on the moon and the Apollo program's "invasion" had horribly failed.