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Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame reminisce about characters they've encountered, from the Silent Sinner in Blue Prologue.

The Touhou Project features a great number and variety of characters. Over the course of 21 games, literature and even music CDs, the cast has grown to having 149 characters in total. Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame are considered the main characters of the Touhou series, due to the fact that they are almost always the playable characters in the games. Others usually reappear in later games, as support characters, bosses or with some other role in the story line. However due to a few differencing points in the series, some of the characters were never mentioned again (like almost all of the PC-98 ones).

Additionally, ZUN always makes new characters bosses for each of his games. However in Subterranean Animism and Ten Desires a few of the characters in those games were already a boss in a previous one.

Characters

Here is a list of all Touhou Project characters, categorised by their first game or publication appearance (Characters with * after their name do not have an official name)

List of Characters in Touhou Project
Highly Responsive to Prayers

Reimu HakureiYin-Yang OrbSinGyokuYuugenMaganElisSarielMimaKikuriKonngara

Story of Eastern Wonderland

GenjiiSoEW 1st Stage Midboss* • RikaFlower TankSoEW 2nd Stage Midboss* • MeiraSoEW 3rd Stage Midboss* • Five Magic Stones* • SoEW 4th Stage Midboss* • Marisa KirisameEvil Eye Sigma

Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream

EllenKotohimeKana AnaberalRikako AsakuraChiyuri KitashirakawaYumemi Okazaki • (SokratesRuukotoMultiMimi-chan)

Lotus Land Story

LLS 1st Stage Midboss* • OrangeKurumiLLS 3rd Stage Midboss* • EllyLLS 4th Stage Midboss* • Yuuka KazamiLLS Extra Stage Midboss* • MugetsuGengetsu

Mystic Square

MS 1st Stage Midboss* • SaraMS 2nd Stage Midboss* • LouiseAlice MargatroidYukiMaiMS 5th Stage Midboss* • YumekoShinkiMS Extra Stage Midboss*

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

RumiaDaiyousei* • CirnoHong MeilingKoakuma* • Patchouli KnowledgeSakuya IzayoiRemilia ScarletFlandre Scarlet • (Rin Satsuki)

Perfect Cherry Blossom

Letty WhiterockChenShanghai DollLily WhiteLyrica PrismriverLunasa PrismriverMerlin PrismriverYoumu KonpakuYuyuko SaigyoujiRan YakumoYukari Yakumo • (Layla PrismriverYouki KonpakuSaigyou Ayakashi)

Immaterial and Missing Power

Suika Ibuki

Imperishable Night

Wriggle NightbugMystia LoreleiKeine KamishirasawaTewi InabaReisen Udongein InabaEirin YagokoroKaguya HouraisanFujiwara no Mokou

Phantasmagoria of Flower View

Medicine MelancholyKomachi OnozukaEiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu

Mountain of Faith

Shizuha AkiMinoriko AkiHina KagiyamaNitori KawashiroMomiji InubashiriSanae KochiyaKanako YasakaSuwako Moriya • (TenmaMishaguji)

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

Iku NagaeTenshi Hinanawi

Subterranean Animism

KisumeYamame KurodaniParsee MizuhashiYuugi HoshigumaSatori KomeijiRin KaenbyouUtsuho ReiujiKoishi Komeiji

Undefined Fantastic Object

NazrinKogasa TataraIchirin KumoiUnzanMinamitsu MurasaShou ToramaruByakuren HijiriNue Houjuu • (BishamontenMyouren Hijiri)

Touhou Hisoutensoku

Goliath DollUnnamed giant catfish* • (HisoutensokuTaisui Xingjun)

Double Spoiler

Hatate Himekaidou

Ten Desires

TD 1st Stage Midboss* • Kyouko KasodaniYoshika MiyakoSeiga KakuSoga no TojikoMononobe no FutoToyosatomimi no MikoMamizou Futatsuiwa

Hopeless Masquerade

Hata no Kokoro

Double Dealing Character

WakasagihimeSekibankiKagerou Imaizumi

Touhou Kourindou

Rinnosuke MorichikaTokiko* • Marisa's unnamed father*

Touhou Sangetsusei

Luna ChildStar SapphireSunny MilkTsuchinoko* • Sake Bug* • Monster Tanuki*

Touhou Bougetsushou

ReisenMoon Capital Gate Guards* • Watatsuki no ToyohimeWatatsuki no YorihimeLord TsukuyomiMizue no UranoshimakoIwakasaKonohana-SakuyahimeIwanagahime

Touhou Ibarakasen

Kasen IbarakiUnnamed dragon* •‎ Unnamed dapeng* • Unnamed raijuu* • Shirou SendaiUnshou

Touhou Suzunaan

Kosuzu Motoori

Fanbooks

Aya ShameimaruGiant Toad* • Daitengu

Music CDs

Unnamed girl on DiPP jacket* • Maribel HearnRenko UsamiHieda no Akyuu

PC-98 Games

The major difference in the canon for the series starts from the release of the first game for windows, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. ZUN decided to develop for the Windows platform instead of for the PC-98, which is the point at which he stated. Besides the Returning characters from the PC-98, none of the other characters from the PC-98 canon have reappeared within the Windows canon. Their appearance, personality, and storylines are all significantly different, although some traces and connections seem to remain.

Windows Games

Another minor pivotal point exists with the release of Mountain of Faith, marking the "2nd Windows generation". While previous games had independent storylines, the plots of Mountain of Faith up to Ten Desires were connected (e.g. The events of Ten Desires were triggered by the construction of the Myouren Temple, which in turn was triggered by the Palanquin ship being released by the geyser by Utsuho's power.)

The character appearances trend also resets. For example, Sakuya Izayoi was a stage 5 boss in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil who later became playable in Perfect Cherry Blossom up to Phantasmagoria of Flower View, but has not made an appearance after that in any danmaku Touhou game.

  • Fighting Games

A consistent cast can be seen in the fighting games. Rather than inventing a new set of characters, only one or two new characters were added with the rest coming from previous games. So far, only four characters had first appeared in a fighting game.

  • Photography Games

In Shoot the Bullet and Double Spoiler, characters from previous games are used. Shoot the Bullet contains most characters from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil to Phantasmagoria of Flower View, while Double Spoiler adds the cast from Mountain of Faith up to Undefined Fantastic Object.

Literature

The cast of Touhou characters also grows with the addition of the novels and comics. Only Aya Shameimaru and the Three Fairies Of Light were later featured in a game. Touhou literature seems to be directly connected with the Windows games as events that happen within the literature are transferred over to the Windows games and in vice versa.

See Also

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(note that they use fanart for pictures of characters who didn't appear in Immaterial and Missing Power, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody or Touhou Hisoutensoku.)