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Team Shanghai Alice
Team Shanghai Alice (上海アリス幻樂団 or 上海アリス幻楽団 Shanhai Arisu Gengakudan, lit. "Shanghai Alice Fantasy Band", formerly known as ZUN Soft) is a Japanese game development organization circle that branched apart from Amusement Makers and continued to develop games for the Touhou series on its own, starting with Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Every game Team Shanghai Alice has developed from its creation has been a shooting game of some kind, and currently it seems only to specialize in making danmaku shooting games. The only time it ever developed any other game type was when it collaborated with Twilight Frontier, which resulted in four projectile-based fighting games.
Name
The name "Team Shanghai Alice" was chosen to fit the overall theme of the Touhou Project. "Shanghai" (上海), according to ZUN, is a multicultural city where the East and the West meet. "Alice" can be a child living in the foreign concessions, but the name "Alice" also suggests a fairy-tale element. So together, "Shanghai Alice" encompasses the blend of oriental and western aesthetics along with fantasy. As for "Fantasy Band" (幻樂団), ZUN originally intended his team to be a musical ensemble, so he named his team as such.
Additionally, there's a character called Alice Margatroid, who's got a doll called Shanghai. Hong Meiling's got a theme song called "Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17".
Members
- ZUN (real name Jun'ya Ota (太田順也 Oota Junya)) — General Producer/Game Designer/Character Graphics/System Graphics/Background Graphics/Sound Effects/Script/Illustrator/Music
According to an Interview in Swedish Player1 Magazine, ZUN is the only member of Team Shanghai Alice. In other words, ZUN does the programming, art, and music entirely all alone.
Game Productions
- 東方靈異伝 ~ Highly Responsive to Prayers (ZUN Soft 1996)
- 東方封魔録 ~ Story of Eastern Wonderland (ZUN Soft 1997)
- 東方夢時空 ~ Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream (ZUN Soft 1997)
- 東方幻想郷 ~ Lotus Land Story (ZUN Soft 1998)
- 東方怪綺談 ~ Mystic Square (ZUN Soft 1998)
- 東方紅魔郷 ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002)
- 東方妖々夢 ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom (2003)
- 東方萃夢想 ~ Immaterial and Missing Power (collaboration with Twilight Frontier 2004)
- 東方永夜抄 ~ Imperishable Night (2004)
- 東方花映塚 ~ Phantasmagoria of Flower View (2005)
- 東方文花帖 ~ Shoot the Bullet (2005)
- 東方風神録 ~ Mountain of Faith (2007)
- 東方緋想天 ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (collaboration with Twilight Frontier 2008)
- 東方地霊殿 ~ Subterranean Animism (2008)
- 東方星蓮船 ~ Undefined Fantastic Object (2009)
- 東方非想天則 ~ 超弩級ギニョルの謎を追え (collaboration with Twilight Frontier 2009)
- ダブルスポイラー ~ 東方文花帖 (2010)
- 妖精大戦争 ~ 東方三月精 (2010)
- 東方神霊廟 ~ Ten Desires (2011)
- 東方心綺楼 ~ Hopeless Masquerade (collaboration with Twilight Frontier 2013)
- 東方輝針城 ~ Double Dealing Character (2013)
- 弾幕アマノジャク ~ Impossible Spell Card (2014)
- 弾幕アマノジャク ゴールドラッシュ (2014)
- 東方深秘録 ~ Urban Legend in Limbo (collaboration with Twilight Frontier 2015)
Discography
Team Shanghai Alice have released a number of albums that include both music arranged from the games and music original to the album. Most of the works are done only by ZUN. But there are several works that are made by the collaboration between him and Twilight Frontier.
- 蓬莱人形 ~ Dolls in Pseudo Paradise (2002)
- 蓮台野夜行 ~ Ghostly Field Club (2003)
- 夢違科学世紀 ~ Changeability of Strange Dream (2004)
- 幻想曲抜萃 東方萃夢想 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK (collaboration with Twilight Frontier 2005)
- 卯酉東海道 ~ Retrospective 53 minutes (2006)
- 幺樂団の歴史1 ~ Akyu's Untouched Score vol.1 (2006)
- 大空魔術 ~ Magical Astronomy (2006)
- 幺樂団の歴史2 ~ Akyu's Untouched Score vol.2 (2006)
- 幺樂団の歴史3 ~ Akyu's Untouched Score vol.3 (2006)
- 幺樂団の歴史4 ~ Akyu's Untouched Score vol.4 (2007)
- 幺樂団の歴史5 ~ Akyu's Untouched Score vol.5 (2007)
- 全人類ノ天楽録 東方緋想天 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK (collaboration with Twilight Frontier 2008)
- 核熱造神ヒソウテンソク 東方非想天則 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK (collaboration with Twilight Frontier 2009)
- 未知の花 魅知の旅 (2011)
- 鳥船遺跡 ~ Trojan Green Asteroid (2012)
- 伊弉諾物質 ~ Neo-traditionalism of Japan (2012)
- 暗黒能楽集・心綺楼 東方心綺楼 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (collaboration with Twilight Frontier 2013)