Tag Archives: Touhou Project

Impressive Touhou Anime from Comiket

Impressive Touhou Anime from Comiket

Comic Market, or Comiket is a bi-annual event held in Tokyo that allows artists and creators to show off and/or share their works and ideas with like-minded people. As the name of the event would suggest, the vast majority of works found at Comiket are self-published comic books. There are, however, still a number of groups (or circles) that publish their own video games, music, and anime. A popular series of games that originated from past Comikets is Touhou Project, more commonly referred to Touhou and mainly consists of bullet-hell scrolling shooters. Created single-handedly by a man that goes by the name of ZUN, Touhou came to fame as fans Read more »

Griffon Enterprises Touhou Collection

Griffon Enterprises Touhou Collection

Fans of the Touhou series are surely going crazy over Griffon Enterprises’ releases of popular characters as 1/8 scale PVC figures. For those of you wondering what Touhou is, it’s not an anime but a series of pc games. Touhou games are of the shoot ‘em up genre, but instead of piloting a spaceship or other type of craft, you’re a cute little anime/manga-style girl fighting other girls (which could be humans or demons). I’ve played some of the Touhou games myself and they’re certainly a lot harder than regular shoot ‘em up games. If you don’t believe me, just look up some videos on youtube. With Touhou recently enjoying huge Read more »