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50 free Touhou Project trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Touhou Project is a long-running Japanese shoot-'em-up series made almost entirely by one person, and it has grown into one of the largest fan cultures in gaming. Its cast runs to well over a hundred heroines, bosses and folklore creatures, each with her own theme music, and fans have turned them into countless remixes, comics, animations and memes. This quiz covers the characters first: who lives in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, which yokai is which, and what Remilia, Flandre and Suika are known for. It also asks about the best-known boss themes and fan songs, how the games play, where the series came from and the conventions and milestones tied to it. It suits anyone who knows the series from the games, the music or the memes. Newcomers will find plenty of gettable questions, and long-time players get a few harder ones about the lore.
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Q 01Which one-man developer has written the code, art, story and music for the mainline Touhou Project games?
ZUN
ZUN is the pen name of Jun'ya Ota, who started the series as a mathematics student and built it up as a one-man studio.
Q 02In Touhou Project, what is the name of the hidden land sealed off from the outside world by a barrier?
Gensokyo
Gensokyo literally means Fantasy Land, and things forgotten by everyone else, from extinct animals to lost tools, turn up there.
Q 03Which Touhou song became world-famous through a black-and-white shadow-art video posted on Niconico?
Bad Apple!!
Bad Apple!! began as a stage theme in the fourth Touhou game in 1998, and its video is now ported to old computers as a kind of graphical 'Hello, World!'.
Q 04Reimu, the main heroine of Touhou Project, holds which Shinto role instead of a shooter's usual pilot?
Shrine maiden
Shrine maiden is the job Reimu does at the Hakurei Shrine, the only known gateway between her hidden homeland and modern Japan.
Q 05Remilia Scarlet, who rules the Scarlet Devil Mansion in Touhou, is which kind of supernatural being?
A vampire
A vampire more than 500 years old, Remilia was given a childlike personality as a deliberate contrast with how such long-lived creatures are usually shown.
Q 06Which Touhou ice fairy is tied to the circled number nine after a game manual labeled her an idiot?
Cirno
Cirno went on to star in the fan song 'Cirno's Perfect Math Class', and her fame even earned a promotional tie-in with McDonald's Japan.
Q 07Sakuya Izayoi, the time-stopping, knife-throwing maid of Touhou, was inspired by a villain from which manga?
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure supplied Dio Brando, whose frozen seconds and flung blades Sakuya borrows while running her mistress's household.
Q 08Which organization recognized Touhou Project in 2010 as the most prolific fan-made shooter series ever?
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records honoured the flood of fan games the series inspired, which its creator invites by placing few limits on derivative works.
Q 09Which indie game creator has cited Touhou Project as one of his musical influences?
Toby Fox
Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, joins a huge following for the series' soundtracks, which fans rearrange onto albums sold by the stack at Japanese conventions.
Q 10Touhou Project belongs to which shooter subgenre, adopted with its second game, Story of Eastern Wonderland?
Bullet hell
Bullet hell games bury the screen in slow, ornate patterns, and Touhou's creator says those patterns are how his characters and plots come across.
Q 11Which human magician, first met as a Stage 4 boss, became the second main playable heroine of Touhou Project?
Marisa Kirisame
Marisa Kirisame mastered magic through sheer hard work rather than birth, and the fan song 'Marisa Stole the Precious Thing' became a widely parodied meme.
Q 12Touhou Project games rank their difficulty settings Easy, Normal, Hard and then which signature top level?
Lunatic
Lunatic has been the top setting since the very first game, which also introduced the last-resort bomb that wipes the screen clean.
Q 13At which Japanese fan convention did 2,372 Touhou Project circles break the single-series participation record?
Comiket
Q 21Which Touhou meme of disembodied heads telling viewers to take it easy now narrates countless Japanese videos?
Yukkuri
Yukkuri began as crude text art of the two lead heroines in 2007, and their catchphrase took bronze in Japan's 2008 Net Slang of the Year.
Q 22What name is given to the Touhou plush dolls with blank, scornful faces designed by the illustrator Neji?
FumoFumo
FumoFumo dolls, made by the merchandise company Gift, became an online craze that has set off panic buying whenever stock appears.
Q 23In Touhou's Subterranean Animism, the hell raven Utsuho gains which power by consuming the divine crow Yatagarasu?
Nuclear fusion
Comiket is also where the series first went on sale: its first two games debuted there in 1997 and sold just 80 copies between them.
Q 14Kaguya, the exiled moon princess of Touhou's Imperishable Night, comes from which classic Japanese folktale?
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter also shapes the final battle, where Kaguya challenges the heroines with her 'Five Impossible Requests'.
Q 15In Touhou lore, the moon rabbit Reisen fled to Earth fearing an invasion during which real space mission?
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 looked like the start of a human attack to Reisen, and nobody in her new home can set her straight because they never heard of the landing.
Q 16In Touhou's Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, how is the Extra Stage boss Flandre related to Remilia Scarlet?
Her younger sister
Her younger sister Flandre stays in the mansion basement, and a magic rainstorm is conjured to stop her slipping out.
Q 17Which Touhou boss theme for Flandre Scarlet reached Western audiences through a viral Ronald McDonald remix video?
U.N. Owen Was Her?
U.N. Owen Was Her? later became a staple of Black MIDI, a hobby of cramming absurd numbers of notes into a single piece.
Q 18Suika Ibuki, the tiny Touhou powerhouse who loves drink, feasts and contests, is which creature of Japanese folklore?
An oni
An oni several hundred years old, Suika can thin herself into mist, and she kept the parties going to lure her hidden kin back out.
Q 19Touhou Project lost the entertainment Grand Prize at Japan's 11th Media Arts Awards to which Nintendo game?
Wii Sports
Wii Sports took the prize, but a nomination from the Agency for Cultural Affairs was striking for a hobbyist series sold at fan events.
Q 20The first five Touhou Project games were written in the 1990s for which ageing Japanese home computer?
PC-98
PC-98 machines gave the early games their FM-synthesis music, and the later jump to Windows was treated as a clean slate for the story.
Nuclear fusion was meant to turn Hell into an energy source, and the extra heat is what burst a geyser open beside the Hakurei Shrine.
Q 24Kogasa Tatara of Touhou's Undefined Fantastic Object became a yokai after being forgotten as which everyday object?
An umbrella
An umbrella left behind for too long, Kogasa is bored and lonely, so she keeps trying to perfect the art of scaring humans.
Q 25Which half-ghost gardener of Touhou's Netherworld fights with a long katana and a short wakizashi?
Youmu Konpaku
Youmu Konpaku's longer blade is said to kill ten ghosts in one slash, and it was she who stole spring itself on her mistress's orders.
Q 26Which Touhou sage, a yokai who manipulates boundaries, helped create the barrier that hides her homeland?
Yukari Yakumo
Yukari Yakumo sleeps twelve hours a day, so her servant Ran handles most of the daily upkeep on those borders.
Q 27Which asthmatic magician runs the vast underground library of Touhou's Scarlet Devil Mansion?
Patchouli Knowledge
Patchouli Knowledge has lived for over 100 years and rarely leaves her books, casting elemental magic drawn from the Chinese five phases.
Q 28Which tengu newspaper reporter is the playable star of Touhou's photography game Shoot the Bullet?
Aya Shameimaru
Aya Shameimaru has no ordinary shot in that game: her camera is both attack and defence, wiping enemy fire off the screen with each photo.
Q 29Touhou's creator drinks daily, has brewed his own label and has reviewed which beverage for a magazine?
Beer
Beer is such a fixture for him that he once programmed Uwabami Breakers, a shooter themed around it, and he names Kirin as his favourite brand.
Q 30Which doujin circle handles the art and gameplay of Touhou's official fighting-game spin-offs?
Twilight Frontier
Twilight Frontier pitched the partnership because its lead wanted to make an aerial fighter without inventing a whole new cast and world.