Q 01/05

Which one-man developer has written the code, art, story and music for the mainline Touhou Project games?

A) Pixel

B) Kikiyama

C) ZUN

D) Ryukishi07

Answer · why

C) 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 02/05

In Touhou Project, what is the name of the hidden land sealed off from the outside world by a barrier?

A) Makai

B) Gensokyo

C) Eientei

D) Hakugyokurou

Answer · why

B) Gensokyo

Gensokyo literally means Fantasy Land, and things forgotten by everyone else, from extinct animals to lost tools, turn up there.

Q 03/05

Which Touhou song became world-famous through a black-and-white shadow-art video posted on Niconico?

A) Bad Apple!!

B) Night of Nights

C) Native Faith

D) Necrofantasia

Answer · why

A) 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, Worl...

Q 04/05

Reimu, the main heroine of Touhou Project, holds which Shinto role instead of a shooter's usual pilot?

A) Shrine maiden

B) Head priest

C) Mountain ascetic

D) Court diviner

Answer · why

A) 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 05/05

Remilia Scarlet, who rules the Scarlet Devil Mansion in Touhou, is which kind of supernatural being?

A) A ghost

B) A demon

C) A fallen angel

D) A vampire

Answer · why

D) 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 s...

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