In the games of the Japanese Touhou Project series, characters change with each new installation. Only the main characters, Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame , managed to maintain their leadership positions and appear in every game in the Toho universe. The remaining bright charismatic girls occupy leading roles in episodes of the world's most popular danmaku franchise by no more than one or two times.
Even loyal fans of the series do not always know in which Touhou Project games the characters that they like most have made their first debut. In "Toho Project" - 27 games, many official comics (manga) and printed stories (ranobe). Some heroines are found only in Japanese audio books - Drama CD. But today, in the center of our attention are the characters of the Touhou Project, who deserve sympathy even among those Toho fans who played just one or two games.
Charming Priestess Reimu Hakurei
One of the main characters of the Touhou games. The only priestess of the mystical temple of Hakurei, separating the world of vampires, magicians, gods of death and other evil spirits from the world of people.
Reimu has developed intuition and a sense of justice, she is extremely talented and easily learns new things. In battle, she uses her priestess kit: protective paper amulets with hexes and inscriptions.
As with other Touhou Project characters , information about Reimu would not be complete without mentioning her flaws. Catastrophic laziness prevents the girl from achieving success. Being too lazy to spend time and energy in training, the priestess often gets into difficult situations in a battle. But she is very responsible and never backs down from protecting the barrier.
Mysterious Sorceress Marisa Kirisame
The second constant character in the Touhou series is Reimu's best friend. Unlike her, Marisa has only one bright natural talent, and this is her tenacity. Only thanks to hard work and diligence, Marisa manages to keep her fighting abilities on a par with the priestess Hakurei.
Kirisame is a mage of the School of Destruction. She owns magic at the highest level, is able to carry out powerful combinations of destructive spells. In Touhou games, the hallmark of her magic is stars and laser flashes.
Although Reimu maintains that there should be order in the world, it itself can sometimes cause chaos: borrow rare magic items from other characters “for a while” or poke fun at their friends. Perhaps that is why the sorceress prefers to spend most of her time alone, doing research or aimlessly walking through the Magic Forest.
The lazy goddess of death Komachi Onozuka
Many Touhou Project characters are popular for their vibrant personality. Komachi Onozuka - of these. And although she is a shinigami (goddess of death), she is incredibly optimistic and cheerful in nature. Working with the dead does not frighten her: on the contrary, she constantly pokes fun at death and her labor, which makes the dialogue with her especially memorable.
Komachi can not only use a scythe and control perfumes. She has a unique power - the ability to manipulate the distance from herself to her destination at will. She actively exploits this power when transporting souls along the Sanzu River.
If you look at the characters of the Touhou Project in the pictures, you can see that Komachi is more carefree than other heroines. Her light nature allowed her to gain many fans and appear in several spin-offs from the main series of Toho.