Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica announced. The first officially licensed Touhou Project “arcade” game

Publication date of the original Japanese article: 2021-09-27 17:43 (JST)
Translated by. Ryuki Ishii

On September 27, exA-Arcadia announced their new title Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica (東方電幻景), the first officially licensed Touhou Project arcade game. It will be exhibited at the “8th Hakurei Jinjya Reitaisai” scheduled to be held at Tokyo Big Sight on October 24 JST.

Touhou Project is a bullet-hell game series created by Team Shanghai Alice/ZUN. New titles are continuously being made by ZUN himself, including the newest entry Touhou Kouryudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers. released in May of this year. The characters and music of the series have become popular among fans and a variety of fan-made games have been created over the years.

Recently, other game companies have announced a couple of officially licensed Touhou Project games as well, such as Good Smile Company’s mobile game Touhou LostWord. Cave, the well-established game developer known for numerous bullet-hell shooters, has announced in July that they are working on a new Touhou Project game.

exA-Arcadia’s new announcement continues the trend, but this time, it’ll be a first officially licensed arcade game. exA-Arcadia is known for developing an arcade system board of the same name, so Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica will likely use the exA-Arcadia system board as well. I wonder if the new game is somehow related to Team Shanghai Alice’s Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom. given the inclusion of “Perfect” and “Sakura” in its title.