History Manga / TouhouBougetsushou

* ADayInTheLimelight: Each chapter of ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' other than the epilogue
** Chapter 1: Eirin Yagokoro
** Chapter 2: Kaguya Houraisan
** Chapter 3: The Watatsuki sisters
** Chapter 4: Fujiwara no Mokou
** Chapter 5: Yukari Yakumo
** Chapter 6: Reisen (the one on the moon, not Udonge)
** Chapter 7: Youmu Konpaku

* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' [[spoiler:the protagonists never reach the Lunar Capital, and while Yukari's plan succeeds it turns out to be a petty one intended only to annoy the Moon]]. ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' changes things a bit by revealing that [[spoiler:Yukari's true goal was to deliver a BreakTheHaughty to Eirin.]]
* SimilarSquad: Yorihime and Toyohime fill more or less the same roles for the moon that Reimu and Yukari do for Gensokyo, down to having similar powers and a few shared personality traits.

-->'''ZUN:''' "I didn't explain the weapons to Aki Eda, so the depiction was super sloppy (lol)."

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Kaguya is depicted as this for the first time in ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth''. This completely revolutionized her portrayal in fandom, since before this, most doujinshi characterized her as an AxCrazy AlphaBitch.

* CargoCult: Not the worshipping part; the magical thinking part. Patchouli's rocket is a crazy tilting contraption made out of wood, but it has three stages just like the Saturn V, and it's launched from a red carpet because launching from a red line on the ground (the equator) takes less energy. This being Gensokyo, it works perfectly.

* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' [[spoiler:the protagonists never reach the Lunar Capital, and while Yukari's plan succeeds it turns out to be a petty one intended only to annoy the Moon]]. ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' changes things a bit by revealing that [[spoiler:Yukari had the true aim of delivering a BreakTheHaughty to Eirin to make her fear the unknown.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: In ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' [[spoiler:the protagonists never reach the Lunar Capital, and while Yukari's plan succeeds it turns out to be a petty one intended only to annoy the Moon]]. ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' changes things a bit by revealing that [[spoiler:Yukari had the secondary aim of delivering a BreakTheHaughty to Eirin.]]

* [[spoiler:TheNamesake: The "Silent Sinner in Blue" most likely refers to Yuyuko, being the one that successfully sneaks into the Lunar Capital. Yuyuko generally wears blue clothing, while her "pure" nature as a ghost makes her inconspicuous among the immortal Lunarians, making her "silent", and her mission being to mess with the Lunarians by stealing from them makes her the "sinner"]]

* CallForward: In ''[[Literature/TouhouKourindouCuriositiesOfLotusAsia Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' chapter 26, Reimu mentions that Yukari has suddenly started helping her train.

''Touhou Bougetsushou'' consists of:
* '''''Silent Sinner in Blue''''', a manga which contains the bulk of the plot. The first volume was released with a music CD containing {{Leitmotif}}s for some of the characters and scenes. In between chapters of the manga were released chapters of...
* '''''Cage in Lunatic Runagate''''', a series of illustrated short stories. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different character, [[POVSequel providing new context and perspectives for earlier events]], as well as showing what other people were doing off-scene and [[FullyAbsorbedFinale providing the true ending to the story]]. It was followed by...
* '''''Inaba of the Moon & Inaba of the Earth''''', a collection of [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]] about daily life at Eientei [[{{Sequel}} after the events of the main story]]. ''Inaba'' is notable for being the only official ''Touhou'' work where ZUN merely provided an outline rather than writing it himself, and as a result is generally taken in BroadStrokes by fans.

* VillainProtagonist: Most of the returning Touhou cast, since they're deliberately ''causing'' an incident for the moon instead of resolving one. Reimu even admits that she has trouble going all-out against Yorihime since normally she'd be standing in Yorihime's position.

* '''''Cage in Lunatic Runagate''''', a series of illustrated short stories. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different character, [[POVSequel providing new context and perspectives for existing events]], as well as showing what other people were doing off-scene and [[FullyAbsorbedFinale providing the true ending to the story]]. It was followed by...

[[caption-width-right:200:Cover of ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'']]In addition to the main ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' video game series, and [[FanMyopia strangely overshadowed by the franchise's own fanfiction]], are a number of canon {{Spin Off}}s including comics and other print materials. ''Bougetsushou'' (literally "Ephemeral Moon Vignette") is the second {{manga}} entry in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' franchise, a sequel to the 8th Touhou game ''Imperishable Night''[[note]]The Japanese portion of ''Imperishable Night'''s title is ''Eiyashou'', "Eternal Night Vignette"[[/note]] that delves more into the motives and BackStory of that game's [[SpaceElves Lunarian]] antagonists.

''Touhou Bougetsushou'' is a trilogy consisting of:
* '''''Silent Sinner in Blue''''', a traditional manga and the only piece of ''Touhou'' fiction to focus on a single overarching story without any [[MysteryOfTheWeek episodic elements]]. The first volume was released with a music CD containing {{Leitmotif}}s for some of the characters and scenes.
* '''''Cage in Lunatic Runagate''''', a series of illustrated short stories which take place during the manga. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different character, [[POVSequel providing new context and perspectives for existing events]], as well as showing what other people were doing off-scene. [[FullyAbsorbedFinale It also provides the true ending to the story]].
* '''''Inaba of the Moon & Inaba of the Earth''''', a collection of [[{{Yonkoma}} 4koma]] about daily life at Eientei after the events of the main story. ''Inaba'' is notable for being the only official ''Touhou'' work where ZUN merely provided an outline rather than writing it himself, and as a result is generally taken in BroadStrokes by fans.

* POVSequel: Each story in ''Cage in Lunatic Runagate'' is a POVSequel to ''Silent Sinner in Blue''.

* SympatheticPOV: In ''Silent Sinner in Blue'' the Watatsuki sisters appear mainly as antagonists and representatives of Lunarian civilisation, causing them to come across as AffablyEvil. The rest of the trilogy, however, shows that the Watatsukis are [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch unusually friendly towards Earthlings by Lunarian standards]], [[NotSoDifferent just as the regular Touhou protagonists are unusually friendly towards youkai by human standards]].

* SpaceIsAnOcean: At least, enough like one that a god of sea voyages is capable of powering a spaceship. For bonus points the seas of the Earth and Moon are spiritually connected, meaning that in certain circumstances it's possible to travel to the Moon by sea.
** The Moon is often referred to as the "Sea" in contrast to the Earth being a "Mountain". Also, since Gensokyo is landlocked, the Moon is the first place where Reimu or Marisa have ever seen the ocean.

* CallBack: In ''Eastern and Little Nature Deity'', the Three Fairies of Light discovered that the flag from the Apollo moon landings had somehow appeared in Gensokyo. ''Bougetsushou'' reveals that the flag's sudden absence has contributed to unrest in the Lunar Capital.
* CallForward: In ''Curiosities of Lotus Asia'' chapter 26, Reimu mentions that Yukari has suddenly started helping her train.
* ChekhovsBoomerang [=/=] ChekhovsSkill: Yukari training Reimu in channeling gods first causes Watatsuki no Yorihime to come under suspicion on the moon, then "coincidentally" provides Remilia with a way to power her rocket, then assists Reimu in her battle with Yorihime. It returns again in a chapter of ''Wild and Horned Hermit'', where Sanae has Reimu channel the god of metals to assist in the Moriya Shrine's cold fusion experiment.

** In ''Magical Astronomy'' Maribel and Renko expressed a desire to see the mythical Lunar Capital, and Maribel came up with an idea for how to travel there by looking at the moon's reflection in the water. In ''Bougetsushou'' Yukari is able to reach the moon by turning its reflection on water into a portal, and implies that when she was much younger she once travelled there just to see it.

[[caption-width-right:200:Cover of Cage in Lunatic Runagate]]In addition to the main ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' video game series, and [[FanMyopia strangely overshadowed by the franchise's own fanfiction]], are a number of canon {{Spin Off}}s including comics and other print materials. ''Bougetsushou'' (literally "Ephemeral Moon Vignette") is the second {{manga}} entry in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' franchise, a sequel to the 8th Touhou game ''Imperishable Night''[[note]]The Japanese portion of ''Imperishable Night'''s title is ''Eiyashou'', "Eternal Night Vignette"[[/note]] that delves more into the motives and BackStory of that game's [[SpaceElves Lunarian]] antagonists.

In addition to the main ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' video game series, and [[FanMyopia strangely overshadowed by the franchise's own fanfiction]], are a number of canon {{Spin Off}}s including comics and other print materials. ''Bougetsushou'' (literally "Ephemeral Moon Vignette") is the second {{manga}} entry in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' franchise, a sequel to the 8th Touhou game ''Imperishable Night''[[note]]The Japanese portion of ''Imperishable Night'''s title is ''Eiyashou'', "Eternal Night Vignette"[[/note]] that delves more into the motives and BackStory of that game's [[SpaceElves Lunarian]] antagonists.

In addition to the main ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' video game series, and strangely overshadowed by the franchise's own fanfiction, are a number of canon {{Spin Off}}s including comics and other print materials. ''Bougetsushou'' (literally "Ephemeral Moon Vignette") is the second {{manga}} entry in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' franchise, a sequel to the 8th Touhou game ''Imperishable Night''[[note]]The Japanese portion of ''Imperishable Night'''s title is ''Eiyashou'', "Eternal Night Vignette"[[/note]]. The main purpose of ''Bougetsushou'' is to shed some light on the otherwise secretive Lunarian antagonists of the game, who had managed to keep most of their backstory and motives hidden from the audience.

The trilogy consisting of:

''Bougetsushou'' (literally "Ephemeral Moon Vignette") is the second {{manga}} entry in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' franchise, a sequel to the 8th Touhou game ''Imperishable Night''[[note]]The Japanese portion of ''Imperishable Night'''s title is ''Eiyashou'', "Eternal Night Vignette"[[/note]] (and, more loosely, the music CD ''Magical Astronomy''). It is a trilogy consisting of:

* UnreliableIllustrator: In 'Silent Sinner in Blue'' the crowd at Remilia's party contains Lily White and Lily Black in the same panel (who are supposed to be the same person), a freakishly tall Chen, and a number of other oddities. [[WordOfGod Apparently]] this is also the reason why Yorihime's DisintegratorRay looks like a [[PaperFanOfDoom paper fan]].

* UnreliableIllustrator: The crowd at Remilia's party contains Lily White and Lily Black in the same panel (who are supposed to be the same person), a freakishly tall Chen, and a number of other oddities. [[WordOfGod Apparently]] this is also the reason why Yorihime's DisintegratorRay looks like a [[PaperFanOfDoom paper fan]].