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* While ZUN tries to keep a predominately lighthearted nature to the in-game tone of the story, a good deal of the incidents that the protagonists intervene with ''do'' present very real threats that, if left alone, would have had cataclysmic to ''apocalyptic'' ramifications. For example, if Yuyuko had not been stopped, the Saigyou Ayakashi would have kept on consuming the "spring" out of the land until nothing remained. If Utsuho Reiuji had not been fought back to calm in her god-induced bout of madness, she may well have reduced everything on the surface to molten, irradiated slag. And of course, had the protagonist not acted upon the Lunarian Invasion, the migrating superpowered immortal bigots would have seen the Earth "purified"... meaning ''all preexisting life'' [[FinalSolution would have to go]].

*** There is a small bit of FridgeHorror in the mix involved in this incident caused by the actions of these two characters: The [[StoryBreakerPower Watatsuki sisters]] were not involved in this incident. Considering everything, the sisters would go all-out to prevent this incident, yet somehow '''they lost''' against Junko and Hecatia purifying the Lunar Capital. [[WildMassGuessing Or the manga is an]] [[AlternateContinuity Alternate Continuity]] [[NightmareRetardant and the two sisters simply don't exist in the games.]]

* While ZUN tries to keep a predominately lighthearted nature to the in-game tone of the story, a good deal of the incidents that the protagonists intervene with ''do'' present very real threats that, if left alone, would have had cataclysmic to ''apocalyptic'' ramifications. For example, if Yuyuko had not been stopped, the Saigyou Ayakashi would have kept on consuming the "spring" out of the land until nothing remained. If Utsuho Reiuji had not been fought back to calm in her god-induced bout of madness, she may well have reduced everything on the surface to molten, irradiated slag. [[spoiler:And of course, had the protagonist not acted upon the Lunarian Invasion, the migrating superpowered immortal bigots would have seen the Earth "purified"... meaning ''all preexisting life'' [[FinalSolution would have to go]].]]

* In chapter 14 of ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' we get an introduction closeup shot [[spoiler:of a Hobgoblin]]. [[SurpriseCreepy While it isn't creepy on its own, it will certainly catch many readers off-guard.]]
** Another example from the same chapter. Yukari is a youkai, but one that is dedicated to maintaining the balance between humans and youkai in Gensokyo. Since humans are vastly outmatched and outnumbered, she's more likely to side with us, right? [[spoiler:Wrong. Yukari admits to Kasen that she only keeps an eye on humans and manipulates events in the their favour because it makes them easier to corral and hunt. And this chapter deals specifically with Yukari [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou sending her youkai spies to the Outside world for a short while...]]]]

** In case anyone is wondering, [[spoiler:it's a {{Chupacabra}}]]. Yeah...
* In chapter 25 of ''Forbidden Scrollery'', we see firsthand that, despite being friendly with a number of them, Reimu is not above murdering Youkai. [[spoiler:A resident of the human village sets up an elaborate plan in order to posthumously turn into a Youkai. The man-turned-youkai explains to Reimu that he's going to leave the village and live a peaceful life far away, so Reimu doesn't have to needlessly kill him... And then Reimu states that she "doesn't particularily mind needless killing", whereupon she ''cleaves his skull in two''. He tries to [[WhatTheHellHero call Reimu out on harboring Youkai at her shrine]], but she casually brushes it off and simply states that a human villager becoming a Youkai is "the greatest sin there is." Even without taking the questionable morality of Reimu's justification into account, the chapter ends with an ominous note that preventing villagers from turning into Youkai, and killing them if they do, is the reason why Reimu keeps a close eye on certain humans... [[FridgeHorror like Kosuzu, who, it's been repeatedly stated, is in the danger zone of becoming a Youkai herself]].]]
** [[spoiler:The circumstances behind the villager's youkai transformation are pretty unnerving in and of itself. He killed himself and used Kosuzu's fascination with his annotations to pull his spirit from the Netherworld, which would then be turned into a youkai. Peaceful intentions or no, there's no denying that this villager defied the very natural order of Gensokyo.]]
** In Chapter 49, Mamizou accepts freely that she's a youkai in a flashback. Then she kindly asks to borrow the Night Parade scroll. A visibly sweating Kosuzu mentions that it's actually hers, not the library's, and that she doesn't like to lend out her youma books. Mamizou breaks out of the "kindly" persona and shows just a teensy bit of just how ruthless and inhuman she truly is, before leaving without the scroll. Later (earlier in the manga), Kosuzu, already rattled by this, meets someone by the road, who graciously offers to talk to her about the event and give some explanations. [[spoiler:''It's Yukari.'']]
** Chapter 50, something has happened to Kosuzu again; however, this time, the cause of it is [[spoiler:the Night Parade scroll itself, which makes her believe that Reimu and Marisa themselves are villains out to suppress humanity for the sake of gaining more power and control for themselves. It gets so bad that at the end of the chapter, she uses the Night Parade scroll herself to potentially summon an extremely powerful Youkai, with the final page being Marisa futilely trying to stop her as a spiral of darkness surrounds them]].
** Chapter 51, we finally learn the species of the Youkai sealed in the Night Parade scroll. [[spoiler:It is an ''Oni''. Specifically, one that feeds on lesser Youkai. And Yukari manipulated events so that Kosuzu would summon it. This makes Reimu exclaim to Yukari that [[LetsGetDangerous she is going to exterminate her]].]]

** The [[https://youtu.be/-uGD58oH4YI new Last Words]], which are based on the occult and the outside world, are, for the most part, pretty awesome; however, there are a couple of unsettling ones. [[spoiler:Koishi's looks like something straight out of a horror movie, with her creepily walking towards the opponent before slashing them with a knife. Kokoro's feature her being a bit [[JumpScare creative]] with her masks. Mokou's features her completely burning up her body to fill the arena in fire. But the worst is arguably the new FinalBoss, Sumireko, which features what looks like the [[ApocalypseWow people of the outside world's souls rising to the sky]].]] Recently, Reisen's Last Word; a narrowed view, Reisen at a moderate distance with her back turned, before turning to reveal a rather manic smile and a glowing eye, then a sudden extreme close-up of said eye.
** One spoiled screenshot of the Hakurei Shrine shows a very unnerving detail. [[spoiler:Namely a giant crack in the Hakurei Border revealing the outside world! It's also heavily implied that it is the work of Kasen who did this. What could [[GodzillaThreshold be so threatening to cause one to need to create a crack in the Hakurei Barrier]]?]]
** As it turns out, [[spoiler:the crack is due to the occult balls Sumireko has been seeding Gesokyo with, in a deliberate attempt to break a hole in the barrier so she can enter, not knowing how much of a ''huge'' problem this would create. In addition to this, the main characters' plan to get Sumireko to stop — beating her up until she's too scared of Gensokyo to think of returning — backfires ''horribly''. Sumireko is so sure that she's going to actually ''die'' in Gensokyo that she decides to ''suicide bomb'' the place, sacrificing herself to activate the balls fully and completely ''destroy'' the Barrier, which would kill everyone involved]]. Gensokyo is not a toy.
** [[HarsherInHindsight It gets worse]] — in ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'', we meet the true culprit behind the Occult Balls: [[spoiler:[[SpaceElves Sagume Kishin]]]]. Her motive? [[spoiler:She and the rest of the Lunarian society got chased out of their own home by [[PureIsNotGood Junko]] and her [[KryptoniteFactor impurity]]-[[HostileTerraforming spreading fairies]], and forced to take shelter in the Dream World. In order to remedy this, she decided to use [[RealityWarper her powers]] to create an Occult Ball that would materialize the Lunar Capital inside Gensokyo once its inhabitants spread the "Apollo Project Coverup Theory" urban legend and purify life and death from Gensokyo, so the Lunarians [[InvadingRefugees could live in Gensokyo instead]]. By preventing Sumireko from activating it, Reimu ''actually'' [[NearVillainVictory barely saved Gensokyo (and possibly, the entire Earth) from obliteration]]. Granted, Sagume [[IDidWhatIHadToDo didn't]] ''[[IDidWhatIHadToDo want]]'' [[IDidWhatIHadToDo to use it until she had no other choice]], but it's still shudder-worthy. [[KarmaHoudini And she doesn't even get called out on it]] - instead, the heroines help her retake the Lunar Capital.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Sagume's]] [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Sagume_Kishin#Official_Profiles profile]]:''' [[spoiler: The "Lunar Capital Transfer Plan" was to purify Gensokyo and build a new capital there. To 'purify' is to eliminate life and death. [[ApocalypseHow That is to say, they were going to annihilate all the living things on the Earth's surface.]]]]
** And according to ZUN, [[spoiler:if the Lunarians had been serious about migrating to Gensokyo, then everyone would have just vanished before they even realized what was happening. Gensokyo wouldn't go out with a bang or even a whisper. It would just be... gone]].
** And the reason why all this was triggered? [[spoiler:All from a plan of [[OutsideContextProblem Junko and Hectatia]] to get revenge on a Lunarian who is already sealed in a prison for a crime. And the whole thing is really a huge example RevengeByProxy, since the Lunarian's late husband was the one who wronged them, not her. Talk about a vicious example of EvilIsPetty, and shows just how the mysterious Junko has become a being of pure hatred and resentment. And considering that the protagonists foiled her plans... Let's just hope that her resentment doesn't end up turning against Gensokyo.]]
*** [[spoiler:Fortunately, Junko and Hecatia aren't sufficiently interested in the heroines, and Gensokyo by extension, to turn their revenge against them, but they are still plotting their vengeance against Chang'e.]]
*** There is a small bit of FridgeHorror in the mix involved in this incident caused by the actions of these two characters: [[spoiler:The [[StoryBreakerPower Watatsuki sisters]] were not involved in this incident. Considering everything, the sisters would go all-out to prevent this incident, yet somehow '''they lost''' against Junko and Hecatia purifying the Lunar Capital. [[WildMassGuessing Or the manga is an]] [[AlternateContinuity Alternate Continuity]] [[NightmareRetardant and the two sisters simply don't exist in the games.]]]]
* The later half of chapter 42 of ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' features Okina drinking with Reimu. While Reimu [[GoKartingWithBowser having a drink with the]] FinalBoss of a game isn't anything new, the mood quickly turns ominous when [[spoiler:Okina reveals that the creation of Aunn from one of the statues was because of Okina's powers, and that [[MookMaker she can create entirely new Youkai]] and even muses a couple of times to Reimu herself that she could remake Gensokyo if she wanted to]]. While Okina half shoots down the idea, the [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness whole meeting ends up being sobering, both literally and figuratively, to Reimu herself]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxfe8lePywiGvLM0xHp5x18_fBfB1uYSb This trilogy]] of videos shows us just what sort of potential horror lies under the exterior of our favorite Moon Rabbits. You may not be able to look at Reisen and Rei'sen the same way after watching them tear apart entire buildings full of mooks, especially [[spoiler:the sheer amount of damage Rei'sen survives in the second video, and Reisen's sadistic cunning in the third]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKmkHoKypkY A new fourth video]] is now out. [[spoiler:Reisen VS Youmu, ending in an apparent MutualKill.]]

* While ZUN tries to keep a predominately lighthearted nature to the in-game tone of the story, a good deal of the incidents that the protagonists intervene with ''do'' present very real threats that, if left alone, would have had cataclysmic to ''apocalyptic'' ramifications. For example, if Yuyuko had not been stopped, the Saigyou Ayakashi would have kept on consuming the "spring" out of the land until nothing remained. If Utsuho Reiuji has not been fought back to calm in her god-induced bout of madness, she may well have reduced everything on the surface to molten, irradiated slag. [[spoiler: And of course, had the protagonist not acted upon the Lunarian Invasion, the migrating superpowered immortal bigots would have seen the Earth "purified"...meaning ''all preexisting life'' would have to go.]]
* The [[KillEmAll Dolls in Pseudo Paradise]] story. In resume, these are short stories about eight innocent people that are spirited away to Gensokyo and they start dying into [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Cruel And Unusual Deaths]]. The first (the most curious), the third (the youngest) and the eighth (the earliest to rise) are OffWithHisHead, the second (the most beautiful) is KilledOffScreen, the fifth (the wisest) is [[BackStab Back Stabbed]], the sixth (the most mature) is poisoned, the seventh (the wariest) is [[NailEm nailed to a tree]]. And it is implied one of them is the youkai responsible without even realizing it until the end (revealed to be the fourth, the most cowardly and the only girl of the group) who then ends up accepting her fate and is DrivenToSuicide by hanging herself twice (the first attempt failing, the second attempt being successful).

* Opening up ''Story of Eastern Wonderland'''s "OP.EXE" file in an emulator and turning on the MIDI option in the title screen with a MIDI output set up will greet you with a disturbing cacophony straight from Hell.
* Yuuka Kazami. It gets worse when you realize that the description "youkai moe~" is a pun on Yuuka being a flower youkai ("moe~" means "budding") ... her real personality is evident from her route in ''Phantasmagoria Of Flower View'' and though she smiles very pleasantly, her conversations often carry some unsettling subtext.
** One of Yuuka's lines in her scenario in ''Mystic Square'' is "Genocide is just another game." Whether she is actually serious or merely trolling is up to debate -- and even if she's only joking, it still says something about her warped sense of humor.
** In ''Lotus Land Story'', Yuuka also states to Reimu that "In a few hours, you'll become a mist of atoms. ♥", she does admit she won't, but does it by saying "I thought it'd be neat if that actually happened. ♥ " Yuuka thinks someone being reduced to atoms is 'neat'.

** [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow Those aren't really]] [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm eyes ...]]

* [[CreepyChild Medicine Melancholy]]. Sure, she's just a sentient doll, but her genocidal ramblings, her thoughts of pure hatred against humans, and how she has no qualms in testing the effects of her dangerous poison on them or killing whoever steps into her territory drive her straight into this category.
* The Scarlet Devil Mansion. According to game manuals, it's ''much'' BiggerOnTheInside, monochrome, and very dark. It would be very easy for someone to get lost. Also, if you fell down a hole (which exist in there, according to manuals), no one would hear you, and you would most likely be stuck there until you died of starvation or thirst.

* In chapter 14 of ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' we get an introduction closeup shot [[spoiler:of a Hobgoblin]]. [[SurpriseCreepy While it isn't creepy on it's own, it will certainly catch many readers off guard]].
** Another example from the same chapter. Yukari is a youkai, but one that is dedicated to maintaining the balance between humans and youkai in Gensokyo. Since humans are vastly outmatched and outnumbered, she's more likely to side with us, right? [[spoiler:Wrong. Yukari admits to Kasen that she only keeps an eye on humans and manipulates events in the their favour because it makes them easier to corral and hunt. And this chapter deals specifically with Yukari [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou sending her youkai spies to the Outside world for a short while...]] ]]

* Enenra from ''Forbidden Scrollery''. A kind of SuperSmoke youkai with huge GlowingEyesOfDoom that haunts various houses and if it isn't noticed by the house residents then the house will really burn down. And if it fails to burn down a house it then jumps on to the next closest victim making it hard to corner. Just the way the thing is presented make it even creepier.
* We get to see what Remilia's new pet is in Chapter Seven of ''Forbidden Scrollery''. [[SarcasmMode It is beautiful]].
** In case anyone is wondering, [[spoiler: it's a {{Chupacabra}}]]. Yeah...
* In chapter 25 of ''Forbidden Scrollery'' we see firsthand that, despite being friendly with a number of them, Reimu is not above murdering Youkai. [[spoiler: A resident of the human village sets up an elaborate plan in order to posthumously turn into a Youkai. The man-turned-youkai explains to Reimu that he's going to leave the village and live a peaceful life far away, so Reimu doesn't have to needlessly kill him... And then Reimu states that she "doesn't particularily mind needless killing" whereupon she ''cleaves his skull in two''. He tries to [[WhatTheHellHero call Reimu out on harboring Youkai at her shrine]] but she casually brushes it off and simply states that a human villager becoming a Youkai is "the greatest sin there is." Even without taking the questionable morality of Reimu's justification into account, the chapter ends with an ominous note that preventing villagers from turning into Youkai, and killing them if they do, is the reason why Reimu keeps a close eye on certain humans... [[FridgeHorror like Kosuzu who, it's been repeatedly stated, is in the danger zone of becoming a Youkai herself]]]].
** [[spoiler: The circumstances behind the villager's youkai transformation are pretty unnerving in and of itself. He killed himself and used Kosuzu's fascination with his annotations to pull his spirit from the Netherworld, which would then be turned into a youkai. Peaceful intentions or no, there's no denying that this villager defied the very natural order of Gensokyo.]]
** In Chapter 49, Mamizou accepts freely that she's a youkai in a flashback. Then she kindly asks to borrow the Night Parade scroll. A visibly sweating Kosuzu mentions that it's actually hers, not the library's, and that she doesn't like to lend out her youma books. Mamizou breaks out of the "kindly" persona and shows just a teensy bit of just how ruthless and inhuman she truly is, before leaving without the scroll. Later (earlier in the manga), Kosuzu, already rattled by this, meets someone by the road, who graciously offers to talk to her about the event and give some explanations. [[spoiler:''It's Yukari'']].
** Chapter 50, something has happened to Kosuzu again, however this time the cause of it is [[spoiler: the Night Parade scroll itself, which makes her believe that Reimu and Marisa themselves are villains out to suppress humanity for the sake of gaining more power and control for themselves. It gets so bad that at the end of the chapter she uses the Night Parade scroll herself to potentially summon an extremely powerful Youkai, with the final page being Marisa futility trying to stop her as a spiral of darkness surrounds them]].
** Chapter 51 we finally learn the species of the Youkai sealed in the Night Parade scroll. [[spoiler: It is an ''Oni''. Specifically one that feeds on lesser Youkai. And Yukari manipulated events so that Kosuzu would summon it. This makes Reimu exclaim to Yukari that [[LetsGetDangerous she is going to exterminate her]]]].

* Rumia. One of the few youkai that are actually known to eat humans. And since she doesn't have any ability that allows swift and painless kills, her preys are most likely eaten alive, or butchered in a horrible and bloody way.

** Even though she feels her weapon's corruption, Sakuya is still compelled by it to cut things up, including her master and other youkai. Not that Remilia is particularly bothered by it, in fact, she's happy to see that her maid has gotten "bolder."

** Surprisingly enough Reimu is the only one who remains largely unaffected by her weapon, she knows that it's different than usual, but aside from a few changes to dialogue she isn't any more bloodthirsty than usual.
* ''Urban Legend in Limbo'' provides a little with the [[http://youtu.be/NzOFjKJVt64?t=3m15s introduction of the new character]]. First everything is quiet and then all of a sudden a huge ball of darkness starts forming and eventually showing her. However she is covered in shadows and it is impossible to make out anything other than her silhouette. All while radiating an aura of darkness plus a hellish static noise one would never expect to hear in a Touhou game.
** At the end of the first demo we can see Reimu attack the new character. At the end of the second demo, we can see... um... [[AttackReflector a]] [[NoSell little]] [[OhCrap problem]]...
** The [[https://youtu.be/-uGD58oH4YI new Last Words]] which are based on the occult and the outside world are for the most part pretty awesome, however there are a couple of unsettling ones.[[spoiler: Koishi's looks like something straight out of a horror movie, with her creepily walking towards the opponent before slashing them with a knife. Kokoro's feature her being a bit [[JumpScare creative]] with her masks. Mokou's features her completely burning up her body to fill the arena in fire. But the worst is arguably the new FinalBoss, Sumireko which features what looks like the [[ApocalypseWow people of the outside world's souls rising to the sky]]]]. Recently, Reisen's Last Word; a narrowed view, Reisen at a moderate distance with her back turned, before turning to reveal a rather manic smile and a glowing eye, then a sudden extreme close-up of said eye.
** One spoiled screenshot of the Hakurei Shrine shows a very unnerving detail. [[spoiler: Namely a giant crack in the Hakurei Border revealing the outside world! It's also heavily implied that it is the work of Kasen who did this. What could [[GodzillaThreshold be so threatening to cause one to need to create a crack in the Hakurei Barrier]]]]?
** As it turns out, [[spoiler:the crack is due to the occult balls Sumireko has been seeding Gesokyo with, in a deliberate attempt to break a hole in the barrier so she can enter, not knowing how much of a ''huge'' problem this would create. In addition to this, the main characters' plan to get Sumireko stop, (beating her up until she's too scared of Gensokyo to think of returning) backfires ''horribly''. Sumireko is so sure she's going to actually ''die'' in Gensokyo that she decides to ''suicide bomb'' the place; sacrificing herself to activate the balls fully and completely ''destroy'' the Barrier, which would kill everyone involved]]. Gensokyo is not a toy.
** [[HarsherInHindsight It gets worse]] - in ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' we meet the true culprit behind the Occult Balls: [[spoiler: [[SpaceElves Sagume Kishin]]]]. Her motive? [[spoiler: She and the rest of the Lunarian society got chased out of their own home by [[PureIsNotGood Junko]] and her [[KryptoniteFactor impurity]]-[[HostileTerraforming spreading fairies]], and forced to shelter in the Dream World. In order to remedy this, she decided to use [[RealityWarper her powers]] to create an Occult Ball that would materialize the Lunar Capital inside Gensokyo once its inhabitants spread the "Apollo Project Coverup Theory" urban legend and purify life and death from Gensokyo, so the Lunarians [[InvadingRefugees could live in Gensokyo instead]]. By preventing Sumireko from activating it, Reimu ''actually'' [[NearVillainVictory barely saved Gensokyo (and possibly, the entire Earth) from obliteration]]. Granted, Sagume [[IDidWhatIHadToDo didn't *want* to use it until she had no choice]], but it's still shudder-worthy. [[KarmaHoudini And she doesn't even get called out on in]] - instead, the heroines help her retake the Lunar Capital.]]
-->'''[[spoiler: Sagume's]] [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Sagume_Kishin#Official_Profiles profile]]:''' [[spoiler: The "Lunar Capital Transfer Plan" was to purify Gensokyo and build a new capital there. To 'purify' is to eliminate life and death. [[ApocalypseHow That is to say, they were going to annihilate all the living things on the Earth's surface.]]]]
** And according to ZUN, [[spoiler:if the Lunarians had been serious about migrating to Gensokyo, then everyone would have just vanished before they even realized what was happening. Gensokyo wouldn't go out with a bang or even a whisper. It would just be... gone.]]
** And the reason why all this was triggered? [[spoiler: All from a plan of [[OutsideContextProblem Junko and Hectatia]] to get revenge on a Lunarian who is already sealed in a prison for a crime. And the reason they are getting revenge is by RevengeByProxy, since the Lunarian's late husband was the one who wronged them, not her. Talk about a vicious example of EvilIsPetty, and shows just how the mysterious Junko has become a being of pure hatred and resentment. And considering that the protagonists foiled her plans...Let's just hope that her resentment doesn't end up turning against Gensokyo]].
*** [[spoiler: Fortunately, Junko and Hecatia aren't too interested in the heroines, and Gensokyo by extension, to turn their revenge against them, but they are still plotting their vengeance against Chang'e.]]
*** There is a small bit of FridgeHorror in the mix involved in this incident caused by the actions of these two characters: [[spoiler:The [[StoryBreakerPower Watatsuki sisters]] were not involved in this incident. Considering everything the sisters would go all out to prevent this incident, yet somehow '''they lost''' against Junko and Hecatia by purifying the Lunar Capital. [[WildMassGuessing Or the manga is an]] [[AlternateContinuity Alternate Continuity]] [[NightmareRetardant and the two sisters simply don't exist in the games.]]]]
* The later half of chapter 42 of ''Wild and Horned Hermit'' features Okina drinking with Reimu. While Reimu [[GoKartingWithBowser having a drink with the]] FinalBoss of a game isn't anything new the mood quickly turns ominous when [[spoiler:Okina reveals that the creation of Aunn from one of the statues was because of Okina's powers, and that [[MookMaker she can create entirely new Youkai]] and even muses a couple of times to Reimu herself that she could remake Gensokyo if she wanted to]]. While Okina half shoots down the idea the [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness whole meeting ends up being sobering, both literally and figuratively, to Reimu herself]].
* In ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'' we have Yukari's Last Word, which involves trapping the opponent and '''cleaving them in half with a PortalCut''', punctuated by even the music cutting short for a second.

* It is somewhat common for fans to depict Yuuka and Flandre as destructive, maniacal monsters. While others go in the opposite direction with "youkai moe~" and CheerfulChild depictions respectively, it says something about their status when any image of them giving a hug on Danbooru is met with many comments along the lines of "OH GOD NO!!".

** Border of Extacy. One can just imagine the horrors of being. It's so terrifying it comes in three flavors: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq9xOG-MAqk Censored 18+]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R5d1afK5Pw Uncensored 18+]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnbk1tFiFGo Short]] (which is HEAVILY censored but still TOO DAMN CREEPY).

* As stated above, a rather wide array of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Doujinshi Doujins]] is quite dark. A good example might be the works of [[http://simadoriru.blog16.fc2.com/ Shimadoriru/Sima Drill]] which are sometimes cruel by being just slightly more realistic.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxfe8lePywiGvLM0xHp5x18_fBfB1uYSb This trilogy]] of videos shows us just what sort of potential horror lies under the exterior of our favorite Moon Rabbits. You may not be able to look at Reisen and Rei'sen the same way after watching them tear apart entire buildings full of mooks, especially [[spoiler: the sheer amount of damage Rei'sen survives in the second video, and Reisen's sadistic cunning in the third]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKmkHoKypkY A new fourth video]] is now out. [[spoiler: Reisen VS Youmu, ending in an apparent MutualKill.]]

->"''There are eight less people in this paradise, "Gensokyo", and seven corpses were carried off by youkai. Gensokyo has lost these honest men forever. It's just a change in the population count.''\\

* The Scarlet Devil Mansion. According to game manuals, it's much larger on the inside, monochrome, and very dark. It would be very easy for someone to get lost. Also, if you fell down a hole (which apparently exist in there, according to manuals), no one would hear you, and you would most likely be stuck there until you died of starvation or thirst.

* Beware of traversing TheDarkSide of NicoNicoDouga. They have {{Seinen}} depictions of Touhou itself, most of which contain the R-18 tag. The tag name for Touhou, appropriately enough, on Google Translate roughly means "[[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Gensokyo is a scary place]]." Interestingly, Website/YouTube also tends to import such depictions from NicoNicoDouga itself.

* In ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'' we have Yukari's Last Word, which involves trapping the opponent and '''cleaving them in half''' punctuated by even the music cutting short for a second.

* Pretty much everything about [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'']] was highly unsettling. Especially Sariel and Konngara. Looking carefully at Konngara, what appears to be blood is dripping from the base of her "horn". It's likely a spike ''driven through her head''. While Sariel looks like a beautiful angel, she's actually an angel of death. The background goes through changes throughout the battle of her first form, and in one of them you can see a bunch of hands rising out of the ground. You can't even clearly make out her second form. You can see the outline of her body, but the rest is a giant void. [[NothingIsScarier To further drive the point home, there is no dialogue, and there just is ''something'' about the dark atmosphere in the entire game]].

* Pretty much everything about ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'' was highly unsettling. Especially Sariel and Konngara. Looking carefully at Konngara, what appears to be blood is dripping from the base of her "horn". It's likely a spike ''driven through her head''. While Sariel looks like a beautiful angel, she's actually an angel of death. The background goes through changes throughout the battle of her first form, and in one of them you can see a bunch of hands rising out of the ground. You can't even clearly make out her second form. You can see the outline of her body, but the rest is a giant void. [[NothingIsScarier To further drive the point home, there is no dialogue, and there just is ''something'' about the dark atmosphere in the entire game]].

* Yuuka Kazami. Full stop. It gets worse when you realize that the description "youkai moe~" is a pun on Yuuka being a flower youkai ("moe~" means "budding") ... her real personality is evident from her route in ''Phantasmagoria Of Flower View'' and though she smiles very pleasantly, her conversations often carry some unsettling subtext.

* [[CreepyChild Medicine Melancholy]], full stop. Sure, she's just a sentient doll, but her genocidal ramblings, her thoughts of pure hatred against humans, and how she has no qualms in testing the effects of her dangerous poison on them or killing whoever steps into her territory drive her straight into this category.

*** There is a small bit of FridgeHorror in the mix involved in this incident caused by the actions of these two characters: [[spoiler:The [[StoryBreakerPower Watatsuki sisters]] were not involved in this incident. Considering everything the sisters would go all out to prevent this incident, yet somehow '''they lost''' against Junko and Hecatia by purifying the Lunar Capital.]]

** Chapter 51 we finally learn the species of the Youkai sealed in the Night Parade scroll. [[spoiler: It is an ''Oni''. Specifically one that feeds on lesser Youkai. And Yukari manipulated events so that Kosuzu would summon it. This even making Reimu exclaim to Yukari that [[LetsGetDangerous she is going to exterminate her]]]].

** Chapter 51 we finally learn the species of the Youkai sealed in the Night Parade scroll. [[spoiler: It is an ''Oni''. Specifically one that feeds on lesser Youkai. And Yukari manipulated events so that Kosuzu would summon it. The even making Reimu exclaim to Yukari that [[LetsGetDangerous she is going to exterminate her]]]].

** Chapter 50, Kosuzu gets possessed again, however this time it is [[spoiler: the Night Parade scroll itself, which makes her believe that Reimu and Marisa themselves are villains out to destroy Gensokyo. It gets so bad that at the end of the chapter she uses the Night Parade scroll herself to potentially summon an extremely powerful Youkai, with the final page being Marisa futility trying to stop her as a spiral of darkness surrounds them]].

** Chapter 50, Kosuzu's paranoia grows worse, believing that Reimu and Marisa themselves are villains out to destroy Gensokyo. It gets so bad that at the end of the chapter [[spoiler: she uses the Night Parade scroll herself to potentially summon an extremely powerful Youkai, with the final page being Marisa futility trying to stop her as a spiral of darkness surrounds them]].

* The nature and common treatment of the Yukkuris. Have you ever experienced [[BileFascination witnessing something so abhorrent that you're completely mesmerized by the sight and you can't stop looking at it]]? That is the very experience of witnessing Yukkuri abuse.

* Part of the plot of ''Double Dealing Character'' is that the protagonists' signature weapons (Reimu's gohei, Marisa's Mini-Hakkero, Sakuya's knives) have gone corrupted. If you choose to your character's weapon, she gradually becomes a twisted, AxCrazy version of herself.

* Pretty much everything about Highly Responsive to Prayers was highly unsettling. Especially Sariel and Konngara. Looking carefully at Konngara, what appears to be blood is dripping from the base of her "horn". It's likely a spike ''driven through her head''. While Sariel looks like a beautiful angel, she's actually an angel of death. The background goes through changes throughout the battle of her first form, and in one of them you can see a bunch of hands rising out of the ground. You can't even clearly make out her second form. You can see the outline of her body, but the rest is a giant void. [[NothingIsScarier To further drive the point home, there is no dialogue, and there just is ''something'' about the dark atmosphere in the entire game]].

** In Chapter 49, Mamizou accepts freely that she's a youkai in a flashback. Then she kindly asks to borrow the Night Parade scroll. A visibly sweating Kozosu mentions that it's actually hers, not the library's, and that she doesn't like to lend out her youma books. Mamizou breaks out of the "kindly" persona and shows just a teensy bit of just how ruthless and inhuman she truly is, before leaving without the scroll. Later (earlier in the manga), Kozosu, already rattled by this, meets someone by the road, who graciously offers to talk to her about the event and give some explanations. [[spoiler:''It's Yukari'']].