History Manga / TouhouSangetsusei

* '''Visionary Fairies in Shrine''' (3 volumes), [[{{Revival}} a surprise return to the series after a four-year hiatus]], which adds hell fairy Clownpiece from ''VideoGame/TouhouKanjudenLegacyOfLunaticKingdom'' [[SixthRanger to the main cast]]. Running again in ''Comp Ace'' as of January 2016.

* '''Visionary Fairies in Shrine''' (Ongoing), [[{{Revival}} a surprise return to the series after a four-year hiatus]], which adds hell fairy Clownpiece from ''VideoGame/TouhouKanjudenLegacyOfLunaticKingdom'' [[SixthRanger to the main cast]]. Running again in ''Comp Ace'' as of January 2016.

* {{Harmless Villain}}s: The trio's ambition is to terrorise humankind and prove that fairies, like the other youkai, are not to be taken lightly. The most they manage is to mildly annoy people with their pranks.

''Sangetsusei'' eventually received [[GaidenGame its own game]], ''Yousei Daisensou ~ Touhou Sangetsusei'' (the first part of the title translates as "Great Fairy Wars"), in which Cirno sets out to punish the Three Fairies of Light for destroying her igloo. Unusually the art for this game was drawn by Makoto Hirasaka rather than ZUN himself.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The manga's accompanying GaidenGame "Yousei Daisensou" (''The Great Fairy War'') to "Youkai Daisensou" (''Film/TheGreatYokaiWar'').

* '''Visionary Fairies in Shrine''' (Ongoing), [[{{Revival}} a surprise return to the series after a four-year hiatus]], which adds hell fairy Clownpiece from ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' [[SixthRanger to the main cast]]. Running again in ''Comp Ace'' as of January 2016.

* WholePlotReference: In Chapter 6 of ''Visionary Fairies in Shrine'', the Three Fairies and Clownpiece, assisted by Marisa, act out the tale of ''Hanasaka Jiisan'' in order to get the Hakurei Shrine's cherry blossoms to bloom.

In addition to the main ''Franchise/{{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. ''Sangetsusei'' is the first {{manga}} entry in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' franchise. Like ''[[Literature/TouhouKourindouCuriositiesOfLotusAsia Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' before it, it is a SliceOfLife story that focuses more on world-building than the Gensokyo-threatening "incidents" of the games.

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. ''Sangetsusei'' is the first {{manga}} entry in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' franchise. Like ''[[Literature/TouhouKourindouCuriositiesOfLotusAsia Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' before it, it is a SliceOfLife story that focuses more on world-building than the Gensokyo-threatening "incidents" of the games.

* DeathWorld: Clownpiece's descriptions of hell give off this vibe, especially in Chapter 4 when she describes the typhoon from ''Forbidden Scrollery'''s "Let's Not Go Out on Purple Days" storyline as a mere pleasant breeze compared to the winds of hell, which can blow harder and longer.

* UnexpectedCharacter: Clownpiece's arrival was about the last thing fans expected.

[[ThePowerOfTheSun Sunny Milk]], [[{{Lunacy}} Luna Child]] and [[StarPower Star Sapphire]] are the Three Fairies of Light, a group of mischevious {{Nature Spirit}}s who live in the Forest of Magic (and later, the grounds of the Hakurei Shrine). With boundless enthusiasm and childlike intelligence, they have a tendency to get in over their heads, though they will often encounter other established characters who are willing to help them out... or punish them for their shenanigans. Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame, PlayerCharacters of the main game series, serve as secondary protagonists.

* '''Visionary Fairies in Shrine''' (Ongoing), [[{{Revival}} a surprise return to the series after a four-year hiatus]]. Running again in ''Comp Ace'' as of January 2016.

* ChekhovsLecture: The lecture on how fairies can be prayed to like harvest deities proves relevant in Chapter 6 of ''Visionary Fairies in Shrine'' when the Fairies (plus Marisa) reenacting an old play manages to make the cherry blossoms at the Hakurei Shrine bloom.

* WholePlotReference: In Chapter 6 of ''Visionary Fairies in Shrine'', the Three Fairies and Clownpiece, assisted by Marisa, act out the tale of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanasaka_Jiisan Hanasaka Jiisan]] in order to get the Hakurei Shrine's cherry blossoms to bloom.

* UnexpectedCharacter: Clownpiece's arrival was about the last thing fans expected.

* BonusMaterial: Each volume of the manga has an attached music CD, featuring themes for the characters and stories.

* '''Eastern and Little Nature Deity''' (1 volume), illustrated by Nemu Matsukura and running in ''[=MediaMix=] Game Magazine''. The {{Tankobon}} editon also includes the short story "Fairy of the Moon", featuring an encounter between Luna Child and Yukari Yakumo.

Each volume of the manga comes with a short CD featuring music related to the characters.

* ArtEvolution: ''Visionary Fairies in Shrine'' moves away somewhat from the PuniPlush artstyle of earlier installments, with members of the cast looking noticably thinner than before. Touhou {{Doujinshi}} produced by Makoto Hirasaka in the intervening period also shows lesser use of OnlySixFaces, with newer characters tending to have more distinctive facial features (such as Mamizou having long eyelashes similar to her ''Manga/ForbiddenScrollery'' design).

* OurGodsAreDifferent: While fairies aren't actually gods, their nature as {{Nature Spirit}}s makes them akin to divine spirits, and as a result harvest prayers directed at fairies work just as well as those aimed at actual deities.
* PowerNullifier: [[spoiler:Reisen Udongein Inaba's]] abilities can cancel out all three of the fairies' powers. In addition Sunny's refraction powers allow her to easily tank most light-based attacks, even those used by [[TheArchmage Yukari Yakumo]].

* '''Strange and Bright Nature Deity''' (3 volumes), which switches the artist to Makoto Hirasaka due to Matsukura's health problems.

* MundaneUtility: Chapter 3 of ''Visionary Fairies in Shrine'' has Clownpiece's madness inducing torch being used to burn away the vines encasing the Three Fairies' home like a regular torch.

* {{Flashback}}: Clownpiece has a short one in Chapter 4 of ''Visionary Fairies in Shrine'' while remembering the conversation she had with Hecatia upon being brought to Gensokyo to live by her.

''Sangetsusei'' eventually received [[GaidenGame its own game]], ''Yousei Daisensou ~ Touhou Sangetsusei'' (the first part of the title translates as "Great Fairy Wars"), in which Cirno sets out to punish the Three Fairies of Light for destroying her igloo. Unusually the art for this game is drawn by Makoto Hirasaka rather than ZUN himself.

* SixthRanger: Hell fairy Clownpiece from ''Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' becomes a recurring character and friend of the three fairies in ''Visionary Fairies in Shrine''.

* {{Crossover}}: Kasen Ibaraki from ''[[Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit Wild and Horned Hermit]]'' shows up in chapters 16 and 17 of ''Oriental Sacred Place'', bringing some of the tone of her manga with her.

** In Chapter 3 of ''Visionary Fairies in Shrine'', when the Fairies wake up to find their home covered in vines, Luna notes that the situation seems very similar, referencing the time a tsuchinoko covered their original home in vines in Chapter 9 and 10 of ''Strange and Bright Nature Deity''. However, due to the generally poor long-term memory of fairies, she doesn't quite put two and two together.

** In Chapter 3 of ''Visionary Fairies in Shrine'', when the Fairies wake up to find their home covered in vines, Luna notes that the situation seems very similar, referencing the time a tsuchinoko covered their original home in Chapter 9 and 10 of ''Strange and Bright Nature Deity''. However, due to the generally poor long-term memory of fairies, she doesn't quite put two and two together.