The Touhou Project continues to be one of the most interesting experiments in the video game industry. It’s been going since 1997, and that means it’s on the cusp of 30 years. In that time it’s had more than a game released every year… and that’s just the “main” titles, developed by the one-man band behind Team Shanghai Alice. There are what feels like countless derivative works, all officially sanctioned by the creator with very loose requirements on IP licensing, other than, essentially, that the series remain dōjin, community-orientated and not allow commercial interests to overtake people’s ability to create…