Touhou Project

In which scores of flying lolis settle their differences by shooting vast amounts of destrucive power at each other, then having tea.

Characters

Currently in Camp

Hakurei Reimu (donationsorgtfo)
Unlikely to look that cheerful in person. The miko of a run-down shrine that nobody ever visits even though it's vital to their fantasyland's continued existence, who consequently moonlights as a youkai hunter in order to not starve. Reimu is an honest type who treats everyone equally: with a sort of placid grumpiness. She's also incredibly lazy and genuinely believes that hard work is useless, but her vast spiritual powers keep growing anyway because she's a Mary Sue.


Kirisame Marisa (mastersparktion)
Likely to look that cheerful in person, not that it'll help you. A magic-user who maintains her great destructive power through diligent hard work and devoted study, and therefore spends the rest of her time being as frivolous as humanly possible. Marisa's a liar, a thief, and a deliberate annoyance, the kind of person who's capable of subtlety but prefers shamelessness. Her specialties are lasers, lasers and lasers.

How exactly these two manage to be best friends (of a weird, dysfunctional variety) is a mystery for the ages.
In camp, Reimu has a duplicate of her shrine located somewhere off in the wilderness near the barrier; both are currently living there.

Others

Okay seriously, there are around a hundred characters in Touhou, listing them all is not a good plan. Granted, most of those don't have big enough roles to be appable, but there are still at least a dozen good candidates. If you like adorable monster girls, there's probably something for you in this canon.

We should probably take the opportunity to pimp some of our most-wanteds sometime, though, when we're not lazy. Yes?

General Information

The Touhou Project is mainly a series of shooting games, though there's also something of a multimedia blitz, with several official manga, short story series, and music albums (don't ask how music can be canon). Much of this stuff is translated and readily available online, hint hint.

The basic premise, anyway, is that there's a hidden land called Gensokyo, sealed off from the rest of the world, in which most monsters and other random magical thingies have settled. And all of them look like underaged girls. After a point, they start creating silly disasters pretty much out of boredom. Everyone has kind of a relaxed attitude about it all.

Also known for its small but rabid and often, uh, colorful fandom, and the vast amounts of fanon that go with it. Despite the loli-factor (which is honestly open to debate anyway, since the art is... not stupendous) the actual canon really isn't skeevy at all; it does a good job mixing fairy-tale whimsy with a smarter grown-up sensibility. For any further information you need, there's always the wiki.