Welcome To Reimu & Marisa For Smash & Sonic Racing Crossworlds Tumblr Account!
This place is dedicated to raising awareness to get Reimu Hakurei & Marisa Kirisame into not just Smash, but also Sonic Racing Crossworlds as well!
So Enjoy your time but please don’t cause any incidents or else.
if this is your first time here, I know you might be asking to yourself, who are these girls and why should they be in these games? well let's start by briefly by going over their series and themselves first.
(What Is Touhou?)
Touhou Project, or Touhou for short, is a Japanese Indie Doujin Game Series that specialize in mostly Danmaku Bullet Hells/Shoot Em' Ups and is created by ZUN, a sole member of Team Shanghai Alice. The Series started all the way back in 1997 with the release of "Highly Responsive To Prayers" with its most recent entry, Fossilized Wonders, releasing in 2025.
The series made its start on the PC-9800 Series/PC-98 for sort with it's first game, Highly Responsive To Prayers, all the way up to Mystic Square in 1998. A few years later and due to the aging quality of the PC-98, the series makes its jump to Windows with The Embodiment Of Scarlet Devil in 2002.
Afterwards the series would continue on with each entry and the rest is history.
Now that you read this, you might know a bit of what this series is, but you might be still a bit confused about who is that witch and shrine maiden are, well don't worry, this is now the part where I talk about them.
So you might also be asking to yourself: Who the heck is Reimu And Marisa? Well, to answer that question, let's start with Reimu first.
Reimu Hakurei is the human shrine maiden of the hakurei shrine who protects Gensokyo and its barrier from troublesome youkais and solves any incidents involving them.
She has the ability to float in the air and as the Hakurei Maiden, she could also use the Hakurei Yin Yang Orbs along with her trusty Purification rod, Reimu’s primary weapons that has helped her in every adventure she was in whether its battling youkai, gods, or even fairies.
Now then, since we're done with Reimu, let's jump on over to Marisa, shall we?
ahem…
Marisa Kirisame is an ordinary human magician and Reimu’s closest friend/rival who often helps her with exterminating youkais and solving any incidents they come across. Marisa wasn’t always good however, as at one point, she used to work for Mima, an evil & vengeful spirit, as her disciple and help her with stopping Reimu from foiling her plans, but she has turned over a new leaf since then.
Whenever she's traveling with Reimu or anyway else, she usually uses her broom to help her fly to places at speeds no one has seen before, making her faster than any normal human ever, which she takes pride in. Whenever she's in a tough situation, Marisa always comes equipped with her Mini-Hakkero, a magical device that helps her with anything, including powering her Master Spark, her signature attack move and a giant and wide magical, rainbow-colored laser that leaves a devastating blow to whatever or whoever in its path. In her spare time, she also sometimes runs a magic shop in her house at the "Forest Of Magic" and borrow (steal) stuff from people, mostly books however.
Both Reimu and her reside in the world of Gensokyo, the main setting of the Touhou Series and a realm that is sealed off (via The Great Hakurei Barrier) from the outside world and serves as a sanctuary to both humans and magical beings, usually youkai that have been forgotten from the outside world or has faded into myths from there.
Now for the final question: Why have Reimu and Marisa in Smash Bros and Crossworlds?
Well to start with Smash first, its because they've been long been asked to be in for years and they're long overdue to show up in the smash bros series, especially since they would fit well as an indie rep.
That along with a few other reasons including: -it's big popularity in its home country, Japan
-voted very high in smash fan ballots
-fan games and official games are on the Nintendo Eshop
-They officially appeared alongside Kirby in a Taiko no Tatsujin RPG
Need I say more?
But as for Sonic Racing Crossworlds, many of the same reasons on why they should be in Smash Bros also applies to Crossworlds as well, along with their series having a big impact on internet culture, their music having worldwide appeal and it being remixed/arranged more than any other gaming IP, and even Sega themselves has a track record history of working with the Touhou IP in many of their games and selling merch of the characters in the series.
Examples include
-Touhou DLC in Phantasy Star Online 2
-Touhou Car Skins in Initial D
-Touhou Songs showing up in Rhythm Games like Bad Apple for example.
if this isn't proof of why they should be in smash bros and Sonic Crossworlds then idk what is.
the point is, many people, including myself, want to see these girls show up in these games because this series represents a genre not seen in many games before and the characters themselves are cool!
if this thread & account helps you understand why so many people want to see Touhou in Smash & Crossworlds and you, yourself, wants to get into Touhou bc of it, then great! Hope you enjoy what you discover what you find in the World Of Touhou after seeing this.
Like/Reposts/QTES appreciated!❤️☯️
