In the forgotten land of Gensokyo lay many a fantastical creature and personages even more fantastical than any creature – there reside plentiful of vampires, ghosts, tengus, onis, so on and so forth. The land is a refuge for these creatures who are oft forgotten in the 21st century of the Outside World (Earth) and whisked away through a barrier that separates this odd realm from the normal world that exists outside.
Perhaps the oddest location in Gensokyo, amongst those comprehendible to the ordinary human mind, is the Scarlet Devil Mansion. A Western mansion, sticking out like a sore thumb in an Eastern land, inhabited by: a gatekeeper who can’t gatekeep, a maid / ninja / very normal human who can control time itself, an asthmatic witch with an impressive collection of books in Esperanto, the mansion’s vampiric mistress with a penchant for trolling, and the aforementioned mistress’ little sister who has the ability to destroy anything and / or anyone at will. Oh, and one last thing, the vampires serve humans for breakfast, dinner and lunch.
As evidenced above, the Scarlet Devil Mansion is not a suitable place to live for your run-of-the-mill homo sapiens with any smidgeon of sanity.
Thus, it is quite a troubling predicament when an ordinary human named Licorice Meidou finds herself in the grounds of the mansion, with no idea as to where she is or who she is. She ends up being recruited on the whim of the mansion’s mistress, stepping foot into the bizarre land of Gensokyo as she has to contend with whatever fate has in store for her.
What to expect from this work:
- The world of Gensokyo as told from the perspective of an ordinary, human female MC working in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, written in a way that should be easy to get into for people who know nothing about Touhou.
- Some comedy, some drama, lots of slices-of-life.
- Scenes of people consuming tea.
What to not expect from this work:
- High octane action with high-stakes drama.
- An overpowered MC who gets all the girls.
- John Brown. Please read the John Brown Isekai if you were expecting the aforementioned.
Since I’m currently busy writing the John Brown Isekai, this work might not have the most consistent chapter length (somewhere around 1000-2000 words / chapter).
New chapters will be uploaded every Saturday at 17:30 GMT.
This fiction is a fanwork of “Touhou Project”. All rights reserved by Team Shanghai Alice.
's pretty good. I've been reading since the first or second chapters came out, and while the art looks ever so slightly off (I can't say I'm much better when it comes to drawing people), they are perfectly passable for a periodically published prose. I have definitely seen worse. A number of ZUN's official drawings come to mind. (Seriously, as much as we all love the raging alcoholic/one man army, the only part of his artwork that has gotten noticeably better over the years is the shading.) The story is funny, and sometimes I enjoy not having to read about eternal torment/curses/insanity/tragedy/drama/etc. However, I do not trust those batteries Licorice just put in that Gameboy to not corrode the contacts. You can never be too careful.
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Idc I'm biased of anything touhou. The first chapter was amusing, it has hand-drawn cute art. Read it or don't, I'm not your mother. I shamelessly recommend this work purely because of the comedy and art
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