Perfect Cherry Blossom

Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom
CD-ROM cover art, featuring a silhouette of Yukari Yakumo
Developer(s)Team Shanghai Alice
Publisher(s)Team Shanghai Alice
Composer(s)Team Shanghai Alice
SeriesTouhou Project
Platform(s)Windows
Release
  • JP: 17 August 2003
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter, bullet hell
Mode(s)Single-player

Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom (Japanese: 東方妖々夢 〜 Perfect Cherry Blossom, lit. "Bewitching Eastern Dream") is a 2003 vertically scrolling shooter bullet hell video game developed by Team Shanghai Alice. It is the seventh game in the Touhou Project series. Playable characters include returning protagonists Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame, with Sakuya Izayoi featuring in her first playable appearance. The story centers around the chosen heroine traveling to Gensokyo's Netherworld to stop Gensokyo from being stuck in an eternal state of winter when spring fails to arrive.

The full game was first released on August 17, 2003, at Comiket 64. The game introduces many gameplay changes over its predecessor Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, many of which would become staples of subsequent Touhou Project entries, including the ability to visualise the player's own hitbox.