Touhou Koumakyou: the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

This page details development materials of Touhou Koumakyou: the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

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Timeline#

This timeline features relevant items related to the development of EoSD.

To do: Sort the timeline into its own table (and add more sources)

2001#

2001-11-25 - ZUN purchases his Edirol SD-90, using it to finish off Kioh Gyoku and eventually remix EoSD's soundtrack on it. (source)

2001-12 -XX - ZUN makes a song titled "Shanghai Alice of 1884". An earlier version of "Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17" that was originally composed for the 2001 Winter Comiket Music CD he would release at C61. (source)

2002#

2002-01-01 - For New Year 2001, ZUN announces that he is going to make a new Touhou game and is going to release it over the summer. (source)

2002 - ZUN names the game Touhou Kouchakan ~ Eastern Scarlet Teahouse (東方紅茶館〜 Eastern Scarlet Teahouse).

2002-03 - The game name is changed to Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (東方紅魔郷〜 the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil).

2002-?? - The unused midboss is cut from development. Likely cut very early on, as there are no slots for face sprites of it (Rumia is face3, Rin would've been face2).

1. ^ File02 In the case it would have been Rin. It wasn't even early in development. The faces numbers would have been bumped up 1 in late May. That makes no sense on why there is a stage 2 boss missing. Likely Daiyousei. Marisa was added on April 5th, 2002, confirmed by Zun's blog. There was no plan for Rin early or even in the middle of development. Even if she was thought of in this stage, it would make not much sense why ZUN would never bring her up in March; he said the game only had Reimu in it at that time and there were no plans for Marisa. So, it's possible he bumped up the numbers. Don't expect her concept art to be at the Touhou Exhibition. It's possible, but not plausible.

::# ^ File04 is very well believed to be Daiyousei.

:::# ^ File07 likely was Koakuma. Sprite will likely appear sometime soon at the Touhou Exhibition.

::::# ^ File11 is unknown. Assuming they would have been related to the final theme, it could be possible she was the girl whose theme was remade to The Centennial Festival for Magical Girls. Might be an unused Stage 6 boss. Likely isn't the Lyrica prototype from 2002.

2002-03-22 - The website's main page is updated with a portrait of Cirno. (source)

2002-03-27 - ZUN finishes work on Stage 3. (source)

2002-04-02 - ZUN starts to add Marisa to the game. She originally wasn't meant to playable. Her portraits were made after her menu sprite.

2002-04-15 - ZUN publicly announces the game, releasing the first images of it. (source)

2002-06-10 - Trial v0.01 and v0.02 are released.

2002-06-12—2002-08-31 - Multiple other trials. (source)

2002-08-11 - Full Version 1.00 is released.

2002-10-XX - A special edition of EoSD with a special version of the Extra Stage is released to certain shops in Japan.

Concept Art / Development Information#

Note: This section includes mockups and recreations of the concept art seen at the Touhou Project Exhibition in 2022. They are only to serve as mockups to what was seen.

These notes depict the full sketches and/or concept art for characters.

Rumia#

• Her right hand faces upwards in a clenched fist, and her left hand is is horizontally sideways.

Daiyousei#

• An uncolored version of "Daiyousei's" sprite was shown at Touhou Exhibition 2022. Pictures were not allowed, but an accurate recreation of the drawing was created by BakeBake, who visited the exhibition at the time.

Remade Sketch by BakeBake	In-Game sprite.

Cirno#

• Two alternate poses of Cirno were created and made into her two different sprites. It's possible that the original art for these was present in an earlier version of the game, but they have yet to be found.
• Cirno's full character art appears on an image ZUN posted on his old website to commemorate 30,000 pageviews (or clicks, as he called them). It displays different shading resembling ZUN's other art from around the same time (late 2001/early 2002).
• Cirno's character art in the full version of PCB seems to have the same shading as her EoSD art, but her wings lack transparency, as in the website art. This may be because said transparency appeared messy and incomplete around her hair. It's currently unclear whether Cirno's pose in that game's trial originates from EoSD's development or not.

Website Art	In-Game Art (EoSD)	In-Game Art (PCB)

Meiling#

• There is a deformed alternate pose of her on the right. This was used for her in-game sprite.
• Meilings other thumb is barely visible in her official portrait.

Remade sketches from the event	Remade full variant (Based on mockup)	Official Portrait

Koakuma#

• Not much is know other than this art existed at one point. Koakuma came before Patchouli.

Patchouli#

• She has a somewhat slender figure of her art. This is reminiscent of Yuyuko's portrait from PCB.
• Notably, her embarrassed (Book covering face) portrait has an airbrushed in arm, and distortion to the book, since it was removed from the original drawing.

Sakuya#

Was made in mid-late May 2002. v0.01 image from ZUN with the text in the bottom left had a near-finalized Stage 5 or WIP Stage 6.

Remilia#

• Her original sketch had no eyes drawn; her eyes were completely done in Adobe Photoshop (hence why they look different).

Flandre#

• Her sketch was drawn around the same time as the first trial. Her theme and stage still wasn't finished. This left ZUN finishing and ironing out Flandre's stage with no extra time for Rin Satsuki.
• This becomes more notable, but we would only know if we had the prototype box art for this version.
• Currently the earliest EoSD Box art we have is for trial v0.08. Compiled on 06/22/2002, about 12 days after trial 0.01.

• Her original sketch includes a mysterious circle on her hat.
• She had a belt-like object on the seams of her clothes.
• The shape of the frill on her right arm is slightly different.
• The clips on her skirt can be clearly seen on the skirt, which is a major factor in confirming the theory that Flandre's skirt is a wrap-around skirt that Noriro speculated about a long time ago.

Cancelled character#

• Excluding the unused stage 1 midboss, Its rumored that there was an unused character for a stage. It would definitely not be Rumia or Cirno. We also already know that cancelled themes existed for EoSD.