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It’s nearly time for Comiket again, with Winter Comiket due to run from December 29th through 31st. While most of us here in the West might not be able to make it ourselves, there are certainly a lot of releases for Touhou to look forward to - and possibly order - once the dust settles. We’ve been keeping an eye out for a few weeks, and have managed to line up what we think should be some pretty awesome releases.

First and foremost, ZUN himself has announced two CD releases: Akyu’s Untouched Score vol. 4 and 5.

As with the previous three Akyu’s Untouched Score releases, volumes 4 and 5 will recap the original soundtracks of PC-98 games - in this case the final two, Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream and Highly Responsive to Prayers, respectively.

For arrange CDs, we’ll start with the ones that most of us heard first (at least in the West): IOSYS is planning their 6th album release for C73, Touhou Kasokusouchi.

The album appears to be primarily composed of vocals, although not as much towards a parody slant as most of their other vocal albums (although we’ll have to see what the full release is like). While some themes are making their usual appearance (such as a Keine parody piece) there appear to be a few Touhou 10 songs being arranged as well. Check out the website for a crossfade demo.

Second spot goes to one that I’ve personally been waiting on for quite some time, BITPLANE’s second CD, 竹取物語 (Taketori Monogatari). Several samples are already available on the album’s page, so check it out!

Other groups with new releases include:

• SOUND HOLIC
•  UI-70
•  Sekken-ya
•  CYTOKINE
•  Seventh Heaven MAXION
•  Two CDs from Yellow Zebra
•  Sounds of Liberation
•  Sound./Ecriture
•  文鳥Online
•  Sound Online
•  Dougen Works (a live jazz group, apparently with their first Touhou release)
•  A collaboration called Toho Never Land that includes music from Silver Forest, Yellow Zebra, and Angelic Quasar.

Most of these groups offer sample or crossfade tracks on the CDs’ pages, so check them out!

We’ll keep an eye out for further new releases; feel free to stay up to date with us on the gensokyo.org forums here.

More information about upcoming doujin releases soon!