TouhouDB - General guidelines

Entry statuses

Names and translations

Romanization

Artist types

• Music producer: artists that regularly compose or arrange music. When multiple roles apply, this type takes preference over everything else.
• Vocalist: artists that regularly provide vocals.
• Illustrator: artists who create illustrations.
• Lyricist: artists who write lyrics.
• Circle: groups of people who publish their own albums, usually at events such as Comiket and Reitaisai.
• Label: commercial companies that publish albums for others but generally don’t take part in song creation themselves.
• Other group: for all other groups of people, including more conventional bands.
• Other individual: for individuals who participate in other ways. Most commonly this means instrumentalists.

Note: when multiple roles apply, use the most common role, except for music producer, which usually takes higher preference.

Artist pictures

Album types

• Original album: music albums with only original songs. This mainly consists of official music albums by ZUN/Team Shanghai Alice.
• Game: for Touhou games.
• Fanmade/doujin: music albums with arrangements of Touhou songs, either on-vocal or off-vocal.
  • Off-vocal albums should be tagged with the instrumental tag.
• Other: for all other albums.

Album pictures

Song types

• Original song: songs that are not derivatives. This includes original songs from games (by ZUN), and original songs on doujin albums (those that are not based on any Touhou song).
• Arrangement: modified songs based on Touhou originals. These may be either on-vocal or off-vocal.
  • For off-vocal songs, the instrumental tag is optional.
• Instrumental: instrumental versions of original songs or arrangements. Instrumental should be identical to the parent version of the song, except for lacking vocals.
• Music PV: for music videos that are significant enough to have their own entry.
• Drama PV: for videos without music.
• Other: for everything else.

Song embeds and PVs

User types