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Timeline of Touhou Nekokayou

Created: Sun 18 Oct 2009 15:29:07 EDT / Modified: Thu 15 Mar 2012 22:54:02 EDT

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This is a complete timeline of the continuity of Touhou Nekokayou: Scarlet Weather Archive in Japanese Red and the surrounding fan fiction. Originally, it was going to simply take place sometime later, but I have since abandoned this concept in favor of completely messing up the canonical timeline by, first of all, setting most of it (so far!) between Subterranean Animism and Undefined Fantastic Object.

Timeline of Touhou Nekokayou and surrounding continuity

(GC = Gensokyo Calendar; subtract 1884 from CE)

• ~9500 years ago: Yukari Yakumo (then known only as "the Youkai of Boundaries", or "Kyoukai no Youkai" or just "Kyoukai") comes into being.
• ~3000 years ago: A Different Story of an Eastern Wonderland (Second Prologue)
• ~1000 years ago: War between the Moon and Earth. Yasora Kojiwa, the yatagarasu who would one day be consumed by Utsuho, is mortally wounded in battle and dies on Earth.
• ~400 years ago: first portion of Touhou Nekokayou #17
• 1884 CE (0 GC): The Hakurei Border goes up; the first 60-year cycle begins.
• 1944 CE (60 GC): first part of Ends and Beginnings #2: "Then"; the first 60-year cycle ends and the second one begins.
• 1970 (86 GC): Curse of the Heavens
• ~1974 CE (~90 GC): Team 9 Origins.
• 1986 CE (102 GC): Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame are born about six months apart.
• 1988 CE (104 GC): Sanae Kotiya is born.
• 1997 CE (113 GC): Touhou Rei'iden (#1): Highly Responsive to Prayers, Touhou Fuumaroku (#2): Story of Eastern Wonderland
• 1998 CE (114 GC): Touhou Yumejikuu (#3): Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream, Touhou Gensokyo (#4): Lotus Land Story
• 1999 CE (115 GC): Touhou Kaikidan (#5): Mystic Square
• 2000 CE (116 GC): Touhou Nekokayou #6 flashback; temporal location of Meimu's stage in Touhou Saisoutensoku. History shatters.
• 2001 CE (117 GC): Touhou Koumakyou (#6): Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
  • Retelling of Scarlet Devil: Touhou Nekokayou #8-#14
• 2002 CE (118 GC): Touhou Youyoumu (#7): Perfect Cherry Blossom, Touhou Suimusou (#7.5): Immaterial and Missing Power
• Touhou Eiyashou (#8): Imperishable Night
  • Between stage 6 and Extra: Touhou Nekokayou #61, #111
• 2004 CE (120 GC): Touhou Kaeidzuka (#9): Phantasmagoria of Flower View; the second 60-year cycle ends and the third one begins.
  • Shortly before Sikieiki's Tewi stage: second part of Ends and Beginnings #2: "Then"
• 2005 CE (121 GC): first part of Touhou Nekokayou #110
• 2006 CE (122 GC): Touhou Fuujinroku (#10): Mountain of Faith, Touhou Bougetsushou: Silent Sinner in Blue/Cage in Lunatic Runagate/Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth
• 2007 CE (123 GC): Touhou Hisoten (#10.5): Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
• Touhou Chireiden (#11): Subterranean Animism
  • Three days previously: Touhou Nekokayou #57, pre-timeskip
  • Stage 1: flashback in Touhou Nekokayou #37
  • Stage 2: Subterranean Dolls
  • Stage 4: Enlightened Mind's Eye: Aboveground Incursion 1
  • Stage 6: Touhou Nekokayou #57, post-timeskip
  • Afterward: Touhou Nekokayou #24
• 2008 CE (124 GC): Ends and Beginnings (original story)
• (#12.8i) Fairy Wars #145-#152
• Touhou Nekokayou #1-#4, #7, #16-#22, #25-#26
• Enlightened Mind's Eye: Prologue
• Ends and Beginnings #2: "Now"
• Touhou Nekokayou #27-#29
• Wrong Kind of Eating
• Sleep Spell
• Touhou Nekokayou #30-#33
• The Reisen for the Bullet-Shape
• Yuka's Love
• Touhou Nekokayou #34-#37
• Philosophy of a Hated Person
• Touhou Nekokayou #53, #38
• Touhou Yumekyoukai: A Different Story of an Eastern Wonderland
• Touhou Nekokayou #41-#45, #50-#52
• Alice Illness
• Touhou Nekokayou #40, #54-#56, #59, #82, #85-#87, #89-#93, #105
• 2009 CE (125 GC): Catness: Touhou Nekokayou #63-#80
• Touhou Shinrensen (#12i): Redefined Fantastic Object
• Touhou Saisoutensoku (#12.3i): Rethinking the Natural Law #94-#104
• Touhou Nekokayou #46-#47, #49
• Double Spoiler: Touhou Bunkachou (#12.5i) #106
• Touhou Nekokayou #107-#109, #111-#112, #115-#120, #122-#131, #134-#137, #139-#141, #143-#144, #154-present
• Touhou Kokikoku: Perfect Square
• Curse of the Heavens, part 2
• 2010 CE (126 GC): April 17: second part of Touhou Nekokayou #110
• 2011 CE (127 GC): April 24: Touhou Nekokayou #133
• Touhou 13i?
• 2019 (135 GC): Create.swf Adventures: Shenanigans in a Magical Forest
• 2034 (150 GC): "Flash forward" in the ending sequence of Shenanigans in a Magical Forest
• Fate of 60 Years stories and comics:
  • 2047 (164 GC): Kon "Meimu" Yakumo is born
  • ~2048 (165 GC): Satsuki Hakurei is presumably born
  • 2049 (166 GC): Carroll Kirisame is born; several weeks later, Satsuki is found by Reimu
  • 2058 (174 GC): Meimu travels back in time to the events of Rethinking the Natural Law
  • Create.swf Adventures: Cottagesnagged
  • 2060 (176 GC): Touhou Nekokayou #132
  • 2063 (179 GC): #153, #48, #60, #83, #114, #121, #132, #142
  • 2064 (180 GC): #39

Non-"canon"

• Spoofing something else: #5,#58
• Erased from history: #6, #15, most of #23
• Not enough fourth wall: #81, #138
• Too epic: #62, #88

Remarks

Creating a continuity and timeline after the fact has resulted some problems which are almost as interesting as the ideas themselves. For instance: Perfect Square is specified as taking place ten years after Mystic Square. That seemed plenty of time for "all the Windows Incidents + Sometime Later." But then, when I actually put the timeline of the games together, at first I ran into concerns that ten years would be enough time. Then there's the fact that the first x-number-of-comics takes place over the course of one year; Ends and Beginnings happens fairly early on, so it has to be the first thing that happens (since comic #1 is in spring, and EaB is in winter), the mild chronological chaos that briefly ensued from including Flandre's relationship with Koishi and Flandre using Alice's aging-spell in A Different Story of an Eastern Wonderland ...

I'm also vaguely worried I'll have to juggle things again, based on the content of Touhou 13 and depending on how long after UFO it's supposed to take place. But I can deal with that, too.

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