Outside World
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Other Names | Outside (外界) |
Location | Outside Mugenri |
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The outside world (外の世界 soto no sekai), also simply the "outside" (外界 gaikai, Lit. "Outside Realm"), is a world that can be approximately equated with our reality. In the Len'en Project, the outside world is referenced by its residents, where its location is outside Mugenri. All its residents are aware of the outside world, whereas on the other hand it's presumed that almost all the creatures of the outside world are unaware of the existence of Mugenri as the Mugenri Barrier keeps it all sealed away. It's thought that no youkai live in the outside world.
General Information[edit | edit source]
The outside world of the Len'en Project was described to be essentially the same as the real world that we live in.[1] Even though it's almost impossible to exit Mugenri through its barrier, it is still easy for travel inside.
Despite the Outside World being presumably nonfantastical in comparison to Mugenri, there are a few outsiders that are shown to have magical abilities of their own. These outsiders include Yabusame Houlen, Aoji Shitodo, and Hooaka Shitodo. While Tsubakura Enraku did have their own abilities before being spirited away by Tsurubami Senri, these abilities resulted from bodily modifications rather than magic.
Despite how difficult it is to leave Mugenri, there are a few characters with the capacity to do so, however limited. For instance, Tsurubami was able to leave Mugenri, but they were unable to send the humans in Evanescent Existence back to the Outside World, since it was difficult even by their standards of power. [1] It is also lightly implied that Tenkai Zuifeng helped Tsurubami leave to the Outside World in the first place, though far from explicitly confirmed.[2] In addition, Tsubakura states that even with Yabusame's ability, it would be difficult to transport souls back to the Outside World, though it is still implied their ability would help in that regard. [3]
When JynX was asked if both Touhou and Len'en's Outside World are the same, they could not give a definite answer due to canon issues when it comes to games they did not create, and thus said to "leave it to your imagination."[1]
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Evanescent Existence
In Evanescent Existence, Tsurubami Senri spirited away various outsiders to Mugenri so they can go on holiday and have someone else take care of their youkai extermination job. As such, these outsiders thought that whoever reaches the "goal" first may attain something and to escape from. However, no escaping was shown and it's presumed that all the outsiders settled in Mugenri.
- Reactivate Majestical Imperial
In Reactivate Majestical Imperial, winter is lasting long and a huge amount of spirits were coming from the Outside World. This was because Tenkai Zuifeng pulled a prank on their superiors and messed around with the Mugenri Barrier, which turned out to not be a good thing.
See Also[edit | edit source]
- Touhou Wiki's entry for Outside World
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