The Gensokyo Zone

**The Gensokyo Zone** is a Touhou/Twilight Zone crossover fancomic/fanimation video series created by Tangent (Tangentg). The inspiration for this crossover comes from Rumia's spell card "Twilight Zone" from the Touhou game *LostWord*.

The series is an anthology, similar to the Twilight Zone, and generally has no continuity between episodes. Ex Rumia serves as a non-diegetic host, providing a narration at the beginning and the end of each episode. Twist endings and moral messages are stables of the series, though not all episodes contain them. Most of the episodes are posted to Youtube. There are PDF comic adaptations of some of the episodes available for download on Tangent's itch.io page. Currently, one episode has also gotten a 4koma adaptation on Tangent's DeviantArt. The comics are made predominantly using Walfas' create.swf, with occasional pictures drawn using PowerPoint. The opening theme is arranged by Tangentg, based on the Touhou menu and Twilight Zone themes composed by ZUN and Marius Constant respectively. A full version of the theme has been planned.

## Show introduction

> "You pass through the Hakurei Barrier from being spirited away. Beyond it is another realm. A realm not only of fantasy and illusion, but of magic. You’ve just crossed over… into the Gensokyo Zone." - Ex Rumia
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## Episode list

##### Notes

¹: This episode was inspired by the Gumball machine feature in the Twilight Zone pinball. The game console in the episode is modelled after an Atari 2600.

²: Episode 8 is the first episode that has the episode title card placed after the opening narration instead of right after the intro. The episode is based on the episode "The Dead Man" from *Night Gallery*.

³: This episode marks the first time Ex Rumia wears a suit.

⁴: This episode uses an extended intro screen, and Ex Rumia's opening narration bubble has the same beige colour as in the closing narration and show intro.

⁵: Christmas Special episode. Release of this episode was planned as early as August 2022. How the Parsee Stole Christmas is a Walfas Flash animation made by Walfas.

## Production

The series originally started as a spoof, with the first 2 episodes being especially parody-oriented. The 3rd episode was conceived from a standalone Twilight Zone-esque dream Tangent had, which they decided to put into the series. After the more serious episode 3, the series starting taking a more serious approach, and starting tackling social commentary as the original Twilight Zone does by ep 4, as Tangent feels disappointed that many Twilight Zone derivative media failed to deliver any moral message at the end.

## Spin-offs

After episode 13, the spin-off *Rumia's Museum of Dusk* based on *Night Gallery* was launched on Youtube.

## Other media

### PDF comic

A pdf comic adaptation of the Gensokyo Zone has been released on Tangentg's itch.io page. The first volume contains 6 of the episodes between episodes 2 and 11.

* 3 People Looking for an Exit
* The Gachapon
* The Blue Sculptor
* And When the Afterlife Opened
* A Place with Nobody

### 4koma

An experimental 4koma format was produced for ep 2.

## Gallery

Ex Rumia in her original attire giving her opening narration in ep 5.Provisional comic cover and quote page.(SPOILERS) Ep 2 adapted as a 4koma.

## External links

* Youtube playlist containing the episodes
* Tangent's itch.io page for the Gensokyo Zone pdf comic vol 1
* Tangent's itch.io page for the pdf version of episode 2
* The Gensokyo Zone animated logo on DeviantArt
* Tangentg's Touhou/Len'en gallery on DeviantArt, featuring the Gensokyo Zone 4koma comics.