Touhou Crossover Riftdrift

### Source Material

Touhou Project × Mega Man × Sonic the Hedgehog × Battle for Dream Island × misc.

### Media Type

Webcomic (Created traditionally, digital scan)

### Genre

Fantasy, action, wilderness survival, mystery

### Hyperlink(s)

TBA (currently unreleased)

***Touhou Kaiyogou***(東方怪世合 lit. "Touhou Strange World Connection") ***~ Cross Over Rift Drift*** is a crossover fan-comic by Bingles Praise ("Bingo"). While the

naming scheme takes inspiration from the Touhou Project series, there are characters and concepts from other franchises as well.

It started development in August 2023, and was first announced on Bingo's Twitter in September of that year. As of right now, it is not finished, and thus, unavailable.

## Premise

As explained on the comic's cover, it is mainly a crossover between four series that Bingo grew up with, that share similar elements; mainly, having huge casts of characters, having status quos that can be elaborated on, and little chance for their inclusions to invite any Cease & Desists that she can't legally defend.

* Touhou Project
	+ Youkai of Gensokyo
	+ "Magic the Outside World Left Behind"
	+ Represents Death, Spring
* Mega Man
	+ Robots of 2XXX
	+ "Task Force Torn into Everlasting Distress"
	+ Represents War, Winter
* Sonic the Hedgehog
	+ Mobians of Mobius
	+ "Wild and Ever-Changing Freedom of Nature"
	+ Represents Pestilence, Autumn
* Battle for Dream Island
	+ Objects of Goiky
	+ "Alien Overseers and the Vengeful Spirits in Pain"
	+ Represents Famine, Summer
* Some miscellaneous characters from other source materials(most importantly Cartoon Network)
	+ Cartoon Cartoons of CN City
	+ "Miscellaneous Worlds' Offerings"
	+ Represents transitional season, Pollution

Unlike other crossover media, this story takes place in a setting none of the characters are familiar with or even prepared to go to. Instead of the casts going to each others' respective home settings, they are instead abducted to a continent divided evenly by the magically-bordered prime meridian . Though, it does notably have a moon.

The Western half of the continent is the Chaos Side(混沌), and the Eastern half is the Order Side(秩序); the Moon, void of biome, is named Limbo Moon(月の辺獄), referring to being in a gray area of the planet it satellites. Despite being one continent, its biomes are diverse and have plenty of materials to collect.

## Development

This series has technically been developed through a traditional-digital hybrid of sorts, much like one-off art pieces Bingo has done in the past. It was originally made on an Acro Color Spiral-Bound 20.6 x 21.6 cm sketchbook. Other sketchbooks/journals were used in-cooperation; one to keep track of concepts, plot outlines, character locations, etc. and another to write down author commentary. Google Drive, a digital program that is often utilized for similar tasks, was only used for things such as spreadsheets or brainstorming sessions, which would be exceptionally inconvenienced otherwise by traditional means.

This Wiki itself, in a meta sense, was also used in its development, as it was used during development as first-hand documentation time-wise.

It was sketched first using pencil, outlined in-final with fine-tipped pens(with the exception of Japanese text, which was done with calligraphy brush-tips), and colored with both colored pencils and alcohol markers. Due to the ink bleed on the latter coloring method, an "Ink Bleed Catcher"(made from pages of another sketchbook of the exact same specs, glue-bonded for extra strength) was placed directly behind whatever page was currently being drawn on.

The art style of this series is an alternative art style Bingo used to both save time on drawing, and give it more of an identity. It's dubbed by her as "Angles Praise", as it features more straight lines and sharper geometry.

## Trivia

* Characters from Nintendo franchises would've originally appeared alongside the other series, though this was scrapped early in development. This was mainly because of the company's infamous anti-consumer practices involving Cease & Desist takedowns of fanworks involving their intellectual properties, which could potentially happen to the comic if this went through. Regardless, Bingles Praise couldn't fit them too well into the story anyway, instead going for the "Big 4" approach other fandom crossovers have taken.
	+ A leftover of this plan is within the Chaos and Order split, where the names of the two sides as well as their respective kanji symbols come from the Final Splatfest poll event of the Nintendo Switch game *Splatoon 2*. Originally, Pearl(the idol representing the Chaos pick) would've been on the Chaos side, and Marina(the idol representing the Order pick) would've been on the Order side.
	+ Pokémon species from *Pokémon* would've likely had minor appearances as well, acting as they do in their source material; where the species act as collectable companions with their trainers(in this case, the sentient characters from the other series), and Legendary/Mythical Pokémon being individuals who mostly act as either rogues, and/or sentient characters themselves.
* Some intentional changes were made to the designs of the characters, as part of Touhou's tradition of tweaking the outfits/designs of its characters, outside of simply applying art style:
	+ Reimu has her blue necktie(seen in *Phantasmagoria of Flower View* and *Subterranean Animism*) as opposed to her usual yellow necktie she wears in most official games. The ribbons on her sleeve cuffs are also replaced with zig-zags, fitting into the zig-zag motif her outfit has as a whole.
	+ Marisa has two triangles on her outfit that connect together as a diamond; a white half on her shirt, and a black half on her apron. Of course, taking inspiration from the inverts of a Yin-Yang. Speaking of, the black color on her outfit is changed to a dark purple, though still technically a saturation of black. She also has two front hair-braids on both sides of her head, instead of just one.
	+ Youmu's swords have no ofuda/blossom patterns on their sheaths/handles. The phantom symbol on her shirt is also removed for symmetry.
	+ Sakuya's hair braids have crimson bow-ties instead of her usual blue or green ones.
	+ Sanae's dress has no pattern, instead being plain blue. Her frog hair-pin is moved to the opposite side of her snake hair-wrap instead of the same side of it, and her wings from *Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost* are kept(as, both chronologically and by the time of development, that was the most recent official game).
	+ Reisen's design combines her two different outfits from the official games into one; both the black blazer, and the white shirt, become one shirt/blazer with both black and white cloth.
	+ Mega Man has red eyes, as usual in Bingo's fanwork(for the sake of color scheme, as red is already the highlight color on the rest of his design).
	+ Rush's armor design is simplified slightly.
	+ Sonic's muzzle, arms and stomach fur-patch connect into one seamless coat of fur. His tail is also much longer, referencing his design in the 90's Sonic OVA.