{{Infobox Game
| type          = official game
| titleN        = {{ruby-ja|東方文花帖|とうほうぶんかちょう}}
| titleEn       = Shoot the Bullet
| image         = [[File:Th095cover.jpg|256px|Shoot the Bullet]]
| developer1    = [[Team Shanghai Alice]]
| publisher1    = [[Team Shanghai Alice]]
| publisher1Cat = Team Shanghai Alice
| released      = Full: December 30, 2005
| convention    =
| genre1        = Vertical Danmaku Photography Shooting
| gameplay      = Single-player Story Mode
| platforms     = [[Windows]] [[wikipedia:Windows 2000|2000]]/[[wikipedia:Windows XP|XP]]
| requirements  = *Pentium 800MHz
*140MB hard disk
*Direct3D
*DirectX 8
*16MB VRAM
*DirectSound
*128MB RAM
}}
{{thtitle|Touhou |Bunkachou|ruby=Word Flower Album| ~ Shoot the Bullet|jp=東方文花帖　～ Shoot the Bullet}} is a [[danmaku]] vertical-scrolling photography game and the 9.5 official instalment of the ''[[Touhou Project]]'', released between ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'' and ''[[Mountain of Faith]]''. It was released as a tie-in to ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]''.

==Gameplay==
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''Shoot the Bullet'' works like a normal danmaku game, with one main difference. You still have to dodge bullets that are thrown at you, but you are unable to shoot at the boss to deal damage. Instead, you must use [[Aya Shameimaru|Aya]]'s camera to take a certain amount of pictures of the boss. To assist the player, Aya's camera is capable of eliminating all of the bullets within the viewfinder when a shot is taken, even if the boss is not within the photo. The shot is considered successful when the boss is featured in the photo, and it will be given a score based on certain criteria including the amount and type of bullets in the photo. The bosses included in this game come from the games ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'' to ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''.

==Name and Concept==
The concept of ''Shoot the Bullet'' had existed since ''[[Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''. [[ZUN]] experimented with the idea previously, but the results didn't satisfy him, and the concept was placed to the side. A character who takes pictures needed to be created, so in ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', Aya Shameimaru, a photographing [[tengu]],  was introduced. As the new photography game was being created, the Touhou fanbook ''Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red'' was in production. This book contained various interviews that Aya had done with other characters. The photography game was intended to be a minigame on the ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red (CD)|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red CD]]'', but it ended up as the 9.5th Touhou game.

The idea was to add new stages to the game as time went by. <ref name="ver1.01a">{{cite web|url=http://kourindou.exblog.jp/2429760/|title=東方文花帖ver1.01a|date=January 9, 2006|author=[[ZUN]]|language=ja|accessdate=August 28, 2011}}</ref> However, [[ZUN]] later announced that there would not be new stages, as he wanted to move on to newer projects. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://kourindou.exblog.jp/4354569/|title=オクトーバーリザレクション|author=[[ZUN]]|date=October 10, 2006|language=ja|accessdate=August 28, 2011}}</ref>

On the 14th of March, 2010, ''[[Double Spoiler]]'' was released as the sequel to ''Shoot the Bullet''. It shares the same qualities as ''Shoot the Bullet'', being a photography game with Aya Shameimaru. It features bosses from ''[[Mountain of Faith]]'' to ''[[Undefined Fantastic Object]]'', as well as a new playable character, [[Hatate Himekaidou]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://kourindou.exblog.jp/12243476/|title=東方Project 第12.5弾|author=[[ZUN]]|date=March 3, 2010|language=ja|accessdate=August 27, 2011}}</ref>

==Story==
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In ''Shoot the Bullet'', you play as [[Aya Shameimaru]] as she takes photographs of the bosses from various Touhou games. However, no one ever reveals why she is taking these photos. In fact, at one point it is pointed out that "''No one knows the purpose of the photos, except Aya''", and the only reason she does not shoot the opponents is "''not to be nice, but because she doesn't want her bullets in the picture.''"

==Music==
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The game soundtrack of ''Shoot the Bullet'' features six tracks: one title/menu screen theme, and five photo themes. Like the previous games, the title screen contains the same theme that would later be featured in "Theme of Eastern Story" from ''[[Akyu's Untouched Score vol.5]]''. The fifth theme, "Wind God Girl" ({{lang|ja|風神少女}}), was also featured on the ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red (CD)|Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red CD]]'' and ''[[Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]''. The same track would later be used in ''[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]]'' as Aya's theme. The photo themes are numbered in the order that the player will encounter them in the game.

An arranged version of "Retrospective Kyoto" ({{lang|ja|レトロスペクティブ京都}}) would be included in the "ZUN's Music Collection" CD ''[[Retrospective 53 minutes]]''. In the following CD, ''[[Magical Astronomy]]'', the third photo theme, "Sleepless Night of the Eastern Country" ({{lang|ja|東の国の眠らない夜}}), was also featured.

==Press==
ZUN announced the game on his blog ''[[Invisible Games and Japanese]]'' on November 13, 2005, with some screenshots.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kourindou.exblog.jp/1835374/|title=文花帖シュート・ザ・ブリット|language=ja|author=[[ZUN]]|date=November 13, 2005|accessdate=August 28, 2011}}</ref> These screenshots were supplemented in later blog posts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kourindou.exblog.jp/1977840/|title=本当に冬コミは早い|language=ja|author=[[ZUN]]|date=November 25, 2005|accessdate=August 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kourindou.exblog.jp/2022807/|title=デザインの真実|language=ja|author=[[ZUN]]|date=November 29, 2005|accessdate=August 28, 2011}}</ref> The game was released at [[:Category:Comiket 69|Comiket 69]] on the 30th of December, 2005. In the following month, three patches were released over a period of three days.<ref name="ver1.01a"></ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kourindou.exblog.jp/2443032/|title=東方文花帖ver1.01b|author=[[ZUN]]|date=January 11, 2006|language=ja|accessdate=August 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kourindou.exblog.jp/2451857/|title=東方文花帖ver1.01c|author=[[ZUN]]|date=January 12, 2006|language=ja|accessdate=August 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kourindou.exblog.jp/2461295/|title=東方文花帖ver1.02a（正規バージョン予定）|author=[[ZUN]]|date=January 13, 2006|language=ja|accessdate=August 28, 2011}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow="7">
File:Th095backcover.jpg|Back Cover.
File:Th095disc.jpg|Game CD.
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==English patches==
{{thcrap|th095|http://www.mediafire.com/download/j258jgvke6d9dn2/th095_%28thpatch-en%29.zip}}

*[[/English patch|Alternative English Static Patch]] (Requires v1.02a update)

==External Links==
===Official===
*[https://kourindou.exblog.jp/2326892/ ZUN's blog entry about the game]
*[https://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/data/soft/th095_ver102a.exe V1.02a patch]
*[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1420650/Touhou_Bunkachou__Shoot_the_Bullet/ Shoot the Bullet on Steam]
===Unofficial===

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