I am into Reimari and Terumoko pretty heavily by now. Even started doing a bit of raw reading of Terumoko stuff. I like Keinemoko fine, but Kaguya and Mokou feel like they have a more equal relationship. As for Reimari--since I went and read all the canon mangas before getting seriously into Touhou doujin, Reimari just feels so natural to me.
I'll probably pick up the games this summer to get a full overview of the canon material. There's still way too many characters I'm not sufficiently familiar with. Really enjoying all the doujins being uploaded on here nonetheless.
I think if I had read the canon manga before the doujinshi, ill probably favor Reimari more than MariAli, but I started reading the whole Touhou Project by accident actaully, i was reading some age-gap one-shots by the tags & i came across meiling x sakura, I told myself ill only read the touhou project that only has the tag age-gap, then i came across marisa x alice age gap, then I was interested them, then I started to read the doujins, then from there I was all over the place reading all of the Touhou Project x( It all started from an age gap tag, damn my love for age gap T_T
you right about the characters there are way too many & I thought Koihime†Musou had hella charcaters, Toucho Project was like to me "B**ch Please I can top them" xD
Before july starts I should be famliar with all of them.