Jun'ya Ōta (太田 順也, Ōta Jun'ya), known professionally as ZUN, is a Japanese video game developer and composer, known for creating the Touhou Project bullet hell shoot 'em up video game series through his one-man dojin group Team Shanghai Alice.

In 2010, the Guinness World Records called the Touhou Project "the most prolific fan-based shooter series" ever created.

ZUN claimed that SonSon, Super Mario Bros. and Street Fighter II were the games that left the greatest impression on him during this period.

[7] ZUN was part of his school's orchestra club, and originally wanted to create music for video games.

During his career at Taito, ZUN helped work on Greatest Striker, Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color, Bujingai, Graffiti Kingdom and Exit, as well as some other games that were ultimately cancelled.

[18] The same year, ZUN wrote Curiosities of Lotus Asia, short stories that appeared in various magazines, which were then put together in a 2010 anthology.

Literature continues to be produced, with the latest being the on-going Cheating Detective Satori and Lotus Eaters.

[20] The only exception to this are the fighting games, the first of which was Immaterial and Missing Power, created in 2003 with dojin group Twilight Frontier.

In the game's afterword, ZUN mentioned that he disliked having to manage other workers, and that he produced things "six times more comfortably" when doing so alone.

[21] In the addendum of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost (2023), ZUN lauded the efficiency of generative artificial intelligence (AI) but remarked that "the beasts are the ones building a world of mental enrichment and a palpable sense of life".

"[23] Additionally, he has claimed danmaku is meant to be beautiful and aesthetically pleasing, which is also the main reason why the majority of Touhou characters are female.

"Star-Lotus Ship") Tōhō Hisōtensoku ~ Chōdokyū Ginyoru no Nazo wo Oe (東方非想天則 〜 超弩級ギニョルの謎を追え, lit.

"Unperceiving of Natural Law ~ Chase the Enigma of the Gargantuan Guignol") Twilight Frontier Daburu Supoiraa ~ Tōhō Bunkachō (ダブルスポイラー 〜 東方文花帖, lit.

"Spirit Possession Bloom") Twilight Frontier Hifū Naitomea Daiarī (秘封ナイトメアダイアリ, lit.

"Oni-Shaped Beast") Tōhō Gōyoku Ibun ~ Suibotsushita Chinshū Jigoku (東方剛欲異聞　～ 水没した沈愁地獄, lit.

"Strange Tale of Advice ~ Submerged Hell of Sunken Sorrow") Twilight Frontier Tōhō Kōryūdō (東方虹龍洞, lit.