ZUN (video game developer)

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ZUN
ZUN in 2016
Born	Jun'ya Ōta (太田 順也) (1977-03-18) March 18, 1977 (age 47) Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Other names	Hakurei Kannushi
Occupation(s)	Video game developer, writer, composer
Notable work	Touhou Project
Children	2

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 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.^[1] ZUN is also known as the Hakurei Kannushi (博麗神主),^[2] which is also the name he uses for his Twitter account.