Touhou Puppet Dance Performance Terminology & Basics

Here's a list of terminology used in PDP with their Pokémon equivalent, for ease of understanding for new players of PDP. If you think something should be added to this list, please let me know, as I know for a fact that I didn't think of all of all the possibilities here, especially since I'm tired from writing a guide for two days straight!

Puppet - Pokémon
Thread - Poke Ball
Seal - Capture. Capturing works differently in that you need to use the Thread and then knock out the Puppet you want to capture while the Thread is still active.
Rosary Beads, Talismans, and Magatama - Repel, Super Repel, and Max Repel
Skill Cards - TMs
Key Items - Generally these are HMs in item form
Marks - Natures

Myouren Tea and Ecstasy Set - Full Heal and Full Restore
Moriya Shinshu and Hakurei Shinshu - Revive and Max Revive
Prismatic Candy - Rare Candy

Charms - Typically these are like reusable Berries. At least, the ones in the Hold 1 section of your bag are. The ones in Hold 2 are regular held items.

Feather Hat - Quick Claw item
Food Rations - Leftovers item
Plain Doll - Pokedoll

Fair & Square - Sturdy ability

Seal Thread - Poke Ball
Contract Thread - Great Ball
Oath Thread - Ultra Ball
Fate Thread - Master Ball

Puppet Book - Pokedex
Puppet Box - Party
Akyuu Box - PC

Woodcutter Doll - Cut
Superhuman Glove - Rock Smash
Inflatable Boat - Surf
Gap Map - Fly

Reincarnation - Breeding (kind of). Take two parent Puppets (that aren't affected by the process), and one child. The child randomly takes stats from the parents or completely random, depending on some certain items that you get post-game. This feature is only accessible in the post-game.

Types

Attack types (instead of physical/special)

Note: The TPDP Wiki is currently actually using "Warped" as the type instead of "Chaos"

PP - A resource gained after every battle that is spent on upgrading your Puppet by upgrading their stats (EVs), teaching them moves, or changing their abilities. This can be accessed by selecting your Puppet in your party and pressing the appropriate button.

Puppet Select Menu

PP Allocation Options

Puppets will not learn moves naturally if you do not teach them by spending PP. As they level up, more moves will be available to teach.
At any time past level 10-ish you can swap your Puppet's ability with its other possible ability at the cost of some PP.

Adjusting stats is very simple. You can spend a total of 130 PP in your Puppet's stats, and each stat maxes at 64 PP.

Stat Allocation

Style Change is similar to Pokémon evolution. You can Style Change your Puppet once it hits level 30, and you will have a choice of 3 different styles. In total, there are 5 different styles that your Puppet may be able to have: Power, Defense, Speed, Assist, and Extra (Extra is Shard of Dreams only). Please check the wiki for information on what Puppets may use what Styles, except Extra which I believe can be used for any Puppet so long as you have the expansion.
As a note, you may only Style Change once per Puppet unless you reincarnate it.

The game does not reward you with money after battles. Instead, it gives you Etc. items which you can sell to merchants. These are found in the Etc. tab of your bag.

Inventory Tabs

Also in your Etc. tab, however, are items which you should not sell, these are:

数珠 - Rosary Beads

護符 - Talismans

勾玉 - Magatama

魔力の欠片 - Magical Fragment

And anything ending in 印  or  石