Touhou Suzunaan: Forbidden Scrollery. (Forbidden Scrollery)

Located within Gensokyo's human village is Suzunaan, a bookstore that both sells and lends out books. Managed by Kosuzu Motoori, a huge bibliophile who loves collecting various types of reading materials, the store is known for having numerous books from the Outside World. Despite her seemingly innocent demeanor, Kosuzu has a unique ability to decipher all written languages—fueling her desire to secure even the most dangerous of books.

The deadliest books—called "youma books"—are written by youkai and embedded with their powers. Because of this, obtaining and stockpiling youma books in a small place such as Suzunaan poses an extreme risk that Kosuzu may yet encounter.

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Touhou Suzunaan: Forbidden Scrollery. was published in English as Forbidden Scrollery by Yen Press from November 21, 2017 to May 28, 2019. It was also published in French as Touhou: Forbidden Scrollery by Meian from December 15, 2021 to May 30, 2022.

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Hakurei, Reimu

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Kirisame, Marisa

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Motoori, Kosuzu

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Futatsuiwa, Mamizou

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Hieda no, Akyuu

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Izayoi, Sakuya

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Scarlet, Remilia

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Yakumo, Yukari

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Inaba, Reisen Udongein

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Shameimaru, Aya

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Dec 28, 2018

AzureDaora

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People fear the unknown, and perhaps more importantly, try to understand it.
I'm a massive Touhoufag - expect a nigh-incomprehensible review unless you are one as well.

Forbidden Scrollery is about a curious human girl thrust in a world where she does not belong; the land of Gensokyo, a land filled to the brim with mythological gods and youkai. A place where humans are weak and the minority, and not the leaders of society.
With a newfound ability to be able to read anything in any written language, she delves deeper into the world of Youkai, something that she has little understanding of beyond the written wiles of ...

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Dec 4, 2017

Lord_Odous

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Touhou Project has grown to become quite a large multimedia franchise spanning from official video games, novels, mangas, artbooks and music CDs. There are also tons of fanmade stuffs such as music remixes, anime, fanarts, fanfictions, doujin mangas, fangames etc. It is quite difficult to get into the fandom out of nowhere because of the overwhelming amount of works of it.

Here, I would recommend Forbidden Scrollery as a start to begin your venture into Touhou Project.

In a familiar manga medium, Forbidden Scrollery is primarily about the wonders and mysteries of the world of Gensokyo. Through the eyes of a normal human, Kosuzu Motoori, ... we are introduced to the numerous existence of the other Youkai races that inhabit Gensokyo alongside humans - ranging from the Tengu, Tanuki, Kappa, and many others.

Many of the prominent characters of the Project also make their appearances, and the manga did a good job giving them sufficient panels so the readers would know who they are. Some of the most powerful beings in Gensokyo are present, such as the gap youkai Yukari Yakumo, the vampire Remilia Scarlet and the mask youkai Hata no Kokoro. From here, the reader will be able to have a good grasp on some of the characters and this will serve well as a stepping stone to get into the franchise.

If you ask me what genres do Forbidden Scrollery belong to, here they are - Fantasy, Supernatural and Mystery. Gensokyo is a fantasy world where supernatural beings and occurrences belong. A huge part of the plot is about mystery, such as solving the mystery of sounds heard in the middle of the night (turned out to be animated objects walking around at night), or some mischievous Youkai causing trouble to the human villagers that needed extermination. It is quite a straightforward read, while it may be dialog-heavy sometimes, which helps to build the world and characters for the readers, overall the plot isn't overly complicated and it certain doesn't drag.

While Touhou Project is officially a danmaku shooting game (mostly), there isn't much action to represent the game. Instead, we get something more akin of a slice-of-life drawing style, featuring Moe Harukawa who has the art style of drawing the Touhou girls in a rather cute fashion (you can see some of them from MAL directly). Meanwhile, the granddaddy behind Touhou Project, the great ZUN himself, is penning the story for the manga.

All in all, I would say Forbidden Scrollery serves as a great introductory medium to the Project. There's nothing groundbreaking or epic to be expected while reading it, instead, you will be given a delicious trip into the wondrous world of Gensokyo itself.

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Feb 1, 2015

ap1001

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Preliminary (35/54 eps)

Touhou review - Forbidden Scrollery

ZUN is a genius, as a man who have a family, lots of life experience and alcohol, ZUN's work drips with messages and his life views, and as a result tend to run deeper than most manga and anime, one chapter of Forbidden Scrollery is worth a deep analysis about both the lore and messages, and is more fulfilling than 10 or more chapters of any other manga.

Story - 8

Suzunaan's story revolves around the book store called Suzunaan ran by the family of Motoori Kosuzu, and ties into the ongoing world of Touhou lore. Featuring stories ranging from the dangerous youkai ...

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