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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 Alternative TitlesJapanese: 東方鈴奈庵 ～ Forbidden Scrollery. More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 7
Chapters: 54
Status: Finished
Published: Oct 25, 2012 to Jul 26, 2017
Genre:
Fantasy
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Comp Ace Statistics Ranked: #6022 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #2562
Members: 8,036
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Dec 28, 2018
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 ... 
May 22, 2016
Forbidden Scrollery is a lot more different than your typical Touhou manga. Unlike the more whimsical Wild and Horned Hermit, or the lighthearted Three Fairies manga, Forbidden Scrollery tells a more serious, perhaps harrowing tale of life in Gensoukyou, seen through an ordinary human inhabitant rather than a person with considerable power.
This, I feel, is one of the strengths of the manga, and what makes it stand out from the rest of the Touhou manga. World-Building is top-notch as per ZUN's previous works, but the story, now delivered in 2-parters, are excellently told and often contain twists and turns, some unexpected, that make for ... 
Dec 4, 2017
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, ... 
Sep 26, 2018
If you're looking for a fun, magical, curious, little manga, go check out Forbidden Scrollery by Zun & Moe Harukawa. The story follows four girls living in the traditional Japanese village of Gensokyo, a place isolated from the normal world where supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore abound.
Newly released in English by Yen Press. You might not have come across it yet, but I think it's worth your time. Known as Touhou Suzunaan in Japan, the series has complete at 7 volumes. Kosuzu runs a bookstore with her parents called Suzunaan. They sell and rent a wide variety of books, but to those with ... |
