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| title        ={{ruby-ja|東方文果真報|とうほうぶんかしんぽう}}<br />''Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia''
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| ISBN        = 9784048928625
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{{thtitle|Touhou |Bunka Shinpou|ruby=Word's End True Report|&nbsp;~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia|東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia}} is an official Touhou book released on March 30, 2017. It is presented as [[Aya Shameimaru]]'s attempt to create a tabloid magazine in the style of those from the [[Outside World]],<ref>''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' - [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 30|Chapter 30]]</ref> which she eventually cancelled and left unpublished.<ref>''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' - Chapter 49</ref> The book features in-universe articles, interviews and advertisements similar to the earlier ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', but in a significantly more chaotic and haphazard format. In fact, the magazine "{{nihongo|文々春新報|Bunbunshun Shinpou|lit. "Aya's Periodical News Report"}} follows the name and design of {{nihongo|週刊文春|Shuukan Bunshun|lit. "Weekly Magazine of Literature Periodical"}}, a notorious high-circulation tabloid published weekly in Japan.
{{thtitle|Touhou |Bunka Shinpou|ruby=Word's End True Report|&nbsp;~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia|東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia}} is an official Touhou book released on March 30, 2017. It is presented as [[Aya Shameimaru]]'s attempt to create a tabloid magazine in the style of those from the [[Outside World]],<ref>''[[Curiosities of Lotus Asia]]'' - [[Curiosities of Lotus Asia/Chapter 30|Chapter 30]]</ref> which she eventually cancelled and left unpublished.<ref>''[[Forbidden Scrollery]]'' - Chapter 49</ref> The book features in-universe articles, interviews and advertisements similar to the earlier ''[[Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red]]'', but in a significantly more chaotic and haphazard format. In fact, the magazine ''Bunbunharu Weekly'' or "{{nihongo|文々春新報|Bunbunharu Shinpou|lit. "Aya's Periodical News Report"}} follows the name and design of {{nihongo|週刊文春|Shuukan Bunshun|lit. "Weekly Magazine of Literature Periodical"}}, a notorious high-circulation tabloid published weekly in Japan.


==Press==
==Press==

Revision as of 19:58, 10 March 2018

東方文果真報 (とうほBunbunharu Weeklyんかしんぽう)
Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia
Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia
Developer

Team Shanghai Alice

Publisher

Kadokawa

Released

2017-03-30

Genre

Official Book

Writers

ZUN

Illustrators

Genji Asai
Masakichi

ISBN

9784048928625


Touhou Bunka Shinpou(Word's End True Report) ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia (東方文果真報 ~ Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia) is an official Touhou book released on March 30, 2017. It is presented as Aya Shameimaru's attempt to create a tabloid magazine in the style of those from the Outside World,[1] which she eventually cancelled and left unpublished.[2] The book features in-universe articles, interviews and advertisements similar to the earlier Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, but in a significantly more chaotic and haphazard format. In fact, the magazine Bunbunharu Weekly or "文々春新報 (Bunbunharu Shinpou lit. "Aya's Periodical News Report") follows the name and design of 週刊文春 (Shuukan Bunshun lit. "Weekly Magazine of Literature Periodical"), a notorious high-circulation tabloid published weekly in Japan.

Press

Details regarding the book, including its release date, were announced in the 3rd volume of Strange Creators of Outer World. Preorders opened shortly after.

Contents

Bunbunharu Weekly

Self Reflection

Afterword by ZUN

Gallery

References

  1. Curiosities of Lotus Asia - Chapter 30
  2. Forbidden Scrollery - Chapter 49
  3. On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 20.
  4. On the book, the number of page is misprinted as it starts from pg. 36.
  5. The drawn characters are so-called Yakumo Family, but they're just the reporters according to the main text, and Aya's name is printed as writer on the index.