Cheers to a new update to the
Which Came First, Hakurei Kannushi's Games or Beer? (博麗神主のゲームが先かお酒が先か?) archive due to some new discoveries.
First, I made an accidental discovery that the Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese scanlations for Forbidden Scrollery contained full columns that are not found in the English scanlation. This adds columns 44, 45, 49, and 92. I also checked a couple of chapters on the other language scanlations listed on Mangadex, but they either sourced their scans from the English scanlation or from the Tankōbon volumes. I didn't check every chapter of those scanlations, but it is likely they won't contain additional columns that were not in the English scanlation based on their scan sources.
On to the next point, those newly found columns led to new results on old 2ch threads and a
Forbidden Scrollery Tumblr blog via reverse image search. This adds columns 46, 54, and a bunch of illustrations.
About those illustrations, I have decided this archive will store any illustrations I find for columns still missing from the archive. This is because I was finding more and more illustrations that were not featured in the scanlations of
Forbidden Scrollery and
Visionary Fairies. At this point it would be better to have the illustration as to have some firsthand source for a column, so I have decided to add in all the illustrations from both the scanlations and sources outside the scanlations to the archive. Yet, this still left gaps in the archive as the scanlations sometimes skipped including the column illustration for some chapters, seemly at random. Plus, using the scanlations of the Touhou printworks meant that columns from Comp Ace magazines without a Touhou printwork were skipped over. Regardless, these illustrations mostly filled out the years of 2013-2018 for the archive.
Also, the decision to include illustrations meant the archive could include illustrations by ほた
, who was the original illustrator for
Which Came First, Hakurei Kannushi's Games or Beer? before being replaced by Mizutaki. This adds illustrations for columns 1, 2, and 3.
With all of these additions to the archive, here is a status report of the archive to summarize of what the acrhive lacks at the moment.
Columns represented only by their Illustration:
- 2010: 1-3
- 2013: 47
- 2014: 51, 52, 53, 55, 56
- 2015: 62, 63, 64, 66, 69, 71
- 2016: 72, 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83
- 2017: 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94
- 2018: 101, 103, 104, 107
Completely missing columns:
- 2010: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- 2011: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,24 , June Comp Ace Report Manga, July Comp Ace Report Manga
- 2012: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
- 2013: 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
- 2014: 48, 50, 58
- 2015: 65
- 2017: 84, 93
- 2018: 96, 102, 105, 106
- 2019: 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116
Looking at the missing columns, all that is left are columns from
Comptiq (コンプティーク) during 2010 to early 2013 and then a bunch of gaps from
Comp Ace (コンプ エース) during 2013-2019. As stated before, some of those gaps are from
Comp Ace magazines that didn’t have a Touhou printwork, so those columns were more unlikely to be shared online. As what can be done about this, this is the moment where secondhand shopping for this magazines likely has to be done in order in the gaps. Although, that is a pricey expense to import a bunch of magazine from Japan.
To conclude, out of the 185 columns and 3
Comp Ace report manga out there as of June 12th 2025, this archive has 87 columns, 40 illustrations, and 1
Comp Ace report manga. This means the archive has around 46% of the columns and 68% with illustrations inluded out of all of the columns of
Which Came First, Hakurei Kannushi's Games or Beer?.
Feel free to check out the archive on Internet Archive to read about old experiences of ZUN and a bunch of illustrations of the Touhou Project drinking alcohol in a variety of locations. It make for a nice reading pair to go along side the Touhou printworks.
Originally serialized on Comptiq (コンプティーク) until column #44 where serialization changed to Comp Ace (コンプ エース).The folder structure...
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