Anatolia story
| Manga | |
|---|---|
| title | Anatolia story |
| Original title | 天 は 赤 い 河 の ほ と り |
| transcription | Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Chie Shinohara |
| publishing company | Shogakukan |
| magazine | Shōjo comic |
| First publication | 1995-2002 |
| expenditure | 28 |
Anatolia Story ( Japanese 天 は 赤 い 河 の ほ と り , Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori , Eng. "The sky is on the bank of the Red River") is a completed manga series by the Japanese artist Chie Shinohara , which belongs to the Shōjo genre is to be assigned. The story tells of a modern girl who is torn from her everyday life to ancient Anatolia .
action
Yuri Suzuki, a 15-year-old Japanese middle school student, has just got her first kiss from her boyfriend Himuro when she is dragged into the past by eerie arms through a puddle after going to the cinema with him. There, in ancient Anatolia at the time of the Hittites and the Egyptian pharaoh Tutenchamun , Queen Nakia wants to make her own son Judah king, but first the other five princes - all of whom have different mothers - have to be eliminated. To achieve this, she wants to cast a deadly curse on the princes, for which she wants to use Yuri, whom she has kidnapped from her time with her magical powers, as a human sacrifice.
Kail (historically Kail Mursili II. ), The third-born prince of the realm, saves Yuri from the queen and promises to bring her back to her homeland, but for Yuri to return she must overcome many obstacles. To protect her, Kail declares Yuri to be the incarnation of Ishtar , the Mesopotamian goddess of war and love, and his personal lover. Over time, Yuri and Kail fall violently in love and often have to assert themselves against the intrigues of Nakia and the political unrest of this era, which in this story are mostly instigated by Nakia herself; in her efforts to rebalance these conspiracies, Yuri made a decisive contribution to the historical development of the Hittite Empire at that time. In the end, both succeed in rendering Nakia harmless, even if it costs many victims; Yuri decides to stay in Anatolia for the rest of her life and in the end is crowned Tawananna, Queen of the Empire.
Publications
Anatolia Story was published in Japan from 1995 to 2002 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Shōjo Comic . These individual chapters have also been summarized in 28 edited volumes by the Shogakukan publishing house. The manga had a total circulation of over 16 million copies in Japan.
Anatolia Story was published in German in individual chapters in the Manga Twister magazine by Egmont Manga and Anime and has also been published as anthologies since August 2005, and all 28 volumes have been published by March 2011. The manga was also translated into English as Red River and into Italian as Il Cielo Vicino al Fiume Rosso . A Chinese version was published by Tong Li .
A fan art book was also published in Japan for the series, which among other things contains a story in which Yuri's first friend, whom she had before she was kidnapped into the past, as an archaeologist in what is now Anatolia , wrote the story of the reign of Kail on clay plates Mursilis and his queen Yuri Ishtar finds.
Adaptations
From 1997 to 2003 eight radio play CDs based on the manga were released in Japan . An art book was published on February 24, 1999, followed by a fan book on the manga on July 26, 2002. In 2007 two novels on Anatolia Story were published.
reception
Chie Shinohara was awarded the 46th Shōgakukan Manga Prize in the Shōjo category for Anatolia Story 2001 .
In the German magazine MangasZene , Anatolia Story is described as an exciting story that is full of twists and turns and intrigues, but in which all too often particularly beloved characters die.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historic Shōjo Manga Circulation Numbers , ComiPress, May 23, 2006
- ↑ MangasZene No. 5, p. 33
Web links
- Manganet for German publication
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)