Weekly Manga Magazine Devoted to World's Great Figures

Started by Netto Azure November 30th, 2011 1:50 PM
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Asahi Shimbun Publications will launch Shūkan Manga Sekai no Ijin (Weekly Manga: World's Great Figures), a full-color children's magazine devoted to notable men and women in world history, on January 17, 2012. Kamui Fujiwara (Dragon Quest manga, Seirei no Moribito) is illustrating nine "World Historical Figures Cards" that will come with each issue.
Now this I got to read, while it might be for children, the art looks pretty good.

At first I was like "This seems familiar" then I realized oh yeah the Fate Series. But of course that's comparing apples to oranges is it not? xD

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Nice to see manga taking interest in time periods that aren't the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Sengoku Jidai for once.

Oh dear, it looks like Oda Nobunaga and Zhuge Liang still wormed their way into it, hah. I suppose that Nobunaga gets a pass because he really was extremely important to Japan's history, but if they'd had Sanada Yukimura in there instead, you'd have to wonder.

Moe Anne Frank is all kinds of disturbing. And......Steve Jobs and Michael Jackson? Recency bias, anyone? :laugh: