#aoi horus no hitomi

[iukasylvie]

How to do an antagonistic younger brother: Yuguro Musa from Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi, Set from "The Source of Storms", the bonus chapter collected in Volume 9 of Aoi Horus no Hitomi by Chie Inudoh, and Radu III from Vlad Drăculea by Akiyo Ohkubo

How not to do an antagonistic younger brother: Bai Jin/Commander Faceless from Karakuri Circus by Kazuhiro Fujita and Emperor Belos/Philip Wittebane from The Owl House

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Panels of Aoi Horus no Hitomi by Chie Inudoh

[iukasylvie]

You can view more of Chapter 1 of Aoi Horus no Hitomi from the link below.

Yes, Aoi Horus no Hitomi and A Bride's Story are written and drawn by two different women, but both are gorgeous historical manga series from Kadokawa/Enterbrain's magazine Harta.

I agree that Mori's art in A Bride's Story is impressive. The Kyoto International Manga Museum held an exhibition for the series for free! The Golden Kamuy exhibition at the Museum of Kyoto required visitors to buy tickets and I was only able to pass thanks to my disability certificate.

I prefer Aoi Horus no Hitomi, as well as Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda and Vlad Drăculea by Akiyo Ohkubo, because they take more time to clarify the context and prepare the reader for things to come, to be honest. I admit that I read Volume 1 of A Bride's Story hastily in a manga café the last time I read the series, but I don't remember any map or ethnic group's name. I wish I knew the exact places Amir and Karluk lived in, their ethnic groups, and the historical context behind 19th-century Central Asia both from a bird's-eye view and a worm's-eye view.

There is a manga about how Hatshepsut came to power and became one of Ancient Egypt’s most sucessful rulers holy shit I am salivating looking at the pages like:

PLEASE GET LICENSED

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Today’s disabled character of the day is Mah from Aoi Horus no Hitomi: Dansou no Joou no Monogatari, who has dwarfism

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[jamesdavisnicoll]

Blue Eye of Horus, volume 1 by Chie Inudou 

The tale of the woman who became Pharaoh, literally over her father and brother/husband's dead bodies.

[saffronapplemanga]

Hi! I started digging historical manga late in the previous year too. Have you ever heard of Vlad Drăculea by Akiyo Ohkubo and Aoi Horus no Hitomi by Chie Inudoh? I think they along with A Witch's Life in Mongol deserve to be translated and adapted into anime series.

Hello! I have not, but I looked up the summaries and they sound so interesting!!! Thanks for telling me about them, I’ll check them out when I get the chance.

I would kill to translate this series. I’ve been wanting to pick up more work too.

[littleeyesofpallas]

Aoi HORUS no Hitomi -Dansou no Joou no Monogatar-i[碧いホルスの瞳 -男装の女王の物語-]: Blue Eyes of Horus -The Story of a Queen Dressed As a Man-

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My version of #sixfanarts challenge!

For my bird-related side project @birbdirectory in instagram ^o^

[22wildasies]

Egyptian’s Manga

This is one of my binge's favorite for mangas' picks. Yet, I rarely see any recommendations. I mean how can you reject the stunning costumes of the queens and pharaohs, the beautiful art strokes from the artists?! And not mention, there are mini history lessons included in these mangas, so it's a true gaining your Mediterranean's background. while being an Otaku (so who say Otaku is a waste of time, huh?!).  

Aoi Horus no Hitomi - Dansou no Joou no / The Blue Eye of Horus 

Ouke no Monshou / Daughter of the Nile / Crest of the Royal Family

Pharaoh's Concubine

Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori / Red River / Anatolia's Story

A Thousand Year Love of Acacia

The Descendant of the Dynasty  

And there go my top picks! Recommend me more if you have any! But now please enjoy these reads!

[iukasylvie]

I prefer Hakuryuu Ren's character arc in Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Scar's in Fullmetal Alchemist, and Sitre's, Senenmut's, and Neferure's in Aoi Horus no Hitomi to Custas' in Witch Hat Atelier.

Unlike Custas who suddenly turned so unreasonably hostile to Coco and Tartah the moment he met Ininia, Scar didn't suddenly turn to the good side just because he met May Chang.

[takkarulz]

Panel of manga Aoi Horus no Hitomi by Chie Inudo.

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Accepted Characters 11/23/2022

Paul Ferguson (Pirate)  from The Water Seeker

Prince Andrei from The Kneebone Boy

Henrietta Block from The Water Seeker

Sabrina Grimm from  The Sisters Grimm series

Jimmy from the Silo Series

Sinu Han from Lookism

Fantorangen from Fantorangen

Buster Slydale from Sylvanian Families

Jacob Wilde (Jake) from The Dangerous Jacob Wilde

Ludwing Von Veilchen from Concerto for Two Pianos

Mika from Agent Ali

McPherson from the Princess Bride

Princess Uzima from The Kneebone Boy

Tess Walnut from Sylvanian Families

Defense Zircon from Steven Universe

Kingdock from the Bone graphic novel series

Captain Scabulous from Stormhawks

Mah from Aoi Horus no Hitomi: Dansou no Joou no Monogatari

Fawn from Horses of the Dawn

Right Hand Man from the Henry Stickmin Collection

Henry Minerva from The Hunt for the Seventh

Liza Khokhlakov from The Brothers Karamazov

Ines from The Boy From Seville

Jock from Nerd and Jock

Tommy Walker from The Who’s Tommy

Nadine from Claymore

Seiji from Barefoot Gen

Hiika Deminte from The Reason Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion

Zass from Agent Ali

Dave from Arthur

Longshot from Avatar the Last Airbender

Unnamed dinosaur from the Star Fox series

Veronika from Veronika Decide Morrer

Marvin from Queer as Folk

Lynn from Pulse

Mingus (Chickie-fil-A) from Queer as Folk

Julian Beaumont from Queer as Folk

Michael Waters from My Own Private Idaho

Mercedes and Lada's mother from Når Noen Klikker i En Vinkel

Connell Waldron from Normal People

Gunn Merete from the Kongsvik series

Juni Cortez from the Spy Kids series

980 requests remain

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Φάρμακον [Whumptober 2019 - Day 21: Laced Drink]

Summary: φάρμακον (phármakon): substantive neutral, Ancient Greek. Remedy, poison. A queen must have means to protect her own power and person. For Selena, whose rings shine like stars in the starry sky, it's what her jewels hide behind their flare.

Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V (Royalty/Ancient Mediterranean Sea AU) Relationships: Very implied Serena & Ruri friendship, also very implied Peregrine

Wordcount: 1.052 words

Content Warnings: Deals with poisons (y’know, considering the prompt, it’s predictable).

Notes: I have a question: are you familiar with a manga called Aoi Horus no Hitomi? I bought it under its French name and edition, "Reine d'Egypte" (a lame translation, compared to the original Japanese title, if you ask me) kind of by chance and it's since then become one of my favorite manga series of all times with Cardcaptor Sakura, Pokémon Special and FMA. I buy every new volume as soon as they come out. It's about the first female pharaoh, Hatchepsut, and how her rise to power and reign were... tumultuous, to say the least. Also it looks super fucking good.

If I bring up Aoi Horus no Hitomi, it's because this is the inspiration for this AU oneshot. I suddenly wanted to write about an Ancient Times-inspired queen and how she expressed her authority. This may be more Greek than Egyptian-like necause I'm more comfortable with Greco-Roman codes (blame it on my major), and used Serena's already Greek name (y'know, the moon, the goddess Σελήνη, etc.). Now, I have no excuse for having Ruri and Shun roam around with their very not Greco-Roman names, but fuck it, my AU my rules So in short here Selena is a moon-themed queen officially endorsed by the moon goddess Hecate, Ruri is her childhood friend-slash-servant-slash-maid and Shun is her dedicated scribe. You'll easily be able to tell where the Aoi Horus no Hitomi inspiration kicks in there if you've read the manga lol. Implied Peregrine here I come. (It can be read as just deep friendship, tho, I think).

And the title of the story, which is the first thing I actually came up with when filling this prompt, is absolutely a play on the term because φάρμακον can translate to either "remedy" or "poison" depending on the context. 

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A queen cannot let her guard down, can she? In a world where enemies keep rising against her, both from the inside and the outside, she must keep a careful and watchful eye on everything possible. Alas, she does not have the eyes of the gods, cannot see through all of the lies and the darkness and cannot ride on the boat of the sun; she needs to take care of this with her limited human abilities. It is but part of being a mortal in a cosmos ruled by the deities.

Like any queen, she wears bright and luxurious jewellery for most of her days and nights, earrings complementing her hair, crescent-shaped headband and crown to show her social status to all, golden necklaces and shining gems decorating her breast, bracelets colouring her wrists in bright and regal colours, rings armouring her fingers. These are more than simple, superficial decorations: they are weapons in their own right. She can scratch an assassin with the claw-shaped accessory on her right index finger and has the most efficient powders in the other rings she wore, contained under the pretty gemstones making her hands shine like the early rainbow sky.

People of the court want her dead or alive, to exert their authority on her and, in then, get the country’s power in their filthy, egotistical hands. Alas, she was raised by a cunning pedagogue and taught by the winner of the Olympic Games of his youth: she knows her environment and how her high-ranked officers act. She prefers young, low-class citizens to serve her, as they’re more diligent and more deserving of her attention, having struggled their way to the top instead of inheriting from their parents’ status to her ancestors. The son isn’t always as good or bad as the father, after all.

A noble-blooded accountant flatters her too much with empty-sounded words and verses she’s already heard or read somewhere else, gratifies her with gifts that smell like dishonesty and future treason. She sees the sharp, bright blade tied around his waist, clean and yet poor, handle made out of wood. His clothing is unnaturally crimson, colour of power in another city they have contacts with, he told her when she asked about it. Still, despite the flags this rises, she invites him to sit down at her table and invites a maid to serve them both a cup of strong-flavoured tea, waiting for him to turn an eye away during their conversations once the fuming cups are set before the both of them.

He glances at his blade, irises filling with a dark shine; she pours the powder hidden behind a sapphire into his drink.

Their conversation resumes. His words still sound empty, flatters that mean nothing, and she only listens with half of her mind. Instead, she focuses on the cup, drinking her tea with slow gulps, attention focused on the noble. He eventually puts the treacherous drink to his lips and, in a slow move of his wrist, takes a sip. His last, she knows it, as his hands go limp and he passes out. In a complacent nod of her head, she gets her maid’s attention and claps in her hands.

“Ruri, please,” she asks, the girl rushing to her side, “can you get this man to his new cell?”

“Absolutely, your Majesty.”

“I told you already, you can call me Selena when we’re alone like this. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a scribe to check on.”

The maid bows and runs out of the room, diligent as always, as the queen eyes the tea still drippling from the table. He should have known a woman endorsed by the moon would have Hecate by her side to protect her, her starry sleeves shrouded in the dark filled with tricks.

In the palace’s office, a man is slouched over a desk, a hand writing down accounts and books for the royal archives. She doesn’t need to glance over his shoulder to know this is what he is doing, because she assigned this task to him last week, and he’s been nothing but serious about it since then. A bit too serious, it’d seem.

“In how long have you not slept, Shun?” She asks as she enters the room, a sly smirk on her face, her guard slightly down despite the blade she has tied around her waist and hidden away by the precious clothing and the jewels.

The scribe rises from his slouched position, obvious dark rings under his eyes, hand almost hitting the cup of water he has next to him. She slowly walks up to him, bracelets tingling, stones shining under the gentle, dim light of the candle lighting his workspace.

“Ah, your Majesty,” he replies. “I’m almost done with this manuscript. It should only take a couple of hours left.”

“I appreciate your dedication, but your queen is ordering you to bed, so could you please do so right this moment? I am afraid you have, in fact, not slept for a couple of days.”

“I have frankly not seen the sun enough to judge, your Majesty.”

“This only gives me more reasons to order you to bed, Shun.”

“I swear on my life that I’ll do so once I’m done with this manuscript.”

Selena opens her emerald ring’s cache over his cup of water while he looks over his handwriting again. For someone who seemed as rough as he was when she first hired him, his is smooth and clear. People are full of hidden talents and traits, it gladly seems.

Shortly after she’s laced his drink, he grabs his cup it in his hand and almost drinks it, only to wince when it gets close to his nose. He glances back at her, a familiar smile on his face.

“Ah, I guess that Her Majesty very much wants me to go take a rest. I’ll execute myself without making her wait any longer.”

“I prefer that.”

She gives him her hand, which he takes, his head spinning for a moment. She didn’t say that for her own good, after all, she expected that to happen. Still, she got proven right, and that’s enough for her, for now, when it’s about her personal scribe.

She blows out the candle before leaving.

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J-POP Manga, tutti gli annunci del Comicon di Napoli

In arrivo 14 nuovi titoli e un’altra Collection!

In occasione della nuova edizione del COMICON, tenutasi questi giorni in quel di Napoli, Georgia Cocchi Pontalti e Jacopo Costa Buranelli, rispettivamente Marketing Manager e Literary Director di Edizioni BD e J-POP Manga, hanno hanno reso noto che il prossimo grande mangaka a cui verrà dedicata una Collection sarà Moto Hagio. 

Non solo, durante il J-POP Café, evento a invito dove la casa editrice e 30 lettori selezionati tramite i social hanno salutato insieme l’ultimo volume di “Tokyo Ghoul:re”, conclusione dell’amatissima saga creata da Sui Ishida, sono arrivati a sorpresa anche gli annunci manga, e non solo, per la seconda parte del 2019; vediamoli insieme.

JIGOKURAKU - HELL’S PARADISE di Yuji Kaku

Il temuto ninja Gabimaru, considerato imbattibile, aspetta in prigione l’arrivo di un boia in grado di ucciderlo. In lui il desiderio di farla finita sembra ormai più forte della voglia di lottare, ma la proposta della carnefice Asaemon risveglierà in lui la furia di un tempo: la possibilità di tornare a vivere con sua moglie, l’unica luce nella sua vita, se accetterà di avventurarsi in una terra magica e letale per recuperare il segreto della vita eterna per lo shogun! Tra avversari assetati di sangue, mostri demoniaci, tradimenti e azione esplosiva questa serie vi lascerà a bocca aperta!

5 volumi, in corso

YAKEDO SHOJO di Kantetsu, Yuu Satomi

Kaname Aizawa vive un'esistenza difficile, sommesso a scuola e funestato da gravi problemi tra le mura di casa. Tutto inizia a cambiare quando si scontra accidentalmente con Shiina Hinami, ragazza dall'immagine perfetta e popolarissima a scuola. Mentre aiuta Shiina a raccogliere le sue cose sparse in giro, Kaname apre accidentalmente il suo diario segreto e viene così a contatto con l'insospettabile lato oscuro della compagna: tra i due studenti nasce a poco a poco un morboso legame. In una scuola sempre più impregnata dall'odore della morte, quale sarà il futuro dei due ragazzi?

4 volumi, concluso

IL PREZZO DI UNA VITA - KAITOTTE MORATTA BOX (BOX 1-3) di Sugaru Miaki, Shouichi Taguchi

Dopo Your Name, una nuova toccante miniserie in tre volumi che mescola suggestioni sovrannaturali e il potere dei sentimenti. Un uomo senza prospettive per il futuro scopre uno strano negozio che acquista anni di vita dalle persone in cambio di denaro. Convinto di non avere niente da perdere, il ragazzo accetta lo scambio lasciandosi solo tre mesi di vita, che passerà seguito da “un’osservatrice” speciale con cui stringe subito un rapporto complicato…

3 volumi, completo

IL CLUB DELLE ESPLOSIONI - KYOSHITSU JIBAKU CLUB di Aoisei, Anajiro

Sono passati tre anni da quando uno studente di liceo, vittima di bullismo e dell'indifferenza dei compagni che assistevano da lontano alla sua angoscia, si è fatto esplodere nella sua classe in un attentato suicida. Ora i sette studenti sopravvissuti si sono riuniti nell'aula scolastica dove avevano intravisto l'inferno, per iniziativa di uno di loro, Takumi Shindou, che dal giorno della tragedia si è dedicato a indagare su chi abbia fornito l'esplosivo al suo mancato carnefice. Una ricerca che lo ha condotto a una conclusione drammatica e insospettabile…

3 volumi, in corso

PERSONA 5 di Atlus, Hisato Murasaki

L’adattamento manga del fenomenale videogame Atlus, hit del 2018! Akira Kurusu, adolescente costretto a trasferirsi dopo essere stato denunciato da un potente uomo politico (nonostante stesse salvando una donna molestata da quest’ultimo), scopre una misteriosa app che gli permette di entrare in un mondo fantastico nato dall’oscurità nell’animo degli uomini, e in cui può utilizzare un potere chiamato “Persona”. Insieme ad altri studenti e a un gatto mutaforma, il ragazzo intraprende una missione: migliorare il mondo rubando i cuori corrotti degli adulti!

5 volumi, in corso

I FIORI DEL MALE di Kazuo Kamimura

Un altro capolavoro inedito in Italia del maestro del gekiga Kazuo Kamimura. Un Kamimura capace di creare pagine dall’ineguagliabile carica erotica (sempre con la sua classe cristallina) raccontando di un sadico gestore di una scuola di ikebana che, protetto dalla sua aura di rispettabilità, addestra ragazze innocenti a diventare giocattoli sessuali per lui e i suoi potenti amici. Un giorno tra le sue grinfie cade la bellissima Sayuri, che diventa presto la sua preferita e sembra destinata a diventare la regina del suo regno di perversione…

1 volume, completo

PANDORA’S CHOICE di Yudori

La prima opera di nuova straordinaria autrice Lezhin: la coreana Yudori! L’aspetto di Pandora, ereditato dalla madre asiatica ormai scomparsa, la fa spiccare su tutti e la rende bersaglio della malevolenza di chiunque, parenti compresi. Il carattere indomabile e il pessimo rapporto con il padre, dedito più all’alcol che a sua figlia, fanno il resto, rafforzando il suo status di mina vagante in miniatura nella buona società degli Stati Uniti del XIX secolo. Con una protagonista forte e indimenticabile, questo dramma storico ricco di amicizie e amori complicati, intrighi e sorprese vi rapirà!

35 capitoli + 2, completo

LA REGINA D’EGITTO - AOI HORUS NO HITOMI di Chie Inudou

Dalle pagine di Harta (I Giorni della Sposa, Dungeon Food), un affascinante tuffo nell’antico Egitto. Hatshepsut, costretta inizialmente a sposare il fratellastro per permettergli di diventare faraone, passerà alla storia come una figura femminile caparbia e una grande regina. Questo è il racconto, ricco di emozioni, battaglie e colpi di scena, della sua scalata al potere!

6 volumi, in corso

TOKYO GHOUL - PAST (LIGHT NOVEL 3) di Sui Ishida, Shin Towada

Con la saga manga di Ken Kaneki ormai prossima conclusa, scopri finalmente gli eventi accaduti prima dell'inizio della serie, in questo inedito romanzo illustrato! Il ghoul è un mostro della tradizione fantastica che si nutre di carne umana, assorbendo la forza delle sue vittime. Nella città di Tokyo, ghoul ed esseri umani hanno vissuto a lungo gli uni accanto agli altri senza mai incrociarsi. Ora però stanno per stabilire i primi contatti e, in quest'epoca anteriore alla creazione della Circoscrizione 20, non sarà un incontro piacevole per gli umani, che occuperanno il ruolo di prede! Scopri le origini segrete della saga di Tokyo Ghoul, in un'epoca in cui i fratelli Kirishima trascorrevano ancora il tempo insieme, in cui Rize poteva godersi i suoi pasti, e in cui Ken... non era ancora entrato in scena!

TOKYO GHOUL:re - QUEST (LIGHT NOVEL 4) di Sui Ishida, Shin Towada

La prima light novel ambientata durante gli eventi di TG:re! Conosciamo meglio gli agenti della squadra Quinx al comando di Haise Sasaki con questi racconti inediti accompagnati dalle illustrazioni di Sui Ishida, l’autore della saga!

GOGO MONSTER di Taiyou Matsumoto

Yuki Tachibana, nove anni, vive in due mondi. In uno è un bimbo solitario, preso in giro dai compagni di classe e rimproverato dagli insegnanti perché racconta storie di esseri soprannaturali che solo lui può vedere. Negli altri mondi, invece, gli esseri che lui vede competono per il potere con spiriti malvagi, portando caos nella scuola, nelle vite degli studenti e nella natura stessa! Dalla fantasia del Maestro Taiyo Matsumoto (Sunny, Tekkon Kinkreet), un racconto poetico e toccante sull'emarginazione e sulla crescita.

1 volume, completo

AKEBI-CHAN NO SAILOR FUKU di Hiro

Per Akebi, indossare la divisa da marinaretta della prestigiosa Roubai Private Academy è un sogno che si avvera… E intende vivere al massimo la nuova vita da studentessa delle medie insieme alle sue amiche, entrando in un club e rendendo ogni giorno una girandola di emozioni! Uno slice-of-life adorabile dallo stile affascinante, per rivivere una seconda giovinezza con il sorriso sulle labbra!

4 volumi, in corso

WORLD’S END HAREM di LINK, Kotaro Shono

La fine del mondo non è mai stata così sexy! Quando una malattia misteriosa stermina l’intera metà maschile dell’umanità, l’unica speranza per evitare l’estinzione sono una manciata di ragazzi fortunatamente al sicuro in capsule criogeniche al momento dell’epidemia. A loro spetterà il duro compito di ripopolare la Terra, sfuggendo ai complotti di pericolose fazioni di mettere le mani sui loro cromosomi in un mondo dove sono loro la risorsa più desiderata e ricercata!

8 volumi, in corso

I AM SHERLOCK  (BOX 1-4) di Naomichi Io, Koutaro Takata

Spingendosi oltre lo Sherlock televisivo, ecco la miniserie che porta il mito di Arthur Conan Doyle nel futuro! In una Londra ipertecnologica, a uno scapestrato John Watson viene proposto di diventare il coinquilino di un bizzarro e geniale individuo… l’androide Sherlock! Quali casi aspetteranno i due nuovi amici? Il tratto morbido e spettacolare rende questi volumi perfetti per diffondere questo classico tra le nuove generazioni! 

4 volumi, completo  

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