Historie 3 by Iwaaki Hitoshi (Level Comics seinen historical manga out now)

Historie © Iwaaki Hitoshi/Kodansha [Serialized in Afternoon]
Published in Indonesia by Elex Media/Level Comics

Historie 3 of 6+

By Iwaaki Hitoshi
Original title: ヒストリエ
Kodansha, serialized in Afternoon, seinen
Volume 3 first released in Japan 2005.11
Published in Indonesia 2010.09 by PT Elex Media Komputindo/Level Comics

Synopsis

Sold off as a slave, Eumenes is marched out of Cardia, and on to a ship bound for Oldia. But before he and his new master reach their destination, a slave mutiny breaks out, preventing the vessel from riding out a storm and causing it to founder and sink off the Paphlagonian coast.

What will happen to Eumenes now? Does this calamity spell the end to his journey?

Despite the back cover art below, and considering the percipient prodigy later becomes secretary to Alexander The Great, likely not.

Volume 3 contains chapters:
20. A Buyer Appears
21. Departure
22. Antakaios
23. The Argo
24-29. In Paphlagonia (Part 1-6)
(Chapter titles c/o Wikipedia)

Awards and Recommendations

Iwaaki Hitoshi's historical series was shortlisted for the 10th Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize (2006), along with Oda Tobira's Tomo'o and nine other titles. (The Grand Prize eventually went to Azuma Hideo's Disappearance Diary.) The prize is awarded to manga modeled on the Osamu Tezuka approach.

The Japanese daily Mainichi praised Iwaaki-sensei's reimagining of the mysterious historical Eumenes's life as Bold and unique, according to a Wikipedia citation. Level editor Tika-san, meanwhile, recommends Historie for its novel take on ancient Greek politics.

Level Comics Historie 3 street date: 22 September 2010

Thank you, Lenny-san, for the artwork and summary.

Iamque opus exegi,
~niki DBA 30uɐlnɯɐnɥ (花木蘭03)
Mistress of Adoxography

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Historie 1 by Iwaaki Hitoshi (Level Comics seinen historical manga; street date: 19 May 2010)

Historie © Iwaaki Hitoshi/Kodansha (Serialized in Afternoon)
Published in Indonesia by Elex Media/Level Comics
[Cover from Level Comics]

Historie 1 of 6+

By Iwaaki Hitoshi
Original title: ヒストリエ
Kodansha, serialized in Afternoon, seinen
Volume 1 first released in Japan 2004.10
Published in Indonesia 2010.05 by PT Elex Media Komputindo/Level Comics

Synopsis

This is the story of Eumenes (Eumenes of Cardia) who would later become the secretary of Alexander the Great. Since childhood, Eumenes has been plagued by a dream about a mysterious woman. Who is she?

Volume 1 contains chapters:

1. The Globe
2. Hometown Cardia (Part 1)
3. Hometown Cardia (Part 2)
4. Hometown Cardia (Part 3)
5. Library (Part 1)
6. Library (Part 2)
7. The Same Deam
8. The Scythian Way
9. Physical Training

Awards and Recommendations

Iwaaki Hitoshi's historical manga was a 10th Osamu Tezuka Culture Award finalist. Wikipedia cites the Mainichi newspaper's view that Iwaaki's vision of Eumenes' past (which, historically, is largely a mystery) 'Bold and unique.'

Level's Historie editor Tika-san recommends the manga for its unique, Eumenes-perspectived take on ancient Greek politics. Politics is also Baka-Updates Manga's top user-voted category for this series. The other categories/themes include: War, Prodigy, Realistic, Mediterranean, and Extended Flashbacks.

A People's History Scholar's (Nik's) Observation

Owing to its ensemble of ancient Greek and Persian VIPs, the subtext of Historie appears to be the Great Man theory, or the Thomas Carlylean view that the history of the world is but the biography of great men. Aside from Eumenes and Alexander The Great, there's Alexander's tutor Aristotle, father Philip II of Macedon, and Aristotle's father-in-law, Hermias of Atarneus.

Level Comics Volume 1 street date: 19 May 2010

Historie back cover

~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03) who thanks Level editor Lenny-san for the cover, blurb, and ambush interview of Historie editor Tika-san

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