Manga fans supply a ranking of the manga they feel most likely to be useful in gleaning some understanding of history from.
The manga listed are likely to be of particular interest to budding “rekijo” – female history otaku, an affliction apparently common as it has managed to pick up its own name – although anyone who can stomach endless retellings of the Chinese classics (see below), Genji or assorted tales of samurai and crossdressing is likely to find something of interest.
1. Sangokushi (Mitsuteru Yokoyama)
2. Genji Monogatari (Tatsuya Egawa)
3. O~i! Ryōma (Tetsuya Takeda)
4. The Rose of Versailles (Riyoko Ikeda)
5. Asakiyumemishi (Waki Yamato)
6. Kōu to Ryuuhou (Mitsuteru Yokoyama)
7. Phoenix (Osamu Tezuka)
8. Suikoden (Mitsuteru Yokoyama)
9. Adolf (Osamu Tezuka)
10. Vagabond (Takehiko Inoue)
The total absence of the likes of Vinland Saga from the list is rather problematic to say the least, although the exquisitely illustrated Hyouge Mono’s omission can probably be excused.
You’ve got to be kidding me! No Lone Wolf and Cub, no Samurai Executioner, no Path of the Assassin??? One would think Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike’s work would certainly be up there in any list of manga with historical setting and or significance.
I feel disappointed at the lack of mention of Hetalia on this list.
Really? Honest to God? What has hetalia taught? Did it teach about what happened between the Germans and Russians at Stalingrad?
Oh wait, it didn’t.
How about the Holocaust? Oh wait, no again.
What about the Middle East? Oh WAIT! No again.
What has it taught other than bumsex between HOT BOYS IS HOT, Italians and Germans wuv each other! (Fact, they don’t.), England misses America! And that Rubber means eraser. Not one thing factual on here.
So really, why are you disappointed with a series that is nothing but utter shite?
What if I want to learn Native American history?
Sengoku Rance tells the history pretty accurately, and for a nice bonus it has a couple of great r♥♥e scenes.
where is berserk, i thought berserk is telling the european history, it’s missing there, bad, very bad…