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Aleister Crowley could only give them so much energy...nice Shakespearean dialogue there. @Jeirien Cleo's appearance is discussed here: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/cleopatra/bust.html Suffice to say, any notion that she was unattractive comes only from...

Just hold on for another chapter or two and we can get the Josephus cameo

If it weren't for this series, I would have some doubt that Yamazaki had ever read a manga at all

Really tired of typesetting coughing sounds tbh Smoke a bowl of tussilago already

@superbird sorry for the delay but thanks for the writeup!

@malu @77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx I was just reading through the actual memoirs of Henri Sanson (this is distinct from the "apocryphal memoirs") and apparently it really did happen:

A lot of the Variety Art Works manga are really dodgy, being a product of quantity over quality, but sometimes you find a few rough gems mixed in that deserve to be seen. The JP script seems to make frequent errors that come from misreading the original text, so I hope I will be forgiven for...

c'est très bon

It is indeed most fine, and befitting the descendant of so many kings.

RIP Rosencrantz and Guildenstern But stay tuned for Fortinbras

@Purplelibraryguy expressed the point well. The Japaneseness of the work comes to the forefront in its highlighting of the "shame" line in Hamlet's soliloquy , which reads a bit oddly in the original English. The identification of the flowers Ophelia gives is also the only time the original...

The wonderfully deranged expressions of Hamlet as psychotic shounen protagonist puts this one above the usual Variety Art Works hack-work; the artist clearly had some fun with this. Here I take the lead of the Divine Comedy translation in conforming the script to Shakespeare's text as much as...

I had Spanish and Japanese raws and they both looked like complete ass, sorry. The Spanish edition, however, had an extra centimeter of artwork on each side; not sure how that happened.

Quite an interesting discussion. Shit goes down in the next volume, so Mari seems to have deliberately padded out the dialogue in this one; everyone repeats every line two or three times, which is a script editor's nightmare.

Very nicely done, and the attention to fidelity to the book is admirable