Rengoku no Ashe

[missmercurial]

Unlike the other comments, I think this was perfect as a one-shot. How wonderful to see that this mangaka can execute drama and near-tragedy as well as comedy (in Spy x Family).

 

[white_ink]

That was great.

 

[Darcow]

From the author of Tista and Spy X Family.

Recommended one-shot! 10/10.

 

[nobodygattaknow]

I feel like she's a descendent of Anya :3

 

[shut123]

I think this was perfect as a oneshot. It doesn't need a serialisation though if it wanted to, it'd have to go under a lot of change. Doesn't really matter as much since author is working on spyxfamily which I love

 

[Winchan]

It's already fine as it is tho, and I doubt they have plans to serialize it anytime soon or at all ^^

 

[GreenGreens]

This as anyas ancestor and i accept this as cannon

 

[nyaasar]

This image explained a lot

Spoiler

https://spy-x-family.fandom.com/wiki/Rengoku_no_Ashe

 

[WhyThatLogIn]

This....is good. I just clicked on a random Oneshot and I got interesting worldbuilding, themes and quality fantasy art, which I want to see more of. Even the characters are well executed (Ashe lying about this being a vision of the future to scare everyone into letting her go free for example is more characterization and agency than I expected, which maybe says more about other manga than about this one, but still). Though I have no idea how such a story could develop further, I really hope this gets serialized, if the author wants to of course.

EDIT: I'm just now realizing that this is from the Spy x Family author *facepalm*. Well, this explains the art and characters. Though it would be a shame to not see more from this world, the author will be busy writing Spy x Family for a while, so...I can only hope this gets used after S x F is over. Though seeing as this oneshot is older than S x F, i can only imagine the author has a reason for not serializing it.

 

[Muhdz18]

seems like she got reincarnated into an esper loli with a spy dad and hitman mom in the middle of a cold war

 

[DPLBatoDex]

I discovered this one-shot when I was 2 physical volumes into SPY x FAMILY & I was seeing that meme macro of Ashe being passed off as teenage Anya. This was a very fun romp of a medieval fantasy story & it was fascinating to see the origin of character design elements that would be developed for SPY x FAMILY: namely Ashe's earrings being reused for Yor's, Ashe's primary witch dress blouse being retooled as Eden Academy's female student uniform and Anya's design being essentially Ashe as a 5-year old girl.

Spoiler

With the upcoming SPY x FAMILY Original Anime Movie coming this year, It makes me wish this story would get an animated film short adaptation that would show before the main SPY x FAMILY movie. I think it would be a very cool thing.

There needs to be a Tatsuya Endo anthology of his one-shot stories, similar to the ones for Tatsuki Fujimoto, that include this story. I would happily drop money for that.