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M&C! Licenses The Heroic Legend of Arslan Manga in Indonesia
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher M&C announced on its Facebook page on Wendesday that it has acquired Hiromu Arakawa's manga adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka's The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Arslan Senki) manga, and will publish the first volume on August 19.
The original novel's story centers around Arslan, the young prince of the kingdom of Pars. When a treacherous plot results in the death of his father and the subjugation of his kingdom by the neighboring nation of Lusitania, Arslan barely escapes with his life. Backed only by a small cadre of his most loyal followers, Arslan must rally more people to his side and assemble an army to oust the Lusitanian invaders, who are led by a mysterious commander named Silvermask, who has more connection to Arslan than he thinks.
Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist) launched the manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in July 2013. Kodansha published the third manga volume in Japan on February 9. The manga is based on Tanaka's (The Legend of the Galactic Heroes) fantasy novel series of the same name, which he began in 1986, with art by Yoshitaka Amano. The manga is being adapted into a TV anime series, which premiered in April. The novels have previously been adapted into a six-episode original animation video in 1991.
[Via Kaori Nusantara]
