Dark Horse Manga has introduced a new omnibus edition of Kohta Hirano‘s manga Drifters. The new edition will function 650 pages of story, the primary three volumes of the fantasy sequence from the creator of Hellsing. The omnibus will arrive in shops in January 2024.
Here’s how Dark Horse describes Drifters:
Warriors and warlords from Earth’s historical past—”Drifters”—are transported to an alien world and employed to assist the non-human races defend themselves in a worldwide civil struggle. Legions of monsters led by the malefic Black King threaten the annihilation of each human and non-human races. Included within the menagerie of fighters from Earth are samurai warrior Shimazu Toyohisa, Joan of Arc, and Hitler! Drifters is a howling twister of all-out motion and staggering creativeness.
To get a really feel for the true world characters concerned on this isekai story I attempted studying about WWII fighter ace Naoshi Kanno, however his Wiki entry appears to have been machine-translated from the unique Japanese. If you’ve ever tried that you already know it doesn’t at all times work. Now I’m confused about whether or not Kanno was a raging bully who knifed a canine to dying or a “literary boy” who fashioned studying circles at college. Both, perhaps? Whichever is true, Kanno vanished in August 1945 whereas dogfighting P-51s escorting a flight of B-24 bombers. Searchers by no means discovered the wreckage of his N1K2-J Shiden-Kai fighter or recovered his physique.
In the anime model of Drifters, which aired on a number of native cable channels throughout Japan from October 2016 to November 2018, Kanno is a violent-tempered ultra-patriot who crash lands his fighter aircraft in a fantasy world and turns into god of the canine warriors. Then he will get right into a fistfight with Scipio Africanus, hero of Rome. Seems they determined to lean into the “bully” characterization.
But it began with a comic book and Kanno and Africanus aren’t the one “Drifters” in Kohta Hirano’s sequence. Also figuring into the plot are Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Africanus’ Second Punic War enemy Hannibal, plus many perennially well-liked Japanese historic figures reminiscent of Oda Nobunaga (he’s in dozens of video games, films and TV dramas, many of which function time touring) and grasp archer Nasu no Yoichi. With this upcoming quantity working greater than 650 pages there’s loads of room for all types of Drifters to indicate up.
Dark Horse Manga calls the manga “wild, action-packed,” and if the TV sequence precisely adopted it that is one thing of an understatement. Look for Drifters Omnibus Volume 1 to reach in bookstores on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024, and in comedian outlets on Wednesday, January third, 2024.
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