Shakespearean Manga

in Japan

Shakespearean Manga in Japan 1

A historical overview

Adapting, Recreating, or Inventing Shakespeare:

GIRL 1: Do you remember all the lines of Romeo

and Juliet?

KURUMI: Shakespeare is the very basics for all

of us, isn’t he?

(Yes! Pre-Cure 5 Go-Go, Episode 12 ‘Mimino Kurumi has

come!’)

Tezuka Osamu’s The Merchant of Venice (1959)

Hamlet, Othello and

Anthony and Cleopatra.

A Hot Crossroad: My

Shakespeare (1977)

Satonaka Machiko’s

collection of

Shakespearean Manga

Romeo and Juliet

(1995) : One of the

World Classics Series

Published by Sun

Mark.

Igarashi Yumiko’s Romeo and Juliet (1995)

Sanazaki Harumo’s

Romeo and Juliet

(2003）

King Lear (2008)

Macbeth (2009)

‘Read through Literary

Classics Via Manga’ series

Hamlet (2010)

“Read Manga

Classics” series

Romeo x Juliet (2007)

The slipcase of the DVD of

Romeo X Juliet

Zetsuen no Tempest [ Tempest of a Forbidden Paradise]

Originally broadcast in 2012.

The cover of the 1st volume of the slipcase of the 1st volume of

the manga (2010) Its DVD (2013)

Zetsuen no Tempest: Civilization

Blaster

(Zetsuen no Tempest =

Tempest of a Forsaken Paradise)

The Introductory webpage to this

Anime begins with the following

quotation from Hamlet:

The time is out of joint—O cursèd

spite, That ever I was born to set it

right!

(Act One, Scene Five)

http://www.zetsuen.net/introduction/

For an English webpage of this

anime and manga comics, see the

site below:

http://www.mangareader.net/1575-

48880-1/zetsuen-no-

tempest/chapter-1.html

As You Like It (1997)

Shakespeare’s AS You Like It (2011)

Inventing a biography

of Shakespeare:

Seven Shakespeares

(2010)