ハトシェプスト―自選作品集

by Ryōko Yamagishi, 山岸凉子

古代エジプトで一度だけ、女性がファラオになったことがある。その名はハトシェプスト。彼女の数奇な半生を描いたファン待望の幻の名作、初登場。
その他、都市郊外にある女子大寮の不思議なルームメイトが引き起こすおぞましい事件『キメイラ』他、全４篇。

Genres: Manga, Yuri

242 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Ryōko Yamagishi (山岸凉子) is a Japanese manga author.
Born in Hokkaido prefecture, she is part of the Year 24 Group together with Moto Hagio, Yumiko Ōshima and Keiko Takemiya.

She debuted in 1969 with Left and right (Jap: レフトアンドライト).
Starting from 1971 she gathered attention with the ballet manga Arabesque (Jap: アラベスク), and from 1980 with Hi izuru no tokoro no tenshi (Jap: 日出処の天子), that also won the 7th Kodansha manga award.
Her 1971 work Shiroi heya no futari is regarded as the first yuri manga.
Her 1977 work Yōsei-ō (Jap: 妖精王) was animated in 1988.
In 2000 she started the serialization of Maihime Terpsichora (Jap: 舞姫 テレプシコーラ) that in 2007 won the Gran Prize at the 11th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Reviews

[Tsubasa · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a pity this manga is so short. Two chapters weren't enough to satisfy me. It felt like those two chapters were just a glimpse of the great manga that it could have been.
The historical research the author did in order to be able to draw this manga was so accurate and detailed. And the main character was awesome and complex. It left me feeling the need to know more, to see her complexity develop.

I wish I'll be able to read more about this author someday because even with just two chapters it was clear that she's really good.

[Chandra Weerasinghe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This manga is haunting. That was the only word I could find for it. It is exquisitely beautiful, like the untouchable quality that make spices exquisite. And the mangaka has put in a lot of effort that I couldn't help but wish it was bigger, as in I wished the plot to be more...detailed. But I guess she served her purpose. She drew majesticity with all the perseverance, elegance, awe and ruthlessness it deserved.
It's worth the read.