The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Band 5

アルスラーン戦記 [Arslan Senki] #5

by Hiromu Arakawa, Yoshiki Tanaka (original creator)

Nachdem sein einst glorreiches Heimatland brutal erobert wurde, sinnt der junge Prinz Arslan von Pars auf Vergeltung und will das Königreich seines Vaters zurückgewinnen. Mit Hilfe eines Offiziers, einer Priesterin, eines Gauners, eines Künstlers und eines Dieners begibt er sich auf eine gefährliche Mission: Der mysteriöse Fürst mit der Silbermaske und seine Streitmacht müssen wieder aus dem Land vertrieben werden. Eine mystische Abenteuergeschichte mit persischem Flair - um den Mut und die Freundschaft junger Helden!

Die Manga-Vorlage zur beliebten Anime-Serie, von der Schöpferin von »Fullmetal Alchemist«!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Historical Fiction, Comics, Shonen, Adventure

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 3, 2016

About the author

Hiromu Arakawa (author: 荒川弘) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師 Hagane no renkinjutsushi).
Her real name is Hiromi Arakawa (荒川弘美).

Arakawa was born and raised on a dairy farm in Hokkaidō.
She thought of being a manga artist since she was little. After graduating high school, she took oil painting classes while working on her family's farm. During that time, she also created dōjinshi manga with her friends and drew yonkoma for a magazine. After eight years she moved to Tōkyō and started out as assistant writer for Hiroyuki Etō.
Her debut as manga artist is in 1999 with STRAY DOG. In 2001 she started working on her famous and award winning series Fullmetal Alchemist, that soon gets a successful anime adaptation.
Other works include Silver Spoon (銀の匙 Silver Spoon, Gin no saji Silver Spoon).

Reviews

[Brooke (B for Books) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Arslan’s gang had to split up on the way to Peshawar. Narsus is still using clever tactics to stall Silver Mask, who continues the hunt for Arslan’s head. Silver Mask showed compassion for a blind girl, but continues on his path of self-loathing. The snake clan is able to partially teleport and they are slicing up villages, but still no match for Narsus who burned the snake villain alive and saved a Zot bandit. We need their cute fan art between battle scenes. A Lusitanian bishop was murdered in a scandal. The volume closes up with arrival at the Magic Mountain, supposed home of the legendary snake clan that has been committing disembodied-hand murders.

5.0⭐️

[Emi · Rating 4 out of 5]

La historia continúa y se van desvelando cosas. Algunas escenas no aparecen en el anime, así que es de agradecer encontrar cosas diferentes.

[Sinta Nisfuanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Masih bercerita tentang pelarian Arslan dkk ke Peshawar yang dikejar-kejar prajurit Lusitania. Masih dipenuhi dengan ilustrasi pembunuhan yang sadis. Tapi, kali ini ada humor yang berhasil membuat tersenyum, saat Narsus bersama Alfred.

Dan, lagi-lagi aku naksir dengan antagonisnya, Lord Silvermask.

[Kayuri · Rating 5 out of 5]

In diesem Band gibt es viel Politik. Die Intrigen gehen weiter und so langsam wird mehr klar. Jedoch dreht sich aktuell die Handlung eher im Kreis und schreitet nicht so sehr voran wie bisher. Natürlich gibt es Blut ind Intrigen aber trotzdem hatte ich das Gefühl das es eher eine Art „Stillstand“ war.

Die Charaktere finde ich bisher wirklich interessant.

[Saphirablue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love, love, love this.

The characters? <3

Daryun and his fighting abilities? Wow!

Narsus? XD

The moral dilema of a certain character? Woha!

Adorable Arslan is adorable.

<3 <3 <3

[Doc · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reunions and new allies

With Arslan's loyal retainers split into various factions each group finds new allies and/or troubles as we discover the Zot Clan, a tough to finish warrior swearing revenge, and trouble begins to bubble over in the Lusitanian capital as Silver Mask finds himself finding his own allies as he finds himself bound to both friends and foes alike.

Thinking back on Hiromu Arakawa's work on Fullmetal Alchemist some people might think of the series as a series safe for kids but there was some seriously dark stuff in there and in this series war has come to this world as well though what we lack in alchemical replacements we get skill with weapons and tacticians mixed with a variety of lords that either show slivers of kindness in a potentially dark world as others share in the darkness as they seek their own interests. However even with the darkness ever present in the story I still get caught off guard when a brutal strike such as an arrow in the face or someone being cleaved in two before collapsing to the ground. :)

[Katy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm really enjoying this series, which I think is in part due to it being written and drawn by the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist (which I shamelessly love to bits!). This volume is just as good as the previous ones and I'm really looking forward to reading the rest!

[Alexandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

A manga series that continues to impress and entertain. There were some scenes/details in this volume that were not in the anime (as far as I remember ;-) ), I appreciated it very much.

I love the characters, it's nice to know that there are still many volumes left for me to enjoy...

[nidah05 (SleepDreamWrite) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good volume.

[gabi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh. OH! I think I'm beginning to understand a little more about these people.

[Céline :) · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's been a while since I've read a volume of this manga so I don't really remember what's going on

[Isel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Daryun's face when he was reunited with Arslan... 💓

[marina · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Batidofriki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hay escenas que no estaban en el anime. Simplemente, me encanta.

[Rafael Sampaio · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5

[M Pod · Rating 4 out of 5]

Continuing to have a very good time with this series.

Warning for extreme violence to horses. And humans.

[DonutKnow]

I am so intrigued by the villainous masked-guy! 😳

[scarlettraces · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am very behind on Arslan - probably need to read beyond the end of the anime to decide how good it is. For now, I love the semi-historical setting (had me reaching for google maps at one point - I assume "Maryam" is "Mary" which ONE DAY I AM GOING TO) and Arakawa-sensei's art is always very soothing.

[Siobhan Hawthorne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chronique sur mon blog.

Ce tome contient de nombreux combats ardus pour les personnages qui entourent le prince Arslân, notamment parce que le fils de l’Êrhan Kahllahn – celui qui a permis aux forces parses d’êtres vaincues suite à sa traîtrise – Zandé, retrouve la trace de Daryûn. Malgré la séparation du groupe à cause du brouillard dans le tome précédent, Daryûn se retrouve avec Faranghîs pour assurer ses arrières au besoin.

De son côté, Narsus va être amené à prouver à nouveau pourquoi tout le monde le considère comme un très bon stratège. Et un nouveau personnage de femme fait son entrée dans l’histoire, ce qui n’est pas pour me déplaire. Alfrîd est plus vêtue que Faranghîs (soyons honnête, ce n’est pas difficile) et a un caractère très différent, déjà parce qu’elle est beaucoup plus jeune, mais elle est aussi bien plus expansive et bruyante. Elle est en revanche très douée avec une épée dans les mains !

Je réalise que je ne me suis jamais attardé là-dessus dans mes chroniques de ce manga jusqu’ici mais je suis – une fois de plus – impressionnée par le talent de dessinatrice de Hiromu Arakawa qui parvient à gérer des scènes de combat à l’épée et sur cheval de façon claire, lisible et avec un superbe dessin.

Depuis le deuxième tome, nous avons des petits indices qui laissent présager que cet univers n’est pas exempt de magie : entre les djinns que Faranghîs peut entendre ou des mains mystérieuses qui sortent du sol, clairement l’univers a des éléments de fantasy. D’ailleurs, on voit à la fin de ce tome une très nette inspiration de l’univers du Seigneur des Anneaux, et je suis impatiente de voir où cela va nous mener.

Enfin, la troupe du prince Arslân commence à avoir de plus en plus d’indices sur l’identité du masque d’argent, Hilmes, le cousin du prince, et il ne fait aucun doute que le secret sera levé prochainement.

[J · Rating 5 out of 5]

While infighting fractures the Lusitanians, The Silver Mask begins to consolidate his support. Arslan’s party has been separated throughout eastern Pars as they make their way to the hopeful safety of Peshawar Citadel. Will they all survive the trip? Lots of horse violence to start this one. And a poor, poor falcon. Illustrated people violence... aye oh kay... animal harm... no bueno! Humans are weird aren’t we? This is probably my favorite volume so far. The stakes have never been higher. Even Daryun had a tough fight—the rematch, not. so. much. Narsus finds a fiancé, or she finds him! Always fantastic art. Tremendous action scenes, but still too many text bubbles. Guiscard always has a lot of thought bubbles around his panels. The mountain prison of the Snake King Zahhāk looms large over Arslan’s future.

[Maverynthia · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story is kind of starting to drag since they split up. We are focussed on what is going on in Hirmiz's camp. They are trying to humanize him, giving him a long lost love that was probably killed, but keep in mind he murdered some women for no reason other than she was a fake Queen and they were with her.

You want to root for him, but he also cast his lot in with the Lusitanians that are murdering, raping, and destroying everything.

[Amanda Kern · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoy

I really enjoy this series. I am a big believer in supporting the authors. That is another reason I have been buying the series. I like how the characters in this series seem real.

[Khari · Rating 5 out of 5]

そっか！

アニメであの魔の山を見て「多分その山の封印された剣はアルスラーンになる」と思ったけど。そこで封印された蛇王は今ヘルメスを助けているは理解しなかった。なるほど。全部繋がっている。楽しみ。

この巻にもアルスラーンの乳母の話あったよね。彼らが本当の両親かな？これが私の想像だけから外れかもけど多分エトワールはタハミーネの実の子だと思う。私の想像があってるがかな？楽しみ！

[M A Kelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

2nd/3rd read?