アンナ・コムネナ１

by Futaba Sato

Genres: Manga

127 pages, Paperback

Published December 8, 2021

About the author

See also: 佐藤二葉

Futaba Sato is an actor, director, Ancient Greek lyre player in Japan. She has created career both in theatre and in music. Her dedication to Ancient Greek culture has started when she was an university student. She majored in classics and specialized in Ancient Greek tragedy at the university and the graduate course. And she also has started studying Ancient Greek music. After graduated a drama school in Japan, she started her career as an actor, director, and musician. She has been directing and performing a theatre series ‘ひとりギリシア悲劇’（Solo-Greek Tragedy) as her life work and she is also a Manga artist and a novelist.

Reviews

[Tocotin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my first book of 2022. I enjoyed it very much, maybe because it was in full color, and I’m a simple orc who loves colors. It took me some time to get used to the childishness of the main character, but then I remembered that she was indeed a child when the story started, and that the otherwise irritating manga-esque conventions serve the story quite well. Little Anna’s character shows a touching mix of immaturity and awareness of the supposedly grand future awaiting her as the daughter of the emperor. It’s fun to follow her as she unearths some painful truths about her family and relatives. The budding affection between her and her young husband is surprisingly cute as well, despite being a bit one-sided as it seems at the moment.

I loved the little asides from the author about the design of Anna’s brooch, about writing on parchment, etc. By the way, Anna’s honorific title should have been Porphyrogenita, not Porphyrogenitus, since she’s a girl, but that’s a small thing.

All in all, a very enjoyable, beautifully drawn manga. I’m looking forward to the next volume.