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Title (English) RG Veda
Title (Japanese) RG Veda
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Fantasy Novel

Notes RG Veda #1, p.101. Dialogue, from top left
>Ashura : I want to come with you, Yasha. If you leave alone, without me, you'll be so sad. Ashura will never leave you ...
Yasha : Ashura ... I am head of the Yasha clan. My duty is to protect it.
(Tr. from French edn.)
Manga author/artist CLAMP
Date 1990
Publisher Wings Comics
Edn. Language Jap
ISBN (review vol.) 4-403-61218-0
Pages 196
Price Y490
Size 13x18 cm.
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Synopsis Another well-known shoujo manga by the all-female CLAMP co-operative, and based loosely on the Indian Rig Veda legends of gods and heroes. The general Taishakuten has rebelled and killed the supreme lord Tentei. There is a prophecy that Taishakuten will be defeated when the six warriors, points of the 'star' (actually the heads of six magical clans) rise against him. Yasha's clan is wiped out when he defies Taishakuten's orders, and protects a seeress, and the infant Ashura, who is a reincarnation of a magical warrior lord.
Review If you have only seen the anime it may come as a shock to learn from discussions of the manga that Ashura is probably male. Ashura certainly looks female in the manga too, but has a male alter ego 'Black Ashura'. The Japanese language being what it is, one would have to translate large chunks of the manga to prove the point. As far as I can discover, CLAMP have deliberately maintained the gender ambiguity by referring to Ashura as 'child', 'sprog' etc. The manga has (have) colour frontispiece(s) and excellent b/w art. The anime is a much compressed version of the manga story; Vol#1 covers the birth of Ashura, the massacre of Yasha's eponymous clan and some flashback. Unless you can read Japanese fluently it's essential to have a translation to hand to make any sense of the story at all. A translation via the French edition is available on the Net.(see main index) (GC).
References There are also a pair of OVA anime episodes.
 

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