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Amakusa 1637 | |
![]() Cover of Amakusa 1637 volume 1 | |
Genre | Action, Historical |
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Manga | |
Written by | Michiyo Akaishi |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Magazine | Petit Flower , Flowers |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Original run | May 26, 2000 – January 28, 2006 |
Volumes | 12 |
Amakusa 1637 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Michiyo Akaishi. It is about the time-traveling adventures of six modern-day Japanese high school students from the St. Francisco Academy to the 17th century,where they take part in the Shimabara Rebellion. It was serialized in the shōjo manga magazine Petit Flower from 2000 to 2002 and in the josei manga magazine Flowers from 2002 to 2006,and was collected in 12 tankōbon volumes.
The manga begins with the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995,which the protagonists (a group of friends from the St. Francisco Academy from Kobe) barely survive. Years later,during a school field trip to Nagasaki,the teenagers are thrown back in time to the Japan of the early Edo period. According to history,in 1637 a revolt broke out,known as the Shimabara Rebellion. It was led by a charismatic youth known as Amakusa Shirō,but ended in the defeat of the rebels and the loss of over 37,000 lives.
Natsuki Hayami,the heroine,is mistaken as Amakusa Shirōby the villagers she met,despite the fact that the real Amakusa Shirō was male. In the story,the real Shirōdied the year previously,before gaining recognition or popularity as a leader. However,Shirōwas a very feminine-looking young man and the recently arrived Natsuki physically resembles him a lot,so the villagers think she is actually him. Before long,Natsuki becomes famous as some-sort of heaven-sent angel and people started calling her "Shirō",believing she was the saviour prophesied twenty-five years before;she commits herself to their cause in an attempt to avert the soon-to-come rebellion,and gathers her lost partners as well so they can help her.
Six students of the present-day St. Francisco Academy (circa 2000). They all are members of the Student Council.