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ヒストリエ / Historie #1

ヒストリエ 1 [Historie, Vol. 1]

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Historie takes place in ancient Greece and follows the life of Eumenes and his childhood, who would later in his life grow up to be the secretary and general to Alexander the Great.

Historie has won the (14th) Media Arts Awards 2010 "Grand Prize" in Manga Division, and was also a finalist for the 10th Osamu Tezuka Culture Award.

212 pages, Paperback

First published October 22, 2004

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Hitoshi Iwaaki

136 books159 followers
Hitoshi Iwaaki (Japanese: 岩明均 Hepburn: Iwaaki Hitoshi, born July 28, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series Parasyte. The Mixx editions of Parasyte romanize his name as "Hitosi Iwaaki", while the Del Rey Manga editions use "Hitoshi Iwaaki".

In 1993, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte. He was a finalist for the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize for Historie. In 2010 Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival.

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Profile Image for 🌊 TheGirlFromTheSea.
128 reviews10 followers
May 8, 2023
I didn’t know it’ll be that gruesome! the paneling structure was a bit weird and the art was alright in times and that because it’s an manga but i did enjoyed the first volume!
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Author 1 book37 followers
August 6, 2018
Recensione per il blog Alessandro III di Macedonia su WordPress

Finito di leggere Plutarco "Vite Parallele: Sertorio-Eumene" pensavo di conoscere qualcosa in più per dare un giudizio un po' più obiettivo specialmente sui primi numeri del manga ma questa lettura non mi è servita molto. Cercherò di essere comunque obiettiva :) Aggiorno l'articolo via via che leggo i numeri e poi la riprenderò quando sarà uscito anche il numero 10. 

Mi interessa premettere che all'arrivo dei volumetti li ho sfogliati e un po' e ad un certo punto la storia prende una piega che non mi piace molto. Detto questo sono curiosa di vedere come l'autore si districherà da quel casino che secondo me era perfettamente evitabile. Ad ogni modo adesso passiamo alle recensioni dei singoli volumi e poi parlerò di questo problema quando effettivamente ci arriverò.

Ho scoperto questa serie per caso due settimane fa e visto che trattava comunque di Alessandro Magno non potevo perdermela ;) Non conosco l'autore e lo scopro proprio in questa serie. 

Iwaaki inizia questa saga concedendosi delle licenze narrative che mi ricordano che è un fumetto e che se cerco obiettività ho sbagliato genere. Certo, è un manga ma ci sono dei manga bellissimi come dei libri quindi non bisogna commettere l'errore di partire col pregiudizio del "è un manga, è per bambini, farà schifo". 

Della storia di Eumene da giovane non so abbastanza per dire quanto è rimasto fedele alle fonti, ma a parte un episodio sembra procedere bene. Le tavole di Iwaaki sono pulite e prive di fronzoli come per altri autori, ma non per questo sono scarni. Mi piace il suo stile. Vedremo come prosegue :)

Segnalo una frase molto bella di Eumene stesso:

"Leggere da solo, senza che nessuno ti disturbi... il mondo si allargava, con l'andatura che più mi si confaceva. L'andatura che più mi si confaceva... questo è il punto importante."
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673 reviews63 followers
July 3, 2015
(A review of Vols 1-4)

An interesting historical manga focusing on the youth of Eumenes, secretary to Philip of Macedon and later one of Alexander The Great's generals. He's a highly intelligent character, a planner and tactician (as he was in real life) and it's this side of him that seems to fascinate Hitoshi Iwaaki: the comic is at its best when Eumenes is thinking his way out of a difficult military situation, as in the siege of his adopted village in volumes 3 and 4.

Historie is a laconic series - Iwaaki's simple, expressive figurework is often cut free of background, and characters are sometimes outwardly impassive even in the face of brutal violence and reversals of fortune. Sometimes the impassivity infected this reader, during the comic's quieter stretches. But when the violence does come it's unsparing, and there's a tension in the comic as a whole that echoes the wariness of its lead character as he lives on his wits in a world of rigid castes and complex politics.
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1,325 reviews71 followers
November 12, 2015
Baru baca sampai vol.6 yang sudah terbit di sini~

Gambar : 3 bintang...karena bukan tipe favoritku, walau harus kuakui gambarnya luar biasa~ (^ ^)b

Cerita : 4 bintang...untuk sementara.., sempat ada flashback yang lama dan membingungkanku, tapi seterusnya terasa seru dan 'dalam'(?) wkwkk~ ʕ •ᴥ• ʔ

Maksudku, sambil baca itu jadi keseret dalam dunianya, juga karena muncul misteri dari tindakan beberapa tokohnya (^ ^)
Profile Image for ☽ Ashe ☾.
123 reviews11 followers
July 13, 2016

Very interesting manga.. i only read the first volume and i'm loving so far.

This manga is about this very clever young man 'Eumenes' who would later be the secretary of Alexander the Great and one of his generals.
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Author 4 books46 followers
June 27, 2016
Very interesting take on the transition to Macedonian power in Greece, with romanced versions of the lives of key characters.
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116 reviews2 followers
December 30, 2022
I really want to like Historie more, because its potential is huge, but it has a few details that drag it down for me. The handling of certain aspects and characters and the pace of the story are its main defects. Eumenes could have been a better handled character, but no, the author chose to keep him "cool" which made him boring. And the approach to the character of Alexander the Great is appalling, what I dislike the most above everything.
But other than that, Historie is a very good manga, recommended for all history enthusiasts.
15 reviews
May 16, 2019
It looks wonky at first but after the first volume you get used to the artstyle and end up loving every page.
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257 reviews
October 25, 2019
Amo a Eumenes , a ver como evoluciona este protagonista. Otro manga que además de entretenerte te enseña historia y cultura antigua.
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58 reviews1 follower
February 15, 2024
Historical manga based on the diary of Eumenes, a general and satrap served under Macedonian kings Philip II and Alexander the Great.
On hiatus - chap 124.
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