Tag: Yoshiki Tanaka

January 10, 2017 · 0 comments

Books: Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Books: Legend of the Galactic Heroes

By Raz Greenberg. Legend of the Galactic Heroes is one anime phenomenon that took its time to reach western anime fans. Starting as a long-running series of space-opera prose novels by the prolific Yoshiki Tanaka (who also wrote the equally popular Heroic Legend of Arslan fantasy series), it went through several anime adaptations – the most famous being […]

May 18, 2015 · 0 comments

Hiromu Arakawa’s Arslan Manga

Hiromu Arakawa’s Arslan Manga

By Andy Hanley With Liden Films and Sanzigen’s anime adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan now airing in Japan (and streaming to the UK courtesy of Anime Limited of course), no doubt we’ll see some increased interest in the show’s source material, that being Hiromu Arakawa’s manga itself adapted from Yoshiki Tanaka’s on-going series […]

April 10, 2015 · 0 comments

Arslan vs Game of Thrones

Arslan vs Game of Thrones

By Andrew Osmond The new anime version of Heroic Legend of Arslan is underway. Our recent preview of the show went through the basics; how it’s a serious fantasy about human not magic conflicts, based on a manga by Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist), which in turn comes from novels by Yoshiki Tanaka (Legend of the […]

March 28, 2015 · 0 comments

Heroic Legend of Arslan

Heroic Legend of Arslan

By Andrew Osmond Like all true legends, Arslan’s story has been told before – several times, in prose novels, manga strips and anime, involving a succession of top creators and artists. It’s a medieval-style saga about a young (fourteen year-old!) prince in exile, Arslan, gathering allies in a bid to drum up an army and […]

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