Thermae Romae (GN 1)
Title: Thermae RomaeVolume: GN 1
Pages: 368
Distributor: Yen Press
Release date: 2012-11-20
Suggested retail price: $34.99
Age rating: 17+
ISBN-10: 0316229199
ISBN-13: 9780316229197
Description:
When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his "outdated" thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and rough-housing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath!
He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs... over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome: Thermae Romae!
Story and art by Mari Yamazaki.
(added on 2012-05-05, modified on 2012-05-05)
- Reviewed by Rebecca Silverman (January 3, 2013)
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