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Comedy Manga Reimagines Real Samurai as Insect in Modern Japan
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Ever wonder what it would be like for a Japanese feudal warrior to being reincarnated in the modern era as a tiny arthropod? No? Well, Masafumi Morita still has you covered. He launched the Shutsujin ★ Konchū Bushō Chōsokabe! manga in this year's 35th issue of Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion on Thursday. The manga imagines the Sengoku period daimyo Chōsokabe Motochika in the body of an insect in modern Japan.
The "whole country unification insect comedy" series centers on a male junior high school student named Baku who doesn't fit in with his class. He spends his days in the empty stairway to the roof of his school and calls it his "castle." One day while he is hanging out in his castle, Baku hears someone refer to his female classmate Kirin with the formal and rather antiquated term "dono." That someone happens to be a talking insect.
The manga's first 24-page chapter has center color pages.
Source: Comic Natalie
