Drifters Omnibus Volume 1

Expectations are high after Kohta Hirano finished his popular manga series Hellsing. I was pleased at what I found in this first volume of Drifters. We can assume by Hellsing that Kohta Hirano has some love for history. After the Major's monologue about blitzkrieg, we also know he does his research. This title took what he did with Hellsing as far as historical references go, and took it to the next level. Drifters introduces famous historical figures from different periods and different civilizations meshing them together into a gore fest. The violence and blood matches Hellsing as the gore factor goes. I don't want to give too many spoilers, but the historical figures take sides in a war to decide the fate of a fantasy world filled with elves, dwarves, and half-men (hobbits?) that are suffering persecution from men. It had great action, characters, dialogue, and a very unique plotline that is sure to please. If you love violence in your Manga you will be pleased with this as well, because the lead protagonist Shimazu Toyohisa is as blood thirsty and vicious as Alucard was from Hellsing.

Great comedy action once again from the creator of Hellsing.If you loved hellsing then youll love this.regardless its a great read

Do you love Hellsing? Love samurais, Tolkien style worlds and violence? Then this is the manga for you.With a great concept of taking historical warriors and figures from all around and having them battle in a fictional realm as a proverbial chess match between two God like entities, this violent, graphic series is one for the books.

i absolutely love kohta hiranos new manga, the art style, blood, action and characters are awesome. I'm a history lover so this is a really fun story. To those who may not get all the history references, I would suggest you also read the manga online scanlations that are translated by fans. They explain much more in depth than the footnotes in the physical books.

I loved the anime so I wanted to check out the manga, It's stunning and a great read!

This is one of my favorite anime/manga of all time. It has great fights and a really cool story. I bought this after watching the anime. They are basiclly the same. At least the first volume to the show is.

Great product and excatly as described.

to those who are fans of hellsing, should get this manga. bad ass plots, exciting new story, more brutal combats, and historical figures told like never before!

Loved the anime, so I'm reading the Manga. Love the artwork and overall style.

I love this series!!

C'est toujours dur d'avoir un premier tome engageant et de qualité mais celui là est juste excellent. Superbe exposition, trio de personnages robustes et multi dimensionnels. Allez y.Avec des illustrations toujours de qualité, du texte bien traduit et des references a tout va et toujours cette part d'humour qui fait que du Hirano, c'est inimitable.

ネタバレで申し訳ないが、登場人物のひとりオルミーヌが、織田信長にさんざん名前を弄られる描写が出て来る。例：オルミーヌ→オッパイーヌ、オルミーオッパイこれを英訳時にどうするのだろうと見ていたところ、例：Olminu→Old Man River, On My NutsO, M, Nなど元の名前に含まれる文字を活用しつつ毎回の如く違う表現で呼んでいて、面白い。（名前弄りの場面では流石にオッパイを示す語は含まれていなかった）多少、人名を読み間違えている箇所があって残念。翻訳時にきちんと調べてから訳して欲しかった。

Shimazu Toyohisa, a samurai fighting in the battle of Sekigahara in 1600, is on the verge of death when he suddenly finds himself in a door lined corridor and confronted by a strange man. Before he can discover what's happening Toyohisa is sent to a fantasy world of elves, goblins and dragons where he meets the famed samurai Oda Nobunaga and the archer Nasu no Yoichi. In this world they are known as Drifters and along with other famous warriors from various points in Earth's history they must fight the Ends, warriors from Earth with mysterious powers who are trying to destroy the world.Created by Kohta Hirano, who previously wrote the excellent `Hellsing' manga, `Drifters' is a greatly entertaining series. The artwork is in Kohta Hirano's brilliantly dark style with lots of blood and gore. The volume also includes some very nice full colour pages at the beginning. The premise of the series is good and although the plot is only in its early stages, it is definitely looking interesting. As you would expect from a manga, there is something of a bias towards Japanese history with the people used and it would have been nice to include a brief bio of the characters for those unfamiliar with Japanese history but they do all seem to be interesting characters. The volume includes a few extras with the usual afterword from the author, a short but funny bonus comic.It remains to be seen if `Drifters' will be as good as `Hellsing' but this is definitely a good start and well worth a full five stars.