To celebrate its 90th anniversary, Shueisha is revising and re-releasing the best-selling 20-volume Learning Japanese History Through Manga series, which it first published in 1998. Each of the new covers was drawn by a famous manga artist especially for the occasion.

The cover for volume 1, Dawn of Japan: Paleolithic, Jōmon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods, was drawn by Masashi Kishimoto , creator of Naruto . He drew the shaman queen of Yamataikoku, Himiko. He also drew the cover of volume 5.

Araki Hirohiko, creator of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , drew the cover for volume 2, The Asuka Period: Towards a Japan Under the Ritsuryo Codes, and Tite Kubo of Bleach drew the cover for volume 3, The Nara Period: Ancient Nara as the Capital of Buddhism. Rurouni Kenshin 's Nobuhiro Watsuki , appropriately, illustrated the covers for volume 12, The Edo Period: The Opening of Japan and Downfall of the Shogunate IV, and volume 13, The Meiji Period: Meiji Restoration and Westernization I. He drew Sakamoto Ryōma and the Iwakura Mission, respectively.

Several covers feature illustrations by shōjō artists, including Karuho Shiina of Kimi ni Todoke , Akiko Higashimura of Kakukaku Shikajika and Princess Jellyfish , Aruko of My Love Story!! , and Io Sakisaka of Blue Spring Ride .





The full list of new cover artists is:

The new Learning Japanese History Through Manga series will be released on October 28. Individual volumes can be purchased for 1000 yen (about USD $9.90). The entire series can be purchased for 18,000 yen (about USD $178.60). Customers who purchase the whole series will also receive 5 special clear folders while supplies last.

Update: Daisuke Higuchi drew the cover for volume 8, which was left off the list. Thanks Caramichael and CookieBun.

Source: Anime Anime