, also known as ''Crystal Lord Opera'', is a Japanese
fantasy manga series written and illustrated by
Keiko Takemiya. It was serialized in
Kadokawa Shoten
, formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines su ...
's monthly
manga magazine ''
Asuka'' from 1991 to 2000, with its chapters collected in 24 volumes.
Plot
The manga is set in 12th-century
Mongolia,
in the time of
Genghis Khan
''Chinggis Khaan'' ͡ʃʰiŋɡɪs xaːŋbr />Mongol script: ''Chinggis Qa(gh)an/ Chinggis Khagan''
, birth_name = Temüjin
, successor = Tolui (as regent)Ögedei Khan
, spouse =
, issue =
, house = Borjigin
, ...
. It follows Altojin, a determined girl warrior with a mysterious tattoo. Abandoned as a child, Altojin grows up in the grassland plains of Chigul, in the .
One day she goes on a hunting trip with the Prince Olsbolt and saves him from an assassination attempt. Prince Olsbolt thinks the assassin was sent by his father, who is also the ruler of Chigul. He decides to kill his father, and in doing so he also takes back his former lover, who had been married to his father. After killing his father the khan, Olsbolt hides at Altojin's house. A dramatic event happens. While they are out for a while, Altojin's family is slaughtered.
It is up to the reader to discover the fate of Altojin and Prince Olsbolt, and what role the mysterious tattoo plays in the story.
Characters
;
:A determined girl warrior who was raised in the grassland plains of Chigul. Although she was abandoned as a child, she is in fact of royal descent.
;
:The Prince of Chigul and the son of the ruling sovereign, Bilge Khan.
;
:Prince Olsbolt's half-brother.
;
:The King of Palmis, said to be the country of merchants.
;
:A shrine princess and the twin sister of Sihel.
;
:The twin sister of Ratuya.
;
:The khan of Chigul.
Publication
was written and illustrated by
Keiko Takemiya. It was serialized in
Kadokawa Shoten
, formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines su ...
's monthly
manga magazine ''
Asuka'', starting in the January 1991 issue. It concluded in the magazine's January–February 2000 issue.
The series was collected in 24 or
trade paperback Trade paperback may refer to:
* Trade paperback, a higher-quality softcover version of a book
* Trade paperback (comics)
In comics in the United States, a trade paperback (shortened: TPB or trade) is a collection of stories originally published ...
volumes published by Kadokawa Shoten's Asuka Comics imprint from 1991 to 2000. Its early chapters were also collected in a three-volume
omnibus edition
An omnibus edition or omnibus is a creative work containing one or more works by the same or, more rarely, different authors. Commonly two or more components have been previously published as books but a collection of shorter works, or shorter wor ...
published by the company's Asuka Comics Deluxe imprint from 1991 to 1992. The complete series was re-released in eight or "perfect edition" volumes published by Kadokawa Shoten's Comics imprint in 2003.
References
External links
''Tenma no Ketsuzoku'' at Baka-Updates Manga
{{Asuka
Adventure anime and manga
Comics set in Mongolia
Comics set in the 12th century
Historical fantasy anime and manga
Kadokawa Shoten manga
Shōjo manga