Some information about Dur-An-Ki
Added 2021-12-23 20:28:54 +0000 UTCAlso posting some information gathered from looking through the digital edition of Dur-An-Ki, which is available right now from Hakusensha-e. Here is a link to our guide if you're unfamiliar with the website and wish to purchase the volumes that way.
The cover is from Miura himself, while the two posters inside (already published in Young Animal Zero) are from Studio Gaga, but produced by him. The volume has all six completed episodes and a lengthy portion at the end (over 80 pages long) showing the "prototype scenario" for the series, called "Amazones".
It details various ideas and developments for a story about a modern day "war nerd" who goes back in time and has to survive using his knowledge of modern technology and battle tactics (he's managed to create a rifle among other things). An added twist is that he's a bishōnen type and has to pretend to be a girl because he's fallen in with the Amazons and if they learn that he's male, their law dictates that he'll get decapitated.
It includes Miura's sketches of the Amazons (Antiope, Hippolyte, Melanippe...) as well as mythological heroes like Achilles, Odysseus, Herakles and Perseus, but also creatures like a Gorgon and a Harpy (who looks nothing like those from Berserk). And then there's also the full pantheon of Greek gods and more, like Hector and Paris (from the Trojan War). Plus a lot of text detailing potential developments for the story. Miura's vision for it was clearly very ambitious.
Definitely a must buy for fans of Miura's work, and it makes me feel really sad that we didn't get to see more of Dur-An-Ki.
