Crest of the Royal Family

Now I am going to introduce you this manga, "Crest of the Royal Family".

In Chinese, 《尼罗河的女儿》. In Japanese, "王家の紋章".

I heard about this manga when I was small. And when I grew bigger, I started to read it online.

When one day I found this collection in a manga shop, I just used all my pocket money to buy it.

This is a manga about Ancient Egypt. That's why I love it.

But speaking about the story, it's not good when it went further. 

Here is some introduction from Wikipedia:

"The main character is Carol, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed American teenager from a wealthy family with an interest in Egyptology studying in Cairo. When her mentor discovers the tomb of a young pharaoh, a curse is put on the excavation team and Carol. The curse sends her back in time to ancient Egypt, where she becomes embroiled in the affairs of Egypt and other ancient countries such as Assyria and Babylonia. Carol meets Memphis, a handsome young pharaoh whose tomb she excavated in modern times. Despite his headstrong, at first violent nature, they fall deeply in love. This angers Memphis's half-sister, the Priestess Isis, who has longed to marry him. Carol, due to her exotic looks and curious ability to tell the future, becomes a major player in ancient history."

Although it's an old style manga, but I still love this very much.

I did read a lot of books about Ancient Egypt but still don't have any idea how to turn them into comic style drawing.

And this manga really helps me a lot.

The artist, Chieko Hosokawa really did a lot of research about Ancient Egypt and created her own style of the world.

I especially love her design of the cloths and jewelry.

And somehow her characters got some Ancient Egyptian's style XD

I mean the way of drawing characters' side view, it's almost same as the Ancient Egyptian drawing.

Well maybe it's just only me who feels that xD

Anyway, this is a really great manga, no matter from the background or story or character setting. She must be the first one who did something like this among those artists.

I wish some day, I can draw a story like this. 

Thank you, Chieko Hosokawa Sensei.