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[telophase]

Found when poking through Amazon:

Manga: Thermae Romae, Vol. 1 -- When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his "outdated" thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs...over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome-Thermae Romae!

P.S. - Kitaro is coming out in English translation in February! :D

Comments

[cyphomandra]

There is a live-action Thermae Romae movie! In the past, Lucius and everyone else speak Japanese, but when he's in modern Japan he speaks Latin. This did not help my jetlag (was watching it on one of a series of flights totaling over 30 hours)

[telophase]

Wow! I'll have to pass that on to my Classics-degreed friend! He was sort of boggled by the manga. XD

ETA: His response: "I MUST SEE THIS!" XD

[elsane]

oh my goodness, temporal connection of souls through the love of bathhouse architecture! This sounds amazing. /gigglefits

[telophase]

Gotta love manga!

[morineko]

I checked it out from the library over the weekend. I'll try to remember to talk about it here!

[telophase]

Please do!

[rachelmanija]

I saw this in Japanese, but I had no idea it was actually about baths. I thought the baths were just a convenient place for some man-man loving.

[telophase]

Japan: where you can be surprised by the fact that it is not porn!

[metaphortunate]

WHERE IS MY LIKE BUTTON