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A second entry immediately after I posted the last one, to spare anyone who doesn't want to read the spoiler in the previous. Give me examples of manga/manhwa/manhua based on fiction or history, plzkthx. :) Loosely based is OK. The ones I can think of offhand are:
CLAMP, RG Veda, the Rg Veda
Kazuya Minekura Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, the Journey to the West
Akira Toriyama, Dragonball, Dragonball Z, ditto
You Higiri, Cantarella, the life of Cesare Borgia
Nobuhiro Watsuki, Rurouni Kenshin, looooooooosely based on the events and personages of the Meiji era
Han Seung Hee and Jeon Jin Seok, One Thousand and One Nights, which is a double whammy being based on the Arabian Nights for the containing story, and gleefully ripping off world literature and history for the stories within the story
Takehiro Inoue, Vagabond, based on a historical novel about the youth of the historical figure Musashi Miyamoto
I'm not really talking light novels turned into manga, like Slayers, instead more of a fanfic approach like One Thousand and One Nights, or taking an older, traditional story and retelling it reasonably accurately (I have no idea how close to the source CLAMP's RG Veda is) approaching it from a different direction, like Saiyuki. (Vagabond is a bit weird, but I'm under the impression it was a classic novel before being adapted, and wasn't written with eventual manga/anime in mind.)
CLAMP, RG Veda, the Rg Veda
Kazuya Minekura Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, the Journey to the West
Akira Toriyama, Dragonball, Dragonball Z, ditto
You Higiri, Cantarella, the life of Cesare Borgia
Nobuhiro Watsuki, Rurouni Kenshin, looooooooosely based on the events and personages of the Meiji era
Han Seung Hee and Jeon Jin Seok, One Thousand and One Nights, which is a double whammy being based on the Arabian Nights for the containing story, and gleefully ripping off world literature and history for the stories within the story
Takehiro Inoue, Vagabond, based on a historical novel about the youth of the historical figure Musashi Miyamoto
I'm not really talking light novels turned into manga, like Slayers, instead more of a fanfic approach like One Thousand and One Nights, or taking an older, traditional story and retelling it reasonably accurately (I have no idea how close to the source CLAMP's RG Veda is) approaching it from a different direction, like Saiyuki. (Vagabond is a bit weird, but I'm under the impression it was a classic novel before being adapted, and wasn't written with eventual manga/anime in mind.)
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- Kaze Hikaru by Taeko Watanabe: girl disguises herself as a boy to join the shogun-loyalist Shinsengumi, becomes comrades with many real-life historical figures and falls in love with Okita Soji, the only Shinsengumi member to know her secret. I am expecting this series to rip my heart out and stomp on it as the series' history progresses ("And then they all died, THE END").
- Cesare by Fuyumi Soryo (MARS, Eternal Sabbath): Cesare Borgia, baby.
- Some of Osamu Tezuka's work (I think some of these are anime instead of manga, oh well): Shin Takarajima / New Treasure Island (inspired by the Robert Louis Stevenson book), Eigoban Tsumi to Batsu / Crime and Punishment (inspired by Dostoevsky's book), Ayako (based on WWII apparently), Buddha (Buddha, baby), Adolf (3 Adolfs, including Hitler), Ludwig B (Beethoven, baby), Gringo (Japanese businessman in South America-based), and I can't remember the title but there's one manga based on Faust, and I'm sure there are probably more. Clearly the God of Manga was all about the "based on true and/or fictional events!"
- Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto: Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru are all characters from the 18th century(?) Japanese popfic serial novel, The Tale of Gallant Jiraiya. Oh, Japan.
- Rose of Versailes: French revolution, baby.
- Mister Mermaid: Most. Depressing. Little Mermaid adaptation. Ever.
- Princess Tutu ahahahaha well actually the manga sucks and isn't based on much.
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Um, also see Cantarella by You Higuri.
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The horse is very pretty! And I feel sorry for the blond guy already.
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Life was ever so much easier when I was only obsessed with comic books written in my native language.
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Yuki Kaori does a lot of fairy tale/Alice in Wonderland "rewrites" in the form of insane Gothic Victorian murder mysteries in Cain/Godchild.
There is an actual Tale of Genji shoujo manga, along with a Genji anime movie.
Night on the Galactic Railroad is the anime adaptation of a novel by Miyazawa Kenji.
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You Higuri has a story based on Ludwig II of Bavaria, and another story based on suicidal wife-beater Prince Rupert (son of Francis I, I think?).
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Tactics by Sakura Kinoshita/Kazuko Higashiyama also rather loooooosely takes place during the Meiji era. Though honestly, I'm not sure if it has any bearing on the story other than providing a setting. *lol*
Gerald et Jacques- French revolution!
That's all I can think of right now, though I KNOW I could probably think of more- they're all escaping me! Oh well.
And yeah, Vagabond was based off of Musashi which is like, THE classic and quintessential samurai novel. :D I hold it close to my heart. Which probably means I should read Vagabond some time, huh...
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I think the one manhua that's based on The Three Kingdoms is Ravages of Time. I have no idea who draws that.
I swear I know more... but they aren't coming to me right now. Maybe an update later?
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(The manga is, however, way better than the anime it's not even funny.)
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"Hello~! ♥ I'm Sanada Yukimura! ♥ ♥"
NO. NO YOU'RE NOT.
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That would be exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for. :)
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watch me spam you!
Addendums:
- CLAMP's Legend of Chun Hyang is based on Legend of Chun Hyang, the children's folktale.
- Woun & Yang's Shin Angyo Onshi is based on Legend of Chun Hyang, the novel. (The folktale is based on the novel but it's a happier version, where the heroine doesn't kill herself at the end.)
- RG Veda really has nothing to do with the original scripture. They just take the names (well, the Japanese versions anyway) and general (GENERAL!) traits.
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Iiii should subscribe. But hey, broke. I at least want to replace my poor Shoujo Issue that got rained on.
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Speaking of which, oh God someone let the CJ loose on the scanslators. I can smell the shoujo condescension from here.
P.S. page 40! (Large image, blood and gore, raaaaaage)
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Itsuki Natsumi's Yakumo Tatsu (Eight Clouds Rising) riffs on that one too. Using Susano-o's poem from the Kojiki as its title.
There's a couple of Shinsengumi manga besides Peacemaker- BL versions (http://www.aestheticism.com/visitors/manga/soshite_haru/index.htm) by Ikushima Miya and occult versions by Iwasaki Youko and probably Kabuki versions as well. The many creative uses of a bunch of Kyoto thugs.
Though ya know, the one thing I've never come across is any kind of Chuushingura manga. It may well exist- I just haven't seen it. Which is odd, because there are manga about kabuki actors, and stories where kabuki scenes echo in the life of the cators. But for such an historical biggy, Chuushingura seems oddly overlooked. You may say it's too male for shoujo manga but hell- Shinsengumi's pretty male too.
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Samurai Executioner, which is about Kubikiri Asa. (Who coincidentally gets mentioned in the latest English volume of Blade of the Immortal.)
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Note: some are not actually historical in a way that means "based on real people and events".
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Joan, by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. A story based around, you guessed it, Joan of Arc.
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....if you don't mind sex in your manga, Princess Paffy and the 40 Thieves is a spoof of sorts on Ali Baba. The mangaka, Kayano (http://www.kayono.net/) bases her mangas on historical settings, usually arabic.
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Now if only someone would publish them here. *pines*
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Samurai Deeper Kyo - Akimine Kamijyo (historical figures but dubious history)
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Tezuka wrote a manga (later filmed) called Metropolis, based vaguely on the Fritz Lang film, and made a film called Cleopatra, which was exceedingly artily boring except that Julius Caesar had NINJA. No, really, it was the best thirty seconds ever-- Caesar and Cleopatra were standing around talking and then Caesar said, to empty air, something like 'go tell so-and-so to have some other guy killed' and *fwip* there was this ninja in the Classic Ninja Kneeling Pose (TM) saying 'it shall be done' and vanishing. I had not previously been aware that Julius Caesar really should have had ninja, but now I have seen the light.
Galaxy Express 999 is a version of Night on the Galactic Railroad.
The mangaka of From Eroica With Love, whose name I am currently forgetting, also did a manga life of Czar Peter the Great. Bzuh?
There is a currently running anime called Les Miserables: Petite Shoujo Cosette. I have also run across an anime adaptation of The Three Musketeers, still titled that, and my current nominee for Scariest Anime Ever, Von Trapp no Monogatari, which is just what it sounds like.
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*hides under the bed*
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Ryuuroden, by Yoshito Yamahara - based on The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, an I-guess-fairly-historical Chinese novel. There are some time-traveling Japanese high-schoolers in the manga.
Yamato Gensouki, by Yabuki Kentarou - very roughly supposed to be about the unification of Japan as a nation. Very roughly.
Onii-sama e / Brother, Dear Brother, by Riyoko Ikeda - Sorta? It's set at a girl's high school, and the girls have an obsession with the French Revolution, and one of them is named after a revolutionary, Saint-Juste. Another is called Prince Kaoru, after Kaoru from The Tale of Genji. I'm not under the impression that the plotline really mirrors either, though.
Boku no Son Goku, by The Goddamn Tezuka - Why, whatever could this be about!
Bride of Deimos, Etsuko Ikeda and Yuho Ashibe - If Greek mythology counts. Liberal abuse of Greek gods with spooky eyes in the service of killing off Japanese high-schoolers.
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And if out and out yaoiful playing with history okay, Yoritomo Yoshitune Benkei by Moka Azumi puts an alternately incestuous and blasphemous spin on the history of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Benkei the monk and Yoshitsune's older brother I forget the name of. :x
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Also, Yoritomo Yoshitsume Benkei might also be called Amasakaru. The scanlation site has it listed as both. :(
Na mo Naki Tori no Tobu Yoake (Innocent Bird) by Kisaragi Hirotaka
is bible slashhas cameos by Judas and Jesus and Beelzebub! >.>;no subject
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Also Matantei Loki Ragnarok by Sakura Kinoshita which has any number of Norse gods as characters.
Also, there's the BL manga Demian Syndrome by Mamiya Oki, where the main characters connected in their childhood over the book Demian by Herman Hesse, and references the book throughout the series, with a bonus of the characters angstily quoting it aloud in volume 4!
Also Hattori Hanzo appears in any number of things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattori_Hanzo although you may be interested in:
"The manga Hanzo no mori by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima dramatizes the adventures of the young Hattori Hanzo and his master Tokugawa Ieyasu. It is available in English as Path of the Assassin from Dark Horse Comics."
-As well as Basilisk which apart from having Hattori Hanzo as a character, from the first few episodes and the live-action movie seemed like a Romeo and Juliet story with NINJA CLANS!
Samurai Champloo has some (references to) historical figures/locations throughout it. (Most memorably Van Gogh!)
...I suppose one could say Angel Sanctuary?