An English translation of Shio Sato (佐藤志生)'s highly obscure and rare adaptation of The Story of Conquest (Kunitori Monogatari/国盗り物語) by Ryotaro Shiba (司馬 遼󠄁太郎). Shiba's novel, which fantastically documents the lives of Saito Dosan and Oda Nobunaga, ran from 1963 to 1966, whereas Shio's take imagines the titular historical figures as characters from Mobile Suit Gundam. Shio was a prolific figure in the late 1970s to mid 1980s BL/Fujoshi doujin scene in the backdrop of her career as a professional artist, one of which who achieved cult stardom due to her titular Gundam BL work 'Char's Success Story'. Sato's maturity as an artist and tackling of particular topics made her a fan favorite, whereas Sato enjoyed a career as a contributor to Animage, OUT as well as a director of her own mail order doujin sales company via Comiket. I translated this copy after purchasing it from M, one of Sato's close friends, who owns the original manuscripts.

Ultimately, this doujinshi was created under the same imprint as the Let's Play Around With Char circle. The original publish date was August 15th of 1981, however, this doujin remained unfinished due to an uptick in Sato's professional life, and was "completed" in a 2nd edition drawn by her close friends and fellow artists Ryutei, Yaroll and possibly Shiomi Shigeshi. More information can be found in the translation notes provided.

Questions? Comments? You can contact me directly via adoggoat@gmail.com or @retroanimechris on x/twitter/bluesky.

where's the gundams

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this is incredible. many many thanks!

if i'm not mistaken about the roles:
- a genderswapped garma is nohime (with icelina hamon [eh, missed that. thanks @adoggo] and fraw as her ladies-in-waiting)
- char is oda nobunaga
- ramba ral is oda nobuhide
- amuro is tokichiro kinoshita (one of the aliases of toyotomi hideyoshi)
- gihren is saito dosan
- dozle is saito yoshitatsu
- kai shiden is komaki genta (the guy who beheaded dosan)
- conscon is imagawa yoshimoto

i think dosan's consort is lalah, but i'm not sure.

Last edited on 27 October 2024, 17:10.

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@ncc1701z Yes, you are correct! Icelina is actually Crowley Hamon. Also, you're welcome!

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Dude! Thanks a lot for picking this up!

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@sekiguchi you're welcome! I have about 3 more from the circle I'm finishing up.

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1981? Wow this is the oldest work I've seen on this site.

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@deadsx I know, right? I have some from 1980 from the particular artist, but give or take, they were making doujin as early as 1978.

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我去，81年的本居然有如此画风，这佐藤志生是个人物👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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