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Japanese: ドリフターズ
English: Drifters
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Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Apr 30, 2009 to ?
Genres: Action Action, Adventure Adventure, Comedy Comedy, Fantasy Fantasy
Themes: Adult Cast Adult Cast, Historical Historical, Isekai Isekai, Samurai Samurai
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Young King OURs
Authors: Hirano, Kouta (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.801 (scored by 1159011,590 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #13042
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #452
Members: 39,930
Favorites: 694

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At the start of the Edo period, samurai Toyohisa Shimazu is in the midst of a bloody battle against the legendary Tokugawa clan to ensure the successful retreat of the Shimazu clan forces.

After his entire unit is massacred, Toyohisa manages to single-handedly force the enemy to withdraw—at the cost of being mortally wounded. Walking out of the battlefield dejected, he mysteriously finds himself in a white hallway, where he is immediately thrown into a door. He awakens in a different world, and there, he encounters Drifters, other legendary warriors who died and ended up in the same realm. Together, they use the knowledge and experience from their past lives in order to take over an empire and fight against an unknown force of evil that intends to crush all humanity.

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Drifters was nominated for the third and fourth Manga Taisho Awards and placed 10th and sixth in the final rankings in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

The series has been published in English by Dark Horse Comics since August 24, 2011. It has also been released in Spanish by Norma Editorial since April 14, 2011; in Italian by J-POP since April 21, 2012; in Brazilian Portuguese by Nova Sampa since June 2014; and in Polish by Japonica Polonica Fantastica since June 2, 2016.
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Shimazu, Toyohisa
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Mar 25, 2024
a_dragonfly
Recommended
Preliminary (83/? eps)
"Oda Nobunaga, give me back my legions!"

Drifters is the definition of a cult classic. It isn't popular, it doesn't win awards, but if you are the type that loves it, you freaking love it!

The art is beautiful, gory, and glorious. If you love gore, you will love this.

The characters are both funny and serious at the same time, and somehow the author makes it work. The jokes are even more funny if you know about the historical figures. History buffs, you will love it.

The story is all about warfare and arts of war. This is the best depiction of a fictional war I have ...
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Sep 25, 2021
B3r1x
Recommended
Preliminary (83/? eps)
---MINOR SPOILERS---

Drifters! Apparently it's by the guy who did Hellsing, but I haven't read that yet, so I cannot comment on any similarities.

Drifters is really good. It's the best isekai that I've read, hands down. The characters are well-picked, and form a good mix between famous commanders and heroes (Nobunaga, Hannibal, Hijikata, Jeanne d'Arc), to lesser known historical figures (Toyohisa, Kanno, Anastasia). I read this with a friend who's a history buff, and had a pretty fun time learning about/researching each new character as they entered the story.

Storywise, Drifters *has* a story, albeit one that can be a bit hard to follow at times. ...
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Feb 4, 2018
ktjohnson
Recommended
Preliminary (59/? eps)
If you are a fan of history, war and fantasy you will most definitely like this series. The idea is that when war hero's from all around the world and threw out time die, instead of going to a after life they instead get transported to a fantasy Tolkien like world where they duke it out against each other.
As you can guess war plays a huge part in this series, and the historical figures are pretty fun as well. Although they may not look exactly historically accurate, they do still look cool and hold that warrior look to ...
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