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シュトヘル
90
14
Finished
Dec 22, 2008 to Mar 27, 2017
10.0/10
Average Review Score
100%
Recommend It
1
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Shut Hell is one of my favorite manga of all time. I love everything about it. I believe if you want to create a historical manga that is full of creative writing and fantasy element and staying to the source this is one of the greatest examples. What bothers me the most is how many mistakes in the translation. The author did amazing research about Mongolian culture, tradition, and names. However, when the English translation came out butchered many things. I understand how hard it must be to translate something that has been translated from where else and information about Mongolia was probably scarceon the internet when the translation started. So now I would like to point out mistranslations. Firstly the title of the manga and the heroine's name. Well, the Japanese title is "シュトヘル, Shutoheru" which actually is "Чөтгөр" written in katakana. It means evil spirit, devil or demon. So the correct translation could have been just "Demon", "Evil spirit" or just keep the original title. Next, some of the character names. Yurul's name is fine, I believe they corrected it after the first few chapters. Since there is no single "d" in the Japanese alphabet, Boldu/Boldo is actually Bold /Болд/. And there is no "L" in the Japanese alphabet and they replace with "R" so Yaralt (the eagle) is most likely Yalalt /Ялалт/ which means victory and Bektel (general) is probably Bekter/Behter /Бэхтэр/ (actual name of Gengis Khan's half brother). Harabal's title "Melgen (God’s Arrow General)" is supposed to be "Mergen" /Мэргэн/ meaning wise or accurate with their shooting. But I still can't figure out what Harabal's name supposed to be. My guess is Harbar /Харбар/ meaning black tiger. And that is all that I can remember from the top of my head.
It's the 13th century, and the flames of war have engulfed East Asia, and Genghis Khan is set to conquer the world. In the Mongol Empire's latest conquest, the Tangut people find themselves the target. With the recent defeat of Shut Hell—a notoriously vicious female Tangut warrior—the invasion is set to be quick and easy. This conquest stands apart from others however; the objective is not to simply seize the land, but to utterly destroy the Tangut culture and erase them entirely from history. In present day Japan, Sudou is a high school slacker who is plagued by vivid dreams of ancient times. One day, he meets a sullen transfer student named Suzuki who shows an odd interest in him. However, their encounter is set to vastly alter his life. When Suzuki cries out "Shut Hell," Sudou finds his world slowly fading to black. Awakening at an abandoned gallows, Sudou finds himself centuries in the past, now inhabiting Shut Hell's body. He is soon discovered by Yurul, a young boy who resembles Suzuki and possesses a complex relationship to the Mongols and Shut Hell. Realizing that "she" doesn't remember anything, Yurul begins to recount the tale of how they met and their current situation—one which makes them the target of the world's most ferocious empire. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
