Arata Kangatari
Arata: The Legend
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Japanese: アラタカンガタリ～革神語～
English: Arata: The Legend
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 24
Chapters: 237
Status: Discontinued
Published: Oct 1, 2008 to Aug 26, 2015
Genres: Action Action, Adventure Adventure, Fantasy Fantasy, Romance Romance
Theme: Isekai Isekai
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Sunday
Authors: Watase, Yuu (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.371 (scored by 25972,597 users)
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Ranked: #40772
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Popularity: #2550
Members: 8,545
Favorites: 87

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In a world where humans and gods coexist, Arata is the unfortunate successor to the matriarchal Hime Clan—unfortunate because if he's not cross-dressing to hide his gender one minute, he's fleeing for his life the next! When Arata winds up in the modern world and switches places with a boy named Arata Hinohara, it's a wonder which Arata's actually better off...

Hinohara is the spitting image of Arata, so he suddenly finds himself fighting people after his life! As he navigates through this foreign world filled with power-hungry warriors, who will come to his aid? One thing's for sure—it's not easy being Arata!

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Arata Kangatari was published in English as Arata: The Legend by VIZ Media under the Shonen Sunday imprint from March 9, 2010 to August 9, 2016.

As a result of changes imposed by the mangaka's former editor in early volumes of this series, which were at odds with her initial plans for the story, a remastered version was started and the series was paused after volume 24 in order to allow for the remastered version to catch up. However, as the story in the remastered version had diverged significantly by volume 8, in 2021 it was decided to discontinue the Shounen Sunday version and to continue the story only in the remastered version.
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Hinohara, Arata
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Kannagi
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Kadowaki, Masato
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Nishijima, Suguru
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Jul 4, 2015
NightmareJupiter
Recommended
Preliminary (107/237 eps)
For my first review, I choose one of my favorite mangas: Arata Kangatari, or Arata the Legend.

This manga was a surprise. I really didn't expected too much, maybe because it's a little... Unknown. And I discover it by a friend, so, yeah, that was lucky.

The story is basically about a boy, Arata Hinohara, that goes to another world, changing place with another Arata. That sounds like a cliche, right? But Yuu Watase transform the story that "we all alright know" into something really good and enjoyable - thing that I miss in a lot of mangas today. Well, at last this is what I ...
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Apr 21, 2013
Irenesharda
Recommended
Preliminary (123/237 eps)
I don't know what it is about Yu Watase's work, as formulaic and sometimes tedious as her stories tend to be, and as annoying as some of her female protagonists are. I somehow keep coming back for more.

I think it has to be the characters of her works. ARATA is a little different than Watase's usual fare, have a male as the main character and being a shonen rather than a shoujo, however, a lot of the same elements are there as you go through this layered quest story.

Two boys from two different worlds, both named Arata, switch worlds and are both thrust into ...
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Dec 14, 2011
Yui_Haruna
Recommended
Preliminary (Unknown/237 eps)
This series has been a really strange discoverment. I´m not going to tell you what actually happens, because that will be spoiler and goes against my policy.

In the beginnig, what atracted me was the plot, that seems to be able to appear in any other place, but that as it starts to move gets deepper and focused. It wisely involves various concepts used in other mangas and makes them blend in a rather amazing way, that lets you with that feeling of wanting to read more. The arcs are subsequents and don´t have any wastes, and in most of the chapters you´re able ...
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