History Manga / AnatoliaStory

* WeakButskilled: Yuri has no physical fighting skills of her own, but manages to become GenreSavvy enough to dodge murder/rape attempts several times and survive in this world that she has just arrived of.

*** It could also be DeliberateValuesDissonance. When Yuri is in present-day Japan, everyone generally acts like she's quite attractive. In Hattusa, Yuri is much shorter than everyone else, and Kail mentions that girls her age [[BuxomIsBetter ought to be more voluptuous and have larger breasts]], hence his trying to feed her things that would help her gain weight (hence also Kail's assumption that Yuri is thirteen, when she's really nearly fifteen).

* CreepyChild: Jude [[spoiler:after Nakia drugs him with her magic water, to prevent him from clearing Yuri's name of a murder charge.]]

* MorningSickness: Thrice during the course of the manga, and none of them is really during the morning, but it happens to [[spoiler: Yuri in volume 18, revealing that she is pregnant the first time]]. The second time is [[spoiler: Schala, saying it was seasickness from the ship so she wouldn't hurt Yuri's feelings over her own miscarriage]] and finally towards the end of the series [[spoiler: on the day of Kail and Yuri's wedding, she learns that she is pregnant again]].

* MorningSickness: Thrice during the course of the manga, and none of them is really during the morning, but it happens to [[spoiler: Yuri in volume 18, revealing that she is pregnant the first time]]. The second time is [[spoiler: Schala, saying it was seasickness from the ship so she wouldn't hurt Yuri's feelings over her own miscarriage]] and finally towards the end of the series [spoiler: on the day of Kail and Yuri's wedding, she learns that she is pregnant again]].

* RedStringOfFate: Done in the background, when Kail and Yuri know that [[StarCrossedLovers they can't be together, no matter how much they want to]].

* HotDad: Kikkuri later on. [[spoiler: Also Kail]].

A fifteen-year old Japanese girl named [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Yuri Suzuki]], who is [[TimeTravel magically transported]] to Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia (roughly 3500 years in the past). She was summoned by [[BigBad Queen Nakia]] who means to use Yuri as a [[HumanSacrifice human sacrifice]]. [[BarrierMaiden Yuri]]'s [[BloodMagic blood]] is the key element needed in placing a curse upon the princes of the land so that they will perish, leaving Nakia's son as the sole heir to the throne. She is saved by [[HandsomeLech Prince Kail]], third son of the king and second in line to the throne, who takes her into his house officially as a 'concubine'. As the story progresses, Yuri struggles against not only repeated attacks by Nakia but also becoming revered as an incarnation of the goddess [[LoveGoddess Ishtar]] and getting embroiled in political intrigue concerning the empire and surrounding nations.

* TheFaceless: Urhi stays this for several chapters.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Between Kail and Ramses.
* ThePlague: One of the subarcs in the storyline. In actual history, the plague raged in Hattusa for some 20 years and killed a large portion of the population, including [[spoiler: King Suppiluiuma, King Arnuwanda... and Queen Gassulawiya, one of the two persons that Yuri is likely based upon]].

* NamesToKnowInAnime: [[http://www.bishicafe.net/?tag=anatolia-story The Drama CD's cast]] is VERY good, and it includes seiyuus like: MinamiTakayama (Yuri Ishtar), KazuhikoInoue (Kail Mursili), YurikoYamaguchi and later MisaWatanabe (Nakia), Creator/TesshoGenda (King Suppilinuma), Hiroshi Itou (Sari Arnuwanda), Katsumi Toriumi (Urhi), IkueOhtani (Jude), ToshihikoSeki and later TakehitoKoyasu (Ramses), KenyuuHoriuchi (Mattiwaza), Creator/AiOrikasa (Hadi), Chiemi Chiba and later MachikoToyoshima (Ryuhi), Yukiko Fujikawa (Shala), TomokazuSeki (Kikkuri), Creator/HikaruMidorikawa (Zannanza), HiroYuki (Tito), Haruki Sayama (Ilbani), KojiYusa and later Creator/HideoIshikawa(Kash), YukoNagashima (Ursula), Shigeru Shibuya and later Masaya Takatsuka (Rusafa), Shouko Kikuchi (Alexandra).

* NamesToKnowInAnime: [[http://www.bishicafe.net/?tag=anatolia-story The Drama CD's cast]] is VERY good, and it includes seiyuus like: MinamiTakayama (Yuri Ishtar), KazuhikoInoue (Kail Mursili), YurikoYamaguchi and later MisaWatanabe (Nakia), Creator/TesshoGenda (King Suppilinuma), Hiroshi Itou (Sari Arnuwanda), Katsumi Toriumi (Urhi), IkueOhtani (Jude), ToshihikoSeki and later TakehitoKoyasu (Ramses), KenyuuHoriuchi (Mattiwaza), Creator/AiOrikasa (Hadi), Chiemi Chiba and later MachikoToyoshima (Ryuhi), Yukiko Fujikawa (Shala), TomokazuSeki (Kikkuri), HikaruMidorikawa (Zannanza), HiroYuki (Tito), Haruki Sayama (Ilbani), KojiYusa and later HideoIshikawa(Kash), YukoNagashima (Ursula), Shigeru Shibuya and later Masaya Takatsuka (Rusafa), Shouko Kikuchi (Alexandra).

* NamesToKnowInAnime: [[http://www.bishicafe.net/?tag=anatolia-story The Drama CD's cast]] is VERY good, and it includes seiyuus like: MinamiTakayama (Yuri Ishtar), KazuhikoInoue (Kail Mursili), YurikoYamaguchi and later MisaWatanabe (Nakia), TesshoGenda (King Suppilinuma), Hiroshi Itou (Sari Arnuwanda), Katsumi Toriumi (Urhi), IkueOhtani (Jude), ToshihikoSeki and later TakehitoKoyasu (Ramses), KenyuuHoriuchi (Mattiwaza), Creator/AiOrikasa (Hadi), Chiemi Chiba and later MachikoToyoshima (Ryuhi), Yukiko Fujikawa (Shala), TomokazuSeki (Kikkuri), HikaruMidorikawa (Zannanza), HiroYuki (Tito), Haruki Sayama (Ilbani), KojiYusa and later HideoIshikawa(Kash), YukoNagashima (Ursula), Shigeru Shibuya and later Masaya Takatsuka (Rusafa), Shouko Kikuchi (Alexandra).

* HotMom: Güzel when she is introduced. Nakia counts as well. Later on [[spoiler: Ryui and Shala become mothers as well.]]
** An extra chapter takes place several years after the last chapter and [[spoiler: mother-of-four Yuri]] barely looks any different.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the original manga, Princess Alexandra of Arzawa was sent to the Hitite empire as a concubine for Yuri, who had been mistaken ''again'' as a male prince (this time by Alexandra's mother). The English translation says she was sent to "serve" the commander of the Hittite army (i.e. Yuri). The context is fairly obvious, yet [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar doesn't actually say it out loud.]]

** Kail is considered unusual for only wanting one legal wife and not taking any concubines after deciding [[spoiler:to marry Yuri]]. In fact, polygamy isn't considered strange at all, for most of the cast. Near the end of the series, it turns out that [[spoiler:Kikkuri thought he was only sleeping with one of the twins, but both had been taking turns going to him at night. When this comes to light, the only problem anyone has with him marrying two women is whether or not he'll be providing for the pair of them.]]

** [[spoiler:Ursula lies and pretends that she assassinated the king, even though she knows that she'll be immediately executed. She happily dies knowing that by acting as a fake target, she has averted suspicion of the crime from Yuri, and thus given Kail grounds to call of Nakia's attempts to capture her.]]

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Nakia is fully aware of how Kail and Yuri works and uses it to her full advantage whenever she can. [[spoiler:She does have her moments when she realizes that Kail loves Yuri so deeply he would have Nakia executed as a noble sacrifice to bring Yuri back. [[OhCrap Nakia nearly crumbles under the pressure]].]]

* FlayingAlive: Poor Tito.

Compare ''Manga/OkeNoMonshou'', in which a 15-year-old American girl named Carol Reed is thrown into AncientEgypt.

* BetterAsFriends: Yuri says this to Ramses. Looks like denial ''is'' just a [[IncrediblyLamePun river in Egypt.]]

Red River 天は赤い河のほとり, Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori, also known as Anatolia Story, is a historical fantasy shōjo manga series by Chie Shinohara.

Red River is about a fifteen-year old Japanese girl named [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Yuri Suzuki]], who is [[TimeTravel magically transported]] to Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire in Anatolia (roughly 3500 years in the past). She was summoned by [[BigBad Queen Nakia]] who means to use Yuri as a [[HumanSacrifice human sacrifice]]. [[BarrierMaiden Yuri]]'s [[BloodMagic blood]] is the key element needed in placing a curse upon the princes of the land so that they will perish, leaving Nakia's son as the sole heir to the throne. She is saved by [[HandsomeLech Prince Kail]], third son of the king and second in line to the throne, who takes her into his house officially as a 'concubine'. As the story progresses, Yuri struggles against not only repeated attacks by Nakia but also becoming revered as an incarnation of the goddess [[LoveGoddess Ishtar]] and getting embroiled in political intrigue concerning the empire and surrounding nations.


Compare OkeNoMonshou, in which a 15-year-old American girl named Carol Reed is thrown into AncientEgypt.

!!''AnatoliaStory'' contains examples of:

* EyeScream: Urhi gets an arrow to his eye.