History Manga / Amakusa1637

''Amakusa 1637'' is a 12-volume {{josei}} manga by Creator/MichiyoAkaishi, serialized from 2000 to 2006 in Shogakukan's ''Flowers'' magazine. It follows the adventures of six Japanese teenagers: Natsuki Hayami, Masaki Miyamoto, Naozumi Yatsuka, Eri Kasugano, Seika Akishima and Eiji Horie. They're classmates from a Catholic school in Kobe, and they barely survive the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_Earthquake Great Hanshin Earthquake]] of 1995; five years later, during a school trip to Nagasaki, they get [[TimeTravel mysteriously transported]]... to the Amakusa region in the year 1637, shortly before [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion the historical massacre of the Christian population.]]

* GadgeteerGenius: Eiji

* {{Josei}}

* TrappedInThePast : [[spoiler: In the end, all but one protagonist remain in the 17th century. Only Eri returns to our era, finding it changed for the better by the group's actions.]]
* [[TheWebAlwaysExisted Cell Phones Always Existed]] : Justified; the cell phones only work when the phenomena that caused the time travel is active (allowing communication to pass through modern-day satellite infrastructure).
* WriteBackToTheFuture : [[spoiler: Well, more like leave sealed cell phones to be found in the future.]]

''Amakusa 1637'' is a 12-volume {{josei}} manga by Creator/MichiyoAkaishi, published from 2001 to 2006 in Shogakukan's ''Flowers'' magazine. It follows the adventures of six Japanese teenagers: Natsuki Hayami, Masaki Miyamoto, Naozumi Yatsuka, Eri Kasugano, Seika Akishima and Eiji Horie. They're classmates from a Catholic school in Kobe, and they barely survive the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_Earthquake Great Hanshin Earthquake]] of 1995; five years later, during a school trip to Nagasaki, they get [[TimeTravel mysteriously transported]]... to the Amakusa region in the year 1637, shortly before [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion the historical massacre of the Christian population.]]

* UsefulNotes/JidaiGeki: More exactly, the Edo Period (1603-1868)

* LoveDodecahedron: Natsuki loves Miyamoto. Miyamoto loves her [[spoiler: but later is amnesiac — and then he falls again for her when he gradually recovers his memories.]] Naozumi loves Natsuki [[spoiler: and also Shirou, though he also saw him as a ReplacementGoldfish for Natsuki since he was her IdenticalStranger, [[KillTheOnesYouLove and killed him]] in the end.]] Otsu saved Miyamoto [[spoiler: whom she knows as UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi]] and loves him too. Kinji ''may'' have had feelings for [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Shirou]] [[UnluckychildhoodFriend coming from their shared childhood]] [[spoiler: but later redirects them to Eri]]. Eri [[spoiler: kinda reciprocates Kinji's feelings]] but she also has a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with Natsuki and says that, had Natsuki been a male, she would be fully in love with "him".

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Eri and Natsuki. The first openly says that, had the latter been a man, she would be head-over-heels in love with boy!Natsuki.

''Amakusa 1637'' is a 12-volume {{josei}} manga by MichiyoAkaishi, published from 2001 to 2006 in Shogakukan's ''Flowers'' magazine. It follows the adventures of six Japanese teenagers: Natsuki Hayami, Masaki Miyamoto, Naozumi Yatsuka, Eri Kasugano, Seika Akishima and Eiji Horie. They're classmates from a Catholic school in Kobe, and they barely survive the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanshin_Earthquake Great Hanshin Earthquake]] of 1995; five years later, during a school trip to Nagasaki, they get [[TimeTravel mysteriously transported]]... to the Amakusa region in the year 1637, shortly before [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion the historical massacre of the Christian population.]]

* LoveDodecahedron: Natsuki loves Miyamoto. Miyamoto loves her [[spoiler: but later is amnesiac — and then he falls again for her when he gradually recovers his memories.]] Naozumi loves Natsuki [[spoiler: and also Shirou, though he also saw him as a ReplacementGoldfish for Natsuki since he was her IdenticalStranger, [[KillTheOnesYouLove and killed him]] in the end.]] Otsu saved Miyamoto [[spoiler: whom she knows as MiyamotoMusashi]] and loves him too. Kinji ''may'' have had feelings for [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Shirou]] [[UnluckychildhoodFriend coming from their shared childhood]] [[spoiler: but later redirects them to Eri]]. Eri [[spoiler: kinda reciprocates Kinji's feelings]] but she also has a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship with Natsuki and says that, had Natsuki been a male, she would be fully in love with "him".

* MeaningfulRename: Seika is also known as "Mariana", her Christian name. Natsuki is first referred to as "Francisco-sama" and later as Shirou. [[spoiler: Naozumi is renamed as Kotada... and Masaki, as ''MiyamotoMusashi''.]]