History Manga / TheLegendOfMotherSarah

* InfantImmortality: Averted hard. In this war-torn setting, children are likely to die just as gruesomely as adults.

* RevengeAgainstMen: Averted. Given the type of story and the fact that the protagonist is an adult woman [[spoiler: and one who got raped at one point]], many would expect a FeministFantasy but the series is clearly not interested in giving into this.

* BadassLongRobe: When she's on the road or when she wants to remain unnoticed, Sarah wears a long beige cloak, which she wears [{http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/l/lms7.jpg niqab-style]]. Makes sense since she mostly cruises deserts and Arctic zones.

* BadassLongRobe: When she's on the road or when she wants to remain unnoticed, Sarah wears a long beige cloak, which she wears [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niqab niqab-style]]. Makes sense since she mostly cruises deserts and Arctic zones.

[[ActionMom Sarah]], a mother of 4, used to live peacefully with her family in the satellites that orbited around Earth until one of the numerous terrorist attacks shaking the satellites forced her back to Earth. In the debacle, she got separated from her husband, Bard, and 3 of her children! Harato (her firstborn son), Satoko (her daughter) and Tsumuri (her middle son) but kept her baby boy Kazuki with her.

Fast-forward 10 years later. Roaming the inhospitable wastelands of Earth, [[TheQuest Sarah is now searching for her children]], accompanied by her sidekick [[BlackBestFriend Tsue]], a truck-riding merchant who took her in. [[{{Determinator}} And she won't stop until she has foud all 3 of them.]]

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: By the end of the story, Sarah has lost her husband, her infant son and her younger son (but it's hinted that he's actually alive). Her daughter is a mother too, but chose to stay where she was as a nurse/nun and her eldest son is now a RebelLeader doing his own stuff. In the end, she resolves to continue journeying, planting the seeds of peace of Bard's potatoes along the way.]]

[[ActionMom Sarah]], a mother of 4, used to live peacefully with her family in the satellites that orbited around Earth until one of the numerous terrorist attacks shaking the satellites forced her back to Earth. In the debacle, she got separated from her husband and 3 of her children.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Even though she eventually gets to see them all, by the end of the story, Sarah has lost her husband, her infant son and her younger son. Her daughter is a mother too, but chose to stay where she was as a nurse/nun and her eldest son is now a RebelLeader doing his own stuff. In the end, she resolves to continue journeying, planting the seeds of peace of Bard's potatoes along the way.]]

* ButNowIMustGo: Constantly driving across deserts and steppes, Sarah never stops anywhere very long. She usually stays in a place until she finds a valuable info to locate her children.

* DeterminedWidow: It's never stated upfront that her husband was killed but Sarah never saw her husband again after her fall from space.

* EnfantTerrible: Zach, a merely 8-9 years old [[spoiler: who uses his hypnotic abilities to manipulate others to do his bidding, even though the strong-willed can break the spell]].

In a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] future, the Earth has been utterly poisoned by [[AfterTheEnd nuclear warfare and, even though there are still people living there]], most of humanity has fled onto satellites to live tranquilly away from a now devastated planet, now nothing but a wasteland.

Now roaming the inhospitable wastelands of Earth, [[TheQuest Sarah is now searching for her children]], accompanied by her sidekick [[BlackBestFriend Tsue]], a truck-riding merchant who took her in. [[{{Determinator}} And she won't stop until she has foud all 3 of them.]]

* AfterTheEnd: As could be expected of a DystopianFuture, the whole story takes place after the "end of the world".

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted. In the Mother-Daughter Reunion arc, it's explained that abortion is sometimes the only option, especially in this kind of setting where being pregnant is dangerous in and of itself, since you must be able to run away anytime due to bombings and gunfights happening anytime and anywhere. Double points when being a woman doesn't grant you [[MenAreTheExpendableGender any special immunity]].

* BoobsOfSteel: Sarah, being a competent brawler and markswoman, is indeed very well endowed in the chest area.

* ActionGirl: Sarah, obviously, whose build is indeed appropriate for this trope, being unusually tall and stacked for a woman, in addition to being [[AmazonianBeauty beautiful]].

* UnfortunateImplications:

[[ActionMom Sarah]], a mother of 4, used to live peacefully with her family in the satellites that orbited around Earth until one of the numerous terrorist attacks shaking the satellites forced her back to Earth. In the debacle, she separated from her husband and 3 of her children.

Now roaming the inhospitable wastelands of Earth, [[TheQuest Sarah is now searching for her children]], accompanied by her sidekick [[BlackBestFriend Tsue]], a truck-riding merchant who took her in. [[{{Determinator}} And she won't stop until she has foud all 3 of them]].

* EnfantTerrible: Zarh, a merely 8-9 years old [[spoiler: who uses his hypnotic abilities to manipulate others to do his bidding, even though the strong-willed can break the spell]].

* BadassLongRobe: When she's on the road or when she wants to remain unnoticed, Sarah wears a long beige cloak, which she wears [[ http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/europe_muslim_veils/img/2.jpg niqab-style]]. Makes sense since she mostly cruises deserts and Arctic zones.

* SheFu: Averted. Sarah doesn't fight in an acrobatic style, she fights in a rather academic but effective style.

* AllMenArePerverts: Or more specifically, ''Men Of Power'' are perverts, other men are usually decent.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Even though she eventually gets to see them all, by the end of the story, Sarah has lost her husband, her infant son and her younger son. Her daughter is a mother too, but chose to stay where she was and her eldest son is now a RebelLeader doing his own stuff. In the end, she resolves to continue journeying, planting the seeds of peace of Bard's potatoes along the way.]]
* BreastAttack: Self-inflicted. [[spoiler: After having had to kill her own infant, Sarah was forced to work in a labor camp near the desert. Being naturally much stronger than the average female, she was forced to work alongside the men in a tough, physically demanding manual job. The scorching heat got her to be shirtless, exposing her lactating right breast. Guilt-ridden and forlorn, Sarah decided to punish herself for what she had done to her son by thrusting a wooden stake through her right breast. She is now wearing a permanent prosthetic right breast.]]

* ShorterMeansSmarter: Subverted. Tsue isn't always very bright and is somewhat greedy.

The series is now mostly out-of-print but it can be found online. The series was also an oddity for its time since it's technically a {{Seinen}} (and not a {{Josei}}) but it features an adult woman and cover many themes related to childhood, childbearing and motherhood in general.

* RapeAsBackstory: May explain why rape is [[spoiler: Sarah]]'s BerserkButton, along with mistreatment of children, of course.

* [[RoadMovie Road Series]]: Sarah and Tsue drive from town to town, all through the story.

* WalkingTheEarth: A RareFemaleExample, especially a solo one since Tsue is much weaker than Sarah is.

The series is now mostly out-of-print but it can be found online. The series was also an oddity for its time since it's technically a {{Seinen}} (and not a {{Josei}}) but it features an adult woman and cover many themes related to childhood, childbirth and motherhood in general.

In a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] future, the Earth has been utterly poisoned by [[AfterTheEnd nuclear warfare and, even though there are still people living there}}, most of humanity has fled onto satellites to live tranquilly away from a now devastated planet, now nothing but a wasteland.

The ''other'' KatsuhiroOtomo hit manga, ''The Legend Of Mother Sarah'' was written by the creator of Manga/{{Akira}} but was drawn by Takumi Nagayasu in 1990.

The series is now mostly out-of-print but it can be found online.

* OffingTheOffspring: An incredibly tragic instance. [[spoiler: Sarah, soon after she escaped the wreackage of the capsule that brought her back to Earth, had to deal with a lot of mercenary militias that would pillage and kill the survivors of the wreckage. One night, as she was hiding from a patrol of mercernaries, she found herself next to a little family, her baby in her arms. Her baby started to cry and would have had her and the family next to her spotted and killed. She had no other choice to survive but to smother her own child to death, all while crying.]]

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