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1	''Manga Shakespeare'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what its name implies]]: {{manga}} adaptations of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's works.
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3	A series of OELManga, ''Manga Shakespeare'' adapt various plays with an {{animesque}} twist. They use various styles, with some being {{Setting Update}}s while others take a fantasy route instead. The dialogue, however, is ripped straight from the plays with no modernizations.
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5	The works adapted are: ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'', ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'', ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'', ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', ''Theatre/TheTempest'', ''Theatre/RichardIII'' and ''Theatre/HenryVIII.''
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7	[[https://www.mangashakespeare.com/ Here]] is the official website of the manga.
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9	!!''Manga Shakespeare'' provides examples of:
10	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Almost everyone's either cute and animesque or attractive and animesque.
11	* AdaptationDyeJob:
12	** The Apothecary in ''Romeo and Juliet'' is blue-haired. He has one eye the same shade of blue, while the other is brown. Synthetic dye didn't appear until some 250 years after the play's release.
13	** Used heavily in ''Othello'' due to the HighFantasy inspiration. For example, several characters, including Othello, are white-haired.
14	* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: Due to the HighFantasy route for both ''The Merchant of Venice'' and ''Othello'', the cast of the former are elves and the cast of the latter are... all manner of things.
15	* CuteClumsyGirl: The Capulet servant trips over her own feet.
16	* {{Keet}}: Benvolio is portrayed this way in the ''Romeo and Juliet'' adaptation.
17	* PrettyBoy: Many of the characters. For example, Romeo is now a wavy-haired rock idol.
18	* RaceLift:
19	** ''Romeo and Juliet'' is set in Japan. Juliet is Japanese while Romeo is half-white, half-Japanese.
20	** ''King Lear'' features Lear and his daughters as Mohicans/Iroquois, there is conflicting information on which they are supposed to be, Kent is Huron and Edmund is black, the entire cast really due to the SettingUpdate and Gauls, Celtic Britons and Burgundians not existing any more by the time of the 1750's.
21	* SettingUpdate: All of them except for the two that are classified as "Histories" instead of "Tragedies" or "Comedies":
22	** ''Romeo and Shakespeare'' takes place in contemporary Tokyo.
23	** ''King Lear'' takes place in 1757 in North America.
24	** ''Macbeth'' takes place in a post-apocalyptic future featuring samurai, mutants and cyborgs.
25	** ''Hamlet'' is set in the 22nd century.
26	** ''As You Like It'' is set in contemporary China.
27	** ''The Merchant of Venice'' is set on a floating elvish city.
28	** ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is set in a fusion of Ancient and Modern Greece.
29	* {{Yakuza}}: Romeo and Juliet come from rival yakuza families.

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