Yes yes it is Putin (well Plutinov) on the back of a giant eagle in the manga "The Ride-on King" -
© Yasushi Baba / Kodansha Ltd.
Yasushi Baba's
The Ride-on King
manga
released Thursday at Kurokawa and stars Plutinov, life president of Prussia
But this is not a portrait or a satire of Putin, since the character evolves in a universe of heroic fantasy
The title belongs to the "isekai", a very popular genre which sees its heroes projected into an imaginary world
A warrior with a monkey tail, an elastic pirate, a bald superhero… The manga has some weird but powerful (but weird) heroes, but do you know Ploutinov?
In a corner of Central Asia, a nation has won the respect and fear of its neighbors thanks to a single man, the one who tamed the country with an iron fist: Alexander Plutinov, life president of the Republic from Prussia.
Here is the pitch for
The Ride-on King
manga
published by Kurokawa, and any resemblance to an existing person would be quite voluntary.
Or rather with a living meme.
Plutinov only thinks about riding stuff
Indeed, the mangaka Yasushi Baba evokes less the real Vladimir Putin than the photo montage showing him shirtless on the back of a bear (in reality, a horse).
“I admit that internet memes inspired me,” he explains to BFM TV, “and I thought it would be fun to have a character who couldn't resist the urge to ride animals.
His hero only thinks of that, riding stuff, tigers, sharks, tanks, and why not a space rocket.
It is then that he is the victim of a terrorist attack and wakes up… in a universe of heroic fantasy with lots of dragons and other centaurs to tame!
Sorry ?
The "isekai", a new fashionable genre in manga and animated
The Ride-on King
touches the satire with its overpowered, impassive and a little ridiculous Plutinov it must be said, moreover "in Japan, the title is considered by readers as a manga of humor above all", concedes Yasushi Baba .
His series actually belongs to a very specific genre, the “isekai”, literally “another world”, which, on the principle of fish out of water and references like
Alice in Wonderland
or
The Wizard of Oz
, sees his hero or heroine being transported to another universe, during his lifetime (we speak of “isekai ten-i”) or by reincarnation after his death (we speak of “isekai tensei”).
The genre, very fashionable in manga and japanime, obeys precise codes, close to those of a role-playing video game, when the character is not projected in a video game (
Sword Art Online
,
The Rising of the Shield Hero, Overlord
).
Who wants to be a slime or a spider?
The "isekai" offer is more important than ever, and in the eyes of its most famous ambassadors, Plutinov almost seems like a small player.
In
Me when I reincarnate in slime
(Kurokawa), an office worker reincarnates… well in slime, while in
So I'm A Spider, So What?
(Pika), well it's also in the title.
Mushoku Tensei
(Doki Doki) sees a thirty-
something
loser reincarnated as a baby magician,
Tanya The Evil
(Delcourt / Tonkam) an orphan businessman from the First World War, and it is not over soon with
Les Racailles de l ' Another World
at Ki-oon on April 1, and the All-Inclusive
Reincarnated in Another World
at Delcourt / Tonkam in June, which combines video games, slime, trainer and magic.
There's not even a president, no one.
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