heinleinblog

From an Anime News Network review:

So the question then becomes, just what is Five Star Stories? As the title suggests, the storyline revolves around the various political, military, and social interactions within a galaxy of five stars and six inhabitable planets. More so than most other manga, it draws on two Western traditions, that of the “future history” and of the realist novel of the 19th century. The “future history” genre, seen in the science fiction writings of authors like Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Cordwainer Smith, establishes a timeline of human development for thousands of years from a given start point; stories illustrate both the everyday and the truly enormous events over a span of thousands of years.

For those who don’t know, manga refers to Japanese comic books, characterized by characters with exaggerated eyes and larger-than-normal heads. It’s a very cartoonish style, but sometimes with very sophisticated storylines.

I’m not sure that Heinlein could be adapted very easily to comic book format. I think some of the juveniles could be done, maybe “Starship Troopers.”