Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (2007)
The feud between two yakuza families in modern Tokyo.
Move the families into a world where a feud still means something, and the play reads like a crime story.
You want a manga that takes liberties, and you are curious what this play looks like in modern Tokyo.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the lovers, the families and the tragedy, adapted by Richard Appignanesi.
Changes: the setting, to contemporary Japan, where the Montagues and Capulets are rival yakuza families; Sonia Leong draws it.
Whose story is it?
the lovers’, in a city that makes their families look dangerous rather than quaint.
How much time does it ask?
208 pages, black and white.
SelfMadeHero / Abrams: adapted by Richard Appignanesi, illustrated by Sonia Leong.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Verona: The Folger Shakespeare Library edition · No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet · The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, ed. René Weis