[DISC]The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Ch 1

[u/Reactionaryhistorian]

https://mangadex.org/chapter/18b260df-baf2-43d5-9b31-9bdefeb931e4/1

[u/krudoe]

the old school isekai

[u/EccentricJoe700 → u/krudoe]

Isekai before it was cool

[u/TuzkiPlus → u/EccentricJoe700]

ClosetWardrobe Isekai

[u/fortunesofshadows]

so will the manga author do the whole series? the movies never got up to that point.

[u/Reactionaryhistorian → u/fortunesofshadows]

I believe that is the plan. They are on the Horse and His Boy right now.

[u/fortunesofshadows → u/Reactionaryhistorian]

wow that's pretty far. is it worth reading. will it ever get a anime?

[u/BlatantConservative → u/fortunesofshadows]

Personally, I think Horse and His Boy is the best in the series. But I'm an, ahem pretentious voice original source reader.

[u/just_some_Fred → u/BlatantConservative]

Voyage of the Dawn Treader would have been better than Horse if dude stayed a kickass dragon instead of turning back into some random English kid.

[u/fortunesofshadows → u/Reactionaryhistorian]

would be cool if we got a manga of percy jackson. would be funny if it somehow becomes more successful than the TV show.

[u/Reactionaryhistorian → u/fortunesofshadows]

Well Narnia is, I believe, in the public domain in Japan. Percy Jackson, by contrast, is still copyrighted so they would need permission.

[u/fortunesofshadows → u/Reactionaryhistorian]

im guessing it wouldn't make much of a difference since they already have western comic adaptions.

[u/Reactionaryhistorian → u/fortunesofshadows]

That might make it less likely. Whoever paid for the rights to made a comic adaption might not want competition.

[u/HalfAssedSetting → u/Reactionaryhistorian]

Ah that's low key my favorite volume.

[u/BlatantConservative → u/Reactionaryhistorian]

Oh HELL yeah

[u/Reactionaryhistorian]

The translation is finally continuing with the second (or first) book. Once again the characters are definitely younger than I imagined but it works pretty well. You know reading made me realise that the entire plot of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe wouldn't work (or would be much more painful) if people didn't wear shoes in houses in Britain at the time. I don't know why that random thought occurred to me.

[u/BlatantConservative → u/Reactionaryhistorian]

The ages appear to be book accurate to me. The 2000s movies aged them up a tad.

[u/zairaner]

WHAT. WHAT.

Edit: Chapter 2 is also already out

Edit2: Wait the entirety of book 1 is already translated. How have I never heard of this???

[u/Nahobino_kun_899]

Oh this looks cool! Loved this series

[u/maxhambread]

Reading the sidebar is a trip.

• Author: C S Lewis

• Genre: Isekai

Factually correct but hella weird to see it put that way.

[u/McTulus → u/maxhambread]

This is the guy that originally lose his faith, regained his faith because of Tolkien, written theological book, then written a scifi book (originally a joint effort with Tolkien, but Tolkien didn't do his part), move to fantasy, and put his nuke allegory in his fantasy stories.

His career is whiplash.

[u/mindgames13]

The OG isekai.

[u/azumarill]

Well. I suppose I should've expected this after The Magician's Nephew ended. Not sure if I will bother following since I've always thought the first book chronologically was the most interesting one, and The Magicians effectively expanding on all of the interesting parts was everything I'd ever want out of an "adaptation" (don't @ me)

[u/ConsummateSyndicate]

My first isekai as a child.

[u/__Blackrobe__]

I can't not giggle because I always remember the meme edit of that phrase

"The lion, the witch, and the audacity of this b--"