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Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori
The Other Side of Heaven's Red River

Commonly abbreviated to "Tenkawa" in Japan, this is the story of Yuuri, an average 15-year-old Japanese girl who has just passed her highschool entrance exams.  Through strange circumstances, she gets pulled by mysterious hands through a puddle into the world of the 14th century B.C. Hittite Empire.  Through various circumstances she is declared as being the Goddess Ishtar, and the story goes from there!  The manga is by Chie Shinohara, who also wrote Shoujo Kakumei Utena.

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Historical background for Manga 7:
Who IS Ishtar anyway?

the cover of the first mangathe back of the first manga

the cover of the second mangathe back of the second manga

the cover of the third mangathe back of the third manga

the cover of the fourth mangathe back of the fouth manga

the cover of the fifth mangathe back of the fifth manga

the cover of the sixth mangathe back of the sixth manga

the cover of the seventh mangathe back of the seventh manga

the cover of the eigth mangathe back of the eigth manga