Drifters
Could the Black King from the manga and anime seriesDriftersreally be Jesus Christ?Driftersis the brainchild of manga creative person Kouta Hirano , best live for hisHellsingseries . First published in 2010 in the Japanese manga magazineYoung King OURs , the ongoingDriftersseries was released in the U.S. by Dark Horse Comics . It was subsequently adapted into an anime series in 2016 helm by Tokyo - based yield society Hoods Entertainment with writer Hideyuki Kurata ( Now And Then , Here And There ) and Yōsuke Kuroda ( Excel Saga ) penning the script .
Both the manga and anime follow a group of historic figures know as the Drifters that let in famed samurai Shimazu Toyohisa , Sengoku era warlord Oda Nobunaga , Carthaginian full general Hannibal Barca and America illegalise Butch Cassidy and his chum the Sundance Kid . The Drifters are plucked from their own timeline and ravish to a mystic world populated by a intermixture of humankind , elves , dwarves , hobbits anddragonsthat are losing a war against a group of warriors with supernatural powers have it away as the Ends – a befitting nickname since their destination is to work about the end of their world .
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Like the Drifters , the Ends are made up of figures plucked from chronicle . Unlike the Drifters , however , their extremity are historical figures who die traumatic and vehement deaths which has transformed them into mean entity with genocidal intentions . Hence , the Ends include vengeful version of figures like Joan of Arc , Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova and Grigori Rasputin . The leader of the Ends is a mystic being known only as the Black King that someDriftersfans have theorized could be none other than Jesus Christ .
There are several clues advise the Black King could indeed be Jesus . Like Jesus , the Black King can heal others and the power to reproduce resources – standardised to the “ eating Of the 5,000 ” miracle in which Jesus reportedly turned a twain of fish and a few loaf of wampum into a meal fit for yard . The Black King ’s backstory also reveals that - like Jesus - he once endeavor to bring through humankind but died for his troubles . Perhaps most tellingly , the Black King has excruciation - similar wounds on his hands .
While all those clues charge in the way of Jesus , neither theDriftersmanga nor the anime have bring out the Black King ’s on-key identity as yet . However , with new chapters of the manga dropping every year and a 2d time of year of theanimesupposedly in the works too , there ’s the chance thatDrifterscould reveal who the Black King really is in the not too distant future tense .
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