Important news bulletin
It has recently come to my attention that, in 2009, Asahi Shimbun published a series of magazines where they invited a bunch of manga authors to write short historical manga about figures from Japanese history.
And Kazue Kato, author of Blue Exorcist, did a thing on Prince Shotoku, a possibly mythical imperial court guy from the early 600s who established important relationships with China and may have coined the term “Land of the Rising Sun.”
…and I shelled out the shipping for a used copy of the thing
the upshot of all this is that HOLY CRAP MEPHISTO LIVED IN 7TH CENTURY JAPAN
