Chapters tagged manga
In Jiyuu
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Lore by Naughty Stories
Chapter 4
In 2020, one month prior to the premiere of “Ka-ren the Barbarian”, JIYUU released a documentary about the original manga. It was meant to act as a teaser to increase the fans’ excitement about the show, but also as a way to introduce the characters and lore to new audiences. Th...
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Concept by Naughty Stories
Chapter 5
Ka-ren the Barbarian was born as a spoof of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian. Like the original, it is first and foremost a sword and sorcery story. In addition to that, it features many elements of dark comedy and eroticism (often crossing the line into plain hentai territ...
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The world of Ka-ren the Barbarian by Naughty Stories
Chapter 5
The adventures of Ka-ren the Barbarian take place in a fantasy world named Howaru. Like the Hyborian Earth in the Conan stories, Howaru is a reimagining of our planet. Its size, location within the solar system, flora and fauna are identical to those of Earth, but with significan...
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Geography by Naughty Stories
Chapter 6
Howaru has a total surface area of around 510 million km², with a land area of 150M km² and the remaining 360M km² being covered with water. The main difference with our Earth is that, in Howaru, all the land area is concentrated in one mega-continent, surrounded by ocean. Its i...
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Flora and Fauna by Naughty Stories
Chapter 6
The plants and animals that can be found on Howaru are the same that exist on real-life Earth, from dogs or cows to lions or elephants. There are, however, a couple of differences: 1. As opposed to our Earth, some prehistoric species have survived long enough to cohabit with mod...
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Supernatural Elements by Naughty Stories
Chapter 6
Howaru is a low-fantasy setting, much like the Hyborian Age in the Conan stories. There are, therefore, no other sentient species besides humans. In other words, it is based on Howard’s Hyboria, not on Tolkien’s Middle Earth (a difference that some adaptations of Conan seem to no...
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Humans by Naughty Stories
Chapter 6
Humanity in Howaru lives in a state of barbarism and savagery. The only areas with any kind of law and order are within the walls of the city-states. The rest of territories are lawless lands inhabited by all kinds of dangerous individuals, from bandits to cannibal tribes or murd...
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Physiology by Naughty Stories
Chapter 7
Howaru’s humans are basically identical to our Earth’s homo-sapiens. There are, however, a few small differences. They are never explained in the manga, but are very visible: 1. The most specific of these distinctions is the effect that testosterone and estrogens have in this wo...
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Society by Naughty Stories
Chapter 7
Howaru has humans of different ethnicities, just like our Earth. A difference, however, is that all ethnicities are spread around the mega-continent, with nobody nowadays knowing in which geographical location each one originated. As a result, the concept of racial prejudice does...
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Culture by Naughty Stories
Chapter 7
Aesthetically speaking, the cities and villages of Howaru resemble those of our Earth in the ancient era, taking inspiration from real-life civilizations like Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece or Rome, but sprinkled with other architectural and artistic influences from later periods of...
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