Red River (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 5

by Chie Shinohara

Genres: Manga, Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy

584 pages, Paperback

Published October 21, 2025

About the author

Chie Shinohara (篠原千絵) is an award winning Japanese manga artist best-known for Red River, known in Japan as Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori: Anatolia Story. She has twice received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo, in 1987 for Yami no Purple Eye and in 2001 for Red River.

Aside from her comics work, she has also written several prose novels. She has published the six volume Big Draw Daughter Hatsu light novel series, as well as five gaiden (or side-story) novels related to her Red River series. All of these were illustrated by Shinohara herself.

Works

Akatsuki no Lion - 2003
Ao no Fūin (Blue Seal) - 1992–94
Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni (Midnight Visitor) - 1984
Kioku no Ashiato (Footprint of Memories) - 2005
Kiri no Mori Hotel - 2007
Kootta Natsu no Hi (Frozen Summer Day) - 1995
Mizu ni Sumu Hana (Romance of Darkness) - 2004
Mokugekisha ni Sayounara (Farewell to the Eyewitness) - 1985
Nanika ga yami de mite iru (Something Watching in the Dark) - 1986
Ryouko no Shinreijikenbo (A Record of Ryoko's Psychic Events) - 1988–91
Sanninme ga Kieta (A Third Person Disappeared) - 1992
Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru (Then Five Bells Rang) - 1994
Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori: Anatolia Story (Red River) - 1995–2002
Tokidamari no Hime - 2008-09
Touboukyuukou (Runaway Express)
Umi no Yami, Tsuki no Kage (Moon Shadow on a Dark Sea) - 1986–91
Yami no Purple Eye (Purple Eye of Darkness) - 1984–87
Yume no Shizuku, Kin no Torikago - 2010-present

Reviews

[Heather’s Reading Bubble · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m going to be completely honest here. I love the art in this series. I love Yuri as a protagonist. I love Nakia as a villain but I found myself rolling my eyes multiple times while reading this volume. Yuri deciding to stay there and sacrifice ever seeing her family again all for Kail, who I still can’t stand, why? I get she’s a teenage girl but I just am not buying into this grand love story the way that I think I’m supposed to be. Kail still treats Yuri like she’s property and not a person. Yuri going on and on about how all that matters is Kail while people are being murdered was so annoying. I’m glad Viz has rereleased this series and wish they would for others but I am not going to lie and say this is the greatest thing I’ve ever read either. It has its ups and it’s downs.