RG Veda

Description

From Tokyopop:
300 years ago, a powerful warlord rebelled against the Heavenly Emperor. After killing the Emperor, the warlord crowned himself as the new Emperor, starting a cruel reign. But there is a prophecy: Six Stars will one day assemble and overthrow his tyrannical rule. Now, the ruler of the Yasha Clan has found Ashura, the last of the Ashura Clan, and together they set out to find the Six Stars and fulfill the prophecy.

Type

Manga

Related Series

Tsubasa - Reservoir Chronicle (Alternate Version)

Shining Star (CLAMP) (Side Story)

Shoten (Side Story)

Associated Names

Holy Scripture RG Veda

Rgveda

Rig Veda

Seiden

Священная летопись - RG Veda

ฤคเวท ศึกเทวยุทธ์

Ṛg Veda

聖伝 ‐RG VEDA‐

성전

Groups Scanlating

Aku Tenshi

Be With You Scans

Latest Release(s)

c.CD Drama Oneshot by Be With You Scans 18 years ago

v.1-2 c.1-5&Extra by Aku Tenshi 21 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

10 Volumes (Complete) + Artbook
5 Volumes - Aizouban (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 8 / 10.0 (269 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.83 / 10.0

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Last Updated

August 22nd, 2025 11:05am PDT - 1 week ago

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Genre

Adventure Drama Fantasy Historical Romance Shoujo Supernatural Tragedy
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Kadokawa (2011; 2013)

Shinshokan (1990; 2003)

Serialized In (magazine)

Wings (Shinshokan)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Dark Horse (3 Vols - Complete)

TokyoPop (Expired / 10 Vols - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

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Monthly Pos #1775 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3170

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6 Month Pos #3983

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Year Pos #6038

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List Stats

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On 633 wish lists

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Closest to perfection

by Ginny
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I love this! I gonna have to read Shining star clamp again. I didn't realize they're reincarnations. Aside for a few casualties I didn't want. This is awesome!!! Love it! Can I go over ten!?

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Beautiful Classic~

by Ibleda
13 years ago

Rating: N/A

One of my fav! To think I've missed this one for so long... and yet I knew about it from quite a few years ago. Wonder if I dropped it for some unknown reason or just that I had to put it aside for IDK why and forgot about it? o.O;; Well whatever the case, I love it. While I wouldn't necessary say it's a masterpiece, but it was interesting. Very. It seems like this is Clamp's first work, so that must explain why. It's perfect within the range of a debut manga.

Story... I have to say is supprisingly simple in a view. I dunno, it's not that it's SIMPLE simple, but it lacked that something I dunno what. It has it's decent twists, and everything I'd ask for... well, IDK. I loved it though! It's why I said it's not what I consider best and masterpiece, and maybe not even complete piece, but very interesting!

I LOVED~ the art. It's in me, I love older mangas. More personality, more adult-ish and a bit of realism, but most certainly manga art. And B-e-a-u-tiful~ rather than cute lol. Did I mention more H-O-T long haired guys? XD I'm sucker for those haha~

I must say, as many others mentioned, this is a deserving classic.

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Love, love, love

by monkry
13 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

So many kind of love in this book, and this is the loves that I love in RG Veda:

3) Siblings love between Karura-ou and her sister Karyoubinga is really touching me to the point I cried at the part where Karyou died ( T.T) Never a story of siblings love in manga moved me like this one.
2) Love between Bishamonten and Kisshoten. Grrr I cried again at this part. Eventhough it only got a little part, but what happened between them is told ver well, and it's so, so... ugh whhyy ( T_T)

How Taishakuten loved Ashura-ou, to the point that eventhough he always said "It's painful to live without the one you love", but he kept on living only to fulfill that one promise with Ashura-ou. And he killed Karura-ou, Kisshouten, and prevented Soma from giving her blood to Kendappa-ou, also for that very reason (well but yeah he's the one that made all that tragedy happened though). Ugh but it's a very harsh way to fulfill your promise eh... The man so evil, and all of his doings was based on... a promise to the one he loved...

Other things

- At some point, I got a little bored on how Ashura was regretting all that happen to people that died because of him (let just use him to refer Ashura...). It was repeated over and over. But maybe it's also good? Because then we could see his regrets was so deep.

I love the story where a big events or doing was happened just because of a something so simple. Like how Taishakuten broke the Heaven just because of one promise to Ashura-ou. And at least for me, it's so unpredictable...

All died... haha... I do not hate it though.

Nothing about the artwork. Very, very, amazing, enchanting, anything. Every chara design is done very, very well. And this kind of artwork for the first manga serial? Ckckckck...
And, for me, ASHURA IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHARACTER CLAMP EVER MADE!!!

... Last updated 13 years ago

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One of the Best

by catandmouse
15 years ago

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When I first read the scanlations, I did so in one sitting....and ever since then it stuck w/ me...recently I bought the entire series and pretty much read it continously, and what can I say? i liked it better than before! It was a great first work, and now that I've read this and X, I noticed a lot of similarities between the two....I almost feel like maybe that's the way X might have ended.....

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One of my favorite

by Battlerenji
16 years ago

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Though I haven't really finished the series it was the one of the first mangas I read and actually set up all the CLAMP titles to come and still shines as one of the best manga's I ever read.

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Surprisingly good

by Lally
16 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

I wasn't expecting a lot from this seeing as it was CLAMP's first work. Also, I'm not the biggest CLAMP fan. However, I thought the series was well-paced, interesting and original. The art is, obviously, rather dated now but I don't think this detracts from the story. The main characters are likeable and, all in all, it's very sweet. I would most certainly recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy manga like Basara.

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RG Veda is a Classic

by artdjmaster
17 years ago

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For those who are new to the CLAMP universe, they should begin reading this series. It may be the first manga that CLAMP made back in 1989, but that should not be a reason to avoid this manga. CLAMP are unrivaled in the depth they give their characters, and the amount of work and planning they put into their art and plot.

RG Veda is also a good choice because it is a reasonable ten volumes long so it won't be too much of an investment to get to the ending. Plus, if you've enjoyed this series, you will find many more works by these amazing artists. Other CLAMP series I recommend: X/1999 (published by Viz) and Legal Drug (published by Tokyopop).

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the best manga ever!

by Ardjet
17 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This manga is my personal #1 so I love it too much.It's a masterpiece and the art is so beautiful and unmatchable although the work is as old as I am.The plot is brilliant,the characters are fully developed and the connection between Ashura and Yasha is the most complex one I've ever seen.I'd better stop commenting cause the only words which come out of my mouth are "perfect","best" etc 😀

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.....

by Cerulean
18 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

weird......the ending was twisted in my opinion....why kill off everyone important? >_> ....even though it was listed under shounen, it seems more off a slight shounen-ai & shoutacon without the sex for me.....beautiful art and a pretty good theme, but i think it would've suit the story more for ashura to be a female T_T

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I'm a little conflicted on this one...

by astroasis
18 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

The art is beautiful. That, I have no doubt about. The concept for the story is also brilliant. The idea of it definitely stayed with me. However... Maybe I read a bad translation of it, but it just seemed... to drag on in spots it didn't need to. I think it would've been better off a bit shorter and maybe with a bit less unnecessary details in some spots. Still, this is something I would recommend to anyone - It's a bit of a classic, isn't it?

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