The Seven Shakespeares is a bit of an odd-ball manga, set in England during the Elizabethan period. Although Shakespeare is in the title and prologue, he barely appears in vol. 1. Instead, most of the action is set in Chinatown in Liverpool. The main character in vol. 1 is Li, a Chinese girl who can occasionally see future bad things (deaths and the like). Others see her as causing the bad things, so her family is pushed from place to place until finally emigrating to Liverpool. Her father is so desperate to have her stop saying omens that he scars her throat so that she can barely talk. I found her story to be compelling so far, and it's an interesting departure from other manga.
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