As I was putting my FEoE game back on the shelf, I decided to take down
ManjiMaru for a quick look through the manual and BINGO...check this out:
On page 48 of the manual is some more info about Chada in Japanese but
there is a photo there of a book of his in english!! I can't quite make it all
out but here is mostly what it says on the very interesting cover:
(there is a publisher's address at the very top which I can't make out for
the life of me! AARGH)
FAR EAST OF EDEN ZIRIA
by Paul Hieronymus Chada (there's a japanese name for you)
"This is the story of a wonder magcal boy names Ziria who grew up in the
ancient age of feudal Japan..."
i can't make it all out but someone with a scanner could enlarge it i'm
sure and make it out. anyway, it appears that chada released a book here in
the USA no less which spawned this series.