Helping David Out: The Merchant of Venice in Asia

I'm excited to have David be my paper-development partner, especially since there are so many avenues he could pursue in writing about The Merchant of Venice. Because the entry from David's bibliography I was most interested in was Maobingi, and because I've been watching a lot of anime recently (how did I not know about Fullmetal Alchemist before now?), I wanted to see what the Asian world was doing with Merchant.