Can someone please tell me why, exactly, this book has a picture of Full Metal Alchemists Alex Louis Armstrong on the cover? Really, given I don’t really like the Japanese art for the novels (external or internal), I don’t mind them mucking around with the covers, but they should at least make them make sense. Anyway, [...]
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Story: The sibling trio of Shannon, Raquel, and Pacifica continue their journey of being on the run from the kingdom in order to protect Pacifica, the Scrapped Princess who will destroy the world. While trying to get to the outer territories of the kingdom, the group meets the Inquisitor Berkens, a rather odd priest with [...]
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Scrapped Princess Vol. 2 begins will the Casull siblings of Pacifica, Shannon, and Raquel continuing on their quest to protect Pacifica as the cursed Scrapped Princess. Their wonderings lead them to the town of Taurus and its local people. After a run in with some assassins they are forced to stay in the town for [...]
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Tokyopop, in their continued (and largely appreciated) efforts to publish a whole crapload of Japanese novels in the US, have committed themselves to publishing the thirteen volume Scrapped Princess series, upon which the anime was based, in English. This is the first volume. Honestly, its a pretty uninspiring start.
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I seriously believe that 2007 will be the year of the light novels. You know, those books with occasional illustrations that a lot of manga and anime are based on? I took a look at the Scrapped Princess light novel, Song of the Forgiven. I didn't actually realize it was the second book in the series until starting this review!
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For awhile now I’ve had a vested interest in the state of light novels in english. Since so many new anime are based on this literary form, I’ve been eager to test it out. Scrapped Princess is part of Tokyopop’s POP Fiction line they started in October, and is the third official Light Novel I’ve [...]
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