Shoujo Comes to America Two-Fold

Fanboy Entertainment will premier the first issue of Tomoko Taniguchi’s latest manga serial, Spellbound, this August. Tomoko Taniguchi is best known in the West as creator of the Call Me Princess manga series. Spellbound is noteworthy because it is an original manga created by Miss Taniguchi for her foreign fans that will premier in the United States before its Japanese publication. “The story centers around Ami, a hip, street smart Japanese teenager who also happens to be a practicing witch. For Ami, magic is more for causing trouble and having fun than anything else… except love. However, try as she might, she can’t get any love spells to work on the object of her affection, Hiro. And when Hiro’s is snatched away by the foreign fashion designer Nicole, it’s up to Ami to save him from her evil machinations.” In a still greater triumph, Miss Chiho Saito, creator and manga artist of Shoujo Kakumei Utena, will provide an original cover illustration for the first issue of Spellbound: The Magic of Love. The Chiho Saito cover will be one of two different covers printed in a 50/50 ratio for the first issue of the $2.95 monthly comic.

Source: Anime Next