Postby Mangafanatic » Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:06 am
I haven't read the manga. THe art style looks really interesting and I flipped through it one day, but the fact that it was made in collaboration with-- who was it? Courtney Love-- just took something away from it to me.
And concerning the rumored release date of volume two, I went to Tokyopop's website, and there wasn't a volume of Princess Ai on the February calendar. So that's probably an unfounded rumor. My guess would be that Tokyopop's gonna pull a stupid "One year between volumes", or something. It's wouldn't be the first zany release increment they've thought up. *rolls her eyes in the general direction of Tokyopop, but more so in the direction of Viz. She ven throws in a fist shake at Viz for their craziness.*
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