I'm back from Japan! A few Aria-related updates:
- The third water fairy's name is At(h?)ena. Apparently she sings. Personality-wise she seems to be quite a gloomy and/or anemic person. She's Alice's sempai.
- In addition to Aria, Aqua and Crescent Noise, Amano-sensei did a high school romance series called Roman Club and a series of short stories (I think these feature the Roman Club characters, but I haven't been able to figure them out) during her stint with Enix's G-Fantasy. These were published in tankoubon format under the GanGan Comics (GC) imprint.
- I had the opportunity to speak with a manga editor for Enix's manga line. He said that Mag Garden now owns the rights to republish ALL of Amano-sensei's GanGan Comics works, so there's a good chance that Crescent Noise will be reprinted under the Mag Garden imprint. So far from the GC imprint, the short stories and Aqua have been reprinted by Mag Garden (with new covers!) This explains why there have been 2 sets of covers seen for Aqua.
- Stella is out! Quite pretty. Contains color art up to vol 6 of the Aria manga, and more color art from Roman Club and short stories.
Whew! That's all I have for now. I will scan the covers of Stella and the GC tankoubon at a later date.
Posted by Aria-Kakaricho on April 5, 2005 09:09 PM | Permalink
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Oh that explains why the MangaOne scans don't match up to what Amano has opn her website. Wich is the new print? The ones picted on Amano's website?
(MangaOne Aqua Vol.2 ch1 is out btw)
Posted by: umhyuk | April 8, 2005 07:26 PM
Hope you had a great trip! So are any of the above available here in english or is that just in japan? i'm dying to get my hands on Stella and Aqua - its seems like forever since i even got vol.3
Posted by: Ari | April 9, 2005 05:57 AM