{"id":13390,"date":"2011-01-20T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=13390"},"modified":"2011-01-20T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T05:29:36","slug":"a-teenage-psychic-mixes-on-the-job-romance-with-invading-aliens-in-arina-tanemuras-mistress-fortune-manga-from-viz-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=13390","title":{"rendered":"A Teenage Psychic Mixes On-the-Job Romance with Invading Aliens in Arina Tanemura&#8217;s &#8220;Mistress Fortune&#8221; Manga from VIZ Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/vizmedia.com\/\">VIZ Media<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry\u2019s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing  companies, will delight shojo manga (graphic novel) fans with the release of Arina Tanemura\u2019s <em>Mistress Fortune<\/em> on February 1st. The new single-volume story will be published under the company\u2019s Shojo Beat imprint, is rated \u2018T\u2019 for Teens, and will carry an MSRP of $9.99 U.S. \/ $12.99 CAN.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen-year-old Kisaki Tachibana has psychic powers. She works for PSI, a secret government agency that fights aliens. She&#8217;s in love with her partner Giniro, but PSI won&#8217;t allow operatives to get involved. Just when Kisaki thinks she may be getting closer to Giniro, she finds out she&#8217;s going to be transferred to California!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to release <em>Mistress Fortune<\/em> for current and new fans alike,\u201d says Nancy Thistlethwaite, Editor. \u201cArina Tanemura pulled from her experience of visiting San Francisco, the home of VIZ Media, as well as San Diego Comic-Con for this manga. Her huge following of readers here will have fun with this story that takes place in both Japan and the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arina Tanemura began her manga career in 1996 when her short stories debuted in <em>Ribon<\/em> magazine. She gained fame with the 1997 publication of <em>I.O.N<\/em>, and ever since her debut, Tanemura has remained a major force in shojo manga with popular series <em>Time Stranger Kyoko<\/em>, <em>Full Moon<\/em>, and <em>The Gentlemen&#8217;s Alliance \u2020<\/em> (all published by VIZ Media). <em>Full Moon<\/em> and another Tanemura manga, <em>Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne<\/em>, have also been adapted into animated TV series.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on <em>Mistress Fortune<\/em>, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/shojobeat.com\/\">ShojoBeat.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from VIZ Media: VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry\u2019s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, will delight shojo manga (graphic novel) fans with the release of Arina Tanemura\u2019s Mistress Fortune on February 1st. The new single-volume story will be published under the company\u2019s Shojo Beat imprint, is rated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=13390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Teenage Psychic Mixes On-the-Job Romance with Invading Aliens in Arina Tanemura&#8217;s &#8220;Mistress Fortune&#8221; Manga from VIZ Media&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-arts-culture","category-books-writing","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}