{"id":16133,"date":"2014-03-05T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T01:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=16133"},"modified":"2014-03-15T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T00:50:45","slug":"viz-media-launches-new-shojo-manga-series-phantom-thief-jeanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=16133","title":{"rendered":"VIZ MEDIA LAUNCHES NEW SHOJO MANGA SERIES PHANTOM THIEF JEANNE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>From Famed Manga Creator Arina Tanemura, A Young Girl With Magical Powers Becomes An Art Thief To Steal Paintings Possessed by Demons<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, steals the hearts of manga (graphic novel) fans with the launch of the series \u2013 PHANTOM THIEF JEANNE. The new magical-girl fantasy by beloved creator Arina Tanemura, is now available from the Shojo Beat imprint with an age raging of \u2018T\u2019 for Teens and carries an MSRP of $10.99 U.S. \/ $12.99 CAN<\/p>\n<p>A digital version is also available for $6.99 (USD\/CAN) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vizmanga.com\/?utm_source=PR&amp;utm_medium=pressrelease&amp;utm_campaign=vizmanga\">VIZManga.com<\/a> and through the VIZ MANGA App for the Apple iPad<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, iPhone<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> and iPod<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> touch, Android-powered smart phones, as well as through the Nook, Kobo, Kindle, iBooks and GooglePlay stores.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining volumes of the 5-volume fantasy adventure series are scheduled to debut every other month.<\/p>\n<p>High school student Maron Kusakabe has a secret &#8211; she\u2019s Phantom Thief Jeanne. She sneaks into private art collections to steal paintings in which demons reside. Jeanne\u2019s task is to seal the demons before they can devour human hearts. So far she\u2019s been able to evade the police on her midnight outings, but now another thief has come onto the scene \u2013 Phantom Thief Sinbad \u2013 and he\u2019s trying to take the paintings before she does!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPHANTOM THIEF JEANNE is our translated editions of the beloved <i>Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne<\/i> series in Japan,\u201d says Nancy Thistlethwaite, Editor. \u201cThese books feature new covers by Arina Tanemura and color pages. They are must-have for new and current fans alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PHANTOM THIEF JEANNE creator Arina Tanemura began her manga career in 1996 when her short stories debuted in <em>Ribon<\/em> magazine. She gained further fame with the 1997 publication of <em>I\u2022O\u2022N<\/em>, and she has remained a major force in shojo manga ever since with popular series <em>such as<\/em><em> <\/em><em>Time Stranger Kyoko<\/em><i>, <\/i><em>Full Moon<\/em><i>, <\/i>and <em>The Gentlemen\u2019s Alliance \u2020<\/em><i> <\/i>(all of which are published in North America by VIZ Media). Both PHANTOM THIEF JEANNE and <em>FULL MOON<\/em> have been adapted into animated TV series.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on PHANTOM THIEF JEANNE or other popular shojo manga titles from VIZ Media, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viz.com\/manga\/print\/shojo-beat\">http:\/\/www.viz.com\/manga\/print\/shojo-beat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Famed Manga Creator Arina Tanemura, A Young Girl With Magical Powers Becomes An Art Thief To Steal Paintings Possessed by Demons VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, steals the hearts of manga (graphic novel) fans with the launch of the series \u2013 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=16133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIZ MEDIA LAUNCHES NEW SHOJO MANGA SERIES PHANTOM THIEF JEANNE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-16133","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\/16133","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}