Kickstarter Launches for Princess Ai Manga 20th Anniversary Collection
The 20th anniversary reissue puts a Courtney Love-co-created manga back into print via crowdfunding, a common route for niche titles from Tokyopop's 2000s catalog.
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247 Comics is launching a Kickstarter for a 20th Anniversary Collection of Misaho Kujiradou's Princess Ai manga. The edition includes the original trilogy, rare vault material, and extras. No launch date has been announced. The concept was created by Courtney Love and D.J. Milky, with character design by Ai Yazawa. The manga originally ran in Wings magazine from 2004 to 2005 and was published in English by Tokyopop.
247 Comics, the U.S. indie publisher that partnered with Tokyopop in February, is handling the project. The Kickstarter page describes the story of Ai, a rock star with a heart-shaped box caught between love and two worlds at war. The collection gathers the original trilogy plus rare vault material. Original character designer Ai Yazawa is known for series like NANA and Paradise Kiss. The concept was created by musician Courtney Love and writer Stu Levy (credited as D.J. Milky). The manga ran in Shinshokan's Wings magazine from 2004 to 2005 and was released in English by Tokyopop through 2006. A sequel, Princess Ai: The Prism of Midnight Dawn, followed in 2008.
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