Princess Ai

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Princess Ai ( Japanese プ リ ン セ ス ・ ア イ 物語 , Purinsesu Ai Monogatari ) is a completed manga series by the Japanese illustrator Misaho Kujiradō . Ai Yazawa (including Nana ) created the characters , Courtney Love and DJ Milky wrote the lyrics in the manga .

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One day the girl Ai finds herself alone and lost in the streets of Tokyo , with nothing but a mysterious heart box and tiny memories of her homeland. When someone tries to steal her precious heart box, she meets Kent, who takes her to the library at Shinjuku University, where he works. When she looks at the books there, she finds a book that shows the coat of arms of the Ai country, her homeland.

When she is walking around aimlessly in Tokyo again, a stranger offers her sushi and thinks she is a prostitute . She goes on and meets the street musician Fa'an. Inspired by his music, she begins to sing herself and earns praise from passers-by. The head of a strip club discovers her and gives her work as a hostess and singer. There she has problems with the "head hostess" Mika, who is jealous because a customer, Takeshi, prefers Ai. After a concert at the club, Ai goes to Kent, who was forced by one of the three Fury sisters from Ai-Land, named Tess, to reveal Ai's whereabouts. Ai leaves Kent in order not to endanger him and meets Fa'an, who gives her the key to her heart box. In the box she finds a medallion with her name on it.

Ai goes back to the club, works late into the night, and rents a hotel room. The following morning, Tess finds and pursues her. Ai receives support from Kent, but still cannot escape Tess. Suddenly her wings grow, which help her to escape. Takeshi, a talent scout at HTA, promises to protect her if she works for the organization. In order to be able to protect Kent and herself above all, she signs a record deal with HTA and becomes famous as a rock diva. Hayabusa, the head of HTA (Hayabusa Talent Agency) and allegedly linked to the yakuza, orders Takeshi to let Ai record as many songs and videos as possible and then kill her during a live concert.

Publications

In Japan, the manga was published in individual chapters in the manga magazine Wings , which also included Liling-Po by Ako Yutenji and RG Veda by Clamp . The Shinshokan publishing house also published these individual chapters in the form of three edited volumes, the first of which was published in July 2004.

The first volume in the series was also published in July 2004 by Tokyopop in the USA . The third and final volume was published in the USA in February 2006 and in German in April 2006. In April 2007, the series was reissued as a complete edition in a single German anthology . It was also Princess Ai into Danish, translated Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Swedish.

In Germany, the three volumes were published by Tokyopop from November 2011 to April 2006, followed by Princess Ai - Rumors from the Other Side in September 2008 , and Princess Ai - The Prism of Midnight Dawn in July 2009 and September 2010 .

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