Scholastic Graphix has introduced that they are going to be publishing Unico: Awakening, a brand new middle-grade reader graphic novel from author Samuel Sattin (creator of Buzzing and co-author of The Kids’ Guide to Anime and Manga) with artwork and character designs by the Japanese artistic group Gurihiru (who co-created Eisner Award-winning Superman Smashes the Klan with Gene Luen Yang for DC Comics, and It’s Jeff! for Marvel). The first ebook, Unico Awakening will hit bookstore and comedian store cabinets in August 2024. Scholastic’s deal additionally consists of three further graphic novels that includes the persevering with adventures of Unico, in addition to a handbook and an exercise ebook.
Unico Awakening reimagines Osamu Tezuka’s traditional character for a brand new era of readers. This first quantity is a re-telling of “The Cat on The Broomstick,” the place Unico meets a cat who needs to be adopted by a witch. It was initially launched in May 2022 as a Kickstarter marketing campaign that reached its preliminary $50,000 objective inside its first 24 hours. It ultimately received over $179,000 pledged from over 2400 backers.
Per Sattin’s replace on the Unico Awakening Kickstarter web page, individuals who backed the unique marketing campaign will obtain an unique printed or digital model of graphic novel that can embody further materials that received’t be included in the Scholastic Graphix version, together with illustrations from all the artwork prints providing in the marketing campaign by artists like Akira Himekawa (The Legend of Zelda manga), Kamome Shirahama (Witch Hat Atelier) and Peach Momoko (X-Men Demon Days), together with different particular surprises to differentiate them from Scholastic’s print version of the story.
The story of Unico follows a younger unicorn with the power to positively have an effect on human feelings. This makes Venus, the Goddess of Love jealous, so she banishes Unico from the heavens and sends him throughout all of house and time. Each time he lands in a brand new place, the little unicorn loses his recollections of who he as soon as was. Thankfully, he’s not alone, because the spirit of the West Wind seems to be out for Unico, taking him from period to period, placing him in the trail of people that will befriend him and probably want his assist.
The unique Unico manga by Osamu Tezuka was printed by Digital Manga Publishing in 2012 by way of their very own Kickstarter marketing campaign, however is at present out of print and solely out there digitally.
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