Storm Fairy (DMP)
English Title: Storm Fairy
Japanese Title: あらしの妖精
Publication Date: 2016
Publisher: DMP
No. of Volumes: 1
In Print: ✔
Digital: ✔
From the publisher
Storm Fairy is a collection of 3 short stories with the first comprising the first half of the book, and the other two split the remaining pages.
Once upon a time, an Empress flees her burning castle to the nearby forest where she encounters a forest fairy. A deal is struck where in exchange for the fairy’s favor, the Empress must give up the face of her next born child. Thus, two girls’ lives become entwined: one has to wear a mask to hide her disfigured face, the other born with the face of the first. One night, a malcontent discovered Princess Ruri’s curse and steals her mask to put his own daughter on the throne. Ruri, now on the run, meets a samurai Tonosuke who decides to care for her. Hakobe, the fairy born with Ruri’s face, finds out the princess is on the run and decides to help her win back her kingdom, but little does she know, she wears the face of the one she’s trying to save…
The second short story, “Kokeshi Detective Agency,” has a similar tone and feel to young adult book series Encyclopedia Brown. Fearless little Paco goes around solving spooky mysteries because she is not afraid of things that go bump in the night while her dog friend Waco does his best to protect her. In the third short story, fairy Pink from the realm of beautiful sunsets morphs into whatever she wants so she may help those who are unhappy and in need, but King Brown and Sepia from the realm of thunderstorms do their best to make people miserable.
What you should know
Storm Fairy was published as DMP’s ninth Tezuka kickstarter campaign. In July 2015, 625 backers pledged $38,142 (of a $14,200 goal) to see the shojo short story collection published in English for the first time.
Storm Fairy was released unflipped in the original right-to-left Japanese reading style. The English edition was published in a single volume of 224 pages and is printed in the A5 (5.875″x8.25″) format with high quality paper. In 2016, a digital edition was released and is available on DMP’s emanga.com website for legal download in a number of popular formats (ePub, CBR/CBZ, PDF, etc.).
