{"id":297,"date":"2007-05-14T17:54:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T17:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=297"},"modified":"2007-06-10T10:55:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T10:55:57","slug":"arcana-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/05\/14\/arcana-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcana Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/arcana.jpg\" alt=\"Arcana Volume 1\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>So-Young Lee<\/strong> (TokyoPop)<br \/>\nISBN 1-59532-481-X<\/p>\n<p>This traditional Manga fantasy tale is the story of a young orphan girl with the magical ability to speak to and understand animals. With her best friend Zode \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a large Collie dog (sort of) &#8212; she is summoned to the court of the Emperor as the next hundred year winter is about to fall upon the land. Her improbable mission is to retrieve a guardian dragon to protect the Empire from a predatory demon-race waiting for the long shadows to fall.<\/p>\n<p>Our demure and uncertain heroine is unconvinced that all these noble lords have the right Chosen One, but gamely and dutifully agrees to go a-questing accompanied by the enigmatic, young and eerily good-looking wizard Yulan and a growing assortment of motley companions of all races and species.<\/p>\n<p>This epic of magic and adventure is simple, uncomplicated fare that will delight all fans of imaginative fiction and historical romances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2003 So-Young Lee, DAIMON C.I. Inc. All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\nEnglish text \u00c2\u00a9 2005 TOKYOPOP Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By So-Young Lee (TokyoPop) ISBN 1-59532-481-X This traditional Manga fantasy tale is the story of a young orphan girl with the magical ability to speak to and understand animals. With her best friend Zode \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a large Collie dog (sort of) &#8212; she is summoned to the court of the Emperor as the next &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/05\/14\/arcana-volume-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arcana Volume 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-4N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}