Princess Lucia (プリンセスルシア, Purinsesu Rushia) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōji Seo. The series first volume was digitally released in North America by Digital Manga.
| Princess Lucia | |
 The cover of the first manga volume. | |
| プリンセスルシア (Purinsesu Rushia) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Romantic comedy[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kōji Seo |
| Published by | Mag Garden |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Monthly Comic Blade (2009 – July 2014) Monthly Comic Garden (September 2014 – October 2015) |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | 30 March 2009 – 5 October 2015 |
| Volumes | 5 |
Plot
Princess Lucia of the demon realm decides that she must have a child with Yuta, a normal human student, as the child born from their union would possess great power. However, two angels, Rie and Eru, are intent on keeping her from achieving her goal.[2][3]
Characters
The series has four main characters:
- Princess Lucia (ルシア, Rushia)[4]
- A princess from the demon realm who believes that if she were to have a child with Yuta it would be amazingly powerful due to his date of birth.[2]
- Yuta Koizumi (小泉 ユタ, Koizumi Yuta)[4]
- A normal student who happened to be born on 6 June at 6:06:06 during the sixth year of the Heisei period (1994).[2][3]
- Rie (春日部 リエ, Kasukabe Rie) and Eru (美花本 エル, Mikamoto Eru)[4]
Release
Kōji Seo began the series as a one-shot in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Blade in the September 2008 issue, before launching it as a bi-monthly serialized title in the magazine's March 2009 issue.[1] The series went on hiatus before resuming on 30 May 2014.[2] When the Comic Blade magazine ceased print publication on 30 July 2014, the series was moved to Mag Garden's new Monthly Comic Garden magazine starting on 1 September 2014, while also continuing publication on Comic Blade's website.[5][6] The series concluded on 5 October 2015.[6]
Seo released an artbook for the series, Princess Memories (瀬尾公治画集 -PRINCESS MEMORIES-), on 9 November 2012 (ISBN 978-4800000392).[7]
In November 2013, Digital Manga announced that they had licensed the first three volumes of the series for publication in North America under their Project-H imprint.[8] The publisher regularly licenses series on a volume-by-volume basis.[9] It released the first volume digitally on 15 December 2014.[10] The print volumes were originally scheduled to be released in March,[11] June,[12] and September 2015, respectively.[13] The first volume was later rescheduled to January 2016, but missed that window also.[3] In May 2016, Digital Manga launched PeCChi, a new imprint that focused on non-pornographic adult titles, and announced that several of its former Project-H titles would be transferring to the new imprint, starting with Princess Lucia,[14] but this did not happen.[15]
Volumes
The series was collected into five tankōbon volumes between 2009 and 2015.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 September 2009[16] | 978-4-86127-657-6 | 15 December 2014 (digital)[10] 12 January 2016 (print, cancelled)[3] | 978-1-62459-192-1 978-1-62459-191-4 |
| 2 | 17 January 2011[17] | 978-4-86127-806-8 | 24 June 2015 (print, cancelled)[12] | 978-1-62459-193-8 |
| 3 | 10 May 2012[18] | 978-4-86127-996-6 | 30 September 2015 (print, cancelled)[13] | 978-1-62459-195-2 |
| 4 | 17 March 2014[19] | 978-4-8000-0278-5 | — | — |
| 5 | 17 December 2015[20] | 978-4-8000-0527-4 | — | — |
References
External links
- Princess Lucia at Mag Garden (in Japanese)
- Princess Lucia (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia