Princess Silver Star. 2

Author: (Japanese) Orihara Midori
Translator: Qiu Yanni
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Orihara Midori's representative work, narrating the story of a modern high school girl, Nan, who opens a mysterious ancient book and travels back in time to the powerful planet of Anadeluru. There, she meets a handsome prince of Anadeluru and learns that she is the reincarnation of the Silver Star Princess. To maintain the stability and peace of the planet, she must marry the Golden Desert King to save the fate of the entire planet. This book is a mature work of Orihara's style, adopting the classic plot of "time travel" from shojo manga, describing the story of a girl, Nan, meeting a prince from a different world. Not only is the background of the story Orihara's specialty in court-themed narratives, with dazzling costumes, handsome nobles, luxurious economies, and complex politics, all of which are eye-opening, but the entire work is light and cheerful, with beautiful illustrations and colored letter paper as one of its highlights. In today's era of cool and edgy shojo manga, experiencing this light-hearted piece is also a great choice. Unlike the current trend of shojo manga becoming increasingly "cool and edgy" or "eroticized," Orihara has always insisted on depicting "pure dreams." Her manga works are usually standalone books, and her serialized works are not excessively long. Simple and clear stories are like romance novels, sweet and delightful. Although Orihara has not created any "serialized for over 10 years with over 10 million copies sold" super famous works, this simple romance has given countless girls beautiful dreams. After all these years, Orihara's current works have not aged but become more refined and subtle, with subtle and hazy imagery, paired with delicate and warm dialogue or prose, filling the reader with a strong sense of shojo nostalgia.