"if a good man is hard to find / then luck is on my side / for I do love you"

[larryhammer]

Manga licensing news of great excitement: Otoyomegatari by Kaoru Mori (of Emma) has been picked up by Yen Press as The Bride's Stories (a straight translation of the title, though I'd been thinking of it as singular). This is a beautifully drawn series, one of the best bits of artwork out there -- a historical romance set in the mid-19th century in the central Asian steppes. You hardly ever get that setting even in prose. It starts with a nomad's daughter's arriving at a village as part of an arranged marriage (my vague guess is that she's Uzbek and he's Tajik, but that's very vague indeed), which triggers a series of gentle slice-of-life stories of settling into a her new life, in a settlement, in a new family, punctuated by a raid by her brothers trying to steal her back to use in a more advantageous marriage. Oh, and there's an English ethnologist staying with the family, taking notes, and possibly being part of the Great Game in deep cover.

Drop. Dead. GORGEOUS. Art.

*bounce* *bounce*

---L.

Comments

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm very interested to see this. When will it be out?

[larryhammer]

No pub date seems to have been set -- I'm assuming next year.

---L.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_twilight_/]

I unsuccessfully tried to hit "like."

Oh, right, this isn't fb....

[larryhammer]

*snort*