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Special A's Artist Illustrates New Edition of Anne of Green Gables
posted on by Eric Stimson
Maki Minami, the manga artist behind Special A and Voice Over! Seiyu Academy, has illustrated a new edition of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables which went on sale over the weekend. It is a new translation of the 1908 Canadian novel by Shōichirō Kawai published by Kadokawa Tsubasa Bunko. It contains a total of 54 of Minami's illustrations.
Anne of Green Gables is a perennially popular children's story in Japan, where it is known as Akage-no Anne ("Red-Haired Anne"). It chronicles the adventures of Anne Shirley, a headstrong, independent-minded orphan girl adopted into a farmhouse on pastoral Prince Edward Island. It is a regular fixture of school curricula and has been adapted into an anime in 1979 by Isao Takahata. Japanese tourists are frequent visitors to Anne of Green Gables-related attractions on Prince Edward Island.
Anne with her best friend, Diana
"And then—thwack! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate not head—clear across."
[Via Comic Natalie]
