The Crunchyroll website will be previewing the entire Princess Ai: Encounters book — Tokyopop's English-language anthology of stories about the character inspired by Courtney Love — from September 16 to September 30. The site indicates that it will be using the same Flash-based web manga reader that Tokyopop is using on its own official site. The book's print version is scheduled to ship this week in North America.
From the moment that Gabi and Falco step into that wine cellar it is obvious that things cannot end well; there are only two adolescent Marleyan POWs on Paradis, after all, and Nicolo knows well and good who they killed in coming here.
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