Akagami No Shirayukihime (Red-haired Princess Snow White) Vol.1 [Japanese Edition] Comic – January 1, 2007

I can't read Japanese, so I bought this purely just to have it since I don't know if it will ever come to America. I was surprised that it came with the dust jacket (bought used), because all American graphic novels have been made to exclude these. I really do suggest anyone that has the time to pick this story up, it's on going at this moment and it is such a wonderful story, yes, there is romance, but it doesn't consume the story like most books you read these days. It's about a young girl making her way through life with some interesting situations and companions.

This series is probably one of the best written and undiscovered gems out there. It happens to be my current favorite one for the last two-three years now. *Update The first arc is the best. Everything after pales. This is a made for Disney Movie. I have been an adamant follower/stalker of this story and you can't help but love Zen, Shirayukihime, Kiki, Mitsuhide, Obi, Ryuu, and many, many more of the characters in here. This is a classical story where boy meets girl. Okay a there is a bit more to it than that, but that is a good place to start.She was born with red hair and because it is so rare the prince wanted her for himself. Well, Shirayukihime didn't want to be just an item on display and soon forgotten, she has other plans for herself. She just doesn't know what those things are just yet. So, she decides to defy the aging 19 year-old prince, cuts her hair, and flees across the border to the kingdom of Clarine.There she meets new people and she soon becomes a part of their little click'. She ends up as an assistant in her favorite career field as a pharmacist. Not only that, but Shirayukihime manages to make new friends, new enemies, gain a love interest or two, allude being the concubine of the prince of her former country, falls in love and still manages to get kidnapped over and over again, somewhere among all of that other stuff.***Quote***People say that red is the color of fate, right? Now you may think it's only troublesome, but it might connect you with something unexpectedly good.