{"product_id":"forgetmenot-volume-isbn-9781506757117","title":"Forget-me-not Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eIs lovely Mariel Imari the world’s greatest detective, or just the laziest? Don’t commit a crime in beautiful Venice…unless you want to find out!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStroll along the banks of the canals in beautiful Venice, Italy, and you’ll see the slacker—a young woman noodling on her guitar, pecking a bit at her laptop, and maybe getting a little reading in. But watch your step in this ancient town, because some of the other people you might run into—the ragged derelict, the drunken streetwalker, even that clean-cut gondolier—they’re all her, too!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe’s Mariel Imari, of Italian and Japanese descent, whose skill at disguise comes from being part of a famous dynasty of detectives. She’s even done an internship at Scotland Yard, where she solved 18 murders in three months! So why is her office on the canal bank, and her residence a hovel full of stray cats? Why doesn’t she get to live in her family’s ancestral Venetian mansion…instead of getting kicked out of it every morning by her butler, once she’s finished breakfast?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s because Mariel hasn’t yet cracked the one case that would allow her to inherit her grandfather’s estate—\u003ci\u003eForget-me-not, \u003c\/i\u003ethe painting stolen from the mansion 22 years ago, which she needs to recover as a condition of his will. You see, Mariel is brilliant, but Mariel is also a bit lazy and slovenly and bored…and about to be a bit embarrassed, too when her sisters show up from Japan, under the impression that Mariel is rich!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Mariel ever catch the master thief standing between her and an aristocratic lifestyle…and does she really want to…?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawn in Kenji Tsuruta's (\u003ci\u003eEmanon, Wandering Island, Captain Momo’s Secret Base\u003c\/i\u003e) elegant black-and-white linework, this manga features foldout cover (French flaps) with wraparound painted cover art, 30 pages of interior art illustrated in beautiful watercolors, all in an oversized format. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor mature audiences.\u003c\/b\u003e | \u003cb\u003ePraise for Kenji Tsuruta:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eHis work always glows with a sense of wonder and beauty. He observes his characters with keen affection, and they in turn observe the world around them, teeming with possibility. Over the years, Tsuruta’s lush illustrations have only grown lovelier.”—Shaenon Garrity, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOtaku USA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e | \u003cb\u003eKenji Tsuruta \u003c\/b\u003eis the creator of the Eisner-nominated manga \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWandering Island \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eas well as the series \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmanon, Captain Momo’s Secret Base \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpirit of Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. 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A former journalist and president of the Japan Society of Northern California, Dana Lewis has been renowned as a translator of Japanese science fiction and manga since the 1980s, her work appearing in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOmni \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003emagazine, home also to the early short stories of William Gibson.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusie Lee \u003c\/b\u003ewas the letterer and retouch artist for Kenji Tsuruta’s previous titles \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWandering Island\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmanon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaptain Momo’s Secret Base\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. 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