num_pages: 231
description: The Guin Saga is epic heroic fantasy in the same vein as Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian. More than a hundred books strong and growing, the saga has sold more than twenty-five million copies in Japan. Vertical will publish the first five installments that comprise "The Marches Episode" arc. In a single day and night of fierce fighting, the Archduchy of Mongaul has overrun its elegant neighbor, Palos. The kindgom's surviving royalty, the young twins Rinda and Remus, hide in a forest in the forbidding wild marches. There they are saved by a mysterious creature with a man's body and a leopard's head, who has emerged from a deep sleep and remembers only his name. Guin.
language: English
title: The Leopard Mask
titlecomplete: The Leopard Mask (The Guin Saga #1)
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Asia, Dark Fantasy, Manga, Japanese Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Fantasy, Light Novel
ratings_count: 337
series: The Guin Saga
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Nihon SF Taishō Award 日本SF大賞, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Japanese Novel
publisher: Vertical