Arata, the legend
By: story & art by Yuu Watase ; [English adaptation, Lance Caselman ; translation, JN Productions ; touch-up & lettering, Rina Mapa]
Contributors: Caselman, Lance; JN Productions
Edition: Shonen Sunday ed.
Publisher: VIZ Media
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781421534206; 9780329822095
Subjects: Teenage boys; Time travel; Inheritance and succession; Comic books, strips
Work titles: Arata kangatari
Description: Forced to pose as a girl, Arata, the last in the matriarchal Hime clan, is about to undergo a ceremony making him princess when he is framed for murdering the current princess and forced to flee. Then, a desperate wish to be elsewhere causes him to switch places with Arata Hinohara in modern-day Japan, leaving Arata to deal with a bully and life in a new high school while Hinohara finds himself in the past and running for his life.
Notes: Translated from the Japanese.

"Original Japanese edition "Aratakangatari" published by Shogakukan Inc."--Colophon.

Book reads from right to left in the traditional Japanese format.

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