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Del Rey Previews Aventura Manga Excerpt on MySpace

posted on 2007-11-16 15:08 EST by Egan Loo

Del Rey is previewing the first 21 pages of Shin Midorikawa's Aventura fantasy manga on the Comic Books blog on the MySpace social community website. The 2005 manga revolves around a boy who trains to be a hero at the Gaius School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The first volume will ship at the end of November.

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