Lukia Nanami is turning seventeen. Her family has just moved to a town by the sea, and on her first walk down to the beach, she saves a handsome surfer from drowning. The next day, she's shocked to discover he's not only a classmate at her new school, but has no idea who she is, and insists he was saved by a mermaid! A new chapter in the saga of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, from original artist Pink Hanamori!
Despite their best efforts, Lukia and the mermaid princesses fail to save the Orange Mermaid Princess Seira, whose heart has been corrupted by the nefarious Laurent. Scattered across the sea by Laurent's powerful attack, Lukia finds herself alone on a strange beach, where a handsome stranger offers to carry her home. When she finds out he is none other than Nam, the merman prince she is fated to marry, Lukia is mortified. Her mother makes things even more awkward by inviting him to a party at their house, while-unbeknownst to them both-her father invites Kurosuna-kun to the party as well. Lukia soon finds herself caught between the two boys as they face off for her affections.
Lukia's life has been decidedly more complicated since finding out she's a mermaid-and a princess-on her 17th birthday. She's duty-bound to marry a merman fiancé she's never met, even while her feelings for Kurosuna-kun continue to grow stronger and stronger. Meanwhile, the new king of the deep sea schemes to drag her down to his inky domain, and a mysterious and gorgeous new transfer student arrives in class to stir things up with Kurosuna-kun!
Lukia is shocked when Kurosuna-kun boldly declares that Lukia is his girlfriend-straight to her fiancé Nam's face! The bemused merman prince isn't one to back away from a challenge, and the boys are soon going head to head in a swimming race for her affections. But when Laurent's minions strike mid-race, the group find themselves quickly getting overwhelmed. Seeing Lukia in trouble, something latent stirs inside Kurosuna-kun...something that might be more than he, or Lukia, can handle…
Its been foretold that it will take the power of seven princesses to stop the mad tyrant Michel, but how can Lucia and her friends save the world now when the seventh princess is yet to be born? Young adult.
When two cute boys--wizards who have come to the Human World to take a magic exam--fall from the sky in order to protect Nina from rival wizards, she is sure that one of them is the boy of her dreams.
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Analysis of the mermaid in Japanese and English fairy tales through the framework of pleasure. Lucy Fraser's The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid "explores Japanese and English transformations of Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 Danish fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by focusing on pleasure as a means to analyze the huge variety of texts that transform a canonical fairy tale such as Andersen's. Fraser examines over twenty Japanese and English transformations, including literary texts, illustrated books, films, and television series. This monograph also draws upon criticism in both Japanese and English, meeting a need in Western fairy-tale studies for more culturally diverse perspectives. Fraser provides a model for critical cross-cultural fairy tale analysis in her examination of the journey of a single fairy tale across two languages. The book begins with the various approaches to reading and writing fairy tales, with a history of "The Little Mermaid" in Japanese and English culture. Disney's The Little Mermaid and Studio Ghibli's Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea are discussed as examples that simulate pleasurable physical experiences through animation's tools of music and voice, and visual effects of movement and metamorphosis. Fraser then explores the literary effects of the fairy tale by male authors, such as Oscar Wilde, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, and Abe Kobo, who invoke familiar fairy-tale conventions and delineate some of the pleasures of what can be painful enchantment with a mermaid or with the fairy tale itself. The author examines the portrayals of the mermaid in three short stories by Matsumoto Yuko, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Ogawa Yoko, engaging with familiar fairy tales, reference to fairy-tale research, and reflections on the immersive experience of reading. Women characters and authors are also hyperaware of the possible meanings of Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" and of the fairy tale itself, furthering the discussion with Nonaka Hiiragi's novel Ningyo-hime no kutsu, and D[di?]'s novel Sento no ningyo-hime to majo no mori, as well as an episode of the science fiction television series Dark Angel.Fraser concludes that the "pleasure" framework is useful for a cross-cultural study of creative engagements with and transformations of a particular fairy tale. Few studies have examined Japanese fairy-tale transformations to the extent that Fraser has, presenting fascinating information that will intrigue fairy-tale scholars and those wanting to learn more about the representation of pleasure behind the imaginative and fantastical.
Lucia and her sister run a public bath that's all the rage, but they have a secret. They are mermaid princesses living among humans to search for Lucia's pearl that she lost years earlier. Without it, she can't sing and save the seas from an evil force bent on taking control of the marine world.
