Barrage, Vol. 1
Fresh from the pages of Shonen Jump in Japan comes an action-packed reimaging of The Prince and the Pauper!Spunky slum kid Astro gets the chance of a lifetime to end the chaos ripping apart his home planet when the playboy prince switches places with him. Now Astro has become Prince Barrage, a...
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Fresh from the pages of Shonen Jump in Japan comes an action-packed reimaging of The Prince and the Pauper!Spunky slum kid Astro gets the chance of a lifetime to end the chaos ripping apart his home planet when the playboy prince switches places with him. Now Astro has become Prince Barrage, a boy charged with the duty of restoring peace to the planet…and given an all-powerful magical spear to do it! In order to save the planet, Astro will have to battle terrifying aliens while learning how to fight from his even more frightening guardian, the exacting knight Tiamat. Does a kid like Astro have what it takes to become the real prince and save the planet? Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for teen audiences.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781421552750 (1421552752)
ASIN: 1421552752
Publish date: 2013-03-05
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
It strikes me as a problematic oversight that I've never read "The Prince and The Pauper" but have watched many an adaptation on TV and am now reading a shonen manga version of the tale. I really do need to read that book one of these days.That being said, this seems to be a fun interpretation. Astr...