Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty 2

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This funny and heartrending romantic manga set in modern Tokyo is not the fairy tale you remember! This time, Prince Charming is a teenage janitor, and this Sleeping Beauty's curse is a supernatural, gender-bending dream that threatens to pull them both into a deeper and deeper slumber... THE UNINVITED Despite being a scaredy-cat and crybaby, high schooler Tetsu finds himself working at the eerie estate on the hill, where Shizu-the only child of the Karasawa family-is secreted away. However, his friendship with Shizu quickly turns to fear when several spirits of the dead appear before him, borrowing her appearance. As he struggles to find the humanity in her supernatural condition, Tetsu must also face a question at once terrifying and heartbreaking- What if the true Shizu never returns Story Locale- Modern Japan eries Overview- Satoshi's father has worked for the rich family in the house on the hill his entire life, so when the teenager needs a part-time job to put himself through school, looking after the mansion's gardens is a natural fit. Satoshi's ready to work hard, and he quickly endears himself to the staff. But there's one ironclad rule even he must obey- Don't go near the cottage behind the house. When he sees a beautiful, pale girl in one of the windows, Satoshi assumes she is being kept prisoner, and their secret meetings quickly turn romantic, but Satoshi has no idea just how terrible this Sleeping Beauty's curse really is...

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Megumi Morino is a shojo manga artist based in Japan. Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty is her first series to be published in English.