Marianne Robin-Tani
ESTHER HANADA’S MEGA MANGA MIX-UP by Marianne Robin-Tani
Esther Hanada, 13, will never become a manga artist.
Not with her strict CFO Japanese mom expecting her to study STEM. And her embarrassing YouTube performance artist Dad, who would make her the laughing-stock of Frida Kahlo High School. If she even gets in. Worse yet, Esther loses a chance to perfect her portfolio—via a mentorship with her favorite manga artist—to her arch-nemesis, Cora Sanchez.
Ready to hang up her drawing tablet for good, Esther discovers her power to magically transport into her own drawings. Which would be an awesome way to meet that hot teen librarian she created. However, Esther finds strange new characters wreaking havoc in her story. And these aren’t her creations—they’re Cora’s.
The mix-up doesn’t end on Esther’s pages. Two of her characters have disappeared into Cora’s manga. The girls have only five days to switch them back and fix their stories before the art school applications are due. As the deadline ticks closer, Esther and Cora must end their rivalry, work together to battle armed guards, scent hunting bots, and Cora’s hypnotizing rock star villain to finish Esther’s story #IRL before it finishes them.
ESTHER HANADA’S MEGA MANGA MIX-UP, a 76K MG fantasy, is SAL AND GABI BREAK THE UNIVERSE meets READY PLAYER ONE.
I’ve published three unauthorized celebrity biographies with St. Martin’s Press, produced and directed an award-winning children’s yoga DVD series. I’m fluent in Japanese and addicted to manga. I’ve never escaped into another world but hope to someday soon.
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