den gläsernen Schwingen ("The Prince with the Wings of Glass"). The anthology contains the three-chapter-long story "Glass Wings" and the one-chapter-long stories "Firefly" and "Jion Princess", all written and illustrated by Misuzu Asaoka. Hagane, the main character of "Glass Wings", is featured on the book's cover. Glass Wings is currently out of print in North America. In Japan, the book is currently out of stock and a second printing is pending. Reception Glass Wings was listed as 91 on ICv2's "Top 300 Graphic Novels" list for January 2006, which recorded the estimated sales of American comic distributor Diamond to comic stores. Glass Wings has received several primarily negative reviews from English-speaking audiences. Writing for IGN, A.E. Sparrow comments that the "stunning artwork will captivate" readers, but that the book suffers from "muddled dialogue" and sound-effect balloons that intrude on the book's flow. Julie Rosato of Mania praises the art of Glass Wings, though she notes that the "crammed pages made it hard to enjoy the character detail and almost impossible to appreciate the various emotional dynamics." She criticizes the Tsubaki plotline as "disjointed" and the conflicts as "un-relatable" because of the "fantastical-horror angle". She states that "too much about this book moves too fast, and with too little emotional impact", leaving the reader without concern for the characters, and therefore unaffected by the stories' tragic ends. School Library Journals John Leighton states that "the artwork is overdone with each figure too stylized and each article of clothing bejeweled to the max." He concludes that Glass Wings "has promise but never really takes off." Wilma Jandoc and Jason S. Yadao, writing for Honolulu Star-Bulletin, noted it "offers such a visual overload that it's easy to lose track of what's happening" and that it "is difficult to discern the flow of action". Its bleak endings was cited as "even more difficult to digest". References External links Glass Wings at Tokyopop's website German review 2003 manga Fantasy anime and manga Kadokawa Shoten manga Manga anthologies Romance anime and manga Shōjo manga Tokyopop titles