Alice in the Country of Clover #[2]

Mamenosuke Fujimaru's cover art for this 2013 Seven Seas Entertainment release sets a wonderfully surreal tone — Alice, in her blue dress and striped stockings, stands close to a red-coated young man as a large blade wreathed in red roses cuts across the foreground, with playing cards, heart-shaped keys, and a warm twilight sky swirling all around them. The pairing of romance and danger feels perfectly at home in the twisted Wonderland reimagining that the Alice in the Country of Clover series is known for. Fans of the QuinRose visual novel universe and shojo manga with an edge will find plenty to love here.