Dawn of the Arcana #12

Rei Toma's Dawn of the Arcana reaches its twelfth volume with a cover that captures the series' quiet emotional tension beautifully — a pensive, blue-eyed blonde leans chin-in-hand against a stone ledge while a dark-haired figure in deep crimson looks on with a composed, almost knowing expression. The series' signature clock-face emblem glows warmly between them, its Roman numerals radiating outward like a sunburst. Shojo Beat delivers another polished entry in this fantasy romance, and Toma's elegant linework makes this one hard to pass up.