Spiritual Princess #3

Volume 3 of Nao Iwamoto's Spiritual Princess presents a quietly captivating cover: a brown-haired girl in a school uniform stands in the foreground clutching a book, while two other students sit nearby on what appears to be a stairwell landing, surrounded by scattered cards or game pieces — and a curious fox observes the whole scene from below. That blend of everyday school life and the otherworldly (a fox feels decidedly out of place in a hallway) perfectly captures the shōjo series' gentle tension between the mundane and the mysterious. Published by Kazé in 2018, this third volume looks like a rewarding continuation for fans already drawn into Iwamoto's world.