Kō Yaginuma

Maya Rosewood

Thirteen-year-old Asumi Kamogawa has aspirations of becoming a Japanese astronaut, but first she must pass numerous physical and mental trials to be considered for an elite spot in the Tokyo Space Academy. Original.

Twin Spica

"In a Tokyo of the not-too-distant future a young girl looks up to the stars with melancholy in her heart and hope in her eyes. Thirteen-year-old Asumi Kamogawa's whole life has been tied to those stars; her future may very well be among them. And she isnot alone... Asumi is just one of many young people with ambitions to become a member of the first class admitted to the Tokyo Space School. In this first volume Asumi is put to the test to determine if she has what it takes to get into this elite space academy. Her struggles do not begin in the classroom or at the test site, though. First Asumi has to convince herself and her father that she ultimately belongs amongst the stars."--P. [4] of cover.

Asumi and Mr. Lion remember first love even as Asumi and her classmates enter the most gruelling phase of their training to date.

Asumi and her classmates make their way to the goal on the final day of their cross-country test, but the challenges they have survived thus far will not be their last.

Set in the near future, more than a decade after Japan's first attempt at manned space exploration ended in tragedy, Twin Spica follows a new generation of hopeful astronauts as they endure the trials of space academy training. The charming and determined Asumi and her friends hoist the dreams of a nation onto their shoulders as they inch towards space travel. In Volume 7, both Asumi and her classmate Marika Ukita must overcome their haunted histories are they are about to walk in space.

As graduation from space school looms, the students who are left settle their differences and share hidden feelings as they all wait to hear who among them will be named the first student astronaut.

After Shu dies suddenly of a genetic illness, Asumi and the other students at Space School try to deal with their emotions and stay focused on their dream. Then, Marika's father informs her that Shu was a distant relation and that she has the same disease.

Asumi, dealing with the changes and rivalries coming out now that her class at the Tokyo Space School is nearing graduation, willingly takes in Kasane, a girl from her past, without asking questions, when Kasane shows up unexpectedly at Asumi's dorm.

The young astronauts at Space School, having prepared for extended periods of solitude and a crash landing on Earth, wonder what they would do if they were stranded on the moon and only had a few tools to survive.

"Admitted to the prestigious Tokyo Space School, Asumi appears to be on track to make her dreams come true. However, enrollment was just the first of many trials she must overcome on her path to the stars"--Page 4 of cover.

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