Nozomu Mochitsuki

Surrounded by the hate-filled gazes of her people, the selfish princess of the fallen Tearmoon Empire, Mia, takes one last look at the bleeding sun before the guillotine blade falls... Only to wake back up as a twelve-year-old! With time rewound and a second chance at life dropped into her lap, she sets out to right the countless wrongs that plague the ailing Empire. Corrupt governance? Check. Border troubles? Check. Natural calamities and economic strife? Check. My, seems like a lot of work. Hard work and Mia don’t mix, so she seeks out the aid of others, starting with her loyal maid, Anne, and the brilliant minister, Ludwig. Together, they strive day and night to restore the Empire. Little by little, their tireless efforts begin to change the course of history, pushing the whole of the continent toward a new future. And why did the selfish princess have a change of heart, you ask? Simple—she didn’t. She’s just terrified of the guillotine. They hurt like hell, and Mia hates pain more than work. Lazy, selfish, and a complete coward, the ill-equipped princess of the Tearmoon Empire, armed with memories of her past life and a diary from the future, tries to avoid dying at the guillotine again and changes the very course of history in the process!

Tearmoon Empire: Volume 1

Tearmoon Empire (Manga) Volume 1

Tearmoon Empire: Volume 8

After saving the King of Sunkland, reuniting the thirteen clans of the Equestrian Kingdom, and defeating the High Priestess of the Chaos Serpents, Mia has finally returned to Saint-Noel for some much-needed respite...until that’s interrupted by two girls magically appearing before her. If Bel wasn’t enough, Mia must now also care for the mysterious Patricia. Just where did she come from? Bel doesn’t seem to know, and the only clue they have is her last name: Clausius. As Mia tries to dig into the girl’s past, she discovers a terrifying truth. Patricia’s education has been raising her into a Chaos Serpent! To keep this under wraps, Mia resolves to tell her a minor fib—she isn’t Princess Mia Luna Tearmoon, but a teacher sent by the Serpents. Mia uses this pretense to raise the girl right, and somehow, it works! But as smiles begin to return to Patricia’s lips, the case of a stolen sacramental item throws her morals into question...

Tearmoon Empire: Volume 12

With the school dance finished (and with only a moderate number of injuries and kidnappings having occurred over the course of it), Mia’s stay at Saint-Noel Academy has finally begun in earnest! That’s right—it’s time for her to sit back, relax, and enjoy a luxurious and leisurely school life filled with... Wait, what do you mean, “lessons”? Indeed, not even the children of nobility can escape the myriad horrors of schoolwork. Fortunately for Mia, she’s been through all of this once before! Unfortunately for Mia, her memory is, shall we say, not her strongest asset. But hey—Mia’s survived worse, and compared to saving an empire from imminent doom, tricking her classmates into thinking she’s academically gifted should be a cakewalk! Besides, it’s not like she’ll have any conspirators to punish, connections to forge, or charming princes to woo in the meantime...right?

Tearmoon Empire (Manga) Volume 3

What could be harder than saving an empire from a laundry list of oncoming calamities and escaping the looming threat of a bloodthirsty revolution? Doing all of that while also keeping up with your social life at a new school! That’s exactly the predicament that Mia has found herself in, but it gets worse: she’s also classmates with her greatest enemies from the timeline she was executed in! From the most perfect prince in history, Sion Sol Sunkland, to the de facto head of the academy’s social hierarchy, Rafina Orca Belluga, Mia is surrounded by the revolutionary army’s future leaders, and she couldn’t be more scared! A little abject terror, unfortunately, isn’t enough to excuse her from her social responsibilities as the Imperial Princess. She’ll have to find somebody to take her to the first dance of the year, and she’ll have to do it without provoking the ire of anyone important in the process. What could possibly go wrong?

Tearmoon Empire (Manga) Volume 2

Bare your blades, students of Saint-Noel! The biannual swordsmanship tournament has arrived, and the competition is as fierce as the stakes are high! Will Prince Abel manage to prevail in a battle of wills against his chauvinistic brother? Can anyone stop Prince Sion’s meteoric rise through the ranks? And when the day is finally won, who will emerge victorious as the academy’s finest swordsman? Unbeknownst to most of the student body, however, the most intense bout of the day will not be fought up on stage. No, that battle to end all battles will play out during the tournament’s lunch break, when Mia’s masterpiece of a sandwich is finally put to the test! Will her culinary genius manage to secure Abel’s affection—and, more importantly, the aid of his kingdom’s military in the event of a revolution? Or will Keithwood’s incessant nit-picking and idea-quashing ruin everything?

Tearmoon Empire (Manga) Volume 4

So, how many lives did Mia end up saving in Sunkland again? There’s Sion, King Abram, and even Echard—in other words, practically the entire royal family. Go Mia! However, her adventures in Sol Saliente put her face-to-face with an opponent she can’t ignore: the glorious taste of sheep’s butter, imported straight from the Equestrian Kingdom! Her eyes on the prize, Mia immediately accompanies Rafina and Abel on their stop to the Equestrian Kingdom, only to once again be attacked by the horseback brigands from before! Luckily, Lin Malong comes to their rescue and captures the bandit leader, a young girl named Aima. She reveals herself to be a member of the lost Fire Clan, and upon hearing that they’ve hit hard times, Malong decides that he can’t look the other way. He invites Mia to help mediate the negotiations, a position she has no interest in taking. That is, of course, until he tells her of all the tasty milk she’d be able to enjoy...

Tearmoon Empire: Volume 10

The fate of the Fire Clan resting on her shoulders, Mia heads off on the Matching of Steeds—a two-day race that will push her horsemanship skills to their limits. Her plan? To lose, of course! There’s no way she could best an Equestri in a horse race. That would be absurd. Except...the absolute faith of her comrades throws a wrench in that plan. While they all expect her to win, Mia’s faith in herself pales in comparison to theirs. She thus spends the race scheming to create the most favorable defeat! But will her splash-fights, horse-shaped bread, and friendly attitude be enough to win over her opponent?

Tearmoon Empire: Volume 11

The Tearmoon Empire has fallen. As the flames of revolution scour the land, the empire’s ever-selfish princess, Mia, is publicly executed by way of the guillotine...only to wake up in the past as her twelve-year-old self! The empire’s back, the revolution is a distant memory, and sweets are once again on the table! As the bloodstained diary she brought back with her proves, however, Mia’s memories of the future are by no means just a bad dream. All the horrors and indignities she experienced in that terrible timeline are bound to happen all over again... That is, unless she can shape herself up, recruit some allies, and exploit her knowledge of what’s to come to solve all of the empire’s problems before they spiral horribly (and lethally) out of control! Is Mia up to the lofty task of changing the future and saving her empire? Not even slightly, but it’s her only choice if she hopes to spare herself from a second gruesome end at the blade of the guillotine!

Donning a precious keepsake dress made by her mother, ex-selfish-princess Mia throws open the doors to the ballroom and prepares to confront the swirling conspiracy threatening to swallow the whole of Sunkland. It is here that the Crown Prince Sion is prophesied to be fatally poisoned by his younger brother, Echard. The death of either brother would surely lead to ruin, so Mia needs a plan to avert disaster. After considerable (by Mia standards) thought, she devises a brilliant (again, by Mia standards) scheme. It’s time for Operation Keep-Sion-Dancing-So-He-Never-Has-a-Chance-to-Drink-Anything! Unsurprisingly, her plan falls flat almost immediately, as the myriad factions and players in this game of power are hardly willing to sit idly by and allow her to interfere with their goals. When she’s up against Sion’s burden of justice, Echard’s inferiority complex, AND Sunkland’s complex political background, can Mia lead everyone toward a better, brighter future?

Tearmoon Empire: Volume 9

Princess Mia just wanted to go on a fun summer cruise with all her friends, but somehow she's gotten stranded on a deserted island without a boat OR supplies! Mia and her friends have to figure out how to survive, but wait! Esmeralda's gone missing?! When the group splits up to look for her, Mia pairs up with Abel and thinks that getting stuck on an island might not be so bad after all. Little does she know, however, a dark secret lost to time lies deep within the island. Uncovering it will reveal the hidden truth of the Tearmoon Empire and how everything links to her morbid destiny. But forget about all that! Mia's only concern is and will always be herself, and the only thing she's interested in right now is her relationship with Abel. Can Mia avert her ever-impending doom this time around? Will they find the missing Esmeralda? And, most importantly, will Mia get closer to Abel?! Join Mia and friends on a summer survival adventure in the fifth volume of Tearmoon Empire!

Tearmoon Empire: Volume 5

Mia reclines and flips open the Princess Chronicles, wondering what new developments it has in store, when her eyes leap to a certain line: “Sion Sol Sunkland perished in his youth.” Needless to say, she does not remain recumbent for long. How could this possibly be?! Though he may be infuriating at times, Sion is an ally, a classmate, and most importantly...a friend. She needs to warn him; if she can’t save him personally—which, let’s face it, is unlikely given her limited faculties—then he can at least save himself. But how? She only has a month before his impending doom. She can’t exactly tell him he’s going to die because a magic book said so. Heck, she can’t tell him anything at all—he’s currently in Sunkland, and she has no business there. That’s when an aggrieved Esmeralda shows up complaining about a marriage proposal her father insists she accept. Upon hearing that the suitor is a Sunkland noble, the cogs in Mia’s brain begin to turn...

Just as Mia’s getting ready to take it easy for a while, her old friend the great famine comes knocking again, this time in the form of a complete collapse of Forkroad & Co.’s business. Without their logistics, Mia’s famine prevention plan is now critically hobbled. You’d think surviving an assassination attempt would entitle her to some rest and recreation—so much for taking it easy! As she investigates the source of all this, an old name from her past life resurfaces, along with a host of bitter memories associated with it—Shalloak Cornrogue, the Merchant King. Remembering the indignity she once suffered at his hands, a wolfish smile creeps across her face. No one picks a fight with Mia Luna Tearmoon and gets away with it. Not indefinitely, at least. Time for some payback. Unbeknownst to her, said payback will take Mia all the way to Perujin, dragging in a multitude of people and culminating in a showdown that will change the fate of the entire country forever...

Tearmoon Empire: Volume 7

Tearmoon Empire: Volume 4

The Holy Eve Festival is swiftly approaching, and Princess Mia is at a loss. Things had been going so well! She defeated Ruby at the Horsemanship Tournament, and she even won the allegiance of the Redmoons. And yet, the Princess Mia Chronicles continues to predict her death on that very day! Mia is desperately anxious about her impending assassination, so she resolves to...go mushroom picking! Mia just really wants to enjoy some exquisite mushroom stew, okay? And, while she's at it, Mia decides to throw a party to keep her future self from leaving the castle! Luckily for her, Bel shows up with Citrina Yellowmoon, who happens to know a thing or two about mushrooms. Can Mia avert her ever-impending doom this time around? Will she figure out the significance of the Holy Eve Festival? And, most importantly, will she get any of that delicious stew?! Follow Mia on some fungal foraging fun in the sixth volume of Tearmoon Empire!

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