Scholastic Unveils Trailer for Unico: Awakening Manga by Gurihiru and Samuel Sattin [Video]

The Eisner Award-winning artist team Gurihiru (Superman Smashes the Klan, It’s Jeff) and the Eisner-nominated writer Samuel Sattin (co-writer of The Essential Anime Guide) are reinventing creator Osamu Tezuka’s beloved character Unico for a new generation of readers. Beginning with Unico: Awakening, an all-new, 224-page manga with striking full color artwork, the adventure will be told in multiple parts.

Tezuka’s Unico tells the story of a fierce young unicorn who inspires with his hope and positivity. Unico is banished from the heavens by the envious goddess Venus and forgets all he once was, only to be saved from oblivion by the kindhearted West Wind.

In the upcoming manga, Unico awakens on Earth and is befriended by a resourceful cat named Chloe, who feels protective of the young unicorn. When they find themselves near a small village in the forest, they take refuge with a kind, but lonely, old woman. Chloe begs Unico to turn her into a human girl so she can help the old woman, but that …