is a Japanese

Japanese people

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 shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura

Arina Tanemura

is a Japanese manga artist who mainly does shōjo manga. Her debut work was a one-shot work titled , which was later reprinted in her anthology work Short-Tempered Melancholic. Tanemura gained fame with the 1997 publication of I.O.N, a high school romance with a supernatural twist...

. The series debuted in in the July 2008 issue of Ribon. It ran a for a total of three chapters, ending in the September 2008 issue. Mistress Fortune was published in a single tankōbon

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

in Japan by Shueisha

Shueisha

is a major publisher in Japan. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The following year, Shueisha became a separate, independent company. Magazines published by Shueisha include Weekly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Young Jump,...

 on December 25, 2008.

ESPers

• Kisaki Tachikawa is a 14-year-old second year junior high student who moonlights as the ESPer Fortune Tiara. Kisaki is in love with Giniro Hashiba. She is the only known ESPer to possess the special Planet Photon electromagnetic waves.

• Giniro Hashiba is a 14-year-old genius ESPer, known as Fortune Quartz. He is also a second year junior high school student, but at a different school than Kisaki. When Giniro's ESP powers first appeared at age 5, they were so strong that they blew up his home and family; His father and older sister died and his mother has been in a coma for the past 9 years. Due to those events he now lives at PSI headquarters and claims he has a debt to Commander Hakase. He claims that Maron and Meroko (from Tanemura's Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne and Full Moon o Sagashite respectively) are the idols of his heart. Giniro admits that he is in love with Kisaki in the third chapter.

• Gunjo Hakase is the commander of PSI and a known slacker.

Other Humans

• Kagami Ichigaya is Kisaki's best friend and classmate. Kagami is also the only one outside of PSI to know that Kisaki is an ESPer. She is one of the girls Ebeko pulls into her tornado.

• Kisaki's mother is another of the women pulled into Ebeko's tornado. She is often seen asking Kisaki to do her homework. She is extremely excited when Hakase tells her that Kisaki has been offered an opportunity to go to America, though she doesn't know why Kisaki has been offered the opportunity, as she is unaware that Kisaki is an ESPer.

• Giniro's mother has been in a coma
  Coma
  In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
  
   for the past nine years, due to the events that occurred when Giniro's ESP powers first appeared. Kisaki discovers that they are able to communicate with her using their ESP powers of telepathy
  Telepathy
  Telepathy , is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Fredric W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the more-correct expression thought-transference...
  
  .

• Nancy Thistlethwaite is a member of PSI in America
  United States
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   who asks Kisaki to help them out with an EBE at their American headquarters in San Francisco, California
  California
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  . The character's name comes from Tanemura's English editor at Viz Media
  VIZ Media
  VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...
  
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Ebes

Ebes (Extraterrestrial Biological Entities) are aliens, who are presumed to be trying to invade Earth, that come in all different shapes and sizes. There are at least 5 different levels of power for the Ebes.

• Ebeko is one of the first Ebes shown in the manga; She is originally a Level 5 Ebe and is the only Ebe seen to be able to communicate with humans verbally. She was given to Kisaki by her friend, Kagami, supposedly as a plush toy that was to grant Kisaki luck in her love life. Ebeko could read thoughts and granted Kisaki's wish for all the other girls in the world to disappear so that Giniro would only look at her. After Ebeko was stopped and subsequently captured, she started working with Mistress Fortune and the PSI group in exchange for her freedom. On her first mission with Mistress Fortune, she was named Ebeko by Giniro. She complained that no thought was put into her name and that she wanted to be named something like Maron or Meroko (both from other Tanemura manga).

Manga

Other than the three main chapter of the series, there were three side stories created by Tanemura. The first ran in the 2008 Summer Special edition of Ribon, the second in the November 2008 issue of Ribon magazine, and the third in the 2008 Winter Special edition of Ribon alongside a Gentlemen's Alliance

The Gentlemen's Alliance

is a shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura, who also created the anime series called Full Moon o Sagashite which came out in April 06, 2002 and ended March 29, 2003. The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross premiered in the September 2004 issue of Ribon, running until the June 2008 issue...

oneshot. The only volume of Mistress Fortune containing all three main chapters and two of the side stories was released on December 25, 2008. Shueisha included a double-sided poster in the first editions. Viz Media

VIZ Media

VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...

 announced a license for the series at their 2010 Anime Expo

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 panel. The series is also licensed by Tokyopop

Tokyopop

Tokyopop, styled TOKYOPOP, and formerly known as Mixx, is a distributor, licensor, and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa, and Western manga-style works. The existing German publishing division produces German translations of licensed Japanese properties and original English-language manga, as well...

 in Germany and Panini Comics

Panini Comics

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 in Italy.

Vomic

An internet vomic (a portmanteau of the words voice and comic) in four parts covering the first 2 chapters of the series was created and published by Shueisha. The vomic featured Ai Matayoshi as Kisaki, Kenichi Suzumura

Kenichi Suzumura

is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Niigata Prefecture, but raised in Osaka Prefecture. He is currently affiliated with Arts Vision. He made his television animation debut on Macross 7 in 1994...

 as Giniro, Junji Majima

Junji Majima

is a Japanese voice actor who is contracted to I'm Enterprise. He was born in Nagoya, Aichi. His favorite hobby is singing karaoke.-Anime:2002*Midnight Horror School - Borocca2003*Scrapped Princess - Prince Forsythe...

 as Gunjo Hakase, Chiwa Saitō

Chiwa Saito

is a Japanese voice actress employed by I'm Enterprise.Saitō is one half of the voice acting duo "coopee", along with Natsuko Kuwatani. In the "Divine Design" arc of the Getbackers drama CDs, she voices a character who battles the character voiced by Kuwatani. She is a member of the voice acting...

 as Ebeko, and Ayumi Fujimura

Ayumi Fujimura

in Tokyo, Japan is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Ken Production.-Anime:*Asatte no Houkou as Karada Iokawa*Astarotte no Omocha! as Zelda*Bakuman as Aiko Iwase*Bartender as Miwa Kurushima*Basquash! as Aulora Skybloom...

 as Kagami. The vomic was first announced in the September 2008 issue of Ribon.

Reception

The English version published by Viz Media received generally positive reviews. Leroy Douresseaux of the Comic Book Bin gave the volume a B+, noting that it is, "It is lighthearted fun as only Tanemura can do it." Carlos Santos of Anime News Network

Anime News Network

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noted that it was too short, but that, "it's still a surprisingly fun take on the ESPer action-adventure genre—and the handful of in-jokes for American readers nudge it up to a B." Matthew Warner of Mania.com also gave the volume a B, calling it a "tad generic," but an "interesting read." Karen Maeda of Sequential Tart was not so favorable, giving the volume a 5 out of 10 and suggesting that readers stick to other Tanemura works, as Mistress Fortune can be "too unrealistic and weird to want to bother with." The School Library Journal listed Mistress Fortune as one of "39 Graphic Novels that Kids Can't Resist," suggesting it for grades 6-8.