Kazuhiro Fujita's Short Stories
Kazuhiro Fujita Short Stories is a Japanese anthology manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Fujita and published by Shogakukan. The first collection, Yoru no Uta, contains five stories and was released in July 1995. The second collection, Akatsuki no Uta, contains four stories and was released in February 2004.
An original video animation adaptation of the story "Puppet Princess", from Yoru no Uta, was produced by TMS Entertainment and released in March 2000. It has been licensed in North America by Media Blasters.
Publication
The first collected volume, Yoru no Uta, includes five stories that were published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Shōnen Sunday Zōkan between 1988 and 1994. The volume was released on July 18, 1995. The second collected volume, Akatsuki no Uta, includes four stories that were published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Young Sunday between 1996 and 2003. It was released on February 18, 2004. Shogakukan re-released the volumes in a edition on April 15 and May 13, 2006.''Puppet Princess''
"Puppet Princess", a story included in the Yoru no Uta collection, was adapted into a 42-minute original video animation produced by TMS Entertainment and released on March 24, 2000, on VHS. A DVD version was released as a bonus disc for the 20th Anniversary of the Artistic Career: The Soul of Kazuhiro Fujita artbook on July 17, 2009.In December 2000, Media Blasters announced that it had licensed the OVA in North America, and it was released on VHS and DVD on September 25, 2001. In August 2020, Media Blasters announced that the OVA would be released on Blu-ray. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on February 23, 2021.