Tearmoon Empire

is a Japanese light novel series written by Nozomu Mochitsuki. The series began publication on the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni Narō in August 2018; it was later acquired by TO Books, who are publishing the series in print with illustrations by Gilse. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Mizu Morino, began serialization on the Comic Corona manga website in August 2019. An anime television series adaptation by Silver Link premiered in October 2023. Plot At the collapsed Tearmoon Empire, 20-year-old Princess Mia Luna Tearmoon, who was scorned as a selfish princess, was executed through guillotine. However, instead of dying, she awakens to find herself back in her 12-year-old body, initially believing the event to be dream, before finding her diary covered in her blood from the execution and containing the entries she made prior to the event. Pleading to avoid the execution at all cost, she decides to rebuild the empire. As such, she would "put her own safety first". Her supposedly selfish action, mixed with her knowledge from her first life, somehow charms the people around her instead as she works hard to turn her enemies in her first life to be her allies. Characters The protagonist of the series and the sole princess of Tearmoon Empire. At twenty years old, a revolution leads to her execution, but she somehow leaps back through time and wakes up a twelve-year-old. Thus, she begins to right what once went wrong and starts to fix the empire's problems while armed with a diary from the future. When it comes to saving her own skin, Mia spares no effort. Thanks to the strings of misunderstandings encircling her and her knowledge of the future, the princess known as "The Selfish Princess who Ruined Tearmoon" eventually becomes known as "The Great Sage of the Empire". On the surface, they couldn't be more different; but at their core, they were one and the same. Beneath the delusions surrounding her lay an arrogant, cowardly and slightly-selfish persona that hid a lovable idiot even further below. Because, by God, she was trying despite her flaws.