Kid's Joker Volume 1 - Softcover

Fujita, Maki

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 141390162X ISBN 13: 9781413901627

Publisher: ADV Manga, 2005

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Hotaru Yanagawa is a high school student with dreams of becoming a police officer. One day, when she tries to help a woman who is being assaulted in the street, a mysterious man - Yui, a member of a clandestine security organization - comes to her aid. Now, Hotaru will do anything to tag along with Yui...and it could cost him his life!

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Grade 9 Up-Hotaru is a quick-tempered high school student who travels around in a miniskirt picking fights with perverts on public transportation. Her big dream is to become a policewoman, and she is always on the lookout for people in distress or sketchy perpetrators. A mysterious young man, Yui, appears to be shadowing a new student at her school and she assumes he is her bodyguard, but she soon realizes that he is part of an ultra-secret operation. Hotaru works with him to investigate the cases involving kidnapping and gangs, and they become romantically involved. The illustrations are typical manga of an average quality. Dialogue is indicated in oval bubbles while thoughts are placed in rectangles in a slightly different font. Sidebars from the author pepper the latter part of each chapter ("session") and are sometimes distracting. While Hotaru and Yui are fairly well developed, most of the other characters are uninteresting. This book would find an audience among teens already passionate about manga but will not draw new readers into the genre.-Courtney Lewis, Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School, Kingston, PA
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