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Arina
Tanemura
Viz Media (Distributed
in the UK by Simon and Schuster)
3 March 2011/ ISBN 1421538814
Fantasy/Manga
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
Kisaki Tachimura
works for a secret agency called PSI. She is fourteen and very in
love with the other half of her team, Giniro Hashiba. Together they
are called Mistress Fortune, and their powers are used against the
EBE, extra-terrestrials who do not have Earth’s best interests
in mind. But Giniro does not even seem to notice she is there, and
when her employers decide to transfer her to California it looks
as though he never will…
This is a one-off manga, a pity as there is plenty of material here
for quite a long series. There is the burgeoning relationship between
the two protagonists to start with; Giniro’s mysterious past,
the cute EBE that has its own agenda and the whole fighting aliens
idea. Not perhaps a very original idea, but there are aspects of
it which would make for an appealing shojo series. It has been illustrated
and written by the same person and the attractive drawings are perfect
for the light, cute story. Maybe one day there will be more? I hope
so.
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