30 days of scans, days 20 and 22 combined... Read or Dream

[kamino_neko]

A combination of 'favourite villain' and a belated 'series I could read over and over'...

Read or Dream, the follow-up series to Read or Die, follows the Paper Sisters - Michelle Chan, Maggie Mui, and Anita King - 3 Hong Kong papermasters who work as detectives, focussing on books (theoretically). It doesn't have much in the way of actual villains (unlike Read or Die or ROD the TV), but there are a couple...

And this is the introduction of one of them - the only recurring one, actually...

So, as volume 2 opens, Michelle and Maggie are out of the country (Michelle in the US, Maggie in Taiwan), leaving Anita on her own for a week...initially, she's looking forward to the peace and quiet, but...




The Clock Diary is a diary that's...locked with a clock, so it will only be possible to open it on one day - May 15, 2003, about 150 years after it was locked. (Why? No clue. It just is.)




So, Anita impresses Becky that she can do it, and they break into Lau's place - which I've had to cut for space.

So, finally, they get to his library...



Hmm....suspicious...




(How did she fit that dress under the bodysuit? ... Or did everyone get a show? Y'know, I wouldn't put that past Lily.)

She uses the paralysing stuff on Anita, too, and makes her escape...but first...


Dun-dun-duuuuuuun.

Anita's vengeance next time.

8.6 pages out of 26.

Comments

[falseaesop]

Weaponized Aphrodisiac? She must be popular with the fan fic writers.

[kamino_neko]

It certainly has potential, doesn't it?

[cainofdreaming]

It's not like fan ficcers are the only ones that have thought about this.

Lucky for us no such things actually exist. And horny teenagers don't make decisions about war or we'd all be declaring war on US just to get bombed.

[shanejayell]

Aw, Lily. :) She gets VERY interested in Anita over time.

[yaseen101]

I have been planning to read Read or Die for a while now, this might be a good time to start.

[kamino_neko]

Personally, I prefer Read or Dream to Read or Die (and the former can be read without the latter - as evidenced by the fact that I've only grabbed Die recently). But Die's fun, too. Despite lacking the Paper Sisters.

[q99]

Yea. The Read or Dream manga is my favorite of the ROD mangas.

[kamino_neko]

I am gladdened to find someone else who feels that way. When I first discovered the series, it seemed like it was illegal to prefer it. (FTR, I'd rank the ROD series Dream>Die (Manga)>The TV>Die (OAV).)

[kd_the_movie]

I liked the anime of this. I was always surprised (and a bit disappointed) that they didn't air the anime on Adult Swim seeing as how they aired the ROD OVA a few times.