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Yomiko Readman (読子・リードマン, Yomiko Rīdoman), also known as "The Paper," is the protagonist in the Japanese novel series Read or Die and its manga and original video animation (OVA) spin-offs. [4] She is also a major player (but not the protagonist) in the sequel, R.O.D the TV. [5] She also makes a brief cameo appearance in Read ...
Their slogan is "Peace to the books of the world, an iron hammer to those who would abuse them, and glory and wisdom to the British Empire!" Yomiko Readman (読子・リードマン, Yomiko Rīdoman) is a half-Japanese, half-English papermaster (紙使い, kamitsukai), an individual with the ability to control and influence
Yomiko Readman (Papermaster) Codename: "The Paper" (in official English translations, sometimes rendered as "Agent Paper" or "Miss Paper") Yomiko is a substitute schoolteacher and secret agent working for the British Library's Special Operations Division. Her father is of British descent, but she lives and works in Japan (when not on missions).
Eve McLachlan of CBR praised the OVA for not letting down book lovers, and Yomiko Readman as proving that "the pen really is mightier than the sword." [18] Charles Webb of MTV argued that the OVA is a "pretty action-packed affair" and has a different tone than the R.O.D the TV. [19]
Read or Die's protagonist Yomiko Readman also makes a cameo appearance. The Paper Sisters and supporting character Hisami Hishiishi appear in the television series R.O.D the TV , but this series exists in a separate continuity than Read or Dream (differences include how the Sisters met Hisami and the origin of the Paper Sisters).
The series begins in 2006, five years after the "I-Jin" incident detailed in the Read or Die OVA. Yomiko Readman (a.k.a. "The Paper", agent of British Library Task Force) has supposedly gone missing, and Nenene Sumiregawa, her former student and best friend, is still in Tokyo after her parents moved to the United States.
Ruth B. Bottigheimer catalogued this and other disparities between the 1810 and 1812 versions of the Grimms' fairy tale collections in her book, Grimms' Bad Girls And Bold Boys: The Moral And Social Vision of the Tales. Of the "Rumplestiltskin" switch, she wrote, "although the motifs remain the same, motivations reverse, and the tale no longer ...
After discovering Dokusensha orders naming Yomiko Readman as the possessor of the final Gentleman Book, the "Book of the All Seeing Eye," the four manage to track Yomiko down to the National Diet Library, where she is hiding with an amnesiac named Nancy Makuhari. Yomiko is reluctant to greet a tearful Nenene and refuses to help them, but Joker ...