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Using the above dates and assuming that no characters have a birthday early in the year, I think Yomiko's birth year is in 1976 (age 30 in 2006). Nenene was born in 1983 (23), Michelle in 1981 (25), Maggie in 1986 (20), Anita in 1993 (13).

Jiggy Stardust, a new Special Forces member, made the paper that made the seven Books possible. Called 'Skin Print', it could hold the complete human genome. It was only meant to be a temporary measure, until a proper host body could be found. he's another character crossed over from the manga.

Agents Human’s of augmented abilites. This includes paper manipulation and “deep” the ability to phase through solid objects.

Perfect Language Project A project of Dokusensha to do...what? Was crippled with the lose of the Hong Kong Branch of Dokusensha. This project was the main reason why Dokusensha were interested in acquiring the Mr. Gentleman Books. Part of the project involve writing a story that everyone would want to read. This seemed to be a great difficulty and led to Dokusensha trying to use authors such a Nenene in order to write the story for them. The story they came up with was about vengence and was poorly thought of.

Supplied by Cookie Pixie ''OK, what are the names of Anita’s friends beside Hisa? They never seem to be referred to by name.''

Ryuji Kitayama is Tohru's (boy)friend.

Chiho Iwata is the girl with pigtails. Tohko Shigeno is the girl with long hair and hairclips on her right.

The last two have sketches in the manga, along with Tohru. I don't think they're ever referred to by name.



PAPER JAM The ultimate guide to the ‘Read or Die’ universe By Jon Gutierrez (Taken from the Wizard Website, http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/anime/000212414.cfm) READING IS AWESOME. We admit that sounds a little hard to believe…unless you’ve seen Read or Die, where superpowered bookworms wield paper with their minds, and Britain and China struggle for world supremacy. Those who have seen Manga Entertainment’s explosive original Read or Die OVA series or Geneon’s R.O.D. the TV series, know reading is power—but they don’t know the whole story.

There’s an entire world of Read or Die nobody in America has read yet. Two entire R.O.D. manga series and the 10—count ‘em, 10—novels all by creator Hideyuki Kurata. There are hundreds of pages left out of the saga of the British Library and its star agent Yomiko Readman, a.k.a. The Paper. Besides being a whole slew of awesome adventures, they also explain a ton of the anime’s hidden mysteries. Curious? Hold on to your library card, because you’re about to find out!

SPOILER ALERT! The following pages contain all the plots, in a complete chronological order. Until someone licenses them, the only way you’ll get the whole story is through our complete guide to the Read or Die universe. Starting reading now, or…uh…you know.

Read or Die manga vol. 1 & Novel 1 (2000) Both the first novel and manga volume cover the same beginning: Yomiko Readman uses her amazing paper-manipulating abilities for a secret division of the British library, answering to her handler Joe Carpenter, a.k.a. Joker. The division, run by the ancient Mr. Gentleman, is in charge of collecting and monitoring rare books throughout the world. But to afford her book addiction, Yomiko also moonlights as a substitute teacher. On her latest teaching assignment she meets 17-year-old literary prodigy Nenene Sumiregawa just in time to save her from deranged fans Fire and Ink, the latter of which is determined to kidnap Nenene and keep her as his own personal author (he’s even tattooed her work on his body). Yomiko defeats the giant match-wielding Fire and manages to save Nenene as the building and Ink are destroyed by Fire’s explosive death. Yomiko is rewarded with her heart’s desire—an autographed copy of Nenene’s novel!

Novel 2 (2000) The opening of the world’s largest bookstore, the towering 40-story-tall “Babel Books” is cause for celebration both for Nenene, who’s a celebrity guest, and Yomiko, who’s been camped outside for days. But when the terrorist organization Red, Inc. crashes the party, it’s Die Hard in a bookstore as the two struggle to escape their captors—right down to a Bruce-Willis-style leap from the roof using toilet paper!

Novel 7: Supplemental Biography (2002) This later novel features two stories set early in the R.O.D. universe. Lucky Paper Days features a day in the life of Yomiko and Nenene not long after their first adventure, as Nenene has to adjust to Yomiko’s book-obsessed lifestyle and penthouse apartment. For the second story, the action switches to China, where four young paper masters, Hoi Mei, Hakuri Yuu, Rin Rii and Gai Kou are recruited by an enigmatic young girl with amazing martial arts skills!

Novel 3 (2001) This volume collects three novellas, each dealing with a different heroine. The first story depicts junior librarian Wendy Earharts’s attempt to get assigned to the special Library group with the help of her co-worker Karen and first introduces Ziggy Stardust, the Library’s resident paper expert. In the second story, Nenene has to adjust to fame as she is attacked by a knife-wielding stalker at her first autograph session. Finally, Yomiko uses her knowledge of Robinson Crusoe when a Library mission ends with her being trapped on a desert island. When Joker arrives with a rescue party, they find Yomiko has drawn a giant message in the sand: “GIVE ME BOOK!”

Novel 10: School of Books (2004) The only R.O.D. novel with a real title, it’s another flashback to a younger Yomiko, following her as she goes undercover as a student at San Geordi private school to find a book stolen from the British Library. But to complete her mission, she’ll have to defeat the champion in the school’s specialty—competitive reading, a.k.a “Readfighting!”

Read or Die manga vol. 2–4 (2001–2002) Yomiko receives a mysterious note from the previous “The Paper” Donny Nakajima, who trained her in the use of her powers before disappearing mysteriously. In her pursuit of Donny, she winds up at a school in Manchuria and finds not Donny but also his former partner Ridley Wan. Ridley reveals that Donny died by paper cuts, apparently inflicted by Yomiko—and now he wants revenge! Ridley and Yomiko battle over the Library’s treasure, the “True Diary,” a book that changes reality based on what’s written in it.

Then Joker arrives with the diary’s second volume, planning to rewrite reality himself! Yomiko realizes she did kill Donny—and blocked out the memory—in self-defense, when Donny mysteriously attacked her in the Library—and Joker reveals that he had used the diary to make Donny do it!

Back in the present, Joker tries to stab Yomiko, but Ridley sacrifices himself and saves the day. In the end, Yomiko uses her power to scatter the pages of both diaries across the world and everything returns to normal. Convenient, eh?

Novel 4 (2001) Yomiko travels to Britain for a special assignment to deliver a single sheet of “Gutenberg Paper,” one of the pages from the famous Gutenberg bible. But first, Yomiko meets Faust, a 1000-year-old paper master in a child’s body and a prisoner of the Library. Dokusensha, the Chinese counterpart to the British Library, sends two paper masters to get the Gutenberg paper; Yomiko and Nenene bear the brunt of a vicious attack from Dokusensha’s agents, but Yomiko escapes, paper in hand!

Novels 5 & 6 (2001-2002) Determined to get that Gutenberg Paper, Dokusensha steals the Queen of England! Yomiko arrives at Picadilly Circus with a fake Gutenberg paper to make a trade, but she finds only dead bystanders—murdered with paper! Returning to the library, she discovers Faust was in league with Dokusensha and has escaped to China with the real Paper. On his trail, Yomiko meets new library agent Nancy Makuhari, a.k.a. Miss Deep! Yomiko and Nancy travel to Beijing to infiltrate Dokusensha’s headquarters; when both of them are captured, Nancy uses her phasing ability to escape with the Paper. Yomiko, however, meets the leader of Dokusensha, a child-like warrior with a penchant for Kentucky Fried Chicken, named “Grandma.”

Novels 8 & 9 (2003-2004) The captured Yomiko is taken to Dokusensha’s “Paper Fortress,” a massive library carved out of a mountain cave in rural China. There she learns that Grandma is tens of thousands of years old—as is Gentleman—and they’ve been fighting for almost as long. While soldier Drake Anderson and Nancy assemble a strike team in China, the Gentlemen uses the alchemical power of the Gutenberg Paper to rejuvenate his body, becoming “Young Gentleman!” The new Gentleman, along with Drake Anderson’s strike team, destroys half of Dokusensha’s Beijing headquarters. Grandma escapes with Yomiko and the Gutenberg Paper into the countryside, followed by Drake and Nancy. [NOTE: This is the last published novel, but it certainly seems there’s more to come!]

Read or Die OVA (2003, Manga Entertainment) This three-part OVA sees Yomiko, Drake and Nancy fight the I-Jin, powerful clones of historical figures like Otto Lillenthal, the glider king of Prussia and Japanese electrical pioneer Gennai Hiraga, and led by non-conformist Japanese monk Ikkyu. They’re searching for two volumes of Mozart’s diary, which contain his unfinished symphony—a work so sorrowful that it will cause suicides around the world.

The trio travels across the globe, from a battle on the bottom of an Indian river to a paper-airplane/glider duel over the New York skyline. Just when the Library appears to be winning, it turns out that Nancy’s an I-Jin clone of the legendary spy Mata Hari, and she disappears with the volumes! In the end, the real Nancy battles her double as Drake and Yomiko try to bring Ikkyu to his knees. In the end, Nancy sacrifices herself, leaving Yomiko to explain to her now brain-damaged clone how her “older sister” once saved the world.

Read or Dream manga vol. 1-3 (2003-2004) Moving from Japan to Hong Kong, these volumes introduce the Paper Sisters Detective Agency, which specializes in cases involving (wait for it…) books! The three sisters, quiet Maggie Mui, flighty Michelle Chan and bratty Anita King are all paper masters, with Maggie manipulating giant puppets, Michelle wielding a paper arrows and Anita using index cards as edged weapons. The manga is made up of short, funny vignettes, mostly concerning book-hating Anita’s troubles with her obsessive sisters, who have an annoying tendency to spend the family’s food money on new books. The third and final volume ends with Michelle announcing that they’ll be acting as bodyguards for an author from Japan…

R.O.D. the TV eps. 1-26 (2004, Geneon) Nenene hasn’t been able to write since Yomiko disappeared five years ago. In Hong Kong for a book signing, Nenene hasn’t even reached her hotel room before it’s blown up by a disgruntled Chinese author furious that his novel can’t get published. Her publisher hires three bodyguards for her—the Paper Sisters—who follow her to Japan and move in with her, while occasionally working for Dokusensha for book money. Anita also meets a mysterious boy, Junior, who can walk through walls and secretly works for Joker!

After learning that Joker and Dokusensha are working together, Nenene and the sisters track down the missing Yomiko, who’s taken refuge in the Japanese National Library along with the clone of Nancy Makuhari. Years ago, Yomiko learned that the Joker had taken Nancy’s baby (Junior, fathered by Ikkyu the I-Jin). The shock caused Yomiko’s powers to go out of control, destroying the British Library and Gentleman!

Back in the present, the sisters learn that their pasts are a lie, as Maggie and Michelle were genetically created by Dokusensha, while Anita was created by the British Library! Joker moves forward with his plan, Fahrenheit 451, which involves giving the library complete control over world knowledge and using the body of Junior to resurrect the Gentleman. In a final desperate battle, Yomiko, the sisters and Drake Anderson invade the Library’s London headquarters. In the end, Junior’s saved, Joker’s a vegetable and Anita finds herself loving books!



Paper Master Info (taken from http://www.dreamsoftwilight.co.uk/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t6610.html)

There are 12 known Paper masters in the ROD Universe.  1: Yomiko Readman 2: Donnie Nakajima 3: Ridley Wan 4: Faust (Novel Character) 5: Magie Mui 6: Michelle Chan 7: Anita King 8: Sonny Wong 9: Hoi Mei  10: Hakuri Yuu  11: Rin Rii 12: Gai Kou

The last 4 are Novel characters, associates of China.

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