Mai, the Psychic Girl
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels
Book Type: Paperback
Book 3. This is a great anime/graphic novel we have had for over a decade (published in 1989). According to Wikipedia it is "the very first manga to be translated into English and published in North America." For a while, we heard that Steven Spielberg had picked up the movie rights. I don't know what happened to that, but the story is solid. We never found book 1, but it is easy to jump into the story.
From the inside cover (spoilers):
STORY UP TO NOW:
Mai, pursued by the enigmatic Wisdom Alliance and their hired pawn, the Kaieda Intelligence Agency, has gone into hiding with the help of Intetsu, a University student who has become the Psychic Girl's protector in the wake of her father's apparent death. Mai, however, understanding for the first time the awesome power in her possession, becomes convinced she is a threat to those around her and thus turns herself over to Kaieda. It is then that Kaieda reveals that he has no intention of delivering Mai into the hands of the Alliance; he distrusts their vision of the future and wishes to keep Mai's power from them. Kaieda gains Mai's trust by revealing that her father may indeed be alive.
Meanwhile, the Wisdom Alliance, prepared for Kaieda's treachery, called upon the talents of another psychic girl, a German youth named Turm Garten, whose cunning is matched only by her viciousness. Garten, jealous of Mai's power and eager to prove that she is the world's strongest psychic, travels to Japan to kill Mai.
From the inside cover (spoilers):
STORY UP TO NOW:
Mai, pursued by the enigmatic Wisdom Alliance and their hired pawn, the Kaieda Intelligence Agency, has gone into hiding with the help of Intetsu, a University student who has become the Psychic Girl's protector in the wake of her father's apparent death. Mai, however, understanding for the first time the awesome power in her possession, becomes convinced she is a threat to those around her and thus turns herself over to Kaieda. It is then that Kaieda reveals that he has no intention of delivering Mai into the hands of the Alliance; he distrusts their vision of the future and wishes to keep Mai's power from them. Kaieda gains Mai's trust by revealing that her father may indeed be alive.
Meanwhile, the Wisdom Alliance, prepared for Kaieda's treachery, called upon the talents of another psychic girl, a German youth named Turm Garten, whose cunning is matched only by her viciousness. Garten, jealous of Mai's power and eager to prove that she is the world's strongest psychic, travels to Japan to kill Mai.
