Yomiko Readman
Yomiko Readman is a female anime and manga character who features in Read or Die.
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Biography
Yomiko Readman (Japanese: 読子・リードマン, Hepburn: Yomiko Rīdoman)
Yomiko works as a secret field agent for the British Library, using her papermastery to thwart the British Library's foes and collect valuable books and documents. She was the 19th person to serve the Library in this capacity. Yomiko is assigned her missions by the British Library special operations commander, codenamed Mr. Joker. She often works with partners, such as the American mercenary Drake Anderson, the clumsy but capable junior field agent Wendy Earhart, and the suave wall-phasing gunslinger girl, Nancy Makuhari.
After recovering a rare book from a violent commando, Yomiko meets Nenene Sumiregawa and must save her when Nenene is kidnapped by a deranged fan. Yomiko must rescue her and defeat the fan's hired hand, a deadly assassin named Fire Inc. who is as skilled with fire as Yomiko is with paper.
Yomiko later was assigned a mission to be a substitute teacher at the Manshu Academy. It is believed that the Manshu Academy is a cover for a more devious operation, and assisting Yomiko is Wendy Earheart. The students are split into two factions, the superpowered A students and their teacher Iraka, and the lesser B students. Yomiko discovers Donnie Nakajima is still alive, and falls in love again. Nenene later joins the school in order to find out what Yomiko is up to.
Donnie turns out to be a villain in disguise, a childhood friend named Ridley Wan. He is trying to uncover the Underground Library by tricking Yomiko and manipulating her emotions. This will draw out the sentient Underground Library so Ridley may gain ultimate power and seek revenge on the British Library. Ridley blames the British Library for buying him and Donnie at a young age and subjecting them to harsh training, and for Donnie's death. Joseph Carpenter's communication is blocked off from Wendy, and Drake joins later to back up Yomiko. After Ridley reveals himself, Yomiko falls into a deep depression and cannot read or wield paper.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
These powers made her a papermaster (紙使い, kamitsukai) who were people with telekinetic control over paper and objects that contained paper. The ability was genetic in nature with Papermasters able to nullify each other's powers. In such cases, a stronger papermaster could turn their opponents paper into their own weapon.
Readman came to be an operative for the British Library's Special Operations Division (大英図書館特殊工作部, daiei-toshokan tokushu-kousakubu) that was the special operations forces of the British Library. It was housed in a giant covert underground complex beneath the Great Court of the British Museum.
Notes
- Yomiko Readman was created by Hideyuki Kurata and Taraku Uon where she featured in the setting of the Read or Die universe.
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Read or Die:
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