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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Rose Hip Zero Volume 1 by Tōru Fujisawa Rose Hip Rose Vol. #01 Manga Review. Teenage girl weapons expert with hardcore merc skills teams up with a tough-guy cop to bring down the organization that killed his sister. Creative Staff Story/Art: Tohru Fujisawa Translation/Adaptation: Takae Brewer, Kara Stambach. What They Say Appearances can be deceiving. There is trouble in Tokyo as a mysterious terrorist organization called ALICE plots against the government. Just as the police are tasked to bring these men to justice, they are given a “secret weapon” who happens to be a young girl, with a mysterious past, named Kasumi Asakura. She may look innocent, but walks softly and carries a big gun. Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers): An international terrorist force is knocking off Japanese police officers, thirty high-level officials to be precise. Because of this, the head of Division 4, Mr. Hata, has sought out the agency’s former top field agent, Kyoji Kido. Kido used to be directly involved with terrorist investigations but transferred to the juvenile crimes department after the terrorist group known as ALICE killed his sister. Initially, Kido refuses to return but quickly changes his mind when Mr. Hata presents evidence that links ALICE to the recent police killings. Mr. Hata is glad to have Kido back, but there is just one caveat to his return; Kido has to take on a new partner. Normally a new partner wouldn’t be a problem, but Kido’s new partner is not only a rookie but she’s also only fourteen years old. Kasumi Asakura is fourteen, even though she looks nineteen, and she is an expert marksman. It quickly becomes apparent that Asakura is more than she appears when she reacts to a nearby police shootout. Not only does she show Kido that she can handle a gun and the physical hardships of battle, but she also single-handedly takes out four armed men. Wait a minute, how can a teenage girl kick ass like a merc? Well that’s part of what makes this story interesting. It seems that Asakura, and the members of ALICE, have been trained and manipulated with some type of drug. Because the drug makes the user euphoric during battle, Asakura and ALICE have been too tough for the police to combat. Will this be enough to convince Kido that Asakura is a worthy partner? Why is Asakura trained like a merc? Why is Asakura willing to fight ALICE? Some readers should be familiar with Fujisawa’s art style from GTO The character designs for Rose Hip Zero are actually quite similar to GTO, especially the nameless thugs and the protagonist for both books. For Rose Hip Zero, the characters are well proportioned and the artwork is attractive. Fujisawa does a couple of interesting things in this book. First, the gutters are solid black during flashback scenes, which makes a solid transition for the reader. The second thing is the way backgrounds are used. Usually, when the panel only depicts one character there is no background detail, which forces all attention on the character’s posture and facial expression. Otherwise, the backgrounds are highly detailed when present. The only problem I have with the art is the inconsistency with Asakura’s character. She is supposed to be fourteen but she looks nineteen, kind of like the twenty-six-year-old playing the high school student in a Hollywood movie. I actually like Asakura the way she’s depicted, but I think she should have been made older in the story, sixteen I could buy but there’s no way she looks fourteen. The other problem I had was the inconsistency with her height near the end of this book. Throughout the book, the top of Asakura’s head comes up to Kido’s nose, but when Kido gives her a hug near the end, she only comes up to his chest. I understand the ‘protective older brotherâ’ thing Fujisawa is going for but the height change really threw me off. In Summary : This is a fun read, once you get past the stupid (ALICE) and overused (Zero) names, and ignore the fact that Asakura is supposed to be younger than she looks. Kido is the smart-ass cop with a vendetta, and Asakura is cute and innocent one minute and blowing away the bad guys the next minute. I think Kido’s personal tragedy is a good reason for him to want revenge and strong enough to carry the story as long as it keeps a good pace in follow-up issues. I still want to see more of Asakura’s background; right now, I’m not quite sure of her reason for fighting, unless it is as simple as wanting to save her friends. If you hate cop stories then I can’t recommend this title, but if you don’t mind the genre and what looks like an interesting story with a smattering of humor (GTO’style) then you should give this first volume a try. Content Grade : B+ Art Grade : A- Packaging Grade : A Text/Translation Grade : B. Age Rating : 16+ Released By : TOKYOPOP Release Date : December 8th, 2006 MSRP : $9.99. Tooru Fujisawa. Tooru Fujisawa ( 藤沢とおる , Fujisawa Tooru ? , born in 1967) is a Japanese manga author. His name is romanized as Tohru Fujisawa on the Tokyopop English-language Great Teacher Onizuka books and as Toru Fujisawa on the Kodansha bilingual releases. His first serialized work was Adesugata Junjou Boy , published from 1989 in Weekly Shonen Magazine . Fujisawa's best-known work is Great Teacher Onizuka ( GTO ) about a biker, Eikichi Onizuka, and his attempt to become and remain a teacher. It is a sequel to Shōnan Jun'ai Gumi! and its side story Bad Company . In 1998, Fujisawa won the Kodansha Manga Award for Great Teacher Onizuka . [1] Works. Love You (1989, Magazine Fresh!, Kodansha) (艶姿純情Boy, 1989, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha) (湘南純愛組!, 1990-1996, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha) (1996, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha) (1997-2002, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha) (2002-2003, Young Magazine Uppers, Kodansha) (特公, 2003, Monthly Afternoon, Kodansha) (2003, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha. Artwork by Taroh Sekiguchi) (ひみつ戦隊モモイダー, 2003/2006-2007, Weekly Young Jump, Young Jump Extra Edition Mankaku, Shueisha) (2005-2006, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha) (2006, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha) (仮面ティーチャー, 2006-2007, Weekly Young Jump, Shueisha) (2006-, Monthly Comic REX, Ichijinsha) (アニマルJOE, 2006/2008, Big Comic Spirits, Shogakukan) (あんハピっ!, 2008, Comic Charge, Kadokawa) (遠い星から来たALICE, 2008, Big Comic Spirits, Shogakukan) (2009-, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Kodansha) Shōnan Jun'ai Gumi! originally talks about the legendary biker duo Eikichi and his partner Ryuuji and their constant struggle to pick up young girls and finally lose their virginity. In order to do this, they decide to pose as fashionable, nice guys with no association to gangs or street fighting. However the story soon becomes more fight oriented as they can't help but make new enemies. In this manner, they soon enough get in even deeper trouble with the local street gangs, bosozoku and even yakuza. Bad Company tells how Eikichi met Ryuuji, and despite taking place before Shonan Junai Gumi (which in turn took place before GTO ), it was written during the final stages of the series as a prequel. Other well-known titles include Rose Hip Rose , Rose Hip Zero , and Tokko . Rose Hip Zero: Volume 1. Rose Hip Zero is a sequel or rather prequel to the Manga, Rose Hip Rose (published in Young Magazine in 2002), which focused on an amnesiac named Asakura Kasumi , who happens to be a girl assassin. The third series, Magnum Rose Hip , is currently being published. Rose Hip Zero takes us back to the mysterious origins of Asakura, but Volume 1 of RHZ focuses on Kyoji Kido , a Tokyo police officer who works in juvenile crime. Kido gets a visit from his old boss, Mr. Hata . Hata wants Kido to return to Division Four , a crack unit that deals with terrorist groups, and help them with the bold and deadly new international terrorist group known as ALICE , which has declared war on Tokyo's police department and is making assassination attempts on various department high officials. Kido left Division Four after his wife was killed in London by a bomb attack. When Hata informs Kido that evidence indicates ALICE was involved, Kido jumps back to his old division. There is, of course, a catch. Kido must take a new Division Four agent under his wings, the highly athletic and firearms proficient Asakura Kasumi. Kido refuses, but Asakura's skill at firing Kido's favorite weapon, the Desert Eagle , which most men can't even handle, gives Kido second thoughts. Many times, comic book reviews separate the narrative into story and art, and Manga is often not so much about plot and text with accompanying illustrative drawings. What's on the page exists as if it were drawn without a prose narrative first shaping it. Reviewing Manga is often about seeing and feeling what the Manga-ka draws onto the page, how he/she designs that page, and organizes in the context of other pages. Tohru Fujisawa ( GTO ) and his assistants have presented a tale that is about wide-open visuals not words. It is action scenes, gunfights, explosions, and posing characters. There is certainly a plot, and we get to know the characters, but Rose Hip Zero is not to be thought about. RHZ is like a Hollywood action movie - theatre of sensations. That's not a bad thing. Rose Hip Zero wants to be crazy, sexy, and cool, and it largely succeeds.

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