Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Daphne in the Brilliant Blue, v.1

by Shiki Satoshi
Published in the U.S. by Tokyopop




Slugline: Bored teenager wants to be a secret agent.


This story is so resoundingly ordinary that I have very little to say about it. It's been decked out with various science-fiction trappings -- underwater cities, super-duper-jet-skis, government agents in scanty outfits -- but it's just another bored teenager with an unlikely job and a couple "oddities" thrown in.


Ai spends her time in school or test-driving high-speed jet-skis because her dad is a muckety-muck scientist and she gets involved in chasing some escaping terrorists and running into the special agents assigned to eliminate said terrorists (I'm sure there are "secrets" the government's suppressing that the terrorists want to educate everyone about) so Ai wants to be a secret agent and she's kidnapped by the terrorists but saves the day and... gratuitous boobs, hooray.


There's nothing particularly bad about Daphne, but there's nothing noteworthy either. This author also wrote Kami Kaze, which I found more interesting and I'd recommend over this title.



- Miranda

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Um... I think you reviewed the wrong show. Main character is not Ai but Maia Mizuki and she gets a job unexpectedly with a Bounty hunting company.

Prospero's Manga said...

We don't review shows, only manga. Maybe the anime is completely different?

- M