this is the voice of re:mote induction.Friday, July 09, 2004
remote - this is the first volume of what looks likely to be four released in the UK by the end of the year. Published by the Tokyo Pop company under their 16 plus age bracket, this is the start of a crime drama series.
The lead character is Kurumi Ayaki (the girl shown on the cover), a woman who is just quit her job as a traffic warden to get married. Unfortunately times are tough, and instead of the promotion her car salesman husband-to-be was expecting, he instead finds that he will be lucky to remain in work. Forcing her to try and get her job back, unfortunately there is no longer a job available in the traffic department – but as she has just come from a crime scene, there is a strange opening in the unsolved crime unit.
This puts her in the role of the latest assistant to the eccentric, gifted and difficult head of the department, who refuses to leave the base of operations he runs from his crypt like home and goes through assistants on a seemingly daily basis. Ayaki suddenly finds herself transported from issuing traffic tickets, to being the front line eyes and ears of this Inspector Himuro on a serial killer case. A murderous clown is leaving a trail of bodies, and with each body he leaves a disc leaving a clue to the next death. Putting Ayaki closer and closer to each murder as Himuro frantically tries to solve each new puzzle.
In some ways Ayaki is the manga girl cliché, big eyed and short skirted, running breathlessly from scene to scene. But she manages to show some spirit with her reaction to events around her, and her interaction with husband to be. Fleshing her out a little and making her more of a potentially fun character. At the same time the plot is also being built up, adding little twists and working towards the cliff hanger that makes this volume continued into the next.
The lead character is Kurumi Ayaki (the girl shown on the cover), a woman who is just quit her job as a traffic warden to get married. Unfortunately times are tough, and instead of the promotion her car salesman husband-to-be was expecting, he instead finds that he will be lucky to remain in work. Forcing her to try and get her job back, unfortunately there is no longer a job available in the traffic department – but as she has just come from a crime scene, there is a strange opening in the unsolved crime unit.
This puts her in the role of the latest assistant to the eccentric, gifted and difficult head of the department, who refuses to leave the base of operations he runs from his crypt like home and goes through assistants on a seemingly daily basis. Ayaki suddenly finds herself transported from issuing traffic tickets, to being the front line eyes and ears of this Inspector Himuro on a serial killer case. A murderous clown is leaving a trail of bodies, and with each body he leaves a disc leaving a clue to the next death. Putting Ayaki closer and closer to each murder as Himuro frantically tries to solve each new puzzle.
In some ways Ayaki is the manga girl cliché, big eyed and short skirted, running breathlessly from scene to scene. But she manages to show some spirit with her reaction to events around her, and her interaction with husband to be. Fleshing her out a little and making her more of a potentially fun character. At the same time the plot is also being built up, adding little twists and working towards the cliff hanger that makes this volume continued into the next.
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