R.O.D – Read or Die

Read or Die takes place in an alternate history world where the British Empire has remained a major superpower. The Empire’s continued existence is guaranteed by the British Library, an external intelligence agency working within the actual British Library and its Special Operations Division (the British Secret Intelligence Service, more widely known as MI6) is also often mentioned, despite Kurata’s editors (erroneously) telling him it no longer existed. The series follows Yomiko Readman, also known as “The Paper”, a superhuman agent of the Library’s Special Operations (possessing a “double 0” certification that denotes a “license to kill”, as in the James Bond series, although she rarely i...