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サイコバスターズ / Psycho Busters (Novel) #1
Psycho Busters: The Novel Book One
The action-packed fantasy novel that inspired the popular manga series!
With his family off in Hawaii for a week, fourteen-year-old Kakeru is looking forward to a little peace and quiet—until he discovers a strange, beautiful girl in his room. Her name is Ayano, and she's in big trouble. Gifted with extraordinary psychic powers, Ayano is on the run from a shadow organization that wants to exploit her talents for its own dark ends.
But how can a short, skinny, hopelessly ordinary junior high school student help Ayano and her equally talented friends? With a gang of ruthless henchmen and dangerous psychics closing in fast, Kakeru is about to discover a few surprises about Maybe he's not so ordinary after all; perhaps he's even the hero of his own dreams. He can only hope, since the biggest, baddest psychic-hunter of all is coming after him for a life-or-death showdown.
With his family off in Hawaii for a week, fourteen-year-old Kakeru is looking forward to a little peace and quiet—until he discovers a strange, beautiful girl in his room. Her name is Ayano, and she's in big trouble. Gifted with extraordinary psychic powers, Ayano is on the run from a shadow organization that wants to exploit her talents for its own dark ends.
But how can a short, skinny, hopelessly ordinary junior high school student help Ayano and her equally talented friends? With a gang of ruthless henchmen and dangerous psychics closing in fast, Kakeru is about to discover a few surprises about Maybe he's not so ordinary after all; perhaps he's even the hero of his own dreams. He can only hope, since the biggest, baddest psychic-hunter of all is coming after him for a life-or-death showdown.
192 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2004
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Yuya Aoki
57 books20 followers青樹佑夜
Real Name: Shin Kibayashi
Pseudonym of Tadashi Agi, Yuma Ando, Joji Arimori, Hiroaki Igano, Ryo Ryumon
Blood Type: O
亜樹 直 Agi Tadashi is a Japanese manga storywriter, novelist and screenwriter. His original name is Shin Kibayashi (樹林 伸 Kibayashi Shin). He was born in 1962 in Tokyo, and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi Senior High School and Waseda University School of Economics & Political Science. The penname "Tadashi Agi" is shared with his sister. Under the name Yuma Ando, he received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for writing Kunimitsu no Matsuri.
Real Name: Shin Kibayashi
Pseudonym of Tadashi Agi, Yuma Ando, Joji Arimori, Hiroaki Igano, Ryo Ryumon
Blood Type: O
亜樹 直 Agi Tadashi is a Japanese manga storywriter, novelist and screenwriter. His original name is Shin Kibayashi (樹林 伸 Kibayashi Shin). He was born in 1962 in Tokyo, and graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi Senior High School and Waseda University School of Economics & Political Science. The penname "Tadashi Agi" is shared with his sister. Under the name Yuma Ando, he received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for writing Kunimitsu no Matsuri.
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May 5, 2015
I saw this coming a mile away. Yeah, I agree with the author, he sure did make this novel sound and feel like a manga... One of those ecchi kind of male wish fulfillment manga where we reveal that these people are ELITES of some type BUT WAIT!! The MC of course have to be SUPER DEE SUPER ELITE!! Also he's hinted at being a reincarnation of Jesus Christ... I shit you not. I don't know if it's a translation thing where it's supposed to be Buddha or what and Del Rey decided we couldn't relate, OR that really the author was going for Jesus. Considering Del Rey is pretty good about this.... I say it was Jesus.So of course you have the casual gender essentialist misogyny going on: Girls being weaker, women getting themselves into situations where they are SUPPOSED to be bad ass but.. nope not this time for some shitty reason. Also the MC is a creepster that reads porn and calls Ayano 'childlike' when she sleeps and wants to stare at her...
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