This graphic manga novel is the first in a series starring Loid Forger aka Twilight, Yor Forger nee Bond, and Anya Forger, an orphan girl that Loid adopted.
Loid is a spy who works for the fictional country of Westalis. Neighboring country Ostania is the main enemy of Westalis. Loid has a new spy assignment, find a wife and a child of school age and enroll the child in the prestigious Eden academy in order to get close to the son of an important man in Ostanian politics. This where Yor and Anya come in.
Yor Bond is an assassin. Her day job is working for City Hall. The people she works with don't know she is an assassin. She became an assassin as a way to earn money to support herself and her brother when they were younger.
Westalis is a rather traditional country and Yor has been getting some flack at work about not being married. Unmarried women are viewed suspiciously so Yor realizes she needs to find a husband or at least a boyfriend in order to smooth things over at her day job.
Anya is a telepath and this ability gives her a rather uncanny air and has resulted in several foster families returning her to the orphanage. So when Loid shows up at the orphanage looking for a child to adopt in order to fulfil his mission, Anya has all the answers for his requirements. She is small and claims to be six years old, but possibly she is younger.
Loid finds out he needs a wife because Eden Academy doesn't accept children of single parents. He encounters Yor while shopping for clothes for newly adopted Anya. They get to chatting and Yor learns he is a single parent and she asks him to attend an office party with her, posing as her boyfriend. In his turn, Loid asks Yor to pose as his wife and Anya's mother for an interview with the Eden Academy admissions committee.
The office party is first on the list and Loid is late at arriving, leaving Yor subject to the teasing of her coworkers. He shows up late and rather beat up and bruised from a spy operation and tells everyone he is Yor's husband and that he is a psychiatrist and that one of his patients got violent.
After the party is over, Loid is driving Yor home and the gang from the spy operation attacks Loid. He tells Yor the gangsters are all his patients. When Loid has to bash one of the gang on the head, he tells Yor it's a new, cutting edge treatment called concussive therapy. While fleeing from the gangsters, Yor asks Loid to marry her. Since this is what he wants too, he quickly agrees and uses the pin from a grenade as an engagement ring and they make quick promises to each other and declare themselves married. And Yor soon moves into Loid and Anya's apartment, much to Anya's delight. Because her fondest desire is to have a loving mother and father. And she will do everything possible to make that happen.
Next step in Loid's mission is getting Anya enrolled at Eden. Which will require jumping through a lot of hoops to get her accepted into the school.
I enjoyed this graphic novel. The art style looks pretty typical of manga. Although I am no judge of that, having very little experience with manga. The story is quirky and amusing at times and I want to find out what happens to this odd little family. I am planning to get the second volume in the series.
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