R.O.D begins with Read or Die, in which Yomiko, a paper user is the main character. There is Read or Die manga, novels, and a 3 episode OVA.


Read or Dream is manga and begins the story of three paper user sisters, Michelle, Maggie, and Anita. It tells of their adventures with their detective agency.

R.O.D-the tv- is the tv series and continues from the 3 episode OVA, but takes place 6 years later and involves characters from Read or Die and Read or Dream.
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Yomiko is a 25 year-old (OVA) secret agent with her code name as "The Paper," for the Royal British Library's Division of Special Operations (Diet).

She is very cherry and "out of it", but can be quite forceful when books are involved. She loves to collect books so much that her house is full of books.
She can make paper to anything she wants it to do, for instance make a huge paper air plane or fire paper like missels.

Yomiko's name is a pun. First, "yomi" is stem form for "to read" in Japanese. "ko" can mean "little," or "child," or "girl." So "yomiko" means "reading little girl." Her lastname, "Readman," is pretty straightforward.
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In the Read or Die novels, Nenene is a high school student. She loves to write and read books. She is a very good author and people love the books she writes. A boy who really liked her because she was so cute, tried to kidnap her. But Yomiko saved her. Hence how they met.

Nenene is deeply connected to Yomiko Readman. Nenene used to help Yomiko stay organized with her life.

In the R.O.D-the tv- anime, Nenene is 22 years old. She is an author. When she was 13 years old she debuted with her first novel, called "Kimi wa boku o shitteru" ("You Know Me"). She is now a best selling author. She has a very high pride, so she is very stubborn at times, but she is funny. The way she talks is a bit eccentric. She has a deeper side though and is the type who gets sad and blames everything on herself.
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The Paper Sisters:

Michelle Cheung-
Michelle is talkative and prepy, completely the opposite of Maggie. Being the eldest sister, she is relied upon by her siblings, but she is ridiculously carefree. She loves books to the extent that she uses the house money to buy all the books.

Maggie Mui-
Maggie is usually taciturn and not very talkative. She is content to just stand there quietly. She is the is the tallest out of the three Paper Sisters, and the second daughter. She loves books and out of the three, she is the brave one. She likes dark places because it calms her.

Anita King-
Anita is the youngest of the three sisters. She is the typical bratty, spoiled youngest child and she is sometimes a little selfish. Whenever she gets mad her face turns very red, but her sisters just say it's cute. She wants to be taller, so she drinks lots of milk. She dislikes books, unlike her sisters.
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Junior-
Junior is a mysterious boy who Anita keeps running into. She is friendly towards him and invites him to come to the class midnight meeting at their school. He comes but he doesn't join with all the people because he is shy and thus joins Anita later on. Junior is also associated with Joker (Joe Carpenter) and Wendy and has missions to collect the Gentleman books. Junior has the power to phase through things. His code name is "Staff J". But later he finds out that he is actually Nancy's son and the person bred to be Mr. Gentleman's new body.

Mr. Genlteman-
Gentleman is Joker's boss. Joker needs Gentleman's approval for the plan. Gentleman is a very important person in the world of politics, as he is the head of the Royal British Library's Division of Special Operations.

Jocker-
Joe Carpenter is refered to as "Joker" for most of the time. He is in charge of everything. He runs "Section A Special Library Force" that's trying to retrieve the Kikou Books. He is the main person in charge of the missions for Yomiko, Nancy, and Drake. Joker works very hard. He is very smart, but not very nice.
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Wendy Earhart-
Wendy works as Joker's secretary. She is usually bringing him tea or organizing papers. She is very tough and cute and kind. She also is a very hard worker. She is a ditz though, as her first appearance is coming into Joker's office and dropping all her papers.

Wendy's character changes drastically for the TV series. Her personality is the opposite of clumsey and ditzy and she takes on an important role in the opperations.