A woman who loves books so much she became a secret agent for them, wielding paper as a weapon because her obsession made it real. The OVA treats this premise with complete sincerity, never winking at the absurdity, which makes every fight feel like a tiny war fought between two kinds of belief. You watch someone whose superpower is literally made of passion defend stories against people who want to erase them.
Yomiko Readman lives a double life. She is a near-sighted book lover who works as a substitute at a high school in Japan, but she is also a secret agent for the British Library's Special Operations Division. Her codename is "The Paper," after her supernatural power to shape paper into anything she can picture, from tools to weapons. Her enemy is the IJIN Army, a force of reincarnated historical figures who want to control the world. Alongside her mysterious partner Ms. Deep, Yomiko travels the globe to uncover the secret behind these reborn legends. The three-episode OVA mixes action, drama, mystery and science fiction.
