Synopsis
Ray was bred and raised to be a living, breathing organ donor. After her own eyes were taken from her, a stranger bestows upon her the gift of sight and something extra - she has X-Ray vision! Ten years later, Ray works as a nurse and moonlights as an underground medical doctor performing for-profit, off-the-book medical procedures. But her daily routine is interrupted by a chance encounter with an old friend that triggers Ray's memories of her hellish childhood. Ray will begin a search that will lead her back to the people who stole her eyes-and her childhood!
Reviews
Grade 10 Up–Ray started life on a farm intended for no other purpose than supplying body parts. When she was young, her eyes were harvested, but a mysterious person rescued her, giving her new eyes with powerful capabilities. She can see through objects and inside people, and she uses these powers for good and profit. The story consists of three independent vignettes about Ray helping others. She assists teenage robbers and a nameless man who shares her past, and helps a teen controlled by a parasite that makes her act like a nymphomaniac. This last story is more explicit than the previous two; there are a number of panels with upper-body nudity and a somewhat graphic masturbation scene. Ray's surgeries are unbelievable and over the top, but they complement the implausible, exaggerated action. The book as a whole is fast paced; there is not a lot of time for explaining characters' motivations or their setting. The action-filled art is bewildering but exciting. It is standard manga quality and style, but some scenes are particularly effective: Ray's entrance into the story is moody and dramatic. Silhouetted figures move throughout the pages, visually enhancing the sense of mystery. The story is neatly set up but does not answer all the questions it raises–one hopes that additional volumes will do so.–Sarah Couri, New York Public Library
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This quirky new manga is part crime noir, part girly exploitation and part medical drama. Writer/artist Yoshitomi focuses on Ray, a 20-something woman who was raised as part of a shadowy organ harvesting program. Though rescued from the "farm" when she was a little girl (thus avoiding certain death), she retains one mark of her past: blue eyes capable of x-ray vision. Now an adult, Ray works as a nurse and performs operations for people who can't afford any publicity: in other words, criminals. This first volume follows Ray as she becomes embroiled in a crime—giving a petty thief a kidney transplant—and then chances upon some clues about her own past, leading to a confrontation with her old captors and some elusive hints about the true nature of her childhood. Yoshitomi supplies a well-drawn and snappily written piece of work, showing a flair for sharp action sequences and seeming to relish drawing the explicit surgical scenes as much as the equally explicit sex scenes. Ray herself emerges as an appealing if humorless character, and the secrets of her back story are alluring enough to keep readers hooked. The scenes of organs being removed and other medical details should appeal to both the horror and CSI crowds.
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