Konami will begin serializing a comic version of Cross Fire (published by Koubunsha) based on the best-selling novel by Miyuki Miyabe. Cross Fire will be featured on Konami’s mobile web-based Digital Comics available through NTT DoCoMo, au, and SoftBank mobile phone starting Friday, December 21, 2007.
Cross Fire is a best-selling novel boasting over 1.9 million copies sold since its publication. It’s the story of a girl with the psychokinetic power of pyrokinesis on a mission to hunt down criminals who escape the law and punish them in the name of justice.
Readers enjoying the comic version of the novel on Digital Comics can take the plot in a direction of their own choosing. Digital Comics puts the story line and ending in the hands of the readers, enabling them to enjoy different plots and endings that stray from the original. Konami will release a new issue of the online comic every Friday.
©2007 Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
About Cross Fire:
Original Author: Miyuki Miyabe
Cartoonist: Yuyukan Fujimori
Scenario Writer: Shigeru Mori
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(1987) Received the Newcomer Award for Mystery Writers for her debut novel, Warera ga Rinjin no Hanzai
(1989) Received the Japanese Mystery and Suspense Award for Majutsu wa Sasayaku
(1992) Received the 45th Japan Mystery Writers’ Association Prize for Ryuu wa Nemuru
Received the 13th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Honsho Fukagawa Fushigi Soushi
(1993) Received the 6th Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for Kasha
(1997) Received the 18th Japan Science Fiction Award for Gamou-tei Jiken
(1999) Received the 120th Naoki Prize and Japan Adventure Writing Association Award for Riyu
(2001) Received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for Mohou-han
(2002) Received the 6th Shiba Ryotaro Prize and the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prize for Mohou-han
(2007) Received the 41st Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Namonaki Doku Her latest publication is Rakuen (Published by Bungei Shunjyu)
Plot Synopsis of Cross Fire:
“I am a loaded gun.”
Junko Aoki, who has the psychokinetic power of pyrokinesis, is on a mission to hunt down criminals who get away from the law and punish them in the name of justice.
One day Junko discovers a group of teens assaulting innocent people. Although Junko fights the criminals with her special powers, the ringleader evades capture.
Junko begins her hunt for this criminal mastermind in the hopes of fulfilling the dying wish of a victim whose last words were: “Please help her, she was kidnapped.”
Digital Comics is available through:
NTT DoCoMo: FOMA 90xi series, FOMA 70xi series
au: CDMA 1X : WIN
SoftBank: 3G
- A mobile terminal having a liquid display with QVGA resolution or more is required.
- Packet Flat-Rate Service is recommended.
- Digital Comics is available on a subscription basis for 315 yen (tax included) per month.
