{"id":1684,"date":"2008-01-05T13:58:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2008-01-05T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T14:00:54","slug":"ra-i-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/01\/05\/ra-i-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"RA-I, Vol 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ra-i-volume-1.jpg\" alt=\"RA-I\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Sanami Matoh<\/strong> (Tokyopop)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-59816-663-8<\/p>\n<p>Al Foster is a glamorous and successful private eye, whose life turns completely over the day a large crate mysteriously turns up in his office. Inside is young Rai Spencer, who wants to hire the detective as a bodyguard, although what a boisterous, boy millionaire with psychic superpowers needs guarding from all his skills can&#8217;t discover\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>And so begins an easy-going and engaging comedy thriller series as Foster becomes increasingly embroiled with the unconventional Spencer family, even becoming romantically involved with Rai&#8217;s incredibly high-maintenance sister Rei.<\/p>\n<p>This easy-going, jolly and thrilling series combines action, traditional manga comedy-romance and even super-psionic adventure with the detective genre and comes up with a gentle brew that has lots to recommend it. Neither challenging or life-changing, but tremendously unprepossessing fun for ten year olds and above.<\/p>\n<p>This book is printed in the &#8216;read-from-back-to-front&#8217; manga format.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1995 Sanami Matoh. English script \u00c2\u00a9 2006 TokyoPop Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sanami Matoh (Tokyopop) ISBN: 1-59816-663-8 Al Foster is a glamorous and successful private eye, whose life turns completely over the day a large crate mysteriously turns up in his office. Inside is young Rai Spencer, who wants to hire the detective as a bodyguard, although what a boisterous, boy millionaire with psychic superpowers needs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/01\/05\/ra-i-vol-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RA-I, Vol 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-ra","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}