La Fille du vent
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La Fille du vent is the ninth book from Yoko Tsuno
comic book
series written by Roger Leloup
and published in 1979. (ISBN 2-8001-0633-6)
, where Yoko's father is experimenting with the creation of tornado
es in order to find a way of counteracting them. But a rival, Ito Kazuky, intends to use Prof. Tsuno's invention as a weapon and sell it to the highest bidder. Yoko is dropped near her ancestral home near Kyūshū
by parachute
to avoid Kazuky's men.
Once there, she quickly meets up with Aoki, an old time friend of Yoko whom she looks up to as a second father. Yoko, Vic and Paul are kidnapped by Kazuky's men and taken to his underwater base of operations, grafted onto the Yamato
wreck.
The trio escapes, but are unable to prevent Kazuky from creating a monstrously large tornado that threatens to kill thousands of Japanese citizens. With the help of Aoki and Yoko's father, they attempt to destroy the tornado using a nuclear bomb. In the process, Aoki's plane is damaged while he dives to the bottom of the tornado cone, and he decides to sacrifice his life for the sake of Japan, which was his long-time dream ever since he failed to become a kamikaze
during World War II.
Aoki's death deeply scars Yoko, who blames herself for everything that happened, and only the prospect of going into space and meeting the Vineans again cheers her a little.
Yoko Tsuno
Yoko Tsuno is a comic book series created by the Belgian writer Roger Leloup published by Dupuis and in Spirou since its debut in 1970. Through twenty-five volumes, the series tell the adventures of Yoko Tsuno, a female electrical engineer of Japanese origin surrounded by her close friends, Vic...
comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
series written by Roger Leloup
Roger Leloup
Roger Leloup is a Belgian comic strip artist, novelist, and a former collaborator of Hergé. He is most famous for the Yoko Tsuno comic series.- Biography :...
and published in 1979. (ISBN 2-8001-0633-6)
Story
Yoko and her friends are called to JapanJapan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, where Yoko's father is experimenting with the creation of tornado
Tornado
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...
es in order to find a way of counteracting them. But a rival, Ito Kazuky, intends to use Prof. Tsuno's invention as a weapon and sell it to the highest bidder. Yoko is dropped near her ancestral home near Kyūshū
Kyushu
is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its alternate ancient names include , , and . The historical regional name is referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands....
by parachute
Parachute
A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag, or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift. Parachutes are usually made out of light, strong cloth, originally silk, now most commonly nylon...
to avoid Kazuky's men.
Once there, she quickly meets up with Aoki, an old time friend of Yoko whom she looks up to as a second father. Yoko, Vic and Paul are kidnapped by Kazuky's men and taken to his underwater base of operations, grafted onto the Yamato
Japanese battleship Yamato
, named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was the lead ship of the Yamato class of battleships that served with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing...
wreck.
The trio escapes, but are unable to prevent Kazuky from creating a monstrously large tornado that threatens to kill thousands of Japanese citizens. With the help of Aoki and Yoko's father, they attempt to destroy the tornado using a nuclear bomb. In the process, Aoki's plane is damaged while he dives to the bottom of the tornado cone, and he decides to sacrifice his life for the sake of Japan, which was his long-time dream ever since he failed to become a kamikaze
Kamikaze
The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....
during World War II.
Aoki's death deeply scars Yoko, who blames herself for everything that happened, and only the prospect of going into space and meeting the Vineans again cheers her a little.