La Fille du vent

Book Series infobox
Series = Yoko Tsuno
Name = La Fille du vent
Type = Comics
Author = Roger Leloup


Background = Orange
Released = 1979
Genre = Bande dessinée
Pages =
Publisher = Dupuis
Last Book = "Les Titans"
(1978)
This Book = "La Fille du vent"
(1979)
Next Book = "La Lumière d'Ixo"
(1980)

"La Fille du vent" ("The Daughter of the Wind") is the ninth book from Yoko Tsuno comic book series written by Roger Leloup and published in 1979. (ISBN 2-8001-0633-6)

tory

Yoko and her friends are called to Japan, where Yoko's father is experimenting with the creation of tornadoes 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.

Trivia

* This is the first and so far only album in which Yoko's parents, Seiki and Masako Tsuno, appear. In other albums, they are merely mentioned by name or are on the far side of a telephone line ("La Spirale du temps").
* In this album is also one of the first hints that Yoko and Vic might be romantically involved. Professor Tsuno directly asks Vic to tell Yoko the news of Aoki's demise, because he feels that he can't do so himself.