Hatsumi Date

Magic is here, ready to store your data and keep your cell phone charged... endlessly. And the inequities of magic are just another tool for the powerful to reinforce their privilege. Hatsumi Date, childhood friend of Eika Fujiwara and Misora Toyama, is a journalist on the politics beat with anger issues and a tumultuous past.ALT
She’s chasing justice within the tangled organizations of the Tokyo underworld, determined to make things right no matter the cost. When opened doors create webs of obligation, Hatsumi’s access risks abetting the very corruption that she abhors. Given the choice between righteousness and retribution, what path will she choose?ALT
Hatsumi: I’m clearly main character material. Epic quest for justice, etc. I don’t know why this description makes me sound so dodgy. Eika and Misora: Well…ALT

Swimming against the current and swept together by circumstance, these six strange bedfellows have everything to lose.

(Luckily, we all know that being a main character means that you never do anything wrong.)

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