Written by Kazuya Kudo, Illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, Cover illustration by Darren Ching
I wasn’t sure what to
expect when Les found this for me in a Sydney Comic Shop. Pineapple Army is a Japanese
Manga series which started in 1986.
The storyline of this
particular edition follows four young sisters whose father, a NYC Police
Detective, has been killed leaving them feeling vulnerable and unprotected from
his assassin “the infamous Colonel Garland”.
The girls engage a
mysterious war hero, Jed Goshi , to instruct them in armed self-defence.
Amidst
lots of action things get momentarily unstuck when the youngest sister, Polly, accidently
throws her toy rabbit at the bad guys instead of returning a pineapple grenade
that landed near her.
After quite a bit of “Taka
Taka Takka” and “Braka Braka Braka” and a gigantic “RRBBBBOOOOM” Jed and the
girls are victorious!
Jed even repairs Polly’s
toy rabbit before disappearing over Brooklyn Bridge.
Well, I’ve read one
now, I don’t ever need to read another! Anne
