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What Inner Turmoil Drives Akai Towards the Ultimate Battle The One...

Somewhere betwixt the heaven and hell of reality deep within the purgatory of the psyche lays the ultimate battle. Target: Akai-I Refuse to Die (The new and improved edition) is a post-apocalyptic fairy tale that contains adult situations, strong language, and violence. A satirical social allegory that touches upon subjects from bigotry to political/religious corruption to pop culture, layered with the author's8217;s love of history and things Japanese, Target: Akai-I Refuse to Die is sure to entertain anime and South Park fans. Wielding a wry sense of humor, Shield's8217;s message is: no matter how much your life sucks, there's8217;s somebody out there who has it a lot worse.



This wild tale begins in 2246 and spans a period of 13 years. In North America in the year 2259, honor is a joke, dignity is a sin, and sadistic perverts rule the land's8212;somewhat like today. Akai Hinode Devlin Arcadius is the angel with the eyes of a demon, a heroic hybrid of Miyazaki's8217;s Nausicaa, Joan of Arc, serial heroine Pearl White, and Marvel Comic's8217;s Wolverine. Dashing hero and damsel in distress rolled into one; she'ss cute, she'ss cuddly, and everybody wants her's8230; six feet under!

Sporting a weird cast of fantasy stereotypes like Princess Felicity Olivia Arcadius, heir to the Euro-American Commonwealth, Nimrod, the Black Knight, Caligula Gaius Tiberius, the Wicked King, and Prince Akira Bully Tanaka, the Handsome Prince, Target: Akai offers a bizarre and dark blend of Pythonian satire, samurai drama and spaghetti western, a manga without pictures, and a surreal mixture of philosophy and black comedy. A delightful read for all those who love the clever and bizarre. 's8220;Remember,'s8221; says author Shields, 's8220;insanity is only a state of mind's8221;



For more information or to request a free review copy, please contact the author at todshi@hotmail.com or through the author's8217;s website www.todshi.com . Target: Akai-I Refuse to Die is available for sale online at Amazon.com Borders.com BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.



About the Author

Todd Laurance Shields sprung forth into chaos in September 1961, in Covington, KY. Shields has published two fiction stories, Toho goes Shojo: Godzilla gets Sailor Mooned, and Cobalt Blues in G-Fan, a well respected Canadian fan magazine devoted to Godzilla and other Japanese fantasy media. He has also written commentaries on www.badmovies.org, a website devoted to B movies. Influenced by Hayuo Miyazaki's8217;s Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, Frank Miller's8217;s, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, David Lynch's8217;s, Twin Peaks, and the comedy of Monty Python, Shields began writing Target: Akai in July 1990.



Shield's8217;s hobbies are reading, model building, writing, philosophy, psychotherapy, movies, and surviving a vile, uncivilized world. The author presently makes his home in Ludlow, KY



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