Crossfire (manga)

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Crossfire
Genre	Adventure Comedy Shounen
Manga
Authored by	Kouta Hirano
Publisher	Shonen Gahosha Dark Horse Comics
Serialized in	YOUNG KING OURs
Original run	–
No. of volumes	3

Crossfire is a manga written by Kouta Hirano, who is best known as the author of Hellsing.

[edit] Plot

Crossfire follows Heinkel Wolfe and Yumie Takagi a pair of Catholic nuns and assassins who work for the Iscariot organization. They call themselves "divine agents of earthly punishment". Crossfire also has cameos by Alexander Anderson. Also present is Enrico Maxwell the head of Iscariot but looks completely different than what he looks like in Hellsing.

[edit] Main characters

Heinkel Wolfe (ハインケル・ウーフー, Hainkeru Ūfū^?)

The unofficial leader of the duo, Heinkel Wolfe is often the lead attacker. Technically, Wolfe is a nun, but she dresses in the manner of a priest, but acts neither like a woman nor a man. She can be calm and level-headed, although still a fanatical Catholic. Her main weapon is a modified .50 caliber Desert Eagle automatic pistol.

Yumie Takagi (高木 由美江 Takagi Yumie, Yumie Takagi^?)

Yumiko Takagi (高木 由美子 Takagi Yumiko, Yumiko Takagi^?)

Yumiko Takagi is Wolfe's partner, although from first glance, it is hard to imagine this gentle, violence-hating Japanese girl would be part of a Catholic hunter organization. However, Yumiko has a split-personality. Her other personality, Yumie, is an ultra-violent katana-weilding killer whose devotion to the Catholic church approches that of zealotry.

The two personalities are easy to point out: Yumiko wears eyeglasses, while Yumie does not.

[edit] Trivia

Most editions of Hellsing - Hirano Kouta's most famous works - contain Crossfire at the end as an extra.