| Author | Roger Leloup |
|---|---|
| Genre | Bande dessinée |
| Publisher | Dupuis |
| Preceded by | 'Les Titans (1978) |
| Followed by | '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)
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.
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