Now, after a long hiatus, original artist Cagri has re-joined forces with the legendary writer J.R. Tickle-Torture Academy quickly established itself as a classic among MTJ Publishing's early titles. And Emi Kobayashi, the girl Ryu originally was sent to find, is now playing a series of strange power-games of her own. The Academy's sexy founder was imprisoned by a renegade teacher and tickled into relinquishing its ownership teen idol-singer Yumi Yamada was revealed to be not merely an Academy slave but a rival yakuza-employee herself. Her mission was to find and deliver a mysterious prisoner to her yakuza employers, but when things went awry, Ryu-chan became a prisoner herself, a barefoot tickle-slave forced to serve as a helpless plaything to the Academy's students.īut her story didn't end there. Years ago, a tough street-girl named Ryuko Uchida entered the Takada Academy, a strange Tokyo school set up to instruct female students in the darkest and strangest of arts: tickle-torture.