I feel like I missed something. All of a sudden Mai and her Dad are on the run from The Wisdom Alliance, whose name I don't recall from the first issue, but it's in the "The Story Up to Now" section, so I guess I'll just go with it. I find that, sometimes, this is a problem in manga - it's a problem in translation in general, really. You're just not always going to get all of the information because some of it is simply culturally bound.
Not a bad issue, though the thing about manga is that there's not always a lot of action in each chapter. Mai hangs out in hiding while her father does some...stuff. There's a beautiful sequence in which Mai uses her powers to manipulate cherry blossom petals, and it's something I would absolutely love to see as live action. A quick check shows that such people as Tim Burton and Francis Ford Coppola have been interested in adapting the story, but nothing has managed to get off the ground.
We do get to meet some interesting antagonists in this issue, and Mai's father is revealed to be some kind of amazing martial arts expert. I'm sure it'll all be explained. Maybe.
"I haven't talked to you since those weirdos followed us from school yesterday."
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