Native Peoples Volume 6, Number 2, Winter, 1993

Premiering May 13, 2002, on BBC1, the British espionage-adventure series Spooks pitted undercover agents of the country's MI-5 squad (the U.K. equivalent of the NSA) against international troublemakers and terrorists. Though extremely violent and almost unbearably tense, the series scored its biggest points by dramatizing the pressures brought to bear against "average" people engaged in a top-secret profession: For example, one of the many plot threads involved the love life of Senior Case Officer...

Keiichi Morisato is trying to order noodles when he ends up misdialing and accidentally calling none other than the Goddess Relief Office. As a result of his call, the beautiful goddess Bellandy appears before him and offers to grant him a single wish. Keiichi finds the ethereal creature attractive, to say the least, and blurts his wish for her to stay with him forever. And just like that, the wish is granted. It may seem like a fantasy come true for the young man, but in reality, it creates a somewhat...