The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper's Mantan Web site gives more details about the R.O.D. Rehabilitation manga that will launch in the third issue of Shueisha 's new Super Dash & Go! magazine on Saturday. As the magazine's editors had previously revealed, the manga features an eyeglasses-wearing Yomiko, but "she is not the Yomiko" from the previous Read or Die light novel series, manga, and various anime projects.

The new manga is a side story that is much darker than the Read or Die stories that came before it. It is set in a world where the death of books has been declared after the last printing press shuts down. However, there are bibliophiles who have rejected this era and have established a city state of their own called "Bibliopolis." The heroine is named Yomiko, but with different kanji (読魅子) in her name and a darker side.