Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Zodiac P.I. is a manga series created by Natsumi Ando, originally published in Japan as J niky de Tsukamaetestarting in late 2001. The series is published in Japan by Kodansha, and it was published in English by Tokyopop; the English Tokyopop version is out of print as of August 31, 2009.The main character of the manga, the "Zodiac P.I." of the title, is a 13-year-old girl named Lili Hoshizawa who uses horoscopes and astrology to solve crimes, accompanied and assisted by her male childhood friend Hiromi after he returns from ten years spent in America for college. Lili uses the Star Ring to tell fortunes and, at times, to transform into the disguise of "Detective Spica", in which no one recognizes her, except Hiro (such transformations are a common staple of Magical Girl manga). The ring was left to Lili by her mother, who used it previously to transforminto Detective Spica; one of Lili''s long-term goals is to discover what happened to her missing mother. Using this ring, Lili has to try to solve many cases including the first published one, about Chihiro, a murdered girl in her class.