"With the novels, there's still opportunities for a link to work out."
I can't see how that's possible. First of all, because as I understand it, the novels exist in a canon by themselves.
Second of all, in the "Read or Die" manga, 17-year-old Nenene meets and befriends Drake and Wendy. In R.O.D the TV, 22-year-old Nenene has never met them (she introduces herself to Drake, as if meeting him for the first time, and Wendy says, "Nice to meet you, Miss Sumiregawa").
And I don't want to spoil the end of the "Read or Die" manga, but it basically ends in such a way it could never have happened in the anime-canon for multiple reasons--has to do with who's with what character, what's happened to Yomiko and Joker, etc.
The only "link" between the "Read or Die" manga is that the characterizations are consistent. Different things happen to the characters, but they all behave consistently according to the situations they're in. Nenene's and Wendy's personalities are somewhat different in the TV series (in Wendy's case, dramatically so) but because they are both several years older and jaded (again in Wendy's case, dramatically so).
We can probably assume that the way Nenene and Yomiko meet are the same, more or less, since nothing can deny it didn't happen that way.
Now, on the other hand, I have read on a few R.O.D websites that volumes 1-3 of the "Read or DREAM" manga do serve as a prequel of sorts to R.O.D the TV, giving us a taste of the Paper Sisters' life in Hong Kong. There's even a scene in R.O.D the TV where Anita is flashing back to memories of her sisters, and one of the memories is a scene from "Read or Dream" volume 1.
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