Saki and her schoolmates enjoy what they consider normal lives in a peaceful provincial setting. Only, their village cannot be of today; its customs differ from those of any known Japan. When the buddies set out on a fateful journey, what awaits are shattering truths—for them and for us.Past winner of the Japan Horror Novel Grand Prize and the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, genre-spanning novelist Yusuke Kishi garnered the 29th Japan SF Grand Prize with From the New World, here adapted with his merry blessing and with eye-opening pizzazz by rookie comics artist Toru Oikawa.
Pursued by foreign Morph Rats who do not fear humans as living dieties, Saki and her friends have taken refuge with the odious creatures’ domestic cousins, the worshipful Robber Fly Colony. Despite the assurances of Squealer, the hive’s prolocutor, the young gods are in mortal danger – not least from their own breathren.