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.
Now twentysix, Saki and Satoru seem to be welladjusted adults. While they’ve never forgotten the cruel fates of their childhood friends, reforming the town’s severe ways has been beyond them. Change has a way, however, of crashing in. And in this case, at a time when those within the rope are celebrating their summer festival, change is going to rain on them violently!