After School Nightmare by Setona Mizushiro – 191 pages
Mashiro Ichijo has a secret, one important enough that he
quits the school’s kendo club in order to try to keep it safe. After school, a teacher he’s never seen
before takes him to a basement infirmary, telling him he must pass a special
class in order to graduate. Mashiro is
lead into a world of dreams where he and his fellow students appear with the
forms of their hearts bared, their inner secrets known to each other, and must fight
with each other to obtain the hidden key that will free them. Mashiro wants to become strong enough to help
his classmate Kureha Fujishima and to graduate from the nightmare class, and still keep
his secret safe during the day.
At turns haunting, horrifying, and hilarious, this manga is
crisply and beautifully drawn, with one drawback being some extreme close-ups
on action sequences that take a few views to decipher. The characters have issues with their bodies
and psyches, and their stories, along with their tangle of attractions and
repulsions, make for gripping reading.
I’m ready to check out the next volume.
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