Mars v.2 by Fuyumi Soryo -
208 pages
Kira’s fellow art student, Kirosawa, steals her
mother-and-child drawing, and uses it as the basis for an award-winning
painting. Rei confronts Kirosawa in a
senior classroom, but the thief will neither confess nor give up the
drawing. Rei is suspended for the
altercation and also attacked by a group of vengeful seniors defending their
turf, but he turns the tables on them. Kira
visits Rei during his suspension, and when they go on a date, they learn they’ve
both lost parents, and Kira learns for the first time about Rei’s twin brother,
Sei. When they witness a man jumping
from a roof, Rei suffers an attack, and Kira has to revive Rei in a gripping,
powerful scene. Kirosawa gives Kira’s
drawing back, but under the pressure of expectations to be a great artist,
throws himself from the school’s roof.
We begin to learn what became of Rei’s twin, and what plagues him as a
result. Great and at times powerful
storytelling with touches of humor to punctuate action.
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