AKA: Nijigahara Holograph

Author(s): ASANO Inio

Artist(s): ASANO Inio

Genre(s): Drama Seinen Tragedy Psychological Slice of Life Mature

Suzuki is a troubled boy.

He's lived with uncaring foster parents for most of his life, alienated from the other kids at his school, owner of a cynical, unhappy mentality.

Komatsuzaki is a violent, unpredictable bully whose head trauma causes him to act in mysterious, inexplicable ways.

Arakawa is a no-nonsense, normal girl who pines after Komatsuzaki but can never have him. A teacher with just one working eye. A mother who committed suicide.

A daughter in an endless coma. Attempted rapes, murders, extortion, sexual deviance, and a freakish explosion in the butterfly population.

All of these elements are whirled together in a story spanning 10 years, a tale of blackness, pain, and apocalypse.

And maybe just a bit of hope and redemption. It's a spiritual cross between the misanthropic suburban malevolence of Kyoko Okazaki's Rivers Edge and the eerie mysticality of Donnie Darko.