Author: Setona Mizushiro
Location: GRAPHIC NOVEL YA AFTER
Audience: Young Adult (Older Teen and Up)
Mashiro Ichijo has a big secret to keep, but in high school, who doesn't? He manages to keep it hidden and still maintain his kendo and popularity. As time passes, it gets harder and harder to keep it up however. He lost his kendo match with Sou and his secret forces him to quit the club as the story begins. Mashiro and others have been noticing that other kids in the school have been disappearing and no one can remember quite who they were and what happened to them. When he is invited by a school nurse to a basement infirmary down a staircase that wasn’t there before, he will find out that he isn’t the only one in his school with a deep secret. The story goes into questions of identity, gender issues, conformity and relationships in a uniquely visual way.
This manga seemed a bit too far fetched and somehow gimmicky for me to really get into at first glance with its unusual love triangle. Once I started the book though, I was really upset I had only checked out the first one and had to wait another day to read more. Give it a shot and keep an open mind.
The art in After School Nightmare isn’t the best. It does start off with a few color pages which are nice looking but it isn’t the kind of book you will want to spend time going back simply to look at the pictures.
You can find the After School Nightmare manga by Setona Mizushiro on the CPL Catalog. If you enjoyed After School Nightmare, you may want to try xxxHOLiC by CLAMP or Angel Sanctuary by Kaori Yuki.
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