5 minutes forward #2

Two figures face off across a debris-strewn Tokyo subway station — a dark-haired schoolgirl clutching a glowing green object and a long-coated figure whose clothes billow with unsettling intensity — setting a tense, atmospheric stage for this 2020 French edition from Kana. Hiroshi Fukuda's linework captures the familiar mundanity of a commuter gate and platform signage alongside something clearly, quietly wrong, giving the series its distinctive blend of the everyday and the uncanny. Volume 2 of *5 Minutes Forward* looks poised to deepen whatever charged dynamic is brewing between these two very different characters.