Alice in the Country of Clover: Cheshire Cat Waltz #5

Mamenosuke Fujimaru's art brings a soaring, dreamlike energy to this fifth volume of *Alice in the Country of Clover: Cheshire Cat Waltz*, with a red-haired young man in black and a wide-eyed blonde girl in an ornate blue dress riding atop a fantastical creature through a bright, cloud-filled sky — winged fish drifting around them like something out of a waking dream. The two figures are posed back-to-back yet tightly intertwined, hinting at a relationship full of tension and closeness in equal measure. From QuinRose's story to Fujimaru's lush, detail-packed visuals, this is shojo fantasy manga doing what it does best.