Altaïr #19

Volume 19 of Kotono Kato's Altaïr arrives in a breathtaking cover that places a pale, elaborately armored young warrior astride an equally ornamented white horse, both draped in cascading gold-and-ivory brocade that feels almost too magnificent to belong to a battlefield. The lone red sword cutting through all that luminous finery adds a quiet but unmistakable tension to the image. Published by Glénat in 2018, this installment continues one of manga's most visually sumptuous political-fantasy epics.