Beastars #18

Paru Itagaki's celebrated seinen series reaches its eighteenth volume, and this Ki-oon edition puts two of the series' anthropomorphic characters front and center — a wide-eyed canine and a tense-looking wolf, both dressed in casual streetwear and posed back-to-back against the bold typographic "BEASTARS" backdrop. The expressive, slightly unhinged energy on their faces captures exactly the mix of tension and dark comedy that makes this series so distinctive. If you've been following this world where predator and prey navigate an uneasy society, volume 18 looks primed to keep that charged atmosphere going strong.