Happiness #5

Volume 5 of Shuzo Oshimi's Happiness arrives in this 2019 Pika Édition release, its cover rendered in hauntingly delicate black-and-white linework accented by unsettling splashes of red. The foreground draws the eye to two pale, hollow-eyed figures — a girl with a scarf and a boy gazing into the distance — while two more figures stand further back in the shadows, lending the composition a quiet, dread-filled sense of distance and longing. Oshimi's signature atmospheric draftsmanship turns even stillness into something achingly tense.