La Danse du Soleil et de la Lune #6

Volume 6 of Daruma Matsuura's La Danse du Soleil et de la Lune (supervised by Toshiki Mizutani and Noboru Hisayama) arrives from Ki-oon Seinen with a cover that is quietly breathtaking — two figures, a stern-faced man in a kimono and a wide-eyed young woman, lean forehead-to-forehead in a moment that crackles with both tenderness and tension, while a gleaming katana cuts across the foreground between them. That blade says everything about the world they inhabit: intimacy and danger, inseparable. If this seinen series hasn't found its way onto your shelf yet, this 2024 volume makes a compelling case.