Les Fleurs du Mal #11

Shuzo Oshimi's unsettling coming-of-age manga reaches its eleventh volume with a cover as delicate and haunting as the series itself. Rendered in soft, dreamlike colored-pencil strokes, a bespectacled young woman with auburn hair gazes out with an expression caught somewhere between unease and quiet resolve, a red bow at her collar and a construction crane sketched faintly in the pastel sky behind her. Ki-oon's seinen imprint continues to bring Oshimi's intensely personal vision to French readers, and this 2018 volume promises the same raw emotional depth the series is known for.