魔法少女サイト [Mahou Shoujo Site] #9

Two striking figures — a tall girl in a black jacket and plaid skirt holding what appear to be small blades, and a shorter girl in a dark school uniform clutching a tiny object — stand against a stark, shadowed background on this volume 9 cover from Akita Shoten's Shōnen Champion Comics line. The contrast between the two characters, one with purple-tinted hair and a cool, guarded expression and the other with rounded green hair and an eerily blank face, hints at an unsettling dynamic at the heart of Mahou Shoujo Site. Kentaro Sato's dark magical-girl manga continues to deliver an atmosphere that's equal parts schoolgirl aesthetic and creeping dread.