Mirai Nikki #3

A bright-eyed girl in a green hoodie dominates the foreground of this 2009 Casterman volume, clutching two younger children close while a cast of shadowy figures looms in the background and a suited young man watches from the side. Sakae Esuno's survival-thriller manga is on full display here, balancing an unsettling tension between innocence and menace in a single striking image. Volume 3 makes a strong visual promise that the stakes — and the cast — are only growing more complicated.