The Bugle Call #5

Volume 5 of this Ki-oon seinen series offers one of its most quietly moving covers yet, with two young characters — a silver-haired figure and a blonde companion with striking green eyes and a red cape — resting together against the roots of a great tree as golden leaves drift through the forest air around them. The intimacy of the scene, rendered with delicate linework by Higoro Toumori from a scenario by Mozuku Sora, suggests a hard-earned moment of stillness between two people whose journey clearly hasn't been easy. If you've been following The Bugle Call, this 2025 volume looks like exactly the kind of emotional breath the series earns.