The Killer Inside #9

Volume 9 of Hajime Inoryu and Shota Ito's psychological seinen thriller arrives with a cover that makes an immediate, unsettling impression: two faces — one drained to cold, fragmented grayscale, the other bathed in a vivid, almost feverish red — overlap in a glitched, fractured composition, both sets of eyes burning with an eerie crimson glow. The wide, unnerving smile splitting the red-toned face suggests something deeply disquieting lurking beneath a composed exterior, which is very much the essence of this series. Published by Ki-oon in 2022, this volume continues to deliver the kind of tense, identity-blurring dread that has made The Killer Inside one of the more compelling dark psychological manga in recent years.