In their time, Vertical Comics had a passionate fanbase of readers who considered the company to have better-than-average taste in licenses. This is one of the few critical duds they ever released.
FROM THE NEW WORLD (Shin Sekai Yori), based on the light novel series by Yusuke Kishi with art by Toru Oikawa. First published in 2012 and first published in North America in 2013.
PLOT:
In a Japan far removed from the one we know today, Saki and her six friends are enjoying their time together as they study to enter magic school. Their friend Reiko struggles the hardest to get in, so much so that her friends secretly start practicing their magic with her after school in defiance of the rules. She disappears one day, but Saki and pals have no time to linger on this. They all decide to take a camping trip beyond the school's boundaries, where they discover both changing feelings and dark dangers they had not imagined.
