We haven't seen a new Kyoko Okuzaki work in English in well over a decade, back in the glory days of Vertical. Naturally, when Kodansha put out a new one I had to check it out.
RIVER'S EDGE (Ribazu Ejji), by Kyoko Okuzaki. First published in 1994 and first published in North America in 2023.
PLOT:
At a run-down high school near the edge of an overgrown river, all sorts of teenage drama plays out. Relationships are created and split apart. Kids get bullied. Girls and boys alike struggle with sex and their bodies. In the midst of it all, Haruna find some comfort when she defends the class pretty boy and the resident model, even as they all struggle with their own personal demons.
