Happiness

The latest foray into the darkest corridors of adolescent dread-with vampires-from manga master Shuzo Oshimi (The Flowers of Evil). Nothing interesting is happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. His life is a series of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst. The tiny shames of his old life have been replaced by two towering horrors: the truth of what will slake his awful craving and high school itself.

Volumes

10 in the canonical sequence

English packaging

10 books, 20 releases

Publishers

Kodansha