Blue Spring

Story & Art by Taiyo Matsumoto

A collection of seven short stories, all featuring male teens (mostly delinquents) in the final days before they leave high school for good. If You're Happy And You Know It, Clap Your Hands: disenchanted youths play a potentially lethal game on the school roof for prestige and kicks. Revolver: a three-part story in which three drop-outs unexpectedly come into possession of a gun and three bullets. Mahjong Summer: after losing in the Nationals, dejected players from the school baseball club attempt to distract themselves by playing mahjong in the clubhouse. Suzuki-san: a nihlistic kid is recruited by an older yakuza who’s taken a shine to him. Peace: a conversation between two members of a biker gang in a school toilet stall ends in murder. The Family Restaurant Is Our Paradise: a group of bored teens argue over the bill in a diner. This Is Bad: Hiro's on his way to a date when he attracts the unwelcome and unrelenting attention of a sociopathic punk.

Volumes

1 in the canonical sequence

English packaging

1 book, 2 releases

Publishers

VIZ Media

Also known as

Aoi Haru, 青い春