Boy's Abyss, Vol. 1

Self-serving adults and broken dreams push a teenage boy trapped in a dead-end town closer and closer toward the abyss.

Reiji’s life is as miserable as the small town he can’t escape. The most interesting thing that’s ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss?

Reiji’s mother is checked out, he’s stuck caring for his grandmother with dementia, and his childhood friend treats him like a lackey. Then beautiful, big-city pop star Nagi miraculously shows up working the counter at the local convenience store. Reiji is starstruck. When she offers him the ultimate way out of his claustrophobic existence, will he succumb to temptation…?

Ryo Minenami was born in Tokyo, Japan. In 2006, he received an honorable mention in the Shogakukan 58th Rookie Comic Awards, Youth Category. His first serialized work, Oboreru Hanabi (Drowning Fireworks), was published in 2009 in Moba MAN. Other credits include the series Himegoto: Jukyusai no Seifuku (Princess’s Possessions: Uniform of a 19-Year-Old), Hatsukoi Zombie (First-Love Zombie), and the one-shot “Hanayome Warashi” (Child Bride). His series Boy’s Abyss began serialization in Weekly Young Jump in 2020.