My Boy - Manga Books (SELECT VOLUME)An award winner and top seller in Japan, this provocative new manga handles its controversial subject with insight and sensitivity. Satoko Tawada, a 30 year old office worker at a sporting goods company, encounters Mashuu Hayami, a 12 year old boy, playing soccer in a park at night. She was treated cruelly by a former lover, he is dealing with a high handed and uninvolved family. Both are burdened with loneliness, and they sense that the other has

Wrongly framed and sent into exile

Without warning

Furuya's manga blends pitch-black humor with pathos and the awkward realities of everyday life to produce a quintessential tale of youth

If Arrietty can trust Shawn to protect her

New York police officer

and their secret meetings quickly turn romantic

It's the beginning of a rivalry that can end only when one of them is destroyed

His adorable little daughter Tsumugi barely remembers the cooking of her mother

but what can she do

God brings him back to life

there are only

and an interview with the game's creators