Limit, The 4: 04 - Softcover

Keiko Suenobu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935654640 ISBN 13: 9781935654643

Publisher: VERTICAL, 2013

Synopsis

Award-winning author Keiko Suenobu returns with another comic about the tragedies of school bullying and high school clique culture. A modern mix of 'Heathers' and 'Lord of the Flies', 'The Limit' is a survival story where looks and popularity may be the downfall for one average teen. When a traffic accident almost wipes out an entire high school class on a fieldtrip, the five remaining survivors must settle their social differences to survive in the Japanese wilderness.

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Review:

"I can't remember the last time I was this freaked out by a manga... Remember the hubbub over the 2002 non-fiction book, Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughters Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman? Parents had quite the shocking wake-up call about what their little girls could really be like among their so-called friends. Limit strips away all that made-up glamour and privilege, and throws the girls into a brutal 21st-century Lord of the Flies-survival-of-the-most-desperate-setting. Thus the nightmare begins... I'm still shaking (and with that cliffhanger-ending, can hardly wait to see what happens next)." - The Smithsonian's BookDragon

"Suenobo manages to write a scary thriller that's sophisticated and suspenseful enough to sustain an adult's interest; the story's occasional Grand Guignol touches add a welcome dash of camp, preventing the story from sinking under the weight of its Very Important Message. I can't imagine what will happen in volume two, but I'm looking forward to reading it... with the lights on. Recommended." - Manga Critic

"I realize that even acknowledging the fact that Keiko Suenobu's Limit isn't your average shoujo story can alter expectations, but that needs to be said right up front. While many conventions are adhered to, going into this manga blind is best, so if you can go ahead and accept that Limit comes highly recommended, do yourself a favor and pick up the first volume with a clean slate. Don't even read the synopsis on the back and your experience might just end up mirroring my own." - Otaku USA

About the Author:

In of spite her age Keiko Suenobu is a veteran and decorated comic artist. Accepted around the globe for her thrilling and often tragic tales of modern day high school girl troubles, Suenobu is considered to be one of the most challenging comic artists in the business. Born in 1979 in the southern Japan town of North Kyushu, this shojo (girls) comicker is a graduate of the prestigious University of Tsukuba (a university known for it's ties to the sciences and economics). Suenobu graduated with a degree in Arts with a focus on Mass Media.

In 2006, Suenobu won the Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shojo for her work on the series LIFE.

About this edition

• Publisher: VERTICAL
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1935654640
• ISBN 13: 9781935654643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192