FRUIT OF THE UNDERWORLD 02 TP

One ill-fated high schooler takes on the underworld to bring his best friend back from death in this shonen manga bursting with giants of Greek legend!One Bite and You Can Never Go BackEver since the day Seiji climbed down a creepy dark well as a kid to retrieve a wayward ball and picked up an odd-looking pomegranate, he’s had to dodge an unending stream of near-fatal “accidents” that push everyone around him away—everyone, that is, except for his best friend Haru. But all that changes when their high school bus crashes, killing everybody on board but Seiji. Suddenly, rumors from his childhood about that fateful well reaching into the depths of the underworld take on a whole new light, and Seiji is launched into an epic adventure to save his friend—and his own soul.The journey into the underworld of Greek legend as never seen before begins in this darkly thrilling action-adventure, perfect for fans of Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan, Chainsaw Man, and Bleach! Aya Kanno is a Japanese manga artist best known for her romantic comedy shojo (girls’) manga series about defying gender roles, Otomen, which reached pandemic-levels of popularity before the latest boom in manga and was adapted into a 2009 live-action television drama in Japan. Her dark take on Shakespeare’s Richard III, Requiem of the Rose King, was also adapted into a 2022 anime.