![]() If Asano’s book resembles anything, it’s the rightly-maligned Ashton Kutcher film The Butterfly Effect, which took the premise of chaos theory and extended it into a story that defined buzzkill. ![]() The scene suggests immediate danger and horror, which is exactly what the following pages contain in this tale of a group of teachers and pupils who intersect in harrowing ways. Her hair snakes up in creepy tendrils, framed against the light that floods the world outside a sodden tunnel. Pay attention to your gut instincts, which should pick up on all of the unnerving peripheral imagery: the silhouette of a young girl stands shin-deep in flowing water. ![]() ![]() Don’t judge Inio Asano’s graphic novel, Nijigahara Holograph, by its glowing butterfly cover, assuming that what lies within is sweet or sentimental. ![]()
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