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Comic Index
Comic Index NICE December 2007 Publishers
Comic Index NICE December 2007 Titles
NICE December 2007 Titles Beginning with 'L'
Title: LIFE GN (2006) #8
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LIFE GN 08 (OF 14) (MR) (C: 1-0-0) Product Synopsis: Ayumu and Miki get Ayumu's phone to work and a call gets through to Sonoda! But Akiraâ™s goons soon discover the phone and drag off a drugged Miki while Akira instructs them to start raping Ayumu. Will Sonoda be able to save them in time? Sell Sheet Keynote: Cutting, suicide, and high school have never been this real Key Selling Points: • Volumes 1 and 2 promoted via national consumer print advertising campaign in Girls Life summer and fall 2006; internet advertising targeting tween and teen girl sites-more than 2 million impressions • This gritty, high quality shojo series from Kodansha is filled with undeniable teen angst and self-torment and tackles real topics such as cutting, suicide, bullying, and gangs • Volumes one and two feature a postscript from licensed psychologist, Susan M. Axtell Psy. D., who is experienced in suicide counseling • Winner of the 30th Kodansha Shojo Manga award • 'The pain felt by the characters is palpable and affecting. The characters and their emotional reactions to situations feel real.' -VOYA • Shrinkwrapped with Parental Advisory sticker on the front cover • Ayumu is faced with common high school problems: grades, fighting with friends and a general feeling of isolation. Her method of dealing with the trials of adolescence, however, is decidedly more distressing. Ayumu is a cutter, one of an increasing number of teenage compulsive self-mutilators. Tortured by a falling-out with her best friend and dealing with a competitive new school, Ayumu retreats into the cold comforts of self-imposed social exile and self-inflicted injury. Matters are further complicated when Ayumu's manic and boundlessly irritating new friend, Manami, attempts suicide after a difficult breakup. To say that the subject matter is serious is a criminal understatement; the overwrought narrative will appeal mainly to the core demographic of manga readers. Luckily, the artworkâ'especially the inventive page layoutâ'adds a much-needed frisson. Frames and panels merge, fracture and dissolve, reflecting alternating extremes of tranquility and anguish. The cutting scenes are especially powerful, eschewing dialogue in favor of a dreamlike stillness in which Ayumu's chosen implement, a common box cutter, takes on the status of a magical totem. These frames, along with a genuinely haunting, semi-cliffhanger ending, more than make up for the characters' stilted language. The book concludes with a brief fact page written by a clinical psychologist that includes how to deal with cutting in real life. - Publisher's Weekly
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