BOY & BEAST GN (2025)

"From Mamoru Hosoda, acclaimed director of the smash-hit film and YALSA 2015 Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for Teens selection Wolf Children, comes the first volume of the manga adaptation of Hosoda's biggest box office triumph to date: The Boy and the Beast! Fleeing tragedy and mistreatment, a young boy named Ren hides among the crowds in Tokyo's busy Shibuya district.His efforts to run away are more successful than he realizes when he ends up in the world of the beasts! A rough-living bear named Kumatetsu gives Ren a new life and a new name-Kyuta-but is Kumatetsu really up to the job of being a mentor?"

"Having accidentally wandered into the beast world of Jutengai, Kyuta has gotten himself a master - Kumatetsu. But it turns out Kumatetsu's not quite as good at teaching as he is at brawling. The Grandmaster sends teacher and student alike on a pilgrimage, asking all the wisest beasts in the world a simple question: What is true strength? But are the boy and the beast ready for the answer?"

"Kyuta has been spending more and more time back in the human world. He's about to take an exam that will let him go to college! But does this mean saying goodbye to his master and his life in Jutengai forever? Can he be a part of both worlds, or will he have to choose?"

"Ichirohiko has suffered, caught in the space between human and beast, and has succumbed to the darkness. Kyuta leaves Kumatetsu, on the brink of death, in the care of the others and heads to the human world in pursuit of Ichirohiko. It's the start of a life and death battle in the streets of Shibuya!"