OTHERWORLD BARBARA HC (2025)

"In the second (and concluding) volume in Moto Hagio's award-winning science fiction saga, the poltergeist phenomena has become more intense as Nanami and Kiriya both travel to Engaru, where Aoba has dreamt of the island of Barbara for seven years. In the end, it comes down to a father's frantic efforts to save the life of his son. But... which son? And who is the dreamer and who is the dreamed? Can the dreamer become the dreamed, and the dreamed the dreamer?"

"In the first volume (of two) of Moto Hagio's Otherworld Barbara, Tokio discovers a phantom island named Barbara, there's a missing geneticist, an eccentric clergyman, a grandmother granted temporary youth, a psychologist killed by a freak tornado and more. Hagio offers a sci-fi explanation for these seemingly random paranormal elements, and makes it all matter with believable characters in complex and subtle relationships. This book won the 'Nebula Award of Japan' (Nihon SF Taish Award) in 2006."