I LOVE YOU, SHION. MORE THAN ANYTHING.
Risking everything, Shion and Rat have finally made it to the top floor of the Correctional Facility, where Shion is finally reunited with Safu! But has Shion's rescue attempt come too late? Is the Safu he once knew gone forever? As Rat rushes to find a way out, Shion must make a heartbreaking decision: Leave, saving Rat and himself from capture, or stay, and find another solution? Either way, Shion may lose a friend, or his own life! The tale of No. 6 builds to a climax in its second-to-last volume!
Includes special bonus story!
Story Locale: No. 6
Series Overview: When Shion, a privileged boy, gives shelter to an urchin for the night, the city he once called home forces him into the ghettos for insubordination. Four years later, an epidemic breaks out across the city. Shion, along with the help of the urchin Rat, must clear his name, even if it means exposing the ugly truth behind the perfect city No. 6.
Atsuko Asano, born in 1954 in Okayama Prefecture, is a Japanese writer who has penned the children's series Telepathy Shojo Ran, and the manga series The Manzai Comics. She began writing childrens novels while attending Aoyama Gakuin College, and majored in literature. Hotaru-kan Monogatari was her first novel. In 1997 she recieved the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 for her book series, Battery, which later went on to win the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture award in 2005, and has been adapted into a film.
ISBN: 9781612625782
Author: Atsuko Asano
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 15 August 2014
Publisher: Kodansha
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (mm): 193 x 131 x 16
Weight (kg): 0.2
