Haikasoru 4: The Book of Heroes by Miyuki Miyabe (Trans. Alexander O. Smith)
The Book of Heroes
By Miyuki Miyabe (Translated by Alexander O. Smith)
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21 May, 2011
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The Book of Heroes
Miyuki Miyabe (Trans. Alexander O. Smith)
VIZ/Haikasoru
$23.99 USA/ $32.00 CAN/£16.99
352 pages
ISBN: 978 – 1421527758
There are definite similarities between this book and Brave Story but I enjoyed this one more.
Once again, we have a young protagonist who finds themselves caught up a mundane crisis that becomes entangled with supernatural matters; Yuriko Morisake is sent home from school, where she learns that her older brother committed a violent assault on his schoolmates, killing one outright, and is now missing. Nobody has any idea why 14-year-old Hiroki would do this; a popular, accomplished student, he doesn’t seem the sort to suddenly snap.
Unsurprisingly the explanation has a fantastic element, one that ties into what begins as a faintly disturbing cosmology that with time becomes much worse: