AX anthologie #1

Published by Le Lézard Noir in 2011, this first volume of the *AX* anthology brings one of Japan's most daring alternative manga collections to French-language readers. Akino Kondoh's cover art sets a quietly unsettling tone — a young woman with a dark bob reclines amid sweeping waves of black hair, delicate red spatters punctuating the stark monochrome with an eerie, dreamlike tension. It's a striking introduction to a series that champions manga well outside the mainstream.