Blank Space #1

Kon Kumakura's Blank Space arrives with a cover that immediately draws you in — two young characters, one in a school uniform with a backpack, share an unusually close moment amid a swirl of tilted bookshelves and scattered pages. The pale, wide-eyed figure leaning against the dark-haired student gives the whole composition a quietly strange, tender quality that feels unlike anything else on shelves in 2023. Published by Casterman under the Sakka imprint, this first volume promises the kind of intimate, off-kilter storytelling that makes manga readers stop and linger.