Cage of Eden #2

Yoshinobu Yamada's survival series charges forward with this 2011 volume, and the cover sets an urgent tone immediately — two young women, one in a blue school uniform and one in a white top and dark skirt, sprint in wide-eyed alarm against a blazing red backdrop of silhouetted palm trees and flames. The sheer panic on their faces and the fiery chaos surrounding them capture exactly the kind of desperate, high-stakes energy that makes *Cage of Eden* such a compelling read. With "Episode 5: Lord of the Underworld" among the contents, Volume 2 promises that the island's dangers are only getting more intense.