Cube Arts #1

From Tomomi Usui comes this manga mashup of real-world teens and a blocky digital world, and the cover sets the tone perfectly. A red-haired boy brandishes a sword at the forefront while his companions — a bow-wielding blonde, a long-haired girl cradling a pixelated cat, and a bespectacled kid clutching a blocky creature — stand their ground on a grass-topped cube cliff, surrounded by cube-shaped slimes, a zombie-like block creature, a skeletal sword-fighter, and a flock of angular blue birds soaring past a castle in the distance. Cube Arts Vol. 1 looks like a genuinely fun adventure for anyone who has ever dreamed of stepping inside a sandbox video game.