Doubt, Volume 1

Brief Description:
Reads from right to left in manga style.

Biographical Note:
Before making his manga debut with Doubt, Yoshiki Tonogai was an assistant to Soul Eater creator Atsushi Ohkubo. Tonogai followed up his hit horror series Doubt with another survival horror title called JUDGE, and has also contributed to the Higurashi When They Cry series.

Marc Notes:
Reads from right to left in manga style.;Tonogai's first work as both artist and writer follows six Japanese teenagers involved in an online mobile-phone game meeting for the first time. The game they love, Rabbit Doubt, consists of characters playing rabbits that must find out who among them is the wolf. The new friends get along famously for one night of fun until they wake up the next day to find themselves prisoners in a warehouse and tattooed with barcodes. What follows is one part Saw and one part Cube with a dash of Battle Royale style as the characters are picked off one by one while trying to figure out who among them is the wolf.;Rated OT, LV: Older teen.;Translated from the Japanese.

Publisher Marketing:
Rabbit Doubt-a mobile phone game-has taken Japan by storm. In it, players are rabbits who must uncover the wolf in rabbit's clothing before falling prey to its mistrust-sowing wiles...as well as its teeth. When a group of teen players decides to meet offline for fun, the last thing they expect is to lose consciousness and wake up trapped in an abandoned building, mysterious bar codes tattooed on their bodies, and a corpse strung up in front of them. To stay alive and find a way out, they have but one option-to sniff out the lying wolf in their midst. Will these virtual acquaintances be able to pull it together in the real world and figure out what's going on in time to avoid ending up as the wolf's dinner?

Review Citations:

• Publishers Weekly 05/13/2013 (EAN 9780316245302, Paperback)