Smells Like Green Spirit

    (Kodansha, 2026)

(From the publisher)

Enemies-turned-friends open Pandora’s Box together and search for a place where they can live their truth in this complete-in-one omnibus coming-of-age manga A must-read for older teens and adult fans of seinen and LGBTQ+ series like Welcome Back Alice, The Flowers of Evil, and Boys Run the RiotPeeking in Pandora’s box is not for the faint of heart.Viciously bullied for being gay, junior high schooler Mishima struggles to belong in his hopelessly rural hometown.

In fact, the only time he really feels alive is when he dolls himself up with a stolen tube of his single-mother’s lipstick.

But that pocket of joy is forever changed when he loses the lipstick, only to find soccer team ace Kirino, one of Mishima’s worst tormenters, trying it on in secret on their school roof. So begins a bittersweet summer of searching for a place where the two can be their true selves, but Pandora’s box is not always so easily opened…
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