New Book Release: Ripples

“Someday, I wish I could stumble across the memories of certain people that exist in the abyss by gazing at their pain, their sorrow, and the movements of their souls…”

We are proud to share that our new publication, Ripples by Hagiwara Rei, is now available!

Announced on social media earlier this year, the publication date for Ripples has finally arrived. It is available as either a print or a digital version, or you can pick up both through a special bundled option. We also arranged for a limited print run of a special RISO edition of the book with Cold Cube Press.

The “standard” version is a softbound 6×9 book with linen paper covers, while the RISO version is a slightly smaller format sporting soft touch covers, alternate cover art, and is printed in Light Teal with a spot Red color.

This is a sparse and dream-like work, from an exciting new artist working in the Japanese small press indie manga scene, which dwells on memory and family, and follows ambiguous figures that stride through the snowy lands adjacent to the realm of the dead. Ripples explores the processing of grief, and how cyclical mechanisms of human emotion map out a geography of memory inextricably intertwined with the natural world from which we spring. Prepare to be absorbed in a work unlike any other coming out now.

Ripples is translated from the Japanese by Anna Schnell.