Description

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Award-winning author Keiko Suenobu returns with this New York Times manga bestseller set amid pervasive school bullying and high school clique culture. The Limit is a girls’ survival story where average teen Mizuki Konno is thrown into the turbulent crucible of adolescent attractiveness and popularity that may prove her downfall. This present-day blending of Mean Girls and Lord of the Flies is set in motion when a bus accident almost wipes out her entire high school class on a field trip, forcing the Mizuki and four other survivors to settle their social differences or be overwhelmed by the wilderness. In this final volume, the girls appear to be on their way out of their predicament when a new and more menacing threat emerges. Will Mizuki and crew make it to safety? Or will these new obstacles take them down by tapping into their individual vulnerabilities?

About the Author

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In of spite her age Keiko Suenobu is a veteran and decorated comic artist. Accepted around the globe for her thrilling and often tragic tales of modern day high school girl troubles, Suenobu is considered to be one of the most challenging comic artists in the business. Born in 1979 in the southern Japan town of North Kyushu, this shojo (girls) comicker is a graduate of the prestigious University of Tsukuba (a university known for it's ties to the sciences and economics). Suenobu graduated with a degree in Arts with a focus on Mass Media.

In 2006, Suenobu won the Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shojo for her work on the series LIFE.