You think you got it bad going back to school? Japanese teen Kano not only gets beat up protecting his pal Hirose from bullies, he later sees several classmates fling themselves off the school building and die in his presence. And it just gets stranger from there, as Kano and his friends try to figure out the secret of the "suicide virus" in Alive: The Final Evolution by Tadashi Kawashima and Adachitoka, from Del Rey Manga.

Check out my review of Alive Volume 1, learn more about the story and the characters in this suspenseful shonen manga series and see if this new series is to die for.

Image credit: © Tadashi Kawashima and Adachitoka / Del Rey Manga