CONFESSION is a psychological manga by Fukumoto
Nobuyuki (story) and Kawaguchi Kaiji (art).
Two friends, Asai and Ishikura went mountain
climbing together, as they do every two years. They normally go with a group of
other climbers, but this time everyone else cancelled and they ended up going
alone. While climbing, they get trapped in a storm and Ishikura, who was
injured and thought he was going to die from blood loss, makes a disturbing
confession. Ishikura’s confession basically puts him and Asai in something like
a heightened state of cabin fever while they wait to be rescued.
My terrible synopsis aside…if you enjoy
psychological seinen, this is a great manga to read, you’ll love it. It was
well written; the ending was just perfect and may catch you by surprise.
It is only about 302 pages and can be completed in
one sitting (which you will likely do, as it is really too exciting to put
down). If you are reading it on MangaFox as I did, note that CONFESSION is only
2 out of the 8 chapters uploaded under the title (0.1 and 0.2). Someone
uploaded a different manga which is clearly by a different mangaka with it and
it has yet to be fixed.
- Shinji
