Having set up a tale of ritual scapegoating and relationships with a genius loci from the ancient past that bleeds into the present, Monster-Colored Island, Volume 2, turn up the volume on the thin, wavering line between then and now.

Kon and Furuka, both strangers to the people on the island, take refuge in each other, while the island beckons them deeper into it’s secrets. They enter a cave that should not be entered, and find a fantastically large pile of shells. They fall even deeper into the cave, trying to avoid who or whatever is watching them. But more mysteries are occurring. 

A new player enters the game and there’s no way to know if she will uncover things that need to be uncovered, or end up being hidden away herself.

This manga is very much a tone pone. Moody, creepy, slightly overblown with analogies to puberty and self-awareness, but mostly just creepy. I feel like both art and story are trying to do too much as once and are suffering ever so slightly.  Having read it twice now, I’m still not sure what I think of it. I guess I’m just going to keep reading, and see. ^_^

Ratings: 

Art – 8
Story  – 7
Characters – 7 
Service – There is, yes
Yuri – 9

Overall – 8

Volume 2 is out now from Yen Press!