cocoon
$35.19
- Paperback
226 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2026
Summary
A heart-wrenching chronicle of loss and resilience based on the true story of the Himeyuri corps of student nurses in WWII.
San and her best friend Mayu attend a boarding school for girls on Japan’s Southern Island, but their studies are interrupted when they and the other students are recruited to help the war effort as assistant nurses. Sent to the front lines, the girls must deal with more than just the threat of enemy bombs overhead. Stuck working in the horrifying caves of a fiel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781974716845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1974716848 |
| Author: | Machiko Kyo |
| Publisher: | Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc |
| Imprint: | Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 226 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 146mm x 210mm |
| Series: | cocoon |
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Machiko Kyo
Machiko Kyo started her career in comics in 2004 when she began posting one-panel comics online. These were published in collected form in 2008 as Sennen Gaho (Millenium Pictorial).
During the COVID-19 epidemic, she posted a comic diary of daily life on social media that was later published as Distance My #stayhome Diary and Essential My #stayhome Diary 2021–2022.
Her manga cocoon has been adapted into a stage play and an animated film. Her latest works are Orizuru (origami crane), and Rusuban Neko Kinako (Kinako the Stay-at-Home Cat), which she is currently serializing.
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