Boy's Abyss, Vol. 17

Self-serving adults and broken dreams push a teenage boy trapped in a dead-end town closer and closer toward the abyss.

Reiji’s life is as miserable as the small town he can’t escape. The most interesting thing that’s ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss?

Does anyone actually want Yuko to awaken from her coma? Instead of spending time with his mother, Reiji visits a normal, happy family where he hears a conflicting version of the death of his mother’s high school boyfriend. Then Nagi opens up about the tragic earthquake and tsunami that shaped the course of her life.