Kiichi VS

Kiichi is a boy born with a birthmark over half his face and an unsettling calm, the kind of child who walks straight at things other people flinch from. This sequel to Arai earlier Kiichi picks him up older and sends him out into a larger, rougher world, where his refusal to look away from suffering keeps putting him in the path of people who are cruel, broken, or both. Arai uses him as a lens: a child who genuinely sees other people forces the adults around him to reckon with themselves. Across eleven volumes it builds into a long, demanding human drama. Like most of Arai work it was never officially translated into English.