Blue Heaven

A short, three-volume thriller from Tsutomu Takahashi. A young man named Aritomo survives a yacht accident in open ocean and gets pulled aboard a passing cargo ship. What looks like rescue turns into a slow trap: the crew has its own reasons for being out there, and the rest of the survivors aren't safe. It's a confined, paranoid story set almost entirely on water, more about who you can trust on a steel deck in the middle of nowhere than about any one villain. Takahashi draws it with the same heavy ink and grimy realism as his longer works, but the tight page count keeps it lean. It moves fast and doesn't outstay its welcome.