Lonely
Deaths' tenth
compilation volume Lie Thick as Snow (Furitsumore Kodokuna Shi yo),
created by Hajime Inoryū and Shōta Itō, confirmed
that the story will enter its final arc with the release of
its eleventh volume, scheduled for winter 2025 in Japan.
International
Publication
Kodansha
USA Publishing announced
that it will publish the first volume in English during the spring of
2026, thus expanding the arrival of this title to new readers outside of
Japan.
A
macabre case that marks the beginning of everything
The plot
follows Jin Saeki, a young detective with an arrogant character
who, after going to a break-in notice in an empty mansion, discovers a
Dantesque scene: the corpses of 13 children and a strange
symbol in the place. This discovery triggers a frantic search for Juzo
Haikawa, the enigmatic owner of the house, dragging Jin into an
investigation that will take him all over Japan and confront him with the
shadows of the past and the darkest of the human soul.
From
manga to screen
The work
began publishing on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app
in August 2021, and its first compilation volume came out in November
of the same year. Its popularity was such that it inspired a live-action
series, released in July 2024.
The
legacy of its authors
Prior to
this work, Inoryū and Itō had already worked together on the manga My
Dearest Self with Malice Aforethought (Shinainaru Boku e Satsui o
Komete), serialized in Young Magazine between 2018 and
2019, and later in Comic Days until 2020. This title reached
more than 1.2 million copies in circulation and also has
digital publication in English by Kodansha USA.
