Nijigahara Holograph
manga series
Nijigahara Holograph (Japanese: 虹ヶ原ホログラフ, Hepburn: Nijigahara Horogurafu; lit. 'Rainbow Field Holograph') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It is about the events that occur after a girl is thrown into a well by her classmates and their lives afterwards. The manga was serialized in Ohta Publishing's Quick Japan magazine from 2003 to 2005. It is licensed in North America by Fantagraphics Books.
Plot
The story jumps back and forth between years and events, allowing the reader to piece together how the nonlinear events are correlated.
The focal point of the story is the character Arie Kimura, a pretty fifth grade student with pale skin and long hair. She enjoys telling her classmates a scary fairy tale in which a girl is sent by God to warn a village of a monster that will destroy them. The villagers fear her predictions, and seven of them decide to sacrifice her to appease the monster. The girl is reborn over and over, doomed to repeat the cycle, with the monster growing larger every time due to its stomach getting fuller with bodies. This fairy tale foreshadows the general structure of the manga.
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