From Mamoru Hosoda, acclaimed director of the smash-hit film and YALSA 2015 Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for Teens selection Wolf Children, comes the first volume of the manga adaptation of Hosoda’s biggest box office triumph to date: The Boy and the Beast!

Fleeing tragedy and mistreatment, a young boy named Ren hides among the crowds in Tokyo’s busy Shibuya district.His efforts to run away are more successful than he realizes when he ends up in the world of the beasts! A rough-living bear named Kumatetsu gives Ren a new life and a new
name-Kyuta-but is Kumatetsu really up to the job of being a mentor?