Another, Vol. 2

In spring 1998, Kouichi Sakakibara transfers to Yomiyama North Middle School and lands in Class 3. Something is off from his first day: classmates and teachers move around him with visible fear, as if one wrong word could set something off.

Deaths soon begin to follow one another around him, each more gruesome than the last. Kouichi learns that Class 3 is cursed. Its head count always runs one over the expected number, and a vengeful spirit kills to feed its spite.

This volume continues the story after the events summarised for the first book. Kouichi has chosen to look for the root of the curse rather than wait to see who dies next, in the hope of ending the cycle that grips the school.

The horror is a supernatural mystery told from a newcomer's point of view, with dread building out of what the students will not say. What Kouichi finds at the bottom of the curse is the question the book turns on.