From the New World manga Series by Toru Oikawa, 及川 徹, Yusuke Kishi, 貴志 祐介

Saki and her schoolmates enjoy what they consider normal lives in a peaceful provincial setting. Only their village cannot be of this era. Its customs differ from those of any known in modern day Japan. The landscape while familiar is also much more constrained than what modern day maps may exhibit. So when 6 friends embark on a journey of mental and physical training, this fateful journey will lead them to a series of mind-shattering truths-for these characters and for us as readers.

Pursued by foreign Morph Rats who do not fear humans as living dieties, Saki and her friends have taken refuge with the odious creatures' domestic cousins, the worshipful Robber Fly Colony. Despite the assurances of Squealer, the hive's prolocutor, the young gods are in mortal danger - not least from their own breathren.

Saki and friends finally learn many of the troubling secrets of their brave new world. Whether the harsh facts can be altered or not is another matter altogether.

Now twentysix, Saki and Satoru seem to be welladjusted adults. While they've never forgotten the cruel fates of their childhood friends, reforming the town's severe ways has been beyond them. Change has a way, however, of crashing in. And in this case, at a time when those within the rope are celebrating their summer festival, change is going to rain on them violently!

There's a fox in the henhouse known as Kamisu 66Acreage - a Fiend! Saki and her friends are now in a position where they cannot defend against their mass destruction. Those given their genetic composition and programming, even gods themselves run, but cannot hide.

Humanity, with the new found 'power of the gods', is on the brink. A new species of beast, with the intelligence of man, and another race of monsters begin to clash in this unpredictable story told through the adventures of a group of six youth whose telekenetic abilities have just been revealed.