While waiting for the 1001st chapter of One Piece, I started to look for new mangas and not many chapters so as not to get so bored, and I found one that reminded me of Oyasumi Punpun, due to its depressing argument, but at the same time, full of hope, even though that hope is slowly fading away.
Shonen no Abyss, also called Boy's Abyss, tells us the story of Reiji, a young man who lives in a small village in Japan, along with a family that is a little broken, due to the poverty that is slowly consuming them. His mother, little can afford to pay for the expenses of the house, besides, she has to support her elderly mother, who between the expenses in medicine and in general care that a person of such an advanced age can need, things only get worse and worse, besides that, Reiji has an older brother, who is a hikikomori, which is a term used for a mental disorder that consists of a person's voluntary isolation from the outside world, leading to increasingly aggressive attitudes towards Reiji and his mother.
Reiji is thinking about not going to college to work and help his mother, but he also wants to leave that town, which is slowly consuming him and plunging him into the deepest depression which makes it more difficult for him to leave. Reiji is a fan of an idol, Nagi Aoe, of a J-Pop group, and one day he meets her working in a supermarket in his town and from that moment on, things become darker, more depressing and dangerous. Nagi Aoe, just like Reiji, feels succumbed to depression, so she proposes that the two of them commit suicide, even though they have only known each other for a short time.
Shonen no Abyss is the main plot of this manga, which is only 38 chapters long, but the way things are going, the situations are getting darker. This is a manga with a pretty good drawing style, it knows how to convey the feelings of the characters, and above all it knows how to convey their mental deterioration. A manga which I recommend a lot and that in just a few hours, I caught up with all are chapters. It's one of those mangas that you know from the beginning that things are not going to end well.
