Welcome to Japan, meet Kiva, a dog left alone after an earthquake/tsunami and resulting nuclear disaster.

I am just having so much fun with Comics Plus! When I saw the cover I just knew I had to read this one. I love how everything surrounding the dog is gone, but the dog is standing in a glass box square with his home intact and the ground green and lush. It just sounded READ ME!

It is quite funny that the blurb to this issue tells us all that will happen in resulting volumes. However in this one we just get a small peek, a small glimpse of that world. After that we go back to before everything went south. We meet Kiva and his owner who isn’t having the best time and is struggling. Kiva is trying to figure things out for his owner. Other than that things are going pretty fine. Gorgeous scenery. But then Kiva’s owner (the boy) is at his school when he notices a crack in the window, and another one, and another one, and then the whole world goes. The earth shakes and quakes. It was terrifying as heck, and then we didn’t have the tsunami and the resulting horror from that. I was just totally immersed in this story. Totally invested in this family, in Kiva.

I didn’t realise until the tsunami part that this was Fukushima. That added a definitely OMG layer for me.

I wasn’t that fan of the mom. I could understand in part why she did what she did, she wanted to save/find her boy, but to leave Kiva to his own devices? Nah. Heck nah. I can tell you that I would grab Coco and my hammie babies for sure. Not leaving without them.

I am definitely invested now and I need to know what is next. What will happen to Kiva. And if this one will go even darker than the events already were in real life.

The art was also such a good one. Fabulous style. Great amount of details, and I love the designs of the characters.

All in all, I would highly recommend this one, and I need more!