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23rd Manga Division Jury Selections

HIKARI-MAN

YAMAMOTO Hideo [Japan]

Outline

Weak high school student SHIROCHI Hikari devotes himself to fighting games and PC remodeling. However, he has an extraordinary electrical sensitivity that turns him into HIKARI-MAN, who manipulates electricity with his body and can transport himself anywhere using electricity. Despite gaining this power, and with no sense of justice, Hikari only seeks revenge on bullied children. A story of a hero’s maturation that asks “What is true justice?”