Haru, a small bird who dreams of flying away out of the valley, and his best friend, Yama, a talking boar, are used to shadows. One day, Yama finds a strange artifact that causes sinister effects. The duo must go on an epic adventure to destroy the artifact and save the world. 

I really enjoyed the beautiful illustrations within this book - it was bright, but also dark and creepy at some times too. The world was perfectly shown, with the small hint of humans having been there in the past, which intrigues me to find out if we know what happened in this world. 

I am curious to know how this will continue on - this novel is called “Spring”, with book two being called “Summer”, I didn’t feel like an entire season passed, but maybe it’ll just be the color scheme of the panels or something… either way, I’m excited to continue reading.