[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: Cocoon, an urban civilization floating in space. Arata, Tarah, Caesar, and Louie, childhood friends and students at the United Nations University, are the children of "Neonity," a new race of people who have adapted to the space age. One day, they meet a green-haired girl in an alley in the entertainment district. ......
(Translator: DeepL)
This is a sci-fi shoujo manga, which we don’t see so much of nowadays. It was #7 on the 2018 このマンガがすごい！ranking, and in 2021 won the Seiun Award for Best Comic.
Humanity now lives on space stations that orbit the earth, called “cocoons.” There are observation cameras everywhere, and contracts define social relationships. The protagonists of the story are Neoteny, a new type of human with an extremely long lifespan. They physically grow up and age slowly and in this volume, at age 20, they still