Hanamonogatari

Our sorry hero, his reformed girlfriend, and the amnesiac class president have all graduated from their high school in the boondocks. Self-described sapphist and ex-basketball ace Kanbaru, retired due to an 'injury,' is starting her senior year and is the narrator of this volume—her voice far more introspective than the smutty jock's we thought we knew. Bereft of the company of her beloved mentors, the only other person around her with any working knowledge of aberrations is the junior Ogi Oshino, apparently a relative of the Hawaiian-shirted folklorist. She feels a bit alone and blue, and sick with dread that the devil residing in her left arm, courtesy of the Monkey's Paw, might act up again while she sleeps.