Fool Night, Vol. 7

In a future buried beneath clouds, diminished sunlight has left plants withering and oxygen scarce. Humanity’s response is transfloration, a technology that turns people into plants and supplies a limited amount of oxygen. The series pairs that survival measure with questions about its sustainability and ethics. In this seventh volume, Toshiro Kamiya and Hourai’s search for Ivy’s creator brings them and their employer into the sights of opponents of transfloration, while Toshiro faces a choice between his family’s safety and his own. The volume’s central tensions connect a personal dilemma to the broader costs of a society trying to stave off extinction.