Dead End (manga)

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Dead End

ジ・エンド (Ji Endo)
Genre	Drama, Horror
Manga
Authored by	Shohei Manabe
Publisher	Kodansha Tokyopop
Serialized in	Afternoon
Original run	2001-08-23 –
No. of volumes	4

Dead End (ジ・エンド, Ji Endo^?) is a manga by Shohei Manabe. Although the original name was actually a transliteration from the English The End, Tokyopop changed the name to Dead End for the US market.

[edit] Story

Shirou is a construction worker, tired of the usual daily routine of his job; he hopes that something will come to awake him from the monotony of his life, and his wish is answered when a young girl named Lucy, falling naked from the sky, enters his life. They spend together two days, enough for Shirou to fall in love with her; but on the third day, when Shirou comes back home, he can't find her anymore, and instead he finds his friends murdered. After that he meets a stranger who claims to be his friend, and learns that he had his memory voluntarily erased, he knew Lucy from before, and to find a way to solve the puzzle he has to find 5 old friends, who have had their memory erased just like him.