Utsuro
Zenon is a young man from Spezia, a high school student living a cold, routine life ,and faces the world with a dry, distant logic.
One day, he joins his classmates on a school trip to the Amazon — a forbidden region, off-limits because of old, dangerous scientific experiments buried there.
What should have been nothing more than a field trip turns into a catastrophe.
Violence erupts, senseless and unexplained, and Zenon finds himself alone in the heart of the jungle, surrounded by death and secrets.
To survive, he'll have to rely on nothing but himself — make brutal choices, and uncover a dark side of himself he never knew existed.
A side tied to a power he doesn't understand, one that comes with a heavy price.
Between a jungle hiding horrors no one was meant to find, and organizations watching everything from the shadows,
Zenon begins a journey he will not walk out of the same person who walked in.
Utsuro
A story about survival — and the price a person pays just to stay alive.
**Things to Expect in Darkside:**
- Dark, psychological atmosphere
- A cold, emotionally detached protagonist
- High-tension survival situations
- Graphic violence and death
- A mysterious power system with a clear, tangible cost
- Twists and hidden truths that unfold gradually
- A serious, mature tone (Seinen-style)
- A blend of psychological tension and action
- Themes of emptiness, humanity, and the price of survival
**What you won't find much of (at least early on):**
- Light comedy
- Heavy romance
- An overpowered protagonist from the start
- A simple good-vs-evil narrative
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Posting schedule:
! 2 chapters per week
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