With the Light vol 6

The 6th volume of Keikp Tobe's With The Light sees Hikaru trying to fit in with a bigger world as he grows out of childhood, ready to begin puberty. His younger sister, Kanon, also starts elementary school and their parents Sachiko and Masato start to unwittingly draw comparisons about how Kanon is able to manager her life easily whereas Hikaru is still stumbling on. Sometimes it seems that even the littlest things can cause the biggest upsets, and with the onset of puberty looming just how much worse can things get?

This, like the other volumes in the series, is extremely well written, able to convey the troubles and tribulations that the parents go through coping with an autistic child... it also manages to communicate something far more important though: the solutions and coping mechanisms that Sachiko develops to help both herself and Hikaru survive in such a world.

This is, perhaps, the most consistent comic / series I've read and proves that comics do not have to be about the stereotyped and overused superheros. This is about a very complicated subject -which is hard enough to write about in a novel, but Tobe is able to do so with great humanity and empathy. A stroke of genius, surely, on her part.