Helga
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- ¥1,200
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- ¥1,200
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Helga is not the obedient science experiment her father intended. And though she has only just awoken, he leaves her in the care of his lab assistant Penny to go on a business trip.
Bursting with curiosity, Helga quickly escapes from the well-meaning Penny and heads into Amaris City. There Helga finds she is as untamable as the invasive blackberry vines overtaking the island. And because of the misdeeds of her father’s scientific community, the natural world grows more volatile.
Helga soon discovers the night market, rowdy clubs, delicious food, and cute boys. Enamored with city life, she’ll do anything to find love—but she has only two weeks until her father gets back, and besides there are ominous rumblings from the volcanic island that could put her dating schemes, and even her own life, in grave peril.
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In Amaris City, a "rainy volcanic island between Northwest America and East Asia," the Institute for Scientific Progress works on a variety of experiments, which includes reanimating the corpse of an East Asian–cued 18-year-old who is meant to serve as the perfect laboratory assistant for Father. The assistant, physically strong Marietta, is powered by a cog, through which "information packets and learning modules downloaded" rapidly. She renames herself Helga and, as she reacclimates to being alive—with help from 23-year-old pink-haired Penny, Father's personal assistant—she grows to be more contrarian and free-spirited than Father hoped. As she uncovers more about the world outside the negligent corporate institute, Helga attempts to find love and acceptance within a city that's soon to be overrun by the institute's rogue experiments. Yu (Direwood) employs Helga's cheeky first-person POV to present a Frankenstein-inspired horror romp. Happenings that evoke both a grotesque creature feature and existential examination of personhood make up this thoughtful interpretation of a snarky teen's second chance at grappling with body autonomy, personal agency, and familial obligation. Ages 14–up.
