#Shion of the dead series#

But during the play, Nezumi is visited by a strange wind and song and he faints on stage. This is the first time he's seen Nezumi act. Shion hears about this from Rikiga and races to the theater where Nezumi is performing to inform him of the news. 6 must be warned, he claims that if he insists in helping them, he will start treating him as his enemy.įaced with the decision to either stay friends with Nezumi or tell No.6 about the Bee, Shion finds himself running after NezumiĪnother person in No. By learning that such great tragedy will befall the place he loathes, Nezumi rejoices, but when Shion states that the inhabitants of No. By analyzing the parasite, Shion concludes that when spring comes, a large number of them will emerge and kill their hosts, causing turmoil in the city. Having recovered, Shion is taken by Nezumi to a hotel whose owner rents her dogs to keep the guests warm while sleeping where he finds that Nezumi contacted his mother and she sent a message to him. The parasite is extracted by Nezumi from his body and he survives, but not without taking its toll on his body. After the duo escape from the city's limits, Nezumi shows Shion what really lies beyond the walls of No. Having questioned the authority of the city once again, Shion is arrested, but is rescued by Nezumi while being transferred to prison. Four years later, while working at the waste disposal center, he learns of a mysterious parasite that makes people grow old and die in seconds. 6, until he decides to give shelter to Nezumi, a boy of his age during a typhoon, even after knowing he is a wanted fugitive.īy harboring a fugitive, Shion is stripped of his elite citizen privileges and forced to live in the suburbs with his mother. Shion begins to find out the hidden truth behind the supposed Ideal City No.6.ġ2 year-old Shion seemed to have a bright and bountiful future ahead of him as a chosen elite citizen of the apparently perfect community of city No. Whilst Shion is being transported to the Correctional Institute, Nezumi appears and rescues him. Shion's co-worker is one of the victims and Shion is arrested on suspicion of murder. Four years later, Shion experiences a spate of incidents around him in which a deadly infection by parasitic wasps leads its victims to age rapidly. After spending a rainy night with his new friend, Shion discovers the next morning that Nezumi has left and disappeared without a trace. Shion, a boy raised in the elite and privileged environment of his home, gives shelter to another boy, who only gives his name as ' Nezumi', during the former's 12th birthday. The story takes place in an ideal city known as 'No.

#Shion of the dead series#

A TV anime series adaptation by Bones began airing in Japan in July 2011. A manga adaptation drawn by Hinoki Kino began serialization in the March 2011 issue of Kodansha's Aria magazine. 6 is a nine-volume novel series written by Atsuko Asano and published by Kodansha between October 2003 and June 2011.