School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei, Vol. 3

At this school, there’s only one way to settle a dispute—in a court of law!

At Tenbin Elementary, there is only one way to settle a dispute—in a court of law! All quarrels bypass the teachers and are settled by some of the best lawyers in the country…who also happen to be elementary school students.

Tento once again finds himself in a tight spot when he’s accused of trying to murder the school’s Madonna, Reiko Shiratori, and locking her unconscious body in a shed. Can Abaku ronpa his friend to freedom? Meanwhile, the Red Ogre sends out a warning to Abaku, Sarutobi and Yui: discover his identity before graduation or he will murder all of their classmates again! Can Abaku solve this final mystery in time?

Nobuaki Enoki received the Jump Treasure New Cartoonist Prize in April 2009 for his work Rikuou. School Judgment: Gakkyu Hotei was his first work to be serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and first achieved international recognition as the artist of the wildly popular Shonen Jumptitle Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei "New Hope" Award and the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award. He went on to illustrate the smash hit Death Note as well as the hugely successful manga Bakuman?and All You Need Is Kill.