Amazon.com description: Product Description: A collection of all six '1 World Manga' titles in one comprehensive volume, 'Passages' follows the adventures of Rei as he falls in love, gets attacked by a shark, rides an elephant, watches a man dig up a skeleton, solves the mystery of a lagoon with vanishing fish, is kidnapped by brutal mercenaries, exposes corrupt public officials, and even transforms into a girl―ewww! And, in the course of this graphic novel, Rei and his animal spirit guide encounter the depths of poverty, disease, global warming, warfare, discrimination, and corruption. But through courage, compassion, and their indomitable human spirit, he and his friends take on life's challenges in places where the odds are stacked against them―yet leave the world better off for having passed through it.