Butterfly Storage
| Butterfly Storage | |
 Cover of Butterfly Storage volume 1 published by Tokuma Shoten featuring Hyakushi Ono | |
| バタフライ・ストレージ (Batafurai Sutorēji) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sci-Fi, Action, Supernatural |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Icori Ando |
| Published by | Tokuma Shoten |
| Magazine | Monthly Comic Ryū |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | May 5, 2016[1] – present |
| Volumes | 2 |
Butterfly Storage (Japanese: バタフライ・ストレージ, Hepburn: Batafurai Sutorēji) is a Japanese Science Fiction manga series by Icori Ando. It is being serialized in Tokuma Shoten's magazine Monthly Comic Ryū since May 2016 and has been collected in two tankōbon volumes as of January 2018.
Overview
Setting
Butterfly Storage is set in a futuristic reality in which when a person dies, their soul leaves the body in the form of a butterfly. Then the body itself rots away quickly after. The goverment Death Bureau agency's job is to collect, freeze and manage the souls of the deceased (which leave the human body in the form of a butterfly) before they disappear, 49 days after leaving their host's body. Using the butterflies, the family of the deceased can come in contact with their loved ones in the form of a 3D hologram. [2]
Plot
Hyakushi Ono lost his entire family in a plane crash fourteen years ago. But since this tragedy, the body of Senri, his twin sister, is still intact while the butterfly that contains his soul was stolen by a mysterious individual during the accident, leaving her unconscious and in a vegetative state.
In order to get back his sister's butterfly, Ono joins the famous "Death Bureau", a state agency specialized in the capture, conservation and management of the butterflies before they disappear for good 49 days after their host death[3].