Wayward: String Theory and The Ties That Bind by Jim Zub, 134 and 136 pages.
Rori Lane has just moved in with her mother in Tokyo and is both excited and nervous to start a new life in Japan. Those emotions get turned way up when she quickly starts seeing monsters and red strings leading her to important places. Soon she's got a small group of other super-powered teens to help her fight the monsters who seem to very much want them dead, even if she doesn't know why. Volume two (without spoiling too much of volume one) has even more monster fighting.
One of the reviews describes this series as "Buffy in Japan" and that's the vibe overall. The city is very flushed out and all of the monsters are really cool modern adaptations that are firmly rooted in Japanese folklore (I love the encyclopaedia-type entries on the history of the creatures at the end of every volume). The art is cool, the magic powers are cooler, and I'm super excited to see where this series is going. Plus at six volumes it's relatively short for comics, so I'll probably tear through the rest pretty soon.
Fun fact: I first heard about this comic through it's board game adaptation and thought the story sounded cool enough to read on it's own.
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