In the future, utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration.
This utopia isn't perfect, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls—Tuan Kirie—grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.
(Source: VIZ Media)
Living in utopia isn't all sunshine. Harmony shows us this in a beautiful, yet exposition-heavy manner.
(__Warning:__ I go pretty deep into spoilers here, so be warned. If you want a spoiler-free tl;dr: Yes, it's excellent, just don't expect a lot of action, but a lot of world building and exposition.)
Harmony leaves you with a certain emptiness after completion. Not the kind of feel good emptiness,…
'There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.'
Harmony is a work of speculative fiction in the traditional mold, one that engages heavily with philosophy and social theory in developing the world of the text, and framing the events that occur within it. It presents itself as predictive, but really it's much more about the present than the future…