Northern Forest is the eighth and final chapter of the The Future Is Wild manga by Takaaki Ogawa, published in Manga Action on 20 March 2007. It is set in the Northern Forest of Pangaea II, in 200 million AD, and focuses on the social life of a squibbon.
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A megasquid browsing on lichen tree pods in the Northern Forest wanders into the territory of a squibbon colony, and decides to take a young squibbon as a meal. The other squibbons harass the megasquid with sticks and fruits, and an adult is able to swing down and rescue the young squibbon. Later, two squibbons play in the trees with bioluminescent organisms, and contemplate the stars in the night sky.
The next day, during a foggy period in a rainstorm, one of these two squibbons falls out of a tree and is also caught by a megasquid. Although the colony severely harries it, and even trips it up with a makeshift "rope," the megasquid eats the squibbon. Its friend is left depressed and sits at the top of a conifer during a rainstorm, so, to cheer it up, the rest of the colony gather hundreds of the bioluminescent organisms with which it was playing, and place them in a forest clearing. The squibbon again thinks of the stars, and animals from the past, present, and future are seen, with the question of what the far future will bring.
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