Tamotsu Joukawa, a virgin young man who is currently unemployed, enters a coffee shop to take a break during his job search. There he meets Keiko Yoda, the beautiful, busty shopkeeper who presses him with a ...

In his second collection of short stories, Mohiro Kitoh recounts the tragic fates of people living in a half-futuristic, half-fantasy city whose inexorable structural decay seems to be mirrored in its citize...