This is a group of short stories centered around different sad-sack or comedic people in the waning days of World War II and the recovery after.

A high school that has achieved zero bullying thanks to excellent teachers and a perfect monitoring system. Kiyokazu, a first-year student there, meets his former classmate Shijo, who was bullied in middle...

Soichi Kurei is a magazine editor. He is currently working on popular manga series Million Joe. The writer of the manga series is Tsuneo Magata, but he suddenly dies. Soichi Kurei is devastated because he feels...

A young man whose motto is "Never commit suicide" happens to meet a boy with a cut mark on his wrist and follows him out of curiosity. However, the boy's path leads him to a world of "death" that he has never...