After graduating from high school in the spring, Miki finds a job at the familiar coffee shop "Blue Light" without going on to school. Ryu, a childhood friend who works at a gas station, and Mari, who bets...

The author, a high-school teacher, recounts his 12 years on "night patrol" in Yokohama City, where he comes face to face with youth dealing with issues ranging from self-mutilation to drug abuse.

Shima Akio and Soma Yoshino are lovers, facing the reality of their fourth year in university. No matter how much they try and think things over, they can’t quite figure out what to do about their parents...

A one-volume compilation of three stories meditating on work, identity, and purpose. The first three chapters contain "Psychic Training," the story of a young girl who desperately wants to become a psychic...

One day, Seta fell in love with the actress of the trip troupe when she was young, and one day, she met Suzuhara, who looked a lot like that actress. A beautiful and mysterious boy, Suzuhara, and a theater...

Mariko Kikuchi tells the painful story of her father’s alcoholism and her own journey through guilt to understand her father’s illness. She rejects the common belief that family members can and should be...

Kaede, a young woman, has given herself a much more masculine haircut. Despite her insistence that it was merely out of her own preference, she still receives some hassle for it. On her way home from work...

SEUNG-HO is dating MIN-HA, a sweet girl, but he's getting tired of her childish behavior. At his new job he meets an attractive and talented young boss, starts to struggle in between his boss and her girlfriend...

One chapter in the saga of Shima Kousaku, salaryman at Hatsushiba Electric. In this part of the series, Kousaku has just started working at a branch office for the company doing an unexpected amount of menial...

This is the story of a man known only as Gen, who used to be an assassin. Nobody knows his past, his real name or his age, only that he is now working at Tsubakiya, a secluded onsen inn. He had put down his...

An autobiographical account detailing French artist Boilet’s infatuation, courtship, affair and break-up with the eponymous Yukiko – a young Japanese woman who never attempts to disguise the fact that, whilst...