Taiki Riju, a renowned student, hides a crippling fear of failure behind a mask of silent perfection. When a new student, Mioka Shimizu, joins the classroom, she notices the cracks in his carefully constructed facade. Mioka, haunted by her own past, sees a kindred spirit in Taiki's isolation. Thr...

In a world inhabited by magical candy beings called Delicazens, a lone gingerbread man wakes up on a desserted island far away from the mainland, Pannulum. With no one else of his kind to guide him, he befriends a peculiar group of seals as he tries to make his way off the island and eventuall...

Oster Greinich is a highschool boy who loves to read web novels and passes most of the day with it. Either he is in school or he is in home, he is obsessed with reading. He doesn't know how to live his days as a natural highschooler and has no interest on any outdoor activities. But will his life...

Akira Hinata is feared by many of her classmates at school, which earned her the nickname "Dog". When the new student Hideaki Taichi shows up, he is determined to convince Hinata's classmates that she is not a dog everyone is making her out to be despite her cold demeanor. What Taichi doesn't ant...

Atsushi Higashi is left as the solitary member of the school's historic Photography Club, a club he only joined after he had received a mysterious note instructing him to do so just before his first year. His afternoons at the club are filled with subdued frustration and jealousy towards his fell...

A short story about a detached college student and a girl with cancer

At twenty-five, his life should have just begun. Yet, for a man with no family, no friends, and no future, time is slipping away—two years left before cancer claims everything. His days are empty, silent, and meaningless—until one fateful afternoon, when he comes across two orphaned children with...

Miu, a lonely high school girl, buys a magic marker from a mysterious old woman with the promise that anything she draws will come to life. However, there is one problem. She cannot draw at all. Instead of riches or power, she clumsily sketches a small black doodle, longing for companionship. ...

Aiko, a lonely orphan, finds a baby girl on her doorstep and names her Himawari, meaning "sunflower." As Aiko raises Himawari, their bond grows into an unbreakable mother-daughter relationship. Through love and sacrifice, Aiko becomes Himawari’s legal guardian, and together they build a beautiful...

This is the story of a girl whose childhood left her feeling insecure, underconfident, and extremely introverted. Growing up under her parents' strict control, her life was limited to home, school, and coachingshe never had the opportunity to fully live. The relentless pressure to excel in academ...