At thirty-two, Akio Hukitaske is burned out and hollow—a Tokyo game designer crushed by deadlines and sleepless nights, long separated from the dream he once held close: becoming a pharmacist and helping others heal. Survival replaced hope, and life quietly slipped past him. Then, one impossib...

It was a slow day on The Bygone when Zephyr Lee, owner of the struggling upcycling shop Third Chances, found something curious amongst the scrap: a teenager named Audra that fancied herself a runaway. Both haunted by a mysterious past and struggling to live, an unlikely bond quickly forms between...

When an out of tune singer-songwriter writes duets with a stranger with a voice of a lullaby in a local karaoke bar, days later, she discovers that the man with the soulful voice is Ren Ichijō , Japan’s top idol. Despite their different worlds apart, Airi begin meeting in secret with Ren to w...

In a world ravaged by war, a boy who has lost everything is consumed by vengeance but is too afraid to act. His life changes when a wandering demon girl saves him. Unlike the monsters he imagined, she is searching for something beyond war--seeking meaning in a world that rejects her. When she ...

Being one of only two members of the writing club, Makoto has a goal of winning a writing contest, getting published, and having his work sold in stores. However, by every metric, he's average. If there's one thing he's certain about, it's that he's special—special because of his "future" in writ...

Hiroki Yamada, a 15-year-old freshman step into Sakuragawa High School with a burning passion for music, fueled by memories of his late older brother, Kaito Yamada, who taught him guitar and singing. Inspired by bands like Muse, Deftones, Radiohead, and so on. On his first day of entrance, a p...

Unlikely events and coincidences happen. Good ones like finding a long-lost family member at a random train station, winning the lottery, meeting your future spouse when you both got into the same taxi... But there are also bad ones, like your house burning down, being struck by lightning, getti...

When I was a child, I could find no joy in eating, and because of my poverty, I was also made a target of bullying. The lunchboxes I ate as if hiding were always bland and lonely. But a chance encounter changed my life completely. An encounter with the one and only best friend who stood by m...

Flowers can only grow when it rains. All Takeshi Katou wanted was a quiet life. After leaving the military behind, he became a teacher in the rural town of Gero, Japan. But the weight of a single decision, one that left scars deeper than any wound, still follows him. But the past doesn’t let go ...

Kenji Sato looks like your typical, average high school student—he gets middle-of-the-road grades, blends into the background, and just wants a quiet life. However, he hides a massive secret: he is actually "Twilight-Senpai," the anonymous, world-famous author and illustrator whose works have cap...