For some, life gains meaning through a cause, an admired voice, or a dream. For others, the spark comes from fiction: an otome game, a glance through a screen. Just when everything seems to be getting better, something shifts. The dialogues don’t sound the same. The words plead. You’ve played the...

Yunuen, known as Kex in his village, was famous for being as beautiful as he was unfortunate. Bad luck and poverty followed him whenever he got involved with someone for pleasure, and his partners never returned. Yet, his dream that one day someone would rescue him from hell and love him as much ...

Kazuo is a hikikomori who finds a respite from his self-imposed isolation each Spring during the Hanami season, signing up for tourist trips to have fleeting relationships with foreign women. But upon meeting 'Sumire,' a gloomy writer seeking to escape her life, Kazuo is strangely confused about ...

A detective hunts a serial killer with a bloodthirsty obsession with children's hearts, but he wonders what emotion makes his heart beat the most when he finds himself face to face with the murderer: curiosity, enthrallment, or fear.

The activities of the almost extinct Theater Club take an unexpected turn when the students of the new generation enter that Spring. The recruitment is effective but with a big trouble: the new members only want to roleplay and do not want old, predictable performances. Given the students' lack o...

Every night, he goes to bed with her at his side, afraid of losing her the next morning because, even in his dreams, he feels like she is slowly leaving him behind.