Within the bowling club of Ikkokukan High School, Mai, the captain, prioritizes everyone having a good time over winning. However, Rina, her more passionate junior, would like to put more emphasis on victory and threatens to leave the club. After Rina challenges Mai to a match with her continued membership on the line, Mai’s ball […]
Ruri, a fashionable high school girl, loves jewelry and accessories. After being captivated by a piece of quartz jewelry, and swiftly denied an advance on her allowance to buy it, Ruri’s mother tells her that her grandfather used to find quartz in the mountains all the time. Ruri, thinking herself clever, goes to the mountains
Chika Suzugamori is a rookie manga artist that, after winning a new artist award for her debut, has had every draft she brought to her editor rejected. On the verge of giving up, she decides to use some of her prize money to take a trip. On that trip, she finds the natural scenery healing
At Japan’s middle school cheerleading nationals, Kanata Misora played a crucial role in securing victory with her squad. Excited to try to rise to even greater heights, she and her friend Megumi Kaionji joined Takanozaki Prefectural High School together in order to join their talented cheer squad. However, after an incident at a competition, Misora
Mahiru Kouzuki had a gift for art from a young age, but after her classmates ridiculed a jellyfish mural she worked so hard on, she gave it up. In front of that aging mural years later, she meets an unexpected fan of it, Kano Yamanouchi, a former idol who has a troubled past in the
The innovative upgrade to a 7G network promised technological advancements beyond belief. However, the aftermath of its official launch has turned Japan upside down. With people now suffering from a wide range of bizarre mutations and the landscape itself transformed, society has crumbled. In the rural town of Agano where everyone over the age of
As Japan is one of those countries that sit in the perfect sweet spot just the right distance away from the equator, it has afforded them the ability to experience the four seasons in distinction. None of that “three days of autumn” before winter or a winter of rain that some other countries get. Each
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For Konohoshi Umika, her social anxiety makes her feel like an alien trapped on Earth. Due to feeling so much like an outcast, she dreams of building a rocket to take her into space so she can meet aliens who might finally understand her. One day, she meets the energetic and friendly Akeuchi Yuu, a
Falling in love and exploring romantic relationships is a big part of the human experience, and as such, romance has long been a beloved plot or at least part of a character’s story in anime. However, romance anime isn’t for everyone. Admittedly, some romance anime have the most obnoxious plots fueled by unrealistic desires and
Having social anxiety but still wishing to make friends, Hitori Gotou started learning the guitar to help lure people into talking to her. Years later, she has amassed great guitar skills, but is in high school with still no friends. One day, she happens to meet an outgoing girl who just so happens to need
