Yuumi Kawai

Fujino, a fourth-grader, serializes a four-panel manga strip in the school newspaper receiving rave reviews from her classmates. But one day, her teacher tells her that Kyomoto, a truant student, wants to publish her own manga in the newspaper. The two girls' shared passion for manga brings them together until one day, an event shatters everything. A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story unfolds.

Based on the best-selling global video game franchise by SEGA, the story unfolds across two intersecting timelines—1995 and 2005. In 1995, four friends eager to escape their restrictive lives in an orphanage dive into the yakuza-controlled underworld of Kamurocho. Meanwhile, in 2005, their friendship is deteriorated, as tensions between the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance are at a boiling point.

Secondhand bookstore owner Tada can’t forget Ikka, a former colleague at his old job, despite the fact that one of his regular customers, Misaki, persistently asks him to marry her. Meanwhile, Ikka feels overwhelmed by preparations for her wedding to Ryosuke, but has no idea that he has been seeing their wedding planner on the side.

A man has an obsession that, if he is to die, it would be at the hands of a high school girl. With this in mind, he decides to become a teacher.

In a near-dystopian future, Japan's government launches Plan 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives.

A single father desperately tries to return to 1986 after somehow arriving in 2024, where his Showa-era ideas come across as completely inappropriate.

Follows the lives of two very different students—one carefree and charming, the other unhappy and lonely—as they try to make it through high school.

As an aging Yuriko loses her memory, her son Izumi confronts his own sense of disorientation while uncovering buried secrets from her past.