Outgrowing Your Hometown

The earth shook. The sea roared. And then… There is a small house solitary standing by the seaside. A young girl has been living there alone...

Hakubo tells the story of two young people who live in rural Fukushima: Sachi Koyama, a girl who excels at playing the violin, and Yuusuke Kijinami,...

Yoshito grew up with his mother Yasue after his father passed away. His mother ran a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant that his father had left...

A middle-class corporate couple doesn't worry about money and living expenses until the recession drains their finances.

Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job....

Hina Satou is a 13-year-old who loves figure skating and lives in a port town in Miyagi Prefecture. After losing her mother in the 2011 earthquake,...

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

Akari finds herself nervous coaching a new undine as a Prima, until she awakens to find that it is just a dream. To soothe her worries, Alicia...

A short poem about healing after a traumatic event in the narrator's life.

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades...

Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren't quite what he imagined during his...

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun,...