Hagino Makoto

It's the spring of my second year of high school. I meet my childhood friend, a boy and a girl, and a transfer student. Our story, which is still colorless, begins to take on a gentle tone.

In the 1990s, in a rural town in Germany, a man named Theo leaves his hometown as if on the run. Theo is a man who leaves his hometown as if on the run and continues his aimless journey. His traveling companion is a bipedal talking cat. These two strange travelers meet a mysterious girl who is being chased by the police.

Small encounters in a corner of the universe. Each one full of stories. The collection contains five short stories published in the magazine Aokishi by Makoto Hagino, the author of A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow. Dokoka no Hoshi no Futari (どこかの星のふたり) Madobe no Rinoa (窓辺のリノア) Nami Yori mo Odayaka de, Kumo Yori mo Hayaku (波よりもおだやかで、雲よりも速く) Kamiyui no Musume (髪結いの娘) Kamisamagokko (神様ごっこ)

Konatsu Amano is a high school girl who has just moved to a seaside town in Ehime Prefecture after her father is transferred overseas for his job. Lonely and unsure of her new surroundings, Konatsu finds herself gravitating towards Koyuki Honami, an older girl at her school who is popular but is seen as out of reach by her peers who view her as too perfect. Koyuki is also the sole member of the Aquarium Club, which in turn makes her feel cut off from others. In an attempt to help ease Koyuki's and her own feelings of loneliness, Konatsu befriends Koyuki and the two gradually grow closer together.

The story is set in the school’s marine activities club. It’s a small club consisting solely of Rena, the senior member, and Haruto. One day, Seto-chan, a prospective new member, turns up and declares that her condition for joining the club is that ‘the two of them don’t get together’. It seems she has feelings for Haruto. But Haruto’s heart belongs to Rena... ? 23rd Dengeki Manga Grand Prize winner