Konno Oyuki

These are manga shorts drawn by the illustrator of the novels, Hibiki Reine. They were all printed in the magazine Cobalt, which the novel is serialized in; Before the Festival was also printed in the Marimite Premium Book (ISBN: 4086004550), and the others were printed in the Marimite Illustration Collection (ISBN: 4086007975). All are rather short. As far as we know, no more of these shorts have been done.

The setting is Lillian Academy, a private Catholic all-girls school where the student council is known as the Yamayurikai (Mountain Lily Council) and younger students are taken under the wing of older students through a system known as the "soeur system" ("soeur" is French for "sister"). The main character, Yumi, who is basically a nobody, suddenly finds herself interacting with the members of the Yamayurikai and their soeurs, most notably her crush, the talented, beautiful, and withdrawn Sachiko…