Nagira Yuu

Akimi, a high school student living on a picturesque island in the Seto Inland Sea, lives with her mother, who stopped smiling due to her father's affair. One day, she becomes close to Kai, who has transferred to the island and is being swept along by his free-spirited mother's love affairs. Both harboring loneliness and emptiness within, they are drawn to each other, miss each other, and eventually grow together.

High schooler at the bottom of the social ladder x Beautiful King of the topmost caste! Nagira Yuu’s big hit series, now a manga!! Beautiful, aloof, he reigns over the class. Kiyoi has the innate qualities of a king. At the start of a new term, in the middle of the stifling classroom, Hira, who is silent, friendless, and at the bottom of the class’s social ladder, has his heart captured in a single glance by classmate Kiyoi. Though in this world there should be no chance of them ever interacting with each other, Hira, who is treated as a gofer, suddenly finds himself with Kiyoi’s phone number entered into his phone! A single world from Kiyoi, even the spare change he receives, is precious. These lonely, suffocating feelings, could they be love? A love story interweaving two opposites begins!

A one shot drawn by Asano depicting a scene from the novel "Horobi no mae no Shangri-La" or "Shangri-la: Before the destruction" written by Yuu Nagira, for which he also drew the cover of.