Naoki Fujita

I was confessed to. It was during the summer of my first year. I ended up dating Kana. Even though I didn’t understand my own feelings… Source: MANGA Plus

Tatsuhiko's love for drawing began at a young age, and his aspiration was to work in animation someday. But when the young boy is bullied for his art, Tatsuhiko swears to never draw in front of others ever again. Desperate to find something new to fill the void in his heart, he turns to music, but eventually becomes jaded by his mediocrity.While out drinking with his friends, Tatsuhiko's sob story earns the ire of a drunk woman, who intimidates the young man into reassessing his attitude toward life. He decides to give animation another chance, and in the process rediscovers his love for the medium, pushing himself to publish a short video. Tatsuhiko is stunned when the video goes viral, even more so when his favorite singer, Nico Kashiwagi, requests a collaboration on her next music video!Excited to finally meet the artist he has admired for so long, the young man is shocked to discover that Nico is the same bar patron that gave him an earful, though she has no recollection of that drunken night. While initially hesitant of their new partnership, Tatsuhiko slowly learns that there is more to Nico's brutish passion than he realizes.Award: Won MILLION TAG, earning serialization on Shounen Jump+ and an anime adaptation on Netflix.Official English Volumes: VIZ

Kujira and Takeshi are childhood friends in their second year of middle school. When they were little, there was no difference between boys and girls, and they all played together, but lately, both the people around them and they themselves have been acting strange. This is the story of the stormy adolescence that clashes as their self-consciousness screams and their bodies grow! Award: Won the Autumn 2019 Afternoon Four Seasons Awards Four Seasons Grand Prize, earning its publication in Afternoon's December 2019 Issue.

Two “I”s are raging inside my mind. I hate myself, I love myself, and I don't know what I want to do. Award: Won the Winter 2017 Afternoon Four Seasons Awards Fujishima Kousuke Special Award, earning its publication in Afternoon's April 2018 Issue.