Ninomiya Ai

In the 27th year of an alternate Meiji era (where the kanji used for "Meiji" mean "maze"). A self-proclaimed samurai named Naguri travels from the countryside to the capital Asakusa to achieve his dream, and he moves into a share house. In Asakusa spirits, samurai, and technology coexist.

"I knew that I would fall into hell eventually…" One day, young executioner Edward opens his eyes in "hell." While unfamiliar monsters circle him, Ed meets a man who once shook the world of the living.

Musical instruments have minds and bodies, feelings and thoughts. When tossed aside and abandoned, they can become corrupted, even murderous. Petrauchka is an instrument unlike the others; she can't make music at all. After she's found by the mysterious Rentarou in a trash heap, they must team up to calm a despairing lute and perhaps reveal the secret to Petrauchka's lack of musical ability. Can Rentarou somehow unlock her latent talents?

The foolish living things, the humans, who carry darkness in their hearts, lost the light from their eyes. Deep inside the darkness, they lose sight of the way. Crushed in their despair, the humans one day meet creatures called the hotaru who each carry a faint, warm light. The hotaru provided the humans with the light, and started to live alongside them. But in this ugly and blood-stained world, the hotaru's number started to decrease day by day. Yet, the humans wanted the light and started to hunt the hotaru. For money they would throw away the life of a hotaru. Nemu, a hotaru who has lost her light, makes a contract with a abandoned baby, Haibane. Haibane seeks to find a way to gain back Nemu's light.

After throwing away his dreams, a boy wanders into "Wonderland" and holds the name of "Alice," which is the primary requirement in the "Game to kill the White Rabbit." In a crazy story where common sense does not apply and everything is bound by the rules of the game and the orders of the Queen of Hearts, Alice decides to take the gun in his hand.

In order to protect the world from the virus "Torikago" that has infected humanity, having fulfilled the condition of living as a normal human being, the young girl, Kiri, conceals the "World's Memory" within her body. The world loved by the Torikago. The world that continues to reject the Torikago. Over the course of time, while the world erodes the memories of the girl who does not possess a free heart, she proceeds to fall in love…