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Chirizokonai no Hiraeth

Also known as Hiraeth Remained.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Sanayama Kazura, a girl who just wants to be loved, discovers that the girl she had been spending all of her money on to look her way has betrayed her. In her moment of despair, she is approached by Yoshibe Kinka, who asks if she would like to die with her. Together, they head to the top of a high-rise apartment bulding and jump off it. However...

A story of two women at a crossroads in their lives, facing the feelings they've kept deep inside their hearts.



Tags: Suicide , Unrequited Love , Time Manipulation , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Look Back

Also known as Look Back.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Fujino is a fourth grader who draws a manga strip for the school newspaper. Her art makes her the star of the class, but one day she's told that Kyomoto, a student who refuses to come to school, would also like to submit a manga for the paper...



Note: The one-shot was compiled in a special volume, released on September 3, 2021.

Tags: Drawing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Hikikomori , Shounen , Coming of Age , Work , Meta , School , Philosophy , Primarily Child Cast , Rehabilitation

Itsuwari no Marigold

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Kasumi Hana visits her late brother's pen pal, Urushizawa Lily, to inform her of his death. If she had been misleading her brother, she would have murdered Urushizawa Lily. However, Lily is a blind girl who genuinely cared about Hana's brother.

For Lily's sake, Hana decides to become her brother.

Tags: Disability , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Crossdressing , Historical , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tragedy , Estranged Family , Suicide , Primarily Adult Cast , Bisexual , Seinen

My Broken Mariko

Also known as My Broken Mariko.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Tomoyo Shiino has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko's life-and Tomoyo's too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko's death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko's ashes for one final journey together... to set free her dear, broken Mariko.



Notes:
Includes the one-shot "YISKA".
includes the extra "Home Sweet Home!".

Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Coastal , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Rehabilitation , Philosophy , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Denpa

Fatale Game

Also known as Fatale Game.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

"If it means that I can read your work again, I'll even chase you to the ends of the earth."

Seri Tainaka, writing under the pen name Nanakusa, is a mid-career manga artist living in the shadow of her only one-hit-wonder. Her series "To Hell and Back" was adored by fans, but despite now being a ten-year veteran, her successes ended there. So when Seri is told that she is being assigned a new editor, it only fuels her insecurities. When Seri meets the quirky Sumire Futami, she's both creeped out and captivated by the strange and overly forthright woman, who claims she'd go to hell and back to make her a success again. But just when Seri starts to think she and Futami might be an unstoppable duo, she meets the other manga artists Futami is assigned to, and a dangerous game of jealousy, envy, and femme fatales begins. It turns out that Futami has no qualms about going back and forth between which of her artists capture her attention the most, and they'll stop at nothing to win the number one spot in their fickle editor's heart!



Tags: Yuri , Josei , Female Protagonist , Drawing , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Bullying , Primarily Female Cast

Memento Mori

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Meno Yuko just starting as a ceremony assistant in a funeral home. Every day, she tends to fall asleep during the funerals. Her boss, Meme always scolds her with an 'I'll kill you'. Holding on the the memories of her dead brother, Yuko tries to work as best as she can while constantly being reminded of his death.

Tags: Josei , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Work

Natsu to Lemon to Overlay

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Sayaka Konno, a stunning office worker for a large company, asks voice actress YUNIMARU, who struggles to find work in her day job, to read her will at her funeral. Despite her reservations, YUNIMARU is intrigued by the sum of money and accepts the invitation. Dreams, daily life, and the wealth of life... Two people from different "layers" spend only one summer together, touching each other's wounds.



Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Suicide , Acting , Office Lady

Umi ga Hashiru End Roll

Also known as The Credits Roll into the Sea.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Umiko, a grandma, realizes that she has the same desire to make movies as university student Kai—and soon she enrolls in Kai's film school!

"It's not the movies you like…you like watching the people watching the movies."

Just what are you going to do with the rest of your life? It's the question you'll always have to answer, no matter your age. Umiko Chino is a 65-year-old retired woman in mourning for her late husband. Remembering how they used to watch films together, Umiko goes to the movie theater for the first time in years, where she meets Kai, an attractive, ambiguous young man who studies filmmaking at a nearby art school.

They would seem to have nothing in common, except for this—both of them sometimes like to look more at the way the audience reacts to a movie than the movie itself. Kai believes Umiko has the same deep desire he possesses to experience how people respond to something they made… and challenges her to stake the rest of her life discovering that thrill.

Soon Umiko surprises herself by enrolling in the same film school as Kai. But sailing into this new sea, she's suddenly inside the currents of her fellow students' lives, a much younger generation that she struggles to understand, driven by their own passions and their own relationships. Who's really experienced at life, and is it old age or observation that brings wisdom? And does what you're looking for change when you look with your eyes instead of through a camera lens…?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Filmmaking , Elderly Protagonist , Photography , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Shoujo , Iyashikei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Asexual , Aromantic

Hiraeth wa Tabiji no Hate

Also known as HIRAETH -The End of the Journey-.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

After the death of her best friend, Mika is determined to follow her into the grave. But her suicide attempt introduces her to a world unlike any she's ever seen...full of gods and spirits and entities of which she could never have dreamed. But even with this world of wonder, can she find a way out of her sorrow?



Tags: Suicide , Afterlife , Found Family , Tragedy , Travel , Female Protagonist , Gods , LGBTQ+ Themes , Seinen , Agender , Bisexual , Male Protagonist , Yuri , Motorcycles , Boys' Love