Kazuya Konomoto

While working as a taxi driver on the hectic streets of Tokyo, a reticent walrus gets pulled into a mystery involving a missing teenage girl.

The hardened veteran detective Rena and bright-eyed rookie Sato take on a menial investigation. The job goes well until a thug named Dobu steals their evidence. Disheartened, they take a job looking into the life of a taxi driver named Odokawa in hopes of redeeming themselves. They wind up in the middle of a missing girl case, with gangsters, aspiring students, and surprises around every corner.

Sō Utsumi doesn't have many friends. After school and before going to a private institute, he kills time by doing nothing on the riverside. One day, Shōkichi Seto appears in front of him. Shōkichi quit the soccer team and has nothing to do. They spend time together. In front of the two guys, Ichigo Kashimura and Hatsumi, from the same high school, appear.

A college student's secret crush on a coworker at a small burger joint collides with chaos when a robbery erupts, unraveling hidden tensions and forcing a tight-knit group of eight to confront fractured loyalties and the blurred lines between love and betrayal.

Sōra is a 2nd-grade high school student, but he is virtually invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya. Chūya's personality is completely different from Sōra. Chūya does unpredictable things and that surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same girl at their school. The girl refuses to attend school, because she doesn't want to change her brown hair to black. Their school has unreasonable rules, including requiring all students to have black hair. For the girl that Sōra and Chūya like, they stand up to change their school's black school rules.

An elderly inmate serving a life sentence awaits a lonely death in his solitary cell—until a voice calls out to him. It belongs to a balsam flower, Housenka, that speaks like a human. Through their "conversation", the old man begins to reflect on the life he's led.

Reconstruction of the television anime that will also depict what happens after its finale with a new story written by Kazuya Konomoto.

Utsumi and Seto's daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over trivial word play, agonizing over the content of an email to be sent to a girl, and, at times, talking about a serious problem, the two endlessly engage in meaningless idle talk as if it were meaningful.

Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is an unpredictable character that often surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same classmate, Kio Machida. The Machida girl refuses to come to class, because she doesn't want to dye her naturally brown hair black. Their school has unreasonable school rules, especially about uniforms, which include requiring all students to have black hair. Sōra and Chūya decide to stand up to change their school's black school rules so that Machida won’t have to repeat a year of school from missing too many classes.

A timid high school boy joins a so-called fishing club that turns out to be a yakuza-run vigilante group, where he gets trapped at the bottom of its brutal hierarchy while a serial murder case begins to unfold around him.