Hiroyuki Saitô

Funny stories about freeter Kaname Yokoyama, who dreams of becoming a movie director, and his housemates.

Onoda Shizuru is a university student in Kyoto. As soon as she starts living out her long cherished desire, the strange horror newspapers begin to arrive. At first, she believes them to be a prank but the stories in the newspapers begin happening one after the other. Murders, accidents, abuse, natural disasters, injustice... these newspapers predict all sorts of tragedies. What is the truth behind them?

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.

Three short stories in Tokyo about people's death and how they see their life after death. In each story the main character experience death and they live another life that seems just like another day. Regretting their ignorance that caused pain to their beloved ones, each tries to find a clue to what went wrong in another life.