Spring 2024
Kitamura Kaori is the president of her school's tennis club. There's a tennis tournament coming up soon, but one of her juniors, Sasaki Ami, has been missing from all of the training sessions lately. Out of concern, Kaori wants to pay her a visit. When she arrives at Ami's, Kaori rings her doorbell, but Ami is just about to have fun with a man. She doesn't like the presidents since she's never been able to beat her, so Ami lets Kaori in and Kaori sees her sleeping with a man. Kaori is overwhelmed and asks what that is about, but suddenly the man makes his way in her direction. What is happening?
This is a story that weaves together people and a town. A coal mining town crowded with small-scale excavators, commonly known as the "Hakoniwa." In this town that changes daily like a labyrinth, there's a girl named Kagari who runs a mapmaking business and a boy named Yuya who dreams of breaking free from the "Hakoniwa." Eventually, the two, along with the unique residents of the town, find themselves confronting a conspiracy that shakes the entire town. The fate of the” Hakoniwa" depends on Kagari's drawings on the map. (Source: ANN)
Business is slow for the Ootsuji Detective Agency. Soutarou and his juvenile sidekick Saki will take any job that comes along, even one that sounds like a lot more risk than it’s worth. It’s festival season in the city but away from the public eye, a wave of mysterious disappearances has occurred. A newspaperman hires Soutarou to investigate, suggesting that answers might lie somewhere in the Dark, the notorious, anarchic maze that is the city’s physical, social, and moral underground. Soutarou subcontracts the gig to Saki, but soon enough regrets it when the kid also goes missing. Now Soutarou is obligated to venture into the Dark himself, and confront its dubious subterranean denizens, including the malicious Laughing Masks gang and the renegade police squad piloting the fearsome Demon 463 armored train! (Source: Fantasia, edited)
The story is set in an alternate world called Yamauchi, ruled by the Yatagarasu clan, who are able to transform between human and crow forms. Yukiya, a beautiful and eccentric Yatagarasu boy, is chosen to serve the young prince. While encountering various events in the conspiracy-filled imperial court, he forms a strange master-servant relationship with the young prince. (Source: MAL News)
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