Houjou Stories

This is a cute story for the Christmas holidays. It's about a boy and a girl from the Takagi-san who are madly in love with each other.

Hamaguchi and Houjou see each other through a glass darkly. Little does Hamaguchi know, his failed confession would cause a considerable shift in their individual and shared identities and their perceptions of one another. Special thanks to my girlfriend for inspiring me to write this story and being my co-author. Special thanks to my irl friend for being my editor.

Death could bring forth a lot of lamentations, a lot of bitterness, a lot of beginnings. Death separated Motegi Yukio from his best friend, and yet death too would knot his life and another's together. (An original story set in the universe of Shungiku Nakamura's Hybrid Child.)

The carnaval brings out the deepest desires, the strongest fears, and the greatest triumphs among its attendants. The Summer Festival in Tonosho Town is no different, where all its residents gather at the stairs to the heavens ready to celebrate life and culture as they know best. Underneath the celebrations, a series of individual stories weave themselves together into a beautiful tapestry that brings its people closer.