A nineteen-year-old art-school student known as "I" meets Yuri, a thirty-nine-year-old instructor, and is drawn into a relationship that resists an easy name. This love story portrays the lightness and urgency of falling for someone whose age and life are very different from one's own.

A precarious yet unforgettable time of love shared by a nineteen-year-old student and thirty-nine-year-old Yuri.

Second-year high-school student Shuji Kirigaya is popular in class while performing a persona that fits the people around him. His plan to turn the bullied transfer student Shinta Kotani into someone popular reveals the dynamics of school relationships and the fragility of the self he performs.

A coming-of-age novel set in a classroom, where a popular student sets out to “produce” a bullied transfer student.