Saya, a junior high school student who has returned from Malaysia, struggles to fit into school life in Japan and discovers tanka through an older student in the library. Through wordplay that mixes Malay and Japanese verse, her sense of difference becomes a form of expression.

Trying not to stand out as a returnee, Saya begins to find her own language through a tanka outing.

Sixth-grader Yura wants to pursue music, but her father forces her to keep swimming. While she plays Dvorak's New World Symphony in her head to endure the water, she searches for a new world of her own amid domestic violence and silence.

A girl enduring breathlessness in the water regains hope through the music that plays inside her.

Fifth-grader Heita, who is good at drawing, slips into Edo-period Osaka after encountering his grandfather's old document. By linking a modern class newspaper with Edo broadsheets, and wanted portraits with caricatures, the story shows how recording things can connect people across time.

A boy who travels through time by passing gas learns both the danger of hurting people through pictures and the joy of communication.

A coming-of-age music novel about Kanade Tomine, a former prodigy horn player whose love of music is questioned by the performer he admires. Unable to face others without music between them, he begins to step outside his soundproof room through encounters with peers.

A boy who can breathe only through the horn searches for the love missing from his sound.