A novel by Tsukasa. Its title is recorded in the official archive as an encouragement-prize recipient in the novel category of the first Kyoto Animation Award.

A distant town and a dark wish.

In a mansion surrounded by quiet woods and fields, the automaton Coppelia begins working as a maid despite lacking a human heart. Through life with the frail girl Swanilda and the other maids, emotions on the boundary between human and doll begin to stir.

A heartless doll and a girl with a soul mirror each other in the slow time of a mansion.

A school romantic comedy about a boy trying to bury his chuunibyou past and a girl still living inside her fantasy world. Their meeting brings together embarrassment, imagination, romance, and daily life in a gradually changing relationship.

A former chuunibyou boy and a still-chuunibyou girl turn a supposedly sealed past into the start of love.

Black Girlfriend and Me on Empty Land is a novel by Tomoya Mikizuka submitted to the Kyoto Animation Award. In 2010, Kyoto Animation made it available online as the second release of award-winning works, naming both the work and its author.

Black Girlfriend and Me on Empty Land