After a breakup leaves Kana Miura without hope, she meets three youths on the school roof who call one another Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow. In a relationship modeled on The Wizard of Oz, these wounded teenagers waver between revenge and salvation as they reclaim a place to belong.

On a school roof, wounded teenagers search beyond revenge for a place to stand.

Koichi Usagida, pushed out of his place in the light music club, is caught playing guitar in a storage room by manga club leader Yuna Tomonari. As the school festival approaches, those who have been dismissed gather and race toward a musical revenge.

A mocked guitar boy and a manga-club girl set out to overturn their world at the school festival.

An ordinary high school student, Karato Masukawa, is shocked when Sana, a girl evolved from a parasite, bursts out of his body. She says she will protect him in exchange for nutrients from her host and even become his girlfriend, turning his life into a bizarre romantic comedy.

A parasite girl appears from his body and turns ordinary life into a parasite-themed romantic comedy.

This youth novel portrays the love and pain of teenagers who cannot measure their distance from others, building the story through accumulating misalignments of perception. Published under the title Kimi to wa Chimeiteki na Zure ga Aru after its award title From: A Certain Unlucky Letter, it places dissonance itself at the heart of the story.

A misalignment too deep to be mere misunderstanding changes love and pain decisively.

The award-winning Kokome ga Ikigimo o Tabeta was published under the title Akaoni wa Mo Nakanai. Drawing on ogres and folktale-like motifs, it unfolds as a light novel driven by comedy and energetic characterization.

An offbeat youth light novel that sends ogre motifs racing through fast dialogue and comedy.