When the narrator was in eighth grade, aliens arrived on Earth. Having already abandoned language, they cannot communicate with humans, but when they hear a voice — especially a woman's voice — they excrete beautiful stones called "jewels." Fleeing a hometown she despises, the narrator moves to the city and, in exchange for scholarship support, takes a job at an alien shop, reading aloud to the aliens and collecting the jewels they produce. The warmth of her coworker Canaria and a new connection with a kind young man named Ryou-chan color her days, yet her longing for the abandoned hometown only grows. A cruel mother, a grandmother who raised her, bullying classmates, a neighbor woman called Noro-chan — these memories will not let go. When the narrator learns of Noro-chan's death and returns home, she realizes that the city too was never truly the place she yearned for. The next day, she accepts the aliens' invitation to emigrate to their world.

A piercing memoir in search of a place to call home.

Yusuke Ariga, manager of a local supermarket, discovers that his only daughter Kayoko is secretly the magical girl heroine "Kaleid Mercy", fighting against the alien invaders known as "Dislanders". Determined to protect her, he boards the alien spacecraft to negotiate a ceasefire—only to uncover the shocking truth about the Dislanders' true nature. This SF comedy blends the conventions of the hero genre with themes of parental love and the power of dialogue, winning the 20th Shosetsu Gendai Long-Form Newcomer Award.

Mercy, far stronger than any villain, quickly became the people's hero. But when her father discovers the truth, he takes matters into his own hands.

Shinonome, a new employee at C.F.C., a company of funeral professionals, is assigned to the Second Section, a specialized team dedicated to restoring badly damaged remains from accidents, crimes, and suicides. Five morticians, each carrying their own profound grief, devote themselves fully to returning the deceased to a semblance of their former appearance. Confronting death day after day, asking why lives were taken and how survivors can carry on, the team slowly discovers a faint light by which to live tomorrow.

"No matter how hard you think, no matter how hard you search, you will never find the reason a person died."

One summer night, college student Wakaume is called out to on his way home from a test of courage with friends. "Long time no see, Ume-chan" — it was the voice of his first love Koume, who was supposed to be dead, now inhabiting the body of his friend. Working part-time jobs, attending summer festivals, going on dates — Wakaume and Koume fulfill one small wish after another, as if making up for lost time. Knowing she must eventually return the body, yet unable to stop... The miracle born from a simple wish of "I want to see you again" is not just one. A pure time-limit love story.

"I wonder how long I can borrow this body."