Hiroshi Sogabe

Fanny lives with her father, Hubert, an academic obsessed with his research who has never recovered from the death of his wife twelve years earlier. Everything changes the day a mysterious family secret resurfaces. Fanny then embarks on a frantic quest to uncover the truth surrounding her mother's death.

Kazuha and her husband Daichi drift apart. Daichi wants a child, but Kazuha thinks she is too old to have one, and is concerned about her Asperger Syndrome.

The struggling, not-so-young band members try to make their live concert successful back in their hometown.

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.