Kazusa's first high school literature club meeting starts with five girls being asked, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" When one... more>> of them blurts out, "Sex," it launches these new friends down a raucous, embarrassing, all-too-relatable path. One of Japan's top female screenwriters, Okada hones her knack for aching drama and wry humor that became her trademark with anime like anohana and Maquia. Amid an explosion of graphic novels about girls' teenage years, like Lumberjanes and That One Summer, O Maidens brings a diverse, fresh, and hilarious perspective on how it feels to leave childhood behind. <<less

A one shot about a boy who has trouble making friends.

One day, Serizawa fell asleep at work and had a dream about a past love that he wronged when he was in middle school. On... more>> the way home, he was involved in an accident, and a woman who knew him called for an ambulance. Now the woman has his phone number, but he doesn't know her identity. Serizawa thinks back over the women he has loved in the past, trying to determine who this woman that has re-entered his life is. <<less