Kakei Shirou, a lawyer whose hobby is cooking, lives with his lover Yabuki Kenji, a hairdresser. The story follows their daily lives, with the dishes... more>> that Kakei makes providing the backdrop against which the author explores the reality of being a gay couple in Japan. <<less

A single father who never had any trouble with his son discovers that his son might have impregnated his girlfriend.

In the aftermath of the Crusades, two travelling Arabic minstrels - Farhad and Saud - arrive at the castle of the melancholic Baron Victor. Over... more>> a series of four connected short stories, Victor reveals the reasons for his sadness, the minstrels' own stories are revealed and, in very different ways, this fortuitous meeting allows all three to find a measure of contentment. <<less

On her way home from work, Tamaki witnesses her daughter Akari kissing Norimoto, a girl in the same grade as her, in a vacant lot.... more>> Tamaki goes home and talks to her husband about it, but he seems to have his own feelings about it... In fact, her husband once fell in love with a boy in the same grade when he was in the third year of junior high school, just like Akari. This is a gem of an omnibus series depicting the various "forms of love" that exist between us. <<less