Aki Itami

とある中学校、隣の席になった女の子・高木さんに、何かとからかわれる男の子・西片。 どうにかして高木さんをからかい返そうと日々奮闘する西片だが、いつも高木さんに見透かされてしまう―。慣れ親しんだ学び舎との別れ、進路や将来のこと…。 少しずつ大人の階段をのぼり始める中学3年生の夏の1ページに刻まれる、ふたりの青春模様が、 原作者・山本崇一朗監修の下、TVシリーズと同じスタッフ陣によって瑞々しく丁寧に紡がれる。 これは、ひと夏に起こる、 ちいさくて、やさしい青春物語―。

Following Studio Petit's popularity for Time Journey's, the crew is now faced with 3 anime at the same time. Rushing to fill the quotas, the owner of Studio Petit hires Takashimadaira, a veteran producer to help Kuromi. However, all Takashimadaira cares about is making deadlines, severely hurting the quality of the images. Shihonmatsu, who has been helping Kuromi, gets angry at the new producer and leaves, leaving Kuromi with a difficult choice: to choose between the quality or the deadline.

Ever wonder what it would be like to work for an animation studio? Kuromi just landed her dream job at the famous Studio Petit, and boy is she in for a rude awakening! The new head of the ultimate team of slackers, it’s up to her to finish "Time Journeys Episode 2," or fans everywhere will be let down. Will Kuromi's love of cartoons clean up this horrible mess... or make an even bigger one?

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen in over ten years, shows up on his doorstep bearing a bag of clams. Though he claims to be the director of a fast-growing trading company, Aikawa crashes on Hatano’s couch for days on end. When the sleeping pills he was offered produce a strange side effect, Hatano is slowly dragged into Aikawa’s con-artist lifestyle. Soon afterward, they cross paths with the representative of a big-name publishing company and Aikawa’s ultimate scam begins to unfold.