Comic Book
Нацуми переезжает в Токио, чтобы поступить в университет изобразительного искусства. В Токио Нацуми встречает Риосукэ и вскоре они начинают встречаться. Риосукэ хороший парень, но из–за отсутствия работы он просто слоняется повсюду. Чтобы оплатить расходы за проживание, Нацуми приходится работать в баре.
Нацуми переезжает в Токио, чтобы поступить в университет изобразительного искусства. В Токио Нацуми встречает Риосукэ и вскоре они начинают встречаться. Риосукэ хороший парень, но из–за отсутствия работы он просто слоняется повсюду. Чтобы оплатить расходы за проживание, Нацуми приходится работать в баре.
Original Story
Rieko Saibara is a cartoonist and mother of a 6-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl. When she has a difficult time, she throws away her problems with laughter. Her husband Kamoshitda used to be a war camera man, but now he's addicted to alcohol. He struggles to overcome his problem, but keeps failing. Finally, they get divorced. After Kamoshida loses his family, he realizes how precious they are. He focuses on getting away from alcohol, but another disease comes to him. Even though Saibara knows that he can not make it for long, she accepts him back to her family again. Since then a happy, but short, time exists for the family of four.
Original Story
Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.
Comic Book
The story of the original manga writer Rieko Saibara is depicted by her alter ego Natsumi Takahara who revisits where she was raised and recalls her childhood and how everything turned out.
Comic Book
A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.