2025 Rookie Danpyeonseon

BECK

Yukio Tanaka is a fourteen-year-old boy with no hobbies, an unremarkable taste in music, and a quiet, neurotic personality that keeps him from chasing the exciting life he dreams of. His days pass in monotony until a chance encounter with Ryusuke Minami, an unpredictable sixteen-year-old who has just returned from America, turns everything upside down. Ryusuke plays guitar in a rock band named Beck, after his patchwork dog, and introduces Yukio to the raw energy of western rock music. Inspired for the first time, Yukio picks up a guitar and discovers a passion that gives his life new meaning. As he joins Ryusuke in pursuit of the ultimate band, Yukio must balance school, work, and friendsh

Fuuka

Yuu Haruna has just moved to Tokyo with his sisters after their father is transferred overseas for work. Addicted to Twitter, he is on his phone while out buying dinner when a high school girl suddenly crashes into him. Convinced he was trying to take upskirt photos, she grabs his phone, breaks it, and slaps him before walking away. The girl turns out to be Fuuka Akitsuki, a classmate at the school Yuu is transferring to. Unlike most people, Fuuka doesn't own a cellphone and listens to music on a CD player. As the two grow closer, they decide to form a band with their friends and step into the professional world of music. With the impulsive and free-spirited Fuuka now in his life, Yuu's qu

Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 22-26

A young man who can play the piano meets a mermaid with a deadly secret. A boy wakes up one morning in the body of a girl and must learn to live with the change. A little girl with horns claims to be the devil's sister and carries a power that could destroy the world. Two sisters with very different talents face the pressure of expectations and the weight of family. These four short stories explore strange transformations, supernatural encounters, and the fragile line between ordinary life and the extraordinary. Each tale follows characters caught between their desires and the consequences of forces they cannot control. From mermaids and prophecies to identity and sibling rivalry, the coll

Shiori Experience: My Plain Self and an Odd Old Man

Shiori was once a guitarist in her high school light music club, but her first live performance fell apart when her brother ran away from home with a large debt to become a musician in Tokyo. A decade later, Shiori is a 27-year-old high school teacher leading a quiet, uneventful life while paying off that debt. Her routine changes when she encounters the ghost of the famous guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Now bound to the legendary musician, Shiori finds herself on an unexpected path toward becoming a music legend herself.

Ya Boy Kongming!

Zhuge Liang, the legendary strategist of China's Three Kingdoms era known as Kongming, dies wishing for a peaceful rebirth. To his astonishment, he awakens in the vibrant, neon-lit nightlife of modern-day Tokyo. Disoriented but undaunted, he finds himself at a chaotic outdoor music event. There, he encounters Eiko Tsukimi, a talented but struggling singer whose heartfelt performance amidst the noise captures his brilliant tactical mind. Seeing a new kind of battlefield in the music industry, Kongming pledges his ancient strategic genius to a new cause: making Eiko a star. He must now apply the art of war to the world of pop music, navigating contracts, rivals, and the fickle nature of fame.

Breathless Momentum

Jun Shizuki plays the baritone saxophone in his local woodwind choir and tends bar for a living. He is a hedonistic flirt who hits on anything that moves, and he makes no secret of his dislike for Yukiji Yano, the choir's gifted flutist, a man so unfailingly kind and well regarded that the rest of the group treats him like a prince. During practice the two barely exchange a word, and nobody in the choir would guess that they have anything in common. Away from the rehearsal room, though, a shared interest draws them into secret meetings in hotels, and the two opposites keep those encounters carefully hidden from everyone else.